US11887228B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that implement rendering processes that performs vector graphic rendering based on information received from a source application. Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that implement foveated rendering using content received from a source by selectively drawing the content for only some regions based on gaze.
US11887226B2
In some implementations, a recommendation system may input text into a machine learning model that was trained using input specific to an organization associated with the text and was refined using input specific to a portion of the organization. The recommendation system may receive, from the machine learning model, a recommendation indicating one or more visual components, stored in a database associated with the organization, to use with the text. The machine learning model may use natural language processing and sentiment detection to parse the text. Accordingly, the recommendation system may receive the one or more visual components from the database and generate an initial draft including the text and the one or more visual components.
US11887224B2
A method of completing coloring of an image based on a query regarding a color-unknown region in the image and an answer to the query, includes: generating, by using an artificial neural network, a first intermediate image in which at least one uncolored region in a primary image is colored; generating, by using the artificial neural network, a first color query regarding the at least one color-unknown region in the primary image; and generating a secondary image based on at least one of the first color query, a first answer to the first color query, and the first intermediate image.
US11887216B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for image processing. Embodiments of the present disclosure include an image processing apparatus configured to generate modified images (e.g., synthetic faces) by conditionally changing attributes or landmarks of an input image. A machine learning model of the image processing apparatus encodes the input image to obtain a joint conditional vector that represents attributes and landmarks of the input image in a vector space. The joint conditional vector is then modified, according to the techniques described herein, to form a latent vector used to generate a modified image. In some cases, the machine learning model is trained using a generative adversarial network (GAN) with a normalization technique, followed by joint training of a landmark embedding and attribute embedding (e.g., to reduce inference time).
US11887207B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing a signaling location beacon are provided. Specifically, a collection location for collecting, by an agent, an item is determined. Also, a physical beacon associated with the pickup location can be identified. Further, an interaction between the physical beacon and the agent can be detected. For example, the interaction can occur based on the physical beacon and the agent being in physical proximity to each other during a process of the agent collecting the item at the collection location. As follows, in response to the interaction, transmission of a sensory signal to the agent can be facilitated to provide perceivable direction information associated with the physical location to the agent. The sensory signal can be specific to the agent based on the interaction between the physical beacon and the agent.
US11887206B2
A method includes transmitting, by a user device associated with a user to a transportation service provider, a request for a service comprising entry into a controlled area associated with the service. The method further includes receiving, by the user device from the transportation service provider, a token to allow the user device to connect with the service and to allow entry into the controlled area associated with the service. The method further includes transmitting, by the user device to a security device associated with the transportation service provider, the token. The security device restricts access to the controlled area associated with the service. The method further includes receiving, by the user device from the security device responsive to the transmitting of the token, the access to the controlled area associated with the service.
US11887203B1
In one illustrative configuration, a system and method of air quality monitor minimization/optimization is disclosed. The method may include providing at least a first air quality monitor on a site. The first air quality monitor may be configured to generate a first set of attached parameters. The method may further include providing a SCADA system, on the site, configured to generate a set of SCADA data. The SCADA data, the first set of attached parameters may be processed to determine a redundant/sub-optimized air quality monitor, which may be removed. In other illustrative configurations, the system and method may be utilized to locate and/or quantify emissions.
US11887200B2
A method for generating a user profile and system including a controller configured to execute instructions to execute the method. The method including determining by a user of a first vehicle that an interactive maneuver is needed to provide a resource, identifying a second vehicle to interact with, contacting a user of the second vehicle, requesting the user of the second vehicle to perform the interactive maneuver, receiving a response from the user of the second vehicle, and generating a user profile for the user of the second vehicle based on the performance of providing the resource.
US11887190B2
Methods, systems and computer-readable storage media disclosed herein provide visual depictions of warnings and errors. An example method includes detecting, using a computing device, a change in a design of a trading algorithm. The trading algorithm is defined by a user-specified arrangement of blocks representing trading functionality. The example method includes determining, using the computing device, whether the trading algorithm complies with a trading algorithm rule. The example method includes facilitating, using the computing device, at least one of warning handling or error handling when the trading algorithm does not comply with the trading algorithm rule. Facilitating warning handling or error handling includes displaying a warning or an error to the user in connection with the trading algorithm before the trading algorithm is available for execution.
US11887185B2
The invention provides a method and system for a financial institution for capturing the business of a financial services customer. The system may include a data access system for obtaining and storing data; and an analysis system for processing the data. The analysis system (1) selects a study group of customers from the data; (2) observes the study group so as to produce a profile of each study group customer's financial information; (3) produces a mathematical representation of an interrelationship between study group customers' profiles and the data; (4) applies the mathematical representation to customers not within the study group in order to estimate those customers' profiles; (5) identifies a portion of the customer's monetary flow eligible to be conducted through the financial institution, the identification based in part on the customer's profile; and (6) does not require direct input from the customer. The system may further include a marketing system for producing, outputting and implementing a marketing strategy; and storage systems. In addition, the analysis system may utilize processing including producing a profile of the customer's financial information, the profile including an itemization of the customer's monetary inflow and outflow; and identifying a portion of the customer's monetary flow eligible to be conducted through the financial institution, the identification based in part on the customer's profile.
US11887179B2
A method for selecting hubs, such as third-party retail locations, with storage allocated to goods transacted between local recipients and senders. The method further includes generating a listing for a good, within an online marketplace, and associating the listing with a sender hub. Additionally, the method includes aggregating listings associated with sender hubs matched to a recipient hub, presenting the subset of listings to the recipient. When a good is purchased by a recipient, the method includes generating and serving a sender order prompting delivery of the good to the sender hub, generating and serving a hub ticket prompting storage of the good and release of the good to the recipient, and generating and serving a recipient receipt including a prompt to accept delivery of the good.
US11887178B1
A message management platform receives API payloads including past confirmed transactions carried out by an application builder platform and available item offerings of an application operator. The message management platform launches, at an instant messaging platform, a chat session between an agent and a user, a subscriber to the message management platform and an end-user of the application operator. The message management platform displays, for the agent, at the instant messaging platform, the past confirmed transactions of the user and the available item offerings of the application operator. The message management platform receives a selection of a set of items from the agent based on the chat session with the user and creates a virtual instance of a shopping cart representation. The message management platform generates a materialization link of the shopping cart and transmits the materialization link to the user through the instant messaging platform.
US11887176B2
A method is provided. The method includes receiving a device type identifier, network access data, and a user identifier that correspond to an order identifier from a terminal. An allocated device serial number corresponding to the order identifier is obtained, the device type identifier, the device serial number, the network access data being written into a customized controlled device. The customized controlled device that is identified by the allocated device serial number and the device type identifier is connected to. A device registration request is received from the terminal and, in response to receiving the device registration request, device registration is performed based on the device type identifier, the allocated device serial number, and the user identifier.
US11887173B2
When a person visits a physical retail store, the merchant often does not have enough information about the person to make meaningful product recommendations. Also, a physical retail store typically has products physically distributed throughout the store. It may be desirable to have some sort of relationship between where the customer is and the location of the product being recommended. In some embodiments, when a person visits the store, a computer determines an identity of the person and generates a product recommendation based on user-specific information for that person. In some embodiments, generating the product recommendation includes detecting that a field of view of a camera of the device has changed, and in response determining a plurality of products within or proximate to a current field of view of the camera. At least one of the plurality of products is then identified as the recommended product.
US11887167B2
A device may receive and transform metric data and share of voice data, associated with digital marketing by an entity, into transformed data, may generate model data from the transformed data, and may divide the model data into training data, test data, and validation data. The device may train models, with the training data, to generate training results, and may process the test data, with the models, to generate test results. The device may process the validation data, with the models, to generate validation results, and may select a first model, a second model, and a third model based on the results. The device may utilize the first model to predict a share of voice, and may utilize the second model to predict a click through rate. The device may utilize the third model to predict a conversion rate, and may perform actions based on the predicted data.
US11887166B1
Methods and systems described in this disclosure can identify, from a social media listening device, content items posted by a plurality of users, where each of the content items is associated with a social handle. Each of the content items can be mapped to a user identifier associated with a user or a potential user of a service using the social handle. A subset of the mapped content items can be created by selecting the mapped content items that correspond to an event based on content. The mapped content items are then categorized based on the corresponding events in the content items. Service or product opportunity leads can be determined from the mapped and categorized content items.
US11887157B2
The invention relates to a campaign management system (CAMS) comprising a plurality of participant records (PREC) and two or more process structure versions (PSV1, PSV2) of a process structure (PS) comprising a plurality of configured logic templates (CLT); wherein the campaign management system (CAMS) is computer-implemented and configured to process said participant records (PREC) according to said process structure versions (PSV1, PSV2) and wherein said participant records (PREC) comprise track histories (TH) of said processing; and wherein said campaign management system (CAMS) is configured to migrate said processing of said participant records (PREC) between said two or more process structure versions (PSV1, PSV2) on the basis of said track histories (TH) and said two or more process structure versions (PSV1, PSV2).
US11887154B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for implementing a model for serving exploration traffic are provided. An amount of spend by a content provider to provide content items of the content provider through a content serving platform to client devices of users is determined. A number of exploration impressions of users viewing exploration content items of the content provider over a timespan is determined. A return on exploration impression metric is determined for the content provider based upon a ratio of the amount of spend to the number of exploration impressions. The return on exploration metric is used to rank available exploration content items of content providers for serving exploration traffic.
US11887151B2
The present disclosure in at least one embodiment provides a method of providing an advertisement disclosure for advertisement identification to a content that is displayed in a three-dimensional space by a visual interface, including detecting an advertisement object located within a user sight from the content, inserting the advertisement disclosure in an adjacent position to the advertisement object, and controlling the advertisement disclosure in position or orientation based on a user gaze upon detecting the user gaze.
US11887150B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for attributing payment vehicle purchase events to previous activity of a purchaser. One method comprises: receiving purchase information associated with a purchase event by a purchaser; comparing the received purchase information to a profile data store to identify a purchaser profile associated with the purchaser, the profile data store comprising a plurality of purchaser profiles, wherein each purchaser profile comprises payment vehicle data and a tracking element; determining the tracking element of the identified purchaser profile; identifying one or more activities of the purchaser using the tracking element of the identified purchaser profile; for each of the identified one or more activities, assessing the strength of attributing the purchase event to the activity, using environmental and/or behavioral data associated with the tracking element; and determining whether to attribute the purchase event to one or more of the identified activities based on the assessment.
US11887148B2
There are provided systems and methods for cross-platform tracking of user generated data for unified data output. A computing device may be utilized to access an online platform and perform one or more processes, including viewing an online marketplace to purchase items in a transaction. The device may be used to browse items and items may be added to a digital shopping cart or other checkout process and interface. However, the device may not finish electronic transaction processing for the items and may abandon the digital cart on a first platform used by the user. When a user uses a second online platform to shop and generate another digital cart, a cross-platform process may retrieve the previously abandoned cart's data, and may generate output for display of the previous cart with the new cart in the second platform's user interface.
US11887139B2
An item price that is noted in a transaction for an item is identified. Any discount or item price override is identified for the transaction. A catalogue price for the item is obtained. Similar items associated with the item are determined based on mapped transaction contexts for the item and the similar items within a multidimensional space. Similar item prices are obtained and a median price for the item and similar items is calculated. A real-time price alert is sent to a resource that is associated with processing or handling the transaction when the item price, adjusted for any discount or item price override, deviates (above or below) from the median price by a threshold amount.
US11887134B2
Systems and techniques may be used for providing information related to an underperforming product. An example technique may include determining, for products in a particular zone of a website, an underperforming product based on pageviews or interaction metrics of users visiting the website. The technique may include identifying a product type of the underperforming product, and outputting a recommendation for display. The recommendation may include at least one replacement product of the product type, other than the underperforming product, to replace the underperforming product in the particular zone.
US11887131B2
A system providing self-service access to locked merchandise comprising: (a) providing a fixture that restricts access to the locked merchandise, wherein the fixture can automatically lock or unlock, allowing or restricting access to the locked merchandise; (b) providing a means of uniquely identifying an individual attempting to access the merchandise; (c) measuring a set of behaviors of the individual during any time the fixture is an open mode; (d) assessing whether the set of behaviors of the individual are suspicious or not relative to a set of suspicious event thresholds; (e) storing the individual and their set of behaviors as accessible records in at least one database; and (f) providing an algorithm which determines future access privileges of the individual to the enclosure based on a set of variables.
US11887126B2
A machine learning-based method for accelerating a generation of automated fraud or abuse detection workflows in a digital threat mitigation platform includes identifying a plurality of distinct digital event features indicative of digital fraud; automatically deriving a plurality of distinct digital event decisioning criteria based on the plurality of distinct digital event features and a digital event data corpus associated with a target subscriber; automatically constructing a probationary automated fraud or abuse detection workflow based on the plurality of distinct digital event decisioning criteria, and deploying the probationary automated fraud or abuse detection workflow to a target digital fraud prevention environment associated with the target subscriber.
US11887123B1
Systems and methods provide for authenticating a user attempting to make a payment using a piezoelectric device are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, the piezoelectric device can be embedded on a credit card, debit card, or other form of payment card and signals generated by the piezoelectric device can be used to authenticate the user when making the payment. For example, the user can squeeze or manipulate the piezoelectric device in a specific predetermined pattern and the resulting electric charge or induced current generated by the piezoelectric device can facilitate transmitting a signal to a point of sale device, and the point of sale device can authenticate the user based on the signal. In other embodiments, the piezoelectric device can contain circuitry and/or logic that can authenticate the user and send a confirmation signal to the point of sale device to authenticate the payment.
US11887119B1
The present invention is provides a system or a computer implemented user digital assets management method for managing digital assets of a user while maintaining privacy and security. The digital assets are converted into anonymous data having a verifiable portion and an encrypted portion. The verifiable portion contains non identifiable information of the user and the encrypted portion contains identifiable information of the user. The identifiable information includes user personal data. The user has control on the anonymous data and grants access to the service provider accordingly.
US11887116B1
Authentication systems and methods using orientation sensor-enabled payment cards are disclosed herein where a server receives an authorization request from a web server or an electronic terminal. The server then transmits an instruction to the orientation sensor to determine whether the payment card has an orientation that is consistent with a predetermined orientation. When the payment card has an orientation consistent with the predetermined orientation, the server executes a first authentication protocol. However, if the payment card has an orientation that is not consistent with the predetermined orientation, the server executes a second authentication protocol that is more restrictive than the first authentication protocol.
US11887112B2
A hybrid identity service system is disclosed. The system may receive a transaction request. The system may generate a first passcode and a second passcode. The system may decrypt a first encrypted private key with the first passcode to recover a private key. The system may sign the transaction request with the private key and may encrypt the private key with the second passcode to generate a second encrypted private key.
US11887111B2
Offline electronic currency payment and collection methods are provided. The payment method includes: establishing, by a first device, a wireless connection with a peer device, acquiring wallet information, and transmitting the wallet information to a first peer device without deleting stored electronic currency; and receiving collection information, verifying that first peer offline account information is not included in an offline transaction blacklist, acquiring first transaction information, digitally signing the first transaction information, transmitting first transaction data including signature data to the first peer device, and storing a first transaction record.
US11887110B2
Embodiments provide systems, methods, processes, computer program code and means for using mobile devices to conduct transactions with value dispensing devices.
US11887102B1
In one embodiment, a method includes, by one or more computing devices associated with a payment service (PS), assigning a first payment card number of a first plurality of payment card numbers to an account of a user, wherein the first plurality of payment card numbers is issued from a first issuer processor. The PS detecting an event affecting the use of the first payment card in a transaction. The PS, in response to detecting the event, accessing a second plurality of payment card numbers issued from a second issuer processor and assigning a second payment card number of the second plurality of payment card numbers to the account of the user. The PS receiving an indication that a status of the event has changed. The PS, in response to receiving the indication, automatically enabling, the first payment card number for use in transactions for the account of the user.
US11887101B1
A payment instrument comprising a bottom layer; one or more intermediate layers, wherein at least one of the one or more intermediate layers comprises: a chip comprising a processor and memory; an antenna coupled with the chip; a reactive medium; and one or more reservoirs comprising beads, each of the beads comprising a reactive agent, the beads configured to release the reactive agent over time onto the reactive medium, wherein the reactive agent causes a change over time of the surface of the reactive medium; and a top layer, the top layer having at least a partially translucent portion, the at least one partially translucent portion above the reactive medium, wherein the reactive medium is at least partially visible through the at least one partially translucent portion.
US11887098B1
A provider institution computing system comprises a network interface circuit and a processing circuit. The processing circuit includes a processor coupled to a non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processing circuit, cause the processing circuit to perform operations. The operations include receiving a request from a first messaging application of a sender device to send a gift to a recipient device via a second messaging application of the recipient device. The operations further include verifying that a first account associated with the sender includes a first value of points and converting the first value of points to a first gift value and a second gift value that is different than the first gift value. The operations further include providing a first gift option to the first messaging application, which includes a first gift with the first gift value and a second gift with the second gift value.
US11887095B2
An information processing apparatus according to one example embodiment is an information processing apparatus that performs a checkout process for a product or a service, and the information processing apparatus includes: a motion unit that causes the information processing apparatus to autonomously move; a detection unit configured to detect a position of a person; and a control unit that controls the motion unit in accordance with the position of the person.
US11887092B2
Systems and methods related to point-of-sale devices are disclosed. In an embodiment, a point-of-sale system includes a base stand having a receiving interface that includes first electrical contacts. The POS system may further include a computing device having a user interface, a docking interface comprising second electrical contacts, wherein the docking interface is configured to removably dock the computing device to the receiving interface of the base stand such that the first electrical contacts of the computing device are in contact with the second electrical contacts of the base stand. The computing device may further include a card reader configured to receive and read a card when inserted into the card reader and a scanner configured to scan machine-readable codes. The computing device may be configured to extend or enable various functions of the base stand when the computing device is docked to the base stand.
US11887087B2
Disclosed embodiments provide systems, methods, and apparatuses for facilitating transfers between user commerce accounts associated with a merchant of a commerce platform within a computing environment supported by a processor and a memory to execute such functionality. An exemplary system may include a means for creating a merchant account platform at the payment system; creating a single charge from a customer at the merchant account platform; creating multiple transfers from the merchant account platform to different connected accounts, wherein the multiple transfers are to each transfer a sub-portion of proceeds associated with the single charge from the customer to each of the different connected accounts; performing the single charge from the customer to the merchant account platform; and performing each of the multiple transfers from the merchant account platform to the different connected accounts. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US11887079B2
A method and system for central hub reconciliation is disclosed. The central hub reconciliation can provide for improved methods of reconciliation between a buyer (e.g., a request realization party) and a supplier (e.g., a request originating party). A central hub server may receive a data file comprising remittance data and payment data from a request realization computer. The remittance data is associated with a request provided from a request originating computer to the request realization computer. The central hub server ay then generate a unique identifier for the data file, and provide the payment data and the unique identifier to an authorizing entity computer requesting payment on behalf of the request realization computer. The central hub provides the remittance data and the unique identifier to the request originating computer which updates a repository using the payment data and the remittance data upon finding a match.
US11887075B2
A method for conducting monetary and financial transactions in an economy by treating amounts as collections of distinct individual, minimal, and indivisible units of account, each of which has a persistent identity and history throughout its lifecycle. A method is disclosed for conducting monetary transactions on the basis of appending the record of relationship between each individual unit of account and its respective owners throughout the lifecycle of the unit. Further, a method is disclosed for identifying the units in binary computer notation and assigning specific informational content to each unit by designating various sub-sections within the binary identifier of each unit to hold specific information and values relevant to the unit.
US11887068B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for transaction clearing. The method includes receiving first clearing requests transmitted by a quantity N of terminals, where N>1; according to the first clearing requests, acquiring transaction data of the quantity N of terminals from a database; initializing a cache queue, and loading the transaction data into the cache queue; reading the transaction data in the cache queue, and performing a clearing process on the transaction data; and writing a clearing result into the database and feeding back the terminals with an execution result of the first clearing requests.
US11887066B2
Embodiments provide methods and systems for facilitating scheduled payment transactions to users via an application provided by the server system, the application available on the user device. The method performed by the server system includes receiving a transaction request message from the user device, the transaction request message includes scheduled transaction instruction provided by the user in natural language format. The method includes authenticating the user based on a plurality of user authentication factors received from the user at pre-defined time intervals. In an embodiment, the server system is configured to train a data model using ML algorithms by learning the plurality of user authentication factors based on which the user is automatically authenticated by the server system. Upon successful authentication, the method includes parsing the transaction request message to determine a scheduled transaction instruction. The method includes facilitating, processing of the scheduled transaction based on the scheduled transaction instruction.
US11887059B2
An apparatus for creating a video record is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor communicatively connected to a user device and a memory communicatively connected to the processor. The memory contains instructions configuring the processor to prompt a user with an initial request, receive an initial response from the user, prompt the user with a subsequent request based on the initial response, receive a subsequent response from the user, and create a video record as a function of the initial response and the subsequent response.
US11887058B2
A method and system for assessing a career profile of a candidate is disclosed. The system comprises a database configured to include a plurality of parameters and a plurality of scores respective to each parameter, a parser configured to parse the career profile to identify at least one parameter from the plurality of parameters within the career profile and an analytics engine configured to retrieve a score from the plurality of scores for the at least one parameter identified within the career profile, compute a score of at least one category based on the retrieved score, wherein the at least one category comprises the at least one parameter identified within the career profile, and provide feedback to the candidate on the career profile in accordance with the computed score of the at least one category.
US11887050B2
A server and the like that can provide an opportunity for a user to confirm purchase of a reserved product, which sends a first message including an object for canceling reservation of a reserved product to a user via a message service, enabled to discriminate whether a message has been read, when the product arrives, cancels the reservation when the object is operated in a predetermined time after the first message is marked as read, determines whether the product is in stock when the object remains unoperated for the predetermined time after the first message is marked as read, finalizes purchase of the product when it is determined that the product is in stock, and sends a second message notifying that the product has been sold out to the user when it is determined that the product is out of stock.
US11887039B2
A system and method for managing the delivery of goods ordered by a customer from a provider thereof to at least one Smart Locked Storage Container (SLSC), each SLSC associated with the customer utilizing: a customer server for ordering and managing the goods to be delivered to the at least one SLSC; a delivery server for managing deliveries of the goods to the at least one SLSC by a delivery agent; a smart communicator for enabling communications between the provider of goods, the delivery server, a signaler and/or the customer server; a controller for controlling the communications; a signaler communicatively connected to the SLSC for transmitting a signal to the SLSC allowing access thereinto by the delivery agent, the customer, and/or an agent of the customer, and at least one of: an element from a list of particular elements.
US11887035B2
A system and method are disclosed for campaign planning and include modeling the use of campaign operations and campaignable resources of a supply chain network including a production line to produce products using campaign operations and campaignable resources as campaign planning problems, defining an evaluation function comprising a weighted sum of features evaluated from the campaign planning problem, initializing weights to build a consumption profile and evaluation function, determining fitness values that indicate a level of variability, evaluating reward values based on the fitness values, selecting a sub-sample of the top fitness values having the best associated objective function, repeating the generating, the evaluating and the selecting steps to adjust the weights until a stopping criterion is met indicating an optimal solution has been reached, and determining a campaign plan for the use of the campaign operations and campaignable resource.
US11887019B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for permeability prediction. The method acquires data associated with one or more geological formations, calculates, using processing circuitry and a trained Hidden Markov model, log-likelihood values to group the data into a plurality of clusters, and trains an artificial neural network for each of the plurality of clusters when the mode of operation is training mode. Further, the method acquires one or more formation properties corresponding to a geological formation, determines using the trained Hidden Markov model, a log-likelihood score associated with the one or more formation properties, identifies a cluster associated with the one or more formation properties as a function of the log-likelihood score, and predicts a permeability based at least in part on the one or more formation properties and a trained artificial neural network associated with the identified cluster when the mode of operation is forecasting mode.
US11887011B2
In examples, a schema augmentation system for exploratory research leverages intelligence from a machine learning model to augment such tasks by leveraging intelligence derived from machine learning capabilities. Augmenting tasks include schematization of content, such as information units and groupings of information units. Based on the schematization of such content, semantic proximities for information units are determined. The semantic proximities may be used to identify and present potentially relevant information units, for example to accelerate the exploratory research task at hand. As such, users engaged in consumption of heterogeneous content (e.g., across client applications and/or content sources), may receive machine-augmented support to find potential information units. To optimize machine training, user input may be received, such that the system may intelligently augment the user's exploratory research task based on the semantic coherence of the content processed from information units and associated user behavior.
US11887010B2
Data classification extracts from structured text business data inputs, via natural language understanding processing, training set data elements (training keywords, training concepts, training entities, and/or training taxonomy classifications). Embodiments identify associations within the structured training business data of business class categories with respective ones of extracted training set data elements, and build a logical relationship data classification training knowledge base ontology that connects business classes to respective associated ones of extracted training data elements as questions into knowledge base ontology question-business class associations.
US11887007B2
Systems, methods, computer program products, and apparatuses to determine, by a neural network based on training data related to wireless signals exchanged by a device and a plurality of wireless access points in an environment, a respective distance between the device and each wireless access point, receive location data related to a respective location of each wireless access point of the plurality of wireless access points, determine a geometric cost of the neural network based on a geometric cost function, the respective distances, and the received location data, and train a plurality of values of the neural network based on a backpropagation and the determined geometric cost.
US11887002B2
Disclosed is a method of generating data based on input data by using a pre-trained artificial neural network model having an encoder-decoder structure. In particular, according to the present disclosure, a computing device generates new data based on a probability distribution of input data by using a pre-trained artificial neural network model having an encoder-decoder structure, and the pre-trained artificial neural network model having the encoder-decoder structure corresponds to a pre-trained model in which a latent vector layer is included between an encoder layer and a decoder layer of the artificial neural network model.
US11886998B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating an output sequence from an input sequence. One of the methods includes, at each of a plurality of generation time steps: generating a combined sequence for the generation time step that includes the input sequence followed by the output tokens that have already been generated as of the generation time step; processing the combined sequence using a self-attention decoder neural network to generate a time step output that defines a score distribution over a set of possible output tokens; and selecting, using the time step output, an output token from the set of possible output tokens as the next output token in the output sequence.
US11886993B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for task scheduling based on deep reinforcement learning and a device. The method comprises: obtaining multiple target subtasks to be scheduled; building target state data corresponding to the multiple target subtasks, wherein the target state data comprises a first set, a second set, a third set, and a fourth set; inputting the target state data into a pre-trained task scheduling model, to obtain a scheduling result of each target subtask; wherein, the scheduling result of each target subtask comprises a probability that the target subtask is scheduled to each target node; for each target subtask, determining a target node to which the target subtask is to be scheduled based on the scheduling result of the target subtask, and scheduling the target subtask to the determined target node.
US11886991B2
Techniques and apparatuses are described for machine-learning architectures for broadcast and multicast communications. In implementations, a network entity determines a configuration of a deep neural network (DNN) for processing broadcast or multicast communications transmitted over a wireless communication system, where the communications are directed to a targeted group of user equipments (UEs). The network entity forms a network-entity DNN based on the determined configuration of the DNN and processes the broadcast or multicast communications using the network-entity DNN. In implementations, the network entity forms a common DNN to process and/or propagate the broadcast or multicast communications to the targeted group of UEs.
US11886986B2
Explainable neural networks may be designed to be easily implementable in hardware efficiently, leading to substantial speed and space improvements. An exemplary embodiment extends upon possible hardware embodiments of XNNs, making them suitable for low power applications, smartphones, mobile computing devices, autonomous machines, server accelerators, Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing applications amongst many other applications. The capability of XNNs to be transformed from one form to another while preserving their logical equivalence is exploited to create efficient, secure hardware implementations that are optimized for the desired application domain and predictable in their behavior.
US11886975B2
Provided herein are methods of generating models to predict prospective pathology scores of test subjects having a pathology in certain embodiments. Related systems and computer program products are also provided.
US11886969B2
Embodiments of a method are disclosed. The method includes performing distributed deep learning training on a batch of training data. The method also includes determining training times representing an amount of time between a beginning batch time and an end batch time. Further, the method includes modifying a communication aspect of the communication straggler to reduce a future network communication time for the communication straggler to send a future result of the distributed deep learning training on a new batch of training data in response to the centralized parameter server determining that the learner is the communication straggler.
US11886959B2
Decentralized machine learning to build models is performed at nodes where local training datasets are generated. A blockchain platform may be used to coordinate decentralized machine learning (ML) over a series of iterations. For each iteration, a distributed ledger may be used to coordinate the nodes communicating via a blockchain network. A node can include self-healing features to recover from a fault condition within the blockchain network in manner that does not negatively impact the overall learning ability of the decentralized ML system. During self-healing, the node can determine that a local ML state is not consistent with the global ML state and trigger a corrective action to recover the local ML state. Thereafter, the node can generate a blockchain transaction indicating that it is in-sync with the most recent iteration of training, and informing other nodes to reintegrate the node into ML.
US11886952B2
Systems and methods for age verification are disclosed. According to one disclosed embodiment, a system includes: a scanner configured to scan a passive data source on an identification card; and a processor coupled to the scanner, the processor configured to: receive a scanner signal from the scanner; verify an age of a user based on the scanner signal; and transmit verification information to a point of sale device, the point of sale device configured to authorize a sale of age-restricted material based on the verification information. According to another disclosed embodiment, a system includes: a scanner configured to scan a passive data source on an identification card; and a processor coupled to the scanner, the processor configured to: receive a scanner signal from the scanner; verify an age of a user based on the scanner signal; and transmit a verification signal to an age-restricted device.
US11886941B2
Receive, by a central controller engine, a user request to perform one or more operations associated with user data, wherein the user data includes first data and second data. Select, by the central controller engine based on the user request, a first service provider interface (SPI) integrated into a first service, the first SPI being configured to operate on the first data in a first datastore associated with the first service. The first SPI including a first service interface component configured based on a uniform access specification. Obtain, by the first SPI, the first data, the first data being formatted according to a first service data specification. Transform, by the first SPI based on the uniform access specification, the first data, thereby generating transformed first data formatted according to the uniform access specification. Provide, by the first SPI, the transformed first data to a target service.
US11886939B2
A system, device, method, and datastack for managing applications that manage operation of assets are provided. In the method, data is shared between the applications. The method includes generating, by a first application of the applications, one or more metadata stacks associated with one or more assets. The one or more metadata stacks include at least one metadata string generated based on operation of the one or more assets. Access to the one or more metadata stacks is enabled. A second application of the applications is capable of accessing the one or more metadata stacks and datapoints associated with the one or more metadata stacks.
US11886936B2
According to one embodiment, a data processing apparatus includes a processor provided with hardware. The processor extracts a first event data item, a second event data item, and a third event data item from input first document data. When a first relational data item indicating a presence of transitivity between the first event data item and the second event data item is extracted and a second relational data item indicating a presence of transitivity between the second event data item and the third event data item is extracted, the processor generates a third relational data item indicating a presence of a relation between the first event data item and the third event data item.
