US11763024B2
Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for cognitive collaboration systems on a hybrid node. A query is received by a virtual assistant running on a public cloud, and it is determined whether the query pertains to data available on a public cloud resource, or the query pertains to data available on a private cloud resource. When it is determined that the query pertains to the data available on the public cloud resource, the query is interpreted by using a first model trained on at least one machine learning technique on data from the public cloud. When it is determined that the query pertains to the data available on the private cloud resource, the query is interpreted by using a second model trained on at least one machine learning technique on the data from the private cloud.
US11763021B2
An efficient search of a target string by a query string in homomorphically encrypted space. The target string may be encoded by reordering its characters into a plurality of target substrings, each encoding non-sequential characters of the target string separated by a periodic stride K and different target substrings having stride sequences offset relative to each other. The query string may be encoded into a plurality of query substrings, each defining a repeating sequence of a different respective character value in the query string. Each of the substrings may be homomorphically encrypted and hashed. The plurality of hashed encrypted target substrings and plurality of hashed encrypted query substrings may be compared to determine if there is a search result match. A rolling hash may iteratively update the plurality of hashed encrypted target substrings by one target string slot and the comparison may be repeated for each iterative update.
US11763018B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to generating a high level security policy for a data repository without knowledge of the access control, entitlement, and other models of the data repository. A set of abstractions that define a security policy language may be generated based on data in a data repository collection. The set of abstractions may define a security policy language, which may be provided to a security administrator who can define a security policy with the security policy language. The security policy may be translated into a common physical language to generate a common physical policy. The processing device may then translate the common physical policy into a set of commands for each of one or more data repositories that the data repository collection is comprised of.
US11763016B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to determining if sensitive data has been exposed externally. In some embodiments, a system for determining if sensitive data has been exposed externally comprises an external database including a plurality of external repositories, an internal database including a plurality of internal repositories, an internal catalog including search candidates, and a control circuit configured to transmit a content search query, receive content search results, transmit a hash search query, receive hash search results, discard, from the hash search results, ones of the external repositories that have not been modified, wherein the content search results and the remaining external repositories comprise a subject group of repositories, determine which repositories in the subject group of repositories includes an expression, calculate, for the repositories, a confidence score, generate, for the repositories, a notification based on the confidence score, and transmit the notification.
US11763003B2
A mailbox mechanism is used for communication of secure messages from a server to the firmware of a device. Mailbox content provided by the server is authenticated in a driver execution environment of the device, using reboots across the communication sessions, and then stored in secure storage. The communication sessions include first receiving a signed server key, and then receiving a message from the server that is based on a hash of a nonce generated by the device.
US11763002B2
Systems and methods for implementing a voucher to identify ownership rights of a computing component, within robust supply chain and owner domains, are disclosed. In an example, a computing device configuration includes a hardware component, trusted hardware circuitry to provide an embedded voucher for the hardware component, and storage memory to provide a voucher for validation of the hardware component. The embedded voucher includes an identifier for the hardware component and the identifier is generated on behalf of an original entity authorized to issue the identifier. The voucher includes a second identifier provided on behalf of a subsequent entity and the second identifier is generated based on the identifier for the hardware component included in the embedded voucher. The voucher may be used to the identify ownership rights in the hardware component for the original entity and the subsequent entity, to enable subsequent actions (such as onboarding, updates, etc.)
US11762991B2
The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and computer program products for generating an attack kill chain for threat analysis. The method comprises receiving a first security event captured by a first security operation associated with a computing device, and receiving a second security event captured by a second security operation associated with the computing device. The first security event and the second security event are associated with an attack campaign. The method further comprises mapping the first security event to first security data in an attack repository, and mapping the second security event to second security data in the attack repository. The method also comprises determining based on the mapping, one or more attack execution operations for executing the attack campaign associated with the first security event and the second security event. Additionally, the method sequences the one or more attack execution operations to form an attack kill chain.
US11762982B2
A processor implementing techniques for processor extensions to protect stacks during ring transitions is provided. In one embodiment, the processor includes a plurality of registers and a processor core, operatively coupled to the plurality of registers. The plurality of registers is used to store data used in privilege level transitions. Each register of the plurality of registers is associated with a privilege level. An indicator to change a first privilege level of a currently active application to a second privilege level is received. In view of the second privilege level, a shadow stack pointer (SSP) stored in a register of the plurality of registers is selected. The register is associated with the second privilege level. By using the SSP, a shadow stack for use by the processor at the second privilege level is identified.
US11762979B2
A device determines that a data breach of an application has been reported and determines that an individual has an account with the application based on identifying an association between an application identifier and a username the individual uses to access the application. The device receives, from a user device associated with the individual, password information used to access the application. The device uses the password information and usernames for a group of applications with which the individual has accounts to perform a login procedure for the group of applications to determine that login information for one or more of the applications includes the password information used to access the application affected by the data breach. The device provides, to the user device or another device, a recommendation to change the password information used to access the application and the one or more applications.
US11762963B1
Techniques are described for runtime checking of function metadata prior to execution of a function in an environment. An application may include any appropriate number of components at one or more levels in a hierarchical arrangement, and each component may be packaged with metadata that describes the component. A function, or any component, may be packaged with metadata that includes term(s) governing the usage of the function. The term(s) may be checked, at runtime, during execution of the application to determine whether the function is to be executed. A function may also be hashed at runtime for verification of function version. Function(s) may be individually and independently executed as containerized nano functions within the environment.
US11762962B2
A system, process, and computer-readable medium for configuring agents for monitoring deployed applications is described. A system, process, and computer-readable medium for configuring monitoring user interfaces, e.g., monitoring dashboards, that use information made available from the agents is also described. Through using application data available during creation of the agents, the agents may be configured using the user interface as modified by selections and displaying subsequent choices from the received application data. Using knowledge of the generated agents, monitoring dashboards may be generated via developers interacting with a user interface providing a list of available metrics accessible by the generated agents. Using the one or more user interfaces, developers may generate agents and/or monitoring dashboards with greater efficiency.
US11762958B1
Examples described herein provide for determining a recipe for identifying from which buckets integrated circuit chips are taken to form units of a multi-chip apparatus. In an example, a method uses a processor-based system and uses a Markov Decision Process. Buckets are defined based on respective characteristics of manufactured chips. Each of the manufactured chips is binned into a respective one of the buckets based on the characteristic of the respective manufactured chip. A recipe for identifying from which of the buckets to take one or more of the manufactured chips to incorporate into respective ones of the units of the multi-chip apparatus is generated.
US11762955B2
A waste collecting device includes an inlet unit, an acquisition unit configured to acquire waste information on waste thrown into the inlet unit, and a control unit configured to specify a category of the waste based on the waste information, determine whether the category of the waste matches a predetermined category, and output a determination result via an output unit.
US11762947B2
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for accurately training a machine learning model with a reduced training data set. A large number of data records may be parsed. Each record may be reduced to a set of symbols representing the composition of each record. A user may assign a classification to each symbol within each record. Records with identical arrangements and classifications of symbols may be grouped together, and a representative sample of data records from each group may be fed into the model as the reduced training data set.
US11762942B1
Disclosed systems and methods allow a user to input digital content along with identification of one or more social media websites on which the user desires to publish the digital content. The systems and methods then query the identified social media webservers and retrieve a first set of publishing rules. When the digital content satisfies the first set of rules, the systems and methods query a database to retrieve a second set of rules comprising user restrictions specific to the identified social media websites. When the digital content does not satisfy at least one rule within the second set of rules, the systems and methods render a prompt on the user device to receive modified digital content. Subsequently, the systems and methods instruct the one or more social media websites to publish the modified digital content.
US11762940B2
A method and system for component level data management in web applications is disclosed. In some embodiments, the method includes identifying a at least one component within a web application. The method further includes saving an initial state of the at least one component in a Redux store, tracking the at least one component being updated with data by a user, updating a current state of the at least one component being tracked in real-time in the Redux store, receiving a predefined action on the at least one component or the web application, determining whether the current state of the at least one component is updated in the Redux store, and generating a warning to the user in response to receiving the predefined action, when the current state of the at least one component is not updated in the Redux store.
US11762936B2
Apparatus and methods for sharing bookmarks are provided. Bookmarks may include queries to a chatbot or other interactive application. A server may include a shared bookmark controller and a personal computing device may include a user bookmark controller. A user may save a bookmark and share the bookmark with a chosen recipient. The user bookmark controller may send the bookmark and the identity of the recipient to the shared bookmark controller. The shared bookmark controller may then send the bookmark to the recipient and record whether the recipient saves or rejects the bookmark. Bookmarks may be collated and categorized into groups, and entire groups may be shared.
US11762933B2
A technique for providing search results may include determining a first entity type, a second entity type, and a relationship type based on a compositional query. The technique may also include identifying nodes of a knowledge graph corresponding to entity references of the first entity type and entity references of the second entity type. The technique may also include determining from the knowledge graph an attribute value corresponding to the relationship type for each entity reference of the first entity type and for each entity reference of the second entity type. The technique may also include comparing the attribute value of each entity reference of the first entity type with the attribute value of each entity reference of the second entity type. The technique may also include determining one or more resultant entity references from the entity references of the first entity type based on the comparing.
US11762929B1
A server identifies, by parsing through code of an online page, information related to offerings associated with the online page. The server identifies a set of intents based on the information. At least a portion of the set of intents corresponds to headers or menu items of the online page. The server updates the set of intents based on supplemental information accessible by a hyperlink from the online page. The server transmits the updated set of intents to a first user device. The server receives an acceptance of a subset of the updated set of intents from the first user device. The server stores, in an intent data repository, the accepted subset of the updated set of intents. The intent data repository stores intents to which queries are to be matched. The queries are received during a contact center engagement between an end-user and a computer-implemented agent.
US11762926B2
A method includes extracting, from a web application programming interface (API) repository, first information associated with a plurality of web APIs and constructing an initial dataset associated with the plurality of web APIs by performing a first set of information processing operations on the extracted first information. The method further includes constructing a training dataset by performing a second set of information processing operations on the constructed initial dataset and obtaining a Machine Learning (ML) model based on the constructed training dataset. The method further includes receiving an input natural language query via an electronic user interface (UI) and providing the received input natural language query to the obtained ML model. The method further includes outputting a set of recommendation results based on the provided input natural language query to the obtained ML model. Each recommendation result includes a specific API name and a specific endpoint.
US11762919B2
A system for distinguishing a type of excreta deposited in a toilet is disclosed. The system includes a toilet and a processor. The toilet has a bowl adapted to receive multiple types of excreta from a user and a sensor which monitors the volume of excreta deposited in the toilet. The processor compares excreta volume data derived from the sensor to a database comprising excreta-type volume data and associates a time segment from the excreta volume data as representing an excreta-type. This system can provide data which may be used to determine the rate of excreta deposit into the toilet and associated those rates with excreta events types such as urination or defecation.
US11762918B2
A search apparatus causes a first learning process using a first sample size and a first hyperparameter value to be executed, and causes a second learning process using the first sample size and a second hyperparameter value to be executed. When a third learning process using a second sample size larger than the first sample size and the first hyperparameter value has not been executed, the search apparatus calculates total resources associated with the first sample size based on resources used by the first and second learning processes. If the total resources exceed a threshold, the search apparatus allows the third learning process to be executed. If the total resources are equal to or less than the threshold, the search apparatus withholds the execution of the third learning process, and allows a fourth learning process using the first sample size or smaller and a third hyperparameter value to be executed.
US11762905B2
A video quality evaluation method comprises acquiring an image sequence and audio information by decoding a to-be-evaluated video, wherein the to-be-evaluated video is non-offending video; extracting an action feature vector and a face feature vector from the image sequence, and extracting an audio feature vector from the audio information; constructing a video feature vector according to at least one of the action feature vector, the face feature vector and the audio feature vector; and determining a quality score of the to-be-evaluated video according to the video feature vector.
US11762893B2
Creating a summary of a plurality of texts includes tokenizing each of a plurality of texts to obtain tokens; generating a vector space using a first set of vectors having one or more obtained feature scores equal to or larger than a predefined value; executing non-hierarchical clustering using the vector space to generate a first plurality of clusters; choosing a first representative text in each of the plurality of clusters; generating a second set of vectors from each of the arrays generated based on a number of characters included in tokens of the representative texts; executing hierarchical clustering using the second set of vectors to generate a second plurality of clusters; and in response to a determining a number of clusters included in the second plurality of clusters, determining a second representative text for each of the clusters included in the second plurality of clusters.
US11762889B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for implementing an automatic data ingestion module for automatically making data ingestion agnostic to source format are provided. A database stores a plurality of entity data each having a different file format. A processor configures each entity data accessed from the database via a communication network; automatically parses each of the configured entity data; splits and converts the parsed entity data of different file formats into a single file format; and translate the single file formatted entity data into a graph database form for further processing and analysis.
US11762887B2
There is provided an information processing device including: a global map acquiring unit that acquires at least a part of a global map representing positions of objects in a real space where a plurality of users are in activity; a local map generating unit that generates a local map representing positions of nearby objects detectable by a device of one user among the plurality of users; and an updating unit that updates the global map based on position data of objects included in the local map.
US11762886B2
One or more non-transitory computer readable media contain program instructions that, when executed, cause one or more processors to: receive first raw data including one or more first data points generated by a first object of a plurality of objects associated with one or more buildings; generate first input timeseries according to the one or more data points; access a database of interconnected smart entities, the smart entities including object entities representing each of the plurality of objects and data entities representing stored data, the smart entities being interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the smart entities; identify a first object entity representing the first object from a first identifier in the first input timeseries; identify a first data entity from a first relational object indicating a relationship between the first object entity and the first data entity; and store the first input timeseries in the first data entity.
US11762880B2
In one embodiment, a web content management system is coupled to remote resources via a framework that has one or more corresponding adapters which enable editing of content by invoking editors which are native to the respective remote resources. The system retrieves a content item from a remote resource and stores a copy of the content item in a local repository, while the original content item remains in the repository of the remote resource. A content item can be selected in in a local authoring tool, causing the system to examine the content item's metadata to identify the source repository and invoke the native editor of the corresponding remote resource, enabling editing of the content item using the native editor. The copy of the content item in the local repository can then be synchronized to the edited version of the content item in the remote resource.
US11762866B1
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums which utilize volume to improve the ordering of search results for various information retrieval systems. This improves relevance as volume is a proxy for interest. As volume changes over time, the relevance of a particular result to a particular search query will increase or decrease over time.
US11762860B1
Database systems may dynamically management concurrency levels for performing queries. A query may be received at a database system and a memory usage for the query may be predicted. A determination may be made as to whether available memory is enough to satisfy the predicted memory usage for the query. If the available memory is enough to satisfy the predicted memory usage for the query, then an increase in a concurrency level for performing queries at the database system may be made. The query may be allowed to execute concurrently with other queries according to the increased concurrency level.
US11762856B2
A specification of one or more query response modules from a third-party entity different from an entity providing a search service is received. A search query from a user is received. The search query is processed at least in part with the search service to determine whether any of the one or more query response modules are applicable to the search query. In response to a determination that at least one of the one or more query response modules is applicable to the search query, one of the query response modules is selected for the search query. The selected query response module is executed to determine a module answer content. The search query is processed to identify links to content responsive to the search query. A response to the search query is provided including by embedding the module answer content in a user interface providing at least a portion of the identified links.
US11762854B2
In a distributed computing environment comprising a frontend system with a search platform having a cache of pre-computed search results and a backend system with one or more data-bases and a validation instance, a request is received at the search platform from a client comprising one or more first key-values indicating a first data record and at least a first pre-computed search result and a second pre-computed search result for the first data record is retrieved from the cache. The validation instance evaluates a current validity of the first pre-computed search result and the second pre-computed search result retrieved from the cache and returns the first pre-computed search result to the client device, or in response to evaluating that the first pre-computed search result is invalid and the second pre-computed search result is valid, returns the second pre-computed search result to the client.
US11762850B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes receiving a manifest for a container image of a container to be created; identifying a mapping index for a cluster of computing nodes; and selecting a computing node within the cluster of computing nodes to create the container, based on a comparison of the manifest to the mapping index.
US11762847B2
Generating a database query using a dimensional hierarchy within a graphical user interface including displaying a data set within a spreadsheet structure, wherein the data set comprises a plurality of columns; displaying a list structure comprising a first level and a second level; receiving a selection of a first column of the plurality of columns as a first key for the first level in the list structure; receiving a selection of a second column of the plurality of columns as a second key for the second level in the list structure; and in response to receiving the selection of the first column and receiving the selection of the second column and based on an order of the first key and the second key in the list structure, generating the database query defining a hierarchical relationship between the first column and the second column.
US11762841B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for implementing a data quality check module for determining whether data is acceptable or not are disclosed. A processor collects all facts data corresponding to an agreement based on corresponding received distribution event data in accordance with margin requirements associated with the agreement and calculates statistical analysis data based on historical data points of the facts data for the agreement. The processor also creates and configures dynamic rules that are required to be applied for determining whether the agreement is in good order; verifies the statistical analysis data against the rules to determine anomaly data; marks the agreement as a good order agreement flag when it is determined that the anomaly data is within a predetermined threshold value; and automatically executes, in response to marking the agreement as a good order agreement flag, a straight through processing of the agreement.
US11762837B2
An apparatus and a method allowing a pilot or more generally a crew to enrich a database of user obstacles directly inside the aircraft, on the ground and even during flight. Generally, the apparatus is based on a new software component, which allows new services to be provided for the functional avionic components and for the human machine interfaces HMI of the avionics. This new software component is configured to allow: user obstacles to be created, changed, deleted at the request of components of HMIs of the avionics; user obstacles to be sent to clients of the services of this new software component, which are either other functional components of the avionics or other components of HMIs of the avionics; user obstacles to be recorded to a nonvolatile memory and restored from this nonvolatile memory.
US11762835B2
A system dynamically changes a data de-identification ruleset applied to a dataset for de-identifying data and comprises at least one processor. The system periodically monitors a dataset derived from data that is de-identified according to a data de-identification ruleset under a set of conditions. The set of conditions for the data de-identification ruleset is evaluated with respect to the monitored data to determine applicability of the data de-identification. One or more rules of the data de-identification ruleset are dynamically changed in response to the evaluation indicating one or more conditions of the set of conditions for the data de-identification ruleset are no longer satisfied. Embodiments of the present invention may further include a method and computer program product for dynamically changing a data de-identification ruleset applied to a dataset for de-identifying data in substantially the same manner described above.
US11762832B2
The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for generating a hierarchy of metadata tables for a database comprising containers including tables. The tables are identified by table names and assigned to containers. A first table is assigned to two containers and may define two table instances of the first table. The hierarchy of metadata tables includes a first metadata table defining mappings between container identifiers, table names, table sections, and unique identifiers for corresponding data within table sections of table instances defined with the table names mapped to the container identifiers. In response to receiving a request to generate a replication of table content, a second metadata table is generated to identify a unique set of table instances from the set of the containers based on evaluating the first metadata table. The unique set of table instances comprises data from the database storage without repetition.
US11762830B2
Techniques for improving database searches are described herein. In an embodiment, a server computer system stores one or more first datasets in a first data repository and one or more second datasets in a second data repository. The server computer receives a request to perform an analysis on a particular dataset. The server computer determines that the particular dataset is stored in the first data repository and the second data repository. Based, at least in part, on an attribute of the request, the server computer selects the second data repository and responds to the request with data from the particular dataset stored in the second data repository.
US11762828B2
A method includes, for each key of a plurality of keys, identifying from a set of buckets a first bucket for the key based on a first hash function, and identifying from the set of buckets a second bucket for the key based on a second hash function. An entry for the key is stored in a bucket selected from one of the first bucket and the second bucket. The entry is inserted in a sequence of entries in a memory block. A position of the entry in the sequence of entries corresponds to the selected bucket. For each bucket in the set of buckets, an indication of a number of entries in the bucket is recorded.
US11762817B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed for snapshots of a non-volatile device. A method includes writing data in a sequential log structure for a non-volatile device. A method includes marking a point, in a sequential log structure, for a snapshot of data. A method includes preserving a logical-to-physical mapping for a snapshot based on a marked point and a temporal order for data in a sequential log structure.
US11762816B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes determining patterns of an application that utilizes a filesystem and/or properties of queries of the application. Data of the filesystem is stored across a plurality of replication sites of a data storage system. Based on the determined patterns of the application and/or the determined proper-ties of the queries of the application, a utility of storing at least some of the data of the filesystem in different variations at more than one of the replication sites is estimated. The estimated utility is compared against a predetermined utility threshold, and in response to a determination that the estimated utility is greater than the predetermined utility threshold, a write system call offered by the filesystem is modified to store the data in different variations at more than one of the replication sites.
US11762814B2
Techniques are provided for synchronous replication for synchronous mirror copy guarantee. A file system dependent technique for synchronous mirror copy guarantee is provided by overriding default behavior of a persistent fence so that the persistent fence is activated to block operations targeting a storage object having a synchronous replication relationship based upon the synchronous replication relationship being out of sync. The default behavior of the persistent fence is overridden to allow operations to be executed upon the storage object based upon the synchronous replication relationship being in sync. A file system independent technique for synchronous mirror copy guarantee is provided by intercepting operations before the operations are received by a file system. The operations are selectively forwarded to the file system or not based upon a state of a synchronous replication relationship.
US11762808B2
Technology described herein can perform deletion of a snapshot or portion thereof. In an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise, to delete a snapshot, or a portion of a snapshot, of a real filesystem, reading an inode mapping file (IMF) of the snapshot that indexes a virtual inode number (VIN) corresponding to a real inode. The operations further can comprise identifying the real inode of the snapshot referenced by the VIN, identifying a file object corresponding to the real inode, and deleting the file object from the snapshot.
US11762801B2
This disclosure generally relates to USB TYPE-C, and, in particular, DISPLAYPORT Alternate Mode communication in a USB TYPE-C environment. In one embodiment, a device determines a DISPLAYPORT mode and determines an orientation of a USB TYPE-C connector plug. A multiplexer multiplexes a DISPLAYPORT transmission based in part on the determined orientation of the USB TYPE-C connector plug.
US11762797B2
A system includes a fabric switch including a motherboard, a baseboard management controller (BMC), a network switch configured to transport network signals, and a PCIe switch configured to transport PCIe signals; a midplane; and a plurality of device ports. Each of the plurality of device ports is configured to connect a storage device to the motherboard of the fabric switch over the midplane and carry the network signals and the PCIe signals over the midplane. The storage device is configurable in multiple modes based a protocol established over a fabric connection between the system and the storage device.
US11762794B2
In an embodiment, a processing system comprises a microprocessor programmable via software instructions, a memory controller configured to be coupled to a memory, a communication system coupling the microprocessors to the memory controller, a cryptographic co-processor and a first communication interface. The processing system also comprises first and second configurable DMA channels. In a first configuration, the first DMA channel is configured to transfer data from the memory to the cryptographic co-processor, and the second DMA channel is configured to transfer the encrypted data via two loops from the cryptographic co-processor to the first communication interface. In a second configuration, the second DMA channel is configured to transfer received data via two loops from the first communication interface to the cryptographic co-processor, and the first DMA channel is configured to transfer the decrypted data from the cryptographic co-processor to the memory.
US11762789B2
An input/output (I/O) block for a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC), which includes: at least one I/O buffer, configured to define at least one signal path in respect of a connection to a remote I/O block via a communication channel, each signal path causing a respective signal edge slope; and an I/O sensor, coupled to the at least one signal path and configured to generate an output signal indicative of one or both of: (a) a timing difference between the signal edge for a first signal path and the signal edge for a second signal path, and (b) an eye pattern parameter for one or more of the at least one signal path.
US11762779B1
Various embodiments enable read buffering in connection with data block transfer on a memory device. For some embodiments, read buffering from a set of cache blocks is enabled during a period of wait time after data is copied (e.g., data is transferred, such as part of a compaction operation) from the set of cache blocks to a set of non-cache blocks. In various embodiments, after the wait time, data stored on the set of cache blocks is erased (e.g., the set of cache blocks is released) and read buffering from the set of cache blocks is disabled.
US11762753B2
Aspects relate to system and methods for determining a user specific mission operational performance, using machine-learning processes. An exemplary system includes a computing device configured to perform operations including receiving user-input structured data from at least a user device, receiving observed structured data related to the user and a mission performance metric, inputting the user-input structured data and the observed structured data to a machine-learning model, generating a user performance metric as a function of the machine-learning model, receiving a deterministic mission operational performance metric, disaggregating a deterministic user performance metric as a function of the deterministic mission operation performance metric and the mission performance metric, inputting training data to a machine-learning algorithm, where the training data includes the user-input structured data and the observed structured data correlated to the deterministic user performance metric, and training the machine-learning model as a function of the machine-learning algorithm and the training data.
US11762750B2
Systems and methods for modernizing workspace and hardware lifecycle management in an enterprise productivity ecosystem are described. In some embodiments, a client Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor, and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the client IHS to: transmit, by a local management agent to a workspace orchestration service, an access request and context information; receive, at the local management agent from the workspace orchestration service, one or more files or policies configured to enable the local management agent to instantiate a workspace based upon a workspace definition, wherein the workspace orchestration service is configured to: (i) calculate a security target and a productivity target based upon the access request and the context information, and (ii) create the workspace definition based upon the security target and the productivity target; and instantiate the workspace.
US11762745B2
A method includes transmitting a solicitation message to target storage units of a plurality of storage units of a storage network, where the solicitation message solicits the target storage units to store encoded data slices of a first data segment of data, and where the message is not sent to other storage units of the plurality of storage units. The method further includes receiving favorable responses from at least some of target storage units, and determining an error coding function based on an amount of the favorable responses and data storage requirements for the first data segment. The method further includes encoding the first data segment in accordance with the error coding function to produce a plurality of encoded data slices. The method further includes outputting the plurality of encoded data slices to storage units of the at least some of the target storage units for storage therein.
US11762743B2
Edge device task management by receiving an indicator corresponding to a first container running a task on a first edge device of a cluster of edge devices, wherein the indicator indicates an error status of the first container, and wherein task data of the task is stored in a first local storage of the first edge device, selecting a second edge device from the cluster of edge devices, wherein a second container on the second edge device is to run the task, instructing the first and second edge devices to transfer the task data from the first local storage of the first edge device to a second local storage of the second edge device, and in response to receiving a notification that indicates the task data has been transferred from the first local storage to the second local storage, sending the task to the second container.
US11762742B2
A process control system includes first type and second type controllers having different hardware architectures coupled together by a redundancy network for providing a controller pool. Primary application modules (AMs) are coupled to the controller platforms by a plant-wide network. The controller platforms are coupled by an input/output (I/O) mesh network to I/O devices to provide an I/O pool coupled to field devices coupled to processing equipment. A translating device translates states and values from one of the primary AMs running on a first type controller to generate a backup AM having an instruction set compatible with the second type controller. A controller application module orchestrator (CAMO) extends synchronization to the second type controller, makes the backup AM available to the second type controller, and then switches to utilize the second type controller as an active controller running the process.
US11762739B2
A method, a device, and a program product for backing up data in the Internet of Things (IoT) is disclosed. An IoT system includes an IoT manager and a plurality of IoT devices. In response to receiving a registration request for registering an IoT device among a plurality of IoT devices with an IoT manager, a signature public key is received from the IoT device. Atomic data associated with the IoT device is received that includes a signature generated by using a signature private key corresponding to the signature public key. The signature is verified based on the signature public key. In response to the signature being successfully verified, a backup data package for backup is generated based on the atomic data. Accordingly, data may be backed up in the IoT with higher performance, thereby improving the security and reliability of the entire IoT.
US11762735B2
Interleaved ECC coding for key-value data storage devices. In one embodiment, a controller includes a memory interface including a namespace database; an ECC engine; a controller memory; and an electronic processor. The electronic processor is configured to receive a host write command, determine whether write access was setup as a key-value (KV) namespace in the namespace database and is associated with the host write command, and control the ECC engine and the memory interface to perform one or more program operations on the data in the memory using the interleaved ECC coding and based on the host write command in response to determining that the write access was setup as the KV namespace in the namespace database and the KV namespace is associated with the host write command.
US11762725B2
Losses of event datasets in computing networks can be detected and managed according to some examples. One example can include a system that can identify a slot among a group of slots of a ring buffer in which to store an event dataset. The system can determine a sequence number to associate with the event dataset. The system can then write the sequence number in a first predefined area of the slot of the ring buffer. Additionally, the system can initiate a write process for writing the event dataset in a second predefined area of the slot of the ring buffer, the second predefined area being separate from the first predefined area. The system can detect a completion of the write process and, in response to detecting the completion of the write process, include a write-completion indicator in the first predefined area.
US11762723B2
A method for application operational monitoring may include an operational monitoring computer program: (1) ingesting a plurality of service level indicator (SLI) metrics for an application, each SLI metric identifying a number of successful observations and a number of total observations; (2) calculating a SLI score for each SLI metric based on the number of successful observations and the number of total observations for the SLI metric; (3) weighting the SLI score for each SLI metric; (4) combining the weighted SLI scores into an application SLI score; (5) calculating a calculated error budget based on the application SLI score; (6) determining that the calculated error budget exceeds an error budget for the application; (7) generating a notification in response to the calculated error budget breaching the error budget; and (8) causing implementation of a restriction on the application, wherein the restriction prevents enhancements to the application.
US11762722B2
A method for protecting a reconfigurable digital integrated circuit includes multiple parallel processing channels each comprising an instance of a functional logic block and an error detection unit, the method comprising the successive steps of: activating the error detection unit in order to detect an error in at least one processing channel, executing the data replay mechanism, and then activating the error detection unit in order to detect an error in at least one processing channel, if an error is detected again, executing a self-test on each processing channel, for each processing channel, if the self-test does not detect any error, executing the data replay mechanism for this processing channel, if the self-test detects an error, reconfiguring that part of the configuration memory associated with this processing channel.
US11762718B2
Systems and methods are provided for managing data transmissions in integrated circuits using a handshake, credit path, and data path. For example, the handshake between transmission and receiving sides can enable information to be passed over a separate path from the data path. Based on a calculated round trip delay, the system can identify the number of top level flops or registers needed in the credit path, which can be the same as the number of top level flops or registers in the data path. The receiving side can calculate the required number of credits per requested virtual channel based on the available queuing resources of the receiving side and the round trip delay of the data path, in order to ensure full bandwidth data streaming on the channel.
US11762717B2
A computer-implemented method of mapping a process model of a software application executed by a hosting platform. A series of actions taken by a user with respect to user interfaces generated by the software application are simulated through one or more application programming interface (API) calls. The user interfaces include a form and the series of actions includes opening the form. A plurality of user interface fields of the form are then identified through one or more other API calls executed while impersonating a session of a user under test. At least some of the user interface fields are set to known values and the form is submitted to the software application after the fields have been set. Changes to field-related and record-related information resulting from the submission are then gathered and a process model of the software application is determined based upon the gathered information.
US11762710B2
In some examples, a main thread of a plurality of execution threads executing on a plurality of processing cores of at least one hardware-based processor of a network device may receive a request for information associated with network routes that meet one or more criteria. Each of the plurality of execution threads may process a respective routing information partition to generate respective displayable information associated with a respective subset of the network routes that meets the one or more criteria. The main thread may generate consolidated displayable information associated with the network routes that meet the one or more criteria based on the respective displayable information generated by each of the plurality of execution threads. The main thread may output the consolidated displayable information associated with the network routes that meet the one or more criteria for display at a display device.
US11762697B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for scheduling a resource for a deep learning framework. The method can comprise: querying statuses of all deep learning job objects from a Kubernetes platform at a predetermined interval; and submitting, in response to finding from the queried deep learning job objects a deep learning job object having a status conforming to a resource request submission status, a resource request to the Kubernetes platform to schedule a physical machine where the Kubernetes platform is located to initiate a deep learning training task. The method can completely automate the allocation and release on the resource of the deep learning training task.
US11762692B2
An example method to manage post provisioning operations of a virtual computing instance in a heterogeneous cloud environment is disclosed. The virtual computing instance may be provisioned by a first management entity and configured to receive a command from a second management entity. The method includes defining the instance with a dynamic type by the first management entity and repeatedly finding the dynamic type with one or more finder workflows to determine whether the virtual computing instance is terminated based on the command from the second management entity. In response to not finding the dynamic type within the heterogeneous cloud environment, the method further includes creating a catalog item for the virtual computing instance in a common service catalog and managing one or more resources allocated for the virtual computing instance based on the created catalog item.
US11762688B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for batch job execution. In some embodiments, a method may include: executing a plurality of service instances, each service instance being configured to execute jobs stored in a database; and by a first service instance of the plurality of service instances, identifying a job stored in the database, determining that no service instance of the plurality of service instances other than the first service instance has initiated execution of the job, generating an execution timestamp having a granularity of one second or longer, recording the generated execution timestamp in the database such that the execution timestamp is associated with the job, and executing the job. The service instances other than the first service instance may be configured to avoid execution of the job upon determining that a respective system time matches the execution timestamp to the granularity of the execution timestamp.
US11762685B2
A method and apparatus for scaling resources of a GPU in a cloud computing system are provided. The method includes receiving requests for services from a client device, queuing the received requests in a message bus based on a preset prioritization scheme; and scaling the resources of the GPU for the requests queued in the message bus according to a preset prioritization loop.
US11762681B2
The disclosure provides an approach for the dynamic configuration of virtualized objects. A virtual object may be associated with a desired state defining a first plurality of resources for allocating to the virtual object. The first plurality of resources correspond to one or more resource types. Techniques include determining that each of a plurality of hosts does not have sufficient available resources to allocate the first plurality of resources to the virtual object according to the desired state. Techniques include selecting, a first host of the plurality of hosts to run the virtual object. Techniques include allocating a second plurality of resources to the virtual object from the first host, wherein the second plurality of resources is less than the first plurality of resources, and running the virtual object in the first host.
US11762675B2
The disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for loading a picture. A target page element is obtained. A motion state of the target page element is obtained. A to-be-loaded picture carried by the target page element is obtained. The to-be-loaded picture is added to a to-be-loaded queue based on the motion state being a scrolling state. The to-be-loaded queue is configured to monitor the to-be-loaded picture based on a change of the motion state. The to-be-loaded picture is added to a loading state based on the motion state changing to a non-scrolling state.
US11762672B2
A method for a dynamic linker to load and run an application that is executed over a plurality of nodes, includes relocating a primary binary of the application from an initial location to an executable location, loading library dependencies, altering a system call table used during execution of the application for the dynamic linker to catch all system calls made by the application, and executing the relocated primary binary from the executable location.
US11762667B2
A method for adjusting device system settings in response to analysis of displayed content. In some embodiments, a processor may extract content from contents displayed on a screen of a device. The processor may analyze features of the content. The processor may classify the content as belonging to a content class, based on analysis of the content features, utilizing a machine learning model. The processor may update the device system settings based on the content class.
US11762665B2
A system includes a multidimensional array of homogenous Functional Configurable Units (FCUs), coupled using a multidimensional array of switches, and a parameter store on the device which stores parameters that tag a subarray of FCUs as unusable. Technologies are described which change the pattern of placement of configuration data, in dependence on the tagged subarray, by changing the routing through the array of switches. As a result, a multidimensional array of FCUs having unusable elements can still be used.
US11762664B2
There is provided a data processing apparatus comprising decode circuitry responsive to receipt of a block of instructions to generate control signals indicative of each of the block of instructions, and to analyse the block of instructions to detect a potential hazard instruction. The data processing apparatus is provided with decode circuitry to encode information indicative of a clean restart point into the control signals associated with the potential hazard instruction. The data processing apparatus is provided with data processing circuity to perform out-of-order execution of at least some of the block of instructions, and control circuitry responsive to a determination, at execution of the potential hazard instruction, that data values used as operands for the potential hazard instruction have been modified by out-of-order execution of a subsequent instruction, to restart execution from the clean restart point and to flush held data values from the data processing circuitry.
US11762660B2
A unified queue configured to perform decoupled prediction and fetch operations, and related apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer-readable media, is disclosed. The unified queue has a plurality of entries, where each entry is configured to store information associated with at least one instruction, and where the information comprises an identifier portion, a prediction information portion, and a tag information portion. The unified queue is configured to update the prediction information portion of each entry responsive to a prediction block, and to update the tag information portion of each entry responsive to a tag and TLB block. The prediction information may be updated more than once, and the unified queue is configured to take corrective action where a later prediction conflicts with an earlier prediction.
US11762659B2
An input/output store instruction is handled. A data processing system includes a system nest communicatively coupled to at least one input/output bus by an input/output bus controller. The data processing system further includes at least a data processing unit including a core, system firmware and an asynchronous core-nest interface. The data processing unit is communicatively coupled to the system nest via an aggregation buffer. The system nest is configured to asynchronously load from and/or store data to an external device which is communicatively coupled to the input/output bus. The data processing unit is configured to complete the input/output store instruction before an execution of the input/output store instruction in the system nest is completed.
US11762658B2
A processing unit such as a graphics processing unit (GPU) includes a plurality of vector signal processors (VSPs) that include multiply/accumulate elements. The processing unit also includes a plurality of registers associated with the plurality of VSPs. First portions of first and second matrices are fetched into the plurality of registers prior to a first round that includes a plurality of iterations. The multiply/accumulate elements perform matrix multiplication and accumulation on different combinations of subsets of the first portions of the first and second matrices in the plurality of iterations prior to fetching second portions of the first and second matrices into the plurality of registers for a second round. The accumulated results of multiplying the first portions of the first and second matrices are written into an output buffer in response to completing the plurality of iterations.
US11762654B2
The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for lifecycle processing of declarative artifacts. Declarative artifacts defining a target state for application content related to a software application are read. When running, the software application includes runtime artifacts executing in a containerized environment. Model definition objects for processing during runtime of the software application based on the declarative artifacts are created and stored in a model repository at a container associated with the software application. The model repository is scanned as well as the runtime artifacts executing as part of the software application in the containerized runtime environment to identify a model definition object from the model repository for processing at runtime of the software application. An operation related to a runtime artifact to run as part of the running software application at the containerized runtime environment is executed based on input from the identified model definition object.
US11762639B2
The present disclosure provides a scalable container-based system implemented in computer instructions stored in a non-transitory medium. The present disclosure further provides a method of creating and operating a scalable container-based system.
US11762636B2
The invention relates to a system that implements application lineage metadata and registration. An embodiment of the present invention is directed to auto-generating Application Lineage data. This may be accomplished by implementing code markers, such as @Annotations, within the code. An embodiment of the present invention may scan the code each time a build is kicked off by a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. At the end of the build, the documentation may be automatically generated with application lineage information.
US11762621B2
An object management method and a mobile terminal are provided, where the method includes: receiving a first operation performed on a target object in a first page displayed on a first screen; and moving or copying, in response to the first operation, the target object into a second page displayed on a second screen, where the first page and the second page are different directory pages.
US11762603B2
A computer-implemented method for migrating file data in a hierarchical storage environment includes: detecting that a file recalled from a magnetic tape to a primary storage device was modified; determining whether the magnetic tape from which the file was recalled is loaded in a tape drive upon detecting that the file was modified; responsive to determining that the magnetic tape from which the file was recalled is loaded in the tape drive upon detecting that the file was modified, appending only a modified portion of the file to the magnetic tape; and responsive to determining that the magnetic tape from which the file was recalled is not loaded in the tape drive upon detecting that the file was modified, appending the file in its entirety, including the modified portion of the file and any unmodified portions of the file, to a different magnetic tape.
US11762600B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a data processing solution. In this solution, a hard disk receives a call instruction sent by a server, where the call instruction includes a function identifier of a to-be-called function and an operation address; and the hard disk calls the function in the hard disk based on the function identifier, and performs, based on the function, an operation on data corresponding to the operation address.
US11762595B1
An apparatus includes at least one processing device configured to identify a logical storage volume stored across multiple storage nodes of a distributed storage system, and for each of a plurality of different portions of the logical storage volume, to send one or more locality determination commands to each of one or more of the storage nodes, a given such command requesting a corresponding one of the storage nodes to respond with an indication as to whether or not the portion of the logical storage volume is local to that storage node, and to receive from the one or more storage nodes responses to the one or more locality determination commands. The processing device is further configured to store locality information for the plurality of different portions of the logical storage volume based at least in part on the responses of the storage nodes to the locality determination commands.
US11762590B2
A controller for controlling a memory devices is provided to include: a first core configured to control first memory dies; a second core configured to control second memory dies; and a host interface configured to: receive submission queue tail pointers and command information on each of commands corresponding to the tail pointers from host, classify the commands into a first address command associated with a first logical address and a second address command associated with a second logical address based on the command information, fetch the first and second address commands from host, and provide the first address command to the first core and the second address command to the second core based on the processing order of the first and second address commands determined based on status of the first memory dies and the second memory dies.
US11762581B2
A method, device, and system for controlling a data read/write command in an NVMe over fabric architecture. In the method provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure, a data processing unit receives a control command sent by a control device, the data processing unit divides a storage space of a buffer unit into at least two storage spaces according to the control command sent by the control device, and establishes a correspondence between the at least two storage spaces and command queues, and after receiving a first data read/write command that is in a first command queue and that is sent by the control device, the data processing unit buffers, in a storage space that is of the buffer unit and that is corresponding to the first command queue, data to be transmitted according to the first data read/write command.
US11762579B2
Embodiments provide a read operation circuit, a semiconductor memory, and a read operation method. The read operation circuit includes: a DBI encoder configured to read read data from a memory bank, and determine whether to invert the read data according to the number of bits of low data in the read data to output global bus data for transmission through a global bus and DBI data for transmission through a DBI signal line, wherein a DBI port is configured to receive the DBI data; a parallel-to-serial conversion circuit configured to perform parallel-to-serial conversion on the global bus data to generate output data of the DQ port; a data buffer module connected to the memory bank through the global bus; and a precharge module connected to a precharge signal line and configured to set an initial state of the global bus to High.
US11762577B2
Apparatuses and methods can be related to implementing edge compute components in a memory array. Compute components can be implemented under a memory array. Implementing compute components under a memory array can limit control access to the compute components due to die space utilized by the compute components. A portion of the compute components (e.g., compute components on the edge) may have control access that is not available to the remainder of the compute components.
US11762565B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed, including a controller circuit, a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, and a reset circuit, where the reset circuit is configured to receive a reset signal from a host device and actuate a timer circuit. The timer circuit, where the timer circuit is configured to cause a storage device to reset after a threshold time period. The reset circuit is further configured to actuate the controller circuit to write data stored in the volatile memory to the non-volatile memory before the storage device is reset.
US11762556B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by a computing device, an I/O request. It may be identified whether the I/O request is eligible for handling via a first path without also requiring handling via a second path. If the I/O request is eligible, the I/O request may be processed via the first path on a host I/O stack without processing the I/O request via the second path on a storage array I/O stack. If the I/O request is ineligible, the I/O request may be processed via the first path on the host.
US11762550B2
A method for operating an electronic device including a touch sensitive display is provided. The method includes displaying at least two application execution screens on the touch sensitive display not to be superposed on one another, receiving a touch input or a hovering input through the touch sensitive display, selecting at least one application execution screen among the at least two application execution screens at least partially in response to the reception of the touch input or the hovering input, and displaying the selected application execution screen to be superposed on at least a portion of a non-selected application execution screen among the at least two application execution screens.
US11762537B1
A data processing system implements displaying a tabbed user interface comprising a plurality of tabs for navigating among a plurality of electronic documents; determining a first tab of the plurality of tabs is associated with a first tab group according to a first grouping criterion; and causing a first tab group control element to be displayed proximate to the first tab, the first tab group control element providing a set of tools for accessing content associated with the first tab group and for creating new tabs associated with the first tab group.
US11762535B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a customer a central location to manage permissions provided to third-parties and devices to access and use customer information maintained by a financial institution are described. The central location serves as a central portal where a customer of the financial institution can manage all access to account information and personal information stored at the financial institution. Accordingly, the customer does not need to log into each individual third-party system or customer device to manage previously provided access to the customer information or to provision new access to the customer information. A user additionally is able to have user data and third-party accounts of the user deleted from devices, applications, and third-party systems via a central portal. Restrictions on how user data is used by devices, applications, and third-party systems can be imposed via a central portal.
US11762528B1
A computing device may include a provider application and data defining perceptible elements that provide users with various functionalities in more easily consumable stages. The application may determine that the user is at a first level of sophistication based on user activities and/or circumstances, and present a first set of perceptible elements in response thereto to provide a first set of functionalities. The application may then determine the user is at a second, higher level of sophistication based on subsequent activities and/or circumstances, and present a second set of perceptible elements to provide a second set of functionalities that includes at least one new functionality not provided via the first set of perceptible elements. Applications can be less resource intensive by evolving to strategically tailor available functionality to the circumstances and needs of particular users.
US11762522B2
A touch panel, a preparation method therefor, and a display device. The touch panel comprises a substrate, a plurality of spaced apart first touch electrodes and a plurality of spaced apart second touch electrodes that are arranged on the same layer on the substrate. The first touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes are insulated from each other. The substrate is also provided with a plurality of grooves, and the orthographic projection of the first touch electrodes and the second touch electrodes on the substrate do not overlap with the orthographic projection of the grooves in the substrate.
US11762513B2
A mesh-patterned touch panel includes a base layer, a first transparent oxide layer formed on the base layer, a metal electrode layer formed on the first transparent oxide layer, and a blackening layer formed on the metal electrode layer.
US11762512B2
An electronic device such as a speaker device may have a curved housing characterized by a vertical longitudinal axis. A layer of fabric may cover the curved housing. A touch sensor may be used to detect touch input on the layer of fabric. The touch sensor may include capacitive touch sensor electrodes including drive lines and sense lines. In some arrangements, the touch sensor is formed from conductive strands in the layer of fabric. In other arrangements, the touch sensor is formed from conductive traces on a substrate. The substrate may be formed from portions of the curved housing or may be formed from a layer that is separate from the housing. Light-emitting components and/or fabric with different visual characteristics may be used to mark where the touch-sensitive regions of the fabric are located. The touch-sensitive regions may be shaped as media control symbols.
US11762509B2
An ultrasonic pattern recognition assembly comprising: a substrate; a receiving member comprising at least one receiving electrode disposed on the substrate; a piezoelectric layer disposed on the substrate and covering the receiving member; a seed member comprising at least one seed block disposed on at least a portion of the piezoelectric layer; an insulating member disposed on the seed member and having at least one exposed portion, the at least one exposed portion exposing a portion of a surface of the seed member; and a transmitting member comprising at least one transmitting electrode disposed on the seed member, the at least one transmitting electrode extending from a surface of the seed member exposed by the exposed portion in a direction away from the substrate. A display device and a method of fabricating an ultrasonic pattern recognition assembly are also disclosed.
US11762508B2
Grip detection can be beneficial for an electronic device to ignore unintended contacts on a touch sensitive surface. Examples of the disclosure provide various ways for identifying an input patch as a grip. In some examples, identifying an input patch as a grip comprises determining whether the input patch satisfies one or more grip identification criteria. In some examples, identified grips are saved in a grip database. In some examples, the identified grips are filtered out of touch images. In some examples, when baseline touch data for a touch-sensitive is updated, the touch processor can forgo updating the baseline for portions of the touch sensitive surface associated with the identified grips.
US11762503B2
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a touch driving circuit and a touch display device. There may be provided a touch driving circuit capable of attenuating noise in the touch sensing signal and enhancing the output signal by the integrator by transferring charge through a sample-and-hold driving path and a bypass driving path, inverting the polarity of the charge sampled by the sampling switching block, and increasing the number of times of sampling. Further, as the amount of charge transferred by the offset voltage control switch included in the sample-and-hold driving path and bypass driving path may be adjusted within an offset voltage range, the performance of touch sensing may be enhanced.
US11762497B2
A peripheral wiring region of a display device includes a first insulating layer on a substrate, a first wiring layer on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer which is present on the first insulating layer and covers the first wiring layer, and a second wiring layer on the second insulating layer. A plurality of video signal wirings are arranged in the first wiring layer. A plurality of touch detection wirings arranged in a matrix in an X direction and a Y direction and a conductor pattern to which a fixed potential is supplied are formed in the second wiring layer. The conductor pattern is arranged at a position overlapping a part of the plurality of video signal wirings and is capacitively coupled to the part of the plurality of video signal wirings.
US11762486B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a communication circuitry, a camera, and a processor, wherein the processor may be configured to detect at least one of a first specific color or a first specific shape from at least one surface of the stylus pen, and execute a first specific function based on the detecting of the at least one of the first specific color or the first specific shape.
US11762484B1
A mouse and a back cover of a holding device adjustable for left and right hand shapes are provided. The mouse includes: a key module that includes at least one button unit, a circuit base that includes a bottom casing and a control module, and a housing module fixed to the circuit base. The control module is electrically connected to the at least one button unit. The housing module includes a movable housing and a fixing assembly. The movable housing is operable to move left or right relative to the circuit base and switch between left-side and right-side positions. The fixing assembly is operable to fix the movable housing, which is located at the left-side or the right-side position, with the circuit base. When the movable housing is located at the left-side or the right-side position, the mouse is adapted for a right-handed or a left-handed user, respectively.
US11762483B2
A mouse device includes a casing, a light-transmissible element and at least one light-emitting element. The casing has an opening. The light-transmissible element is disposed within the casing. A portion of the light-transmissible element is exposed outside the opening of the casing. The light-transmissible element includes plural scattering patterns. The at least one light-emitting element is disposed within the casing and located beside the light-transmissible element. The at least one light-emitting element emits a light beam to an internal portion of the light-transmissible element. After the light beam is transmitted through the plural scattering patterns, the light beam is scattered by the plural scattering patterns, and the scattered light beam is transmitted through the opening of the casing and outputted.
US11762482B2
A mouse for controlling a cursor movement speed based on a pressure is provided, which has a simple structure and a fast adjustment speed and can control the cursor movement speed based on the pressure of the mouse. The mouse includes a microprocessor, a pressure detection unit, a movement detection unit and a button detection unit. The pressure detection unit, the movement detection unit and the button detection unit are signal-connected to the microprocessor, respectively. When the movement detection unit detects a movement signal of the mouse, data sent by the mouse is adjusted based on the pressure detected by the pressure detection unit to change the cursor movement speed. The new mouse belongs to the technical field of computer peripherals.
US11762479B2
A serial peripheral interface (SPI) keyboard module for a parking meter comprises a plurality of key switches and at least one controller configured to detect a key press, determine a predetermined indicator associated with the pressed key and transmit the indicator to a keyboard interface of the parking meter. The SPI keyboard module provides a low power keyboard module that can be easily adapted to provide different keyboards or layouts without requiring significant changes to the parking meter electronics.
US11762476B2
A virtual reality (VR) or augmented reality (AR) system detects through a camera when a user's hand positions match a predefined position and in response thereto renders an overlay including a crown with which the user can interact to lock onto an object or scene. The system then detects and renders a centre indicator of the crown, tracking the user's hands, enables or disables actions depending on the position of the centre indicator relative to a neutral zone, responds to user hand movement to implement actions, and also detects unlock of the object or scene.
US11762470B2
An electronic device is configured to provide haptic feedback to a user based on an input action associated with an input device. The electronic device includes a haptic engine operably connected to a processing device. The haptic engine includes an electromagnetic actuator that detects an input action associated with the input device. The electromagnetic actuator also produces a haptic output in response to the detection of the input action.
US11762469B2
A display device and a haptic feedback method having the same provide a display panel which displays an image, a cover window on a first surface of the display panel and including a tactile pattern, and an actuator which is disposed on a second surface opposite the first surface of the display panel and overlaps the tactile pattern in a width direction of the display panel. The actuator outputs a sensing voltage according to applied pressure and generates vibrations according to applied driving voltages.
US11762467B2
There is disclosed devices, systems and methods for nonverbal multi-input and feedback devices for user intended computer control and communication of text, graphics and audio. The system comprises sensory devices comprising sensors to detect a user inputting gestures on sensor interfaces, a cloud system comprising a processor, for retrieving the inputted gestures detected by the sensor on the sensory device, comparing the inputted gestures to gestures stored in databases on the cloud system, identifying at least a text, graphics and/or speech command comprising a word that corresponds to the inputted gesture; showing the command to the user; and transmitting the command to another device.
US11762466B2
Systems and methods are provided for measuring and identifying real-world tremors in order to calculate and display an anti-tremor in a virtual reality world. A system may identify a tremor in a body part, such as hands, and measure the tremor movement from, e.g., body sensors, to calculate an opposite movement and animate virtual hands performing the reverse tremor motion. Depicting inverse motions, such as an anti-tremor, may be used in a few ways to therapeutically train and exercise patients to better control their tremors. Providing a visual cue may help a patient interrupt the movement, as well as provide possibilities for therapy or training muscle memory and stimulating nerve and neuron recovery. By displaying an anti-tremor with virtual hands, a VR system may be used to help train or exercise body parts experiencing tremors.
US11762463B2
Described are various embodiments of a light field device, optical aberration compensation or simulation rendering method and vision testing system using same. In one embodiment, the device comprises a digital display comprising a set of pixels; an array of light field shaping elements (LFSE) disposed relative to the set of pixels so to at least partially govern a light field emanated thereby; and a digital processor operable to: receive as input one or more higher order aberration parameters digitally defining a higher order aberration; for each given pixel, identify an adjusted image plane location corresponding thereto given a corresponding LFSE corresponding thereto and given said one or more higher order aberration parameters, and associate therewith an adjusted image value designated for the adjusted image location; and render for each said given pixel said adjusted image value associated therewith.
US11762461B2
A method for updating information for a graphics pipeline including executing in the first frame period an application on a CPU to generate primitives of a scene for a first video frame. Gaze tracking information is received in a second frame period for an eye of a user. In the second frame period a landing point on an HMD display is predicted at the CPU based at least on the gaze tracking information. A late update of the predicted landing point to a buffer accessible by the GPU is performed in the second frame period. Shader operations are performed in the GPU in the second frame period to generate pixel data based on the primitives and based on the predicted landing point, wherein the pixel data is stored into a frame buffer. The pixel data is scanned out in the third frame period from the frame buffer to the HMD.
US11762454B2
A method with image augmentation includes recognizing, based on a gaze of the user corresponding to the input image, any one or any combination of any two or more of an object of interest of a user, a situation of the object of interest, and a task of the user from partial regions of an input image determining relevant information indicating an intention of the user, based on any two or any other combination of the object of interest of the user, the situation of the object of interest, and the task of the user, and generating a visually augmented image by visually augmenting the input image based on the relevant information.
US11762450B2
Hardware-based wake detection and system-on-chip (SoC) firmware support for servicing fixed display port (DP) and High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) port hot plug events which allow a Universal Serial Bus (USB) Type-C subsystem to go into a powered off state while the fixed display is not streaming. Upon receiving a display software-initiated wake for fixed display streaming in response to a hot plug detect, the SoC USB Type-C firmware triggers exit low-power state flow to power up the USB USB Type-C subsystem to handle the display traffic. The SoC USB Type-C firmware has the capability to autonomously re-enter the low power state when the fixed display(s) are not streaming.
US11762436B2
A flexible circuit board includes a plurality of first wires that have a first connection area and a first insulating layer that covers the first wires such that the first connection area is exposed. A printed circuit board includes a plurality of second wires that have a second connection area, a second insulating layer that covers the second wires such that the second connection area is exposed, and a plurality of island conductors adjacent to the second wires across a gap. The second connection area is covered with an anisotropic conductive layer. Each of the second wires in the second connection area at least partially faces a corresponding one of the wires in the first connection area across the anisotropic conductive layer. The plurality of island conductors include an island conductor that is in contact with the anisotropic conductive layer and partially exposed from the anisotropic conductive layer.
US11762426B2
A display system includes a continuous flexible display, two book halves, two main display supports, and a movement synchronizing coupling. The two book halves is connected to each other via a hinge mechanism. The hinge mechanism has two hinges, and each hinge is rotatable about respective axis. Each of the two main display supports connects to one of the two book halves and is configured to support the flexible display. The coupling is connected to the two main display supports and rotating about a rotation axis that is parallel to the axis of hinge to enable a synchronized movement of the two main display supports.
US11762424B2
A method to track an individual wearing a battery-operated wearable and lockable tracking device. An identification number is provided on the tracking device or separately from the tracking device and remotely stored. Device location information about the tracking device is received from the location tracker. Based on the location information received, a determination is made whether the individual is potentially subject to a condition. In such case, the device location is tracked, and the individual is wirelessly alerted and tracked. Upon tracking, the individual is identified by scanning the QR code and revealing the personal information about the individual.
US11762421B2
A head-mounted display includes a display unit and a facial interface. The display unit includes a display for displaying graphical content to a user. The facial interface is coupled to the display unit and configured to engage a face of the user to support the display unit thereon. The facial interface includes an upper portion that engages a forehead of the user and side portions that engage temple regions of the user. The facial interface converts forward force applied to the upper portion by the forehead into inward force applied by side portions to the temple regions.
US11762420B2
An apparatus and method for mounting a plurality of display monitors is disclosed, wherein the apparatus is provided at a user's desk or workstation. The apparatus can be easily moved toward and away from the user such that all the monitors mounted on the apparatus move in unison in the direction indicated by the user. Accordingly, the apparatus accommodates the visual preferences of virtually all users of the desk or workstation so that eye and skeletal muscle fatigue are reduced.
US11762418B2
A foldable device can include a processor; memory accessible to the processor; a foldable frame that includes a hinge assembly that defines a folding axis offset from a center of the foldable frame; and a foldable display supported by the foldable frame and operatively coupled to the processor.
US11762405B2
A power combining technique includes receiving a first voltage at a first input and a second voltage at a second input. The power combining technique further includes combining, with at least two power converters, power received from the first and second inputs into a single power rail. A power balancing technique further includes controlling the at least two power converters such that a first one of the power converters outputs an amount of current to the single power rail that is proportional to and/or equal to the amount of current output by another of the power converters.
US11762404B2
A power supply device having variable output voltage includes a controller, and a first power supply module and a second power supply module connected in parallel. The controller selectively outputs a first voltage control signal and a first switch control signal to the first power supply module, or outputs a second voltage control signal and a second switch control signal to the second power supply module according to a voltage requirement signal. An output power of the first power supply module has a first voltage value selected from a first voltage value set, an output power of the second power supply module has a second voltage value selected from a second voltage value set, and a minimum value of the first voltage value set is greater than a maximum value of the second voltage value set. Thus, more extensive voltage output capabilities are provided, and good power conversion efficiency is achieved at the same time.
US11762402B2
In an embodiment an electro-thermal device includes a heater, a readout circuit, a digital controller having a first input coupled to a first output of the readout circuit and a digital sigma-delta modulator having a first input coupled to an output of the digital controller and an output coupled to the heater.
US11762399B1
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for facilitating transferring fluids between containers, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the apparatus comprises a first container and a regulator. Further, the first container contains a first fluid at a first pressure and transfers the first fluid to a second container. Further, the second container transfers the second fluid to a third container based on the transferring. Further, the second pressure is greater than a third pressure of a third fluid contained in the third container. Further, the regulator is operatably coupled with the first container. Further, the regulator controls a mass flow rate of the first fluid transferred from the first container. Further, the transferring of the first fluid to the second container is based on the controlling. Further, the controlling facilitates maintaining a differential pressure between the second pressure and the third pressure within a differential pressure range.
US11762395B2
A server includes a controller configured to control operation of a vehicle, and a communication interface configured to communicate with a terminal apparatus held by a first user. The communication interface acquires, from the terminal apparatus, a list including a vehicle designation condition designated by the first user when the first user reserves boarding of a vehicle. The controller determines a vehicle to be boarded by the first user based on the list.
US11762394B2
A position detection apparatus comprises: a map information creation part that creates map information representing a position in a space including a floor surface on which at least one detection object may be disposed; a mask information creation part that creates mask information, by extracting a region of a predetermined height range within a height range from the floor surface when the detection object is disposed in the space from the map information; a specifying part that specifies partial optical image information, by removing a region corresponding to the mask information from the optical image information; and a detection part that specifies a positional relationship between the map information and the partial optical image information at a pixel level, and detects a position of the detection object in the map information based on the specified positional relationship.
US11762393B2
A shipping system is configured to facilitate transfer of a package into and/or out of a room in a building. The shipping system is for controlling a shiftable panel of the building to selectively provide a path into and out of the room. The shipping system includes a control system. The control system broadly includes a vehicle sensor and a system processor. The system processor is configured to receive package identification data associated with the package, have the panel opened to allow room ingress and egress along the path based on the package identification data, move an autonomous vehicle to a location adjacent the panel to facilitate package transfer, based on vehicle location data, and have the panel closed to restrict room ingress and egress along the path in response to a determination that the package has been transferred into or out of the room via the path.
US11762392B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling a first vehicle in an autonomous driving mode. While doing so, a second vehicle may be identified. Geometry for a future trajectory of the first vehicle may be identified, and an initial allowable discomfort value may be identified. Determining a speed profile for the geometry that meets the value may be attempted by determining a discomfort value for the speed profile based on a set of factors relating to at least discomfort of a passenger of the first vehicle and discomfort of a passenger of the second vehicle. When a speed profile that meets the value cannot be determined, the value may be adjusted until a speed profile that meets the value is determined. The speed profile that meets an adjusted value is used to control the first vehicle in the autonomous driving mode.
US11762382B1
A system includes network nodes, such as, multiple computing devices and multiple software defined radios. The network nodes accurately and timely detects, identifies, locates, and responds to an unmanned aircraft system within a predetermined area. The network nodes use a communications control link between the unmanned aircraft system and a controller of the unmanned aircraft system to detect, identify, locate, and respond to the unmanned aircraft system. The network nodes are deployed over the predetermined area to maintain airspace situational awareness of the unmanned aircraft system, and deploy targeted countermeasures to counteract identified threats associated with the presence of the unmanned aircraft system within the predetermined area.
US11762378B2
An inspection apparatus for enabling a remotely-located expert to monitor an inspection by a non-expert, the apparatus comprising an inspection device capable of being operated by the non-expert, which is configured to generate inspection data indicative of a condition of a test object, and a communication unit configured to: divide the inspection data into first and second data; transfer the first data for being presented to the remotely-located expert at a first time, to facilitate substantially real-time monitoring of the inspection by the expert; and transfer the second data for being presented to the remotely-located expert at a second time, which is later than the first time, to facilitate non-real time monitoring of the inspection by the expert.
US11762376B2
A quick dispatching rule screening method and apparatus are provided. The quick dispatching rule screening method includes following steps. A scheduling result and a corresponding scenario are obtained. A dispatching rule mining table is established according to the scheduling result, where the dispatching rule mining table includes a dispatching rule and an operation. A participation rate of each dispatching rule in the dispatching rule mining table is calculated. A contribution rate is calculated according to the participation rate to obtain a filter value. A selected dispatching rule is decided according to the filter value.
US11762372B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for a systems and methods for improved LIDAR return light capture efficiency. One example method may include comparing, by a controller including a processor and at a first time, a first temperature of a first computing element to a first threshold temperature and a second temperature of a second computing element to a second threshold temperature. The example method may also include sending, based on a determination that the first temperature is below the first threshold temperature and the second temperature is above the second threshold temperature, a first signal to a switch to activate a data output corresponding to the second computing element. The example method may also include sending, to the second computing element, a second signal to cause a third computing element to increase heat dissipation from the third computing element to the first computing element. The example method may also include receiving, from the first computing element, a third temperature of the first computing element at a second time. The example method may also include comparing the third temperature of the first computing element to the first threshold temperature. The example method may also include determining that the third temperature of the first computing element is at or above the first threshold temperature at the second time. The example method may also include sending, based on a determination that that the third temperature is at or above the first threshold temperature, a third signal to the switch to activate a data output corresponding to the first computing element.
US11762368B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using generative design processes, where the 3D models of the physical structures are produced so as to facilitate manufacturing of the physical structures using 2.5-axis subtractive manufacturing systems and techniques, include: obtaining a design space, design criteria, and in-use case(s); iteratively modifying a generatively designed shape in the design space in accordance with the design criteria and the in-use case(s) using a density-based representation of the generatively designed shape and including adjusting the density-based representation of the generatively designed three dimensional shape in accordance with a milling direction of a 2.5-axis subtractive manufacturing process in at least two iterations of the iteratively modifying; and providing the generatively designed shape for use in manufacturing a physical structure using computer-controlled manufacturing that employs the 2.5-axis subtractive manufacturing process.