US11886934B2
A data processing system comprising a plurality of processing nodes, each comprising at least one memory configured to store an array of data items, wherein each of the plurality of processing nodes is configured to execute compute instructions during a compute phase and following a precompiled synchronisation barrier, enter at least one exchange phase. During the at least one exchange phase, a series of collective operations are carried out. Each processing node is configured to perform a reduce scatter collective in at least one first dimension. Using the results of the reduce scatter collective, each processing node performs an allreduce in a second dimension. The processing nodes then perform an all-gather collective in the at least one first dimension using the results of the allreduce.
US11886933B2
Systems and methods for quality of service management are provided. According to one embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprises instructions that when executed by the processing resource cause the processing resource to collect, from a plurality of volumes on a per-volume basis, one or more real-time performance metrics for one or more compute processes executing on the one or more computer systems, generate an inertial parameter for one or more volumes in the plurality of volumes, and generate an instruction that cause a processor to use the real-time performance metrics and the inertial parameter to determine whether to transfer responsibility for a compute process on a first storage server node to a second storage server node.
US11886932B1
Reliability monitoring can be performed for compute instances in a cluster with auto-scaling capability. Such monitoring can analyze state information for various instances, such as spot instances, to determine when an interruption or termination is to occur. An impact assessor can determine the impact on performance due to any such interruption or termination, and if necessary to maintain at least a minimum level of performance then an action performer can obtain additional or alternate instances, which may be of a different type, to make up for lost capacity. Any tasks being performed can be migrated to the newly-allocated instances without any failures or significant impact on performance, and the previously-utilized instances can be released corresponding to the termination or interruption.
US11886929B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for deploying cloud-native services across a plurality of cloud-computing platforms. For example, systems disclosed herein identify resource identifiers associated with cloud-computing services (e.g., types of services) to be deployed on one or more resources capable of executing or otherwise providing cloud-native services. The systems disclosed herein further generate resource bindings including deployment specifications that include data for deploying cloud-native services on corresponding platform resources (e.g., cloud resources, edge resources). Using the resource bindings, the systems disclosed herein can deploy cloud-native services across multiple platforms via control planes configured to manage operation of resources on the different platforms.
US11886921B2
A method, system, and computer program product for implementing automated serverless runtime container allocation is provided. The method includes defining a number of runtime containers and associated characteristics required for each worker node of a plurality of worker nodes for execution of a specified workload. The specified workload is dispatched to the plurality of worker nodes and a specified portion of the specified workload is assigned to each worker node. An application executing a universal runtime container that includes potential application runtimes and associated supported software versions within a layered modifiable format is generated and unused layers are removed from the universal runtime container. The specified workload is executed via the universal runtime container and a set of available universal runtime containers is refilled on an associated work node.
US11886918B2
An apparatus and method for intelligently scheduling threads across a plurality of logical processors. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a plurality of cores; one or more peripheral component interconnects to couple the plurality of cores to memory, and in response to a core configuration command to deactivate a core of the plurality of cores, a region within the memory is updated with an indication of deactivation of the core.
US11886911B2
At least one processing device comprises a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The at least one processing device is configured to associate different classes of service with respective threads of one or more applications executing on at least one of a plurality of processing cores of a storage system, to configure different sets of prioritized thread queues for respective ones of the different classes of service, to enqueue particular ones of the threads associated with particular ones of the classes of service in corresponding ones of the prioritized thread queues, and to implement different dequeuing policies for selecting particular ones of the enqueued threads from the different sets of prioritized thread queues based at least in part on the different classes of service. The at least one processing device illustratively comprises at least a subset of the plurality of processing cores of the storage system.
US11886895B2
A software robot is configured to automatically identify a target element (e.g., a button, a form field, etc.) within a user interface (UI) according to a set of attributes of the target element specified in the source-code of the respective UI. The robot's code specification includes a multiplicity flag which, when set, causes the robot to search for the target element within multiple instances of a UI object matching a subset of the set attributes (for instance, within all windows having a specific name, within all browser tabs, etc.)
US11886890B2
Disclosed are examples of systems, methods and techniques related to delivering a service widget that collects data and provides a service. A service widget is provided in response to a widget delivery request received from a user browser. The delivered service widget enables the user browser to request item-related services from an enterprise. A request for the item-related services is received by an enterprise from the delivered service widget. Provision of the service is enabled upon confirmation that an authentication token fetched from the client backend system is valid for the client backend system, the services request may be delivered to an enterprise server. The enterprise, in response to an analysis of the information related to the item available for purchase, may indicate that the item available for purchase meets a purchase threshold of the enterprise and provide an evaluation result including parameters of the item-related services.
US11886886B2
An information handling system downloads device drivers for recovery operation of the information handling system, and subsequently obtains first configuration information associated with each of the device drivers. The system performs an inventory of devices associated with the information handling system that includes obtaining second configuration information associated with each of the devices in the inventory, and compares the first configuration information and the second configuration information. If the particular device driver is missing, then the system downloads the particular device driver prior to boot to a service operating system.
US11886885B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a data pipeline, which includes a first mousetrap element and a second mousetrap element in a first pipeline stage. Each mousetrap element includes a request latch that, when enabled, allows a request signal to pass from the first pipeline stage to a second pipeline stage following the first pipeline stage in the data pipeline. Each mousetrap element also includes a data latch that, when enabled, allows a data element to pass from the first pipeline stage to the second pipeline stage. Each mousetrap element further includes a latch controller that enables and disables the request and data latches based on a phase signal that alternates between a first value that configures the first mousetrap element to transmit data to the second pipeline stage and a second value that configures the second mousetrap element to transmit data to the second pipeline stage.
US11886879B2
Disclosed are a processor, a processor operation method and an electronic device comprising same. The disclosed processor operation method comprises the steps of: identifying an instruction for instructing the execution of a first operation and address information of an operand corresponding to the instruction; and executing the instruction on the basis of whether or not the address information of the operand satisfies a predetermined condition. In the step of executing the instruction, a second operation configured to the instruction is executed for the operand if the address information of the operand satisfies the predetermined condition, and the first operation is executed for the operand if the address information of the operand does not satisfy the predetermined condition.
US11886877B1
A processor may include a plurality of data memories storing operands that may be operated upon by the processor. Load/store operations may specify a memory location in one of the data memories to be accessed using a memory select value that selects the data memory and an address within the selected data memory. The memory select values may be mapped from virtual memory select values associated with the load/store operations to physical memory select values that may be used to access the data memory.
US11886876B2
A secure strong mapping computing system is a secure joining system including a plurality of secure computing apparatuses. The plurality of secure computing apparatuses include a first vector joining unit 11n, a first permutation calculation unit 12n, a first vector generation unit 13n, a second vector joining unit 14n, a first permutation application unit 15n, a second vector generation unit 16n, a first inverse permutation application unit 17n, and a first vector extraction unit 18n.
US11886872B1
An in-database application package and application instance for a data platform. The data platform creates an application instance of an application package having a versioned schema, creates one or more system roles for the application instance, creates a user role and an administrator role for the application instance, creates one or more objects of the application instance based on a versioned schema, and grants one or more use privileges to the one or more roles. Application instances of the application package are upgraded or patched on the data platform based on application package versions. To ensure a proper upgrade or patch, the data platform tracks versions of executing objects of application instances in a call context.
US11886868B2
A feature is updated on a computing device. One or more composite image files are accessed that correspond to updates to be implemented in the computing device. The composite image files are signed containers. A runtime in-memory merge of the composite image files is performed. The merged composite image files are exposed as a read-only volume. The features are made available to the computing device. A system boot using the read-only volume can be initiated.
US11886860B2
The technology disclosed herein enables a processor to receive, at a distribution unit, a first content request from a distribution electronic control unit (ECU) associated with a vehicle, wherein the first content request reflects one or more filtering criteria, determine whether a content item that satisfies the filtering criteria is stored on a storage device of the distribution unit, responsive to determining that the content item that satisfies the filtering criteria is not stored on the storage device of the distribution unit: send, to a managed content delivery service, a second content request, wherein the second content request includes the filtering criteria, and receive, from the managed content delivery service, the content item that satisfies the filtering criteria, and send the content item that satisfies the filtering criteria to the distribution ECU associated with the vehicle.
US11886845B1
Dashboard evaluation includes receiving a dashboard code defining a dashboard that includes visualizations in a layout, rendering, in a graphical user interface (GUI) of a dashboard editing tool, the dashboard based on the dashboard code, and extracting, using the dashboard code, a data attribute of a data object represented by a visualization of the multiple visualizations. Dashboard evaluation further includes evaluating, by the dashboard editing tool, the visualization based on the data attribute to obtain a score, presenting, in the GUI of the dashboard editing tool, a recommendation based on the score failing to satisfy a first threshold, receiving, through the GUI of the dashboard editing tool and after presenting the recommendation, an edit to the dashboard code that adjusts the visualization, and storing, by the dashboard editing tool, the edit to the dashboard code.
US11886835B2
A multiplier-accumulator accepts A and B digital inputs and generates a dot product P by applying the bits of the A input and the bits of the B inputs to unit elements comprised of groups of AND gates coupled to charge transfer lines through a capacitor Cu. The number of bits in the B input is a number of AND-groups and the number of bits in A is the number of AND gates in an AND-group. Each unit element receives one bit of the B input applied to all of the AND gates of the unit element, and each unit element having the bits of A applied to each associated AND gate input of each unit element. The AND gates are coupled to charge transfer lines through a capacitor Cu, and the charge transfer lines couple to binary weighted charge summing capacitors which sum and scale the charges from the charge transfer lines, the charge coupled to an analog to digital converter which forms the dot product output. The charge transfer lines may span multiple unit elements.
US11886822B2
Methods, apparatus, system and computer-implemented method are provided for embedding a portion of text describing one or more entities of interest and a relationship. The portion of text describes a relationship for the one or more entity(ies) of interest, where the portion of text includes multiple separable entities describing the relationship and the entity(ies). The multiple separable entities including the one or more entity(ies) of interest and one or more relationship entity(ies). A set of embeddings for each of the separable entities is generated, where the set of embeddings for a separable entity includes an embedding for the separable entity and an embedding for at least one entity associated with the separable entity. One or more composite embeddings may be formed based on at least one embedding from each of the sets of embeddings. The composite embedding(s) may be sent for input to a machine learning model or classifier.
US11886815B2
One example method involves operations for a processing device that include receiving, by a machine learning model trained to generate a search result, a search query for a text input. The machine learning model is trained by receiving pre-training data that includes multiple documents. Pre-training the machine learning model by generating, using an encoder, feature embeddings for each of the documents included in the pre-training data. The feature embeddings are generated by applying a masking function to visual and textual features in the documents. Training the machine learning model also includes generating, using the feature embeddings, output features for the documents by concatenating the feature embeddings and applying a non-linear mapping to the feature embeddings. Training the machine learning model further includes applying a linear classifier to the output features. Additionally, operations include generating, for display, a search result using the machine learning model based on the input.
US11886811B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for providing cross-device native functionality for a native app. More specifically, the invention is directed to a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data exchange format for use with a native app running on a user's mobile device, wherein the exchange format is configured to improve user experience and interaction with the app. The present invention may be particularly useful in a mobile-based crowdsourcing platform in which data is continually exchanged between remote user devices and a cloud-based service for collecting and managing user-driven data based on user interaction with native apps on their devices.
US11886809B1
In implementations of systems for identifying templates based on fonts, a computing device implements an identification system to receive input data describing a selection of a font included in a collection of fonts. The identification system generates an embedding that represents the font in a latent space using a machine learning model trained on training data to generate embeddings for digital templates in the latent space based on intent phrases associated with the digital templates and embeddings for fonts in the latent space based on intent phrases associated with the fonts. A digital template included in a collection of digital templates is identified based on the embedding that represents the font and an embedding that represents the digital template in the latent space. The identification system generates an indication of the digital template for display in a user interface.
US11886794B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations including: generating a font that includes a plurality of glyphs for characters of a language; generating a plurality of duplicate glyphs for the characters, wherein each duplicate glyph is associated with: (i) a respective letterform representing one of the characters, and (ii) a respective glyph code; swapping the respective letterforms of the plurality of duplicate glyphs such that the respective letterforms are mismatched with the respective glyph codes; designating the plurality of duplicate glyphs as a scrambling font style of the font; and providing a representation of the font for output on a graphical user interface (GUI) displayed on a display device.
US11886787B2
A system and method for adjusting the shapes of polygons in a design. In some embodiments, the method includes inverting a first layer of the design, the first layer comprising one or more polygons, the inverting of the first layer forming a region complementary to the union of the polygons of the first layer, and including one or more inverse polygons. The method may further include performing a rounding operation on a first corner of a first inverse polygon of the one or more inverse polygons, to form a modified polygon.
US11886778B2
A method for improving a hemispherical dome test includes calculating a forming limit diagram (FLD) based on a plurality of simulated data associated with a sheet metal transformation technique. The method also includes performing zero friction analysis on the sheet metal transformation technique. The method also includes shifting the FLD based on the zero friction analysis.
US11886774B2
The hardware and software properties of a three-dimensional printer can be queried and applied to select suitable directly printable models for the printer, or to identify situations where a new machine-ready model must be generated. The properties may be any properties relevant to fabrication including, e.g., physical properties of the printer, printer firmware, user settings, hardware configurations, and so forth. A printer may respond to configuration queries with a dictionary of capabilities or properties, and this dictionary may be used to select suitable models, or determine when a new model must be created. Similarly, when a printable model is sent to the printer, metadata for the printable model may be compared to printer properties in the dictionary to ensure that the model can be fabricated by the printer.
US11886773B1
Systems and methods to support an application that is voice-controlled are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may establish a synchronous two-way communication session between a first and a second user; present application information to the first and second user; detect first voice-control information from the first user and second voice-control information from the second user; control operations of the application based on the detected voice-control information; generate and/or determine results of the application based on the detected voice-control information; present the results to the users, and/or other steps.
US11886770B2
An example system is configured to: (i) receive data indicating a command to play back audio content, where the data indicating the command to play back audio content is received via a voice input that is detected by a first zone player, (ii) based on the data indicating the command, determine a playback condition comprising a particular zone player, (iii) identify a user account associated with the first zone player, (iv) based at least on (a) the command and (b) the identified user account, determine audio content for playback, and (v) play back the determined audio content via the particular zone player.
US11886761B2
A printer for printing on a long sheet includes a print data divider and a verification processor. The print data divider outputs a plurality of segments of divided print data divided at the boundary of areas from standard print data containing print contents in each of the areas obtained by dividing a standard sheet into a plurality of the areas. The verification processor compares the size of the long sheet with the size of the area included in the standard sheet and rotates the divided print data if it is determined from a result of the comparison that the rotation is necessary.
US11886759B2
A method operates a three-dimensional (3D) metal object manufacturing system to compensate for displacement errors that occur during object formation. In the method, image data of a metal object being formed by the 3D metal object manufacturing system is generated prior to completion of the metal object and compared to original 3D object design data of the object to identify one or more displacement errors. For the displacement errors outside a predetermined difference range, the method modifies machine-ready instructions for forming metal object layers not yet formed to compensate for the identified displacement errors and operates the 3D metal object manufacturing system using the modified machine-ready instructions.
US11886758B2
A determination is made as to whether priority is given to a print setting or a print preset by a general-purpose print service performed on an information processing apparatus. This makes it possible to resolve a conflict in settings.
US11886754B2
Apparatuses, hybrid memory modules, memories, and methods for configuring I/Os of a memory for a hybrid memory module are described. An example apparatus includes a non-volatile memory, a control circuit coupled to the non-volatile memory, and a volatile memory coupled to the control circuit. The volatile memory is configured to enable a first subset of I/Os for communication with a bus and enable a second subset of I/O for communication with the control circuit, wherein the control circuit is configured to transfer information between the volatile memory and the non-volatile memory.
US11886752B2
A method for execution by one or more processing modules of one or more computing devices of a storage network, the method comprises receiving a data object for processing, determining whether the data object is to be transferred to one or more remote storage location, determining whether one or more legal restrictions are associated with the data object. Based on a determination that one or more legal restrictions are associated with the data object, the method continues by determining whether the one or more legal restrictions allow transfer of the data object to a storage unit of the one or more remote storage locations. The method continues by segmenting the data object into a plurality of data segments, dispersed error encoding a data segment of the plurality of data segments in accordance with dispersed error encoding parameters to produce a set of encoded data slice and transmitting a write requests for an encoded data slice of the set of encoded data slices to the storage location for processing.
US11886747B2
A controller includes a central processing unit (CPU) configured to insert a latest received logical address, received together with a write command and data from a host, into a logical address list; a hotness determining circuit configured to assign a maximum weight to the latest received logical address, decrease weights of received logical addresses included in the logical address list by a decay factor, and sum weights of the received logical addresses having values, equal to a value of the latest received logical address, to determine hotness of the latest received logical address; and a parameter adjustment circuit decreasing a magnitude of the decay factor based on the repeatability index of the received logical addresses included in the logical address list, wherein the CPU is configured to control the memory device to store the data in one of the memory regions based on the hotness.
US11886745B2
Methods, systems, and devices for illegal operation reaction are described. A memory device may receive one or more commands to perform one or more respective access operations on an array of memory cells. A first circuit of the memory device may determine that the one or more commands would violate one or more thresholds associated with operation of the memory device, such as a timing threshold. In some cases, the first circuit may compare the one or more commands to the one or more patterns of commands stored at the memory device. A second circuit of the memory device may erase one or more memory cells of the memory device based on determining that the one or more thresholds associated with operation of the memory device would be violated, based on comparing the set of commands to the one or more patterns, or a combination thereof.
US11886741B2
A method for reading data in a storage device is provided. The method includes receiving a read command from a host device, wherein the read command indicates stored data in the storage device and a Logical Block Address (LBA) of the stored data; obtaining a Physical Block Number (PBN) based on the LBA and a Logical to Physical (L2P) mapping; determining whether the PBN corresponds to a volatile memory of the storage device; reading the stored data directly from the volatile memory based on the PBN corresponding to the volatile memory; incrementing a read counter associated with the PBN based on the stored data being read directly from the volatile memory; and reading the stored data from a non-volatile memory of the storage device based on the PBN not corresponding to the volatile memory.
US11886740B2
Methods, systems, and devices for command prioritization techniques for reducing latency in a memory system are described. In some examples, a host system may receive a set of commands from one or more virtual machines to access a common memory system. The host system may store the set of command in a command queue associated with the memory system and arrange the set of command according to order that is based on one or more identified pattern of accessing sequential addresses in the set of commands. The host system may transmit the set of command to the memory system based on the order and the memory system may execute the commands according to the order.
US11886731B2
A first cluster and a second cluster include at least one single-threaded main controller, the at least one single-threaded main controller processes one access request requesting for data at a time, and the data accessed by the access request is jointly managed by the first cluster and the second cluster. A database server determines hot data managed by the first cluster and determines whether a migration condition for migrating the hot data to the second cluster is met. The second cluster manages hot data that meets the migration condition. The database server migrates the hot data that meets the migration condition to the second cluster and triggers an update of an access path of the hot data.
US11886727B2
According to one embodiment, a controller constructs a plurality of block groups. The plurality of block groups include at least a first block group configured using a first type block group and a second block group configured using a second block group. The first type block group includes a plurality of non-defective blocks obtained by selecting one or more non-defective blocks in an equal number from each of a plurality of dies or each of a plurality of planes. The second type block group includes a plurality of non-defective blocks. The number of non-defective blocks included in the second type block group is equal to the number of non-defective blocks included in the first type block.
US11886726B2
An example memory sub-system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is configured to initialize a block family associated with a memory device; initialize a timeout associated with the block family; initializing a low temperature and a high temperature using a reference temperature at the memory device; responsive to programming a block residing on the memory device, associate the block with the block family; and responsive to at least one of: detecting expiration of the timeout or determining that a difference between the high temperature and the low temperature is greater than or equal to a specified threshold temperature value, close the block family.
US11886724B2
A computer-implemented method according to one approach includes copying data stored on a Linear Tape File System (LTFS)-based storage system to blocks of a Random Access Nonvolatile Memory (RANVM) drive. The data is copied in units of the blocks of the drive. The method further includes constructing file metadata so that the copied data on the drive is accessible as one or more files. A computer program product according to another approach includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are readable and/or executable by a controller to cause the controller to perform the foregoing method. A system according to another approach includes a processor, and logic integrated with the processor, executable by the processor, or integrated with and executable by the processor. The logic is configured to perform the foregoing method.
US11886723B2
According to some embodiments, a system, method and non-transitory, computer readable medium are provided comprising a memory storing processor-executable program code; and a processing unit to cause the system to: receive a range of persistent volume disk size values from a cloud service provider; receive a value for an upper bound of a number of persistent volume disks attachable to a virtual machine per the cloud service; determine a number of persistent volume disks based on the upper bound, wherein the number is at least two; generate a plurality of configurations of the determined number of persistent volume disks, wherein a configuration is provided for each persistent volume disk size value, and each configuration divides the persistent volume disk size value between two or more persistent volume disks; and aggregate the generated plurality of configurations in a decision table. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US11886722B2
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for technology management on a hardware component of a device at the time of assembly. An apparatus has a processor and memory storage that stores code executable by the processor. The processor obtains a feature of the hardware component to be removed from the hardware component and operates a virtual fuse that removes a data region associated with the hardware component and permanently removes access to the feature on the hardware component. In response to operating the virtual fuse to remove access to the feature, the processor may indicate the status of the feature on the hardware component.
US11886720B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for determining storage system configuration recommendations based on vertical sectors and size parameters using machine learning techniques are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining data pertaining to multiple storage systems; segmenting, into one or more segments, the multiple storage systems based on one or more vertical sectors and one or more size parameters of an enterprise associated with each storage system; identifying, within each of the segments, each storage system running one or more vertical sector-specific applications; clustering, within each of the segments, the storage systems running one or more vertical sector-specific applications based on configuration information using at least one machine learning technique; generating one or more storage system configuration templates based on the clustering; and performing one or more automated actions based on the one or more generated storage system configuration templates.
US11886718B2
A memory device configured to descramble scrambled composite data. In one approach, the scrambled composite data is provided by an XOR (exclusive OR operation) of more than one data set scrambled with non-linear scramblers. A memory device is configured to receive scramble codes generated by non-linear scramblers and perform an XOR of the scrambled composite data with the scramble codes to remove scrambling from the composite data. In one example, the scrambled data sets are data to be written to a NAND device at more than one bit per cell density (e.g., MLC, TLC, QLC, PLC, etc.). For example, the scrambled data sets may be written to the NAND device in more than one programming pass. In one example, the scrambled composite data is used to read the scrambled data sets that have been written in a first programming pass.
US11886717B2
This document includes techniques, apparatuses, and systems related to an interface for revision-limited memory, which can improve various computing aspects and performance. In aspects, confidentiality, integrity, and availability may be ensured while increasing the performance of revision-limited memory. In this example, the techniques also enable the digital computing device to interact with information related to the revision-limited memory.
US11886711B2
An apparatus comprises at least one processing device. The at least one processing device is configured to identify at least one logical storage device that has a first service level objective and is exhibiting a deficiency in one or more performance metrics, to identify one or more additional logical storage devices each having a second service level objective lower than the first service level objective and not exhibiting a deficiency in the one or more performance metrics, to generate at least one false-positive signal specifying the one or more additional logical storage devices as each exhibiting a deficiency in the one or more performance metrics, and to provide the at least one false-positive signal to at least one host device. The at least one host device is configured to respond to the at least one false-positive signal by throttling input-output operations for the one or more additional logical storage devices.
US11886708B2
Methods, systems, and devices for fast mode for a memory device are described. In some examples, a memory device may be initialized during a system boot procedure. The memory device may support multiple modes of operation, including at least a first mode that includes a first set of capabilities, and a second made that includes the first set of capabilities, as well as one or more additional capabilities. The memory device may perform the initialization while operating the memory device according to the first mode, which may include delaying one or more actions associated with the one or more additional capabilities. After the system boot procedure is complete, the memory device may operate according to the second mode, which may include performing an action delayed during the system boot.
US11886695B2
A notification processing method includes displaying a lock screen on a touchscreen, receiving a new notification, determining whether the notification is a specified notification, where the specified notification is a notification bound to a second area on the lock screen, and if the notification is a specified notification, displaying the notification in the second area on the lock screen or if the notification is not a specified notification, displaying the notification in a first area on the lock screen, where the first area and the second area are two different display areas on the lock screen.
US11886691B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for managing one or more group-based communications and/or one or more group-based communication channels to cause rendering of a group-based communication interface. In some embodiments, a group-based communication system causes rendering of a group-based communication interface including a focus interface component, which may be used to receive a user focus selection input. The group-based communication system generates a focus value and identifies a focus threshold. The group-based communication causes rendering of the group-based communication interface based on whether the focus value satisfies the identified focus threshold. Embodiments further provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for managing one or more user communications to cause rendering of a user communication interface. Some embodiments herein are configured to interfaces including a focus interface component enabling dynamic adjustment of focus thresholds/focus modes associated with a group-based communication interface.
US11886688B2
A system for presenting a skill-based game, the system includes at least one server to serve a set of matchups of participants of an event, to a plurality of presentation devices, the plurality of presentation devices displaying the set of matchups on a display; to receive over the wide area network data from the presentation devices characterizing a set of user selected winners of the matchups made by the users; update the event data pertinent to participants in the actual events; using the updated data to calculate and assign payoffs to the users based on fixed payoff odds. A related computer-implemented method provides participant matchups to an operator organizing such a skill-based game.
US11886685B1
Systems and methods for managing desktop environments of computer operating systems (OSs) are disclosed. A desktop of a graphical user interface (GUI) can be presented at a desktop layer of a window stack. Container(s) (e.g., desktop window(s)) that include one or more icons can be implemented as fenced off regions of the desktop, allowing users to interact with the containers and icons within while viewing the desktop. When the desktop is covered by other windows in the window stack, a depressed hotkey combination can cause the container(s) to pop above the other visible windows, allowing the user to interact with the containers and icons without needing to minimize, close, or move the other visible windows. Releasing the hotkey combination permits the container(s) to move back down to their original position in the window stack.
US11886681B2
A system and method for standardizing user interface elements are presented. A first application is identified having a higher use metric than a second application, the first application including one or more user interface elements that have one or more respective parameters. The second application has one or more user interface elements that are similar to the user interface elements of the first application and has one or more respective parameters that are different than the respective parameters of the user interface elements of the first application. A determination of similarity is made between the user interface elements applications based upon at least one predetermined criterion. Based on the determination, one or more parameters of the user interface elements of the second application are modified to match one or more parameters of the first application.
US11886680B1
A system for managing an electronic loan application can include: a loan information pane listing financial information associated with a loan transaction, the financial information including details of the loan transaction and an indicator of a status of an attribute of the loan transaction; an action pane listing upcoming actions associated with the loan transaction; and an assets pane listing assets associated with the loan transaction, the assets pane including: a list with each of the assets, including identification of each of the assets; and a statement pane for a selected asset of the assets, the statement pane listing items associated with a statement for the selected asset, with each of the items including a status indicator and a highlighted excerpt from the statement.
US11886678B2
A system, method, and computer-readable media for dividing the content of a user interface for a group-based communication system among a plurality of windows. A parent window may comprise a plurality of panes. A child window may be created from the parent window by an actuation on a pane of the plurality of panes presented by the user interface. Child windows and the parent window may share computer memory. A plurality of windows may be created to divide the content of the user interface. Libraries designed for single window applications may be modified to work with a plurality of windows. The group-based communication system may be implemented via various web technologies.
US11886677B2
The disclosed subject matter provides a digital sign with a video camera. The digital sign and video camera are connected via a communications medium to a central computer. The central computer provides a way of changing the images displayed on the digital sign and of disseminating the video from the video camera either through real time forwarding/viewing or recording the real time video stream and playing back the recorded video to a user. The central computer also provides a user interface where an authorized user, which would normally include an authorized governmental entity, can view the video stream and unilaterally interrupt the normally displayed image (or series of images) with an emergency notification message that would display on the digital sign.
US11886669B2
A sensor system includes a first electrode serving as a primary electrode with a controller electrically and physically coupled to the first electrode. Computer executable instructions execute software commands on the controller causing the controller to apply a voltage to the first electrode to generate an electric field around the first electrode. A second electrode has at least a portion of the second electrode being disposed within the electrical field generated by the first electrode, and the second electrode operates while being physically decoupled from the controller. The electrical field generated by the first electrode induces a corresponding charge on the second electrode, and proximity of a conductive material on or near the first or second electrode alters the electrical signal received back by the controller from the first electrode to allow for sensing the conductive material.
US11886658B2
In a touch display device, an electrode pattern is arranged on an area overlapping a touch electrode and a touch routing line which are disposed on an active area. Thus a touch sensor structure can be implemented while improving visibility of a display panel.
US11886657B2
A method of palm rejection is executed by a sensor controller that is connected to a plurality of sensor electrodes and that detects a downlink signal transmitted from an active pen. The method includes determining whether or not a phase of the detected downlink signal matches a phase shared in advance between the sensor controller and the active pen, and outputting, when it is determined that the phases match, a position of the active pen derived on the basis of a distribution of levels of the downlink signal in the plurality of sensor electrodes.
US11886654B2
Various arrangements of electronic devices, such as assistant devices, are detailed herein. Such a device can include a housing and a microphone. A microphone aperture can be defined by the housing that directs sound from outside the housing to the microphone. A cover, which can be fabric, can be attached with the outside of the housing. An adhesive ring on the housing around the microphone aperture can be used to attach the cover to the housing.
US11886650B2
A tracking system includes a stylus comprising a light emitter, a head-mounted device comprising an optical sensor configured to detect the light emitter, and a processor communicatively coupled to the optical sensor and configured to determine a position of the stylus based on detection of the light emitter.
US11886648B2
A method for detecting and/or localizing keyboard accessibility failures (KAFs) in a web page is disclosed. A web page is rendered in a browser on a display portion of a computing system. A keyboard navigation flow graph based on based on keyboard-based navigation of a user with the web page. A second point-click navigation flow graph based on mouse-based navigation of the user with the web page. One or more KAFs are determined based on a comparison of the first graphical model with the second graphical model.
US11886645B2
Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and processes for gesture detection. A method includes capturing a series of images. The method includes generating motion isolation information based on the series of images. The method includes generating a composite image based on the motion isolation information. The method includes determining a gesture based on the composite image. The processes described herein may include the use of convolutional neural networks on a series of time-related images to perform gesture detection on embedded systems or devices.
US11886629B2
Provided are a head-mounted information processing apparatus capable of improving user's convenience, and its controlling method. Therefore, it includes a main body device 2 used in a state of being worn on a user's head, and a controller used in a state of being worn on a user's wrist or hand and controlling the main body device. For example, a directional detector 91 in the main body device 2 detects a controller's direction by calculation based on a detected result of a position/attitude sensor of the controller. A rotational detector 92 detects controller's rotation, which uses the direction of the controller as a rotational axis, by calculation based on the detected result of the position/attitude sensor of the controller. An operation instruction converter 87 converts detected results of the directional detector 91 and the rotational detector 92 into instructions for the main body device 2.
US11886626B2
An apparatus that includes a substrate and a first plurality of circuit components mounted on the substrate, which is associated with a protected area. The apparatus includes a connector formed on the substrate to at least partially circumscribe the protected area and a second plurality of circuit components mounted on the substrate to at least partially circumscribe the connector to form a security barrier to physically inhibit a penetration attack into the protected area.