US11762361B2
A control system for operating a system having an operable component includes a master and a slave assigned to the component. The master and the slave each comprise a software processing part and a programmable logic part. The master is configured by its software processing part to: receive job data, transform the job data into component job data, and send the component job data to the slave. The master is configured by its programmable logic part to send information about a current job status to the slave. The slave is configured by its programmable logic part to receive the information about the current job status, and to send information about the current job status to its software processing part. The slave is configured by its software processing part to execute a job corresponding to the component job data using the current job status.
US11762358B2
A building system including one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to cause a user interface of a user device to display a plurality of nodes of a semantic building model and a plurality of relationships between the plurality of nodes of the semantic building model. The instructions cause the one or more processors to receive a search input from the user device, generate a search result based on the search input, wherein the search result comprises an indication of a portion of nodes of the plurality of nodes and a portion of relationships of the plurality of relationships, and cause the user interface to display the portion of nodes of the plurality of nodes and the portion of relationships of the plurality of relationships.
US11762354B2
An apparatus for controlling charging of an electric vehicle and a method therefor are provided. The apparatus includes a communication device that performs vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication with a charging station management server outside the electric vehicle and a vehicle management server configured to manage shared vehicles and a processor that requests the charging station management server to reserve a charging station via the communication device and automatically requests the vehicle management server to reserve a shared vehicle to be used when the electric vehicle is charged, via the communication device, when a vehicle power for driving to a destination is insufficient.
US11762353B2
A building management system includes an entity database, a software defined gateway, and an entity service. The entity database stores a plurality of interconnected smart entities including object entities representing a plurality of physical devices, people, or spaces and data entities representing data associated with the plurality of physical devices, people, or spaces. The smart entities are interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the object entities and the data entities. The software defined gateway is configured to receive information technology (IT) data and operational technology (OT) data from a plurality of different data sources. The entity service is configured to create a new smart entity in the entity database or update an existing smart entity in the entity database using the IT data and the OT data. The new or existing smart entity includes one or more first attributes having values derived from the IT data and one or more second attributes having values derived from the OT data.
US11762351B2
A building management system includes a meter configured to provide data samples of a real point. The real point corresponds to a first physical parameter measured by the meter. The building management system also includes an analytics circuit configured to store a real point object representing the real point and store a meter object representing the meter. The meter object includes a points attribute that lists one or more point objects associated with the meter object including at least the real point object. The analytics circuit is also configured to store a virtual point object representing a virtual point. The virtual point corresponds to a second physical parameter not measured by the meter. The analytics circuit is also configured to update the points attribute in the meter object to list the virtual point object as one of the point objects associated with the meter object.
US11762348B2
Control loop latency can be accounted for in predicting positions of micro-objects being moved by using a hybrid model that includes both at least one physics-based model and machine-learning models. The models are combined using gradient boosting, with a model created during at least one of the stages being fitted based on residuals calculated during a previous stage based on comparison to training data. The loss function for each stage is selected based on the model being created. The hybrid model is evaluated with data extrapolated and interpolated from the training data to prevent overfitting and ensure the hybrid model has sufficient predictive ability. By including both physics-based and machine-learning models, the hybrid model can account for both deterministic and stochastic components involved in the movement of the micro-objects, thus increasing the accuracy and throughput of the micro-assembly.
US11762346B2
A computer-implemented method for creating a control process for a technical system using a Bayesian optimization method, the control process being created and executable based on model parameters of a control model, the following steps being performed in order to optimize the control process: furnishing a quality function that corresponds to a trainable regression function, and that assesses a quality of a control process of the technical system based on model parameters; executing a Bayesian optimization method based on the quality function in order to iteratively ascertain an optimized model parameter set having model parameters, such that during execution of the Bayesian optimization method, a model parameter domain that indicates the permissible value ranges for the model parameters is expanded, by an amount equal to an expansion distance, with respect to those dimensions for which the model parameter ascertained in the current iteration lies at a range boundary.
US11762344B2
The present invention reduces the probability of malfunction occurrence when performing predictive control of a device being controlled. In this control device of one aspect of the present invention, a prediction model for a control variable is used to calculate a prediction value from a measured value of the control variable, and a desired command value of the control variable is determined by correcting a desired basic value in accordance with the calculated prediction value. The degree of correction is determined on the basis of weight. The control device controls the operation of the device being controlled according to the determined desired command value. The control device assesses whether the device being controlled is operated appropriately on the basis of monitoring data relating to the operation result of the device being controlled, and optimizes the weight of the correction to make appropriate control possible based on the assessment result.
US11762336B2
System and method for determining at least one parameter relating to an angular movement of an arbor
A system and method to determine angular movement of an arbor integral with a crown of a watch, the arbor being rotatable on itself in a longitudinal direction. The system includes a rotating reflector mounted on the arbor, and two emitter/detector pairs disposed on either side of the reflector, each including a light source for illuminating the reflector, and a light detector for receiving the light reflected on the reflector and for generating an electrical signal representative of the reflected light. A processor processes the electrical signals, and determines a parameter relating to the angular movement of the arbor. The rotating reflector is a cylinder of revolution and light absorption points are made on the circumference of an external cylindrical surface. When the reflector rotates in a regular manner and in the same direction of rotation, the representative electrical signal generated by each detector has a sinusoidal shape.
US11762334B2
Provided are holographic displays and operating methods of the holographic display. The holographic display includes a backlight portion configured to emit light for displaying an image; a deflector configured to control a direction at which the image is displayed; a lens portion configured to control a location where the image to be displayed is formed to match a location that satisfies a diffraction condition; and a panel portion configured to display a 3D image by combining the image to be displayed with an interference pattern generated with respect to an overlapped hologram.
US11762327B2
An assembly for an image forming device includes an access door movable between an open position permitting replacement of a replaceable unit and a closed position. An electrical connector in the image forming device is movable between a retracted position and an extended position. In the retracted position the electrical connector is disengaged from a corresponding electrical connector of the replaceable unit when the replaceable unit is installed in the image forming device. In the extended position the electrical connector is engaged with the corresponding electrical connector of the replaceable unit. The electrical connector is operatively connected to the access door such that movement of the access door from the closed to the open position moves the electrical connector from the extended to the retracted position and movement of the access door from the open to the closed position moves the electrical connector from the retracted to the extended position.
US11762325B2
An image forming apparatus including: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording medium: an upper surface cover which is provided to an upper surface of the image forming apparatus and forms at least a part of an appearance of the image forming apparatus; a first cover which is provided to a front surface of the image forming apparatus and forms at least a part of the appearance of the image forming apparatus; and a second cover which is provided to the front surface of the image forming apparatus so as to be located above the first cover and forms at least a part of the appearance of the image forming apparatus. The first cover includes a resin material. The second cover includes a ferromagnetic material.
US11762317B2
A pressing device includes a rotator, a secured member, a pressure rotator, and lubricant. The rotator has flexibility and a sleeve form and includes an inner portion having a sliding surface. The inner portion has an elastic power of 55% or more. The secured member is inside a loop of the rotator and has a slide surface on which the sliding surface of the rotator is to slide. The slide surface has a smaller surface roughness than a surface roughness of the sliding surface. The pressure rotator presses the rotator against the secured member and forms a nip between the rotator and the pressure rotator. The lubricant between the rotator and the secured member has a consistency of 275 or less.
US11762299B2
The present invention provides an exposure apparatus for performing scanning exposure on each of a plurality of shot regions in a substrate, comprising: a stage configured to hold the substrate; a driver configured to drive the stage; and a controller configured to control the scanning exposure on each of the plurality of shot regions while controlling the driver in accordance with a driving profile, wherein the driving profile includes a first section in which the stage is driven at a constant acceleration in a first direction, a second section in which the stage is driven at a constant acceleration in a second direction opposite to the first direction, and a connection section connecting the first section and the second section, and a period in which the scanning exposure is performed includes at least a part of the connection section.
US11762296B2
A method of forming a masking element is provided. The method includes forming a photoresist material having a polymer backbone over a substrate, where the polymer backbone includes a linking group that links a first polymer segment to a second polymer segment, each of the first and the second polymer segments having an ultraviolet (UV) curable group. The method includes exposing the photoresist material under a first UV radiation to break the link between the first polymer segment and the second polymer segment. The method includes exposing the photoresist material under a second UV radiation different from the first UV radiation to form a patterned resist layer. And the method includes developing the patterned resist layer to form a masking element.
US11762290B2
The present disclosure relates to a photoresist composition, a method for preparing the same, and a patterning method. The photoresist composition includes: 1 wt % to 10 wt % of a photosensitizer; 10 wt % to 20 wt % of a phenolic resin; 0.1 wt % to 5.5 wt % of an additive; and 75 wt % to 88 wt % of a solvent, based on the total weight of the photoresist composition, in which the photosensitizer includes: 20 wt % to 70 wt % of a first photosensitive compound represented by formula (1), 20 wt % to 70 wt % of a second photosensitive compound represented by formula (2), and 1 wt % to 35 wt % of a third photosensitive compound represented by formula (3), based on the total weight of the photosensitizer. The photoresist composition of the present disclosure simultaneously guarantees high resolution and high sensitivity, and can meet actual production requirements.
US11762282B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus for a semiconductor lithography process. The apparatus includes a mask defining a circuit pattern to be transferred. The apparatus further includes a pellicle including a pattern formed in a first surface, wherein the pellicle is attached to the mask at the first surface. The apparatus also includes an adhesive material layer disposed between the mask and the first surface. The pattern may include a plurality of capillaries. Each capillary of the plurality of capillaries may have a dimension in a plane of the first surface between about 1 μm and about 500 μm. Each capillary of the plurality of capillaries may have a ratio of depth to width greater than or equal to about 100. The adhesive material layer may include an adhesive having a glass transition temperature (Tg) greater than room temperature.
US11762277B2
An EUV photomask may include a multi-layered structure on a substrate, a capping layer on the multi-layered structure, and an absorber on the capping layer. The absorber may include a first sidewall and a second sidewall. The first sidewall may extend from an upper surface of the capping layer in a vertical direction substantially perpendicular to an upper surface of the substrate, and may be a flat plane. The second sidewall may extend from the first sidewall in the vertical direction, and may be a curved surface.
US11762276B2
Provided is a compound that is fluidized by light irradiation and reversibly non-fluidized, and is not significantly colored. Provided is a photoresponsive compound represented by the following general formula (1), the photoresponsive compound being fluidized by light irradiation and reversibly non-fluidized: R1—Z1═Z2—R2 General formula (1) wherein Z1 and Z2 are N or CH, while Z1≠Z2, R1 contains an aromatic hydrocarbon structure, R2 contains an aromatic heterocyclic structure, and a hydrogen atom is bonded to at least one carbon atom bonded adjacent to a carbon atom in the aromatic heterocyclic structure bonded to the Z2.
US11762269B2
The disclosure provides a projection device with a wavelength conversion module including a ceramic substrate, a ceramic intermediate layer, a ceramic reflection layer, and a wavelength conversion layer. The ceramic reflection layer is disposed on the ceramic intermediate layer disposed on the ceramic substrate. The thermal expansion coefficient of the ceramic intermediate layer ranges from the thermal expansion coefficient of the ceramic substrate and the thermal expansion coefficient of the ceramic reflection layer. The wavelength conversion layer is disposed on the ceramic reflection layer. With the wavelength conversion module and the projection device, separation or gaps between the ceramic substrate and the ceramic reflection layer caused by a significant difference of the thermal expansion coefficients is prevented, the adhesion between the ceramic substrate and the ceramic reflection layer is further improved, the service life and the structural reliability of the wavelength conversion module are improved.
US11762263B2
A driving mechanism is provided, including a fixed part, a movable assembly, an optical assembly, and a driving assembly. The movable assembly movably connects the fixed part with the optical assembly. The driving assembly is configured to drive the movable assembly and the optical assembly to move relative to the fixed part.
US11762249B1
A display panel is provided, including an opposing substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and an array substrate, and the liquid crystal layer is disposed between the opposing substrate and the array substrate. The array substrate includes a substrate, a first metal layer, a first insulating layer, a second metal layer, a second insulating layer, a passivation layer, and a third metal layer. The second metal layer includes a first electrode, and the first electrode is one of a pixel electrode and a common electrode. The third metal layer includes a second electrode, and the second electrode is the other one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode. By disposing the first electrode and the second electrode between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, a sum of thicknesses of the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer can remain a first predetermined thickness.
US11762231B2
A display assembly for inducing turbulent flow includes electronic display subassemblies attached to a structural framework, each including an illumination device for providing illumination to an electronic display layer when powered, a cover forward of said electronic display layer, and a closed loop fan unit located at a first side of the respective one of said electronic display subassemblies. A rear passageway is positioned between the electronic display subassemblies. A closed loop airflow pathway for circulating gas extends through each of the electronic display subassemblies and includes the rear passageway.
US11762215B2
The present embodiment relates to a lens driving apparatus, a camera module comprising the lens driving apparatus, and an optical device comprising the camera module. The lens driving apparatus comprises: a base; a first substrate placed on the base; a housing placed on the first substrate; a bobbin placed inside the housing; a lower resilient member for coupling the bobbin and the housing; a first coil placed on the bobbin; a magnet placed on the housing and facing the first coil; and a second substrate placed on the first substrate and comprising a second coil which faces the magnet, wherein the lower resilient member is connected to the first substrate or the second substrate.
US11762211B2
A spectroscopic module includes M beam splitters that are arranged along an X direction, where M is a natural number of 2 or more; M bandpass filters disposed on one side in a Z direction with respect to the M beam splitters, each of the M bandpass filters facing each of the M beam splitters; a light detector disposed on the one side in the Z direction with respect to the M bandpass filters and includes M light receiving regions, each of the M light receiving regions facing each of the M bandpass filters; a first support body supporting the M beam splitters; and a second support body supporting the M bandpass filters. Each of N beam splitters among the M beam splitters has a plate shape and has a thickness of 1 mm or less, where N is a natural number of 2 to M.
US11762210B1
A wearable device includes a front portion configured to engage a front portion of a head of a user, and a rear portion configured to engage a rear portion of the head of the user. The rear portion includes a telescoping arm guide, a telescoping arm slidably coupled to the telescoping arm guide such that the telescoping arm is moveable relative to the telescoping arm guide, a cable guide coupled to the telescoping arm guide, and a connector. The device includes an optical fiber coupled to the telescoping arm at a first point, coupled to the connector at a second point, and slidably coupled to the cable guide between the first point and the second point, such that the optical fiber includes a medial portion between the first point and the second point, the medial portion including a bend that is greater than or equal to a minimum bend radius.
US11762207B2
A head mounted device padding system includes a pad having an interior side and an exterior side. The interior side of the pad has a substantially concave first curvature about a first axis of the pad, and a substantially convex second curvature about a second axis of the pad.
US11762200B2
A bonded optical device is disclosed. The bonded optical device can include a first optical element, a second optical element, and an optical pathway. The first optical element has a first array of optical emitters configured to emit light of a first color. The first optical element is bonded to at least one processor element, the at least one processor element including active circuitry configured to control operation of the first optical element. The second optical element has a second array of optical emitters configured to emit light of a second color different from the first color. The second optical element is bonded to the at least one processor element. The optical pathway is optically coupled with the first and second optical elements. The optical pathway is configured to transmit a superposition of light from the first and second optical emitters to an optical output to be viewed by users.
US11762197B2
An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have a display that produces a display image. The head-mounted device may have an optical system that merges real-world images from real-world objects with display images. The optical system provides the real-world images and display images to an eye box for viewing by a user. The optical system may use time interleaving techniques and/or polarization effects to merge real-world and display images. Switchable devices such as polarization switches and tunable lenses may be controlled in synchronization with frames of display images. Geometrical phase lenses may be used that exhibit different lens powers to different polarizations of light.
US11762193B2
An electronic device includes an electromagnetic radiation source having an axis, a set of optics disposed about the axis, a reflector disposed about the axis non-symmetrically, and a controller configured to operate the electromagnetic radiation source while controlling a beam steering orientation (e.g., rotation) of the reflector. The reflector is disposed to reflect electromagnetic radiation emitted by the electromagnetic radiation source. The set of optics is disposed to shape electromagnetic radiation emitted by the electromagnetic radiation source and direct electromagnetic radiation received from the reflector into a panoramic field of view about the axis.
US11762191B2
In order to expand the surface area of a reflective layer, the space between adjacent turns of a drive coil, which is wound a plurality of turns on a peripheral edge front surface of the principal surface of a movable portion which, being inside a frame-formed support substrate, is connected to the support substrate by torsion bars, is filled and flattened with a smoothing layer, thereby adopting a configuration such that the reflective layer can also be provided in the region of the upper surface of the drive coil.
US11762171B2
A three-piece compact optical lens system includes, in order from the object side to the image side: a flat panel assembly, a first lens element; a stop; a second lens element; and a third lens element. Wherein a distance from an object to an image plane along the optical axis is OTL, a distance from an image-side surface of the flat panel to the image plane along the optical axis is PTL, an image height of the image plane is Y, an object height of a chief ray of the image height of the image plane which corresponds to the image-side surface of the flat panel is P, and they satisfy the relations: 2.5 mm
US11762163B2
Fiber optic splice closures adapted to house a large number of fiber splices. The closure holds a splice assembly including a support frame that supports two stacks of splice trays. The splice assembly can be inverted to access the second stack of splice trays. The support frame can also define one or more fiber organizing areas within the splice closure.
US11762148B2
Systems and methods of aligning multicore fiber optic cables are provided. A method for aligning a first multicore fiber (MCF) and a second multicore fiber (MCF), the first MCF and second MCF each comprising a plurality of cores and a marker, the method including: producing a brightness profile for the first and second MCFs; determining rotational orientations of the first and second MCFs from the brightness profile; rotating at least one of the first and second MCFs until each of the plurality of cores of the first MCF and the second MCF are aligned; determining if the markers of the first MCF and second MCF are aligned in view of a region of the brightness profile associated with the markers; and splicing the first MCF and the second MCF together if the cores and marker of the first MCF are aligned with the cores and marker of the second MCF.
US11762143B2
A waveguide display assembly comprises a waveguide, including an in-coupling grating configured to in-couple light of a first wavelength band emitted by a light source into the waveguide, and cause propagation of the light of the first wavelength band through the waveguide via total internal reflection. An out-coupling grating is configured to out-couple the light of the first wavelength band from the waveguide and toward a user eye. One or more diffractive gratings are disposed along an optical path between the in-coupling grating and the out-coupling grating, the one or more diffractive gratings configured to diffract light outside the first wavelength band out of the waveguide and away from the user eye.
US11762138B2
A light emitting structure includes a pixel layer having at least one subpixel, a microlens layer having at least one microlens, the at least one microlens aligned with the at least one subpixel for providing a narrowly-confined on-axis emission profile along an on-axis direction, a first filler material layer and a second filler material layer between the pixel layer and the microlens layer, an interface between the first filler material layer and the second filler material layer configured for reflecting a portion of off-axis emissions from the at least one subpixel by total internal reflection (TIR).
US11762137B2
An apparatus (e.g., a multi-spectral optical filter array, an optical wafer, an optical component) has an aperture mask printed directly thereon, the aperture mask including a positive or negative photoresist. The apparatus includes a substrate having the aperture mask printed on at least one of a light entrance surface or a light exit surface of the substrate so as to provide an aperture over a portion of the substrate. The photoresist from which the aperture mask is formed is photo-definable or non-photo-definable, and is deposited/printed to form the aperture mask on the substrate.
US11762135B2
A device for producing a master diffraction grating includes a light source unit and a reflecting member 11. The light source unit forms a first interference fringe by irradiating a substrate surface of a master substrate 101 with light. The reflecting member 11 reflects the light from the light source unit reflected on the substrate surface of the master substrate 101 and guides the light again to the substrate surface side to form a second interference fringe. A resist pattern based on the first interference fringe and the second interference fringe is formed on the substrate surface of the master substrate 101.
US11762133B1
Retroreflective materials and articles are enabled that increase the retroreflectivity of reflective materials or articles for roadway, automotive, and safety purposes by incorporating retroreflective elements that exhibit near-ideal Total Internal Reflection (TIR).
US11762117B2
Downhole tools and methods for detecting a downhole obstruction within a wellbore. The downhole tools include a positioning mechanism, which is configured to facilitate positioning of the downhole tool within a target region of a wellbore of a hydrocarbon well, an acoustic pulse generator, which is configured to generate an acoustic pulse within a wellbore liquid that extends within the wellbore and fluidly contacts the downhole tool, and a sensor assembly, which is configured to detect a reflected acoustic pulse within the wellbore liquid. The methods include positioning a downhole tool within a target region of a wellbore, generating an acoustic pulse, propagating the acoustic pulse within a wellbore liquid, and reflecting the acoustic pulse from a downhole obstruction. The methods also include propagating a reflected acoustic pulse within the wellbore liquid, receiving the reflected acoustic pulse, and characterizing the downhole obstruction based upon the reflected acoustic pulse.
US11762103B2
This detection method is carried out after a phase for acquiring a navigation signal during a convergence phase and comprises at least one of the following steps: —determining a plurality of pilot channel periodic correlations and a plurality of data channel periodic correlations, and determining a first value as a function of these periodic correlations; —determining a plurality of pilot channel partial correlations, and determining a second value as a function of these partial correlations; —determining a plurality of shifted pilot channel correlations, and determining a third value as a function of these shifted pilot channel correlations. The convergence phase further comprises the step for determining a wrong synchronization when at least one of the first value, the second value, and the third value exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US11762096B2
A tag for time-of-flight (ToF) applications includes: at least three light sources configured to controllably emit light; a light detector configured to receive one or more modulated light signals from a ToF camera system; and a processing circuit configured to determine one or more time periods in which the ToF camera system is sensitive for light reception and control the at least three light sources to sequentially and individually emit light according to a predefined lighting pattern during the one or more time periods. Corresponding apparatuses and methods for determining rotation and/or translation parameters for conversion between different coordinate systems are also provided.
US11762092B2
A method of acquiring distance information of an object by using a LiDAR apparatus includes: irradiating a first laser light of a first type toward surroundings of the LiDAR apparatus for a first time period; receiving a first reflected laser light of the first laser light reflected from a first object located around the LiDAR apparatus, by using an optical sensor of the LiDAR apparatus; irradiating a second laser light of a second type, which is different from the first type, toward the surroundings of the LiDAR apparatus for a second time period following the first time period; receiving a second reflected laser light of the second laser light reflected from a second object located around the LiDAR apparatus, by using the optical sensor; and acquiring an image frame including distance information representing a distance between the LiDAR apparatus and the first object and distance information representing a distance between the LiDAR apparatus and the second object, based on the first reflected laser light and the second reflected laser light.
US11762087B2
Waveguide and/or antenna assemblies for RADAR sensor assemblies/modules, particularly those for vehicles. In some embodiments, the assembly may comprise a waveguide block defining one or more waveguides, each waveguide defined by a waveguide groove. In some embodiments, at least a portion of at least one waveguide groove is non-straight, such as meandering/oscillating back and forth. An antenna structure may be operably coupled with the one or more waveguides, which structure may comprise an array of one or more slots. In some embodiments, a single, elongated slot of the one or more slots may extend along an axis of each waveguide groove for delivering electromagnetic radiation from a corresponding waveguide of the one or more waveguides therethrough.
US11762085B2
A device comprising circuitry configured to: obtain radar signal measurements simultaneously acquired by two or more radar sensors having overlapping fields of view, derive range information of one or more potential targets from samples of radar signal measurements of said two or more radar sensors acquired at the same time or during the same time interval, the range information of a single sample representing a ring segment of potential positions of a potential target at a particular range from the respective radar sensor in its field of view, determine intersection points of ring segments of the derived range information, determine a region of the scene having one of the highest densities of intersection points, select a ring segment per sensor that goes through the selected region, and determine the most likely target position of the potential target from the derived range information of the selected ring segments.
US11762084B2
A vehicle radar system (3) and method including a first and second radar sensor arrangement (4a, 4b). Each radar sensor arrangement (4a, 4b) includes at least two transmitter antenna devices (10a1, 10a2) and at least two receiver antenna devices (13a1, 13a2, 13a3, 13a4), where each receiver antenna device (13a1, 13a2, 13a3, 13a4) has a corresponding boresight extension (46a, 46b) that is perpendicular to an antenna plane (57). Each receiver antenna device (13a1, 13a2, 13a3, 13a4) has a corresponding antenna radiation pattern (47a, 47b) that has a lower gain (48a, 48b) in its boresight extension (46a, 46b) than at a certain corresponding first maximum gain azimuth angle (φ1a, φ1b) where there is a first maximum gain (49a, 49b). Each radar sensor arrangement (4a, 4b) is mounted such that each first maximum gain (49a, 49b) is directed along a corresponding first maximum gain extension (51a, 51b), such that an overlap part (56) of the antenna radiation patterns (47a, 47b) is formed.
US11762080B2
A method includes receiving a first wireless signal detected by a first device in an environment, the first wireless signal including a first distortion pattern caused by an object moving in the environment, receiving a second wireless signal detected by a second device in the environment, the second wireless signal including a second distortion pattern caused by the object moving in the environment, determining, by comparing the first distortion pattern to the second distortion pattern, that the first distortion pattern and the second distortion pattern correspond to a same movement event associated with the object moving in the environment, determining a timing offset between the first device and the second device based on information associated with the first distortion pattern and the second distortion pattern, and determining, based on the timing offset, temporal correspondences between data generated by the first device and data generated by the second device.
US11762076B2
The present application at least describes a non-transitory computer readable medium including program instructions that when executed by a processor effectuate a set of actions. The program instructions include causing a scan of a radio frequency spectrum to detect one or more radio signals transmitted within a pre-defined area. The program instructions also include causing a capture of a radio signal of interest from the one or more radio signals. The program instructions also include demodulating the radio signal of interest to determine coded sensor data carried thereon. The program instruction further include decoding the coded sensor data to determine a characteristic of the sensor data. The program instruction further include generating an alert based on the characteristic of the sensor data.
US11762074B2
A position calibration method including, moving body information including first global estimated position information indicating global position information recognized as a geographic position of the moving body, the method including: extracting local estimated position information indicating a position of the moving body within the detection target region from information acquired by the sensor unit; calculating second global estimated position information estimated as the geographic position of the moving body based on the local estimated position information; and performing calibration of third global estimated position information held as a geographic position of the sensor unit when a determination value obtained from the difference between the first global estimated position information and the second global estimated position information exceeds a preset threshold value and based on a result of calibration processing in which a difference between the first global estimated position information and the third global estimated position information is reduced.
US11762072B2
An optical testing apparatus is used in testing an optical measuring instrument. The optical measuring instrument provides an incident light pulse from a light source to an incident object and receives a reflected light pulse as a result of reflection of the incident light pulse at the incident object. The optical testing apparatus includes two or more testing light sources, two or more optical penetration members, and a wave multiplexing section. The two or more testing light sources each output a testing light pulse. The two or more optical penetration members each have an optical penetration region and receive the testing light pulse from each of the two or more testing light sources for penetration through the optical penetration region. The wave multiplexing section multiplexes the testing light pulses penetrating through the two or more optical penetration members for provision to the optical measuring instrument.
US11762059B2
The invention relates to a method for simplifying a sampled signal digital filter, the method including at least one step for: in order to obtain a first intermediate filter, gathering channels including discrete nonstationary operations relating to the same signal, the first channels including the nonstationary operations relating to a first signal and the second channels including the nonstationary operations relating to a second signal, in order to obtain a second intermediate filter, on each of the first channels and second channels, commutative stationary operations with the nonstationary operations, in order to eliminate the redundant nonstationary operations, and building the filter corresponding to the last obtained intermediate filter.
US11762048B2
In a method, an imaging sequence is irradiated into an examination region in which an examination object is located. The imaging sequence includes an acquisition section. The acquisition section includes acquiring a plurality of echo signals, each of which samples a k-space region of a k-space. The plurality of echo signals comprises a plurality of first echo signals and a plurality of second echo signals. The plurality of first echo signals and the plurality of second echo signals are generated from different magnetization configurations. The k-space regions sampled by the plurality of first echo signals sample the k-space in a different order to the k-space regions sampled by the plurality of second echo signals.
US11762047B2
Systems and Methods for determining a position of an object introduced into a body. An RF pilot tone is generated and is radiated into the body. Response signals modulated by the radiating into the body are received by a plurality of MRI receiver coils arranged spatially distributed outside the body and are converted into respective measurement signals. From the measurement signals, the position of the object is determined.
US11762042B2
A magnetic field sensor may include a semiconductor structure having a planar surface, and first, second, and third sensing devices. The semiconductor structure may include a semiconductor member having a two-dimensional electron gas therein, and an insulator member disposed on the semiconductor member. The first sensing device may be configured to sense magnetic field along a first axis parallel to the planar surface. The second sensing device may be configured to sense magnetic field along a second axis parallel to the planar surface, and orthogonal to the first axis. The third sensing device may be configured to sense a magnetic field along a third axis normal to the planar surface. Each of the first, second, and third sensing devices may be formed in the semiconductor structure and may include electrodes that extend from the insulator member to the two-dimensional electron gas.
US11762034B2
The abnormal power supply voltage detection device has a function of accurately detecting the abnormal voltage in accordance with the characteristics of the semiconductor element for each semiconductor chip. Circuit group for operating the adjustment function has a function of preventing the influence of the power supply voltage of the logic system such as control in the semiconductor product malfunctions becomes abnormal. Furthermore, it has a function of detecting the abnormal voltage of the various power supplies in the semiconductor product. It also has a function to test the abnormal voltage detection function in the normal power supply voltage range during use of semiconductor products.
US11762028B2
A current measuring circuit measures a charging current of a battery comprising a plurality of cell groups while the battery is being charged using one of a plurality of charging systems. A voltage measuring circuit measures voltages of the cell groups. A controller defines a plurality operating regions in a charging current profile of the battery during a charging cycle, filters the charging current and the voltages measured in the operating regions, calculates internal resistances of the cell groups in the operating regions based on the filtered current and voltages, generates at least one of statistical values and distance metrics based on the internal resistances of the cell groups, and determines whether one or more of the cell groups is faulty based on the at least one of the statistical values and the distance metrics irrespective of the plurality of charging systems used to charge the battery.
US11762027B2
An embodiment of this application provides a charging control method and device and a power management controller. The charging control method includes: determining whether battery status of a battery pack meets preset conditions, where the battery pack includes a plurality of battery cells, and the preset conditions are: the battery pack has been left standing for a preset duration, and an open-circuit voltage of each battery cell in the battery pack falls within a preset range; and charging the battery pack based on a charging policy corresponding to a determining result, so that a capacity of a battery cell with a highest remaining capacity in the battery pack reaches a nominal capacity of the battery cell with the highest remaining capacity.
US11762025B2
Systems and methods for monitoring and management of an electronic device are discussed here. An authentication request is received from a user for access to an electronically secured compartment of an electronic device. Authentication data is obtained from the user. An authentication request that includes a device identifier for the electronically secured compartment and the authentication data is transmitted to a cloud-based authentication service. Access to the electronically secured compartment is provided upon receipt of an indication of an association between the user and the electronically secured compartment from the cloud-based service provider.
US11762017B2
A system for performing a scan test of a processor core includes a scan test module and a processor including a processor core and an input/output die, where the input/output die is coupled to the processor core. The scan test module transmits, in parallel to the input/output die, scan test input data. A serializer/deserializer module of the input/output die receives the input data, serializes the input data, and transmits the serialized input data to the processor core. A serializer/deserializer module of the processor core receives the serialized scan test input data, deserializes the input data, receives result data generated in dependence upon the input data, serializes the result data, and transmits the serialized result data to the input/output die. The input/output die serializer/deserializer module receives the result data, deserializes the result data, and provides the result data to the scan test module. Error detection can be carried out through redundancy.
US11762014B2
This disclosure describes die test architectures that can be implemented in a first, middle and last die of a die stack. The die test architectures are mainly the same, but for the exceptions mentioned in this disclosure.
US11762013B2
A computerized method for IC classification, outlier detection and/or anomaly detection comprising using at least one hardware processor for testing each of the plurality of ICs in accordance with an IC design on a wafer, wherein the IC design comprises a plurality of sensors. The at least one hardware processor is used for testing each of the plurality of ICs by: collecting a plurality of sensor values, the plurality of sensor values including sensor values from each of the plurality of sensors; comparing the plurality of sensor values to a classification scheme, thereby obtaining a classification for each tested IC; and recording the classification of the tested IC.
US11762011B2
A method for performing temperature control of a mounting base on which a substrate is to be mounted. A substrate mounting surface of the mounting base is divided in the radial direction into a plurality of regions, and a heater is provided to each of the plurality of regions. The method includes: a step for performing feedback control that adjusts the operation amount of the heater in the centermost region of the plurality of regions of the substrate mounting surface such that the centermost region is at a set temperature; and a step for performing feedback control that adjusts the operation amount of the heater in an outside region that is further to the outside than the centermost region of the plurality of regions of the substrate mounting surface such that the temperature difference between the outside region and the region that is adjacent to the outside region on the inside in the radial direction is a preset value.
US11761999B1
Systems, devices, and associated methods are provided for testing and tuning radiofrequency (RF) modules. An example system includes a test station including an imaging device, a measurement device, and a robotic arm. The system may include a rotary stage coupled with the robotic arm, measurement probes disposed in the rotary stage and operably coupled with the measurement device, and tuning tips disposed in the rotary stage. The system may include a galvo scanner and laser to remove conductive material. In operation, the test station may perform a testing procedure on an RF module where the measurement probes generate testing data indicative of testing parameters. The test station may perform a tuning procedure on the RF module where a tuning tip or the laser modifies the RF module based on the testing parameters. The testing and tuning may be performed by a user, semi-autonomously, or autonomously.
US11761997B2
A system comprising a meter and a circuit breaker, the electricity meter comprising: a primary processing component designed to acquire a primary power supply parameter and to produce, from the primary power supply parameter, a primary command intended to control the opening or closure of a line; a primary transceiver designed to transmit the primary command; the circuit breaker comprising: a disconnection unit; a bistable relay designed to open or close the disconnection unit; a secondary receiver designed to receive the primary command; a secondary processing component designed to acquire the primary command and to control the bistable relay so as to open or close the disconnection unit on the basis of the primary command.
US11761980B2
Adjusting of calibration parameters for a sensor. The adjusted calibration parameters may be used to correct the raw data of the sensor. It is provided to calculate new calibration parameters only when accuracy of the calibration parameters currently available is no longer adequate, and suitable measurement data are available for a recalibration of the sensor. Otherwise, the components necessary for calibrating the sensor data may be deactivated in order to reduce energy consumption.
US11761970B2
Systems and methods are described for preventing the release of metal particles from an autosampler that could otherwise be detected within a sample during sample analysis. In an example implementation, an autosampler systems includes, but is not limited to, a sample probe support structure; a z-axis support; an outer shuttle coupled with an outer surface of the z-axis support; and an inner shuttle linearly moveable within an interior volume of the z-axis support, the inner shuttle magnetically coupled with the outer shuttle to translate linear motion of the inner shuttle to the outer shuttle.
US11761968B2
The invention relates to the quantitative measurement of steroidal compounds by mass spectrometry. In a particular aspect, the invention relates to methods for quantitative measurement of steroidal compounds from multiple samples by mass spectrometry.
US11761966B2
The present invention provides a method for the early diagnosis, prognosis and differentiation of ischemic cardiac events in myocardial ischemia by a Nourin gene-based RNA molecular network of biomarkers to: (a) diagnose unstable angina and AMI (STEMI and NSTEMI) patients, and differentiate between unstable angina and AMI; (b) diagnose ACS patients and differentiate them from symptomatic non-cardiac patients and healthy subjects; (c) diagnose angina in suspected patients with history of chest pain and differentiate angina patients from symptomatic non-angina and healthy subjects; and (d) diagnose “new-onset” heart failure and provide a prognostic value and risk prediction of progression and deterioration, as well as monitoring patients' response to treatments. Downregulation of Nourin-related lncR-CTB9H12.4 in ischemic heart disease patients compared to symptomatic non-cardiac and healthy subjects, is significantly associated with upregulation of hsa-miR-137 and hsa-miR-106b, and overexpression of mRNA-FTHL-17 and mRNA-ANAPC11, respectively, that results in upregulation of Nourin gene and protein network.
US11761964B2
A method for increasing the light emission produced by the chemiluminescent reaction of 8-amino-5-chloro-7-phenylpyrido[3,4-d]pyridazine-1,4(2H,3H)-dione, a peroxidase enzyme or a conjugate thereof, an enhancer, a co-enhancer and a peroxide oxidizer, wherein the enhancer is an anionic N-alkylphenothiazine and the co-enhancer is selected from a 4-dialkylaminopyridine or an N-azole, and wherein the method comprises the following steps: i. realizing a chemiluminescent substrate by means of mixing together 8-amino-5-chloro-7-phenylpyrido[3,4-d]pyridazine-1,4(2H,3H)-dione, the enhancer, the co-enhancer and the peroxide oxidizer, and ii. adding the peroxidase enzyme or a conjugate thereof to the chemiluminescent substrate.
US11761961B2
A biosensing chip is provided, including a substrate having a photoelectric conversion material, and an electrode disposed on the substrate and including two contact portions and an electrode pattern, wherein the photoelectric conversion material is a monocrystalline silicon material, and the electrode pattern includes micro-electrodes in the form of interdigitated sawtooth. The biosensing chip and the method using the same may distinguish a lesion site of cancer cells and the degree of cancer lesions.
US11761957B2
The present invention relates to a bio-electrode for current measurement including silicon carbide (SiC) doped at least partially with nitrogen (N). The bio-electrode for current measurement according to an embodiment of the present invention is a bio-electrode for a current measurement which is contact with an object to be analyzed, which generates a current signal by an electrochemical reaction, and includes silicon carbide (SiC) doped at least partially with nitrogen (N). The electrode may be used in a high-sensitive bio-quantification kit, a high-sensitive bio-quantification device, and an immunoassay device.
US11761956B2
Described herein are nanopore biosensors based on a modified cytolysin protein. The nanopore biosensors accommodate macromolecules including proteins and nucleic acids, and may additionally comprise ligands with selective binding properties.
US11761949B2
A method for assessing susceptibility to nausea of a patient comprises assessing the GSH recycling dependent antioxidant activity of the patient's blood cells prior to receiving an emetogenic agent, e.g., a cytostatic agent or a surgical anesthetic.
US11761945B2
A system for separating and analyzing a discrete sample of multiphase fluid includes a separation vessel having a first inner chamber containing a discrete sample of multiphase fluid, and an analytical cell in fluid communication with the separation vessel. The analytical cell has a second inner chamber containing a diluted aqueous liquid phase sample for analysis. The system further includes probes disposed in the second inner chamber, each probe having a sensing area at a distal end, and being oriented in the second inner chamber such that the sensing area is immersed in the diluted aqueous liquid phase sample contained in the second inner chamber. The plurality of probes include a first probe whose sensing area surface is coated with a first ion-exchange membrane; and a second probe whose sensing area surface is coated with a second ion-exchange membrane, the second ion-exchange membrane being different from the first ion-exchange membrane.
US11761944B2
Disclosed is an exploration method and system for pegmatite veins. The exploration method includes: three grounding electrodes are arranged at each observation point in a target area where pegmatite veins are located, and collecting electric field differences between two groups of grounding electrodes; drawing a multi-channel map, based on positions of the grounding electrodes, according to the electric field differences; obtaining resistivity variation characteristics of pegmatite veins according to the transverse variation of multi-channel map, and determining locations and lithologic characteristics of pegmatite veins according to the resistivity variation characteristics. Through functional modules with different functions, an exploration system is formed to realize the exploration method mentioned in the application.
US11761934B2
An accommodation unit includes a plurality of accommodation positions, each of the plurality of accommodation positions being capable of accommodating one of the plurality of samples. A detection unit detects identification information of each of the plurality of samples in the accommodation unit. A control unit holds the identification information of each of the plurality of samples received from the detection unit as detected identification information. The control unit is configured to receive identification information of each of a plurality of samples designated as analysis targets, and hold the received identification information as designated identification information. The control unit includes a notification means configured to output a warning before analysis is started by the analysis unit, when the control unit makes a comparison between the designated identification information and the detected identification information and determines that there is a mismatch therebetween.
US11761932B2
The present technology relates to a method of analyzing a sample including an analyte. The method includes injecting the sample including the analyte into a mobile phase. The mobile phase includes a metal chelator additive having a concentration between about 1 ppm to about 10 ppm. The method also includes separating the analyte using liquid chromatography and analyzing the analyte using a mass spectrometer, an ultra-violet detector, or a combination thereof.
US11761928B2
Method for ultrasonic characterization of a medium, comprising generating a series of incident ultrasonic waves, generating an experimental reflection matrix Rui(t) defined between the emission basis (i) as input and a reception basis (u) as output, and determining a focused reflection matrix RFoc(rin, rout, δt) of the medium between an input virtual transducer (TVin) calculated based on a focusing as input to the experimental reflection matrix and an output virtual transducer (TVout) calculated based on a focusing as output from the experimental reflection matrix, the responses of the output virtual transducer (TVout) being obtained at a time instant that is shifted by an additional delay δt relative to a time instant of the responses of the input virtual transducer (TVin).
US11761921B2
Disclosed herein are compositions for permeable outer diffusion control membranes for creatinine and creatine sensors and methods of making such membranes.
US11761920B2
A method of estimating a nitrogen site carbon concentration, in a first epitaxial layer made of carbon-doped gallium nitride of an electronic component, including steps of: estimating an electric capacitance of a stack interposed between the first layer and a first electrode of the component; heating the component; measuring an offset of a threshold voltage of the component; and deducing therefrom a nitrogen site carbon surface concentration in the first layer.
US11761917B2
Sensors having an advantageous design and methods for fabricating such sensors are generally provided. Some sensors described herein comprise pairs of electrodes having radial symmetry, pairs of nested electrodes, and/or nanowires. Some embodiments relate to fabricating electrodes by methods in which nanowires are deposited from a fluid contacted with a substrate in a manner such that it evaporates and is replenished.
US11761912B2
This disclosure is directed to an X-ray security device having a main body, a conveyor, and a lead curtain. The main body has an opening. The conveyor passes through the opening and is disposed on a bottom of the opening. The lead curtain is hung on the main body and covers the opening, the lead curtain has a pair of outer modules and a central module, the pair of outer modules are arranged corresponding to two sides of a transport direction of the conveyor, and the central module is disposed between the outer modules. A lead equivalent thickness of each outer module is larger than a lead equivalent thickness of the central module, and a weight of the central module is less than a weight of each outer module.
US11761909B2
A sensor includes a radio frequency interrogator, a responsive patch, a radio frequency resonance detector, and a transmission line. The radio frequency interrogator is configured to produce an electromagnetic interrogation pulse having a first frequency. The responsive patch includes a substrate and a resonant layer disposed on a surface of the substrate. The substrate includes a polymer. The resonant layer includes an electrically conductive nanomaterial. The resonant layer is configured to resonate at the first frequency in response to receiving the electromagnetic interrogation pulse. The radio frequency resonance detector is configured to detect a resonating response of the responsive patch. The transmission line couples the responsive patch to the radio frequency resonance detector. The transmission line is configured to transmit the resonating response of the responsive patch to the radio frequency resonance detector.
US11761905B2
A semiconductor device inspection method including: depositing a dielectric material over a substrate to form an interconnect-level dielectric (ILD) layer; patterning the ILD layer to form via structures in the ILD layer; depositing an electrically conductive material to form an inspection layer on the ILD layer and in the via structures; imaging the inspection layer to generate image data; and detecting any defects in the via structures by analyzing the image data.
US11761898B2
A gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) detector sticker and a method of manufacturing the same are proposed. The GHB detector sticker includes a first release portion including a first release sheet, an adhesive portion formed on the first release sheet and including a first adhesive layer, and a detection portion formed on the first adhesive layer and including a thin film and a detection reagent composition dispersed in a part of or throughout the thin film. The GHB detector sticker can be attached at a location desired by the user and is effective at quickly detecting GHB based on a change in the color thereof when a liquid test sample is applied thereto after removal of a protective film (a second release sheet) in a situation in which inspection is necessary.
US11761896B1
An analyzing system includes a detection area with a transparent window past which an analyte moves and emits or transmits light. One or more polarizing elements receive and polarize the light into respective two or more different polarization components. One or more optical detectors receive the respective two or more polarization components and generate respective at least two signals in response. A processor is coupled to the optical detectors and configured to determine a polarization status of the light from the analyte based on the at least two signals.
US11761891B2
A receiver (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a detection unit (11) including a sensor configured to receive a first optical signal of a wavelength included in an absorption band of water molecules and a second optical signal of a wavelength included in an absorption band of carbon dioxide molecules, a signal processing unit (12) configured to calculate a water vapor concentration and a carbon dioxide concentration from changes of intensities of the first and second optical signals, and a determination unit (13) configured to determine whether or not there is a fire that is caused by alcohol combustion based on the water vapor concentration and the carbon dioxide concentration.
US11761884B2
An integrated photoacoustic transducer, sensing system and method for assisting in sensing a concentration of a species in a fluid such that the integrated photoacoustic transducer includes a waveguide structure. The waveguide structure has an optical resonance spectrally overlapping a spectral absorption line or band of the species. The photoacoustic transducer includes at least one acoustic cavity formed in a portion of the waveguide structure and configured for receiving the fluid for sensing comprising the species. The at least one acoustic cavity has an acoustic resonance spectrally overlapping with a harmonic of a modulation frequency. At least one acoustic transducer comprising a deformable mechanical portion is included in the photoacoustic transducer. The deformable mechanical portion is in direct acoustic communication with the at least one acoustic cavity and has an adjustable mechanical resonance, which can be brought into spectral overlap with an acoustic resonance of the least one acoustic cavity.
US11761877B2
Hydrogel particles and their use in cytometric applications are described. The hydrogel particles described herein are selectively tunable to have at least one optical property substantially similar to at least one optical property of a target cell. In this regard, the hydrogel particles provided herein, in one aspect, are used as a calibration reagent for the detection of a target cell in a sample.
US11761870B2
A device to determine density includes a housing, a first transducer disposed in the housing at a first position, and a second transducer disposed in the housing at a second position. The second transducer is located a distance from the first transducer. The device also includes a controller that reads a first output from the first transducer, and reads a second output from the second transducer. The controller determines a density of a liquid based on the first output, the second output, and the distance.
US11761863B2
Systems and methods for extracting an analyte from a sample. The system includes a reaction vessel for receiving the sample and a reaction solution, a mixer for mixing the sample with the reaction solution, a filter and a drain for passing soluble components from the reaction mixture, including the dissolved analyte, from the reaction vessel. A purification vessel is located below the reaction vessel. A selective sorbent is disposed in the purification vessel for retaining contaminants from the soluble components from the reaction mixture and passing a purified analyte. An evaporation container is located below the purification vessel. A heater heats the evaporation chamber and evaporates the solvents from the purified analyte, which can then be quantitatively measured.
US11761862B1
A device used to cut lanes and bands from an agarose gel is provided. The instrument uses cutting edges to separate DNA in lanes as well as in bands to allow for easier processing of separated DNA. This device also allows for standardization of the sizes of cut bands so that less is wasted.
US11761853B2
An engine piston is provided. A first sealing structure, including a first sealing rubber ring and a first annular groove, is provided at a head of the engine piston. The first sealing rubber ring has a U-shaped section with a reserved space at the top of the first sealing rubber ring, and a gap for circulating hydraulic oil is provided between a ring bank, above the first sealing rubber ring, of the engine piston and a simulated cylinder liner of a fatigue testing apparatus for an engine piston. In a case that the hydraulic oil is introduced into the fatigue testing apparatus for the engine piston to simulate pressure loading under a high-explosion pressure, when the hydraulic oil enters into the reserved space from the gap for circulating the hydraulic oil, an inner wall of the reserved space is squeezed and the first sealing rubber ring is deformed.
US11761852B2
A road simulation test system and method for testing torsional strain input to an axle assembly having an input shaft and a suspension system, including a torque input module configured to apply rotary torque to the axle assembly. The torque input module includes a rotary actuator, a torsional load cell, a drive shaft connection portion, and a controller in communication with the rotary actuator and the torsional load cell, wherein upon receipt of an instruction from the controller, the rotary actuator is configured to rotate the input shaft to apply the rotary torque to the axle assembly, and as the rotary actuator rotates the input shaft, a signal indicative of a torsional load is communicated by the torsional load cell to the controller to monitor the rotary torque applied to the axle assembly.
US11761849B2
A wind tunnel for a motor vehicle, with a fan, a test section, through which an air stream generated by the fan can flow, a recording device for recording different motor vehicles within the test section, and a testing device for determining aerodynamic characteristics of the motor vehicle. The wind tunnel also includes an optical sensing device for sensing an outer contour of the motor vehicle recorded by the recording device, an evaluating unit and a linking unit. The evaluating unit determines a vehicle configuration from the outer contour of the motor vehicle sensed by the optical sensing device. The linking unit links the vehicle configuration of the motor vehicle determined by the evaluating unit with the test results determined by the testing device.
US11761846B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for supplying fuel, enabling communications, and conveying electric power associated with operation of a hydraulic fracturing unit of a plurality of hydraulic fracturing units are disclosed and may include a fuel line connection assembly configured to be connected to the first hydraulic fracturing unit and to supply fuel from a fuel source to a gas turbine engine connected to the hydraulic fracturing unit. A system also may include a communications cable assembly configured to be connected to the hydraulic fracturing unit and to enable data communications between the hydraulic fracturing unit and a data center or another hydraulic fracturing unit. A system further may include a power cable assembly configured to be connected to the hydraulic fracturing unit and to convey electric power between the hydraulic fracturing unit and a remote electrical power source or the plurality of hydraulic fracturing units.
US11761844B2
A leak detection sensor is disclosed for detecting a leaking liquid spilled from an adapter-coupling position, and includes a first conductive layer, an insulator and a second conductive layer. The first conductive layer includes a first through hole. The adapter-coupling position is located adjacent to the first through hole. The insulator includes a second through hole. The second conductive layer is connected to the first conductive layer through the insulator, and includes a conducting surface in fluid communication with the adapter-coupling position through the second through hole and the first through hole. The first conductive layer and the second conductive layer are insulated from each other through the insulator. When the leaking liquid is spilled into the first through hole and the second through hole, and contacts the conducting surface, the second conductive layer is conducted to the first conductive layer to form a conducting-resistance value.
US11761842B2
A method of detecting leakage within a chassis includes mounting the chassis on a plate disposed in a sealed chamber and fluidly connecting, by a pipe, an interior space of the sealed chamber to a water tank such that a bottom end of the pipe is under a surface of water in the water tank. The method further includes determining, such as observing, whether bubbles are formed at the bottom end of the pipe due to pressurized air flowing into the pipe. The method also includes determining presence of a leak in the chassis due to pressurized air flowing between the chassis and the sealed chamber, before flowing into the pipe.
US11761840B1
A system for detecting water in an environment includes a first sensor configured to provide first feedback indicative of a temperature of the environment, a second sensor configured to provide second feedback indicative of a humidity of the environment, and an electronic circuit having a processor configured to execute one or more instructions stored on a memory of the electronic circuit. The one or more instructions are configured to receive the first feedback from the first sensor, receive the second feedback from the second sensor, generate a risk score by comparing the first feedback and the second feedback to baseline data stored on the memory of the electronic circuit, and provide an indication of a water detection event when the risk score is equal to or exceeds a threshold value.
US11761838B2
A method for determining a fluid pressure parameter related to a fluid located within a fluid conduit, the method may include measuring one or more resistances of one or more nanoparticle based sensing elements to provide sensed information; wherein the one or more nanoparticle based sensing elements comprise nanometric particles having an electrical resistance that is responsive to at least one out of pressure and temperature; wherein the one or more nanoparticle based sensing elements are printed between conductive electrodes, wherein the conductive electrodes are either printed on an exterior of the fluid conduit or are formed on a substrate that is attached to the exterior of the fluid conduit; and determining, based on the sensed information, the fluid pressure parameter.
US11761837B2
A multi-axial tactile sensor for detecting forces in directions of three axes and a moment about at least one axis includes at least four sensor elements including at least three shearing force detecting elements having beam structures provided with a first resistive layer and a second resistive layer at specific portions, and at least one pressing force detecting element having a beam structure provided with a third resistive layer and a fourth resistive layer at specific portions, the beam structures of the four sensor elements being arranged on a sensor substrate so that their respective longitudinal directions are radially arranged, and the moment about at least one axis is detected based on outputs of two or more sensor elements being arranged at positions of rotational symmetry around the center of the radial arrangement of the plurality of sensor elements.
US11761834B2
Proposed is a dynamometer for measuring load of a rotary shaft to be tested, the dynamometer comprising: a dynamometer shaft connected to the rotary shaft to be tested; a casing part having a through hole through which the dynamometer shaft passes, and a water supply chamber and a drain chamber therein; a stator part including a first stator and a second stator to be spaced apart from each other; a toroidal chamber partitioning part partitioning a toroidal chamber into a first toroidal chamber and a second toroidal chamber, wherein the toroidal chamber partitioning part comprises a runner and a guide ring, forming a drain slot through which the fluid is discharged from the first toroidal chamber and the second toroidal chamber to the drain chamber; and a flow adjusting part adjusting flow rate of the fluid.
US11761825B2
A sensing device is provided having sensing circuitry, connected to an input port and the output port, with a sensor having an impedance sensitive to a parameter of interest, one or more passive electrical components, and a variable capacitor. The sensing circuitry is triggered to generate an output signal for transmission from the output port, the output signal dependent on the parameter of interest sensed by the sensor and on an input power value, Pin, of an input signal received at the input port being greater than a parametric threshold power value, Pth. A sensing system includes the sensing device and a transmitting device to transmit the input signal to the sensing device at a frequency representative of the parameter of interest. A receiving device, which can be incorporated with or located remotely from the transmitting device, receives the output signal of the sensing device, which has a frequency that is half of the frequency of the input signal transmitted by the transmitting device.
US11761824B2
A temperature sensing system with simplified wiring comprises an in-core temperature sensing component and an out-of-core temperature-evaluation device. The out-of-core temperature-evaluation device provides a plurality of currents to the in-core temperature sensing module in a time-sharing manner. Corresponding to the plurality of currents, the in-core temperature sensing component generates a plurality of potentials to the out-of-core temperature-evaluation device. The out-of-core temperature-evaluation device evaluates a temperature data by performing a difference calculation on the plurality of potentials.
US11761821B2
A system with a detector array, a processor unit and a signal interface. The detector array includes a plurality of bolometric measuring cells and a base body. Each measuring cell is configured to detect infrared radiation and to transmit a measurement signal, which is representative of the readings of the measuring cells, to the processor unit. The processor unit is configured to determine a body heat stored by the base body, to determine a predictive value compensated according to the time delay of the respective measuring cell for each current reading, to determine a temperature value corrected according to the measurement error for each current predictive value, and to determine a thermal image based on the current temperature values, allowing an image signal representing the thermal image to be sent from the signal interface. A corresponding method is also provided.
US11761817B2
An optical sensor arrangement includes a photodiode, a dummy photodiode, an analog-to-digital converter, a first switch which couples the photodiode to an input of the analog-to-digital converter, and a second switch which couples the dummy photodiode to the input of the analog-to-digital converter.
US11761814B2
The invention provides a nutritional value prediction system. A nutritional value of processed food is predicted based on an identity of food to be processed and processing characteristics of a kitchen appliance used to process the food to be processed. Processing characteristics of the kitchen appliance are determined based on a sensed parameter of a power supply of the kitchen appliance.
US11761813B2
A weighing system includes a support, a load cell mounted to the support, and a part platform suspended from the load cell to receive a part to be weighed. The load cell is operable to generate thousands of weight values for the part per second over a period of less than twenty seconds. The load cell is operable to output a weight of the part by averaging the weight values over the period of less than twenty seconds. A method of weighing the part suspended from the load cell is also disclosed.
US11761812B2
A measurement method includes: a step of acquiring first observation point information including a time point when each part of a moving object passes a first observation point and a physical quantity which is a response to an action; a step of acquiring second observation point information including a time point when the each part passes a second observation point and a physical quantity which is a response to an action; a step of calculating a deflection waveform of a structure generated by the each part; a step of adding the deflection waveforms to calculate a moving object deflection waveform, and calculating a path deflection waveform based on the moving object deflection waveform; a step of calculating a displacement waveform by twice integrating an acceleration of a third observation point; and a step of calculating, based on the path deflection waveform, a value of each coefficient of a polynomial approximating an integration error, and correcting the displacement waveform based on the value of each coefficient.
US11761799B2
A sensor module includes: a base member; at least one of a single or a plurality of sensors and vibrators arranged on the base member; and a protective member constituted of at least one flat surface or a curved surface, provided so as to cover the at least one of the sensors and the vibrators. A part or whole of the protective member is formed of a strengthened glass and the strengthened glass is a chemically strengthened glass or a physically strengthened glass.
US11761798B2
An information processing system includes a plurality of node devices and a gateway device configured to communicate with the plurality of node devices. Each of the plurality of node devices is connected to a sensor configured to measure a state of a facility, and is configured to execute a measurement task. Each of the plurality of node devices is configured to add node identification information used to identify the node device and task identification information used to identify the measurement task executed by the node device, to measurement data acquired in the measurement task, and send the measurement data to the gateway device.
US11761785B2
Computer-implemented methods, computer-readable storage media storing instructions and computer systems for labeling significant locations based on contextual data can be implemented to perform operations that include determining a location of a computing device, and determining a label for the determined location based on contextual data associated with the significant location. The location can be a significant location that has meaning to a user of the device.
US11761775B2
A travel route selection system for an electric truck includes a map information acquisition unit that acquires map information including transport route information on transport routes. An electric power consumption map storage unit is adapted to pre-store a stop-time electric power consumption map used to estimate electric power consumption during the stoppage time during which the electric truck stops for a predetermined period with high-voltage equipment kept in operating state. A stoppage time estimation unit estimates stoppage time on each transportation route. An electric power consumption estimation unit estimates the electric power consumption on each of the transportation routes based on the stoppage time estimated by the stoppage time estimation unit as well as on the stop-time electric power consumption map. An optimal route selection unit selects an optimal route based on fundamental information including information on the amount of electric power consumption of each of the transport routes.
US11761773B2
A computer implemented method for reconstructing a path taken by a vehicle using periodically sampled geographical position data is disclosed comprising accessing telemetric data including a plurality of GPS points; ordering the plurality of GPS points sequentially, where in a first GPS point is a starting point; identifying a next GPS point in the sequence; generating an area around the identified next GPS point; determining all street segments located within the area; calculating a distance from the starting point to each of the street segments located within the area; storing the street segments that are the shortest distance from the starting point; setting the endpoints of the stored street segments as the starting points; repeat these until a final GPS point is processed; and determining the shortest path by joining the shortest path from each point starting at the starting point and ending at the final GPS point.
US11761772B2
An approach is provided for speculative navigation routing in incomplete maps. The approach involves, for example, generating an offline navigation route to a destination using offline map data cached at a device. The approach also involves transmitting a routing request to a routing server for an online navigation route to the destination. The approach further involves providing the online navigation route or a portion of the online navigation route based on determining that the online navigation route or the portion of the online navigation is received within a timeout period. The approach further involves providing the offline navigation route or a portion of the offline navigation route generated during the timeout period based on determining that the online navigation route or the portion of the online navigation route is not received before the timeout period ends.
US11761760B2
A level, such as a digital level, with various features or embodiments, such as an ultrasonically welded lens covering a display screen, a pipe insert molded in front of a light sensor, one or more button assemblies, and cartridge assemblies that are used to secure compartments within the frame of a level.
US11761756B2
Disclosed are methods and devices for simultaneously detecting surface shapes and thickness distribution of inner and outer walls of a thin-walled rotating body. According to the invention, a chromatic confocal senor head is driven by a bottom rotary table, a main measuring head rotary table and a linear motion shaft mover to perform copy scanning along a surface of a thin-walled shell-type rotating body, so that the detection of the surface shapes and thickness distribution of the inner and outer walls of the thin-walled shell-type rotating body can be realized at the same time. By the method, mechanical interference caused by arranging a measuring head in the thin-walled shell-type rotating body can be avoided, and coordinate consistency of surface shape measurement data and thickness distribution data of the inner and outer walls in a three-dimensional space can be ensured, thus ensuring the overall measurement precision; and meanwhile.
US11761747B2
An apparatus for checking the length (H) of a chamfer (7) delimited by a first surface (5) and by an edge (S), comprises two feelers (15, 25)—movably connected to a same supporting frame (20)—and respective transducers (16,26). The transducers supply signals (T1, T2) indicative of displacements of the respective feelers along mutually perpendicular directions (Y, X). A checking method includes moving the supporting frame at a constant speed so that, during the movement, one of the feelers scans the chamfer and the other cooperates with the first surface. The signals of the respective transducers are acquired and transmitted synchronously to a processing unit (40) which processes them together with information on the mutual position of the two feelers to obtain the length of the chamfer.
US11761742B1
A system and method for the determination of an optimal ammunition round based upon a barrel length of a given firearm and resulting ammunition. The ammunition is preferably provided in a pair of rounds for a given caliber and bullet optimized for a range of barrel lengths, wherein a user can select a preferred round for a given firearm based upon the barrel length.
US11761736B2
A sight frame assembly for a weapon simulator includes one or more connection arms. The connection arms are for slidably coupling the sight frame assembly to the weapon simulator. The connection arms include a passageway for slidably receiving a guide rod that is attached to a sight frame assembly mounting point on the weapon simulator. A spring is positioned in proximity to the guide rod. The sight frame assembly is disposed in a first position along a longitudinal axis of the weapon simulator when the spring is in an uncompressed state, and the sight frame assembly is disposed in a second position along the longitudinal axis of the weapon simulator when the spring is in a compressed state.
US11761734B2
A flashlight with lateral locking function for firearms, comprises: a flashlight body and a lateral locking mechanism, the lateral locking mechanism is used to fix the flashlight body to a firearm; the lateral locking mechanism comprises a bottom box and a connecting component, an adjustment component is arranged on the bottom box, the adjusting component is connected with the connecting component, and comprises an adjusting handle, the adjusting handle is connected with a side wall of the bottom box, using to drive the movement of the connecting component, so that the connecting component is connected or disconnected from the firearm. The disclosure realizes the quick installation and disassembly. The whole installation process does not need to use other tools such as wrenches, and the installation is firm; the adjusting handle is arranged on the side wall of the bottom box, which is convenient for users to operate.
US11761726B1
An apparatus and method for cleaning gun barrels includes a first tube and a second tube, the tubes engaged coaxially with a smaller one of the tubes inserted within the larger one. The tube wall of each tube has an axially oriented slot which is open to one end of the tube and extends along the tube wall. The smaller tube receives a gun barrel axially with its gun sight or other appurtenance protruding through the slot. A gun sight or other integral appurtenance of the gun barrel extends through the slots of both tubes resting in a wider portion of the smaller tube so that the gun barrel is locked in place. A gun cleaning rod is able to be axially aligned through the tubes and the gun barrel. The method includes using a barrel cleaning brush attached at one end of the gun cleaning rod so that it is able to be moved reciprocally within the bore of the gun barrel. Gun cleaning solvent on the brush dissolves residue within the barrel and tends to spray as the brush enters and exits the barrel. However, over-spray of the solvent is captured by the tubes enabling a fastidious gun barrel cleaning process.
US11761721B2
A firearm magazine assembly and a related method are disclosed. The follower has a top platform, a proximal end, a distal end, and at least one slider rail on a first side of the follower. At least a portion of the at least one slider rail is at a position that is between and remote from both the proximal end of the follower and the distal end of the follower. The housing is shaped to receive the follower. The housing has a first wall having a first recess for receiving the at least one slider rail, the first recess defined by opposing surfaces. At least a portion of the at least one slider rail is shaped to engage the two opposing surfaces to limit tilt of the follower.