US11886624B2
A writing method of a crypto device includes receiving a write request from a central processing unit, determining a write attribute of the write request, and performing one of a partial write operation and a full write operation according to the write attribute. In the full write operation, a random number for a version count is generated, a key stream is generated using the version count, the key stream and write data are encrypted in a first logical operation, and the encrypted data and the version count are stored in a memory device.
US11886582B1
A method for assessing a cybersecurity risk of a software object includes generating an abstract syntax tree (AST) for a software object, and determining that the AST is insufficient to identify, to a specified confidence level, a cybersecurity risk of the software object. In response to determining that the AST is insufficient to identify the cybersecurity risk of the software object, a graph convolutional neural network (gCNN) is executed, based on the AST, to produce a set of features for the AST and to produce a probability of maliciousness of the software object based on the set of features. A signal representing an alert is sent, based on the probability of maliciousness, if the probability of maliciousness exceeds a pre-defined threshold.
US11886581B1
Rapid verification of executing processes includes receiving a seed from a verification unit. A checksum is generated at least in part by using a processor. The processor is coupled to a hierarchical memory, the hierarchical memory comprising an instruction cache, a data cache, and a shared memory accessible by both the instruction cache and the data cache. The shared memory is configured to store an executing program. A size of at least one of the instruction cache and the data cache is insufficient to store the entire executing program. The checksum is transmitted to the verification unit.
US11886577B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for protecting a user's devices based on types of anomalies. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, determining, by a feature determiner, one or more values of features of a user's activity performed using at least one of the user's devices, detecting, by an anomaly detector, anomalies indicative of at least one threat to information security of the user's devices based on the one or more values of the features, for each detected anomaly, identifying, by the anomaly detector, a type of the anomaly and at least one device that is a source of the anomaly, wherein the type of anomaly is identified using an anomaly classifier and one or more values of features, and for each user's device, modifying, by a device protector, one or more information security settings of the user's device based on the identified type of the anomaly.
US11886573B2
A threat level analyzer probes for one or more threats within an application container in a container system. Each threat is a vulnerability or a non-conformance with a benchmark setting. The threat level analyzer further probes for one or more threats within a host of the container service. The threat level analyzer generates a threat level assessment score based on results from the probing of the one or more threats of the application container and the one or more threats of the host, and generates a report for presentation in a user interface including the threat level assessment score and a list of threats discovered from the probe of the application container and the host. A report is transmitted by the threat level analyzer to a client device of a user for presentation in the user interface.
US11886567B2
In order to provide improved matching of records between different sources, systems and methods include generating a data link between a stored interaction profile of the user and activity data records that identify activities performed by the user. Online interaction data associated with the user is received, including tracking data indicative of online interactions with content. The online interaction data is stored in the stored interaction profile associated with the user. An activity model is used to predict correlation parameters representing groupings of online interactions of the online interaction data with activities performed by the user, where the prediction is based on the tracking data and each activity in the interaction profile. The interaction profile is updated with the groupings and user activities are authenticated based on the interaction profile.
US11886561B2
A biometric processing system for authentication combines multiple biometric signals using machine learning to map the different signals into a common argument space that may be processed by a similar fuzzy extractor. The different biometric signals may be given weight values related to their entropy allowing them to be blended to increase security and availability while minimizing intrusiveness.
US11886559B2
In various aspects, systems and methods are described for a biometric identification and control for providing customizable security through authentication of biosignal representations and control. The biometric identification and control systems and methods comprise hardware and software components that are used to detect, via a biometric detection device, biometric signals of a user. These biosignals are analyzed by a processor communicatively coupled to the biometric detection device. After analyzation of the biosignals, a biometric profile is created and used with a security interface to access a secure resource or device or to output a command to another device.
US11886553B2
A service providing system includes an information processing system including an information processing apparatus including a memory and a processor; and a terminal device configured to receive execution of an application. The information processing system and the terminal device communicate with each other. The processor of the information processing apparatus is configured to execute storing information on the application of which a user has a license, and controlling a function of a first application depending on whether the user who requested execution of the first application via the terminal device, has a license of a second application.
US11886551B2
A management system to facilitate improved software asset management includes a management server coupled to a client instance and certain databases. The client instance stores identifiers associated with software programs accessible to users through the client instance. To enable software asset management features, the management server receives the identifiers and determines, based on the certain databases, whether the identifiers are associated with software models of the software programs. Notably, in response to an identifier of a particular software program not being associated with a software model, the management server generates a software model for the particular software program, and further, stores entries or relationships within the certain databases. Thus, the management server may output the software model to the client instance to enable a client to provide attributes to be included in the software model, further improving a quality of the software asset management features accorded by the management system.
US11886547B2
Systems and methods for managing data are disclosed. One method can comprise receiving a first request for a service, wherein the first request is associated with a first rights package. The first rights package can be processed to determine access to the service. An evaluation key can be generated, wherein the evaluation key represents the determination of access relating to the processing of the first rights package. A second request for a service can be received, wherein the second request is associated with a second rights package. The second rights package can be processed using the evaluation key.
US11886546B2
Systems and methods for dynamically restricting rendering of unauthorized content included in information resources are provided herein. A computing device can identify an information resource including a content object specifying one or more graphical characteristics. The computing device can determine that the content object corresponds to a restricted content object by applying at least one of an action-based detection policy to detect actions performed on the information resource or a visual-based detection policy to detect the graphical characteristics of the content object. The computing device can modify by applying a content rendering restriction policy the information resource to alter rendering of the content element on the information resource responsive to the determination.
US11886545B2
Federated systems for issuing playback certifications granting access to technically protected content are described. One embodiment of the system includes a registration server connected to a network, a content server connected to the network and to a trusted system, a first device including a non-volatile memory that is connected to the network and a second device including a non-volatile memory that is connected to the network. In addition, the registration server is configured to provide the first device with a first set of activation information in a first format, the first device is configured to store the first set of activation information in non-volatile memory, the registration server is configured to provide the second device with a second set of activation information in a second format, and the second device is configured to store the second set of activation information in non-volatile memory.
US11886536B2
Methods and systems for performing a convolution transpose operation between an input tensor having a plurality of input elements and a filter comprising a plurality of filter weights. The method includes: dividing the filter into a plurality of sub-filters; performing, using hardware logic, a convolution operation between the input tensor and each of the plurality of sub-filters to generate a plurality of sub-output tensors, each sub-output tensor comprising a plurality of output elements; and interleaving, using hardware logic, the output elements of the plurality of sub-output tensors to form a final output tensor for the convolution transpose.
US11886530B2
Described herein are systems and methods for assessing website quality based on automated website analysis. A method can include identifying, by a computing system, a website to evaluate, retrieving code for webpages of the website from one or more web server systems that host the website, locally executing and interpreting the code to render the webpages as they would appear on client devices, identifying webpage segment criteria, analyzing the webpages to identify a subset of webpages that include a segment satisfying the webpage segment criteria, identifying a quality issue in the segment that is present in each webpage in the subset, determining a quantity of times the quality issue occurs across the subset of webpages, and providing information to a client device to cause the client device to present an indication of the issue and an indication of the quantity of times the issue occurs across the subset of webpages.
US11886529B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for diagnosing website quality. The method can include analyzing, by a computing system, a website to determine a current value for a quality score of the website, identifying issues with the website, providing information to cause a client device to present: (i) a circle graphical element that indicates the current value, a first portion of the circle's circumference being a size that indicates the current value, and (ii) indications of categories of issues with the website that each include different sets of issues, receiving an indication that user input at the client device selected a user-selected category, determining a target value for the quality score that would result should all issues within the user-selected category be resolved, and providing information to cause the client device to add a target element at a location on the circle's circumference that represents the target value.
US11886528B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to validation of a request for an asset based on information in the request. Validation of the request can be processed by a network node in a network repository that contains the asset. In one aspect, validation of the request can comprise determining if the request is legitimate based at least on processing at least a portion of the information in the request. In response to a legitimate request, the network node can process the request and, as a result, a data object associated with the asset can be supplied to a device originating the request. In the alternative, the network node can yield an exception.
US11886527B2
A digital map based online platform is provided. The online platform comprises an outdoor map server, a data store, a building database, a space database, and a computer program stored in a medium. The data store manages digital files related to buildings including floor plans of buildings and digital files including website source codes related to spaces in individual folders for each building and space. The building database and the space database manage map setting data of buildings and spaces, respectively. The computer program stored in a medium executes a series of stages to integrally display an outdoor map, an indoor map including floor plans of buildings, Internet links, and responsive HTML pages on the view of a digital map. The medium includes a web server and a user terminal.
US11886523B2
Techniques for training and/or using a machine learning (ML) algorithm to generate search results are disclosed. An ML algorithm is configured (i) to identify a search starting event and a search terminating event for a search session, where the search session includes multiple navigations across multiple different webpages, and (ii) to derive a dynamic score for the search session, where the dynamic score reflects whether the search session successfully identified an end result that was initially unknown at a time when the search starting event occurred. The trained ML algorithm can then be used during later search sessions to promote better search results and help users identify end targets or results in a faster and more intuitive manner.
US11886519B1
One aspect of the subject matter described herein comprises a database management system. The database management system comprises a communication circuit, an interface, and a processor. The communication circuit receives information from databases via a communication network. The interface allows user operation and interaction via the communication network and the database management system. The processor provides data to and receives data from the interface, including a plurality of alphanumeric records comprising at least one unique identifier, obtains database records from other databases for each unique identifier, identifies a number of alphanumeric records in the plurality having events in their histories, determines a percentage of alphanumeric records in the plurality having negative events in their histories, generates a report including the determined percentages, and conveys the report to the user.
US11886517B2
Some embodiments provide a method for generating a graphical user interface (GUI) for a research system. The method receives a request from a user of the research system for information about a particular category. The method generates a chart that displays a set of events associated with the particular category over a particular period of time. The method incorporates the chart into a GUI for the particular category for transmission to the user. Some embodiments generate a list of events associated with the particular category and generate a GUI that displays the list of the events. Each event is represented in the list by a title of a document identified by the research system as representative of the event.
US11886499B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus for analyzing a video shot. The apparatus includes at least one program, memory in which the program is recorded, and a processor for executing the program. The program may include a frame extraction unit for extracting at least one frame from a video shot, a shot composition and camera position recognition unit for predicting shot composition and a camera position for the extracted at least one frame based on a previously trained shot composition recognition model, a place and time information extraction unit for predicting a shot location and a shot time for the extracted at least one frame based on previously trained shot location recognition model and shot time recognition model, and an information combination unit for combining pieces of information, respectively predicted for the at least one frame, for each video shot and tagging the video shot with the combined pieces of information.
US11886492B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of matching image, an apparatus of matching image, a device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: acquiring an image to be matched; determining a key point feature similarity between any image in an image library and the image to be matched, and determining a color feature similarity between the any image and the image to be matched; determining a fusion similarity between the any image and the image to be matched according to the key point feature similarity and the color feature similarity; and determining whether an image matching the image to be matched exists in the image library or not according to the fusion similarity between each of at least one image in the image library and the image to be matched.
US11886488B2
The present teaching relates to method, system, and programming for responding to an image related query. Information related to each of a plurality of images is received, wherein the information represents concepts co-existing in the image. Visual semantics for each of the plurality of images are created based on the information related thereto. Representations of scenes of the plurality of images are obtained via machine learning, based on the visual semantics of the plurality of images, wherein the representations capture concepts associated with the scenes.
US11886483B2
Techniques for recommending media are described. A character preference function comprising a plurality of preference coefficients is accessed. A first character model comprises a first set of attribute values for the plurality of attributes of a first character. The first and second characters are associated with a first and second salience value, respectively. A second character model comprises a second set of attribute values for the plurality of attributes of a second character of the plurality of characters. A first character rating is calculated using the plurality of preference coefficients and the first set of attribute values. A second character rating of the second character is calculated using the plurality of preference coefficients with the second set of attribute values. A media rating is calculated based on the first and second salience values and the first and second character ratings. A media is recommended based on the media rating.
US11886479B2
The embodiments of the specification disclose an online data acquisition method and system, The method includes that: an acquisition terminal generates a first data acquisition module online according to a preset rule, and sends the first data acquisition module to multiple first target terminals; after receiving the first data acquisition module online, the multiple first target terminals feed back multiple pieces of first data online in first preset time, and return the multiple pieces of fed back first data to the acquisition terminal online; and the acquisition terminal performs online analysis based on the multiple pieces of received first data. According to the method provided in the application, it is ensured that survey is performed in real time, and a survey result may be analyzed without any delay.
US11886469B2
Novel techniques are described for networked aggregation of distributed localized particulate air pollutant (LPAP) sensors. For example, a large number of sensors is distributed over a geographic region. Each sensor can detect local levels of one or more LPAPs, and can communicate the detected levels over one or more communications networks. A system can receive data samples for the LPAP levels from the sensors and can compute LPAP scores that are mapped to respective sub-regions of the geographic region. The computation can be a function of aggregating respective LPAP levels for at least those LPAP sensors in a particular sub-region of the geographic region, and also as a function of comparing the aggregation against an identified set of trigger thresholds for the LPAP of interest. In some cases, the computed and mapped LPAP scores can be output for display, for example, as a heat map, or the like.
US11886455B1
Systems and methods ingest machine data including logs, metadata, and cost and usage information from multiple heterogeneous cloud services. The machine data is saved as events. An application retrieves the metadata, events, metrics, and logs and causes an easy to understand visual representation of costs, resource usage, and non-compliance for each of a client's cloud services. Further, the data across the client's multiple heterogeneous cloud services is normalized to provide visual representations that compare the costs, resource usage, and non-compliance across the client's multiple heterogeneous cloud services. Further, machine learning aspects of the application can provide recommendations and trend analysis for cloud service asset usage.
US11886444B2
An online system receives a search query from a user. In response to the request, the online system obtains search results matching the search query and identifies a set of attributes describing a context of the search query. The online system generates a data structure that includes a plurality of search coefficients. The search coefficients are selected based on the identified set of attributes. Some of the search coefficients have conflicting values. The online system traverses the data structure to identify the search coefficients having conflicting values. For each search coefficient having conflicting values, the online system resolves conflicts and determines a value of the search coefficient. The online system ranks search results based on the resolved values of the search coefficients.
US11886441B2
A method of implementing object tagging framework starts with the processor receiving a tag creation command including a tag name. In response to the tag creation command, the processor creates a current tag. The processor then receives an association command, the tag name and a source object identifier. The processor determines a source object associated with the source object identifier. The source object includes a tag value. The processor associates the current tag with the source object. The processor receives a replication command including the source object and a target object. The processor causes replication of the source object to the target object that comprises replicating the current tag with the tag name and the tag value in the source object to the target object. Other embodiments are also described herein.
US11886428B2
A computer-implemented system with a processor provides a reversible transfer of an atomic token from one side of an imperfect link to the other, such that if the protocol (or process) on either side fails at a critical moment, the atomic token will be found on both sides to be verifiably incomplete, unless the protocol has completed successfully past its ‘irreversible threshold’ on both sides.
US11886419B2
A process of fulfilling a database deployment request for a data platform. A compute service manager of the data platform scans one or more accounts of a consumer region of the data platform for a pending listing fulfillment request, where the pending listing request includes a request for deployment of a consumer database and an associated share of grant metadata of the consumer database within the consumer region. When the compute service manager determines that an account of the one or more accounts has a pending listing fulfillment request, the compute service manager determines a listing for the pending listing fulfillment request based on listing data of the account. The compute service manager determines that no other fulfillment task is scheduled for the pending listing fulfillment request and schedules a background fulfillment task to perform the fulfillment process for the pending listing fulfillment request.
US11886409B1
Systems and methods provide identification of a first configuration specifying a first column of a first data source, acquisition, based on the first configuration, of a first sequence of values stored in consecutive rows of the first column, and storage of the first sequence of values in a storage device in association with an identifier of the first data source and the first column.
US11886405B2
A system for use in restoring data processing capabilities in the event of an interruption. System including a user catalog program that when executed by a processor configures the system to store indexes of data utilized by the system, a system management facility (SMF) program that when executed by the processor configures the system to create SMF audit records that track the catalog activity as SMF data, and a virtual catalog program that when executed by the processor configures the system to intercept portions of the SMF data over a timeline. The portions correspond to the creation, deletion and modification of the data files, and catalog the intercepted portions of SMF data over the timeline.
US11886403B1
Apparatus and method for data discrepancy identification are disclosed. The apparatus includes a memory communicatively connected to at least a processor, wherein the memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to authenticate a provider using a provider identifier, receive at least a record from the provider, wherein the at least a record includes a plurality of record elements, obtain at least a proof, wherein the at least a proof includes a plurality of proof elements, analyze the at least a record to find a data discrepancy, wherein analyzing further includes retrieving a discrepancy template and finding the data discrepancy of the at least a record as a function of the at least a proof and the discrepancy template, determine a discrepancy process as a function of the data discrepancy and update the at least a record as a function of the discrepancy process.
US11886399B2
Methods and systems are configured to determine a semantic meaning for data and generate data processing rules based on the semantic meaning of the data. The semantic meaning includes syntactical or contextual meaning for the data that is determined, for example, by profiling, by the data processing system, values stored in a field included in data records of one or more datasets; applying, by the data processing system, one or more classifiers to the profiled values; identifying, based on applying the one or more classifiers, one or more attributes indicative of a logical or syntactical characteristic for the values of the field, with each of the one or more attributes having a respective confidence level that is based on an output of each of the one or more classifiers. The attributes are associated with the fields and are used for generating data processing rules and processing the data.
US11886389B2
A device may receive, from a user device, a transaction request associated with a first entity and identify a distributed ledger associated with the first entity, the distributed ledger including a set of blocks recording work data associated with the first entity. The set of blocks may include: a first subset of blocks including data specifying work performed by the first entity, and a second subset of blocks including data verifying a portion of the work performed by the first entity and specified by the data included in the first subset of blocks. The device may determine that a transaction, associated with the transaction request, is associated with the first subset of blocks and the second subset of blocks. Based on predetermined instructions that correspond to the transaction and the distributed ledger, the device may perform the transaction.
US11886388B1
With multiple software applications, multiple electronic devices for a user to access and work upon, and multiple potential storage locations for the files it is difficult for a user to remember the identity of a file worked upon, its storage location, or which application they employed. Whilst some applications provide a user with a listing of recently opened files these are only those accessed by that specific application upon a specific device. Embodiments of the invention provide users with a synthesized centralized view of all files accessed irrespective of where the user has stored the electronic content, with which electronic device the electronic content was accessed with, or with which software application the electronic content was accessed with.
US11886385B2
An embodiment for identifying and sorting duplicate datasets within a large pool of heterogeneous datasets may include received a plurality of heterogeneous datasets. The embodiment may automatically compare schema information and metadata within each of the received plurality of heterogeneous datasets to generate name-based similarity scores for each dataset. The embodiment may also automatically compare data distribution information within each of the received plurality of heterogeneous datasets to generate a plurality of data distribution similarity scores for each heterogeneous dataset. The embodiment may further include automatically calculating an overall distance metric using the name-based similarity scores and plurality of data distribution similarity scores. The embodiment may also include based on the calculate overall distance metric, automatically generating distance graphs that identifying clusters of similar datasets and illustrate inferred lineage for the clusters of similar datasets.
US11886383B2
Techniques for managing a file system involve: receiving an event published by the file system, the event being associated with an operation on an object in the file system; determining a value of a counter corresponding to the event based on execution information of the operation; determining a target action corresponding to the value of the counter based on a trigger strategy associated with the counter, the trigger strategy defining at least one action that can be triggered by the counter; and generating an indication for causing the file system to execute the target action. Accordingly, file system management in finer granularity can be provided.
US11886380B2
A quantum file management system is disclosed. A quantum file manager receives, from a requestor, a request to access a quantum file that comprises a plurality of qubits. The quantum file manager determines, for each respective qubit of the plurality of qubits, a qubit identifier of the respective qubit. The quantum file manager sends, to the requestor in response to the request, information that includes the qubit identifier for each respective qubit of the plurality of qubits.
US11886378B2
A processor includes an array of resistive processing units connected between row and column lines with a resistive element. A first single instruction, multiple data processing unit (SIMD) is connected to the row lines. A second SIMD is connected to the column lines. A first instruction issuer is connected to the first SIMD to issue instructions to the first SIMD, and a second instruction issuer is connected to the second SIMD to issue instructions to the second SIMD such that the processor is programmable and configurable for specific operations depending on an issued instruction set.
US11886377B2
A representative reconfigurable processing circuit and a reconfigurable arithmetic circuit are disclosed, each of which may include input reordering queues; a multiplier shifter and combiner network coupled to the input reordering queues; an accumulator circuit; and a control logic circuit, along with a processor and various interconnection networks. A representative reconfigurable arithmetic circuit has a plurality of operating modes, such as floating point and integer arithmetic modes, logical manipulation modes, Boolean logic, shift, rotate, conditional operations, and format conversion, and is configurable for a wide variety of multiplication modes. Dedicated routing connecting multiplier adder trees allows multiple reconfigurable arithmetic circuits to be reconfigurably combined, in pair or quad configurations, for larger adders, complex multiplies and general sum of products use, for example.
US11886369B1
Methods and apparatuses directed to more efficient data transfers within die architectures. In some examples, a die package includes controller logic electrically coupled to a first communication bus and a second communication bus. The controller logic can receive an initial data transfer request over the first communication bus, and determine a final address of the initial data transfer request. Further, the controller logic can assert a chip select signal of the second communication bus to initiate a data exchange. While asserting the chip select signal, the controller logic can receive an additional data transfer request over the first communication bus, and determine an initial address of the additional data transfer request. Based on the determined initial and final addresses, the controller logic can initiate an additional data exchange over the second communication bus without de-asserting the chip select signal.
US11886367B2
An arbitration system receives requests to access a destination during an arbitration window that spans multiple processor clock cycles. During each clock cycle, the destination is monitored to determine whether the destination is suffering from backpressure by receiving more requests than the destination is able to accommodate during the clock cycle. In response to detecting backpressure, a masking index value assigned to a requesting source is incremented, which limits an amount of requests from the source that will be granted destination access during a subsequent arbitration window. Alternatively, in response to detecting an absence of backpressure during an arbitration window, the masking index value is decremented, which increases the amount of requests from the source that will be granted destination access during a subsequent arbitration window. This arbitration process continues for successive arbitration windows, oscillating between incrementing and decrementing the masking index value during the successive arbitration windows.
US11886361B2
A memory controller having an improved operating speed controls a memory device in response to a request from a host. The memory controller includes: a processor for driving firmware for controlling communication between the host and the memory device; a map data receiver for receiving map data including a plurality of mapping entries including physical block addresses, for operations to be performed on the memory device from the memory device under the control of the processor; and a map data controller for checking a mapping entry corresponding to the request, which are received from the map data receiver, snooping the detected mapping entry and outputting the detected mapping entry to the processor.
US11886359B2
An AI accelerator apparatus using in-memory compute chiplet devices. The apparatus includes one or more chiplets, each of which includes a plurality of tiles. Each tile includes a plurality of slices, a central processing unit (CPU), and a hardware dispatch device. Each slice can include a digital in-memory compute (DIMC) device configured to perform high throughput computations. In particular, the DIMC device can be configured to accelerate the computations of attention functions for transformer-based models (a.k.a. transformers) applied to machine learning applications. A single input multiple data (SIMD) device configured to further process the DIMC output and compute softmax functions for the attention functions. The chiplet can also include die-to-die (D2D) interconnects, a peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) bus, a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) interface, and a global CPU interface to facilitate communication between the chiplets, memory and a server or host system.
US11886355B2
Techniques for emulating a configuration space may include emulating a set of configuration registers for a set of functions corresponding to a type of peripheral device. The set of functions can include a physical function and a virtual function associated with the physical function. A configuration access request can be processed by retrieving an emulated configuration register from the emulated configuration space, and logging incoming configuration access requests in a configuration transaction log to track configuration accesses.
US11886350B2
Techniques are disclosed for context-aware monitoring of the system memory to provide system integrity. An example methodology implementing the techniques includes determining a type of operating system (OS) that is loaded on system memory, examining contents of at least one system memory page, and assigning at least one tag to the at least one system memory page based on the determined type of OS and the examination of the contents of the at least one system memory page. The at least one tag indicates the characteristics of the contents of the at least one system memory page.
US11886345B2
Configuring an address-to-SC unit (A2SU) of each of a plurality of CPU chips based on a number of valid SC chips in the computer system is disclosed. The A2SU is configured to correlate each of a plurality of memory addresses with a respective one of the valid SC chips. In response to detecting a change in the number of valid SC chips, pausing operation of the computer system including operation of a cache of each of the plurality of CPU chips; while operation of the computer system is paused, reconfiguring the A2SU in each of the plurality of CPU chips based on the change in the number of valid SC chips; and in response to reconfiguring the A2SU, resuming operation of the computer system.
US11886342B2
A method, system, and computer program product for augmenting cache replacement operations are provided. The method identifies a set of cache lines within a first cache level of a multilevel cache. A first candidate cache line is identified based on a first replacement scheme of the first cache level. A second candidate cache line is identified based on the first replacement scheme of the first cache level. A replacement cache line is selected for replacement in the first cache level. The replacement cache line is selected from the first candidate cache line and the second candidate cache line and based on the first replacement scheme of the first cache level and a second replacement scheme of a second cache level. The method removes the replacement cache line from the first cache level.
US11886336B2
A system includes a memory device having multiple dice and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device receives a memory operation to program a set of pages of data across at least a subset of the plurality of dice. The processing device partitions the set of pages into a set of partitions and associates a first partition of the set of partitions with a first block family. The processing device assigns the first block family to a first threshold voltage offset bin and stores, in a metadata table, at least one bit to indicate that the set of pages is partitioned.
US11886333B2
A memory block reclamation method includes, after receiving an unmap command sent by a memory controller, a medium controller reclaims one or more memory blocks in a non-volatile memory connected to the medium controller based on memory logical address information in the unmap command. The one or more reclaimed memory blocks are available memory blocks.
US11886331B2
A method includes writing a first codeword to a first set of contiguous partitions in a first memory die of a memory device. The method further includes writing a first portion of a second codeword to a second set of contiguous partitions in the first memory die of the memory device and writing a second portion of the second codeword to a first set of contiguous partitions in a second memory die of the memory device. The method also includes writing a third codewords to a second set of contiguous partitions in the second memory die of the memory device.
US11886329B2
A computing device selects new test configurations for testing software. (A) First test configurations are generated using a random seed value. (B) Software under test is executed with the first test configurations to generate a test result for each. (C) Second test configurations are generated from the first test configurations and the test results generated for each. (D) The software under test is executed with the second test configurations to generate the test result for each. (E) When a restart is triggered based on a distance metric value computed between the second test configurations, a next random seed value is selected as the random seed value and (A) through (E) are repeated. (F) When the restart is not triggered, (C) through (F) are repeated until a stop criterion is satisfied. (G) When the stop criterion is satisfied, the test result is output for each test configuration.
US11886314B2
A memory device is provided to include: a plurality of memory cells; a peripheral circuit configured to perform an operation on the plurality of memory cells; a temperature circuit configured to measure a temperature of the memory device; a monitoring component configured to generate, based on whether a measured temperature is within a reference range, monitoring information representing an operation mode that is either a normal mode in which the operation is performed or a protection mode in which the operation is suspended; and an operation controller configured to output a signal for controlling the operation according to the monitoring information. The monitoring component is further configured to store the monitoring information and output the monitoring information to the operation controller in response to receiving the measured temperature from the temperature circuit.
US11886313B2
Systems, apparatus and methods are provided for temperature assisted non-volatile storage device management in a non-volatile storage system. In one embodiment, a non-volatile storage system may comprise a temperature sensor, a non-volatile storage device and a processor. The processor may be configured to obtain a read-out from the temperature sensor, generate a predicted real-time on-die temperature for the non-volatile storage device based on the read-out, generate an estimated threshold voltage for reading data stored in the non-volatile storage device based on the predicted real-time on-die temperature and conduct a local sweep of a reference voltage using the estimated threshold voltage as a starting point to obtain a final read reference voltage with a minimum read bit error rate.
US11886297B2
When a restart event is detected within a technology landscape, restart-impacted performance metrics and non-restart-impacted performance metrics may be identified. The non-restart-impacted performance metrics may continue to be included within a performance characterization of the technology landscape. The restart-impacted performance metrics may be monitored, while being excluded from the performance characterization. The restart-impacted performance metric of the restart-impacted performance metrics may be transitioned to a non-restart-impacted performance metric, based on a monitored value of the restart-impacted performance metric following the restart event.
US11886296B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device that is configured to obtain information about driver installations of a given driver on a plurality of computing devices and to obtain information about system failures from the plurality of computing devices. The processing device is further configured to determine a correlation between the driver installations and the system failures and to determine that the given driver is likely to cause a system failure based at least in part on the determined correlation between the driver installations and the system failures. The processing device is further configured to provide an indication that the given driver is likely to cause a system failure to a given computing device. The indication is configured to cause the given computing device to inhibit a presentation of a recommendation to install the given driver to a user of the given computing device.
US11886295B2
Intra-block error correction including generating reconstructed sub-portions of a portion of a dataset that is distributed into a plurality of portions that are stored on different storage devices of the storage system, wherein the dataset indicates a first number of errors that is greater than a second number of parity data portions of the dataset, determining that a sub-portion of the dataset does not match a corresponding reconstructed sub-portion of the dataset; and based on the determination, replacing the sub-portion of the dataset with the reconstructed sub-portion of the dataset.
US11886294B2
A first node group including at least three nodes is predefined in a distributed storage system. Each node of the first node group is configured to send data blocks stored in storage devices managed by the node to other nodes belonging to the first node group. A first node is configured to receive data blocks from two or more other nodes in the first node group. The first node is configured to create a redundant code using a combination of data blocks received from the two or more other nodes and store the created redundant code to a storage device different from storage devices holding the data blocks used to create the redundant code. Combinations of data blocks used to create at least two redundant codes in redundant codes created by the first node are different in combination of logical addresses of constituent data blocks.
US11886286B2
Generating data checksum for a data object including multiple data units comprises, for each data unit, obtaining a corresponding address of the data unit, and rotating the data unit based on said corresponding address of the data unit to generate a rotated data unit. A checksum value for the data object is determined based on said rotated data units.
US11886285B2
Technologies are disclosed herein for cross-correlating metrics for anomaly root cause detection. Primary and secondary metrics associated with an anomaly are cross-correlated by first using the derivative of an interpolant of data points of the primary metric to identify a time window for analysis. Impact scores for the secondary metrics can be then be generated by computing the standard deviation of a derivative of data points of the secondary metrics during the identified time window. The impact scores can be utilized to collect data relating to the secondary metrics most likely to have caused the anomaly. Remedial action can then be taken based upon the collected data in order to address the root cause of the anomaly.