US11761719B1
A two-phase immersion-type heat dissipation structure having fins with different thermal conductivities is provided. The two-phase immersion-type heat dissipation structure includes a heat dissipation substrate, and a plurality of fins. The heat dissipation substrate has a fin surface and a non-fin surface that face away from each other. The non-fin surface is configured to be in contact with a heating element immersed in a two-phase coolant. The fin surface is connected with the plurality of fins. At least one of the plurality of fins is a functional fin that is made of a single metal material and has two or more thermal conductivities. A thermal conductivity of a lower portion of the functional fin that is connected with the heat dissipation substrate is lower than thermal conductivities of other portions of the functional fin.
US11761713B2
Disclosed is a solid state hydrogen storage device, capable of providing a weight reduction of a hydrogen storage system while inhibiting heat conduction performance from being degraded, and also of increasing hydrogen storage capacity. The present disclosure provides a heat conduction fin including multiple tube passing holes through which the heat exchange tube passes and linear-shaped connecting portions connecting the tube passing holes to each other, and a solid state hydrogen storage device having the same.
US11761700B2
A household refrigeration apparatus includes an interior container having a first wall, a second wall, and a rear wall angled to each other. The interior container bounds a first receiving space for food. An ice maker has a housing, and the housing is formed by a wall area of the first wall of the interior container and a wall area of the second wall of the interior container in certain areas. The housing bounds a receiving space of the ice maker. The housing has a wall unit with a wall element being a component separate from the interior container and having an L-shape in cross-section. The wall element has a first wall plate and a second wall plate, which together form the L-shape. An elongated seal with a hollow portion is disposed on an edge of the wall element and seals the wall element to the interior container.
US11761698B2
A defrost cycle control assembly includes a first sensor that is configured to measure a temperature adjacent a top portion of an outdoor heat exchanger of a heat pump, a second sensor that is configured to measure a temperature adjacent a bottom portion of the outdoor heat exchanger, and a third sensor that is configured to measure an ambient temperature. Further, the defrost cycle control assembly includes a controller that is configured to initiate a defrost cycle of the heat pump based on the temperature adjacent the top portion and the ambient temperature when said temperatures indicate formation of frost at the top portion of the outdoor heat exchanger where the first sensor is disposed. The controller is configured to terminate the defrost cycle when the temperature at the bottom portion reaches a termination temperature which indicates that the frost on the outdoor heat exchanger has melted.
US11761694B2
A refrigeration system includes a compressor; a condenser; an expansion valve having a body with an expansion valve inlet and an expansion valve outlet; an evaporator all arranged in a refrigeration circuit; and a controller. The expansion valve body has a pathway comprising an inlet body capillary tube flow-connected to the expansion valve inlet, and an outlet body capillary tube flow-connected to the expansion valve outlet. The expansion valve comprises a solenoid operated valve element that is selectively positionable between the inlet body capillary tube outlet and the outlet body capillary tube inlet. The controller digitally controls the valve element to position the valve element either to allow flow through the pathway in an open position or to block flow through the pathway in a closed position.
US11761691B2
A cooling and heating energy saving system includes a cooling and heating device, a data center, a boiler, a heat exchanger, and a circulating pump. The boiler receives waste heat of the data center and heat generated by the cooling and heating device, and then generates high-temperature heat and transfers the high-temperature heat to an indoor heating device. The heat exchanger receives heat from the cooling and heating device and the data center. The circulating pump receives the heat generated by the data center and transmits the heat to an outdoor cold source, and further transmits the outdoor cold source to an indoor device through the heat exchanger.
US11761686B2
An integrated air conditioning system having a first air conditioning unit having a first evaporator with a first input and a first output; a second air conditioning unit having a second evaporator with a second input and a second output; a first conduit fluidly connecting the first input with the second output; a second conduit fluidly connecting the second input with the first output. The first and second conduits and the first and second evaporators form a working fluid circuit.
US11761683B2
A linear compressor includes a hole that is defined in a discharge cover, and is configured such that a portion of a refrigerant discharged through an opened discharge valve is guided to flow to the hole. Accordingly, a discharge passage for the refrigerant used as a gas bearing may be easily defined.
US11761676B2
An outdoor unit of an air-conditioning apparatus includes: a terminal unit that is provided on an outer peripheral surface of a compressor, and electrically connects components provided in the compressor and outside the compressor; a side soundproof cover that covers the outer peripheral surface of the compressor except for the terminal unit; and a terminal cover that covers the terminal unit exposed from the side soundproof cover to the outside of the side soundproof cover, and soundproofs the terminal unit. The terminal cover is attached to the side soundproof cover such that the state of the terminal cover can be changed between a state in which the terminal cover covers the terminal unit and a state in which the terminal cover does not cover the terminal unit.
US11761673B2
An air conditioning diffuser assembly includes an air intake member mounted on an elongate upper member formed with an opening to let air pass through from the air intake member. A corner panel extends at a non-zero angle from the elongate upper member. A first corner mounting panel extends from the corner panel. A second corner mounting panel extends from the elongate upper member. Ends of the first and second corner mounting panels are separated by an elongate gap. A diffuser is mounted inside the air conditioning diffuser assembly. A bottom edge of the diffuser is mounted at a juncture between the corner panel and the first corner mounting panel and a top edge of the diffuser is mounted at a juncture between the elongate upper member and the second corner mounting panel.
US11761658B2
A method, a device and a system for networking air conditioning units, a storage medium, and a processor. The method includes: determining a wireless network for networking an air conditioning unit of the air conditioning unit, and an identification of the wireless network; and controlling the air conditioning unit to network according to the wireless network and the identification.
US11761656B2
A system faults to a return air sensor integrated within a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) unit. The system transmits a signal to a remote sensor. The system determines that a return signal is not received from the remote sensor. The system obtains a temperature reading from the return air sensor. The system determines whether the temperature reading satisfies a temperature setting stored in the memory. In response to determining that the temperature reading does not satisfy the temperature setting, the system enables heating or cooling of the HVAC unit until the temperature setting is satisfied. In response to determining that the temperature reading satisfies the temperature setting, the system disables heating or cooling of the HVAC unit.
US11761653B2
A system for securely communicating information in a building management system (BMS) includes a plurality of HVAC devices communicably coupled via a network each HVAC device storing a copy of an HVAC data chain that includes a plurality of blocks linked sequentially. The plurality of HVAC devices includes a first HVAC device including a processing circuit configured to generate a first block comprising device data and send the block to at least a portion of the plurality of HVAC devices. The processing circuit is configured to receive a second block from one of the plurality of HVAC devices and solve the second block. The processing circuit is further configured to add the solved block to the HVAC data chain of the first HVAC device as the newest block and send the solved block to each of the plurality of HVAC devices.
US11761652B2
An air purification system including a filter assembly including a substrate including a fibrous media, and a photocatalytic material disposed on the substrate, wherein the photocatalytic material includes a first quantity of crushed nanostructures; and a photon source arranged to illuminate the photocatalytic material with optical radiation.
US11761635B2
A rotating detonation combustor includes a nozzle coupled to the combustor body at or near the exhaust opening to choke the exhaust opening. A rotating detonation combustor may include a diverting plate positioned radially inward of the inlet annulus and inlet channels for diverting flow of a mixture in an axial direction. A rotating detonation combustor may include a combustor body including an outer shell at least partially defining a detonation combustion chamber and extending axially from a base toward an exhaust opening of the detonation combustion chamber. The base defines a passageway in fluid communication with the detonation combustion chamber and includes an inlet annulus for axially directing a second fluid into the passageway and a plurality of inlet channels for radially directing a third fluid into at least one of the passageway or the detonation combustion chamber, and the detonation combustion chamber is free of any inner body.
US11761634B2
A method for assembling a fuel distribution system for a turbomachine fuel injector includes inserting a liquid fuel distributor into an interior cavity of a shroud to create a liquid fuel distribution circuit between the liquid fuel distributor and the shroud and inserting a gas fuel distributor into the interior cavity of the shroud and into an interior cavity of the liquid fuel distributor to create a gas fuel distribution circuit between the gas fuel distributor and the liquid fuel distributor. The method includes inserting a fuel transfer tube into an outer diameter of the shroud. The method includes brazing or shrink fitting at least one of the fuel transfer tube, the gas fuel distributor, or the liquid fuel distributor to the shroud.
US11761632B2
A dome assembly for a combustor includes: at least one swirler assembly including: at least one swirler including a plurality of swirl vanes arrayed about an axis, the plurality of swirl vanes oriented so as to impart a tangential velocity to air passing through the swirler parallel to the axis; each of the plurality of swirl vanes having a thickness and including a plurality of edges which collectively define a peripheral boundary of the respective swirl vane; wherein at least a selected one of the plurality of swirl vanes includes at least one void passing through the thickness of the selected swirl vane, the void disposed within the peripheral boundary of the selected swirl vane.
US11761627B1
A system and method for remote monitoring and control of landfill and recycling operations provide an intelligent centralized platform for remote, real-time industrial data gathering and process control for management of landfill and recycling operations such as leachate, gas, water and other liquids. The system and method can directly upload machine data (such as liquid volumes, flows, level, equipment runtime, sorter data, status, etc) into a centralized platform. This data can be used for analytics and automation of processes and equipment control.
US11761613B1
The present disclosure is based on the characteristic that the LED chip emits light when the polarity at each electrode of a LED chip is the same as the polarity of the respective electrode of the power supply to which the electrode of the LED chip is connected. The LED chip sets each with a respective color temperature are connected in opposite manner to two conductive members that are electrically connected to positive and negative electrodes of a power supply. After the power supply is turned on, the LED chip set having the polarity at each electrode the same as the polarity of the respective conductive member to which the electrode connects can emit light, and the LED chip set having the polarity at each electrode opposite to the polarity of the respective conductive member to which the electrode connects can not emit light.
US11761609B2
Disclosed is a luminaire such as an LED downlight which is suitable for mounting in ceiling cavities of commercial environments. An example luminaire (200) comprises a light source (202) including an integral primary optic which is configured to transmit light toward a second optic (214). The second optic (214) is a lens configured to receive light from the light source (202) via the primary optic and transmit at least part of the received light toward a circular reflector (201). The circular reflector (201) is configured to direct light received from the second optic (214) away from the luminaire (204). A shape of the second optic (214) is interdependent with a shape of the circular reflector (201), and the shape of the second optic (214) and circular reflector (201) act in combination to transmit light away from the luminaire with a non-circular illuminance distribution (206).
US11761605B2
A vehicle headlamp module, including an electrical circuit arrangement for controlling at least one function of a vehicle headlamp, and a housing for at least partially accommodating the electrical circuit arrangement, wherein the housing at least in certain sections has a metallic electrically conductive shielding surface facing the circuit arrangement for electromagnetically shielding the circuit arrangement. The electrical circuit arrangement has at least one contact-sensitive surface section that is constructed in a substantially planar manner, is free from electrical components arranged thereon, and faces a planar section of the shielding surface of the housing. Electrical conductor tracks and/or contacts run along the contact-sensitive surface section, wherein a number of cured electrically non-conductive adhesive dots is arranged on the contact-sensitive surface section that is constructed in a substantially planar manner, which protrude from the contact-sensitive surface section in the direction of the planar section of the shielding surface of the housing to ensure a minimum spacing between the contact-sensitive surface section and the planar section of the shielding surface of the housing.
US11761600B2
A light-guiding component includes a light introduction section, the light introduction section including a first light incidence portion and a second light incidence portion that face different directions. The first light incidence portion is capable of receiving incident light from a light source that corresponds to the first light incidence portion, and the second light incidence portion is capable of receiving incident light from a light source that corresponds to the second light incidence portion. A light-guiding section provided with a light exit surface and configured to guide the light from the first light incidence portion or the second light incidence portion to be propagated therein and then exit from the light exit surface.
US11761591B2
A lighting device includes a substrate having a plurality of flat portions and a non-flat portion disposed between the flat portions, a plurality of light emitting sources disposed on the substrate, a fluorescent substrate layer covering one or more light emitting sources and converting a wavelength of a light from the light emitting source, and a connection line disposed on the substrate and electrically connecting the light emitting sources adjacent to each other between the adjacent light emitting sources. The substrate has a first end and a second end are arranged at different distance from a central axis.
US11761589B2
The disclosure describes a pressure vessel having a first end with a first boss and a cylindrical portion. The vessel includes a liner, a composite shell disposed over the liner, and a first longitudinal vent disposed between the liner and the composite shell. The first longitudinal vent includes an elongated vent defining element and extends at least from the cylindrical portion of the vessel to the first boss.
US11761586B1
A system for compressing hydrogen gas may include a compression stage with a water lubricated and sealed compressor, a gas-liquid separation stage, and a drying stage with an adsorption-type gas dryer. The system receives hydrogen gas via an inlet and discharges dry compressed hydrogen gas via an outlet. The system has an encapsulating vessel defining a cavity within which the separation stage and drying stage are located.
US11761583B2
A tank includes a liner that includes a barrel portion in a cylindrical shape and a pair of dome portions provided at both ends of the barrel portion in the axial direction, and a reinforcing layer that covers the liner and that is formed from a fiber reinforced resin formed by impregnating a fiber bundle with a resin. A portion of the reinforcing layer that covers the dome portions includes a radial arrangement layer in which fibers of the fiber bundle are arranged radially along the radial direction of the dome portions when seen in the direction of an axis of the tank.
US11761573B2
Display assemblies for supporting displays on stands or support arms have mount portions to removably attach to the displays using magnetic assemblies and latches. The magnetic assemblies and latches can improve user experience and allow the display to be installed on a support arm from the viewing side of the display and without having to see or reach behind the display. Magnetic structures can center a mount portion of the support arm and a recess of the display and can attract them to each other. Laterally-extending latches can ensure the display is not inadvertently removed. Locking mechanisms can prevent the display from being rotated to a portrait orientation when sufficient space around the display and the necessary user intent is not provided.
US11761570B2
A coupler, adapted for being assembled and connected with a water sprayer, includes a sleeve and a coupling member adapted for being assembled and connected with the water sprayer. The coupling member and the sleeve are sleeved with each other and respectively have a first corresponding end and a second corresponding end which correspond to each other. The first corresponding end and the second corresponding end are adapted to be engaged with each other, so that the sleeve and the coupling member are capable of being mutually locked and into a non-rotatable state through the engagement and rotation meshing operation. The sleeve can be disengaged with the coupling member through axially moving the sleeve so that the sleeve is allowed to be axially rotatable.
US11761564B2
Drain pipe assemblies are provide that include a first flexible pipe having a first end, a second end, and a plurality of convolutions formed therein. A first female threaded connector is is provided that is configured to receive one of the convolutions of the first flexible pipe therein. In this way, the first female threaded connector can form a seal when the one of the convolutions received therein is proximate the first end of the first flexible pipe and the first female threaded connector is threadably coupled to a first male threaded coupling. A retainer is provided that is configured to dispose a portion of the flexible pipe therethrough to form and retain a trap in the first flexible pipe. Methods of installing and using such drain pipe assemblies are also provided.
US11761554B2
A motor-driven throttle valve for an exhaust duct and having: a tubular duct, which is designed so that exhaust gases can flow through it; a throttle shutter, which is arranged inside the tubular duct and is mounted so as to rotate around a rotation axis; a first shaft, which is mounted so as to rotate around the rotation axis and supports the throttle shutter; an electric actuator, which is provided with a second shaft and is designed to rotate the shaft around the rotation axis; a support bearing, which supports the shaft in a through manner and is arranged on the outside of the tubular duct; and a spring, which applies to the shaft an elastic force, which axially pushes the shaft and, at the same time, is configured to transmit a rotary motion around the rotation axis from the second shaft of the electric actuator to the first shaft supporting the throttle shutter.
US11761552B2
A valve device includes a housing, a valve member, a valve seat member, a fixing member for fixing the valve seat member to the housing, and a housing-side seal portion. The housing has a valve chamber, and a housing-space inner wall forming a housing space communicating with the valve chamber. The housing-side seal portion blocks a flow of fluid between the valve seat member and the housing-space inner wall. The valve seat member has a tubular portion and a flange portion connected to the tubular portion. The flange portion is interposed between a facing surface of the housing-space inner wall and the fixing member in an axial direction. The fixing member is fixed to the housing-space inner wall in an airtight state. The housing-side seal portion is made of a rubber material and is interposed between the flange portion and the fixing member.
US11761549B2
A manual reset actuator includes a main drain, a diaphragm release aperture fluidly coupled to a flow control valve, an upper chamber, a control port, a control orifice, an upper chamber supply orifice, and a sealing assembly, which includes a button, and a plunger. A pressure in the upper chamber exerts a downward force on the plunger. A spring exerts an upward force on the plunger. The fluid in the upper chamber is released via the control orifice, which lowers the pressure in the upper chamber, decreasing the downward force exerted on the plunger. When the downward force is less than the upward force, the spring forces the plunger upwards into an open configuration, which unseals the diaphragm release aperture. When the upward force is less than the downward force, the plunger remains in a closed configuration, which keeps the diaphragm release aperture sealed.
US11761546B1
A valve assembly for controlling flow of water to a shower head includes a tube, which is insertable between and attachable to an inlet pipe for a shower enclosure and a shower head. A valve positioned in the tube regulates a flow of water through the tube. A shaft is attached the valve and extends through a sidewall of the tube and a housing. A biaser positioned in the housing is operationally engaged to the shaft and biases the valve to an open configuration. A lever arm is attached to and extends from the shaft. A handle is attached to the lever arm distal from the shaft. The handle can be moved by a user from a first position to a second position, thus actuating the biaser to rotate the valve from a closed configuration to the open configuration so that water flows through the tube to the shower head.
US11761545B2
A spectacle plate assembly and method for its production includes adhesively bonding a ring-shaped flexible sealing gasket to cover all, or substantially all of a contoured gasket receiving surface that is formed on both sides of the circular plate, the upper surfaces of the contoured gasket receiving surface lying above the plane of the surface of the adjacent plate to provide a unitary structure in preparation for positioning the plate between the opposing faces of a pair of stationary flanges.
US11761543B2
A labyrinth seal including a stator and a non-contacting rotor, and annular elastomeric seals. The confronting surfaces of the stator and rotor define at least one interface passage, including a radially-outermost annular interface passage between an annular, outermost, radially-extending projection of the stator and an annular rearwardly-extending distal projection of the rotor that overlaps the radially-extending projection of the stator, the radially-outermost annular interface passage tapering outwardly and rearwardly at an acute angle relative to an axial reference line. The annular elastomeric seals are stationary with the stator during dynamic operation of the rotor, and are not contacted by a surface of the rotor during dynamic operation. The interface can also have two radially-disposed exclusion chambers, the outer exclusion chamber being defined in part by a radially-inboard projection of the rotor. The stator can have a projection providing a contact avoidance interface position inboard of at least two contaminant-excluding interfaces.
US11761542B2
A double seal includes two sliding seals. The seals can be non-pusher secondary seals (NPSS). In one embodiment, by employing an NPSS as the chamber side seal can handle large pressure reversals where the inner diameter pressure (pressure in the chamber) spikes and exceeds the outer diameter pressure that is provided between the two seals forming the double seal.
US11761535B2
A mechanical unlocking mechanism for electronic parking is provided, which comprises a parking cam assembly, a pawl assembly, a parking gear, a pull cord assembly and an actuating assembly, wherein the pull cord assembly comprises a pull wire and a guide shaft screw, each of two ends of the pull wire is provided with a pull wire ball head rod, the pull wire ball head rod is connected with an end of the pull wire and is connected with an end hole of the parking guide shaft or the actuating assembly via the guide shaft screw sleeved on the pull wire. The mechanical unlocking mechanism according to the present disclosure provides an emergent mechanical unlocking function when the parking motor is powered off, and the driver can perform manual mechanical unlocking in the cab without getting off the vehicle, so it has high safety and good operation comfort.
US11761532B2
A hydraulic control unit (10) for a transmission (36) of a motor vehicle drive train may include a housing top section (12), a first valve housing (14) having a first valve (60), and a second valve housing (16) having a second valve (62). The first valve (60) is aligned along a first direction (30) and the second valve (62) is aligned along a second direction (32), wherein the first direction (30) differs from the second direction (32).
US11761529B2
A transmission device is provided in which a parking mechanism and a breather chamber are provided within a power-transmission case, the breather chamber being present at least above an input gear and providing communication between the interior of the power-transmission case and the exterior of the power-transmission case, wherein the breather chamber, which is present at least above the input gear and providing communication between the interior of the power-transmission case and the exterior of the power-transmission case, extends further outward than the input gear in an arrangement direction of the input gear and the output gear, and part of the parking mechanism is disposed within the breather chamber. Thus, it is possible to increase the capacity of a breather chamber while avoiding an increase in the size of a transmission device.
US11761526B2
A gear rim carrier part for a two- or multi-component gearwheel includes an annular section which revolves around an axis of rotation in the circumferential direction, a gear rim arranged radially on the outside of the annular section, and a projection which extends radially inwards from the annular section and has a radially inner free end, or the gear rim carrier part includes an annular section which revolves around an axis of rotation in the circumferential direction, a gear rim arranged radially on the inside of the annular section, and a projection which extends radially outwards from the annular section and has a radially outer free end. The projection has a first width at the radially inner free end thereof or at the radially outer free end thereof and has a second width at the opposite end thereof at the transition to the annular section.
US11761525B2
This strain wave gear unit includes: a bottomed cylindrical first internal gear having internal teeth formed on a cylindrical part and a teeth-non-formed part protruding farther inward than the tooth bottom of the internal teeth in a corner area where a bottom wall part is integrally connected to the cylindrical part; a flexible cylindrical external gear having external teeth meshing with the internal teeth of the first internal gear, an opposed part opposed to the teeth-non-formed part with a gap therebetween, and an end part opposed to the bottom wall part to make contact therewith; a second internal gear arranged adjacent to the first internal gear and having internal teeth meshing with the external teeth; and a rotation member that causes the external gear to deform in an oval shape and causes the meshing position to move while partially meshing with the first internal gear and the second internal gear.
US11761520B2
In a linear drive device, a movable member is driven using a guide shaft and a lead screw supported by a bracket. Since a nut mechanism, which with the lead screw configures a feed screw mechanism, is provided with a first spring between two nuts, it is possible to limit rattling of the nuts with respect to the lead screw. Of the two nuts, the first nut provided on the side opposite a motor and a first plate is not able to move relative to the movable member in the axis direction. As a result, when a member to be driven is loaded on the movable member and the movable member is driven in the direction approaching the first plate, the first plate and members disposed therearound are not susceptible to interference by the member being driven.
US11761511B2
A mount bush includes: an inner tubular member; an outer tubular member arranged coaxially with the inner tubular member and surrounding an outer periphery of the inner tubular member with a clearance; and an elastic member connecting the inner tubular member with the outer tubular member, wherein the inner tubular member includes: an inner yoke having a coil therein; and an outer yoke coaxially coupled with the inner yoke at a radially outer position than the coil, and the elastic member has a first and second fluid chambers, facing each other across an axis of the inner tubular member and having magnetic fluid encapsulated therein, whose viscosity varies by a magnetic field, wherein the outer yoke has a communication passage communicating the first fluid chamber with the second fluid chamber, and is provided with a permanent magnet to generate a magnetic field in the communication passage.
US11761510B2
A hydromount for mounting a motor vehicle unit is disclosed. The hydromount includes a supporting spring supporting a mount core and surrounding a working chamber, and a compensation chamber separated from the working chamber by a dividing wall and delimited by a compensation diaphragm. In embodiments, the compensation chamber and the working chamber are filled with a liquid and are connected by a damping duct incorporated into the dividing wall. In an embodiment, the dividing wall has two dividing plates between which a diaphragm is accommodated in a manner capable of oscillating. In an embodiment, the diaphragm and the dividing wall delimit an air chamber connected to the environment via an opening in the dividing wall, and the opening can be unblocked and closed by a switchable non-return device having a pressure-actuatable non-return valve with an opening pressure set to or having an oscillation amplitude of the diaphragm.
US11761507B2
A damper assembly includes a damper with a pressure tube and a piston slidably disposed within the pressure tube. A first working chamber is defined on one side of the piston and a second working chamber is defined on an opposite side of the piston such that a volume of the second working chamber decreases during a compression stroke of the piston and the volume of the second working chamber increases during a rebound stroke of the piston. A bellow accumulator assembly is included and in fluid communication with the second working chamber. The bellow accumulator assembly includes a housing, a bellow accumulator disposed within the housing, a pressurized gas chamber defined between the housing and the bellow accumulator and an accumulator chamber defined between the bellow accumulator and the second working chamber.
US11761505B2
There is provided a damper device including: a cylinder; a piston; and a seal ring. The piston includes: a column portion wound around the seal ring; and a first restricting portion and a second restricting portion that are configured to restrict movement of the seal ring in a axial direction. The column portion has a protruding portion protruding outward in a radial direction. The first restricting portion has a cutout portion. The seal ring is capable of taking a deformed state where the seal ring is deformed so as to partially enter the cutout portion by movement of the piston. In a case where the seal ring is in the deformed state, and in a normal state where the seal ring does not enter the cutout portion, the seal ring is pressed against an inner peripheral surface of the cylinder by the protruding portion.
US11761502B2
Novel elastic torsion stop components based on multilayer elastomer metal elements in cylindrical, conical, or spherical shape. The elastic torsion stop components are particularly suitable for use as maintenance-free and low-wear joints having a large angular spread, for example in vibration absorbers, such as in pendulum vibration absorbers for wind turbines.
US11761501B2
The invention discloses a friction simulating device, comprising: a first driving shaft, a first driving gear, a second driving gear, a second driving shaft, a plurality of friction plates and a driving mechanism. The first driving gear is coaxially fixedly connected to the first driving shaft. The second driving gear is located on a radial outer side of the first driving gear and is provided coaxially with the first driving gear. The second driving shaft is coaxially fixedly connected to the second driving gear. The plurality of friction plates being provided subsequently between the first driving gear and the second driving gear in a direction of an axis of the first driving gear, wherein some of the friction plates are axially movably connected to the first driving gear in a circumferential direction, and the other friction plates are axially movably connected to the second driving gear in the circumferential direction. The friction simulating device is able to simulate the friction applied to the wheels of the vehicle by the ground.
US11761500B2
A damping material 10 for a damping layer or interlayer of a brake lining has at least one rubber content and one resin content. A plurality of macroscopic, heterogeneously delimited areas are formed in the damping material 10, areas comprising rubber areas 1 with a high rubber content of at least 3% to maximally 50% by weight, and resin areas 2 with a high resin content of at least 5% by weight, wherein the rubber areas 1 are free of resin or have a resin content ≤5% by weight, and the resin areas 2 are free of rubber.
US11761496B2
To provide a simple-structured cam clutch that does not require precise control, uses a smaller drive force for forcibly changing cam postures, and provides improved clutch operation stability and high responsiveness. The cam clutch includes a plurality of cams circumferentially arranged between an inner race and an outer race and supported by a cage member, and a selector allowing a rotation angle thereof to be controlled relatively to the inner race or the outer race to which the cage member is fixed. The selector has a cam posture control surface in contact with cam surfaces of the cams and capable of causing the cams to change posture thereof. The cam posture control surface includes a cam release portion radially protruded toward the cams more than a cam actuator portion and causing the cams to change posture thereof to a non-operating posture.
US11761483B2
A sensorized supporting device for bearings (1) comprises: • a bearing housing (2), configured for being secured to a mounting structure and defining at least one seat (2c) for a bearing (3); and • a sensorized supporting base (4), having a supporting body (4′) prearranged for being at least partially positioned between the mounting structure (S) and the bearing housing (2). The supporting body (4′) has a detection surface (4c) which extends in a longitudinal direction (L) and a transverse direction (W) and is configured for resting, directly or via interposition of at least one further element, on a corresponding surface of one of the bearing housing (2) and the mounting structure, the supporting base (4) being provided with a mechanical-stress sensor. The mechanical-stress sensor comprises at least one piezoelectric transducer (101, 102, 20) defining at least part of the detection surface (4c), the at least one piezoelectric transducer (10; 20; 101, 102) being configured for generating an electrical potential difference that is substantially proportional to the magnitude of a mechanical stress (SS) applied to the bearing housing (2).
US11761471B2
A snap-in socket panel with a night lamp includes a first panel, a second panel, a resilient sheet bracket arranged vertically to the flat portion, and a resilient sheet connected to the resilient sheet bracket by a plug-in structure. The plug-in structure includes a slot provided on the resilient sheet bracket and an insertion block provided on the resilient sheet. The opening direction of the slot is set towards the first panel. During assembly, the insertion block on the resilient sheet is inserted into the slot on the resilient sheet bracket from bottom to top, to connect the resilient sheet and the resilient sheet bracket, and then connect the second panel to the first panel. The second panel can block the opening of the slot, thereby preventing the resilient sheet from falling out. The socket panel has fewer components, a simple structure, and faster, more convenient assembly.
US11761467B2
For screw release, an apparatus includes a boss, a screw secured to the boss, and a force release component connected to one of the boss and the screw. The force release component releases a portion of the screw from the boss in response to a specified force.
US11761460B2
A pressure exchanger includes a rotor, a seal plate, and a seal structure. The rotor is configured to exchange pressure between a first fluid and a second fluid. The seal plate has a first substantially planar seal plate surface and a second substantially planar seal plate surface disposed opposite the first substantially planar seal plate surface. A piston structure extends from the first substantially planar seal plate surface to form a substantially planar piston surface that has a surface area and is substantially parallel to the first substantially planar seal plate surface. The seal plate and the piston structure form a hydraulic chamber routed from a first opening formed by the substantially planar piston surface to a second opening formed by the second substantially planar seal plate surface. The seal structure is configured to couple the second substantially planar seal plate surface to a corresponding surface of the pressure exchanger.
US11761457B2
A guide device for directing a gas through gas pressurizing device, includes at least one part-ring shaped guide member having a pair of opposite first end and second end defining a gap therebetween, a lip extending from the guide member, and at least one groove configured in the gas pressurizing device to receive the guide member. The guide device provides a smooth passage to gas flow through a gas pressurizing device by directing gas through the gas pressurizing device, so as to improve efficiency and performance of the gas pressurizing device and eliminate need of fasteners, holes or brackets. The guide device is easy to mount in a gas pressurizing device as compared to conventional baffle ring.
US11761452B2
A seal for use in a vacuum pump comprises a seal element positioned between inner and outer seal carriers located at the inner and outer surfaces of the seal element. Each of the seal element and carriers is substantially toroidal in shape. The outer carrier comprises retention means to hold the seal element in position. The inner carrier comprises at least one recess located in a surface adjacent to the seal element, and the seal element comprises at least one protrusion on an inner surface, which extends into the at least one recess of the inner carrier. A seal system comprises the described seal and first and second flanges. Methods for enhancing the chemical resistance of a seal system for use in a vacuum pump, and the use of the seal or seal system to connect pipework, are also provided.
US11761450B2
A rotation locking system of a motor of a fan is provided. A closed-loop control circuit outputs an initial duty cycle signal according to a current rotational speed and a target rotational speed. A driver circuit outputs a driving signal to the motor to drive the motor to rotate according to the initial duty cycle signal. A lookup table arithmetic circuit looks up, from a lookup table, two reference duty cycles correspond to two reference rotational speeds that are respectively equal to the current rotational speed and the target rotational speed. The lookup table arithmetic circuit calculates a difference between the two reference duty cycles. A speed feedback control circuit compensates the initial duty cycle signal according to the difference to output a final duty cycle signal to the driver circuit. The driver circuit drives the motor to rotate according to the final duty cycle signal.
US11761438B2
Disclosed are a fluid pumping device and a horizontal compressor. The fluid pumping device comprises a pump structure in the form of an internal-meshing gear pump and is provided with first and second pump members, a pump housing structure for accommodating the pump structure, and at least two suction paths and/or at least two discharge paths. Suction and compression cavities are defined between the first and second pump members; the at least two suction paths are configured to rotate with the pump structure, and a fluid can be sucked into the suction cavity via the at least two suction paths respectively; and the at least two discharge paths are configured to rotate with the pump structure, and the compressed fluid can be discharged from the fluid pumping device via the discharge paths respectively. The fluid pumping device is assembled in the horizontal compressor.
US11761435B2
A cradle bearing for supporting a swashplate of a variable hydraulic axial piston. The cradle bearing is of an angular ball bearing type or comprises, with respect to the bearing axis, a tapered inner race and/or a tapered outer race. A swashplate for a variable hydraulic axial piston unit including a first and a second cradle bearing zone spaced to each other in axial direction of a swashplate tilt axis, suitable for supporting the swashplate in a housing of a variable hydraulic axial piston unit, wherein the first cradle bearing zone is inclined with respect to the swashplate tilt axis. A variable hydraulic axial piston unit of the swashplate type including a swashplate which is supported rotatable in the housing of the variable hydraulic axial piston unit at a first bearing zone by a tapered bearing and at a second bearing zone by regular cylindrical cradle bearing or a journal bearing whose axis is aligned with the swashplate tilt axis.
US11761433B2
Systems and methods for generating and a controller for controlling generation of geothermal power in an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) operation to thereby supply electrical power to one or more of in-field operational equipment, a grid power structure, and an energy storage device. In an embodiment, during hydrocarbon production, a temperature of a flow of heated fluid from a source or working fluid may be determined. If the temperature is above a vaporous phase change threshold of the working fluid, heat exchanger valves may be opened to divert flow of heated fluid to heat exchangers to facilitate heat transfer from the flow of wellhead fluid to working fluid through the heat exchangers, thereby to cause the working fluid to change from a liquid to vapor, the vapor to cause a generator to generate electrical power via rotation of an expander.
US11761426B1
A zero-fossil-fuel-using non-polluting apparatus to (1) use wind power to (2) generate a steady flow of hydroelectricity (3) from increasing the height level of water from a water table or river or lake and (4) storing that water and its potential energy in (5) a water tower, and then (6) releasing that water's potential energy in a (7) steady gravity-driven flow in a downward-flowing pipeline to (8) operate in-pipe electricity generators to establish a reliable non-fluctuating source of hydroelectricity from (9) many in-pipe hydroelectricity generators in pipelines to create electricity when the water tower water is released to the in-pipe hydroelectricity generators which creates (10) a steady non-fluctuating stream of water to turn the turbines of many in-pipe hydroelectric generators to create (11) a steady, non-fluctuating flow of electricity regardless of whether the wind is blowing or the sun is shining.
US11761421B2
A wind turbine blade having a spar cap and a shear web system is described. The spar cap comprises a pultruded strip of fibrous reinforcing material with a first datum feature visible at a surface of the pultruded strip. The shear web system comprises a second datum feature, wherein the first datum feature of the spar cap is aligned with the second datum feature of the shear web system.
US11761420B2
Provided is a composite material for a wind turbine blade, the composite material including a plurality of rigid elements and plurality of flexible elements, wherein each flexible element is arranged between two rigid elements and is connected thereto such that the rigid elements are flexibly connected to each other by the flexible elements. The flexibility of the composite material can be achieved by using the interspaces between the rigid elements. Therefore, when the composite material is placed on a curved surface, hollow spaces between the rigid elements may be reduced or avoided.
US11761415B2
An ignition coil unit includes: an ignition circuit including a primary coil and a secondary coil; a power generator including a generator coil; a controller configured to control an ignition timing of the ignition circuit by an input signal generated by an induced voltage of the generator coil; and a sensor configured to input load information to the controller. The controller includes a memory configured to store working time information which corresponds to operating information based on the input information and the load information, as matrix data composed of the operating information, the load information and time data.
US11761413B2
A remote startup system includes: a terminal; a center server configured to receive a startup request; and a vehicle having a driving device, the vehicle configured to receive a startup request, and start up the driving device, wherein at least one of the center server and the vehicle includes an information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on transmission availability state of a power transmission device that transmits power of the driving device in the vehicle to driving wheels, or information on an operation state of a rotation prevention device that prevents rotation of the driving wheels when a function of transmitting the startup request is activated or when the startup request is transmitted, and a permission determination unit configured to determine whether to permit the startup of the driving device based on the startup request, based on the information acquired by the information acquisition unit.
US11761404B2
A motor vehicle including a water provision unit for providing water to at least one water consumer. Here, a water collection tank, a primary water tank and at least one secondary water tank are provided. The water collection tank is or can be fluidically connected to a water source and the primary water tank, bypassing the water collection tank and the secondary water tank, is fluidically connected to the at least one water consumer. The water collection tank is fluidically connected both directly and indirectly via the at least one secondary water tank to the primary water tank, and the water provision unit includes a water conveying unit which is provided and designed for conveying the water out of the water collection tank in direction of the primary water tank by a gaseous conveying medium.
US11761401B2
A cylinder block includes a support wall part that rotatably supports a crank shaft. The support wall part has a fitting recess part to which a bearing cap can be fitted. In each of the left and right corner parts where a bottom surface and a fitting surface of the fitting recess part intersect, a notch groove is formed that extends in the array direction of cylinder bores and has a substantially arc-shaped cross section when cut by the virtual plane along the extension direction thereof. As a result, stress having a greater value as the location becomes closer to the center part in the extension direction of the notch groove can be substantially uniform in the extension direction of said notch groove, and it is possible to effectively mitigate the stress concentration.
US11761400B2
A fuel injection timing is made later and/or a fuel injection amount is made larger in a target cylinder to be subjected to explosive combustion subsequently, when a required rotation time that is a time required for rotation of an output shaft by a predetermined rotational angle is equal to or longer than a time threshold than when the required rotation time is shorter than the time threshold, at the time of predetermined startup control in which an engine and a clutch are controlled such that fuel injection and ignition in the engine are resumed from a state where the supply of fuel to the engine is cut off and the clutch is released and that the clutch is then engaged.
US11761386B2
A method and system for cleaning a fuel nozzle during engine operation is provided. Operations include operating the compressor section to provide the flow of oxidizer at a first oxidizer flow condition to the combustion chamber, wherein the first oxidizer flow condition comprises an environmental parameter; operating the fuel system at a first fuel flow condition to produce a fuel-oxidizer ratio at the combustion chamber; comparing the environmental parameter to a first environmental parameter threshold; and transitioning the fuel system to a second fuel flow condition corresponding to a cleaning condition at the fuel nozzle if the environmental parameter is equal to or greater than the first environmental threshold.
US11761384B2
A gas turbine engine for an aircraft and a method of operating a gas turbine engine on an aircraft. Embodiments disclosed include a gas turbine engine for an aircraft including: an engine core has a turbine, a compressor, and a core shaft; a fan located upstream of the engine core, the fan has a plurality of fan blades; a nacelle surrounding the engine core and defining a bypass duct and bypass exhaust nozzle; and a gearbox that receives an input from the core shaft and outputs drive to the fan wherein the gas turbine engine is configured such that a jet velocity ratio of a first jet velocity exiting from the bypass exhaust nozzle to a second jet velocity exiting from an exhaust nozzle of the engine core at idle conditions is greater by a factor of 2 or more than the jet velocity ratio at maximum take-off conditions.
US11761377B2
An energy transfer machine includes a piston and cylinder. The piston can have a rocking motion as it enters and exits the cylinder, for example due to one being on a rotor and the other on a stator. The piston and cylinder form a primary chamber, and as they move relative to each other can form a seal separating the primary chamber into first and second sub-chambers which then unseals before the piston exits the cylinder. The first sub-chamber may reach a maximum geometric compression ratio, for example for the purpose of compression ignition, before the unsealing of the sub-chambers.
US11761374B2
A damper device and a total heat exchanger including the same are provided in the present application, including: a damper plate, including an air port cover plate, and a rotating shaft disposed at the air port cover plate and extending along a diameter direction of the air port cover plate; and a damper plate fixing base configured to fix the damper plate inside the damper plate fixing base and including a fixing groove formed opposite to the rotating shaft and configured to fix the rotating shaft, the fixing groove including a recess disposed opposite to the rotating shaft and formed by further being recessed from at least a part of the outer circumference of the fixing groove. According to the above technical solutions of the present application, the damper device can ensure performance without reducing the air volume under low temperature conditions, and can also suppress icing of the damper device.
US11761372B2
A multi-way coolant valve and a heat pump system having the same include an external housing in which first, second and third external inlets and first, second and third external outlets are formed; and an internal housing provided rotatably inside the external housing to selectively fluidically-connect the first, second and third external inlets, and the first, second and third external outlets, and divided into two stages through which a coolant flows respectively, wherein as the internal housing rotates at a predetermined interval in a selected mode of the vehicle, the first external inlet selectively fluidically-communicates with the first external outlet, the second external outlet, or the third external outlet, the second external inlet selectively fluidically-communicates with the first external outlet or the second external outlet, and the third external inlet selectively fluidically-communicates with the first external outlet, the second external outlet, or the third external outlet.
US11761370B2
A vehicle radiator air intake screen maintenance system comprising a radiator fan, a fan motor; and a processor operable to control the rotational speed and direction of the radiator fan to: periodically implement a drop cycle whereby a radiator cooling air flow generated by the fan rotating in a forward direction is slowed such debris collected on a radiator air intake screen of the vehicle is caused to fall off due to gravitational force; and periodically implement a full reverse cycle where a rotational direction of the fan is reversed and an expulsion air flow is generated whereby debris collected on vehicle radiator and the air intake screen will be blown off, whereafter reverse rotation of the fan is stopped and the fan is returned to the full forward operating speed and direction.
US11761366B2
Scalable greenhouse gas capture systems and methods to allow a user to off-load exhaust captured in an on-board vehicle exhaust capture device and to allow for a delivery vehicle or other transportation mechanism to obtain and transport the exhaust. The systems and methods may involve one or more exhaust pumps, each with an exhaust nozzle corresponding to a vehicle exhaust port. Upon engagement with the vehicle exhaust port, the exhaust nozzle may create an air-tight seal between the exhaust nozzle and the vehicle exhaust port. A first pipe may be configured to transport captured exhaust therethrough from the exhaust nozzle to. The captured exhaust may be at least temporarily stored in an exhaust holding tank connected to and in fluid communication with the first pipe.
US11761365B2
Apparatus and method for mixing reductant in an exhaust gas flow using virtual interception. Embodiments include an exhaust gas and reductant mixer comprising a body, a first flow device, and a reductant entry port. The body defines an exhaust gas flow path having a central portion. The first flow device swirls the exhaust gas in a circumferential direction with respect to the gas flow path. The reductant entry port introduces the reductant into the gas flow path at a location downstream from the first flow device and in an introduction direction (1) offset from the central portion, and (2) opposite the circumferential direction.
US11761359B2
The disclosure relates to a hydraulic unit of an electrohydraulic gas exchange valve control system of an internal combustion engine. The hydraulic unit includes a hydraulic housing having a receiving opening, a piston guide, and a slave piston. The piston guide is fastened in the hydraulic housing by way of self-staking with a wall of the receiving opening. The piston guide includes an outer part that brings about the self-staking and an inner part that guides the slave piston. An inner surface of the outer part is radially interspaced from the outer surface of the inner part in an axial region of the self-staking and the outer part and the inner part are connected in an axially form-locked manner so that a first end section of the outer part facing the gas exchange valve is partially or fully formed into an outer circumferential recess of the inner part.
US11761353B2
Systems and generating power in an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) operation to supply electrical power. In embodiments, an inlet temperature of a flow of gas from a source to an ORC unit may be determined. The source may connect to a main pipeline. The main pipeline may connect to a supply pipeline. The supply pipeline may connect to the ORC unit thereby to allow gas to flow from the source to the ORC unit. Heat from the flow of gas may cause the ORC unit to generate electrical power. The outlet temperature of the flow of the gas from the ORC unit to a return pipe may be determined. A flow of working fluid may be adjusted to a percentage sufficient to maintain temperature of the flow of compressed gas within the selected operating temperature range.
US11761348B2
There is provided an axial flow turbine capable of realizing a reduction in gland leakage amount. The axial flow turbine in an embodiment is of a single flow type and includes an upstream-side gland part located on an upstream side of a working medium in an axial direction of a turbine rotor and a downstream-side gland part located on a downstream side of the working medium in the axial direction of the turbine rotor. The axial flow turbine is configured such that a cooling medium lower in temperature and higher in pressure than the working medium is extracted in a middle of flowing from the inside to the outside of the turbine casing in the upstream-side gland part, and the extracted cooling medium is introduced into the stationary blade.
US11761317B2
Methods for operating a decoupled long stroke pump to pump treatment fluid to a wellbore are provided. The decoupled long stroke pump has relatively long stroke plungers that can be powered by hydraulics, linear electric motors, mechanical long stroke mechanisms, linear actuators, or any other device that can provide a linear force to the plungers. Such long stroke pumps have the suction and discharge strokes decoupled such that an absolute linear flow rate without pressure pulses on the suction or discharge can be produced. Any desired flow profile of the treatment fluid can be produced via the decoupled long stroke pump.
US11761316B2
A steam diverter apparatus for forming part of a downhole tubing string is provided. The apparatus may be used in a SAGD operation to control flow of steam into a formation. The apparatus includes a tubular housing defining steam-admitting ports, and containing a moveable shift sleeve. The apparatus is modifiable for use with position shifting tools of different outer diameters by interchanging first and second sets of the shift sleeve and insert rings having different minimum inner diameters within the housing. The open flow area of the apparatus is modifiable by plugs that block the ports and are removably attached to the housing. The plug, the shift sleeve, or both of them may be made of a dissolvable material, so that they can be dissolved by a chemical solution injected into the tubing string, for the purpose of controlling steam flow through the ports.
US11761304B1
A system includes a subsurface safety valve assembly connected to a production tubing string and including a sensor assembly disposed on its outer surface. The sensor assembly includes a magnetic sensor configured to measure a magnetic field or a sonic sensor configured to measure a sonic signal, and is configured to measure a change in a parameter caused by change in position of a closure member that is configured to selectively permit fluid flow through the central bore of the subsurface safety valve. The system further includes a control unit positioned at a surface location and that is configured to receive, from sensor assembly, a measurement of the change in the parameter, wherein the measurement is a change in the magnetic field or a change in the sonic signal.
US11761303B2
An object includes a housing, a cone received in the housing, a piston body attached to the cone, a gas evolution compound disposed in the object, an interface between the housing and the piston body, an interface feed fluidly connecting the gas evolution compound with the interface, and a trigger to evolve gas from the compound at a selected circumstance. A method for moving a tool including running an object into a borehole, counting features in the borehole using a sensor in the object, evolving gas from the gas evolution compound at a selected count, pressurizing the interface with the evolved gas, driving the piston body, and moving a shoulder member toward a larger diameter end of the cone. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string disposed in the borehole, and an object disposed within or as a part of the string.
US11761302B2
Method and apparatus for creating a fluid communication line in a downhole environment between an annular chamber and a throughbore of a tool. The tubular wall therebetween is provided with circumferentially arranged recesses extending into the wall to provide selected thin-walled sections for perforation by a communication tool. The communication tool has two oppositely arranged punch heads, one aligned with a recess and the other between neighbouring recesses giving an orientationless configuration in operation. An embodiment for creating a fluid communication line through a tubing retrievable safety valve for operation of a wireline retrievable safety valve located therein is described.
US11761298B2
A location of a cut and an amount of force to be used in a pull operation for a plug & abandonment (P&A) operation can be determined. Measurements of at least one characteristic of fluids and solids disposed in an annulus defined between a casing and a wall of a wellbore can be received. A total fluid and solid friction force drag can be determined using hydrostatic force that is determined from the measurements. A mechanical friction force drag can be determined based on a weight of the casing. The mechanical friction force drag and the total fluid and solid friction force drag can be used to determine a friction factor. The friction factor can be used to determine a depth location at which to cut the casing and a pull force for pulling the casing from the wellbore in the P&A operation.
US11761290B2
Methods for treating a wellbore. An example method includes positioning a conduit in the wellbore. The conduit is a liner hanger or a tie-back liner. The conduit includes a conduit body and a reactive metal sealing element disposed on the conduit body. The reactive metal sealing element includes a reactive metal having a first volume. The method further includes contacting the reactive metal with a fluid that reacts with the reactive metal to produce a reaction product having a second volume greater than the first volume. The method further includes contacting a surface adjacent to the reactive metal sealing element with the reaction product.
US11761271B2
A lateral isolator (200) has a tubular body with an upstream end and a downstream end. The lateral isolator (200) also includes an inner member (210) having a pivot ring (220) disposed within the tubular body. A first elastomeric package (236) is disposed between the tubular body and the inner member (210) longitudinally between the pivot ring (220) and the upstream end. A second elastomeric package (236) is disposed between the tubular body and the inner member (210) longitudinally between the pivot ring (220) and the downstream end.
US11761270B2
An operating tool for an artificial lift system includes a housing having a key slot. The operating tool further includes at least one biasing member disposed in the housing. The operating tool further includes a key including a key head having a key profile, wherein the key head is remove from the slot when aligned with the key slot. The operating tool further includes a cam including a cam profile, wherein the cam is disposed in the housing and biased toward the slot by the at least one biasing member, wherein the cam profile is configured to engage the key profile to align the key head with the key slot.
US11761266B1
A system includes hoisting cables for raising or lowering an oil rig mast, a support, and hoisting sheaves rotatably mounted on the support. The hoisting cables are wound at least in part about the hoisting sheaves during a process of raising or lowering the mast. Also included are measurement devices which measure angular displacement of the hoisting sheaves during a process of raising or lowering the mast with the hoisting cables. Further included is a signaling device which produces a signal if the measured angular displacement of the hoisting sheaves does not correspond to one or more reference values. A related method includes measuring angular displacement of the hoisting sheaves; comparing measured angular displacement of the hoisting sheaves with one or more reference values; and producing a signal if the measured angular displacement of the hoisting sheaves does not correspond to the one or more reference values.
US11761262B2
A method, system and apparatus configured to correct a non-compliant, excessive gap condition between a door bottom and a finished floor. One example system may include a channel assembly attached to the bottom edge of the door, wherein the channel assembly includes at least one moving component configured to accommodate uneven door bottom gaps across the width of the door and an uneven floor condition.
US11761257B1
A container for the storage of valuables and a service to retrieve the container is disclosed. The container is designed to contain valuables and important documents, and protect these contents during an emergency evacuation situation. The container is waterproof and can float in water. The container can also be made of a flame-resistant material. The container can emit a homing signal to facilitate the retrieval of the container in the event of an emergency situation. A container retrieval service can initiate a retrieval of the container in response to a determination that a disaster is likely to occur in the region where the container is located.
US11761256B2
A vehicle barrier gate system which is positioned above a roadway through which vehicles pass. Some of the various embodiments of the present disclosure include a gate comprised of an arm and barrier which is adjustable between a raised position in which a vehicle may pass and a lowered position in which a vehicle is prevented from passing. The gate may be movably connected to a ceiling or an overhead support structure positioned above the roadway. Various types of actuators may be utilized to adjust the gate along a linear and/or angular path between the raised and lowered positions. A control unit may be in communication with one or more sensors and/or an authorization system to control the actuator. The gate may include a breakaway mechanism which allows the gate to be manually raised or lowered in the event of actuator failure or a vehicle ramming through the gate.
US11761252B2
An embodiment lower gate stopper structure includes a stopper unit configured to protrude from an upper end of a groove positioned adjacent to an inner surface of a gate, a rack unit connected to the stopper unit and configured to move longitudinally to cause the stopper unit to protrude, and a controller configured to selectively control protrusion of the stopper unit based on an open or closed state of the gate.
US11761238B2
An improved locking device comprising a lock body, a locking plug, and a plurality of tumblers, wherein the tumblers are restricted from moving with respect to the locking plug during the time frame that the locking plug is rotated with respect to the lock body.
US11761227B2
Roof beams or ridges having configurable vent or flue openings therein are disclosed. Such members may be used in tents or other temporary structures to allow for versatility in positioning stoves, heaters, or other apparatuses requiring exterior venting therein.
US11761220B2
A method covers at least a portion of a surface of an existing structure with a repair structure. The method comprises: providing a standoff, the standoff elongated in a longitudinal direction and operable from an open configuration to a closed configuration; while the standoff is in the open configuration, mounting the standoff to the existing structure, such that the standoff projects outwardly away from the surface of the existing structure; closing the standoff to the closed configuration, the closing of the standoff forming a standoff connector; and coupling a cladding panel to the standoff by engaging the panel with the standoff connector at a location spaced outwardly apart from the surface of the existing structure by a void.
US11761217B2
A scaffold toeboard assembly including a toeboard frame having a toeboard coupled to a riser with a first and second end, with a lift handle coupled to the first end, and a toeboard coupled to the second end. The assembly further including a support frame having a vertical support with an attachment member configured to couple to a scaffold swing gate, wherein the riser is slidably coupled to the vertical support.
US11761211B2
A thermally modulating roof system wherein a minority of climate space between an existing and new roof is occupied by a phase change material assembly. The system maintains an industry standard of no more than a distance of about 4 inches between the roofs while still incorporating a substantial capacity to modulate an otherwise rising temperature of a facility during the day. Unique methods of installing the system, utilizing it and circulating air through the system to enhance performance are detailed.
US11761205B2
A grid mounting system for a suspended ceiling system in one embodiment includes a support structure and a mounting bracket coupled to the support structure. An elongated first grid member is pivotably coupled to the mounting bracket about a pivot axis defined by a pivot member. The first grid member is movable about the pivot axis in a plurality of angular mounting positions. In one embodiment, the grid mounting system further includes a second grid member which may be pivotably or fixedly coupled to the mounting bracket. The support structure may be a wall or perimeter trim bracket attached to the wall in some installations.
US11761200B2
Described herein is a flame-retardant building panel comprising a body having a first major surface opposite a second major surface, an inorganic coating atop the first major surface, the inorganic coating being optically transparent and flame retardant and comprising a silicate compound; and wherein the inorganic flame retardant coating is substantially transparent such that the first major surface of the body is visible through the inorganic coating.
US11761198B2
A hold down system for a building wall comprises a first rigid member and a second rigid member, the second rigid member being vertically spaced apart from the first rigid member, the first rigid member is supported on a horizontal member of a stud wall, the first and second rigid members including first and second openings, respectively; a tie-rod with a lower end portion for being anchored to an anchorage, the tie-rod extending transversely through the first and second openings, the tie-rod dividing the first and second rigid members into a first lateral section on one side of the tie-rod and a second lateral section on a diametrically opposite side of the tie-rod; first support and second support disposed between the first and second rigid members, the first support being disposed in the first lateral section, the second support being disposed in the second lateral section, the tie-rod extending through the first and second rigid members outside of the first support or the second support; and a nut threaded to the tie-rod, the nut exerting pressure on the second rigid member to place the tie rod under tension loading, the tension loading is transferred by the second rigid member to the first and second supports to subject the first and second supports to compression loading, thereby causing the first rigid member to press on the horizontal member of the stud wall via the first and second lateral sections of the first rigid member, thus distributing the compression loading.
US11761195B2
Material delivery systems as well as systems and methods relating thereto are disclosed. In an embodiment, the material delivery system includes a tank to hold water therein. In addition, the material delivery system includes a hopper to hold dry ingredients of the extrudable building material therein. Further, the material delivery system includes a mixing unit to receive water from the tank and dry ingredients from the hopper. The mixing unit includes an agitator to mix the water and the dry ingredients together to form the extrudable building material. Still further, the material delivery system includes a controller coupled to the agitator that is to: measure a load imparted to the agitator by the extrudable building material, add additional water to the mixing unit when the load is above a first threshold, and add additional dry ingredients to the mixing unit when the load is below a second threshold.
US11761194B2
A modular workspace system employs a plurality of interchangeable posts, beams/rails, and panels, permitting assembly of modular rooms and modular room structures of varying size, shape, and purpose. Wire management openings permit internal wire management.
US11761191B2
The invention described herein is that of an outdoor drain filter useful for maintaining the operability of an outdoor drain despite the accumulation of debris that would otherwise obstruct the outdoor drain, resulting in flood prevention of surrounding areas. The outdoor drain filter of the present invention is placed above and around an existing outdoor drain or may be integral with a drain cover or drain reservoir. The outdoor drain filter comprises upper and side filtration means allowing the free flow of water therethrough. The outdoor drain filter further comprises a diverter comprising at least one air vent and at least one lateral pipe that defines a maximum water level to which water will accumulate around the outdoor drain before being diverted into the drain through the diverter. The outdoor drain filter may a manufactured unit or of modular construction.
US11761190B2
Stormwater inlets and stormwater inlet seals are disclosed. The stormwater inlet seal can include a first section and a second section. The first section and/or second section at least partially defines an opening in the stormwater inlet seal. The first section can be pivotally connected to the second section about an edge of the first section. The first section can be moveable between a first position in which the first section is biased towards a closed position to direct fluid towards the opening and a second position which allows access to the inlet. A stormwater inlet with a first section that is pivotally connected to a sidewall is also disclosed.
US11761182B2
A showerhead assembly is provided which includes a handheld showerhead removably connected to a stationary showerhead through ball joint connection. The handheld showerhead includes an elongate handle having an upper housing with a cavity, and a front face including one or more nozzles for spraying water. The stationary showerhead has a traditional showerhead construction, with the exception that it further comprises a ball which engages with the handheld showerhead's cavity so as to allow rotatable and secure attachment of the handheld showerhead to the stationary showerhead. The ball may include a preliminary alignment chamber which houses a locking chamber, and the cavity may include a tension pin which engages with both these chambers so as to provide further support for installation of the handheld showerhead to the stationary showerhead. In addition, a spring-button tab mechanism may be utilized for managing the engagement and disengagement of the ball with the cavity.
US11761181B2
A drawing faucet includes a drawing sensing structure. The drawing sensing structure includes sense marks and a sensor. The number of the sense marks is at least two, they are provided on the drawing hose at intervals along a length direction of the drawing hose. The sensor is configured to sense the movements of the sense marks. During a drawing process of the drawing hose, at least the sense marks at two ends along the length direction can follow the movement of the drawing hose and be sensed by the sensor. The automatic water discharge control unit correspondingly controls the water discharge to change the water discharge strategy according to the sensing signal of the sensor.
US11761179B2
A bathtub/shower arrangement (1) having a bathtub (2), a bathtub inlet (3), a shower head (4) and a switchover valve (5), by way of which switchover valve a water flow (6) is able to be switched between the bathtub inlet (3) and the shower head (4). The bathtub inlet (3) is arranged above the bathtub (2) at a first distance (7) from an upper edge (9) of the bathtub (2), and the shower head (4) is arranged at a second distance (8) above the bathtub (2) from the upper edge (9) of the bathtub (2), at least the first distance (7) is greater than the height (11) of a side wall (10) of the bathtub (2).
US11761176B2
The invention relates to a device for maintaining and/or repairing a construction machine, with a mobile maintenance station that can be placed at the jobsite where the construction machine is being used, comprising a 3D printer for printing replacement parts for the construction machine on the basis of component data and/or a mobile display device for displaying repair information on the construction machine on the basis of component data, wherein a data supply station that is at a separate location from the maintenance station is provided, can be connected to the maintenance station by way of a communication link and is configured for providing the maintenance station with 3D printing data for printing the replacement part, and the maintenance station is configured for printing the replacement part layer by layer on the basis of the 3D printing data received from the data supply station.
US11761168B2
A shovel includes an upper swing structure, a cab mounted on the upper swing structure, and an operating lever provided in the cab. The operating lever includes a lever part to which a grip part is fixed, a holder part to which the lever part is connected, and a joint part connecting the lever part and the holder part. The lever part is configured to be attachable to and detachable from the holder part in a tool-free manner with a predetermined manual operation on the joint part.
US11761167B2
A system for uncovering a desired and pre-planned trench. A trenching machine is equipped with sensors, including visual imaging sensors. The sensors detect the inclination of the ground and movement of the trenching machine, as well as the angle of a trenching boom. Using this information, and a pre-determined preferred trench grade, a processor commands the trenching boom to adjust its angle to maintain the preferred trench grade. Surface irregularities may therefore be accounted for along the length of the trench to maintain a constant grade at the trench bottom.
US11761150B2
Flying disc toys are personalized with dye-sublimation printing using a heat press and dye-sublimation paper, onto which a design is printed. An assembled flying disc toy is disposed between a pad and a mask, in the heat press. The mask protects the ring of the flying disc toy from melting. The pad urges the fabric cover of the flying disc toy towards the paper and helps prevent crushing of the ring during pressing and the high-definition dye transfer sublimation printing.
US11761149B2
A napped artificial leather including a non-woven fabric including ultrafine fibers and a polyurethane, the napped artificial leather including a napped surface formed by napping the ultrafine fibers on a surface thereof, wherein the napped surface has, after a Martindale abrasion test in accordance with JIS L 1096 (6.17.5E method, Martindale method) under a pressing load of 12 kPa and 50000 times of abrasions, a ratio of the polyurethane observed by a surface observation using an electron microscope in a portion that has been subjected to the Martindale abrasion test, of 4.0% or less.
US11761148B2
A composite skin material for a vehicle wherein a synthetic leather includes a surface resin layer having a plurality of openings, an adhesion layer present on the rear surface of the surface resin layer, and a fibrous base material present on the rear surface of the surface resin layer across the adhesion layer, and the adhesion layer is present only at the adherend part, except for the plurality of openings, in the rear surface of the surface resin layer, and the base material surface of the fibrous base material is bonded to the surface resin layer.
US11761147B2
A creasing method includes: a gripping and rotating step of bunching and gripping a continuously drawn long fiber non-woven fabric and rotating the gripped part so that the long fiber non-woven fabric is twisted and a first folding line is formed; a heating step of heating the twisted long fiber non-woven fabric to fix the first folding line; and a widening step of releasing the long fiber non-woven fabric having the first folding line formed thereon.
US11761140B2
Provided is a washing machine including a main body having a first inlet, a drum arranged inside the main body to accommodate laundry, and a door configured to open and close the first inlet, wherein the door includes a second inlet to allow laundry to be introduced into the drum while the first inlet closed, an auxiliary door configured to open and close the second inlet, and a restraining device configured to restrain the auxiliary door such that the auxiliary door remains locked onto the door, and the main body includes a pressing device arranged inside the main body and configured to press the restraining device such that the restraining device locks the auxiliary door and to release from the retraining device such that the restraining device unlocks the auxiliary door.
US11761135B2
A laundry treating apparatus having a tub, a drum rotatably disposed inside the tub and configured to store laundry therein, and a connector connecting the drum to a rotary shaft of a motor for transferring a rotation power to the drum. The connector includes a first body having a first body hub and a first body arm, a second body having a second body hub and a second body arm extending along the first body arm, connecting portions spaced apart from each other and connecting the first body and the second body in a manner that the first body is spaced apart from the second body, and a rib disposed between a pair of the connecting portions. The rib protrudes from one of the first body arm and the second body arm and is spaced apart from the other of the first body arm and the second body arm.
US11761129B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a nonwoven fabric, comprising the steps of: (a) extruding a plurality of filaments from a spinneret; (b) depositing said filaments in a substantially not-crimped condition to make a nonwoven fabric on an element collecting the filaments; (c) heating said nonwoven fabric to crimp at least part of the filaments, so that the volume of said nonwoven fabric is increased; (d) bonding said nonwoven fabric; wherein said filaments are at least bicomponent filaments.
US11761127B2
In one aspect of the disclosure, a knitted component for use in an article of footwear may include a first layer with a multi-bed first area having a first surface and an opposite facing second surface. The knitted component may include a second layer with a second area overlapping the first area. The second area may have a first surface and an opposite facing second surface. The knitted component may include a plurality of interlayer knit stitches interlooping at least one yarn of the first layer with at least one yarn of the second layer at an interface between the second surfaces of the first and second areas. The interior surfaces of the first area and the second area may define at least part of a freely separable area between the first and second areas.
US11761121B2
A method for producing a polyacetal fiber that presents an improved whiteness unevenness is provided. According to one embodiment, there is provided a polyacetal fiber production method that yields a polyacetal fiber using an oxymethylene copolymer having a melt index, at 190° C. under a load of 2.16 kg, of 5-60 g/10 min, wherein the production method includes taking off the polyacetal fiber from the discharge nozzle of a spinning apparatus, and drawing the taken-off polyacetal fiber. The tensile elongation E1 of the polyacetal fiber after the taking off is 20%-500%; the tensile elongation E2 of the polyacetal fiber after the drawing is 10%-100%; E1≥E2; and the single fiber thickness of the polyacetal fiber after the drawing is 0.7-5.0 denier.