US11886281B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to automated error processing. A computing platform may receive historical error/solution information. The computing platform may train, using the historical error/solution information, an artificial intelligence engine to automatically identify solutions for current errors for a plurality of users. The computing platform may identify current errors for a user of the plurality of users. The computing platform may notify the user of the current errors. The computing platform may receive a request to correct an error of the one or more current errors. The computing platform may identify, using the artificial intelligence engine, a solution to the error. The computing platform may automatically perform actions to achieve the solution. The computing platform may send, after performing the actions, commands directing an event processing system to process an event with which the error was associated, which may cause the event processing system to process the event.
US11886279B2
Information corresponding to a health of a memory device or a functional state of the memory device, or both, is written to the memory device. Radio frequency (RF) signaling is used to provide power to certain components of the memory device. Information corresponding to the health of the memory device or the functional state of the memory device, or both, is retrieved from the memory device over-the-air in response to the RF signaling.
US11886278B2
A computing platform may be installed with software technology for creating and executing user-defined anomaly detection rules that configures the computing platform to: (1) receive, from a client device, data defining a given anomaly detection rule that has been created by a user, wherein the given anomaly detection rule comprises at least one anomaly condition that is to be applied to at least one streaming event queue, (2) store a data representation of the given anomaly detection rule in a data store, (3) convert the data representation of the given anomaly detection rule to a streaming query statement, (4) iteratively apply the streaming query statement to the at least one streaming event queue, and (5) while iteratively applying the streaming query statement, make at least one determination that the at least one anomaly condition is satisfied and then cause at least one anomaly notification to be issued to the user.
US11886273B2
An example power source device includes a universal serial bus interface to couple to a power sink device, a power supply interface to couple to a power supply, a power measurement controller to measure a total power consumption of the power sink device and the power source device, a power contract manager to select a power delivery contract for the power sink device based on the total power consumption, a power supply rating of the power supply and a previous power delivery contract, and a power delivery controller to deliver power to the power sink device according to the selected power delivery contract.
US11886272B2
Bandwidth for information transfers between devices is dynamically changed to accommodate transitions between power modes employed in a system. The bandwidth is changed by selectively enabling and disabling individual control links and data links that carry the information. During a highest bandwidth mode for the system, all of the data and control links are enabled to provide maximum information throughout. During one or more lower bandwidth modes for the system, at least one data link and/or at least one control link is disabled to reduce the power consumption of the devices. At least one data link and at least one control link remain enabled during each low bandwidth mode. For these links, the same signaling rate is used for both bandwidth modes to reduce latency that would otherwise be caused by changing signaling rates. Also, calibration information is generated for disabled links so that these links may be quickly brought back into service.
US11886267B2
An electronic device incorporating a liquid crystal display (LCD) screen comprises at least one at least one radio frequency (RF) antenna mounted behind a LCD panel of the LCD screen, and a processor. The RF antenna includes a directional transmit RF antenna that transmits an RF signal through the LCD panel to impinge on a human user, and includes a receive antenna configured to receive a RF signal reflected from tissue of the human user. The processor processes the reflected RF signal to generate a processed signal indicative of presence or absence of the human user, and responsive to the processed signal, controls an operating mode of the electronic device and/or enables control of the device by the human user.
US11886266B2
Methods, systems, and devices for dynamic power control are described. In some examples, a memory device may be configured to adjust a first duration for transitioning power modes. For example, the memory device may be configured to operate in a first power mode, a second power mode, and a third power mode. When operating in a second power mode, the memory device may be configured to increase or decrease the first duration for transitioning to a third power mode based on a second duration between received commands. If no commands are received during the first duration, the memory device may transition from the second power mode to the third power mode.
US11886255B2
A foldable display device includes a first casing and a second casing supporting a first area and a second area of a display panel, respectively, a support disposed between the first casing and the second casing, supporting the display panel based on the folding direction of the foldable display device, and including a support body which ascends toward the display panel during the out-folding operation, and descends toward a bottom face of the hinge cover during the in-folding operation.
US11886250B2
A data processing device is provided. The data processing device includes a functional panel and a first surface to a fifth surface. The functional panel includes a first region to a fifth region. The second region performs display in one direction. The third region is positioned between the first region and the second region and can be bent. The fifth region is positioned between the first region and the fourth region and can be bent. The fourth region has a function of performing display in one direction in a state where the third region and the fifth region are bent. The first surface includes the first region and a light-emitting element. The light-emitting element emits light. The second surface includes the second region and a photoelectric conversion element. The photoelectric conversion element converts the light into an electric signal. The third surface is positioned between the first surface and the second surface, can be bent, and includes the third region. The fourth surface includes the fourth region. The fifth surface is positioned between the first surface and the fourth surface, can be bent, and includes the fifth region. The photoelectric conversion element faces the light-emitting element following the bending of the third surface.
US11886245B2
A wearable computing device, including a device body configured to be affixed to a body of a user. The wearable computing device may further include an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and a processor. The processor may receive kinematic data from the IMU while the device body is affixed to the body of the user. The processor may perform a first coordinate transformation on the kinematic data into a training coordinate frame of a training wearable computing device. At a first machine learning model trained using training data including training kinematic data collected at the training wearable computing device, the processor may compute a training-frame velocity estimate for the wearable computing device based on the transformed kinematic data. The processor may perform a second coordinate transformation on the training-frame velocity estimate to obtain a runtime-frame velocity estimate and may output the runtime-frame velocity estimate to a target program.
US11886241B2
A foldable display including a first bracket, a second bracket, a rotating shaft connecting the first and the second brackets, at least one third bracket screwed to the rotating shaft, a fourth bracket movably coupled to the second and the third brackets, a flexible display disposed on the first and the fourth brackets, and a flexible supporting member disposed on the flexible display to be bent or flattened along with the flexible display is provided. The rotation of the rotating shaft drives the fourth bracket via the third bracket to move relative to the second bracket. The flexible supporting member is filled in a space composed of the fourth bracket, the second bracket, the first bracket, and the flexible display. A portable electronic device is also disclosed.
US11886234B2
An adaptive voltage converter adapted to compensate for the exponential sensitivities of sub-threshold and near-threshold circuits. The converter can change its power/performance characteristics between different energy modes. The converter may comprise two or more voltage converters/regulators. A multiplexing circuit selects between the outputs of the several converters/regulators depending on the state of a control signal generated by a control facility. The converter is specially adapted to change the output of each converter/regulator based on a number of variables, including, for example, process corner, temperature and input voltage.
US11886220B2
In a computing device it may be determined whether to power down a subsystem based on how long the subsystem has been idle and based on one or more measurements of subsystem current consumption, subsystem bandwidth usage, and subsystem efficiency. An idle power-down count value may be determined based on the measurements, using predetermined relations among subsystem current consumption, subsystem bandwidth usage, and subsystem efficiency. The subsystem may be powered down based on a determination of whether the subsystem has been idle for an interval not less than the idle power-down count value.
US11886213B2
A sanitaryware system may include sensors to determine a status or condition of one or more sanitaryware fixtures in the sanitaryware system and perform a particular function, such as, for example performing a flush, closing the flush valve and/or angle stop, sending an alert, initiating a service ticket. The sanitaryware system may automatically perform the function. The sanitaryware system may communicate the status or condition to an internet connected device and/or user, the device may perform the function or may instruct the sanitaryware to perform the function. The sensed information, sanitaryware system status or condition, and/or initiated response may be logged and monitored to improve the overall efficiency and operation of the sanitaryware system and the sanitaryware fixtures within the system.
US11886210B2
An appliance hub for use in an upper portion of an enclosure can include a substrate configured to be positioned in an upper portion of an enclosure. The appliance hub can include a climate control apparatus mounted on the substrate and the climate control apparatus can be configured to regulate a temperature within the enclosure. The appliance hub can include one or more lighting elements configured to provide light within the enclosure, a plurality of fluid lines connected to the substrate and configured to provide fluid service and return to the climate control apparatus, and/or a plurality of electrical connections connected to the substrate and configured to provide electrical power and/or data to at least one of the climate control apparatus and the one or more lighting elements.
US11886208B2
A water delivery system is disclosed. The water delivery system may have an electronic user interface. The electronic user interface may be a portable device. The electronic user interface may include inputs to select water temperature, water flow rates, water flow patterns, and/or task based presets. A mixing valve for use with either manual faucets or electronic faucets is disclosed.
US11886206B2
A pressure regulator for a BOP stack includes a housing having an input port, an output port, and a pilot port and a regulator piston axially movable through the housing between an open position and a closed position. The regulator piston has an internal passage formed through its first axial end. When the regulator piston is in the open position, the internal passage is in fluid communication with the input and output ports. When the regulator piston is in the closed position, the internal passage is in fluid communication with the output port and fluidly isolated from the input port. A space with regulator fluid is also provided within the housing adjacent a second axial end of the regulator piston, opposite the first axial end, wherein the space is fluidly isolated from the input port and the output port in both the open position and the closed position.
US11886204B2
A supervision method for a flight state of an unmanned aerial vehicle includes respectively establishing communication connections with the unmanned aerial vehicle and a supervision server, receiving identity information about the unmanned aerial vehicle and flight information about the unmanned aerial vehicle sent by the unmanned aerial vehicle, automatically sending the identity information about the unmanned aerial vehicle and the flight information to the supervision server in an on-line mode, receiving at least one of a flight restriction instruction or warning information sent by the supervision server, and forwarding the flight restriction instruction to the unmanned aerial vehicle, so that the unmanned aerial vehicle executes the flight restriction instruction, thereby restricting flight behaviour of the unmanned aerial vehicle in an on-line flight mode via the flight restriction instruction.
US11886192B2
An information processing method of an information processor includes: obtaining information received from a mobile body through a wireless communication, the mobile body including a movement mechanism and an imaging unit configured to capture image data, the information received from the mobile body including captured image data obtained by the imaging unit, with the captured image data being updated periodically; and generating route guidance information for use in moving the mobile body by the movement mechanism. The captured image data is stored together with data update time information. The route guidance information includes at least two selectable routes. The route guidance information is generated based on the captured image data, position information of the mobile body, and the data update time information.
US11886187B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to controlling a vehicle in an autonomous driving mode using trajectories. For instance, a trajectory may be received by one or more first computing devices from one or more second computing devices. While the first computing devices are controlling the vehicle in the autonomous driving mode based on the trajectory, an error may be generated by second computing devices. Whether the error is a recoverable error may be determined, and if so, the second computing devices attempt to generate a new trajectory. When the second computing devices generate the new trajectory, the vehicle may be controlled by the first computing devices according to the new trajectory.
US11886182B2
Systems and methods of manipulating/controlling robots. In many scenarios, data collected by a sensor (connected to a robot) may not have very high precision (e.g., a regular commercial/inexpensive sensor) or may be subjected to dynamic environmental changes. Thus, the data collected by the sensor may not indicate the parameter captured by the sensor with high accuracy. The present robotic control system is directed at such scenarios. In some embodiments, the disclosed embodiments can be used for computing a sliding velocity limit boundary for a spatial controller. In some embodiments, the disclosed embodiments can be used for teleoperation of a vehicle located in the field of view of a camera.
US11886168B2
A programmable power tool and method and systems of programming a power tool using wireless communication. An external device having a processor and a transceiver establishes a communication link with the power tool. The external device receives, with the transceiver, a first mode profile stored on the power tool. The first mode profile is defined by a profile type and a first value associated with a parameter for executing the profile type. The external device displays a control screen including the profile type and the parameter at the first value, and receives a user input. The external device generates, in response to the user input, a second mode profile by modifying the parameter to be at a second value. The external device transmits, with the transceiver, the second mode profile to the power tool.
US11886165B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures include, in at least one aspect, a fully automatic method of converting a generative design into an editable, watertight B-Rep by leveraging the generative solver input and representation to: (1) embed the exact input solid boundary surfaces where the design coincides with the input, (2) approximate everywhere else the design boundary with globally smooth, editable “organic” surfaces, and (3) join all surfaces to form a generative design output B-Rep.
US11886154B2
A control system for automatic operation of a coker includes a drum feeder operable to modulate a feed of oil into a coke drum of the coker and a controller. The controller is configured to obtain an objective function that defines a control objective as a function of one or more controlled variables affected by modulating the feed of oil into the coke drum and use a predictive model and the objective function to generate a target coker feed rate indicating a target rate at which to feed the oil into the coke drum. The predictive model is configured to predict values of the one or more controlled variables predicted to result from the target coker feed rate. The controller is configured to operate the drum feeder using the target coker feed rate to modulate the feed of oil into the coke drum.
US11886147B2
A variable timepiece display mechanism includes a resilient hand with a drive pipe integral with a single-piece flexible strip including flexible segments joined at tips, a first segment thereof extends between the first pipe and a first tip. The mechanism also includes a driver for driving the pivoting of the pipe, and a stressor for stressing the first flexible segment in order to vary the position of the first tip relative to the output axis, as a function of the forces applied to the flexible strip. The drier and/or the stressor includes a first shaped gear train and/or a second shaped gear train in order to accelerate, stabilize the speed of, or slow at least the pipe over a part of the angular travel thereof.
US11886145B2
Provided is an electrostatic charge image developing toner including toner matrix particles containing at least a binder resin, wherein a photosensitizer having a singlet oxygen generating ability is contained inside the toner matrix particles or in an external additive attached to the toner matrix particles.
US11886137B2
A fixing device (50) includes a fixing belt (70), a pressure member (80), and a heating section (90). The heating section (90) faces an inner peripheral surface of the fixing belt (70). The heating section (90) includes a heater (HT), a first heat sensitive body (SM11), and a second heat sensitive body (SM21). The second heat sensitive body (SM21) differs from the first heat sensitive body (SM11). The heater (HT) has a first heater portion (AE1). The first heater portion (AE1) is one end portion of a pair of end portions of the heater (HT) in a longitudinal direction thereof. The first heat sensitive body (SM11) and the second heat sensitive body (SM21) face the first heater portion (AE1) and are aligned in a conveyance direction (DC) of a sheet (S).
US11886132B2
A transfer belt unit for use with an image forming apparatus includes: a transfer belt; and a belt memory. The transfer belt is configured to transfer toner on a photosensitive drum of the image forming apparatus onto a sheet conveyed to a portion between the photosensitive drum and the transfer belt. The transfer belt is also configured to make contact with a cleaning roller of the image forming apparatus and to be cleaned by the cleaning roller. The belt memory includes: a first storage area configured to store therein a first rotation time period indicating a total of a period of time that the cleaning roller rotates at a first rotational speed; and a second storage area configured to store therein a second rotation time period indicating a total of a period of time that the cleaning roller rotates at a second rotational speed faster than the first rotational speed.
US11886130B2
A positioning device to control the position of a print agent applicator comprises a mount to support a print agent applicator at a load point on the mount; an actuator coupled to the mount to apply a driving force at an actuation point on the mount; and a guide mechanism to guide the mount and supported print agent applicator, under the driving force, to translate along a predetermined path towards a printing drum to form an engaging contact between the print agent applicator and the printing drum.
US11886117B2
An adhesion promoter as shown in Formula (I) and a photosensitive resin composition containing the adhesion promoter are disclosed: where R1, R2 and R3 each refer to a hydrogen atom, an optionally substituted C1-C20 alkyl, an optionally substituted C2-C20 alkenyl, an optionally substituted C2-C20 alkynyl, an optionally substituted phenyl, or other optionally substituted carbon atom; A refers to an optionally substituted C1-C20 alkyl, an optionally substituted C2-C20 alkenyl, an optionally substituted C2-C20 alkynyl, an optionally substituted phenyl, or other an optionally substituted carbon atom substituents; and the carbon in the alkyl, the alkenyl, the alkynyl, the phenyl, or the carbon atom substituents is optionally substituted with one or more of N, O and S; and X refers to an optionally substituted aromatic heterocyclic group. The adhesion promoter and the photosensitive resin composition can be used for manufacturing a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC), a LED and a flat-panel display.
US11886113B2
The present invention provides an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition with which a pattern having an excellent pattern collapse suppressing property and excellent LWR performance can be obtained. In addition, the present invention also provides a resist film, a pattern forming method, and a method for manufacturing an electronic device, each regarding the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition. The actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition of the present invention includes a resin whose solubility in a developer is changed by the action of an acid, a photoacid generator represented by General Formula (b1), and a solvent, in which the photoacid generator represented by General Formula (b1) is a compound that generates an acid having a pka of 1.0 or less upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation
US11886109B2
A reflective mask includes a substrate, a reflective multilayer disposed over the substrate, a capping layer disposed over the reflective multilayer, an intermediate layer disposed over the capping layer, an absorber layer disposed over the intermediate layer, and a cover layer disposed over the absorber layer. The absorber layer includes one or more layers of an Ir based material, a Pt based material or a Ru based material.
US11886103B2
The projection screen includes a reflective layer and a light-absorbing layer, where the reflective layer is configured to receive and reflect projection light, and the light-absorbing layer is arranged on the reflective layer; the light-absorbing layer includes a plurality of irregularly arranged light-absorbing members; and the light-absorbing members are configured to absorb at least a part of the projection light, so as to make a brightness of a projected image uniform.
US11886098B1
A kit for constructing a camera housing comprises a main housing unit, a first end cover, and a base stand. The main housing unit contains a camera compartment, and each end of the main housing unit is at least partially open to a recessed slot that has a width at an outer portion of the slot that is less than the width of an interior portion of the slot. The first end cover includes a locking piece having a shape that is complementary to the shape of one of the recessed slots. The base stand comprises a base having a top surface and a protrusion extending from the top surface, wherein the protrusion has a shape that is complementary to the shape of one of the recessed slots. Preferably, the shape of the vertical cross section of the two recessed slots is approximately the same.
US11886096B2
An assembly including a non-linear element configured for generating broadband radiation from input radiation coupled into the non-linear element. The assembly further includes an optical element positioned downstream of the non-linear element configured to reflect a fraction of the broadband radiation back into the non-linear element. The non-linear element can be a nonlinear fiber, such as a hollow-core photonic crystal fiber (HC-PCF).
US11886095B2
A scalable independent unit cell device architecture may include a phase-shifting element and a phase shift driver both integrated within the unit cell device. The phase shift driver may be coupled to the phase-shifting element and the phase shift driver may independently control the phase-shifting element to produce an optical beam having a desired phase. The unit cell device may further include an optical antenna that outputs the beam having the desired phase. The unit cell device may be formed as an opto-electronic hybrid optimized to leverage direct bond hybridization (DBH) to attach an electronic integrated circuit wafer to a side of a photonic integrated circuit wafer. The resulting unit cell device (i.e., 24 microns) may tightly integrate individual element-level phase control, which may be implemented within large-scale two-dimensional photonic arrays with hemispherical beam steering.
US11886089B2
A tintable window is described having a tintable coating, e.g., an electrochromic device coating, for regulating light transmitted through the window. In some embodiments, the window has a transparent display in the window's viewable region. Transparent displays may be substantially transparent when not in use, or when the window is viewed in a direction facing away from the transparent display. Windows may have sensors for receiving user commands and/or for monitoring environmental conditions. Transparent displays can display graphical user interfaces to, e.g., control window functions. Windows, as described herein, offer an alternative display to conventional projectors, TVs, and monitors. Windows may also be configured to receive, transmit, or block wireless communications from passing through the window. A window control system may share computational resources between controllers (e.g., at different windows). In some cases, the computational resources of the window control system are utilized by other building systems and devices.
US11886087B2
The lighting device disclosed in the embodiment includes a substrate, a light emitting device disposed on a lower surface of the substrate, a reflective layer disposed to face a light emitting surface of the light emitting device, a first resin layer disposed between the substrate and the reflective layer, and a light-transmission control layer disposed on an upper surface of the substrate, wherein the light-transmission control layer may include a liquid crystal layer including a cholesteric liquid crystal, and light emitted through the light emitting surface of the light emitting device may be reflected by the reflective layer and be provided to the light-transmission control layer through the substrate.
US11886084B2
The disclosure provides a display substrate, a display panel and a display device. The display substrate has a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, and includes: a first base; multiple pixel units in the display area and on the first base, each pixel units includes a thin film transistor and a first electrode, in each pixel unit, a second electrode of the thin film transistor is electrically coupled with the first electrode through a first via hole penetrating through an interlayer insulating layer; and an auxiliary functional layer located in the display area and on a side, away from the first base, of the first electrode; an orthographic projection of the auxiliary functional layer on the first base covers at least a part of an orthographic projection of the first via hole on the first base, and defines an active display area of each first electrode.
US11886082B2
The liquid crystal display panel includes a color filter substrate providing with a common electrode layer t; and an array substrate arranged in cell alignment with the color filter substrate and providing with a common electrode line, the array substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area including a plurality of connection areas located on the connection areas and arranged between the color filter substrate and the array substrate; at least one connection area includes a conductive sub-region and a detection sub-region, and the conductive members located on the conductive sub-region are respectively in contact with the common electrode line and the common electrode layer for conducting the common electrode line and the common electrode layer; and the conductive members located on the detection sub-region are respectively in contact with the common electrode layer and a detection pad for conducting the common electrode layer and the detection pad.
US11886081B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal device includes a first liquid crystal cell and a second liquid crystal cell bonded to the first liquid crystal cell. Each of the first liquid crystal cell and the second liquid crystal cell includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, a sealant bonding the first substrate and the second substrate together, one or more first spacers disposed inside the sealant and holding the gap, and a plurality of second spacers disposed in an effective area surrounded by the sealant and holding the gap.
US11886078B2
The method of manufacturing a light emitting module includes: providing a light guiding plate having a first main surface serving as a light emitting surface; and a second main surface positioned opposite to the first main surface and provided with a recess; providing a light adjustment portion containing a fluorescent material; providing a light emitting element unit in which a light emitting element comprising an electrode is integrally bonded to the light adjustment portion; bonding the light adjustment portion of the light emitting element unit to the recess; and forming wiring on the electrode of the light emitting element.
US11886071B2
A light guide element includes: a light guide plate; and a diffraction element that is disposed on a main surface of the light guide plate, in which the diffraction element includes a liquid crystal layer that is formed of a liquid crystal composition including a liquid crystal compound and has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction, a refractive index of the light guide plate is 1.70 or higher, and in a case where the refractive index of the light guide plate is represented by nd and a refractive index of the liquid crystal layer is represented by nk, nk−nd≥0 is satisfied.
US11886067B2
An optical device includes an optical member having an optical area on which light incidents, the optical area having a rectangular shape in a plan view, a first actuator configured to displace the optical member around a first axis which passes through the center of the optical area in the plan view, and which forms an angle smaller than 90° with a first side of the optical area, and a second actuator configured to displace the glass plate around a second axis which passes through the center of the optical area, and which is perpendicular to the first axis.
US11886062B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing an optical device capable of surely curing a photocurable resin composition. The method for manufacturing an optical device 1 in which an optical member 2 and a transparent panel 4 are bonded together via a cured resin layer 3 includes: a step of forming, on one of the optical member 2 and the transparent panel 4, a wall 12 surrounding a forming region for the cured resin layer 3 and having at least one opening 13; a step of laminating the optical member 2 and the transparent panel 4 to form a laminated body 10 in which a resin filling space 14 surrounded by the wall 12 is formed between the optical member 2 and the transparent panel 4; a step of filling the resin filling space 14 of the laminated body 10 with a photocurable resin composition 30; and a step of curing the photocurable resin composition 30 to form the cured resin layer 3.
US11886061B2
A writing device includes a liquid crystal layer including cholesteric liquid crystal material. There are electrically conductive layers between which the liquid crystal layer is disposed. There is a front writing surface layer that is transparent and a back support layer between which the electrically conductive layers and the liquid crystal layer are disposed. The cholesteric liquid crystal material changes in texture by application of pressure to the front writing surface layer to create an image. A seal confines the cholesteric liquid crystal material between the front writing surface layer and the back support layer. The electrically conductive layers are adapted to enable a voltage waveform to be applied thereto that erases the image. In one aspect, the resilience to bending the writing device is defined by enabling the writing device to be bent to a radius of curvature of 100.0 millimeters for 10 repetitions of the bending and after each of the repetitions of the bending the voltage waveform completely erases the image. In another aspect, the back support layer comprises a first sublayer formed of a flexible polymeric material adjacent to the back electrically conductive layer, a second sublayer comprising a backer that is flexible and thicker and of a different material than the first sublayer and a bonding layer located between the first sublayer and the second sublayer. In yet another aspect, the seal includes an elastomeric material and wherein the front writing surface layer has a thickness in a range of 0.5 to 4.5 mils and the back support layer has a thickness in a range of 0.6 to 34.5 mils.
US11886042B2
The present disclosure provides a camera optical lens including eight lenses which are, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens having a negative refractive power, a sixth lens having a positive refractive power, a seventh lens having a negative refractive power, and an eighth lens having a negative refractive power; the camera optical lens satisfies conditions of: 0.95≤f/TTL; 3.00≤f2/f≤5.00; and 3.50≤(R9+R10)/(R9−R10)≤30.00. The camera optical lens can achieve good optical performance while meeting the design requirements for large aperture, long focal length and ultra-thinness.
US11886031B2
An alignment apparatus for aligning components of an optical assembly include a chuck configured to support the optical assembly thereon, and an adjustable flexure assembly disposed around the chuck. The adjustable flexure assembly includes a plurality of flexures. The plurality of flexures are positioned relative to the chuck such that each of the plurality of flexures contact the optical assembly when the optical assembly is positioned on the chuck. Adjustment of a position of one or more flexures of the plurality of flexures adjusts an alignment of an optical axis of an optical component of the optical assembly when the optical assembly is positioned on the chuck, wherein the alignment apparatus is configured to align optical axes of the optical component to an angle of deviation of less than about 1,000 μrad and provide an extinction ratio within the optical assembly of greater than or equal to 1000:1.
US11886024B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for a monolithic multi-optical-waveguide penetrator or connector. One example apparatus generally includes a plurality of large diameter optical waveguides, each having a core and a cladding, and a body having a plurality of bores with the optical waveguides disposed therein, wherein at least a portion of the cladding of each of the optical waveguides is fused with the body, such that the apparatus is a monolithic structure. Such an apparatus provides for a cost- and space-efficient technique for feedthrough of multiple optical waveguides. Also, the body may have a large outer diameter which can be shaped into features of interest, such as connection alignment or feedthrough sealing features.
US11886015B2
A recessed portion in a semiconductor substrate and a method of forming the same are provided. The method comprises: forming a mask on the semiconductor substrate; forming a protection layer on a top surface of the mask and on at least one sidewall of the mask, and on at least one surface of the semiconductor substrate exposed by the mask; performing a first etching process to remove the protection layer on the top surface of the mask and on a bottom surface of the semiconductor substrate exposed by the mask; and performing a second etching process to remove the remaining protection layer and to etch the semiconductor substrate to form the recessed portion. In this way, a recessed portion with relatively smooth and vertical sidewalls can be realized.
US11886011B2
An optical microstructure is configured to work with an optical fiber or a different substrate and the optical microstructure includes a beam converter including a tapered optical guide configured to transform a gaussian optical beam into a first annular optical beam; an inverted cone having first and second reflection surfaces, each configured to reflect the first annular optical beam, having a radius R1, so that a resulting second annular optical beam has a radius R2 larger than the radius R1; and a prism having a reflection surface configured to reflect the second annular optical beam to form a third converging annular optical beam. The third converging annular optical beam includes plural single optical beams that intersect at a given crossing point, outside the optical microstructure. The plural single optical beams form an optical trap.
US11886010B2
Fiber optic terminals and fiber optic networks having variable ratio couplers are disclosed. The fiber optic terminals comprise a shell having a portion of a variable ratio coupler disposed therein. The variable ratio coupler comprises an optical input, a first optical output, a second optical output and a control. The control may be adjusted for changing an output power level between the first optical output and the second optical output.
US11886007B2
A waveguide structure and a method for splitting light is described. The method may include optically coupling a first waveguide and a second waveguide, where the optical coupling may be wavelength insensitive. The widths of the first and second waveguides may be non-adiabatically varying and the optical coupling may be asymmetric between the first and second waveguides. A gap between the first and second waveguides may also be varied non-adiabatically and the gap may depend on the widths of the first and second waveguides. The optical coupling between the first and second waveguides may also occur in the approximate wavelength range of 800 nanometers to 1700 nanometers.
US11886006B2
The present invention provides a polymer optical waveguide having a core, an under cladding and an over cladding, in which: the polymer optical waveguide has a first section on one end side in the light propagation direction where no portion of the over cladding exists and the core and the under cladding are exposed, and a second section on the other end side in the light propagation direction where the core is covered with the under cladding and the over cladding; and a relative refractive index difference among the core, the under cladding and the over cladding, a core width and core height in an end surface at the one end side of the first section, and a core width and core height in an end surface at the other end side of the second section satisfy predetermined relationships.
US11886000B2
In some embodiments, a head-mounted, near-eye display system comprises a stack of waveguides having integral spacers separating the waveguides. The waveguides may each include diffractive optical elements that are formed simultaneously with the spacers by imprinting. The spacers are disposed on one major surface of each of the waveguides and indentations are provided on an opposite major surface of each of the waveguides. The indentations are sized and positioned to align with the spacers, thereby forming a self-aligned stack of waveguides. Tops of the spacers may be provided with light scattering features, anti-reflective coatings, and/or light absorbing adhesive to prevent light leakage between the waveguides. As seen in a top-down view, the spacers may be elongated along the same axis as the diffractive optical elements. The waveguides may include structures (e.g., layers of light absorbing materials, rough surfaces, light out-coupling optical elements, and/or light trapping microstructures) along their edges to mitigate reflections and improve the display contrast.
US11885998B2
A display backlight unit is disclosed including a glass substrate with a first major surface and a second major surface opposite the first major surface, the first major surface coated with at least one of 3-mercaptopropyl trimethoxysilane, aminopropyl triethoxysilane, or silanated PMMA, and a plurality of PMMA-containing light extraction dots deposited on the coated first major surface.
US11885997B2
A light guide for a virtual image device to guide and emit image light output from an image display element to display a virtual image. The light guide includes a light-guide member and an optical member. The light-guide member includes an incidence portion to receive the image light and an exit portion to emit the image light to an outside, and a reflective portion inclined relative to the incidence portion to guide the image light received by the incidence portion into the light guide. The light-guide member also includes an extraction portion including first planes each inclined relative to the exit portion and second planes each parallel with the exit portion, to guide the image light from each first plane to the exit portion and extract the image light. The optical member includes a parallel plane and an inclined portion.
US11885996B2
A light-guide optical element is provided, including a transparent light-guide body having a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface disposed therein. The transparent light-guide body includes a side surface facing a first direction, and a first surface and a second surface which are adjacent to the side surface and face each other. The first inclined surface extends from the first surface to the second surface. The second inclined surface is located at the other side of the first inclined surface facing the side surface. The second inclined surface extends from the first surface to the second surface. When an input light enters the transparent light-guide body, the input light is partially reflected by the first inclined surface and the second inclined surface to form an output light output from the transparent light-guide body.
US11885992B1
Methods to manufacture volume transmission diffraction grating (quasi-Bragg gratings) and volume transmission diffraction gratings made by those methods.
US11885987B2
The present invention discloses a quantum-dot film, wherein the quantum-dot film comprises a binder and a plurality of quantum dots dispersed in the binder, wherein the plurality of quantum dots are capable of being water-resistant and oxygen-resistant.
US11885977B2
A camera module includes a carrier supported on a housing and movable in an optical axis direction, a frame supported on the carrier and movable, relative to the carrier, in a first direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and a lens module supported on the frame and movable, relative to the frame, in a second direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction. One of the frame and the lens module is supported such that attractive force acts in one of the first direction and the second direction.
US11885973B2
Techniques are described for operating an optical system. In some embodiments, light associated with a world object is received at the optical system. Virtual image light is projected onto an eyepiece of the optical system. A portion of a system field of view of the optical system to be at least partially dimmed is determined based on information detected by the optical system. A plurality of spatially-resolved dimming values for the portion of the system field of view may be determined based on the detected information. The detected information may include light information, gaze information, and/or image information. A dimmer of the optical system may be adjusted to reduce an intensity of light associated with the world object in the portion of the system field of view according to the plurality of dimming values.
US11885967B2
A waveguide display includes a substrate transparent to visible light, a first grating on the substrate and configured to couple display light into or out of the substrate, and a phase structure on the substrate and configured to change a polarization state of the display light after or before the display light reaches the first grating. The first grating is characterized by a polarization-dependent diffraction efficiency. The first grating includes, for example, a surface-relief grating or a volume Bragg grating.
US11885958B2
Described herein are systems and methods that implement a dual axis resonant scanning mirror to support a sensor system such as a LIDAR system. The scanning mirror may comprise: 1) a small dual axis mirror, in which each axis is moving by similar electromagnetic mechanisms can generate crosstalk between each of these electromagnetic mechanisms causing perturbations in the motion; 2) a primary axis that may need to be driven independently of the motion of a secondary axis and vice versa; 3) an optical position sensor; 4) a scanning mirror assembly that may be mounted to a scanner base via the secondary axis. The scanning mirror assembly may comprise resonant spring, resonant spring assembly, the rocking chair (with electromagnetic drive coils), the scanner base with a set of two secondary axis propulsion magnets, the mirror with a spacer and primary axis propulsion magnets, and the optical sense board.
US11885952B2
A method of assaying an analyte in a sample is disclosed. The method includes having a sample holder with a sample contact area for contacting a sample with an analyte, having a plurality of calibration structures on the sample contact area of the sample holder, imaging a part of the sample contact area that has the calibration structures, and using an algorithm that includes an image, calibration structures in the image, and artificial intelligence and/or machine learning to identify the analyte and/or determine the analyte concentration.
US11885936B2
An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features compactness and a wide field of view. The imaging lens is composed of seven lenses to form an image of an object on a solid-state image sensor. The constituent lenses are arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with positive or negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; a fourth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; a meniscus fifth lens having a convex surface on the image side; a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; and a seventh lens with negative refractive power, in which an air gap is provided between lenses.
US11885931B2
An image capturing optical lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, and a sixth lens element. The first lens element with positive refractive power has a convex object-side surface. The second lens element with negative refractive power has a concave object-side surface. The third lens element has negative refractive power. The fourth lens element has refractive power. The fifth lens element with positive refractive power has a convex image-side surface. The sixth lens element with refractive power has a concave image-side surface, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element are aspheric, and the sixth lens element has at least one inflection point on the image-side surface thereof.
US11885928B2
A functionalized waveguide for a detector system includes an incoupling region of a main body that deflects only part of the radiation coming from an object to be detected and impinges on the front face such that the deflected part propagates as coupled-in radiation in the main body by reflections up to the decoupling region and impinges on the decoupling region. A decoupling region deflects at least part of the coupled-in radiation impinging thereon such that the deflected part exits the main body via the front or rear face to impinge on the detector system. The extent of the incoupling region in a second direction transverse to the first direction is greater than the extent of the decoupling region in the second direction. In the second direction, the incoupling region has at least two different diffractive incoupling structures which have a different deflection component in the second direction.
US11885927B2
A test article containing test objects for assessing and evaluating an image producing x-ray computed tomography system, includes: an exterior shell assembly surrounding an inner volume; a base assembly comprising a flat base portion; a support structure comprising one or more partitions configured to support the test objects, a pair of component supports configured to support an angled bar test object, and one or more brackets configured to attach to at least one of: a partition and the flat base portion; an object length test object connected to the one or more partitions; an angled bar test object connected to the pair of component supports; an NEQ test object comprising a support extension with a threaded attachment configured to connect to a threaded attachment on another test object; and an acetal cylinder test object comprising two threaded mounting extensions and configured to support at least one metal annular device.
US11885925B2
A system and method for evaluating a subterranean formation includes a logging tool that includes transmitter and receiver antennae. The transmitter antenna transmits a first electromagnetic signal into the formation at a plurality of depths. The receiver antenna receives a plurality of second electromagnetic signals emitted by the formation in response to the first signal. The system and method also include a processor configured to calculate resistivity values for the second signals, calculate solutions to an inversion algorithm of the formation, filter the solutions into a plurality of convergent solutions, pixilate the convergent solutions into pixilated solutions, calculate ensemble statistics for the pixilated solutions, calculate a difference in resistivity value between successive pixels, identify presumptive layer boundaries based on the differences in resistivity values, calculate composite resistivity statistics from the pixilated solutions based on the presumptive layer boundaries and the ensemble statistics, and generate a formation model.
US11885916B2
Described herein are systems and methods for improving detection of a return signal in a light ranging and detection system. The system comprises a transmitter and a receiver. A first sequence of pulses may be encoded with an anti-spoof signature and transmitted in a laser beam. A return signal, comprising a second sequence of pulses, may be received by the receiver and the anti-spoof signature extracted from the second sequence of pulses. If based on the extraction, the first and second sequences of pulses match, the receiver outputs return signal data. If based on the extraction, the first and second sequence of pulses do not match, the return signal is disregarded. The system may dynamically change the anti-spoofing signature for subsequent sequences of pulses. Additionally, the first sequence of pulses may be randomized relative to a prior sequence of pulses.
US11885915B2
In an embodiment, a method includes: receiving a first plurality of digital codes from a time-to-digital converter (TDC); TDC; generating a coarse histogram from the first plurality of digital codes; detecting a peak coarse bin from the plurality of coarse bins; after receiving the first plurality of digital codes, receiving a second plurality of digital codes from the TDC; and generating a fine histogram from the second plurality of digital codes based on the detected peak coarse bin, where a fine histogram depth range is narrower than a coarse histogram depth range, where a lowest fine histogram depth is lower or equal to a lowest coarse peak depth, and where a highest fine histogram depth is higher or equal to a highest coarse peak depth.
US11885912B2
A sensor device according to the present technology includes a pixel that includes: a photoelectric conversion element that performs photoelectric conversion; a first charge holding unit and a second charge holding unit that hold charges accumulated in the photoelectric conversion element; a first transfer transistor that transfers the charges to the first charge holding unit; and a second transfer transistor that transfers the charges to the second charge holding unit. Each of the first and second transfer transistors includes a vertical transistor including a vertical gate electrode portion, and in each of the first and second transfer transistors, an oxide film thickness of an opposite side wall portion is made larger than an oxide film thickness of a transfer side wall portion, the opposite side wall portion being positioned on a side opposite to the transfer side wall portion that is a wall portion on a side facing a transfer path of the charges among side wall portions of the vertical gate electrode portion.
US11885904B2
In a general aspect, a system for sensing pulses of radio frequency (RF) fields includes a laser system and a vapor cell sensor. The laser system is configured to generate beams of light that include a probe beam of light. The vapor cell sensor has a vapor therein and is configured to allow the beams of light to pass through the vapor. The system also includes an optical detector configured to generate a detector signal based on the probe beam of light. The system includes a signal processing system configured to perform operations that include receiving the detector signal from the optical detector over a time period. The operations also include generating a digital signal based on the detector signal and applying a matched filter to the digital signal to generate a filtered signal. The filtered signal is processed to determine properties of an RF field experienced by the vapor.
US11885900B2
A computer-implemented method for tracking a mobile device based on a series of motion measurements of said device comprises retrieving a topological map providing a graph of topological paths, wherein each topological path is associated with a corresponding path direction; statistically generating, on a virtual map, a plurality of particles around an estimated initial position of the mobile device, representing an initial uncertainty of said estimated initial position of the mobile device; determining, from said series of motion measurements, a measured displacement vector of the mobile device representing an estimated displacement direction and an estimated displacement distance of the mobile device; displacing each of said particles on the virtual map according to a randomized particle displacement vector which is derived from said measured displacement vector based on an uncertainty of the measured displacement vector and recording said particle displacement vector for each displaced particle; determining a weight of each particle based on a comparison of the respective particle displacement vector with the path direction of an adjacent topological path and/or based on a distance of the particle to the adjacent topological path; selecting a subset of said displaced particles for resampling based on a particle-weight dependent selection criterion; and regenerating said selected subset of displaced particles within a particle regeneration area around a current mean location of the plurality of particles according to a probability distribution.
US11885898B2
A method for locating an object in a plane that includes a first so-called learning phase for informing a database, and a second so-called location phase, the location phase using a classifier operating using the database comprising information representing the transmission of signals between the object and antennas, for determining a probability of location of the object in zones of the plane, the location phase further using a neural network, for determining, for the zone of the plane for which the location probability is the highest, the position of the object in the form of coordinates in the plane. The invention also relates to a location device implementing the method.
US11885896B2
Positioning methods suitable for use in a wireless network that utilizes beamformed communication are disclosed. In an aspect, a range and/or granularity for reporting a reference signal timing difference (RSTD) may be configurable according to one or more beam parameters (e.g., a repetition factor, a beam shape, a frequency band, a subcarrier spacing numerology, a cyclic prefix, etc.). In another aspect, a transmitting node may transmit one or more parameters associated with a beam used to transmit a positioning reference signal (e.g., an angle of departure, a zenith of departure, a beamwidth, etc.). According to another aspect, a cyclic prefix length for a positioning reference signal that a transmitting node transmits via one or more beams may be configured to increase a number of neighbor cells visible to a receiving node.
US11885890B2
A method for determining a protection level of a position estimate using a single epoch of GNSS measurements, the method includes: specifying a prior probability density P(x) of a state x; specifying a system model h(x) that relates the state x to observables z of the measurements; quantifying quality metrics q associated with the measurements; specifying a non-Gaussian residual error probability density model ƒ(r|θ, q) and fitting model parameters θ using a set of experimental data; and defining a posterior probability density P(x|z, q, θ); estimating the state x; and computing the protection level by integrating the posterior probability density P(x|z, q, θ) over the state x.
US11885889B2
This application relates to a data signal processing method. In one aspect, the method includes receiving a data signal from at least one global navigation satellite system (GNSS) satellite and obtaining a pseudo-range of the at least one GNSS satellite by using the data signal. The method may also include obtaining a range-acceleration based on the pseudo-range. The method may further include applying, to the data signal, a variance obtained by assigning a weight according to a noise model to the range-acceleration.
US11885886B2
Systems and methods for object detection. The object detection may be used to control an autonomous vehicle. For example, the methods comprise: obtaining, by a computing device, a LiDAR dataset generated by a LiDAR system of the autonomous vehicle; and using, by the computing device, the LiDAR dataset and at least one image to detect an object that is in proximity to the autonomous vehicle. The object is detected by: matching points of the LiDAR dataset to pixels in the at least one image; and detecting the object in a point cloud defined by the LiDAR dataset based on the matching. The object detection may be used to facilitate at least one autonomous driving operation (e.g., autonomous driving operation comprises an object tracking operation, an object trajectory prediction operation, a vehicle trajectory determination operation, and/or a collision avoidance operation).
US11885882B1
An inventory management system includes an inventory holder and sensors. The sensors measure distances to locations on the inventory holder. The measurements are used to determine pitch, roll, and yaw of the inventory holder. The pitch, roll, and yaw are used to determine a location of an inventory cubicle in the inventory holder.
US11885877B2
Encoded transmit signals are provided to an ultrasound array such diverging ultrasound waves are sequentially transmitted. Each diverging ultrasound wave is generated by a respective set of encoded transmit signals, where each set of encoded transmit signals is encoded by a respective row of an N×N invertible orthogonal matrix. Only a selected subset of M rows, with N
US11885873B2
A system including a beamforming-sensor configured to acquire sensor-data representative of a swath in an agricultural field; and a controller configured to determine swath-property-data based on the sensor-data.
US11885871B2
An augmented reality device has a radar system that generates radar maps of locations of real world objects. An inertial measurement unit detects measurement values such as acceleration, gravitational force and inclination ranges. The values from the measurement unit drift over time. The radar maps are processed to determine fingerprints and the fingerprints are combined with the values from the measurement unit to store a pose estimate. Pose estimates at different times are compared to determine drift of the measurement unit. A measurement unit filter is adjusted to correct for the drift.
US11885865B2
A quality control phantom and an evaluation method for magnetic resonance arterial spin labeling perfusion imaging includes: a phantom main body; a container, a circulating liquid being provided in the container; a tube, comprising a first tube and a second tube, one end of the first tube being in communication with the container, the other end being in communication with a liquid inlet of the phantom main body, one end of the second tube being in communication with the container, the other end being in communication with a liquid outlet of the phantom main body, and the first tube, the phantom main body, the second tube and the container jointly forming a closed loop; a pump, provided on the first tube and used to drive the circulating liquid to circulate along the closed loop to generate a perfusion signal in the phantom main body.
US11885862B2
Systems and methods for deep learning based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination acceleration are provided. The method of deep learning (DL) based magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) examination acceleration comprises acquiring at least one fully sampled reference k-space data of a subject and acquiring a plurality of partial k-space of the subject. The method further comprises grafting the plurality of partial k-space with the at least one fully sampled reference k-space data to generate a grafted k-space for accelerated examination. The method further comprises training a deep learning (DL) module using the fully sampled reference k-space data and the grafted k-space to remove the grafting artifacts.
US11885854B2
A tester for testing an electrical component. The tester includes a database of testing specifications for electrical components, a tester connector for physically and electrically connecting to different electrical components, and an output device. The tester identifies an electrical component connected to the tester connector and provide corresponding identification data, retrieves a testing specification from the database using the identification data, commands a test of the electrical component according to the testing specification, and outputs an indication of a result of the test through the output device.
US11885853B2
A method for determining the state of health of a battery by monitoring charging of the battery over multiple charging instances is provided. The method is implemented within charging stations by: recognizing the battery via a unique identifier; charging the battery; monitoring conditions of the battery during charging; storing data related to the current charging instance based at least partially on the monitored conditions; retrieving data related to at least one earlier charging instance of the uniquely identified battery; and making a determination of the uniquely identified battery's state of health based at least partially on a comparison of the data related to the current charging instance and the retrieved data related to at least one earlier charging instance.
US11885849B2
A method can be used for supervising the operation of a machine powered with electric current. The method includes operating the machine in a normal operation mode, repeatedly performing a learning phase for learning the normal operation machine of the machine to create a knowledge base, autonomously switching from the learning phase into a supervision phase when the knowledge base is considered to have been created, and repeatedly performing the supervision phase.
US11885844B2
The disclosure discloses a method and device for detecting insulation state in a conversion system, wherein the conversion system includes an excitation source, a converter having an input end coupled to the excitation source, a connection element coupled between an output end of the converter and a reference point, and a coupling impedance having a first end coupled to the excitation source and a second end coupled to the reference point, the method for detecting insulation state including steps of: S1, controlling at least one main power switch of the converter not to switch; S2, detecting a pulse current signal of the connection element; and S3, processing the pulse current signal and outputting a partial discharge information, the partial discharge information indicating an insulation state of an isolating transformer in the converter. The disclosure can overcome electromagnetic interference of high frequency steep waves on a partial discharge signal.
US11885841B2
An electric field sensor which measures an electric field generated by a target utilizing an electro-optic effect, the electric field sensor including a light source, an electro-optic crystal on which light in a predetermined polarization state emitted from the light source is incident and which is subjected to the electric field generated by the target, a reference electric field applicator configured to apply an electric field based on a reference signal with a known signal level to the electro-optic crystal, a light receiver configured to receive light emitted from the electro-optic crystal and to convert the received light into an electric signal, and a separation corrector configured to separate the electric signal into a measurement signal based on the electric field generated by the target and the reference signal and to correct a signal level of the measurement signal on the basis of the signal level of the separated reference signal.
US11885840B2
A method of measuring a specific absorption rate (SAR) of a hip joint implant using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), includes: arranging the hip joint implant in a human lower body-shaped phantom; arranging an electric field sensor around the hip joint implant; providing radio frequency (RF) energy according to an MRI sequence to the human phantom; and calculating the SAR of the hip joint implant from strength of an electric field measured by the electric field sensor.
US11885838B2
A smart-home device may include a main power rail that provides power to components of the smart-home device; an integrator coupled to the main power rail that stores energy on an energy-storage device, where the energy stored on the energy-storage device is representative of an amount an amount of power provided to the smart-home device through the main power rail during an integration cycle of the integrator; and a counter that stores a number of integration cycles performed by the integrator during a time interval, where a total amount of power provided to the smart-home device through the main power rail during the time interval is represented by: (1) the number of integration cycles performed by the integrator during the time interval; and (2) the energy stored on the energy-storage device.
US11885827B2
A high anti-vibration gas density monitor is provided, including a monitor enclosure, a signal control mechanism, and an indication value display mechanism independent from the signal control mechanism which are provided in the monitor enclosure. The signal control mechanism includes at least one corrugated pipe, a sealed compensation chamber, a signal generator, and a signal regulation mechanism. The corrugated pipe is perpendicular to a side wall of a control casing. The monitor enclosure includes an independent sealed compartment used to mount the indication value display mechanism. The sealed compartment is filled with anti-vibration oil, or is hermetically filled with gas. The indication value display mechanism includes a Bourdon tube, a base, an end holder, a movement, a pointer, and a dial.
US11885820B2
The invention relates to the detection of vitamin D metabolites. In a particular aspect, the invention relates to methods for detecting derivatized vitamin D metabolites by mass spectrometry.
US11885814B2
A method for detecting the binding of a chromatin-associated factor of interest to a sequence of chromatin DNA in a cell, including: contacting a permeabilized cell or nucleus with a specific binding agent that specifically recognizes the chromatin-associated factor of interest, wherein the specific binding agent is linked to a nuclease that is inactive or an activatable transposome; activating the nuclease or transposase, thereby excising the sequence of chromatin DNA bound to the chromatin-associated factor of interest; isolating the excised DNA; and determining the sequence of the excised DNA, thereby detecting binding of a chromatin-associated factor of interest to a sequence of chromatin DNA in the cell.
US11885810B2
A method of detecting a membrane protein by mass spectrometry comprises: (a) providing a solution comprising a native membrane vesicle having a lipid bilayer to which said membrane protein is attached; (b) sonicating the vesicle in the presence of a mass spectrometry-compatible buffer; (c) providing a mass spectrometer comprising a nanoelectrospray ionisation source, a mass analyser and a detector; (d) vaporising the sonicated solution using the nanoelectrospray ionisation source under conditions such that the membrane protein is released from the vesicle; (e) ionising the membrane protein; (f) resolving the ionised membrane protein using the mass analyser; and (g) detecting the resolved membrane protein using the detector. Also provided are solutions comprising sonicated vesicles for use in mass spectrometry methods.
US11885806B2
The present invention relates to a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) which comprises an antigen-binding domain which selectively binds TCR beta constant region 1 (TRBC1) or TRBC2; cells; such a T cells comprising such a CAR; and the use of such cells for the treatment of a T-cell lymphoma or leukaemia in a subject.
US11885804B2
The invention relates to the application of the ERH gene in the preparation of bladder cancer diagnosis and treatment products. The ERH gene is found to have a good correlation with bladder cancer. In addition, an RNA interference vector is constructed to perform cell function experiments to study the effect of ERH gene on the proliferation and clonality of bladder cancer cells. The present invention provides a research basis for clinical diagnosis and treatment of bladder cancer and has a good application prospect.
US11885801B2
The present invention provides for a release system for delaying application of chemical reagents in a lateral-flow immunoassay. A chemistry release fiber comprising a permeable membrane and a chemical release agent is used to delay chemical reagent delivery to the indicator of a lateral-flow immunoassay. Also disclosed is the related method of delaying application of chemical reagents in a lateral-flow immunoassay.
US11885797B2
Provided herein are immunofluorescence assays that do not use an intensely colored lipophilic dye, and that result in a significant reduction of fluorescence due to aldehyde fixation, collagen, elastin, and/or red blood cells. In certain embodiments of the present invention, a two-step treatment of the tissue is contemplated that leads to the incorporation of reduced heteropoly acids or salts thereof (e.g., phosphomolybdate species) in the tissue. This reagent binds tightly to hydrophilic regions of the tissue and effectively quenches the fluorescence in those regions. In doing so, the overall signal-to-noise ratio for the immunofluorescence assay is increased.
US11885792B2
Techniques and systems are disclosed for a bioassay that is an in vitro mimic of peripheral nerve generation using the sensory neurons that innervate the peripheral nervous system. In some embodiments, the techniques may assist in detecting the bioactivity or potency of nerve grafts (e.g., processed, acellular human allografts) for fostering or supporting peripheral nerve regeneration. In various embodiments, techniques comprise affixing a harvested sensory neuron (e.g., a DRG) to a nerve graft segment to form a test construct; culturing the test construct in a medium; analyzing the test construct to indicate the amount of outgrowing peripheral nerve structure; and determining the potency of the nerve graft from a metric derived from the analysis. In some embodiments, techniques and materials may be used to test the effect of a varied test condition on peripheral nerve growth.
US11885790B2
The disclosure relates to a source productivity assay integrating pyrolysis data and X-ray diffraction data.
US11885784B2
An apparatus for sampling landfill gas from a landfill flowing through a pipe. The apparatus may comprise: an enclosure configured to receive a section of the pipe; a gas sampling port in the section of the pipe; at least one sensor device disposed in a region of the enclosure, the at least one sensor being coupled to the section of the pipe through the gas sampling port; and thermal insulation positioned to retain heat from the section of the pipe in the region of the enclosure. A method of operating a landfill gas recovery system. The method may comprise: flowing gas from a well riser pipe through a sampling subsystem to a collection system; and heating a portion of the sampling subsystem with the gas flowing from the well riser pipe to the collection system.
US11885780B2
Provided are methods for detecting chromogranin A by mass spectrometry. In another aspect, provided herein are methods for quantitating chromogranin A by mass spectrometry. In another aspect, provided herein are methods for prognosis of or measuring the size of neuroendocrine tumors by mass spectrometry.
US11885778B2
A system for sampling a sample material includes a probe which can have an outer probe housing with an open end. A liquid supply conduit within the housing has an outlet positioned to deliver liquid to the open end of the housing. The liquid supply conduit can be connectable to a liquid supply for delivering liquid at a first volumetric flow rate to the open end of the housing. A liquid exhaust conduit within the housing is provided for removing liquid from the open end of the housing. A liquid exhaust system can be provided for removing liquid from the liquid exhaust conduit at a second volumetric flow rate. A droplet dispenser can dispense drops of a sample or a sample-containing solvent into the open end of the housing. A sensor and a processor can be provided to monitor and maintain a liquid dome present at the open end.
US11885769B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has a flight-only mode with a motor only rotating propellers and not rotating on-board wheels to configure the UAV to fly away from a surface of a structure, and a crawling-only mode in which the UAV is configured to crawl on the surface due to the motor only rotating the wheels while not rotating the propellers. In the flight-only mode, a clutch disengages a motor from the wheels so that the motor only engages the propellers to fly to lift from the surface. In the crawling-only mode, the clutch disengages the motor from the propellers so that the motor only engages the wheels to move the UAV on the surface.
US11885768B2
The present invention relates to a semi-automatic scanner for ultrasonic inspection of a branch pipe weld that has a small size and is able to perform an inspection while moving in a state of being attached to a test object by a magnetic force, thereby being applied to fittings having various shapes, such as a branch pipe and an elbow. The semi-automatic scanner for ultrasonic inspection according to the present invention includes a probe configured to inspect a weld by irradiating ultrasonic waves onto a surface of a test object, a probe holder configured to couple the probe by applying an elastic force so as to be pressed against the surface of the test object, an installation bracket having a rod shape, to which the probe holder is coupled so as to be laterally movable, four wheel units installed on both front and rear side surfaces of the installation bracket so as to be vertically slidable, and four magnet parts, each of which is installed on one of the four wheel units and presses the one of the wheel units against the test object with a magnetic force.
US11885767B2
A system comprising a computer readable storage device readable by the system, tangibly embodying a program having a set of instructions executable by the system to perform the following steps for detecting a sub-surface defect, the set of instructions comprising an instruction to receive scan data for a part from a transducer; an instruction to collect the scan data; an instruction to determine an indication in the scan data that indicates a distractor, wherein the indication is based on a learning phase module and an inference phase module that the processor uses to self-assess the indication; and an instruction to create a defect indication report.
US11885765B2
A sensor element includes: an inner protective layer having a porosity of 30% to 65% on two main surfaces; an intermediate protective layer having a porosity of 25% to 80%, which is equal to or smaller than the porosity of the inner layer; and an outer protective layer surrounding an element base on an outermost periphery on the one end portion of the element, and having a porosity of 15% to 30%, which is smaller than the porosity of the intermediate layer, wherein these layers are laminated in this order at least in a range in which the at least one inner chamber is provided in the element base, the outer is in contact with the inner layer in a range in which the at least one inner chamber is not provided, and a difference of porosity between the inner layer and the outer layer is 10% to 50%.
US11885764B2
A gas sensor according to the present application includes a detecting device that detects a specific gas concentration of a measurement-object gas based on an electromotive force generated between a reference electrode and a measurement electrode; and a reference gas regulating device that flows an oxygen pumping current between the reference electrode and a measurement-object gas side electrode and pumps oxygen from around the measurement-object gas side electrode to around the reference electrode, wherein when the average value of the oxygen pumping current is P and the limiting current value of a reference gas introduction layer when oxygen is pumped from around the reference electrode to around the measurement-object gas side electrode is Q, the ratio Q/P is from 0.8 to 10.
US11885762B2
An iridium/iridium oxide electrode for quantitatively detecting pH in a sulfide ion environment, and a preparation method and use thereof are provided. In the present disclosure, a sensitive layer of the iridium/iridium oxide electrode is coated with a sulfonated polyether ether ketone/ionic liquid (SPEEK/IL) sandwich structure. The SPEEK/IL sandwich structure includes two layers of SPEEK/SiOx/IL composite film and one layer of SPEEK film. The SPEEK film is arranged on an outermost layer. The SPEEK/IL sandwich structure covered on a surface of the electrode has an isolation effect on ions other than hydrogen ions, and especially shows a desirable isolation effect on sulfide ions with a smaller ion size. In this way, the electrode is not easily disturbed by redox substances in a complex aqueous environment.
US11885758B2
A sensor apparatus and sensor apparatus system for use in conjunction with a cassette, including a disposable or replaceable cassette. In some embodiments, the cassette includes a thermal well for permitting the sensing of various properties of a subject media. The thermal well includes a hollow housing of a thermally conductive material. In other embodiments, the cassette includes sensor leads for sensing of various properties of a subject media. The thermal well has an inner surface shaped so as to form a mating relationship with a sensing probe. The mating thermally couples the inner surface with a sensing probe. In some embodiments, the thermal well is located on a disposable portion and the sensing probe on a reusable portion.
US11885755B2
An apparatus is configured to receive x-rays propagating from an x-ray source. The apparatus includes first and second x-ray diffractors, the second x-ray diffractor downstream from the first x-ray diffractor and first and second x-ray detectors. The first x-ray diffractor is configured to receive the x-rays, to diffract a first spectral band of the x-rays to the first x-ray detector, and to transmit at least 2% of the received x-rays to the second x-ray diffractor. The second x-ray diffractor is configured to receive the transmitted x-rays from the first x-ray diffractor and to diffract a second spectral band of the x-rays to the second x-ray detector. The first x-ray detector is configured to measure a first spectrum of the first spectral band of the x-rays and the second x-ray detector is configured to measure a second spectrum of the second spectral band of the x-rays.
US11885752B2
A method of determining at least one x-ray scanning system geometric property includes the steps of positioning a calibration device inside a scanning chamber of the scanning device, the chamber being intersected by at least one fan beam of x-rays during a scanning operation, measuring a distance between the calibration device and at least one inner wall of the chamber, scanning the calibration device to produce an image of the calibration device, identifying pixels representing the a geometric feature of the calibration device in the image, determining a position and orientation of the pixels representing the geometric feature in the image and, determining a scanning system property based on the position and orientation of the pixels representing the geometric feature in the image. The position and orientation of the feature in the scanning chamber and the x-ray scanning system property may be determined simultaneously.
US11885747B2
An optical sensor may include a housing, a printed circuit board, an optical emitter, and an optical detector. The housing can define a channel configured to receive a transparent tubing line through which fluid can flow during operation. The housing can have multiple optical pathways, including a primary optical pathway transecting the channel, a light emission optical pathway, and a light detection optical pathway. The optical emitter and optical detector can each be mounted on the printed circuit board. Further, the housing may be positioned on the printed circuit board with the optical emitter aligned to emit light into the light emission optical pathway and the optical detector aligned to receive light from the light detection optical pathway.
US11885746B2
One or more embodiments relates to a method of growing ultrasmooth and high quantum efficiency CsTe photocathodes. The method includes exposing a substrate of Cs using an alkali source such as an effusion cell; and controlling co-evaporating growth and co-deposition forming a CsTe growth. The method further includes monitoring a stoichiometry of the CsTe growth.
US11885740B2
Various techniques are provided for increasing contrast between gas features and other features in a scene. In one example, a method includes receiving a captured image frame comprising a plurality of pixels having a first range of associated pixel values. The method also includes receiving a selection of a subset of the pixels, wherein the subset comprises a gas feature and a scene feature. The method also includes determining a span associated with the pixels of the subset having a second range of associated pixel values smaller than the first range. The method also includes scaling the captured image frame to provide an adjusted image frame limited to the second range of pixel values associated with the span to increase contrast between the gas feature and the scene feature. The method also includes displaying the adjusted image frame. Additional methods and systems are also provided.
US11885735B2
The present is directed to systems for ex vivo testing performance of a hemostatic or sealing product attached to an animal organ and fully covering a cored channel in said organ, comprising: a pressure sensor positioned proximate to said hemostatic or sealing product in said cored channel; a monitoring or recording device configured to receive pressure readings from said pressure sensor; and a pressurized fluid source connected to said cored channel and configured to supply said pressurized fluid into said cored channel under constant or variable pressure. The present invention is also directed to methods of use for such systems.
US11885730B2
To provide a droplet forming technology capable of stably sorting a droplet. Provided is a microparticle sorting device provided with a voltage supply unit that supplies a drive voltage to a vibration element that applies a vibration to an orifice that generates a fluid stream, a control unit that controls a driving condition supplied to the vibration element on the basis of a relative relationship between a droplet discharged from the orifice and a satellite droplet present between droplets, and a sorting unit that sorts the droplet containing microparticles on the basis of optical information detected from the microparticles flowing through a flow path.