US11761115B2
A method of performing heteroepitaxy comprises exposing a substrate to a carrier gas, a first precursor gas, a Group II/III element, and a second precursor gas, to form a heteroepitaxial growth of one of GaAs, AlAs, InAs, GaP, InP, ZnSe, GaSe, CdSe, InSe, ZnTe, CdTe, GaTe, HgTe, GaSb, InSb, AlSb, CdS, GaN, and AlN on the substrate; wherein the substrate comprises one of GaAs, AlAs, InAs, GaP, InP, ZnSe, GaSe, CdSe, InSe, ZnTe, CdTe, GaTe, HgTe, GaSb, InSb, AlSb, CdS, GaN, and AlN; wherein the carrier gas is Hz, wherein the first precursor is HCl, the Group II/III element comprises at least one of Zn, Cd, Hg, Al, Ga, and In; and wherein the second precursor is one of AsH3 (arsine), PH3 (phosphine), H2Se (hydrogen selenide), H2Te (hydrogen telluride), SbH3 (hydrogen antimonide), H2S (hydrogen sulfide), and NH3 (ammonia). The process may be an HVPE (hydride vapor phase epitaxy) process.
US11761103B2
An electrolyser operates within an energy system, for example to provide grid services, energy storage or fuel, or to produce hydrogen from electricity produced from renewable resources. The electrolyser may be configured to operate at frequently or quickly varying rates of electricity consumption or to operate at a specified power consumption.
US11761096B2
A method of producing hydrogen includes providing a device, introducing a first stream including a fuel to the device, introducing a second stream comprising water to the device, reducing the water in the second stream to hydrogen, and extracting hydrogen from the device. The first stream and the second stream do not come in contact with each other in the device.
US11761086B2
Cobalt precursors are described, having application for vapor deposition of cobalt on substrates, such as in atomic layer deposition (ALD) and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) processes for forming interconnects, capping structures, and bulk cobalt conductors, in the manufacture of integrated circuitry and thin film products.
US11761079B2
In some examples, a method for conditioning a wafer processing chamber comprises setting a pressure in the chamber to a predetermined pressure range, setting a temperature of the chamber to a predetermined temperature, and supplying a process gas mixture to a gas distribution device within the chamber. A plasma is struck within the chamber and a condition in the chamber is monitored. Based on a detection of the monitored condition meeting or transgressing a threshold value, a chamber conditioning operation is implemented. The chamber conditioning operation may include depositing a preconditioning film onto an internal surface of the chamber, depositing a silicon oxycarbide (SiCO) film onto the preconditioning film, and depositing a protective layer onto the SiCO film.
US11761074B2
A nitriding apparatus for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is provided. The nitriding apparatus includes: a nitriding gas supply pipe for introducing gas including at least ammonia or nitrogen; and a nitriding treatment portion for successively performing high-temperature nitriding and low-temperature nitriding in nitriding treatment. The nitriding treatment portion includes a high-temperature treatment portion for performing the high-temperature nitriding and a low-temperature treatment portion for performing the low-temperature nitriding, and the nitriding gas supply pipe to the high-temperature treatment portion includes a cooling device.
US11761071B2
Provided is a beryllium copper alloy bonded body including a first member made of a beryllium copper alloy and a second member made of a beryllium copper alloy, wherein the first member and the second member are bonded to each other via the nickel layer having a thickness of 8 μm or less.
US11761070B2
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member capable of suppressing deterioration in ductility thereof. In the method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member, an aluminum alloy casting material that contains 2.0 to 5.5 mass % of Cu, and 4.0 to 7.0 mass % of Si in which a content of Mg is 0.5 mass % or less, a content of Zn is 1.0 mass % or less, a content of Fe is 1.0 mass % or less, a content of Mn is 0.5 mass % or less and the balance is made of Al and inevitable impurities is used. The method for manufacturing an aluminum alloy member includes a heating and holding step of heating and holding the aluminum alloy casting material within a solid-liquid coexisting temperature region; and a quenching step of rapidly cooling the aluminum alloy casting material after performing the heating and holding step.
US11761061B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of aluminum-based alloys having improved intergranular corrosion resistance. Methods of making and using the disclosed alloy embodiments also are disclosed herein.
US11761060B2
A nickel-based alloy composition consisting, in weight percent, of: between 5.0% and 6.9% aluminium, between 0.0% and 11.0% cobalt, between 6.0% and 11.6% chromium, between 0.0% and 4.0% molybdenum, between 0.0% and 2.0% niobium, between 0.6 and 8.6% tantalum, between 0.0% and 3.0% titanium, between 8.4% and 15.2% tungsten, between 0.02 wt. % and 0.35 wt. % carbon, between 0.001 and 0.2 wt. % boron, between 0.001 wt. % and 0.5 wt. %. zirconium, between 0.0 and 0.5% silicon, between 0.0 and 0.1% yttrium, between 0.0 and 0.1% lanthanum, between 0.0 and 0.1% cerium, between 0.0 and 0.003% sulphur, between 0.0 and 0.25% manganese, between 0.0 and 0.5% copper, between 0.0 and 2.0% hafnium, between 0.0 and 1.0% vanadium, between 0.0 and 4.0% iron, between 0.0 and 1.0% rhenium, the balance being nickel and incidental impurities, wherein the following equations are satisfied in which WNb, WTa, WTi, WCr, WMo, WW and WRe are the weight percent of niobium, tantalum, titanium, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten and rhenium in the alloy respectively 6.6≤2WTi+WTa+1.44WNb, 22.2≥WW+WRe+1.16 WCr+1.7WMo, 13.9≤WMo+1.17(WW+3.3WRe).
US11761056B2
A method and system of recycling aluminum alloy wheels, the method and system comprising (a) providing a feed of aluminum alloy wheels of a particular alloy; (b) fragmenting the aluminum alloy wheels into a plurality of fragments (c) shot blasting the plurality of fragments to clean non-aluminum contaminants off the plurality of fragments; (d) separating the plurality of fragments from the plurality of shot by moving a mixture of the plurality of fragments and the plurality of shot adjacent a dividing surface; and (e) providing the remaining plurality of fragments for use in manufacturing at least one component made from aluminum alloy.
US11761046B2
The present invention provides a kit or device for the detection of biliary tract cancer, and a method for detecting biliary tract cancer. The present invention relates to a kit or device for the detection of biliary tract cancer, comprising a nucleic acid capable of specifically binding to miRNA in a sample of a subject, and a method for detecting biliary tract cancer, comprising measuring the miRNA in vitro.
US11761045B2
Splice variants associated with neomorphic SF3B1 mutations are described herein. This application also relates to methods of detecting the described splice variants, and uses for diagnosing cancer, evaluating modulators of SF3B1, and methods of treating cancer associated with mutations in SF3B1.
US11761041B2
The present invention relates to a method, in particular an in vitro method, for identifying monocytes, comprising analyzing the methylation status of at least one CpG position in the mammalian gene region for parkin RBR E3 ubiquitin protein ligase (PARK2), wherein a de-methylation or lack of methylation of said gene region is indicative for a monocyte, when compared to a non-monocyte cell. The analyses according to the invention can identify monocytes on an epigenetic level and distinguish them from all other cells in complex samples, such as, for example, other blood or immune cells. The present invention furthermore provides an improved method for quantifying monocytes, in particular in complex samples. The method can be performed without a step of purifying and/or enriching cells, preferably in whole blood and/or non-trypsinized tissue. Also claimed are kits and specific oligonucleotides for use as primers or probes.
US11761038B1
Provided herein are methods of identifying a location of an RNA in a sample that include: (a) contacting the sample with an array comprising capture probes, where a capture probe comprises a capture domain and a spatial barcode; (b) releasing the RNA from the sample; (c) extending a 3′ end of the capture probe using the capture domain-bound RNA as a template; (d) generating nick(s) in the extended capture probe-hybridized RNA and performing random-primed DNA synthesis; (e) performing end repair on the second strand DNA molecule; (f) adding a single adenosine nucleotide to the 3′ end of the extended capture probe; (g) ligating a double-stranded sequencing adaptor to the double-stranded DNA product; and (h) determining all or a part of the sequence of the RNA, and the sequence of the spatial barcode, or complements thereof, and using the determined sequences to identify the location of the RNA in the sample.
US11761027B2
A system includes a reagent pack input carousel, a carousel frame supporting the carousel, and a track on which the carousel frame is supported for movement of the carousel into and out of an instrument in drawer-like fashion. The carousel is rotatable about an axis of rotation and includes a plurality of reagent pack input stations arranged about the perimeter of the carousel. Each input station is adapted to carry a reagent pack, and the input stations are oriented at an angle with respect to a radial orientation relative to the axis of rotation. Each input station includes an alignment block located at a radially inner end of the station, and the block is received within a recess formed in an end of the reagent pack placed in the station to align and position of the reagent pack within the station.
US11761025B2
A method for preserving and processing cell-free nucleic acids located within a blood sample is disclosed, wherein a blood sample containing cell-free nucleic acids is treated to reduce both blood cell lysis and nuclease activity within the blood sample. The treatment of the sample aids in increasing the amount of cell-free nucleic acids that can be identified and tested while maintaining the structure and integrity of the nucleic acids.
US11761021B2
The disclosure discloses recombinant Bacillus subtilis for synthesizing e lacto-N-neotetraose yield. The recombinant Bacillus subtilis is obtained by integrating two β-1,4-galactotransferase genes on a genome of a host bacterium Bacillus subtilis 168ΔamyE:P43-lacY, P43-lgtB, PxylA-comK and exogenously expressing a β-1,3-N-glucosaminotransferase gene. Compared with a strain before transformation, the recombinant Bacillus subtilis of the disclosure improves the yield of the synthesized lacto-N-neotetraose from 720 mg/L to 1300 mg/L, laying a foundation for further metabolic engineering transformation of Bacillus subtilis for producing the lacto-N-neotetraose.
US11761020B2
The present disclosure provides rAAV vectors and rAAV virions that specifically express exogenous nucleic acid sequences in CD14+ cells. The rAAV vectors or virions are useful for specifically expressing exogenous nucleic acid sequences encoding, for example, cancer antigens, viral antigens, and/or bacterial antigens in monocytes and dendritic cells. The rAAV transduced CD14+ cells can be used as antigen presenting cells that induce antigen-specific T cell responses. The present disclosure further provides methods producing rAAV virions and methods of immunotherapy.
US11761018B2
The present invention is directed to seedless fruit producing plants. The present invention also comprises methods for production of said plants and the use of nucleic acids encoding cyclin SDS like proteins for the production of seedless fruits.
US11761013B2
Methods and materials for modulating cold tolerance levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding cold tolerance-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased cold tolerance levels and plant products produced from plants having increased cold tolerance levels.
US11761004B2
Provided herein are safe harbor loci and methods for identifying and using safe harbor loci to engineer cells to express transgenes. The safe harbor loci exhibit increased transgene knock-in efficiency and allow for increased, stable expression of transgenes in engineered cells. Guide ribonucleic acids (gRNAs) may be used for insertion of transgenes in the safe harbor loci.
US11760998B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for high-efficiency genome editing. In some aspects, the invention provides retron-guide RNA cassettes and vectors comprising the cassettes. Also provided are host cells that have been transformed with the vectors. In other aspects, the invention provides retron donor DNA-guide molecules. In some other aspects, methods for genome editing and the screening of genetic loci are provided. In further aspects, methods and compositions are provided for the prevention or treatment of genetic diseases. Kits for genome editing and screening are also provided.
US11760997B2
Compositions, systems, and methods for the display of analytes such as biomolecules are described. Display of analytes is achieved by coupling of the analytes to displaying molecules that are configured to associate with surfaces or interfaces. Arrays of analytes may be formed from the described systems for utilization in assays and other methods.
US11760985B2
The invention related to the field of genetic engineering tools, methods and techniques for gene or genome editing. Specifically, the invention concerns isolated polypeptides having nuclease activity, host cells and expression vectors comprising nucleic acids encoding said polypeptides as well as methods of cleaving and editing target nucleic acids in a sequence-specific matter. The poly peptides, nucleic acids, expression vectors, host cells and methods of the present invention have application in many fields of biotechnology, including, for example, synthetic biology and gene therapy.
US11760977B2
The invention features pancreatic islet and pancreatic organoids, and cell cultures and methods that are useful for the rapid and reliable generation of pancreatic islet and pancreatic islet organoids. The invention also features methods of treating pancreatic diseases and methods of identifying agents that are useful for treatment of pancreatic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and pancreatic cancer, using the pancreatic islet and pancreatic organoids of the invention.
US11760976B2
Methods and products obtained from the method for isolating and culturing mixed populations of stem cells, making decellularized tissue matrix, making decellularized tissue matrix infused with said mixed populations of stem cells, and methods of stem cell therapy are provided.
US11760973B2
In an aspect, compositions, methods, and devices described herein provide a safer platform for the ex vivo expansion of cells for immunotherapeutic purposes that eradicates the possibility of having activating substrate transferred into the patient while maintaining and improving upon the level of cell activation and proliferation.
US11760964B2
A plant fat-based scaffold for growing cell-based meat products for consumption. The scaffold comprises primarily plant fats or waxes in addition to cell binding proteins and optional additional components that assist in the growth of cultivated animal cells. The scaffold can exist in both a liquified state during sterilization and a solid state during the formation of the scaffold, the seeding of the cultivated cells, and the cellular growth phase. The scaffold is capable of remaining in the final product for consumption or is partially or completely melted out of the final product and recycled into raw material for forming new scaffolds.
US11760962B1
The present application discloses an environmental friendly detergent tablet, and a preparation method and an tableting equipment thereof, belonging to the field of washing products. An environmental friendly detergent tablet is made of the following raw materials by weight percentage: polyvinyl alcohol, film-forming agent, surfactant, plant starch, co-solvent, bio-enzyme formulation, water softener, and other additives; the preparation method includes the following steps: mixing water, polyvinyl alcohol and film-forming agent under stirring, heating to 80° C-90° C., and continuing stirring to obtain an initial mixed slurry; adding a co-solvent into the initial mixed slurry, then adding a surfactant, then adding a plant starch, under stirring, to obtain a mixed materials; drying the mixed materials, coating with the bio-enzyme formulation, molding, and slicing to obtain the environmental friendly detergent tablet.
US11760960B2
A solid, particulate composition having at least one water-soluble carrier material, at least one fragrance and at least one water-miscible organic solvent, wherein the carrier material is a water-containing salt (hydrate) whose water vapor partial pressure at a specific temperature in the range from 30 to 100° C. corresponds to the H2O partial pressure of the saturated solution of this salt, such that the salt melts at this temperature in its own crystal water. The invention further relates to processes for producing the solid composition, and to a washing or cleaning product including the solid composition. In addition, the present invention also relates to the use of a washing or cleaning product of this kind for cleaning of textiles or hard surfaces, and corresponding methods of cleaning textiles or hard surfaces using a washing or cleaning product of this kind.
US11760957B2
This disclosure provides a composition containing: (i) at least one material having odor strength or olfactive character; and (ii) at least one fenchol. The at least one fenchol is selected from an alkylated fenchol, an isomeric, diastereomeric or enantiomeric alkylated fenchol, or mixtures thereof. The at least one fenchol is present in an amount effective to enhance odor strength or olfactive character of the composition. The composition can be a synergistic composition. This disclosure also provides a method of enhancing odor strength or olfactive character of a composition by adding at least one fenchol to at least one material having odor strength or olfactive character in an amount effective to enhance odor strength or olfactive character of the composition.
US11760955B2
The present invention provides a water-soluble metalworking oil composition, including: 5.0 to 20.0 mass % of a sulfur compound (A) that is one or more kinds selected from the group consisting of a sulfurized fat and oil and a sulfurized ester and has a kinematic viscosity of 10 to 800 mm2/s at 40° C.; 0.5 to 20.0 mass % of the nonionic surfactant (B) having an HLB of 6 to 18; 7.0 to 30.0 mass % of an unsaturated fatty acid polymer (C); and an amine compound (D) selected from the group consisting of a tertiary amine and a secondary amine.
US11760948B2
The invention is directed to a process to prepare an activated carbon product and a gaseous fraction comprising hydrogen, carbon monoxide and a mixture of gaseous organic compounds from a solid torrefied biomass feed comprising the following steps. (i) subjecting the solid biomass feed to a pyrolysis reaction thereby obtaining a gaseous fraction comprising hydrogen, carbon monoxide and a mixture of gaseous organic compounds and a solid fraction comprising of char particles. (ii) separating the solids fraction from the gaseous fraction. and (iii) activating the char particles as obtained in step (ii) to obtain the activated carbon product.
US11760947B2
Processes herein may be used to thermally crack various hydrocarbon feeds, and may eliminate the refinery altogether while making the crude to chemicals process very flexible in terms of crude. In embodiments herein, crude is progressively separated into at least light and heavy fractions. Depending on the quality of the light and heavy fractions, these are routed to one of three upgrading operations, including a fixed bed hydroconversion unit, a fluidized catalytic conversion unit, or a residue hydrocracking unit that may utilize an ebullated bed reactor. Products from the upgrading operations may be used as feed to a steam cracker.
US11760946B2
Systems and methods for controlling desalting and dehydration of crude oil, one method including monitoring total dissolved solids (TDS) content at an outlet stream from a crude oil separation unit, the outlet stream comprising water; monitoring basic sediment and water (BS&W) content at an outlet stream from the crude oil separation unit, the outlet stream comprising processed crude oil; determining pounds per thousand barrels (PTB) salt content and volumetric water content of a dried, desalted crude oil product stream using the TDS content and BS&W content; and controlling a process input to the method from a comparison between the PTB salt content and volumetric water content of the dried, desalted crude oil product stream versus a maximum set value for PTB salt content and volumetric water content of the dried, desalted crude oil product stream.
US11760924B2
Polymer-coated proppants for hydraulic fracturing of oil and gas wells have an outer layer portion that comprises an organofunctional coupling agent, preferably an organofunctional silane coupling agent. The use of an organofunctional silane coupling agent in the outer layer portion of the proppant coating is preferably chosen to expose functionalities that will be reactive towards similar functionalities of adjacent and similarly coated proppants so that, when introduced downhole, these proppants form interparticle bonds at the temperatures and crack closure pressures found downhole in fractured strata. Such enhanced interparticle bonding helps keep the proppant in the fracture and maintains conductivity with reduced flowback. The invention also helps proppants designed for low temperature well to bond more firmly and allows proppants designed for high temperature wells to bond well even at lower downhole temperatures, thereby extending their useful range.
US11760918B2
Compositions may include a corrosion inhibitor including a heterocyclic diamine prepared from the reaction of an alkyl diamine and an aldehyde, wherein the alkyl diamine has the general formula: R4NH(CH2)nNHR5, where n is an integer between 3 and 6, and R4 and R5 are independently hydrogen or a C2-C30 saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon radical. Methods may include contacting a metal surface with a corrosion inhibitor composition, wherein the corrosion inhibitor includes a heterocyclic diamine corrosion inhibitor from the reaction of an alkyl diamine and an aldehyde, wherein the alkyl diamine has the general formula: R4NH(CH2)nNHR5, where n is an integer between 3 and 6, and R4 and R5 are independently hydrogen or a C2-C30 saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon radical.
US11760914B2
Methods of wellbore cementing are provided. A method of designing a cement composition may include: selecting a target heat of hydration for a target time and temperature; selecting one or more cementitious components and a weight percent for each of the one or more cementitious components such that a sum of a heat of hydration of the one or more cementitious components is less than or equal to the target heat of hydration; preparing the cement composition; and allowing the cement composition to set.
US11760913B2
A drilling fluid containing a liquid phase, a weighting agent (e.g. barite, calcite, ilmenite), and perlite is described. The drilling fluid may further contain one or more additives including a defoamer, a fluid-loss control agent, a viscosifier, an antiscalant, a deflocculant, a lubricant, a clay stabilizer, a bridging agent, and a surfactant. A process of drilling a subterranean geological formation utilizing the drilling fluid is also specified. The introduction of perlite to the drilling fluid is effective in reducing the thickness and permeability of filter cakes formed during the drilling process.
US11760908B2
Adhesive film, optical member comprising the same, and optical display apparatus comprising the same
An adhesive film formed of an adhesive composition including a hydroxyl group-containing (meth)acrylic copolymer and a silicone-containing (meth)acrylic compound, the adhesive film having a peel strength ratio of about 50% or more, as calculated by Equation 1, an optical member including the same, and an optical display apparatus including the same are disclosed.
US11760902B2
I. an inorganic-organic hybrid material obtained from A1. one or more partially hydrolysed alkoxysilanes of the formula (Ia), (R1O)nSiR23-nR3 (Ia) A2. optionally one or more partially hydrolysed alkoxysilanes of the formula (Ib), (R4O)nSiR54-n (Ib) B1. one or more metal alkoxides of the formula (IIa), Ti(OR6)4 (IIa) B2. optionally one or more metal alkoxides of the formula (IIb), M+(4-m)(OR7)4-m (IIb) wherein the symbols and indices have the definitions specified in the description and wherein the molar ratio of Si in components A1 and A2 to Ti in component B1 is 1-20:1; C. one or more oligomeric or polymeric polyols; D. one or more blocked, optionally modified polyisocyanates; and E. optionally one or more monomers, oligomers and/or polymers which have one or more free epoxy groups; II. optionally one or more colorants and III. optionally one or more adjuvants, is suitable especially for the decorative and protective coating of metal, glass and plastics substrates.
US11760892B2
The present disclosure is drawn to aqueous pigment dispersions. In one example, an aqueous pigment dispersion can include from 40 wt % to 90 wt % water, from 2 wt % to 30 wt % organic co-solvent, from 7.5 wt % to 30 wt % copper phthalocyanine pigment, from 0.5 wt % to 5 wt % styrene-acrylic dispersant, and from 0.5 wt % to 5 wt % hydrophilic polyurethane dispersant having a weight average molecular weight from 10,000 Mw to 30,000 Mw. The styrene-acrylic dispersant and the hydrophilic polyurethane dispersant can be present at a weight ratio from 1:10 to 2:1.
US11760889B2
Sulfate and sulfonate derivatives of unsaturated fatty alcohols, processes for making them, and methods of using them are disclosed. In one aspect, a monounsaturated fatty alcohol composition is made by reducing a metathesis-derived monounsaturated alkyl ester. The fatty alcohol composition is then converted to a sulfate or sulfonate derivative by one or more of alkoxylation, sulfation, sulfonation, and sulfitation. Of particular interest are the sulfate and ether sulfate derivatives. Microscopy studies indicate that the unsaturated sodium sulfates in particular have a lamellar phase that should enable formulation at high actives levels. Sulfate compositions comprising 40 to 60 wt. % of a monounsaturated fatty primary alcohol sulfate and 40 to 60 wt. % of a secondary hydroxyalkyl primary alcohol sulfate are also disclosed. The derivatives and sulfate compositions are valuable for many end-use applications, including, for example, agricultural dispersants, water-soluble herbicides, anionic emulsifiers for agricultural use, hard surface cleaners, light-duty liquid detergents, personal cleansers, gas well foamers for oilfield applications, laundry detergents, enhanced oil recovery compositions, latex paints, and specialty foams.
US11760886B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing mineral particles grinding a mineral material in the presence of a specific anionic polymer. The polymer used is obtained by means of polymerisation in the presence of sodium hypophosphite, disodium dipropionate trithiocarbonate and at least one radical-generating compound. The invention also relates to an aqueous composition comprising particles of ground mineral material and such a polymer, in particular a paper coating slip composition.
US11760876B2
A resin composition includes 20 parts by weight to 45 parts by weight of a phosphorus-containing bismaleimide and 100 parts by weight of a thermosetting resin, wherein the phosphorus-containing bismaleimide has a structure of Formula (I); the thermosetting resin is selected from a vinyl-containing polyphenylene ether resin, a maleimide resin, a polyolefin resin, a prepolymer of maleimide resin, and a combination thereof. The resin composition may be used to make a prepreg, a resin film, a laminate or a printed circuit board, and at least one of the following properties can be improved, including flame retardancy, outgassing properties, arc resistance, copper foil peeling strength, X-axis coefficient of thermal expansion, glass transition temperature and water absorption rate.
US11760866B2
The present invention provides a white pigment comprising a ZIF-based (zeolitic imidazolate framework) powder having a structure in which zinc (Zn) and an imidazole-based organic substance are bonded, a polymer resin film comprising the white pigment and a method for changing a color of a medium using the white pigment.
US11760864B2
The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula (I), which compound is useful for improving the abrasion resistance of a vulcanized rubber composition (the symbols in the following formula are as defined in the description).
US11760856B2
The present invention relates to a non-crosslinked block copolymer foam composition, characterised in that it is in the form of a polymer matrix comprising closed cells containing gas, said matrix comprising: from 90 to 99.9% by weight of said block copolymer; and from 0.01 to 10% by weight of metal carbonate, for the total weight of the foam composition. The present invention also relates to a foamable composition and a method for manufacturing said foam, as well as the use of the foam in sports shoe soles, balloons or balls, gloves, personal protection equipment, rail soles, automobile parts, construction parts, electrical and electronic equipment parts, audio equipment, sound- and/or heat-proofing, and parts used to damp vibrations.
US11760855B2
An acrylic resin film is provided that may include graft copolymer particles (A) with a multilayer structure and graft copolymer particles (B) with a multilayer structure, wherein the graft copolymer particles (A) may have an average particle size in the range of 20 to 150 nm, the graft copolymer particles (B) may have a larger average particle size than the graft copolymer particles (A). The graft copolymer particles (A) may include a cross-linked elastomer (A1) and a graft polymer layer (A2), the graft polymer layer (A2) being closer to a surface layer than the cross-linked elastomer (A1). Further, a constituent unit may be derived from an acrylate with an alkyl ester moiety having two or more carbon atoms constitutes 8% or less by mass of the graft polymer layer (A2), the graft copolymer particles (B) may contain a cross-linked elastomer (B1).
US11760847B2
Solid-state branching and/or crosslinking of aliphatic polyamide or polyester articles is achieved using a topical approach. A surface of the article is coated with a composition that includes a polyene and a free radical initiator. The article and applied coating are then heated to induce branching and/or crosslinking in the polyamide or polyester. This is performed below the crystalline melting temperature of the polyamide or polyester, or in the case of a fabric, below the melting temperature of the fibers in the fabric. Fabrics treated in this manner exhibit reduced or even no dripping in vertical flame tests.
US11760845B2
Producing a resin particle dispersion using an apparatus including: two or more resin particle dispersion production lines each including an emulsification tank in which a resin is subjected to phase inversion emulsification using two or more organic solvents and an aqueous medium to obtain a phase-inverted emulsion, a distillation tank in which the organic solvents are removed from the phase-inverted emulsion by reduced pressure distillation to obtain a resin particle dispersion, and plural distillate collection tanks that collect distillates formed during the reduced pressure distillation according to respective target distillate compositions; and a reusable storage tank that collects and stores a distillate collected in at least one collection tank among the distillates collected in the plural collection tanks in each of the two or more production lines, and delivering the distillate to the emulsification tank in at least one production line to reuse the distillate for producing a phase-inverted emulsion.
US11760840B2
The present invention provides a resin composition which is excellent in moisture and heat resistance, thermal stability, rigidity, surface impact properties and chemical resistance. The resin composition includes, based on a total of 100 parts by weight consisting of (A) 30 to 99 parts by weight of a resin (component A), which is composed of 10 to 100 wt % of a polycarbonate-polydiorganosiloxane copolymer resin (component A1) and 0 to 90 wt % of an aromatic polycarbonate resin (component A2), and (B) 1 to 70 parts by weight of a polyester resin (component B), (C) 10 to 50 parts by weight of a filler (component C) which is surface-treated with a silane coupling agent having an alkyl group, wherein the content of rubber-like polymer is 3 parts by weight or less.
US11760836B2
A coating created entirely from plant-derived ingredients is disclosed. Illustrative embodiments of the coating may be particularly well suited for use on leather-like materials created from epoxidized natural rubber-based formulations. Illustrative embodiments of the coating created may be comprised of substantially the reaction product between epoxidized vegetable oil and a polyfunctional naturally occurring acid (such as citric acid). Illustrative embodiments this reaction product may be used to produce porosity-free castable resins and vulcanize rubber formulations based on epoxidized natural rubber. Materials made from disclosed materials may be advantageously used as leather substitutes.
US11760828B2
The present invention relates to a two-component system comprising a component A) comprising at least one polymeric polyol which has an OH content of ≤4.5 wt %, based on the total solids content of the polymeric polyol, and a component B) comprising at least one polyisocyanate which has a number average isocyanate group functionality of ≥4.0 to ≤10.0, based on the total solids content of the polyisocyanate, a fraction of ≤25 wt %, based on the total solids content of the polyisocyanate, of oligomers containing isocyanate groups and having a number-average molecular weight of ≤780 g/mol, and an isocyanurate group fraction of ≥5 mol % to ≤70 mol %, based on the total amount of isocyanurate groups and allophanate groups in the polyisocyanate. The invention further relates to a method for producing a coating on a substrate, to the coating obtainable by this method, and to the coated substrate.
US11760824B2
A dried polymer aerogel has a Brunauer-Emmett Teller (BET) surface area over 100 m2/g, porosity of greater than 10%, visible transparency greater than 20%, color rendering index of over 20%, and average pore size of less than 100 nm.
US11760819B2
The purpose of the present invention is to obtain an ethylene⋅α-olefin⋅non-conjugated polyene copolymer that has a low permanent compression set at low temperatures, is flexible, and has an excellent balance of rubber elasticity at low temperatures and tensile strength at normal temperatures. This ethylene-based polymer is an ethylene⋅α-olefin⋅non-conjugated polyene copolymer that includes units derived from ethylene (A), units derived from an α-olefin (B) containing 4-20 carbon atoms, and units derived from a non-conjugated polyene (C) and satisfies (1)-(4). (1) The molar ratio of (A) to (B) is 40/60-90/10, (2) the contained amount of the units derived from (C) is 0.1-6.0 mol %, (3) ML(1+4) 125° C. is 5-100, and (4) the B value is 1.20 or more.
US11760818B2
The present disclosure provides a method of preparing a vinyl chloride-based polymer, and the method provides excellent productivity while having reduced amount of a volatile organic compound generated so as to provide the vinyl chloride-based polymer suitable for an eco-friendly material, and improved foaming and viscosity properties of a plastisol including the prepared polymer, by adding a carbonate-based metal salt and a transition metal catalyst together, and controlling input time and amount of the transition metal catalyst.
US11760817B2
Embodiments in accordance with the present invention encompass compositions comprising a soluble photoacid generator, a organopalladium compound, a photosensitizer and one or more olefinic monomers which undergo vinyl addition polymerization when said composition is exposed to a suitable actinic radiation to form a substantially transparent film. The monomers employed therein have a range of optical and mechanical properties, and thus these compositions can be tailored to form films having various opto-electronic properties. Accordingly, compositions of this invention are useful in various applications, including as coatings, encapsulants, fillers, leveling agents, among others.
US11760816B2
Provided is an unsaturated double bond-containing compound capable of sufficiently advancing a crosslinking reaction or a curing reaction when used for a coating material or the like and having oxygen absorption performance. The present invention also provides an oxygen absorbent containing the unsaturated double bond-containing compound and a resin composition containing the same. Provided are an unsaturated double bond-containing compound represented by general formula (I), an oxygen absorbent containing the same, and a resin composition.
US11760815B2
A process for producing a halogenated isoolefin copolymer involves contacting an unsaturated isoolefin copolymer cement, the cement containing an unsaturated isoolefin copolymer dissolved in an organic solvent, under halogenation conditions with a halogenating agent and an aqueous solution of an organic peracid oxidant to form a two-phase reaction medium having an organic phase and an aqueous phase, the organic peracid oxidant capable of converting hydrogen halide to free halogen. The process leads to higher halogen utilization even when the cement contains significant amounts of water and without the use of an emulsifier.