US11885729B2
A particle matter analysis device, an analysis method and a manufacturing method are disclosed. The particle matter analysis device includes a charger configured to receive power from a power supply device and to charge particles included in intaken air, an electrophoretic mobility particle collector configured to collect particles having electrophoretic mobility greater than a predetermined electrophoretic mobility among the charged particles based on an electrophoretic mobility and to measure a current of electrophoretic mobility particles, an aerodynamic particle collector configured to collect charged particles passing through the electrophoretic mobility particle collector based on an inertial force of the charged particles and to measure a current of aerodynamic particles, a filter configured to collect charged particles passing through the aerodynamic particle collector and to measure a current of filtered particles, and a processor, wherein the processor calculates a density of the particles based on a ratio of the current of electrophoretic mobility particles, the current of aerodynamic particles, and the current of filtered particles.
US11885723B2
A single dissolving compound forms plural azeotropes, which can be azeotropically vaporized off at various stages of the treatment process, thus maintaining predictable concentrations of the chemicals present. The treatment process can be performed in the absence of formalin or related compounds which can interfere with the preservation of genetic material. A process for preserving a specimen includes using a dissolving compound that can form a plural number of azeotropes, at least one azeotrope being formed between one or more components of the dissolving compound and specimen-supplied water, and at least one azeotrope being formed between different components of the dissolving compound; successively and azeotropically vaporizing off formed azeotropes; and impregnating the specimen with a support medium.
US11885715B2
A method for checking tyres, includes: arranging a tyre in a station for checking tyres; moving a sensor within the tyre; performing first checks on an inner surface of the tyre with the at least one sensor; engaging a radially outer portion of the tyre with grip elements of an overturning device; extracting the sensor from the tyre and spacing the sensor from the tyre; overturning the tyre by 180° by rotation of the grip elements; moving again the sensor within the tyre; performing second checks on the inner surface of the tyre with the sensor; extracting again the sensor from the tyre and spacing the sensor from the tyre; and transporting the tyre outside the station for checking tyres.
US11885711B2
Using tachometer-from-vibration processing of component signals and appropriate configuration allows for the analysis of both the compressor turbine and the power turbine of a turboshaft, turboprop, or twin spindle turbofan engine. One smart vibration sensor is positioned on or near the turbo engine and detects vibration data for components of both the gas compressor turbine and power turbine without the need for direct measurements of tachometer data from both the compressor and power turbine. From this, condition indicators are determined for monitored components on the sensor and returned to an onboard control unit.
US11885708B2
A method for determining a remaining useful life of a bearing having a surface defect includes determining a defect size of the surface defect based on oscillations of the bearing. The method also includes determining, based on the defect size, at least one of the principal stresses or a contact force of the bearing caused by the surface defect. The method also includes determining the remaining useful life of the bearing based on at least one of the principal stresses and/or the contact force.
US11885703B2
The systems and methods described herein are for monitoring the tightness of bolts. The systems and methods may be used with a mechanism to apply a percussive tap and with a recording or monitoring device for detecting and recording the acoustic signals that are generated by the percussive tap. The acoustic signals generated by percussive taps applied to bolts in various looseness states are analyzed and a machine learning model is developed that allows for determining bolt looseness based on the acoustic signals.
US11885695B2
A sensor includes a sensor electrode layer including a capacitive sensing unit, a first reference electrode layer provided to face a first surface of the sensor electrode layer, and a first elastic layer that is provided between the first reference electrode layer and the sensor electrode layer, and is configured to be elastically deformed by shear force added in an in-plane direction. At least one of the first reference electrode layer or the first elastic layer includes a first probe portion that is displaced in an in-plane direction in accordance with elastic deformation of the first elastic layer, and changes an electrostatic capacitance of the sensing unit.
US11885692B2
A calibration arrangement has a sealable and thermally-isolated chamber comprising a socket mount having a number of reference samples in thermal contact with the socket mount and a number of sample sockets for devices-under test, DUTs, with each sample socket being arranged in proximity to and associated to at least one of the reference samples. The arrangement further comprises a thermal chuck and a circuit board, which is configured to provide electrical connection to the reference samples in the socket mount and DUTs in the sample sockets. The thermal chuck is configured to thermalize the socket mount and the circuit board to a temperature set point.
US11885688B2
A method of imaging a turbine engine component with a first surface and a second surface that is spaced from the first surface. The turbine engine component includes a plurality of holes with inlets formed in the second surface or interior that are fluidly coupled to outlets formed in the first surface or exterior. The method includes determining at least one fluid frequency, determining at least one sampling frequency, and pulsing fluid through at least a portion of the interior of turbine engine component while imaging the turbine engine component.
US11885687B2
A non-contact body temperature detection system of a vehicle includes: a thermography camera configured to generate an image of a user within a passenger cabin of the vehicle; a head detection module configured to determine a first area of the image including a head of the user; an eye detection module configured to determine a second area of the first area of the image including an eye of the user; a tear duct detection module configured to determine a third area of the second area of the image including a tear duct of the user; a temperature module configured to determine a body temperature of the user based on pixels of the third area of the image; and an indicator module configured to indicate whether the user has an elevated body temperature when the body temperature of the user is greater than a temperature threshold.
US11885684B2
A method of performing Raman spectroscopy can include guiding a Raman pump beam with an optical fiber, where the Raman pump beam inducing fluorescence in the optical fiber. The beam and the fluorescence are coupled to a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) via the fiber. The beam is used to excite a sample in optical communication with the PIC via evanescent coupling and induces Raman scattering in the sample. The Raman scattering is collected via the PIC, and the Raman pump beam as well as the fluorescence is filtered out from the Raman scattering via the PIC.
US11885681B2
A compact, portable Raman spectrometer makes fast, sensitive standoff measurements at little to no risk of eye injury or igniting the materials being probed. This spectrometer uses differential Raman spectroscopy and ambient light measurements to measure point-and-shoot Raman signatures of dark or highly fluorescent materials at distances of 1 cm to 10 m or more. It scans the Raman pump beam(s) across the sample to reduce the risk of unduly heating or igniting the sample. Beam scanning also transforms the spectrometer into an instrument with a lower effective safety classification, reducing the risk of eye injury. The spectrometer's long standoff range automatic focusing make it easier to identify chemicals through clear and translucent obstacles, such as flow tubes, windows, and containers. And the spectrometer's components are light and small enough to be packaged in a handheld housing or housing suitable for a small robot to carry.
US11885680B2
A spectral device is provided with: a filter having a property of transmitting light of multiple wavelength ranges from a measurement object; a driving means to slide the filter; and a detector to detect an intensity of the light from the measurement object, the light having passed through the filter, the detector to further measure the intensity of the light multiple times sequentially while the driving means slides the filter and thereby obtain multiple pieces of measured data to be used for a calculation of spectral information.
US11885676B2
The invention provides an optical coupling, comprising: a first coupling portion and a second coupling portion, the first and second coupling portions configured to mate in kinematic constraint via a first mounting interface and at least two further mounting interfaces, wherein: the first coupling portion comprises a first mounting element and the second coupling portion comprises a socket, and the first mounting element is receivable in the socket at the first mounting interface such that the first mounting interface constrains lateral displacements of the first coupling portion relative to the second coupling portion when mated; and at least one optical channel for transmitting abeam of light along an optical axis through the optical coupling, the optical channel comprising complementary light-transmitting ports in the first and second coupling portions, wherein the optical axis is not laterally removed from the first mounting interface by more than half the distance between the first mounting interface and the nearest of the further mounting interfaces.
US11885675B1
Electro-optical conversion of an input analog signal and optical modulation of the optical signal to provide light of different intensity levels to 2n photodetection sites whose outputs can be encoded as an n-bit digital output value. The sample rate can exceed 10 GHz (rates above 100 GHz are possible) with much greater simplicity of electronic circuitry.
US11885670B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) systems, methods, and structures that advantageously are employed in smart stadium or other venue applications, such applications including: parking lot security and management; intrusion detection; social sensing; air quality monitoring and early fire detection—among others.
US11885667B2
A system for continuously monitoring at least one machine including at least one magnetic sensor sensing magnetic fields emitted by at least one machine, at least one vibration sensor synchronously sensing vibrations emitted by the at least one machine, a signal analyzer receiving at least a portion of the magnetic field emission signals and vibration signals and performing analysis thereof, the signal analyzer providing an output based on the analysis, the output including at least an indication of a condition of the at least one machine, and a control module initiating at least one of a repair event on the at least one machine, an adjustment to a maintenance schedule of the at least one machine and an adjustment to an operating parameter of the at least one machine based on the indication, whereby efficacy of the at least one machine is improved.
US11885657B2
The present disclosure relates to a device for determining and/or monitoring at least one process variable of a medium including at least one sensor element and a unit at least partially including a material with anisotropic thermal conductivity. According to the present disclosure the unit is frictionally connected to the sensor element, and in particular the unit is frictionally fastened on a surface of the sensor element.
US11885639B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to generating scouting objectives in order to update map information used to control a fleet of vehicles in an autonomous driving mode. For instance, a notification from a vehicle of the fleet identifying a feature and a location of the feature may be received. A first bound for a scouting area may be identified based on the location of the feature. A second bound for the scouting area may be identified based on a lane closest to the feature. A scouting objective may be generated for the feature based on the first bound and the second bound.
US11885634B2
An in-vehicle device displaying travel lanes of a vehicle in a predetermined number of display boxes includes an identifying part that identifies travel lanes to be displayed in the display boxes, and identifies travel lanes so a recommended lane which is a travel lane recommended for the vehicle to travel is displayed in one of the display boxes and a maximum number of recommended travel lanes which are travel lanes coinciding with a traveling direction of the recommended lane each are displayed in one of the display boxes; and a display part that displays the identified travel lanes in the display boxes. The identifying part identifies travel lanes while relatively shifting in turn a plurality of travel lanes and the display boxes from a travel lane at one end of the plurality of travel lanes that are on a traveling direction side of the vehicle and being adjacent to each other.
US11885632B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to pre-emptively initializing an automated assistant in a vehicle according to certain indications, in order to reduce latency while also seeking to preserve computational resources. In some implementations, data for effectuating one or more features of an automated assistant can be loaded into memory of a computing device based on vehicle interaction data. For example, the vehicle interaction data can characterize instances in which the user, from within their vehicle, invoked the automated assistant within a threshold period of time of an application completing an operation. Based on the vehicle interaction data, subsequent instances of the operation being completed while the user is in the vehicle can cause data to be loaded into memory in order to pre-emptively prepare the automated assistant to be utilized by the user.
US11885631B2
A computing system can receive sensor data from one or more computing devices co-located with a vehicle, where the sensor data indicates a seating arrangement of one or more current passengers of the vehicle. The system can receive location data from the one or more computing devices co-located with the vehicle, and using the sensor data and the location data, the system determines a first route for the vehicle to travel to a start location of a requesting user such that a curbside seat of the vehicle is available for the requesting user. The system then transmits navigation instructions to the one or more computing devices co-located with the vehicle to provide routing directions corresponding to the first route.
US11885629B2
A system, method and computer-readable medium for generating and transmitting experience journeys. The system includes a processor and a memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including: receiving a user's request for an experience journey; retrieving a listing of activities within a prescribed vicinity of the user; retrieving a listing of the user's preferences; eliminating activities from the listing of activities that are contrary to the preferences in the listing of user preferences, thereby forming a listing of preferred available activities; devising routes from the user's location to the activities in the listing of preferred available activities; generating experience journeys from the listing of preferred available activities and the devised routes to the activities in the listing of preferred available activities; and transmitting the generated experience journeys to the user.
US11885626B2
An example method includes setting an initial pickup location. The method includes causing an autonomous vehicle to navigate towards the initial pickup location. The method includes periodically generating a plurality of candidate updated pickup locations. The method includes selecting a suggested pickup location from the plurality of candidate pickup locations that achieves a benchmark for reducing one or more of a time and a distance associated with the initial pickup location for one or more of the autonomous vehicle and the client device. The method includes determining that the suggested pickup location satisfies a set of pre-update checks for limiting a number of pickup location updates. The method includes responsive to (i) selecting the suggested pickup location, and (ii) determining that the suggested pickup location satisfies the set of pre-update checks, causing the autonomous vehicle to navigate to the suggested pickup location.
US11885625B1
Provided are methods, systems, devices, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media for providing data including vehicle map service data. The disclosed technology can perform operations including receiving vehicle map service data from client systems. The vehicle map service data can include information associated with a geographic area or sensor observations of a vehicle. Two or more portions of the vehicle map service data to which a client system is subscribed can be determined. Fused data based on the two or more portions of the vehicle map service data to which the client system is subscribed can be generated. Furthermore, the client system can be provided with access to the fused data. Access to the fused data can include authorization to send or receive portions of the vehicle map service data associated with the fused data.
US11885623B1
A system and method for mapping a mobile device position on segments that lie between waypoints on a non-linear map by converting real world geographic coordinates of a mobile device to image X, Y coordinates using an image X, Y length or scale of a respective segment as a basis for the conversion. The mobile device position may be mapped in real time and presented to a user via a mobile device. The coordinate may be mapped in real-time to a specific X, Y location on the map and may be presented to a user on a screen, stored in a database, or used in any appropriate way.
US11885616B2
An apparatus comprising means for: causing illumination of different areas of a sample with an optical frequency imaging beam at different positions at different times, wherein adjacent positions are configured to cause the corresponding areas to at least partially overlap; receiving signals indicative of back-scattering of the optical frequency imaging beam from the sample at the different times; and processing the received signals to obtain an image of the sample, wherein processing the received signals compensates for phase variations between the different positions at the different times using a matched filter derived from a scattering model of the sample.
US11885613B2
A depth data measuring head (300), a measurement device (1400) and a measurement method. The measuring head (300) comprises: a projection device (310, 1410) used to project and scan line coded structured light across a region to be photographed; first and second image sensors (310_1, 310_2, 1410_1, 1410_2) disposed at preset relative positions and used to photograph said region so as to respectively obtain first and second two-dimensional image frames under irradiation of the structured light; and a synchronization device (330, 1430) used to synchronously activate, on the basis of a scan position of the projection device, pixel columns of the first and second image sensors (310_1, 310_2, 1410_1, 1410_2) in a line direction corresponding to the current scan position to perform imaging.
US11885604B1
A firearms cartridge is provided which is equipped with a signal receiver. The signal receiver is operable to disable the firearm when it received a predetermined signal, such as a signal on the electromagnetic spectrum, acoustic signal, and the like. When the signal is not present, the firearm cartridge works like a traditional unrestricted firearm cartridge allowing a firing of the weapon.
US11885602B2
Disclosed is a kind of combination fireworks, in which a plurality of paper tubes form a tube row, and the plurality of tube rows are stacked and assembled for forming, wherein each tube row is provided with a bottom cardboard, two sides of the bottom cardboard are correspondingly provided with notch positioning holes, and the bottom cardboard beside the notch positioning holes forms the protruding cardboard beside the holes; the cardboard beside the holes is folded and stuck on both sides of the paper tube, and both ends of the paper tube are respectively embedded in corresponding notch positioning holes. The structure of spaced tube rows is adopted, so that the radial size error of the tube body of the paper tube is not accumulated in the tube rows, thus allowing the tube body to accurately reach a predetermined work position, and improving the accuracy and reliability of subsequent processes.
US11885601B1
A missile comprises a generally cylindrical body having a distal end and a proximal end; a nosecone having a pointed distal end and a proximal end, wherein the proximal ends of the body and nosecone are oriented toward each other; a forward angled section rotatably attached to the proximal end of the nosecone at its forward edge, the opposite end of the forward angled section having an angled edge perpendicular to the longitudinal axis except for the angle defined by the edge; a rear angled section rotatably attached to the proximal end of the body at its rear edge, the opposite end of the forward angled section having an angled edge matching the angled edge of the forward angled section, the angled edges of the forward angled section and the rear angled section being rotatably attached.
US11885595B2
New devices, systems and methods are provided for protecting personnel and/or equipment from projectiles and other weapons. In some embodiments, a field of shielding particles or other interception media is activated on or about a location determined to intercept one or more projectile(s) or other physical threat(s). In some embodiments, electromagnets are included within such device(s) or system(s), for driving the interception media and/or projectiles away from the protected personnel and/or equipment. In some aspects of the invention, a control system using sensors with one or more sampling points are included, and determine the location and probable trajectory(ies) of an incoming projectile, and deploy the interception media to intercept the incoming projectile or other weapon.
US11885592B2
An optical sight and system. The optical sight includes a housing including a base. A first support and a and a second support extend from the base. A top support extends between the first support and the second support. The top support extends over an optical element and includes a surface adjacent to the optical element. The top support of the housing defines at least one opening extending above a portion of the optical element. The optical element is supported by the housing between the base, the first support, and the second support.
US11885590B1
An adjustable clip system (1) primarily for use with holsters (3) and holster rigs (2) that attach to a user's belt (17) or waistband (18) or pocket via one or more clips (12). The adjustable clip system allows a user to independently adjust the height of the holster or holster rig without requiring the user to raise or lower the user's belt, waistband, pocket, and/or other clothing to do so.
US11885589B2
A foldable pump-action shotgun is disclosed to enable the pump-action shotgun used in hunting to be created in a folding structure, thus providing ease of carriage, wherein the feeding/unloading process of the cartridge is provided.
US11885583B2
An apparatus may include a pressure vessel configured to contain a compressed gas; a barrel having an open end; a valve configured to release the compressed gas from the pressure vessel into the barrel to launch a projectile from the open end of the barrel; and a shoulder support configured to allow a user of the apparatus to actuate the valve while the apparatus is mounted on a shoulder of the user.
US11885582B1
In a firearm, the ammunition magazine has an enhanced body, display, and circuitry to provide indication of the when there is ammunition loaded in the magazine or when there is no ammunition in the magazine. Additionally, or alternatively, the firearm has an enhanced body, display, and circuitry to provide indication of when there is ammunition in the chamber, when there is no ammunition in the chamber, or other warnings such as a malfunction or jam.
US11885581B2
A sealing member configured to fill the gap between a charging handle and an lower receiver. The sealing member may be disposed in a charging handle that forms a seal against the receiver to prevent the escape of discharge gas from the interface between the charging handle and the receiver. The sealing member may be disposed on the top surface of the lower receiver at the charging handle-lower receiver interface.
US11885579B2
An additively manufactured heat transfer device is disclosed, including an enclosure portion with outer walls. The outer walls contain an inner channel configured to direct a flow of coolant fluid. The heat transfer device further includes a fluid intake port and a fluid outtake port, each connected to the first inner channel. The fluid intake port is configured to direct a flow of coolant fluid through an outer wall of the enclosure portion into the inner channel, and the fluid outtake port is configured to direct a flow of coolant fluid through an outer wall of the enclosure portion out of the inner channel. The inner channel is defined by internal walls, and the enclosure portion and the internal walls form a single additively manufactured unit.
US11885569B2
A heat exchanger including a first header tank and a second header tank that are disposed to be spaced apart a predetermined distance in a height direction and a core part that is disposed between the first header tank and the second header tank and includes a plurality of tubes and fins, the first header tank including a first header plate, a first tank, and a first partition wall that divides a space formed by a combination of the first header plate and the first tank to form a plurality of flow paths, a manifold including an inflow passage and an outflow passage being connected to an outer side of the first header tank, and the inflow passage and the outflow passage having different sizes to each other, the outflow passage having a larger cross-sectional area than that of the inflow passage.
US11885548B2
A refrigeration cycle apparatus includes: a refrigeration cycle circuit in which a compressor, a condenser, a first expansion valve, and an evaporator are connected by refrigerant pipes; an injection pipe having a refrigerant inflow side end and a refrigerant outflow side end, the refrigerant inflow side being connected between the condenser and the first expansion valve, the refrigerant outflow side end being connected to a suction side of the compressor; a second expansion valve provided at the injection pipe; and a controller that controls a rotation speed of the compressor and an opening degree of the second expansion valve. In the case of reducing a heat-exchange capability of the evaporator when the rotation speed of the compressor is a specified rotation speed, the controller performs a low load operation during which refrigeration is caused to flow through the injection pipe.
US11885545B2
A dynamic receiver is included in parallel to an expander of a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVACR) system. The dynamic receiver allows control of the refrigerant charge of the HVACR system to respond to different operating conditions. The dynamic receiver can be filled or emptied in response to the subcooling observed in the HVACR system compared to desired subcooling for various operating modes. The HVACR system can include a line directly conveying working fluid from compressor discharge to the dynamic receiver to allow emptying of the dynamic receiver to be assisted by injection of the compressor discharge.
US11885539B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an insert for an evaporator coil. The insert is a curved wire located within the evaporator coil. The insert for the evaporator coil reduces refrigerant charge in the evaporator coil and causes refrigerant flowing through the evaporator coil to change direction.
US11885522B2
The disclosure is directed to a control device configured to control the distribution of conditioned air, or liquid, to a space inside a building. In some examples, the control device may be a wall mounted switch, similar to a light switch, inside or near the space. Operating the switch may send signals to control the position of a vent, or a valve, to allow or prevent conditioned air, or liquid, from changing the environment of the space in the building.
US11885514B2
An air conditioner includes a housing having a suction port and a discharge port, a main fan configured to draw air into the housing through the suction port and discharge air from the housing through the discharge port, an auxiliary fan configured to draw, into the housing, air discharged by the main fan and a controller configured to control a rotational speed of the auxiliary fan to change a direction in which air is discharged from the housing.
US11885510B2
A method for providing filtered air to a zone of a building includes operating an air handler to pass unfiltered air through a filter and output filtered air to the zone of the building. The method includes determining an amount of filtered air provided to the zone of the building by the air handler. The method includes determining if additional air filtration is required to satisfy at least one of a desired amount of clean airflow or a desired reduction of a risk of infection. The method includes activating an in-zone filtration device and operating the in-zone filtration device to draw air from the zone into an inner volume, filter the air, and recirculate the filtered air to the zone of the building in response to determining additional air filtration is required.
US11885496B2
A fluid nozzle includes a first fluid circuit, a second fluid circuit spaced apart from the first fluid circuit and a fuel circuit. The fuel circuit is defined between the first and second fluid circuits and between a first fuel circuit wall and a second fuel circuit wall. A ring-shaped permeable barrier is positioned between the first and second fuel circuit walls configured and adapted to provide a controlled resistance to fuel flow. A fuel distributor includes a first fuel circuit wall and a second fuel circuit wall spaced apart from the first fuel circuit wall. A fuel circuit is defined between the first and second fuel circuit walls. A ring-shaped permeable barrier is positioned between first and second fuel circuit walls. A combustion assembly includes a combustor housing, a combustor dome positioned at an upstream end of the combustor housing, and a fluid nozzle positioned adjacent the combustor dome.
US11885486B2
A combination comprises at least one lens and at least one prism. The at least one lens and the at least one prism are in an optical path of a corresponding at least one light source. The combination is configured to direct light radiating from the at least one light source toward a projector lens.
US11885483B2
A base module of an electronic device is adapted to provide a basic functionality, wherein the base module comprises a connection device for electrically contacting the base module, and wherein the connection device is adapted to establish an electrical connection between the base module and an extension module for functional extension of the base module, so that the base module may be electrically contacted through the extension module. Furthermore, an extension module and an electronic device with extended functionality are proposed.
US11885482B2
A luminaire (11) is provided having sensors means (16) for detecting or determining information relating to a subject. The information is usable to determine changes to light output.
US11885478B2
The purpose of the present invention is to realize a lighting device of thin, low power consumption and small light distribution angle. The present invention takes the following structure to realize the above task: A lighting device having an emitting surface and a bottom opposing to the emitting surface including: a resin, set between the emitting surface and the bottom, having a hole at a center, a reflection block set in the hole at a side of the emitting surface, an LED, which is a light source, set in the hole at a side of the bottom, a space between the LED and the reflection block, in which the resin is contained in a container whose inner surface is a reflecting surface.
US11885476B2
Disclosed is an illuminating panel, in particular integrated into a traversable surface, including, in succession, a first protective film arranged on the front face of the device, a first exterior encapsulating film, an interior encapsulating film, a second exterior encapsulating film, and a second protective film arranged on the rear face of the device, one of the films chosen from among the first exterior encapsulating film, the interior encapsulating film and the second exterior encapsulating film coating at least one active element suitable for emitting light. Also disclosed is a method for producing such a panel and a functional traversable surface with such a panel.
US11885475B2
The present invention pertains to lighting device systems or methods applicable to off-road utility vehicles. The concepts include light sources for light beam production, a housing enclosure that encompasses internal elements and includes opposing front and rear portions. Inventive concepts further include a heatsink arrangement along an outer surface of the rear portion via a fastening system that is configured to transfer generated heat from the light sources and includes a sealing member with fasteners for securing the heatsink through the housing such that the sealing member becomes positioned between the heatsink and interfacing housing structures.
US11885459B2
Provided are a handheld gimbal control method and control apparatus. The control method comprises the following steps: step 1) detecting a current mode of the handheld gimbal; step 2) when the handheld gimbal is in an operating mode, detecting whether the handheld gimbal is at a folding position, and when the handheld gimbal is at the folding position, enabling the handheld gimbal to enter a standby mode; and step 3) when the handheld gimbal is in the standby mode, detecting whether the handheld gimbal is at a non-folding position, and when the handheld gimbal is at the non-folding position, enabling the handheld gimbal to enter the operating mode, wherein there is no sequential order for the execution of steps 2) and 3). The control method of the present invention enables a user to rapidly and conveniently operate a handheld gimbal, without damaging an electric motor.
US11885446B2
An arrangement for equalizing an offset between two pipe flanges, includes an arrangement for equalizing an offset between two pipe flanges, having adjustment rings, each having a recess which extends along an axis and about which a ring material extends in a circumferential direction, wherein at least two of the adjustment rings have two contact surfaces, the contact surfaces having flat, substantially circular contact surfaces at least along circular tracks concentric to the axis. A cross section of the ring material has a varying axial ring material thickness in the circumferential direction such that at least two of the adjustment rings have a wedge shape having an angular offset of the two contact surfaces relative to each other. The arrangement has at least three adjustment rings to flexibly compensate for different offset phenomena.
US11885428B2
A valve includes a substrate, a shape-memory wire, a conductive polymer, and a current source. The substrate defines an opening therethrough and includes at least one flap selectively extendable across the opening. The shape-memory wire is coupled to the at least one flap. The conductive polymer is coupled to the at least one flap. The current source is coupled to the shape-memory wire and the conductive polymer, such that electrical current from the current source selectively energizes the shape-memory wire and the conductive polymer thereby moving the at least one flap between a closed position and an open position.
US11885427B1
Disclosed is a valve core with bolt-connected valve stem and drive piece, including a valve shell, a valve stem, a drive piece, dynamic and static valve plates, and a valve seat. The drive piece valve plates are sequentially configured inside the valve shell. The valve seat is connected to the valve shell, and the static valve plate is connected to the valve seat. The valve plates are tightly overlapped. The drive piece is used to drive the dynamic valve plate to rotate, and is protruded with a hollow convex cap. The valve stem goes through the drive piece along the axial direction into the convex cap. A bolt piece goes through the valve stem and the convex cap along the radial direction, so that the valve stem and the drive piece are bolt-connected. A sealing piece is covered by the convex cap, and the sealing piece seals the bolt piece.
US11885425B2
A burst disc system can include a plurality of burst discs serially arranged to successively rupture one at a time. Each burst disc can be configured to rupture at one or more set burst pressures. The system can include an indicator configured to allow a user to receive an indication that a last burst disc of the plurality of burst discs has ruptured.
US11885422B2
The present disclosure relates to a double sealing check valve for a rice cooker, and more particularly, to a double sealing check valve for a rice cooker that prevents water vapor mixed with rice water and grain dregs from entering the check valve and maintains airtightness during cooking in an automatic water supply type pressure cooker that automatically supplies water and performs pressure cooking. The double sealing check valve for a rice cooker that is mounted on a lid of a rice cooker to prevent leakage of steam generated during cooking, including: an upper part having a plate shape and including a water supply portion; a check valve opening and closing the water supply portion of the upper part by a vertical movement; a lower part coupled to the upper part, allowing the check valve to be installed to be movable up and down therein, and having a flow path and a water outlet to allow water introduced through the water supply portion to be discharged; and an elastic member having both ends fixed to the upper part and the lower part and pressing the check valve in a direction in which the check valve closes the water supply portion, wherein the check valve includes a first part opening and closing the water supply portion of the upper part and a second part opening and closing the water outlet of the lower part.
US11885410B2
The invention concerns a planetary gear box, which has a sun gear, a plurality of planet gears, a ring gear and a plurality of plain bearing pins. Here, a plain bearing pin is arranged in each planet gear, wherein the plain bearing pin and the planet gear form a lubricated plain bearing, and the plain bearing pin forms a crowning at its contact face, wherein the outer diameter of the contact face decreases from a maximum outer diameter towards at least one axial end of the contact face. The crowning of the contact face is configured such that the contact face is concavely shaped adjacent to at least one axial end of the contact face or to a cylindrical region adjoining the axial end.
US11885409B2
Systems and methods for an interaxle differential (IAD). In one example, the IAD comprises a locking assembly that includes a friction clutch, the friction clutch includes a clutch pack that comprises plurality of plates configured to engage and disengage to inhibit and permit speed differentiation between a first axle differential and a second axle differential. The IAD further includes a supply lubrication passage that comprises an inlet that receives a lubricant from an enclosure surrounding an input gear of an axle differential and a first outlet flowing the lubricant to a gear coupled to the clutch pack.
US11885407B1
A fluid pump system for an aircraft has a rotatable component having first and second fluid ports, each port in fluid communication with a selected interior portion of the component, the portions being spaced from each other. A valve controls allows a first flow rate through the first fluid port and allows a second flow rate through the second fluid port when the component is in a first angular orientation. The valve allows a third flow rate through the first fluid port and allows a fourth flow rate through the second fluid port when the component is in a second angular orientation.
US11885404B2
A differential housing for a differential unit of a vehicle. The differential housing is configured for receiving a differential and an end portion of each of two drive shafts connected by means of the differential. The differential housing has a longitudinal axis. It comprises a peripheral wall which has a substantially tubular shape, and defines an inner space. The differential housing includes at least one hole which extends through the peripheral wall; and a valve mounted in said hole, the valve being configured to allow the passage of oil towards the inner space, and to allow the passage of oil from the inner space towards the outside only below a predetermined valve closing force.
US11885403B2
A strain wave gearing has a lubricant sealing structure that prevents a lubricant from leaking to the outside through a gap portion between a hollow input shaft and an end plate. The lubricant sealing structure includes an oil-repellent surface formed on the surface portion facing the gap portion, an oil seal that seals the gap portion, and an oil film forming surface formed at a lip tip surface of the oil seal. The oil-repellent surface has a surface texture in which first fine grooves are formed in a predetermined pattern so that an oil-repellent effect can be obtained with respect to the lubricant. The oil film forming surface has a surface texture in which second fine grooves are formed in a predetermined pattern so that an oil film forming effect of a seal lip grease can be obtained.
US11885389B2
A bracket with an excellent reinforcing effect is provided. A bracket (1) with an opening (A) includes a body (10) and a reinforcement portion (20). The body (10) is made of resin. The body (10) includes a pair of column portions (11) and a pair of connecting portions (12, 13). The body (10) includes a plate portion (15) on at least one of the column portions (11). The plate portion (15) is provided with ribs (16 to 18) that extend from the side of the opening (A) to the bracket outer peripheral side and protrude in the opening penetration direction. The reinforcement portion (20) includes a reinforcement portion (21). The reinforcement portion (21) forms an outer peripheral face (f1) of the bracket (1). The reinforcement portion (21) is arranged so as to overlap the ribs (16 to 18) when viewed in the opening penetration direction.