US11760813B2
A natural hydrocolloid system can be used in, e.g., pet food compositions. Another aspect of the present disclosure is pet food compositions comprising such a natural hydrocolloid system, and preparation methods thereof. The hydrocolloid system can use blends of fruit fibers, such as citrus and apple fibers, and/or plant-based polysaccharides, such as psyllium, okra, chia, flaxseed, or seaweed; and can provide a gravy and even a jelly with functionalities comparable to the existing gravies. The blends can replace currently used hydrocolloids and can be used in new recipes with natural and clean labels.
US11760810B2
Polypeptide compositions comprising a human immunoglobulin constant region with a modified IgG4 hinge region having an N-terminal deletion of 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 amino acids, relative to a native human IgG4 hinge sequence are provided. In some embodiments the hinge sequence further comprises the amino acid substitution S228P (Eu numbering). Polypeptides comprising the modified sequence optionally comprise a binding moiety specific for an epitope that is present on red blood cells; and can provide for reduced agglutination of hematopoietic cells compared to a comparable polypeptide with a native hinge region.
US11760806B2
There is disclosed compositions and methods relating to or derived from anti-CD38 antibodies. More specifically, there is disclosed fully human antibodies that bind CD38, CD38-antibody binding fragments and derivatives of such antibodies, and CD38-binding polypeptides comprising such fragments. Further still, there is disclosed nucleic acids encoding such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, cells comprising such polynucleotides, methods of making such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, and methods of using such antibodies, antibody fragments and derivatives and polypeptides, including methods of treating a disease.
US11760803B2
The invention provides, inter alia, methods of reducing gastrointestinal immune related adverse events, such as colitis and diarrhea, in subjects undergoing an immune treatment, such as an immune oncology treatment, such as anti-CTLA4 antibody and anti-PD-1 antibody combination treatment for melanoma. In certain aspects, the methods encompass administering a therapeutically effective amount of a polypeptide that inhibits MAdCAM-integrin binding, such as an anti-α4β7 integrin antibody, such vedolizumab or a related antibody.
US11760801B2
The disclosure provided herein relates to monospecific and multispecific antibodies, that bind CEACAM1 and optionally CEACAM5 and/or CEACAM6, and methods of producing and using the described antibodies.
US11760794B2
Antibodies and antigen binding fragments that specifically bind to P. falciparum circumsporozoite protein and neutralize P. falciparum are disclosed. Nucleic acids encoding these antibodies, vectors and host cells are also provided. The disclosed antibodies, antigen binding fragments, nucleic acids and vectors can be used, for example, to inhibit a P. falciparum infection.
US11760788B2
Compositions and methods for the treatment of neurological disorders whereby vectors contain codon-optimized nucleic acids for expression in humans, encoding a human dopamine receptor D1 protein, a human 5-Hydroxytryptamine receptor 4 protein, and a human G-protein coupled receptor 139).
US11760787B2
B7-H5 costimulatory polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding such polypeptides, and methods for using the polypeptides and nucleic acids to enhance a T cell response are provided herein.
US11760785B2
Disclosed herein is a glucose-responsive insulin delivery system based on the interaction between the glucose-modified insulin and glucose transporters (GLUTs) on erythrocytes (or red blood cells, RBCs). After being conjugated with a competitive inhibitor of a glucose transporter, insulin can efficiently bind to RBC membranes. The binding is reversible in the setting of hyperglycemia, resulting in fast release of insulin and subsequent drop of blood glucose (BG) level in vivo.
US11760783B2
Described herein is a novel, mitochondrial encoded, open reading frame, that leads to the production of a new mitochondrial peptide. Residing within the ND-Two subunit, a specific small nucleotide polymorphism disrupts expression of this mitochondrial peptide, and is correlated with an increase in obesity and diabetes, particularly in certain ethnic populations. In vitro administration of the peptide increases insulin secretion, decreases fat accumulation and improves glucose uptake in muscle cell. Antibodies generated against the peptide can be used for detecting peptide deficiency, in addition to SNP detection, supporting diagnostic approaches. In vivo studies further revealed that administration of the peptide improves glucose tolerance, thereby providing a new therapeutic avenue for a novel diabetes therapy and decreases bodyweight, thus serving as a novel obesity therapy. Generation of synthetic analogs further enhance or abrogated activity relative to the natural peptide.
US11760778B2
Methods for isolating proteins from solution by precipitation and compositions generated thereby are provided. A nonvolatile precipitation agent is added to an aqueous protein solution at a low concentration. Water is then removed from the resulting solution until the precipitant and the protein content of the solution increase to a concentration that provides the desired segregation of proteins between supernatant and precipitate. Additional water can be removed from the supernatant to provide additional fractionation. Water can be removed by evaporation (e.g. under reduced pressure) and/or diafiltration.
US11760774B2
Novel compositions and methods for engineering wireframe architectures and scaffolds of increasing complexity by creating gridiron-like DNA structures (FIG. 1). A series of four-arm junctions are used as vertices within a network of double-helical DNA fragments. Deliberate distortion of the junctions from their most relaxed conformations ensures that a scaffold strand can traverse through individual vertices in multiple directions. DNA gridirons, ranging from two-dimensional arrays with reconfigurability to multilayer and three-dimensional structures and curved objects, can be assembled according the methods presented herein.
US11760770B2
A compound including a first ligand LA having the structure of Formula I, is disclosed. In Formula I, rings A and B are each a 6-membered rings; Z1 and Z2 are each carbon or nitrogen; each RA and RB is independently hydrogen or a variety of substituents; any two substituents are optionally joined or fused into a ring; at least one RA or RB comprises an aromatic group substituted by a bridge structure, and this RA or RB joins with an adjacent substituent and fuses to ring A or B; the bridge structure comprises a backbone structure that forms a fused first ring; the backbone structure is saturated, comprises at least one heteroatom, and is optionally further substituted; and the ligand LA is coordinated to a metal M that can be coordinated to other ligands.
US11760758B2
The present invention provides a compound having the structure: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or ester thereof, and a method of treating a subject afflicted with pain, a depressive disorder, a mood disorder or an anxiety disorder by administering the compound to the subject.
US11760756B2
The present invention relates to crystalline forms of the PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor (R)-1-((7-cyano-2-(3′-(3-(((R)-3-hydroxypyrrolidin-1-yl)methyl)-1,7-naphthyridin-8-ylamino)-2,2′-dimethylbiphenyl-3-yl)benzo[d]oxazol-5-yl)methyl)pyrrolidine-3-carboxylic acid, including methods of preparation thereof, and related synthetic intermediates, where the compound is useful in the treatment of various diseases including infectious diseases and cancer.
US11760750B1
The present disclosure relates to a process for the preparing levoketoconazole, its salts, solvates, and solid-state forms thereof.
US11760746B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and intermediates useful for preparing a compound of formula I. or a co-crystal, solvate, salt or combination thereof.
US11760730B2
An improved process for the preparation of high purity Levosimendan includes treatment of Levosimendan crude with an organic acid, adding an organic acid to precipitate Levosimendan and isolating pure Levosimendan from the precipitate. Levosimendan obtained by the improved process is pharmaceutically acceptable with no impurity higher than 0.2 percent.
US11760728B2
The present invention provides compounds, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
US11760720B2
An aqueous composition comprising: sulfuric acid; a compound comprising an amine moiety; a compound comprising a sulfonic acid moiety; and a peroxide. Said composition being capable of delignifying biomass.
US11760716B2
Disclosed is a method for crystallizing molecules having a molecular weight equal to or lower than about 500 Dalton in a gravity below about 0.01 g to about 0.000001 g as well as to crystalline molecules having a molecular weight equal to, or lower than, about 500 Dalton, prepared under microgravity conditions.
US11760714B2
The invention provides methods of preparing 8-hydroxy-2,2,14,14-tetramethylpentadecanedioic acid and methods of making a pharmaceutical material comprising a purified amount of 8-hydroxy-2,2,14,14-tetramethylpentadecanedioic acid. Also provided are compositions and pharmaceutical materials including a purified amount of 8-hydroxy-2,2,14,14-tetramethylpentadecanedioic acid as well as methods of treating various diseases and conditions using the compositions and pharmaceutical materials.
US11760703B2
Processes for upgrading a hydrocarbon. The process can include contacting a hydrocarbon-containing feed with fluidized catalyst particles that can include a Group 8-10 element or a compound thereof disposed on a support to effect one or more of dehydrogenation, dehydroaromatization, and dehydrocyclization of at least a portion of the hydrocarbon-containing feed to produce coked catalyst particles and an effluent. The process can also include contacting at least a portion of the coked catalyst particles with an oxidant to effect combustion of at least a portion of the coke to produce regenerated catalyst particles. The process can also include contacting at least a portion of the regenerated catalyst particles with a reducing gas to produce regenerated and reduced catalyst particles. The process can also include contacting an additional quantity of the hydrocarbon-containing feed with fluidized regenerated and reduced catalyst particles to produce additional effluent and re-coked catalyst particles.
US11760702B2
Processes for upgrading a hydrocarbon. The process can include contacting a hydrocarbon-containing feed with fluidized catalyst particles that can include a Group 8-10 element or a compound thereof disposed on a support to effect one or more of dehydrogenation, dehydroaromatization, and dehydrocyclization of at least a portion of the hydrocarbon-containing feed to produce a coked catalyst and an effluent. The process can also include contacting at least a portion of the coked catalyst particles with an oxidant to effect combustion of at least a portion of the coke to produce regenerated catalyst particles. The process can also include contacting an additional quantity of the hydrocarbon-containing feed with at least a portion of the regenerated catalyst particles to produce additional effluent and re-coked catalyst particles.
US11760700B2
The present disclosure provides a method of continuously converting kitchen waste using three environmental insects, including following steps: pre-solid-liquid separating and removing impurities of kitchen waste using feeding and drainage characteristics of Tenebrio molitor, Hermetia illucens, and Protaetia brevitarsis Lewis; feeding larvae of the Tenebrio molitor with solids added with crushed wheat bran in a day, and completely digesting the solids added with the crushed wheat bran in the day; and adding liquid with dung-sand of the Tenebrio molitor, crop straw dry powder, and probiotics to ferment, converting the fermented liquid added with the dung-sand of the Tenebrio molitor, the crop straw dry powder, and the probiotics by larvae of the Hermetia illucens, and then converting and digesting the fermented liquid added with the dung-sand of the Tenebrio molitor, the crop straw dry powder, and the probiotics by mixing larvae of the Protaetia brevitarsis Lewis.
US11760687B2
An alkali-free ultrafine glass fiber formula includes the following components, in mass percentage calculated based on 100 Kg: SiO2: 50% to 65%, Al2O3: 10% to 16.5%, CaO: 17% to 28%, MgO: 0.2% to 4.0%, Na2O and K2O: 0.1% to 0.8% in total, CeO2: 0.1% to 0.5%, Li2O: 0.1% to 0.7%, Fe2O3: 0.05% to 0.6%, TiO2: 0.1% to 1%, and impurities: the balance. In the preparation of alkali-free ultrafine glass fibers, no fluorine and boron-containing raw materials are used, and CeO2 and Li2O are introduced, which avoids the use of B2O3 and F that have a large impact on the environment, and reduces environmental pollution. A single fiber strength of prepared glass fibers is about 9% higher than that of the traditional E glass fibers, and the comprehensive performance of a prepared glass fiber product is significantly superior than that of the existing E glass fiber product.
US11760680B2
Apparatus and methods for forming and printing hollow bodies from amorphous materials to form three-dimensional objects are provided. Apparatus provide a hollow body forming and printing machine, and methods for determining a desired amount of impact deformation for the hollow spheres, including calculating specific characteristics of the hollow spheres and the amorphous material, deriving a target viscosity range, adjusting the apparatus to satisfy the target viscosity range, and using the apparatus to form a plurality of hollow spheres with controlled deformation.
US11760672B2
The present disclosure relates to antiscale dispersant compositions. The compositions may include various components. The compositions may be used in connection with gray and/or black water processing in a coal gasification system. The compositions are useful for inhibiting the deposition of various materials, such as calcium carbonate, calcium phosphate, iron, aluminum, silicate, calcium sulfate, and any suspended solids in the water.
US11760669B2
A flat membrane support plate includes a connection portion, a honeycomb structural portion and a support portion. The connection portion is configured to connect a diaphragm to the flat membrane support plate in a sealing manner, is arranged at a periphery of the flat membrane support plate, and is provided with at least one water outlet. The honeycomb structural portion is arranged on the flat membrane support plate in an area enclosed by the connection portion, is provided with a first flow channel for communicating with an interior of the entire honeycomb structural portion and communicating the honeycomb structural portion with the water outlet. The support portion is configured for reinforcing the honeycomb structural portion and is arranged between the honeycomb structural portion and the connection portion.
US11760663B2
A reactor for water splitting or water treatment includes a first electrode, a second electrode electrically coupled to the first electrode, and a proton exchange membrane separating the first electrode and the second electrode. The first electrode includes a first optical fiber coated with a photocatalytic material.
US11760659B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and process for separating sand and gravel in sediments of a sewage pipe network and recycling organic matters. The system includes a conveying grid plate, a mud outlet is provided below the conveying grid plate, and a masonry conveying area is provided at one side of the conveying grid plate; a fiber crushing tank, disposed below the mud outlet, and a crushing device is disposed below the mud outlet; a masonry scouring and recycling tank, provided with an interception grille located at one side of the masonry conveying area, a flushing device is disposed above the interception grille, a masonry outlet is provided in the masonry scouring and recycling tank, the masonry scouring and recycling tank is communicated with a muddy water return pipe, and the muddy water return pipe is communicated with the mud outlet.
US11760653B2
This invention relates to azirconium hydroxideor zirconium oxide comprising, on an oxide basis, up to 30 wt % of a dopant comprising one or more of silicon, sulphate, phosphate, tungsten, niobium, aluminium, molybdenum, titanium or tin, and having acid sites, wherein the majority of the acid sites are Lewis acid sites. In addition, the invention relates to a catalyst, catalyst support or precursor, binder, functional binder, coating or sorbent comprising the zirconium hydroxide or zirconium oxide. The invention also relates to a process for preparing zirconium hydroxide, the process comprising the steps of:(a) dissolving a zirconium salt in an aqueous acid, (b) addingone or more complexing agents to the resulting solution or sol, the one or more complexing agents being an organic compound comprising at least one of the following functional groups: an amine, an organosulphate, a sulphonate, a hydroxyl, an ether or a carboxylic acid group, (c) heating the solution or sol formed in step (b), (d) adding a sulphating agent, and (e) adding a base to form a zirconium hydroxide, and (f) optionally adding a dopant.
US11760652B2
Fabricating a layer including lithium lanthanum zirconate (Li7La3Zr2O12) layer includes forming a slurry including lanthanum zirconate (La2Zr2O7) nanocrystals, a lithium precursor, and a lanthanum precursor in stoichiometric amounts to yield a dispersion including lithium, lanthanum, and zirconium. In some cases, the dispersion includes lithium, lanthanum, and zirconium in a molar ratio of 7:3:2. In certain cases, the slurry includes excess lithium. The slurry is dispensed onto a substrate and dried. The dried slurry is calcined to yield the layer including lithium lanthanum zirconate.
US11760649B2
Provided is a solid electrolyte material comprising Li, Y, Br, and Cl wherein in an X-ray diffraction pattern in which Cu-Kα is used as a radiation source, peaks are present within all ranges of diffraction angles 2θ of 15.1° to 15.8°, 27.3° to 29.5°, 30.1° to 31.1°, 32.0° to 33.7°, 39.0° to 40.6°, and 47.0° to 48.5°.
US11760644B2
An aqueous or organic solvent medium for additive manufacturing technologies comprising a nanocrystal comprising a functional group. The nanocrystal material is selected from a metal oxide, fluoride, metallic, carbon-based, semiconducting quantum dot or combinations thereof. The functional group comprises primary amine, carboxylic acid, lactam ring, polyamide polymer chain or group used to attach a similar functional group.
US11760638B2
Provided is a method for preparing a graphene material from an industrial hemp material by laser induction, which uses a skin, a stem and/or a root of industrial hemp as a carbon precursor-containing material and reduce the carbon precursor-containing material into graphene by laser induction, so as to prepare graphene, graphene quantum dots, a graphene mesoporous material and a graphene composite material.
US11760634B2
The present invention provides a metal-carbon composite of a core-shell structure and a method of synthesizing the same. The method includes preparing a first polymer-covered glass substrate with a nano-thickness metal film deposited thereon; immersing the first polymer-covered glass substrate with the metal film to delaminate one or more 2D freestanding organic-metal nanosheets from the first polymer-covered glass substrate; transferring the one or more 2D freestanding organic-metal nanosheets onto a second target substrate; and annealing the one or more 2D freestanding organic-metal nanosheets to decompose an organic portion of the organic-metal nanosheet into an amorphous carbon-containing shell forming a metal-carbon nanocomposite of a core-shell structure.
US11760632B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and system for sulfur recovery. A Claus tail gas stream is fed to a hydrogenation reactor to produce a hydrogenated gas stream. The hydrogenated gas stream is fed to a quench tower to produce a quenched gas stream. The quenched gas stream is fed to a first stage adsorption vessel of first stage adsorption unit to produce a first outlet gas stream. The first outlet gas stream is fed to a second stage adsorption vessel of a second stage adsorption unit to produce a second byproduct gas stream. The first stage adsorption vessel is regenerated to produce a first byproduct gas stream. The second stage adsorption vessel is regenerated to produce a second outlet gas stream including hydrogen sulfide. Optionally, a portion of the second byproduct gas stream or nitrogen can be fed to the first stage adsorption vessel or the second stage adsorption vessel for regeneration. Optionally, a sales gas can be fed to the second stage adsorption vessel for regeneration. Optionally, vacuum can be applied to the first stage adsorption vessel or the second stage adsorption vessel for regeneration.
US11760623B2
A no-gel sensor package is disclosed. In one embodiment, the package includes a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) die having a first substrate, which in turn includes a first surface on which is formed a MEMS device. The package also includes a polymer ring with an inner wall extending between first and second oppositely facing surfaces. The first surface of the polymer ring is bonded to the first surface of the first substrate to define a first cavity in which the MEMS device is contained. A molded compound body having a second cavity that is concentric with the first cavity, enables fluid communication between the MEMS device and an environment external to the package.
US11760621B1
A post-mix beverage dispensing tap valve to dispense a beverage into a vessel. A connection and mounting assembly is configured for mounting the post-mix beverage dispensing valve a wall and connecting with a source of a beverage product and a source of water. A drafting head is formed as an elongate cylindrical body with an internal bore. A piston shaft is operable by a tap actuator to selectively block and permit a flow of the beverage syrup and the water through the internal bores. The piston shaft carries a seal, a flow guide, and a spring. The seal abuts and seal with the facet to prevent flow through the internal bores. A slight gap between the flow guide and the inner surface of the bore to obtain a desired mixture rate between the beverage syrup and the water source by regulating the area of flow around the flow guide.
US11760611B2
Hoists, platforms and davits are described as well as methods of securing same to telecommunication and other towers. The hoists, platforms and davits may be secured to the towers on a temporary basis using clamps. The clamps may include brackets and cables. The cables may be attached to the brackets, may wrap around the outer surface/perimeter of the tower pole/leg and may use tension to keep the bracket in place.
US11760607B2
A mounting system for performing an installation operation in an elevator shaft of an elevator system has a mounting apparatus that includes a carrier component with a mechatronic installation component, a displacement component, a suspension cable and a deflection roller deflecting the suspension cable between the displacement component and the carrier component. The carrier component is supported against a supporting wall of the elevator shaft by an upper support roller, at least during displacement in the elevator shaft. The suspension cable has, between the deflection roller and the carrier component, a diagonal pull relative to the vertical in the direction of the supporting wall and is guided via the deflection roller such that the diagonal pull can be varied by displacing the deflection roller. The deflection roller is arranged via a holding apparatus on a surface of the supporting wall such that the deflection roller protrudes into the elevator shaft.
US11760604B1
An illustrative example elevator door interlock includes at least one coupling roller supported on a base. A lock is configured to move relative to the base and the at least one coupling roller between a locking position and an unlocked position. An unlocking roller supported on the lock is situated to be moved by a vane of an elevator door coupler to move the lock into the unlocked position prior to the vane contacting the coupling roller. The elevator door interlock is compatible with a clamping type elevator door coupler and an expanding type elevator door coupler. The coupling roller is situated to be received between two vanes of the clamping type elevator door coupler or received against one of two vanes of the expanding type elevator door coupler.
US11760599B2
A post-processing apparatus includes a post-processing device, an ejection device, and an ejection tray. The post-processing device executes post-processing on a medium on which an image is formed by an image forming apparatus. The ejection device ejects the medium on which the post-processing is executed by the post-processing device. The ejection tray holds the medium ejected by the ejection device. The ejection tray includes a main tray having an upper face inclined downward in an ejection direction, and a movable tray being rotatably supported by the main tray between a stacking position at which the medium ejected by the ejection device remains stacked on the upper face of the main tray and an ejection position at which the medium ejected by the ejection device slides along the upper face of the main tray.
US11760596B2
The present application relates to a roll replacing device and an adhesive tape sticking equipment. The roll replacing roll device replacing includes an unwinding member, a roll replacing member, a cutting member, and an end pressing member, which can realize automatic roll replacing of a work strip and a spare strip and reduce staffing, thereby reducing labor cost.
US11760593B2
According to an embodiment, a sheet feeding mechanism includes a first elastic body. The first elastic body blocks a first reference line and a second reference line. The first elastic body has a first angle formed between the first elastic body and the first reference line, the first angle being an acute angle. The first reference line is a reference line along a take-out direction by the first roller. The second reference line is a reference line connecting a nip between the second roller and the third roller and a contact position of the first roller and a sheet.
US11760591B2
A sheet stacking device include a guide unit and a blower. The guide unit receives a downstream end of a sheet in a sheet conveyance direction and guides the sheet downstream in the sheet conveyance direction. The blower blows air toward the sheet guided by the guide unit. A region of the blower from which the air is blown is changeable in response to a size of the sheet.
US11760588B2
A sheet stacking part stacks sheets. A first roller applies a force in a conveyance direction to an uppermost sheet among sheets stacked on the sheet stacking part by rotating in a forward direction. A second roller is separated from the first roller on the downstream side in the conveyance direction. The second roller applies the force in the conveyance direction to the uppermost sheet by rotating in the forward direction. A controller controls rotation of the first roller and the second roller so that a second main operation is performed after a first main operation. The first main operation is an operation of rotating only the first roller of the first roller and the second roller in the forward direction. The second main operation is an operation of rotating both the first roller and the second roller in the forward direction.
US11760578B2
A device for transferring units of goods has a suspended conveyor system on which conveyor units can be conveyed in a suspended manner along a continuous conveyor path. In an entry region, supplied conveyor units can be provided for further processing. Downstream of said entry region, a transfer device is provided in a transfer region, with which units of goods can be transferred into and/or out of a conveyor unit located in the transfer region. Downstream of said transfer region, processed conveyor units can be provided in an exit region for further use. The absolute alignment in space of a conveyor unit in the entry region and in the transfer region are substantially the same, and the relative alignment in relation to the conveying direction in the entry region and the transfer region are substantially different. Alternatively or additionally, the absolute alignment in space of a conveyor unit in the transfer region and in the exit region are substantially the same, and the relative alignment in relation to the conveying direction in the transfer region and in the exit region are substantially different.
US11760576B2
A conveyor belt with flow control cleats that includes belting, first cleats and second cleats. The belting has a first side edge and a second side edge. The first cleats extend from the belting. The first cleats are oriented at an angle with respect to the first side edge of between about 30 degrees and about 60 degrees. The second cleats extend from the belting. The second cleats are oriented at an angle with respect to the second side edge of between about 30 degrees and about 60 degrees. The first cleats and the second cleats both include a first long cleat section, a second long cleat section, a short cleat section and a third long cleat section. The short cleat section has a length that is shorter than a length of the first long cleat section. The second long cleat section is between the first long cleat section and the short cleat section. The short cleat section is between the second long cleat section and the third long cleat section. A first recess is defined between second long cleat section of the first cleats, the third long cleat section of the second cleats, the short cleat section of the first cleats and the short cleat section of the second cleats.
US11760574B2
An order fulfillment system controller receives orders for different objects, generates a number of batched tasks that is less than the number of received orders, and determines a set of the orders with a total distance between them that is greater than a total distance between other sets of the orders. The controller allocates a different order from the set of order to a different batched task, and allocates each unallocated order to a selected batched task based on the distance between objects of the unallocated order and objects previously allocated to the selected batched task being less than the distance between objects of the unallocated order and objects previously allocated to other batched tasks. The controller controls different agents according to the allocation of different subsets of orders to different batched tasks.
US11760571B2
An automated laboratory system includes a storage system including a frame and a platform slidably mounted to the frame such that the platform is slidable relative to the frame between a docked position and an undocked position, the platform being configured to carry an instrument. The system also includes a robotic device proximate the storage system and being configured to access the instrument carried by the platform. Another automated laboratory system includes a storage system including a table and a tabletop having a central axis and being rotatably positioned on the table such that the tabletop is rotatable about the central axis between a docked position and an undocked position, the tabletop being configured to carry an instrument. The system also includes a robotic device proximate the storage system and being configured to access the instrument carried by the tabletop.
US11760567B2
A material loading device includes a loading frame and at least one first locking mechanism. The loading frame defines a receiving cavity and at least one opening communicating with the receiving cavity. Opposing inner walls of the loading frame define a plurality of first slots. The at least one first locking mechanism is disposed at the at least one opening. The at least one first locking mechanism includes a first locking portion extending downwards. The first locking portion includes a plurality of second slots and a plurality of blocks adjacent to the plurality of second slots. The first locking portion can drop by gravity, driving the plurality of blocks to move to and lock the plurality of first slots. The first locking portion can also be lifted, to drive the plurality of second slots to move to and unlock the plurality of first slots.
US11760566B2
A storage receptacle can include a storage bin and a pedal mounted to the receptacle as well as a hopper. A method of using the storage receptacle can include receiving a force on a hopper handle of a hopper of a storage receptacle, the hopper having a cable connection point connected to a cable, based on the force, rotating the hopper to enable a user to place material in a storage bin of the storage receptacle, wherein the rotating causes the cable to have slack and preventing the cable having the slack from coming out of a groove in a pulley via a shroud positioned over at least a portion of the pulley.
US11760563B2
The present disclosure relates to a foldable container including a bottom plate, a top plate, and side wall panels provided between the bottom plate and the top plate, in which the side wall panels include a front panel, a rear panel, a first side panel, and a second side panel, and the container includes first and second torsion bars respectively provided at lower ends of the first and second side panels to generate torque when the first and second side panels are rotated, third and fourth torsion bars respectively provided at lower ends of the front panel and the rear panel to generate torque when the front panel and the rear panel are rotated, and a first rotation support member having an L-shape, including one end coupled to a post coupling point (220) spaced apart by a predetermined distance from the lower end of the front panel, and the other end coupled to a third torsion bar at a bottom plate coupling point (210) located on a side spaced apart by a predetermined distance from an end of the bottom plate to support the rotation operation of the front panel, in which the top plate is completely detachably coupled to the side wall panel.
US11760559B2
A pack for smoking articles comprising: a group of smoking articles wrapped by an inner wrap and housed in a rigid outer container provided with a lid hinged to the outer container; a collar partially projecting from an open upper end; and a locking system comprising: a support element arranged in the outer container in contact with the collar and provided with two coupling wings, which project movably outwards to move closer or away from each other; and two first through openings, each obtained through a wall of the lid, houses at least a portion of a corresponding coupling wing, to activate the locking system, preventing the lid from rotating from the closed to the open position. An external action of the user releases the coupling wing to deactivate the locking system. The locking system can be reactivated by rotating the lid from the open position to the closed position.
US11760548B2
An extensible slit sheet paper product is produced having an expandable slit pattern that forms open cells upon expansion of the paper product. The paper product is an extensible paper having an extensibility in the range from 1-9% in the machine direction and 1-5% in the cross direction. The expansion produces an array of hexagonal cells. The expanded extensible paper can be used to wrap an object for shipping by wrapping and cushioning the object in the expanded slit sheet material. The extensible, expandable slit sheet paper can be wrapped around itself to produce a void fill product.
US11760547B2
A twist-tie dispensing assembly for dispensing of loose twist-ties in bulk form comprises a base defining a rear wall and an open front, wherein a flexible portion of the rear wall is configured to elastically deflect through a cut-out provided on the rear wall in a direction from the rear wall toward the open front. A box is mounted to the base, the box defining a back wall and a storage compartment configured to hold twist-ties, the back wall of the base defining a slot exposing the storage compartment to an exterior of the box, wherein the slot is configured to receive at least partially the flexible portion of the rear wall of the base from the exterior of the box toward the storage compartment when the box is mounted to the base.
US11760546B2
A de-oxygenation stopper configured to enable aging of an oxygen sensitive material such as wine contained within a vessel, while minimizing oxygen content within the vessel. The stopper includes an oxygen scavenging element configured to remove and/or neutralize oxygen molecules within the vessel, and a sealing element formed of one or more materials having tailored oxygen transmission rate(s) configured to enable the material to age at a desired rate.
US11760542B2
A disposable, non-toxic, biodegradable, flexible cover fitting on beverage containers to protect from unwanted contamination or spillage is described. In one embodiment, the flexible cover includes a system comprising a tamper-evident package and a cover sealed within the tamper-evident package, the cover including a flexible body having a substantially flat, circular shape and a first thickness and a bead having a second thickness disposed about a circumference of the flexible body, wherein the second thickness is greater than the first thickness.
US11760541B2
A rigid stopper (10) made of bisphenol-free polycarbonate and silicone synthetic materials, particularly for a wine bottle (48), comprises a cylindrical body (12) and two opposing faces (16, 18), and at least two compressible-elastomeric “O”-rings (22, 24) seated in corresponding circumferential grooves (26, 28) on a side (14) of the body (12). The faces (16, 18) are comprised of foramen (42, 44) respectively which communicate with a volute-cavity (40) for the purpose of accepting a cork-screw-extractor. The volute-cavity (40) is comprised of a partition (46) at a central-plane (56) for the purpose of preventing wine from leaking through the volute-cavity (40). “O”-rings (22, 24) are compressively forced into a mouth (50) of a bottle (48) positioning either face (16) or face (18) flush with the mouth (50) thereby providing adequate compressive force in maintaining position of the stopper (10). Stopper (10) having longitudinal symmetry about a central plane (56), either face (16) or (18) of stopper body (12) maintains compatibility with random orientation of the stopper (10) in “corking” process of packaging.
US11760536B2
A hygienic pallet suitable for use in food manufacturing is formed of a food-grade material. The pallet comprises a load supporting surface extending between pallet edges. The pallet also comprises support lips that extend upward and away from the load supporting surface and in a direction away from a pallet edge. At least two support lips can be separated to form a channel between chamfered edges of the support lips. The support lips support molds or other objects on the load supporting surface during movement of the pallet, while the channels facilitate removal of debris and liquid during use or cleaning of the pallet. The pallet further comprises a section divider that divides stacking sections of the load supporting surface. Stackable molds for food manufacturing can be placed within the stacking areas to transport the mold stacks. A method of manufacturing the hygienic pallet comprises rotational molding.
US11760534B2
A system and method of at least partially forming reinforced packages. The method comprises moving a construct in a machine direction on a construct conveyor. The construct conveyor can comprise a primary lug belt with a primary lug, the construct can be disposed on the primary lug belt, and the moving the construct can comprise moving the primary lug belt in the machine direction to push the construct in the machine direction. The method further can comprise positioning a liner on the construct conveyor so that the liner at least partially extends over the construct and moving the liner in the machine direction on a secondary lug belt of the construct conveyor. The secondary lug belt can comprise a secondary lug and the moving the liner can comprise moving the secondary lug belt in the machine direction to push the liner in the machine direction.
US11760533B2
A carton for holding a plurality of articles. The carton can comprise a plurality of panels comprising a back panel, a first front panel positioned opposite to the back panel, and a second front panel positioned opposite to the back panel. The carton can comprise a first compartment comprising a first interior space for at least partially receiving at least a first article of the plurality of articles and a second compartment comprising a second interior space for at least partially receiving at least a second article of the plurality of articles. At least a portion of at least the back panel and the first front panel can extend at least partially around the first interior space of the first compartment. At least a portion of at least the back panel and the second front panel can extend at least partially around the second interior space of the second compartment.