US11885386B2
Various systems, devices, and methods for a vehicle smart brake pad comprising a sensor such as a force sensing device, and a production process thereof. For example, a production process of a vehicle brake pad can include the following steps in time sequence: applying an electrical circuit a support plate; screen printing on the electrical circuit of at least a first electrode; screen printing on the at least first electrode of a sheet of piezoelectric material; screen printing on the sheet of at least a second electrode; applying a friction pad on the support plate; and bulk polarizing the sheet of piezoelectric material by a supply of power to the at least first and second electrodes.
US11885381B2
Dual clutch transmission system, vehicle and method of cooling. A dual clutch transmission system, including coaxial first and second engageable and disengageable torque transmitting assemblies, configured to be installed in a power train of a vehicle, the system including a main flow path for supply of cooling fluid, wherein the main flow path branches into a first flow path for supply of cooling fluid to the first torque transmitting assembly, and a second flow path for supply of cooling fluid to the second torque transmitting assembly, wherein the system includes a third flow path for supplying cooling fluid, which is discharged from the second torque transmitting assembly, to the first torque transmitting assembly, the third flow path preferably being arranged within a space defined by a housing of the dual clutch transmission system.
US11885379B2
A device (1) for connecting a toothing part (3) to a shaft (5) for conjoint rotation with the latter, having a toothing part (3) with a circular bore, a shaft (5) which has: a cylindrical receiving portion (4) for receiving the toothing part (3), and a cylindrical recess (8) in the shaft (5), which cylindrical recess (8) extends at least substantially over the entire length of the receiving portion (4), and a press-in cylinder (10) which can be pressed into the recess (8) and which has an oversize in relation to the recess (8).
US11885378B2
A cylinder unit includes a piston disposed in the cylinder bore that is connected to a piston connecting frame member. The piston connecting frame member replaces a conventional connecting rod, and reciprocates exclusively along the bore axis. A crank connecting member has a linear rail at its top that is captured in a transverse gap along the bottom of the piston connecting frame member, and converts the circular movement of a crank throw to linear motion of the piston connecting frame member.
US11885375B2
A tubular body of a power transmission shaft made of fiber-reinforced plastic is provided with a cylindrical main body portion, and a second connection portion continuous with an end portion of the main body portion and to which a stab shaft is joined. The main body portion is formed with a weak portion which fails when a load input in the direction of an axial line exceeds a predetermined value. A linear rupture portion is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the weak portion. In the present configuration, cost reduction and weight reduction of the tubular body are made possible, and the tubular body fails infallibly when a predetermined load is input to the tubular body in the direction of the axial line.
US11885362B2
A quick-release connection device includes a main load-bearing structural rod, a safety pin, a cam handle, a spring piece and a clamping piece. A free end of the structural rod is provided with a pin hole for insertion of the pin. The cam handle is connected to an end opposite to the free end. One end of the spring piece is connected to the cam handle, and the other end is provided with an insertion hole such that it can be sleeved on the free end, and limited by the pin to form locking connection with the structural rod. One end of the clamping piece is connected to the cam handle or spring piece, and the other end is provided with an opening such that it can be sleeved on the free end, and can be limited by the spring piece to form locking connection with the structural rod.
US11885340B2
Compressor rotor structure for turbomachinery, such as a compressor, is provided. Disclosed embodiments can benefit from sealing sleeves that may be arranged to inhibit passage onto respective hirth couplings of process fluid being processed by the compressor. The sealing sleeves may be affixed to adjoining structures (e.g., adjoining impeller bodies) by way of a slip fit connection to one of the adjoining structures and an interference fit connection with respect to the other adjoining structure, which is conducive to a user-friendly assembly of the sealing sleeves with the adjoining structures.
US11885334B2
Provided is a rotary compressor excellent in energy saving performance and reliability by improving sliding performance of a sliding portion and ensuring sealability in a working chamber. An oil groove is formed at a position facing a vane end face on an end plate. The oil groove communicates with an inside of a sealed container, and is exposed in a gap between a leading end surface of a vane and an outer peripheral surface of an annular piston formed when the leading end surface of the vane is in abutment on the outer peripheral surface of the annular piston.
US11885332B2
An operating method for a conveying device with an eccentric screw pump for conveying viscous construction materials comprising sensing a pressure of the construction material at an outlet of the eccentric screw pump when the eccentric screw pump is running and automatically switching off the eccentric screw pump if the pressure exceeds an upper limit value, otherwise continued operation of the eccentric screw pump. The method includes sensing a characteristic variable of the running eccentric screw pump and comparison of the characteristic variable with a first comparison variable, which is characteristic of operation with an open dispensing device and/or with a second comparison variable, which is characteristic of operation with a closed dispensing device, and switching off the eccentric screw pump if operation with a closed dispensing device is detected, otherwise continued operation of the eccentric screw pump.
US11885330B2
A lower end plate cover is provided with a bulging portion. In a circumferential direction of a rotary shaft, a plurality of bolt holes includes a first bolt hole arranged between a distal end portion and a proximal end portion of the lower discharge valve, a second bolt hole arranged in a position adjacent to the first bolt hole on a side close to a lower vane groove with respect to the first bolt hole, and a third bolt hole arranged in a position adjacent to the first bolt hole on a side away from the lower vane groove with respect to the first bolt hole. When the bulging portion is divided into a first bulging portion and a second bulging portion using a first straight line, the first bulging portion is larger than the second bulging portion.
US11885325B2
A reciprocating compressor includes a piston slidably mounted within a compression chamber and defining a suction port. A valve selectively permits a flow of gas through the suction port and includes a sealing portion positioned over the suction port, an attachment portion mechanically coupled to a compression face of the piston, a support portion that extends away from the attachment portion along the radial direction such that the attachment portion is positioned between the sealing portion and the support portion, wherein the support portion defines a flattened end opposite the sealing portion along the radial direction such that the valve has a non-circular shape, and a connecting portion that mechanically couples the support portion to the sealing portion and permits the sealing portion to move between an open position and a closed position.
US11885318B2
A two-dimensional motor combination piston pump by combining two independent two-dimensional piston pumps into one structure is provided. The combination piston pump includes a two-dimensional motor and a two-dimensional piston pump. The outer rotator serves as the piston and the flow distribution mechanism of the two-dimensional piston pump. While operating, outer rotator rotates and moves axially.
US11885316B2
A pump fluid end having a reciprocating element a discharge valve assembly, a suction valve assembly, and a suction valve stop. The reciprocating element is disposed at least partially within a reciprocating element bore of the pump fluid end. The suction valve assembly is coupled with a front end of the reciprocating element. The suction valve stop is positioned within the reciprocating element bore such that the suction valve stop contacts and applies a closing force to the suction valve assembly when the suction valve assembly is stuck open at the end of a discharge stroke of the reciprocating element.
US11885306B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling a wind turbine system, more particular for a method for determining shadow flicker at a location and identifying a wind turbine in a wind park with a plurality of wind turbines causing the shadow flicker. A remote detector located at or near the location is determining the presence of shadow flicker and generating flicker data representative of the shadow flicker. A target wind turbine potentially causing a shadow at the location is identified based on the turbine position and the position of the sun. Operational data from the target wind turbine is obtained and it is verified whether the target wind turbine generates the shadow flicker by comparing the flicker data and the operational data.
US11885302B2
A vertical axis turbine having a first rotor and at least one second rotor, the first rotor being configured to rotate around a first rotation axis that is vertical or more vertical than horizontal. The first rotor may be configured to be driven and/or rotated by wind or water flow. The at least one second rotor is provided on or coupled to the first rotor such that the first rotor is operable to move the second rotor upon rotation of the first rotor. The second rotor is operable to drive a power take off system. Each second rotor rotates around a respective second rotation axis that may be angled or perpendicular to the first rotation axis of the first rotor. The first and second rotors are configured so that the power take-off system can be driven without the need for a gearbox.
US11885297B2
An anchoring and lifting system for a wind turbine tower having a tower base; a plurality of base anchors attached to the tower base; an anchor outrigger attached to and extending laterally outward from the tower base; at least one secondary anchor attached to the anchor outrigger; a lifting outrigger attached to a hinge wherein the hinge connects the tower base and a tower for moving the tower between a raised position and a lowered position; a static cable connected between a distal end of the lifting outrigger and a hub attached to the tower; and, a lifting cable attached between the distal end of the lifting outrigger and a winch, wherein the winch is carried by the tower base.
US11885283B2
A seal interposed between a turbojet engine and a movable part of a nacelle includes a tubular body delimiting an inner cavity interposed between at least one fixing part and a platform. The platform includes a first lateral edge, a second lateral edge and a planar surface extending from the first lateral edge to the second lateral edge. The seal includes a protuberance arranged on the platform. The protuberance is centered on the platform or extends from the first lateral edge to the second lateral edge.
US11885281B2
An aeronautical thrust reverser including a sliding cowl, shutter flaps and deflection cascades. The reverser includes, for each flap, a return member hinged to the sliding cowl, to a driving connecting rod itself hinged to a front frame of the reverser, and to a return connecting rod itself hinged to the flap, the latter being moreover hinged by its rear end to the sliding cowl. The return member, the driving connecting rod and the return connecting rod form an actuation system capable of opening the secondary flow duct in a direct thrust configuration.
US11885279B2
A monolithic heat exchanger body for inputting heat to a closed-cycle engine includes heating walls and heat sink, such as heat transfer regions. The heating walls are configured and arranged in an array of spirals or spiral arcs relative to a longitudinal axis of an inlet plenum. Adjacent portions of the heating walls respectively define corresponding heating fluid pathways fluidly communicating with the inlet plenum. At least a portion of the heat sink is disposed about at least a portion of the monolithic heat exchanger body. The heat sink includes working-fluid bodies including working-fluid pathways that have a heat transfer relationship with the heating fluid pathways. Respective ones of the heat transfer regions have a heat transfer relationship with a corresponding semiannular portion of the heating fluid pathways. Respective ones of the heat transfer regions include working-fluid pathways fluidly communicating between a heat input region and a heat extraction region.
US11885272B2
An engine control system according to the present disclosure includes an oil temperature sensor and a waste gate valve control unit. The oil temperature sensor detects a temperature of an engine oil. The waste gate valve control unit controls opening and closing of a waste gate valve based on the temperature of the engine oil detected by the oil temperature sensor. More specifically, when the temperature of the engine oil detected by the oil temperature sensor is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold, the waste gate valve control unit controls the waste gate valve so that it opens.
US11885270B2
An energy utilization system can initially store a plurality of different fuels in a fuel storage pod before choosing a fuel ratio with a blend module connected to the fuel storage pod. The fuel ratio chosen in response to an electrical generation parameter tracked by the blend module. The supply of at least two of the plurality of different fuels to a power generator with the chosen fuel ratio allows for the combustion of the supplied fuels with the electrical power generator to create electricity.
US11885266B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to steam cycle methods, systems, and apparatus for efficiently reducing carbon footprints in plant systems. In one aspect, a cycle is conducted in a plant system to collect CO2. In one aspect, a cycle is conducted in a plant system to recycle energy. The plant system includes one or more of a power production system, a refining system, and/or a petrochemical processing system.
US11885256B2
A method for operating an internal combustion engine including feeding a pilot quantity of gas fuel, into a prechamber before a piston reaches a top dead center position. The method comprises autoignition of the pilot quantity of gas fuel in the prechamber, feeding a main quantity of gas fuel into the prechamber after the autoignition, and ignition of the main quantity of gas fuel by the conditions in the prechamber that are brought about by the autoignited pilot quantity. The method makes it possible to operate an internal combustion engine purely with methane or some other gaseous fuel, by means of compression autoignition of the pilot quantity.
US11885252B2
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a gas turbine engine includes a fan, a first compressor stage and a second compressor stage, a first turbine stage and a second turbine stage, and wherein said first turbine stage drives said second compressor stage as a high spool, and wherein said second turbine stage drives said first compressor stage as part of a low spool, and a gear train driving said fan with said low spool, and such that said fan and said first compressor stage rotate in the same direction, and wherein said high spool operates at higher pressures than said low spool.
US11885250B1
Vehicle systems and methods are provided for preheating an aftertreatment system prior to engine ignition. A method involves obtaining a first measurement indicative of a current temperature associated with the aftertreatment system, obtaining a second measurement indicative of a current state of an energy source coupled to a heating element integrated with the aftertreatment system, determining an amount of electrical energy to be applied to the heating element based at least in part on a difference between the current temperature associated with the aftertreatment system and a target temperature for the aftertreatment system, and automatically enabling current flow from the energy source to the heating element prior to ignition of the engine for a duration of time in a manner that is influenced by the amount of electrical energy to be applied to the heating element and the current state of the energy source.
US11885242B2
An aircraft engine has: a compressor section having a compressor rotor rotatable about a central axis; a diffuser downstream of the compressor rotor, the diffuser including a diffuser ring extending circumferentially around the central axis; a bearing housing secured to the diffuser ring, the bearing housing contained within a volume located radially inwardly of the diffuser ring; and an air manifold secured to the diffuser ring, the air manifold defining inlets in fluid flow communication with the compressor section and an outlet in fluid flow communication with the volume.
US11885231B2
A turbocharger includes a variable nozzle disposed between a turbine housing and a bearing housing and a spring having an annular shape. The spring is disposed between the variable nozzle and the bearing housing, and is configured to generate a biasing force that biases the variable nozzle away from the bearing housing to widen a spacing between the variable nozzle and the bearing housing in a rotation axis direction. The spring includes an outer peripheral portion that applies the biasing force to the variable nozzle and an inner peripheral portion that comes into contact with the bearing housing. The outer peripheral portion of the spring is located further away from the turbine housing than the inner peripheral portion of the spring in the rotation axis direction.
US11885226B2
This steam valve includes a valve casing, a valve body, a valve stem, an actuator, a heat buffer member, a link mechanism, and a link base. The heat buffer member includes: a heat buffer plate separated toward a leading end side from the valve casing in an axial direction in which the valve stem extends; and a support column that fixes the heat buffer plate to the valve casing so as to be incapable of relative movement. The actuator includes: an actuator casing; and an actuator rod that extends in the axial direction from in the actuator casing and that moves in the axial direction with respect to the actuator casing. The link base is fixed to the heat buffer member and extends from the heat buffer member in an axial perpendicular direction that is perpendicular to the axial direction. The actuator casing is fixed to the link base.
US11885225B1
A turbine shroud assembly includes a carrier segment, a blade track segment, and a retainer. The carrier segment is formed to include an attachment-receiving space. The blade track segment includes a shroud wall and attachment flanges that extends radially outward from the shroud wall into the attachment-receiving space of the carrier segment. The retainer couples the blade track segment to the carrier segment.
US11885223B2
An apparatus and method for preventing drill string drag. Rotation encoders are provided for tracking the rotation of an inner and outer member of a dual-member drill string. Based upon the drilling conditions, the readings of the encoder can detect when the inner member is dragging on the outer member. When such a drag condition is detected, a processor can trigger remedial measures, which may include increasing a rotation rate of the inner member, sending a warning signal, stopping operation, or a combination of these.
US11885221B2
A mining machine includes a base having two drive tracks configured to rest on a ground surface and to move the mining machine along a first direction. The drive tracks each have a length along the first direction between a front end of the drive track and a rear end of the drive track. The mining machine further includes a carbody that extends between the two drive tracks, a turntable coupled to the carbody that defines an axis of rotation, and a stabilizer appendage coupled to the carbody. The stabilizer appendage extends forward from the carbody along the first direction and includes a roller or plate to contact the ground surface and provide stabilizing support during a digging operation. The axis of rotation is positioned closer to the front end of the drive tracks than the rear end of the drive tracks.
US11885208B2
A method of controlling a pumping stage of a fracturing fleet at a wellsite with a set of electric frac pumps to deliver fracturing fluids into a target formation at a steady pressure value. An global control process on a computer system communicatively connected to the plurality of pumping units can communicate a unit setpoint to each pumping unit, monitor the sensor measurements, compare the periodic datasets to a target pressure, and modify the fluid output of the pump units to achieve the target pressure during the pumping operation. The global control process can direct at least one pumping unit to deliver a fracturing treatment at a pressure higher or lower than the target pressure in response to changing wellbore environment pressures.
US11885206B2
A system for electric-motor driven transportation mechanism for fracturing operations is disclosed. The system includes at least one transportation mechanism to transport blender components for a blender fluid from a first tub that may be a proppant hopper to a second tub that may be a blender tub and that may be associated with a fracturing blender; an electric motor and a control unit associated with the at least one transportation mechanism; and at least one variable frequency drive (VFD) associated with the electric motors for real time control of a speed associated with the at least one transportation mechanism.
US11885192B1
A wireline jarring tool includes an elongate body having opposing upper and lower ends, a longitudinal channel defined in the elongate body and extending between the upper and lower ends and sized to loosely receive a wireline, and a jarring assembly housed within the elongate body and operable to generate a jarring force transmittable to a bottom hole assembly (BHA) once the wireline jarring tool is secured to the BHA within a wellbore. The wireline jarring tool is conveyable into the wellbore by translating longitudinally along the wireline, and actuating the jarring assembly is configured to release the BHA from a stuck position within a wellbore.
US11885191B2
A downhole tool for joining a string of pipe to a tubular already downhole with a seal element made of metal or metal alloy with a melting point lower than the melting point of the tool and tubular but higher than the temperature of expected downhole operating conditions.
US11885174B2
A coated article includes a substrate, a first dielectric layer, a first metallic layer, a second dielectric layer, a second metallic layer, a third dielectric layer, a third metallic layer, a fourth dielectric layer, a fourth metallic layer and a fifth dielectric layer. At least one of the metallic layers is a discontinuous metallic layer having discontinuous metallic regions. An optional primer is positioned over any one of the metallic layers. Optionally a protective layer is provided as the outer most layer over the fifth dielectric layer.
US11885166B2
The present invention provides device that replaces the hinge pin in a door hinge to provide a door with automatic closing technology, triggered by the device's detection of an adverse condition in the surrounding environment, such as a fire or gas leak, the device including a lower extension pin that slides into the space conventionally occupied by the hinge pin, first and second arms that apply opposing rotational force to the door and door jam, respectively, when the device is activated, and a condition detection module employing at least one sensor and an activation system to activate the device upon the sensor's detection of an adverse environmental condition to close the door.
US11885164B2
A terminal device with a folding screen includes a coupling device with a middle frame fixing member, a first transmission assembly, a second transmission assembly and a third transmission assembly. A first transmission assembly is rotatable relative to the middle frame fixing member during rotation of the middle frame fixing member. The second transmission assembly has a first end hinged to the first transmission assembly and a second end slidably coupled to the first transmission assembly, and the second transmission assembly converts a rotation action of the first transmission assembly into a moving action along a second direction. A third end of the third transmission assembly pushes the middle frame fixing member to move towards a first side facing away from the first transmission assembly or a second side towards the first transmission assembly during the rotation of the middle frame fixing member.
US11885162B2
A counter balance device for a sash window includes a spiral balance having a hand-wound spiral rod connected to wind a torsion spring to generate an initial spring force that counter balances the window's weight for keeping the sash up when raised. The lower end of the spiral rod is connected to a rotation shaft rotatably disposed on a slide block. When a large repulsion force produced by the torsion spring is applied to the spiral rod, the rotation shaft is urged in a direction reverse to the rotation direction of the spiral rod by a buffer spring having a spring force which is larger than the initial spring force so that the rotation of the rotation shaft is tolerated.
US11885151B2
A keycam assembly including a rotatable member, a stem, a locking member coupled to the stem for joint longitudinal movement therewith, and a cam driver. The rotatable member includes an aperture. A proximal end portion of the stem is rotatably seated in the rotatable member and defines a cam track. The locking member extends between the aperture and the cam track. The cam track includes a first passage including a locking pocket, a second passage including an unlocking pocket, a first ramped passage including a locking ramp extending from the second passage to the locking pocket, and a second ramped passage including an unlocking ramp extending from the first passage to the unlocking pocket. Relative rotation of the rotatable member and the stem causes the cam driver to travel along the track to thereby cause movement of the locking member between a locking position and an unlocking position.
US11885148B2
A pool aerator for pools with water recirculation circuit includes a hemispherical body and an atmospheric air intake pipe. The body of the aerator includes a rounded plastic object, having in the middle area a cylindrical portion, and at one end with a connecting means to the pool nozzle. The middle portion of the aerator body continues with a hemispherical dome. A Venturi tube made in the form of two intersected frustoconical spaces is positioned in the hemispherical dome. One of the intersected frustoconical spaces functions as an inlet and the other for mixing and discharging water mixed with air. The two axes of the intersected frustoconical spaces form an angle (α) between 10 and 20 degrees. The mixing hole communicates with a vertical cylindrical hole, in which the intake pipe is inserted by sliding, until the inner wall of the frustoconical hole is reached.
US11885146B2
A collar is provided that can be used to either drive posts into the ground or remove posts from the ground. The collar includes a first portion defining a post opening adapted for coupling about a post, and a second portion coupled to the first portion. The second portion includes a receiver adapted for receiving a tool for use in driving the post into the ground when the first portion is coupled about the post. The first portion defines an obtuse angle with respect to the second portion. The collar is configured to be positioned in a first orientation about a post when used to drive the post into the ground, and a second orientation, rotated approximately 180 degrees relative to the first orientation, when used to remove a post from the ground.
US11885142B2
Disclosed is an arrangement including a staircase as well as walkway systems. The staircase includes a transitional member, and the walkways incorporate grate supports in order to facilitate the connection to adjacent structures. The arrangement also utilizes angled members which are configured with a reinforced flange existing in a dimension that has higher load requirements than the other flange. A novel step configuration is also disclosed.
US11885140B2
A prefabricated tile strip includes a backing board, a tile region having plural tiles and grout. The grout can be composed of a resin/polymer-based grout that allows for superior water resistance, stain resistance, crack resistance and is transportable without breaking. The strip includes an edge region or flange on either side of the tiles to allow for simple screw in and glue on assembly, not even a wall is necessary, the strip can be attached directly to the studs. A step over/under water resistant edges can go directly onto a bathtub or shower ledge or onto the wet area of a tile floor (not separate ledge), allowing it to go straight down to the bottom of a shower floor, or It can step right over a thin plastic flange on a tub or shower base.
US11885134B2
A stair assembly includes at least one joist comprising an upper wall, a first lateral wall extending from the upper wall, and a second lateral wall extending from the upper wall. At least one stair step support bracket includes a tray support wall, a first side wall extending from the tray support wall, and a second side wall extending from the tray support wall. The first and second side walls define a pair of first front aligned positioning holes configured to receive a first set pin and a pair of first rear aligned positioning holes configured to receive a second set pin. The pairs of first front and rear aligned positioning holes disposed such that when the first and second set pins received therethrough contact the upper wall of the at least one joist, the tray support wall is positioned at a first rise dimension.
US11885120B2
A sound attenuation material includes a plurality of particles, each having a core and an elastic or compliant coating around the core, and a matrix surrounding the plurality of particles, the matrix being less dense than the core. A method of manufacturing sound attenuating materials includes adding an elastic or compliant coating to core particles and drying and/or curing the coating, mixing the coated core particles into a matrix material, and pouring the mixture into a mold. The core particles are denser than the matrix material.
US11885118B1
A system includes a compressible, elongated gasket. The gasket includes first and second tubes aligned side-by-side and connected to each other along their common length by a first base and a second base, each of the first base and second base contacting both the first tube and the second tube. A method for sealing a joint between first and second wall panels is described. The method comprises obtaining a first compressible, elongated gasket; positioning the first gasket on an edge face of the first wall panel; attaching the first gasket to the edge face of the first wall panel; and placing the second wall panel adjacent to the first wall panel to compress the first gasket therebetween.
US11885117B2
A profiled rail assembly for casting into concrete. The profiled rail assembly includes a profiled rail including a rail body having a rail slot extending in the direction of a longitudinal axis of the profiled rail, and a reinforcing body including a head element and at least one tension element protruding from the head element, the head element opposite the at least one tension element having a head element major face defining a contact surface for a formwork element. The at least one tension element is connected to the profiled rail.
US11885111B2
A method of flushing a toilet that includes opening a first valve to introduce a first supply of grey water into a passage to prime a siphon; opening a second valve to introduce a second supply of water into a bowl from a tank, the bowl having an outlet that is in fluid communication with an inlet of the passage; closing the first valve to shut off the first supply of water; evacuating the contents of the bowl through an outlet of the passage by way of the siphon generated by the introduction of the first supply of water and the introduction of the second supply of water; and closing the second valve to shut off the second supply of water.
US11885103B2
A power system for a working machine, including a prime mover drivingly connectable to a main shaft; a planetary gear set including a rotatable first member drivingly connected to the main shaft, a rotatable second member and a rotatable third member for propulsion of the working machine; a hydraulic system including at least one hydraulic actuator for performing a working function of the working machine; an electric energy storage system; a first hydraulic machine mechanically coupled to the main shaft and hydraulically coupled to the hydraulic system; a first electric machine mechanically coupled to the main shaft; a second electric machine mechanically coupled to the rotatable second member, wherein the electric energy storage system is electrically connected to the first and second electric machines, and wherein the power system further includes a second hydraulic machine mechanically coupled to the rotatable second member and hydraulically coupled to the hydraulic system.
US11885101B2
Provided is a system which can avoid instability of an operating state of a working machine, when switching a remote operation actor of the working machine. In a case where a state of one or both of a working machine 40 or a first operator is a specified state when the working machine 40 is remotely operated through a first remote operation apparatus 10, a first notification corresponding to the specified state is transmitted to a remote operation server 30. In the remote operation server 30, a second remote operation apparatus 20 which is appropriate in view of content of the first notification is selected as the remote operation actor of the working machine 40.
US11885100B2
Disclosed embodiments are directed to quad track skid-steer loaders and power machines having a frame, a cab, and a lift arm assembly pivotally coupled to the frame rearward of at least a portion of the cab and extending forward of the frame. A first axle assembly and a second axle assembly on a first side of the frame mount first and second track assemblies. A third axle assembly and a fourth axle assembly on a second side of the frame mount third and fourth track assemblies. A first drive motor rotates the first and second axles to drive the first and second track assemblies and a second drive motor rotates the third and fourth axles to drive the third and fourth track assemblies.
US11885099B2
To provide a drift-prevention valve device, a blade device, and a working machine capable of operating an actuated unit and preventing the machine body from drifting with a simple configuration. The drift-prevention valve device is provided with a non-return valve 41 that allows the flow of hydraulic oil from a control valve 28 to a head chamber 34h of a blade cylinder 34 and blocks the flow of the hydraulic oil in the reverse direction; and a piston accommodation part 42 separately disposed from an accommodation part 70 of the non-return valve 41, configured to movably accommodate a power piston 43. The power piston 43 defines a first piston chamber 42p1 communicating with a rod chamber of 34r of the blade cylinder 34 and a second piston chamber 42p2 for drain positioned on a poppet 71 side of the non-return valve 41 and communicating with a tank 52. The power piston 43 is connected to the poppet 71 of the non-return valve 41, so that the power piston 43 can be operated by the difference between the urging force of the poppet 71 by a spring 72 of the non-return valve 41 and a rod chamber pressure of the blade cylinder 34.
US11885091B2
A connection device for fastening two expanded cellular confinement structures includes: an insertion member; an integral shank extending perpendicular from the insertion member; and an integral handle member extending perpendicular from the shank at an end of the shank remote from the insertion member. One or more barbs may project from the insertion member. The device can have a washer section between the handle member and insertion member. The handle can be curved, or it can be in the shape of a polygon.
US11885080B2
A milling machine includes a cutting rotor, a foldable conveyor, a sensor, and a controller. The cutting rotor is configured to mill material beneath the milling machine. The foldable conveyor is configured to receive and dispose the milled material and includes a first section and a second section foldable with respect to the first section at a fold structure. The sensor is positioned on the milling machine and configured to sense a value indicative of a force acting on the second section. The controller is configured to determine an amount of the milled material within the second section of the foldable conveyor using the value indicative of the force.
US11885074B2
Present embodiments relate to a tie plate dispenser which selectively changes the orientation of the tie plates being ejected, if needed. An actuator is used to flip the tie plate as it falls from an ejection location of the dispenser.
US11885071B2
An aramid-mica composite insulating nanopaper and a preparation method thereof are disclosed. A mixture of mica and urea is subjected to a solid-phase ball milling, to obtain nano mica modified with amino groups on the surface, which is then assembled with the aramid nanofiber by stepwise suction filtration according to the present disclosure, to form an ordered nanopaper, thereby obtaining an aramid-mica composite insulating nanopaper with ultra-high insulation performances.
US11885069B2
Disclosed herein is a process, comprising combining one or more additives with a feedstock to obtain a first mixture, the feedstock comprising a fibrous material and water, the fibrous material comprising lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose; and conditioning the first mixture to obtain a liquid product and a dry pulp product. Also disclosed herein are condition processes and machines for use with the same. Also disclosed herein are liquid products, dry pulp products, and fibrous pellets made by the disclosed processes, and methods of using the same.
US11885065B2
The present specification relates to a clothing treatment apparatus and a control method therefor, the clothing treatment apparatus comprising: a plurality of inverters for controlling the motors of a drum, a compressor, and a blowing fan; a converter for converting input power input from an external source and outputting the converted power to the inverters; and a control unit for controlling the plurality of inverters and the converter.
US11885060B2
The present disclosure relates to a laundry device provided with: a cabinet which includes a front cabinet having a cabinet input hole formed therein; a tub which is installed inside the cabinet and has a tub input hole positioned on an extension line of the cabinet input hole; a cabinet door which is installed in the cabinet and opens and closes the cabinet input hole; a tub door which is installed in the tub and opens and closes the tub input hole; a cabinet door lock which senses whether the cabinet door is open or closed, as well as sets the lock state of the cabinet door; and a tub door lock which sets the lock state of the tub door according to whether the cabinet door is open or closed.
US11885055B2
A sewing system includes a cutting device and a sewing machine. The cutting device acquires the cutting data and send the cutting data via at least one of the network line or at least one of the wireless communication by the cutter communication portion. The sewing machine receives the cutting data sent by the cutting device via at least one of the network line or at least one of the wireless communication. The sewing machine generates the embroidery data, based on the cutting data received by the sewing machine. The sewing machine sews on the object to be sewn, based on the generated embroidery data.
US11885050B2
The present disclosure provides an article. The article may include a first tubular rib structure and a second tubular rib structure. A webbed area may be located between the first tubular rib structure and the second tubular rib structure. The webbed area may have a first portion with a first width and a second portion with a second width, where the first width may be larger than the second width. The webbed area may be at least partially formed from a first yarn.
US11885049B2
A mesh belt used in a process for producing a water absorbing body which is formed by warps and wefts being woven with each other. One or more yarns which constitute(s) the warps or the wefts emerging on at least a transporting surface side of the mesh belt is made of an electrically conductive material.
US11885048B2
The present disclosure provides a ringspinning system for producing a yarn. It is provided a the ringspinning system comprising a bobbin holder for holding a bobbin from which a first filament is supplied, a drafting stage for drafting the first filament together with a second filament, which is fed to the drafting stage, and a spindle, the ringspinning system further contains at least one sensor for detecting a breakage of the first and/or second filament and/or a roving comprising the first and second filament, which roving comes out of the drafting stage, and a clamp assembly comprising a clamp for fixing the second filament in the case that the sensor detects the breakage, wherein the clamp is provided adjacent the bobbin holder. It is further provided a method for stopping the supply of filaments to a drafting stage of a ring spinning system.
US11885039B2
Methods for preparing a monolayer or few-layer centimeter-scale crystalline black phosphorus film, products thereof, and electronic and optoelectronic devices including the same.
US11885038B2
A convection pattern estimation method of a silicon melt includes: applying a horizontal magnetic field of 0.2 tesla or more to a silicon melt in a rotating quartz crucible with use of a pair of magnetic bodies disposed across the quartz crucible; before a seed crystal is dipped into the silicon melt to which the horizontal magnetic field is applied; measuring temperatures at a first and second measurement points positioned on a first imaginary line that passes through a center of a surface of the silicon melt and is not in parallel with a central magnetic field line of the horizontal magnetic field as viewed vertically from above; and estimating a direction of a convection flow in a plane in the silicon melt orthogonal to the direction in which the horizontal magnetic field is applied on a basis of the measured temperatures of the first and second measurement points.
US11885025B2
A high-strength steel sheet includes a chemical composition including: by mass %, C: 0.080 to 0.500%, Si: 2.50% or less, Mn: 0.50 to 5.00%, P: 0.100% or less, S: 0.0100% or less, Al: 0.001 to 2.500%, N: 0.0150% or less, O: 0.0050% or less, and the balance: Fe and inevitable impurities. The high-strength steel sheet satisfying a predetermined formula has a microstructure in a region from ⅛t to ⅜t from a steel sheet surface. The microstructure includes: by volume %, 20% or more of acicular ferrite, 20% or more of an island-shaped hard structure including residual austenite, 2% to 25% of residual austenite, and 20% or less of aggregated ferrite.
US11885019B2
A susceptor including a generally circular body having a face with a radially inward section and a radially outward section proximate a circumference of the body, the radially outward section having at least one ring extending upward for contacting a bottom surface of a substrate, and wherein the radially inward section lacks a ring extending upward from the face.
US11885015B2
A deposition method includes preparing a substrate having an insulating film formed thereon; forming a molybdenum film on the insulating film by supplying a molybdenum-containing gas and a reducing gas to the substrate; and heat-treating the substrate having the molybdenum film formed on the insulating film, without exposing the substrate to atmospheric air.
US11885009B2
A method of making a thin film can include bombarding a substrate with first ions supplied from a first ion beam; and sputtering from a metal sputtering target substantially simultaneously with the bombardment to deposit a metal-ion film onto the substrate, wherein the method is performed without applied heat, and the metal sputtering target comprises one or more of a metal, a transition metal, a semi-metal, alloys thereof and combinations thereof.
US11884994B2
A synthetic titanium-corundum composite includes a titanium alloy and a coherently bonded corundum phase. The titanium alloy includes at least one elemental titanium solid solution and the atomic percentage of aluminum in the titanium alloy ranges from 0.5% to 24.5%.
US11884990B2
A steel strip or sheet having a complex phase microstructure including one or more of ferrite, carbide free bainite, martensite and/or retained austenite in its microstructure including: 0.16-0.25 wt. % C; 2.3-4.00 wt. % Mn; 5-50 ppm B; 5-100 ppm N; 0.001-1.10 wt. % Al tot; 0.05-1.10 wt. % Si; 0-0.04 wt. % Ti; 0-0.10 wt. % Cu; 0-0.10 wt. % Mo; 0-0.10 wt. % Ni; 0-0.20 wt. % V; 0-0.05 wt. % P; 0-0.05 wt. % S; 0-0.10 wt. % Sn; 0-0.025 wt. % Nb 0-0.025 wt% Ca; remainder iron and inevitable impurities.
US11884986B2
The present disclosure provides a transgenic corn comprising event MON87403 that exhibits increased grain yield. The disclosure also provides cells, plant parts, seeds, plants, commodity products related to the event, and DNA molecules that are unique to the event and were created by the insertion of transgenic DNA into the genome of a corn plant. The disclosure further provides methods for detecting the presence of said corn event nucleotide sequences in a sample, probes and primers for use in detecting nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for the presence of said corn event.
US11884977B2
Disclosed herein, inter alia, are nanoarrays and methods of use thereof.
US11884976B2
An example of a resin composition includes a free radical curable resin matrix including an acrylate and a siloxane, and a free radical photoinitiator. When cured, the resin composition has low or no autofluorescence when exposed to blue excitation wavelengths ranging from about 380 nm to about 480 nm or green excitation wavelengths ranging from about 510 nm to about 560 nm.
US11884973B2
The present invention is directed to provide new PCR measuring method and device. As one embodiment of the present invention, a DNA detection method for detecting DNA in a droplet being present in oil, the droplet containing the DNA and a fluorescent labeled probe, the fluorescent labeled probe being hybridized to the DNA, the method including: a first step of amplifying the DNA in the droplet by a nucleic acid amplification reaction; and a second step of measuring a melting temperature of the fluorescent labeled probe and the DNA in the droplet is provided.
US11884972B2
In traditional plant breeding approaches, chemical mutagenesis may be utilized to introduce nucleotide substitutions at random in the genome of a plant, i.e. without possibilities to control the sites of nucleotide changes. Because of genome complexities, the statistical probability is extremely little when it comes to finding a predetermined nucleotide substitution. The present invention, however, demonstrates how a novel, alternative use of digital polymerase chain reaction (dPCR), preferably droplet dPCR (ddPCR), is developed to exploit finding of specific nucleotide substitutions in mutated genes. The entire platform comprises a screening method with a library of mutagenized organisms, digital PCR-based systems and a set-up to propagate and analyze identified, mutated organisms.
US11884959B2
An imaging system and method provides automated microbial growth detection for antibiotic sensitivity testing. A processing system having an image sensor for capturing images of an inoculated culture plate having antibiotic disks disposed on the culture media captures images of the plate at separate times (e.g., first and second images). The system generates pixel characteristic data for pixels of the second image from a comparison of the first image and second image. The pixel characteristic data may be indicative of plate growth. The system may access growth modeling data concerning the antibiotic disk(s) and generate simulated image data with a growth model function. The growth model function uses the growth modeling data. The simulated image data simulates growth on the plate relative to the disk(s). The system compares the simulated image and the pixel characteristic data to identify pixel region(s) of the second image that differ from the simulated image.
US11884958B2
This document provides methods and materials involved in assessing and/or treating a mammal having a functional gastrointestinal disorder (FGID) such as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). For example, methods and materials provided herein can be used for determining if a mammal having a FGID is likely to respond to a particular FGID treatment. This document also provides methods and materials for treating a mammal having a FGID.
US11884954B2
A protein complex based on DNA enzymes of an E family of Escherichia coli and an application thereof in artificial protein scaffolds are provided. The protein complex includes one or more of interaction pairs formed by a CL2 protein and an Im2 protein, a CL7 protein and an Im7 protein, a CL8 protein and an Im8 protein, or a CL9 protein and an Im9 protein. By protein engineering of a carboxyl terminus DNase domain of the DNA enzymes CE2, CE7, CE8 and CE9, mutants that lose DNA enzyme activity but still retain the ultra-high affinity with the corresponding Im protein are obtained, and protein interaction pairs CL2/Im2, CL7/Im7, CL8/Im8 and CL9/Im9 are constructed. These protein interaction pairs have properties of heat resistance, high affinity, high specificity, small molecular weight, fast assembly speed, etc. Based on this, an artificial protein scaffold is constructed for the construction of artificial multienzyme complexes.
US11884952B2
The present invention provides a novel daptomycin-producing Streptomyces strain and use thereof, the strain is a subspecies of streptomyces griseus, named Streptomyces griseus L340, and the preservation number is CGMCC17921. The genetic character and fermentation unit of the strain provided by the present invention are relatively stable, the culture and fermentation conditions are suitable for industrial production of daptomycin, and the interference of pigment in later separation and purification is eliminated. The secondary metabolite daptomycin is obtained through fermentation of the Streptomyces provided by the present invention, which has the advantages of no interference of pigment accumulation, cleaner metabolic spectrum and thus is obviously superior in later separation and purification.
US11884951B2
A method for producing RNA is provided. Objective RNA is produced by culturing a coryneform bacterium having an expression unit for the objective RNA, which has been modified so that the activity of ribonuclease III is reduced, in a medium, to express the objective RNA and accumulate the objective RNA in cells of the bacterium, and collecting the objective RNA from the cells.
US11884945B2
The present invention provides, among other things, improved methods for purifying arylsulfatase A (ASA) protein produced recombinantly for enzyme replacement therapy. The present invention is, in part, based on the surprising discovery that recombinant ASA protein can be purified from unprocessed biological materials, such as, ASA-containing cell culture medium, using a process involving as few as four chromatography columns and only one step of post-chromatographic ultrafiltration/diafiltration.
US11884938B2
The embodiments of the invention described herein relate to systems and methods for culturing and/or maintaining intestinal cells, tissues and/or organoids in vitro. The cells, tissues and/or organoids cultured according to the methods and systems described herein can mimic or reproduce natural intestinal epithelial structures and behavior as well as support co-culture of intestinal microflora.
US11884937B2
The nuclear reprogramming of somatic cells with mRNA encoding reprogramming factors is shown to be greatly accelerated by activation of innate immune responses in the somatic cell. Methods of activating innate immunity include activation of PKR, of toll-like receptors, e.g. TLR3, etc. In some embodiments the mRNA provides the activator of innate immunity.
US11884933B2
An elongated or fiber-supported multicellular aggregation of multipotent cells, wherein multipotent cells are arranged in an oblong or longish arrangement with an aspect ratio of a prolate dimension to a perpendicular dimension of at least 2:1, or supported by a fibrous structure, and wherein the aggregate contains cells at different stages of differentiation, and the aggregate contains polar cells; methods of generating such aggregates; methods of developing the aggregates further into tissue organoids and kits for such methods.
US11884921B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions of matter and assay methods used to detect one or more target nucleic acids of interest in a sample. The compositions and methods provide signal boost upon detection of target nucleic acids of interest in less than one minute and in some instances instantaneously at ambient temperatures down to 16° C. or less, without amplification of the target nucleic acids yet allowing for massive multiplexing, high accuracy and minimal non-specific signal generation.
US11884920B2
RNAi agents for inhibiting the expression of the alpha-1 antitrypsin (AAT) gene, compositions including AAT RNAi agents, and methods of use are described. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions including one or more AAT RNAi agents together with one or more excipients capable of delivering the RNAi agent(s) to a liver cell in vivo. Delivery of the AAT RNAi agent(s) to liver cells in vivo inhibits AAT gene expression and treats diseases associated with AAT deficiency such as chronic hepatitis, cirrhosis, hepatocellular carcinoma, transaminitis, cholestasis, fibrosis, and fulminant hepatic failure.
US11884914B2
The invention is directed to Haematococcus sp. KAU-01 as well as to a culture medium for Haematococcus sp. KAU-01, and to methods for using this strain to process environmental pollutants such as gases generated by coal-fired plants.
US11884913B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to an automated cell culture instrument and to methods for operating such an instrument. In one aspect, the cell culture instrument includes a computing unit and a plurality of electrically controllable resources (e.g., sensors, actuators, etc.). The computing unit receives a protocol, schedules the resources so as to execute the protocol, and operates the resources as scheduled or in response to so as to provide an improved environment for cell culture growth. The computing unit may simulate protocol execution in connection with the scheduling or execution of the protocol.
US11884911B2
The present invention provides a method for culturing cells in a cell culture container having a base section, a top section arranged in parallel with the top section and a wall element arranged between the top section and the base section and defining an internal lumen of the container, in which the wall element of the container is compressible with respect to the top and bottom section, and in which the top section of the container has an optionally sealable inlet, in which the container is composed of a flexible material, comprising culturing cells in a culture medium in the cell culture container. Also provided is a cell culture container having a base section, a top section arranged in parallel with the top section and a wall element arranged between the top section and the base section and defining an internal lumen of the container, in which the wall element of the container is compressible with respect to the top and bottom section, and in which the top section of the container has an optionally sealable inlet, in which the wall element of the container is composed of a flexible material.
US11884909B2
A bioreactor includes a plurality of spargers and a plurality of vertical circulation loops. A first vertical circulation loop of the plurality of vertical circulation loops includes a first sparging region and a first return region. The first vertical circulation loop is in liquid communication with one or more other loops of the plurality of vertical circulation loops. The first vertical circulation loop is characterized by an individual loop mass transfer coefficient. A controller is coupled to the plurality of spargers and configured to control the plurality of spargers together such that a cumulative mass transfer coefficient of the plurality of vertical circulation loops is within a threshold of the individual loop mass transfer coefficient associated with the first vertical circulation loop.
US11884897B2
Hard surface, in particular glass, cleaners having an ease in wipe-out while providing good cleaning with a streak-free, glossy shine are described. The cleaner includes at least one fluorosurfactant including a fluorinated functional group with 2 to 6 carbon atoms, and a hydrophilic moiety; at least one non-fluorinated surfactant; a combination of solvents; a combination of cleaning agents; and water.
US11884896B2
Anti-microbial compositions for cleaning and sanitizing skin are disclosed. The anti-microbial compositions preferably comprises at least one quaternary ammonium chloride active and results in low irritation cleansing and sanitizing products that allow more frequent application.
US11884892B1
An organometallic phosphorus-providing antiwear additive and a lubricating composition including the organometallic phosphorus-providing antiwear additive having improved copper corrosion performance obtained by reacting an organic hydroxy compound with phosphorus pentasulfide to form a reaction product, distilling the reaction product and recovering a condensate, and neutralizing the condensate with a basic or neutral metal compound including one or more of a metal oxide, a metal hydroxide, or a metal carbonate to form the organometallic phosphorus-providing antiwear additive or salt thereof.
US11884880B2
A method of preparing a solid surfactant composite may include: coating a liquid water-wetting surfactant on a solid carrier; and drying the solid carrier to produce the solid surfactant composite. A method may include: introducing a spacer fluid into a wellbore, the spacer fluid comprising a solid surfactant composite; and displacing a fluid in the wellbore using the spacer fluid.
US11884877B2
The present invention refers to a method for removing fouling in carbonate reservoirs and/or depleted reservoirs by adding carbon dioxide to industrial or desulphated water to produce carbonic acid, in producing well stimulation operations, to be used as a weak acid for removing fouling in remote operation aiming at keeping the productivity of producing wells and lessening the need for remote operations with stimulation vessel, and therefore reducing operating costs.
US11884873B2
A treatment fluid for performing one or more pre-cementing operations in a wellbore can include a base fluid, a viscosifier, and a crushed glass material. The viscosifier can be dispersed in the base fluid. The crushed glass material can be dispersed in the base fluid for performing one or more pre-cementing operations with respect to the wellbore.
US11884867B2
Disclosed are ethylenically unsaturated salts of allyl (poly)ether sulfates utilized as reactive surfactants or emulsifiers during emulsion polymerization.
US11884865B2
A liquid crystal emulsification method that can reduce formulation restriction and adjust the size of a dispersed phase with small variation in size of the dispersed phase, and a liquid crystal emulsion are provided. The liquid crystal emulsification method includes: adding a moisture content and/or an oil content at a predetermined ratio to a surfactant having an HLB falling within a predetermined range; and setting a temperature during formation of a dispersion or an emulsion to a predetermined temperature, to adjust a lamellar liquid crystal having a regular molecular arrangement in which the oil content and/or the moisture content are alternately arranged in a bilayer membrane formed from the surfactant.
US11884861B2
A formulation for stabilizing soils is described comprising bacteria, enzymes and cations, wherein the bacteria preferably correspond to Azotobacter vinelandii and Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, the enzyme preferably corresponds to an alginase and the cations are preferably provided in the form of calcium chloride. A method for stabilizing soils; a method for preparing stabilized paths; and use of the soil-stabilizing composition are also described.
US11884856B2
A phosphor having a favorable emission peak wavelength, narrow full width at half maximum, and/or high emission intensity is provided. Additionally, a light-emitting device, an illumination device, an image display device, and/or an indicator lamp for a vehicle having favorable color rendering, color reproducibility and/or favorable conversion efficiency are provided. The present invention relates to a phosphor including a crystal phase having a composition represented by a specific formula, and when, in a powder X-ray diffraction spectrum of the phosphor, the intensity of a peak that appears in a region where 2θ=38-39° is designated as Ix and the intensity of a peak that appears in a region where 2θ=37-38° is designated as Iy, the relative intensity Ix/Iy of Ix to Iy is 0.140 or less, and a light-emitting device comprising the phosphor.
US11884836B2
The present specification relates to a polymer including a unit represented by Formula 1, a coating composition including the same, and an organic light emitting device formed by using the same.
US11884828B2
A radiation curable ink jet composition includes polymerizable compounds; and a photopolymerization initiator, the polymerizable compounds include a vinyl ether group-containing (meth)acrylate represented by the following general formula (I), a content of the vinyl ether group-containing (meth)acrylate with respect to a total mass of the radiation curable ink jet composition is 15 percent by mass or more, and the photopolymerization initiator includes ethyl (2,4,6-trimethylbenzoyl)phenylphosphinate. H2C═CR1—CO—OR2—O—CH═CH—R3 (I) In the above formula, R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R2 represents a divalent organic residue having 2 to 20 carbon atoms, and R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic residue having 1 to 11 carbon atoms.
US11884826B2
Labeled nucleotide analogs comprising at least one avidin protein, at least one dye-labeled compound, and at least one nucleotide compound are provided. The analogs are useful in various fluorescence-based analytical methods, including the analysis of highly multiplexed optical reactions in large numbers at high densities, such as single molecule real time nucleic acid sequencing reactions. The analogs are detectable with high sensitivity at desirable wavelengths. They contain structural components that modulate the interactions of the analogs with DNA polymerase, thus decreasing photodamage and improving the kinetic and other properties of the analogs in sequencing reactions. Also provided are nucleotide and dye-labeled compounds of the subject analogs, as well as intermediates useful in the preparation of the compounds and analogs. Compositions comprising the compounds, methods of synthesis of the intermediates, compounds, and analogs, and mutant DNA polymerases are also provided.
US11884822B2
A foamable poly carbonate composition comprising 5 to 95 wt % of a poly(siloxane) block copolymer comprising a poly(carbonate-siloxane) comprising 50 to 99 wt % of bisphenol A carbonate units and 1 to 50 wt % of dimethylsiloxane units, each based on the weight of the poly(carbonate-siloxane), a poly(ester-carbonate-siloxane) comprising bisphenol A carbonate units, isophthalate-terephthalate-bisphenol A ester units, and 5 to 200 dimethyl siloxane units, or a combination thereof; 5 to 95 wt % of an auxiliary component comprising a poly(alkylene ester), a poly(ester-carbonate), or a combination thereof, and optionally, a homopolycarbonate; optionally, up to 10 wt % of an additive composition, wherein the composition has a glass transition temperature of 140° C. and below measured using differential scanning calorimetry, and wherein a foamed sample of the composition has an average cell size of 10 nanometers to 20 micrometers.
US11884807B2
The invention describes a method for the manufacture of a plasticized polyvinyl alcohol polymer mixture including the steps of: introducing into a mixing reactor a polyvinyl alcohol polymer comprising homopolymeric polyvinyl alcohol or a blend thereof having a degree of hydrolysis in the range of 93% to less than 98% or more; where the plasticizer comprises two or more compounds selected from the group consisting of diglycerol, triglycerol, xylose, D-mannitol, triacetin, dipentaerythritol, 1,4-butanediol, 3,3-dimethyl-1,2-butanediol, and caprolactam; reacting the water, the plasticizer and the polyvinyl alcohol polymer in the reaction zone to form the plasticized polymer; and allowing the plasticized polyvinyl alcohol polymer to pass from the primary outlet.
US11884805B2
A sealant for an electrochemical device contains (A) a polyisobutylene polymer and (B) a conjugated diene polymer. The sealant contains the (A) polyisobutylene polymer in a proportion of more than 60 mass % and not more than 98 mass % and the (B) conjugated diene polymer in a proportion of not less than 2 mass % and less than 40 mass % relative to the total mass of the (A) polyisobutylene polymer and the (B) conjugated diene polymer.
US11884804B2
A foam body constituted of a 4-methyl-1-pentene-based polymer, in which one or more temperatures showing a maximum value of loss tangent (tan δ) of dynamic viscoelasticity, which is obtained by dynamic viscoelasticity measurement conducted under the conditions of a temperature increase rate of 4° C./min, a frequency of 1.59 Hz, and a distortion of 0.1%, exist in at least a range of 10° C. or higher and 100° C. or lower, and the maximum value of the loss tangent is 0.5 or more and 3.5 or less. Another aspect relates to a polyolefin-based foam sheet constituted of a 4-methyl-1-pentene-based polymer, in which the difference in Shore A hardness of at least one surface at different times is defined. A further aspect relates to a complex including a foam body constituted of a 4-methyl-1-pentene-based polymer and a member which is bonded to the foam body and is different from the foam body.
US11884798B2
The present invention relates to a film comprising hydrophobically modified cellulose fibers in which cellulose fibers are bound to a modifying group at one or more members selected from anionic groups and hydroxyl groups, and an oil having an SP value of 10 or less. The film of the present invention can be utilized in the fields of materials for packaging containers for cosmetics and foods.
US11884797B2
The invention provides ultraviolet light absorber suitable for use as an additive in polymers, comprising particles of inorganic oxide having UV light-absorbing compound on their surface, wherein said UV light-absorbing compound is chemically bonded, either to a spacer provided on the surface of said particle, or directly to the surface of the particle. Process for preparing the additive absorber and a thermoplastic polymer (e.g., a film) comprising the absorber additive are also provided.
US11884790B2
A near-infrared shielding ultrafine particle dispersion body, and others, having excellent near-infrared shielding function, low haze value and excellent design, with suppressed change in color tone during outdoor use and blue haze phenomenon, using near-infrared shielding ultrafine particles transparent in visible light range, having excellent near-infrared shielding properties, and produced with high productivity, and a near-infrared shielding ultrafine particle dispersion body in which ultra-fine particles having near-infrared shielding properties are dispersed in solid medium, wherein the ultrafine particles are composite tungsten oxide ultrafine particles represented by general formula MxWyOz, and have XRD peak top intensity ratio value of 0.13 or more based on XRD peak intensity ratio value of 1 on plane of silicon powder standard sample, and solid medium contains resin binder and weather resistance improver, and weather resistance improver includes at least one selected from benzotriazole-based UV absorber, triazine-based UV absorber, and benzophenone-based UV absorber.
US11884780B2
The present invention provides a modified conjugated diene polymer that has excellent hydrophilicity and is useful for modification of polar polymers. The present invention also provides a modified conjugated diene polymer and a polymer modifier that, when used for modification of a polar polymer, can enhance characteristics, for example, flexibility, of the composition including the polymer and also offer excellent processability and shaping properties. The present invention further provides a polymer composition including such a conjugated diene polymer. A polymer modifier (A) includes a modified conjugated diene polymer (A1) having a hydrophilic group having a polyethylene glycol structure.
US11884778B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a silicone composition which provides a release coating having excellent adhesion to a substrate, in particular a plastic film substrate, such as a polyester film. Further, an object of the present invention is to provide a release sheet having a cured coating of the silicon composition. It is also an object of the present invention to provide a silicone composition which has improved storage stability and does not cause separation of the functional compound during long-term storage or transportation. The present invention provides a silicone composition comprising the following components (A) to (C): (A) an organopolysiloxane having at least two alkenyl groups each bonded to a silicon atom in a molecule, having a viscosity at 25 degrees C. in the range of from 50 mPa·s to 10,000 mPa·s, and having no aryl nor aralkyl group bonded to a silicon atom, wherein a percentage of the number of the alkenyl groups relative to the number of groups each bonded to a silicon atom is from 0.01% to less than 4.5%; (B) a mixture comprising the following components (B1), (B2) and (B3): (B1) an alpha-olefin which is liquid at 25 degrees C., in an amount of 0.05 to 15 parts by mass, relative to 100 parts by mass of component (A), (B2) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane having at least three hydrogen atoms each bonded to a silicon atom in a molecule, and having no aryl nor aralkyl group bonded to a silicon atom, wherein a ratio of the number of the SiH groups present in component (B2) to a total number of the alkenyl groups present in components (A) and (B) is 0.5 to 10; (B3) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane having at least three hydrogen atoms each bonded to a silicon atom in a molecule, and having an aryl group and/or an aralkyl group each bonded to a silicon atom such that a percentage of the number of the aryl group and the aralkyl group relative to a total number of hydrogen atoms and groups each bonded to a silicon atom is 8% to 50%, wherein the amount of component (B3) is from 0.05 to 10 parts by mass, relative to 100 parts by mass of component (A), and a ratio of the number of the SiH groups present in component (B3) to a total number of the alkenyl groups present in components (A) and (B) is 0.1 to 2; and (C) a catalytic amount of a platinum group metal catalyst.
US11884773B2
Provided are an epoxy resin composition, which exhibits excellent low dielectric properties, and imparts excellent copper foil peel strength and interlayer cohesive strength when used in printed circuit plate applications; and a phenolic resin or an epoxy resin, which are for forming the epoxy resin composition. The phenolic resin is represented by General Formula (1) below. In the formula, R1's each represent a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms; R2's each represent a hydrogen atom, Formula (1a), or Formula (1b), where at least one of R2's is Formula (1a) or Formula (1b); and n represents the number of repetitions of 0 to 5.
US11884770B2
An alternative polyurethane composition is provided which comprises a reaction product of an azidated polyol and a poly(alkynyl carbamate) prepolymer, wherein reaction occurs at a temperature of from 20° C. to 200° C., optionally in the presence of a catalyst, wherein the poly(alkynyl carbamate) prepolymer comprises a reaction product of stoichiometric equivalents of a polyisocyanate and a component comprising 1-100% of an alkynol-ether of the formula (I): HC≡C—R—OH (I), wherein R is a linear or branched ether chain having from 1 to 15 atoms, and wherein the remainder of the hydroxyl-functional component comprises a first alkynol. The inclusion of an alkynol-ether reduces the viscosity of the composition without compromising its performance. The inventive alternative polyurethane compositions may find use in providing coatings, adhesives, sealants, films, elastomers, castings, foams, and composites.
US11884763B2
A nonlimiting example method of forming highly spherical carbon nanomaterial-graft-polyolefin (CNM-g-polyolefin) particles may comprising: mixing a mixture comprising: (a) a CNM-g-polyolefin comprising a polyolefin grafted to a carbon nanomaterial, (b) a carrier fluid that is immiscible with the polyolefin of the CNM-g-polyolefin, optionally (c) a thermoplastic polymer not grafted to a CNM, and optionally (d) an emulsion stabilizer at a temperature greater than a melting point or softening temperature of the polyolefin of the CNM-g-polyolefin and the thermoplastic polymer, when included, and at a shear rate sufficiently high to disperse the CNM-g-polyolefin in the carrier fluid; cooling the mixture to below the melting point or softening temperature to form the CNM-g-polyolefin particles; and separating the CNM-g-polyolefin particles from the carrier fluid.
US11884760B2
A production method for a branched conjugated diene-based polymer, comprising: a polymerizing step of obtaining a conjugated diene-based polymer having an active end by polymerizing or copolymerizing a conjugated diene compound, or a conjugated diene compound and an aromatic vinyl compound with an alkali metal compound or an alkaline earth metal compound used as a polymerization initiator; and a branching step of introducing a branch structure by reacting a styrene derivative as a branching agent with the active end of the conjugated diene-based polymer.
US11884753B2
A compound having Formula (I) or Formula (II): or a mixture thereof, in which R is —H; —CH3; —CH—(CH3)2; —CH2—CH—(CH3)2; —CH—(CH3)—CH2—CH3; —CH2—(C6H5); —CH2—(3-indole); —CH2—CH2—S—CH3; —CH2—OH; —CH—(CH3)—OH; —CH2—SH; —CH2-(p-C6H4OH); —CH2—CH2—CH2—CH2—NH2; —CH2—CO—NH2; —CH2—CH2—CO—NH2; —CH2—CH2—COOH; —CH2—COOH; or —CH2—CH2—NH—C═NH2(NH2); and X is a suitable non-interfering anion, a process for making the compound having Formula (I) or Formula (II), and a process for reacting the compound having Formula (I) or Formula (II) or a mixture thereof with a (poly)saccharide to form a cationized (poly)saccharide.
US11884749B2
Provided herein are peptides that bind β-catenin, and compositions comprising said peptides. Peptides binding β-catenin prevent translocation to the nucleus and modulate the canonical Wnt pathway. Also provided herein are methods of using said peptides and compositions in the treatment of tissue-infiltrating conditions including endometriosis.
US11884742B2
In one aspect, the invention provides methods of inhibiting the effects of MASP-2-dependent complement activation in a living subject. The methods comprise the step of administering, to a subject in need thereof, an amount of a MASP-2 inhibitory agent effective to inhibit MASP-2-dependent complement activation. In some embodiments, the MASP-2 inhibitory agent inhibits cellular injury associated with MASP-2-mediated alternative complement pathway activation, while leaving the classical (C1q-dependent) pathway component of the immune system intact. In another aspect, the invention provides compositions for inhibiting the effects of lectin-dependent complement activation, comprising a therapeutically effective amount of a MASP-2 inhibitory agent and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
US11884739B2
The present disclosure relates to a novel class of anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies comprising a homogeneous population of anti-CD20 IgG molecules having the same N-glycan on each of Fc. The antibodies of the invention can be produced from anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies by Fc glycoengineering. Importantly, the antibodies of the invention have improved therapeutic values with increased ADCC activity and increased Fc receptor binding affinity compared to the corresponding monoclonal antibodies that have not been glycoengineered.
US11884720B2
The present invention relates to a bispecific antibody construct comprising a first binding domain which binds to human MSLN on the surface of a target cell and a second binding domain which binds to human CD3 on the surface of a T cell. Moreover, the invention provides a polynucleotide encoding the antibody construct, a vector comprising said polynucleotide and a host cell transformed or transfected with said polynucleotide or vector. Furthermore, the invention provides a process for the production of the antibody construct of the invention, a medical use of said antibody construct and a kit comprising said antibody construct.
US11884712B2
Provided herein are multi-chain chimeric polypeptides that include: (a) a first chimeric polypeptide including a first target-binding domain, a soluble tissue factor domain, and a first domain of a pair of affinity domains; and (b) a second chimeric polypeptide including a second domain of a pair of affinity domains and a second target-binding domain, where the first chimeric polypeptide and the second chimeric polypeptide associate through the binding of the first domain and the second domain of the pair of affinity domains. Also provided here are methods of using these multi-chain chimeric polypeptides and nucleic acids encoding these multi-chain chimeric polypeptides.
