US11999543B1
A wireless package-mounted sensor system to detect an opening of a package. The system may measure, at each of a plurality of sensors mounted to a plurality of different respective surfaces of the package, an orientation of the surface onto which the sensor is mounted. At least one of the sensors may be mounted to an adjustable surface intended to open the package. An open package test may be executed comprising determining a relative orientation between the sensor mounted to the adjustable surface and another of the plurality of sensors mounted to another of the plurality of different respective surfaces, and determining the package is open if the relative orientation changes from a threshold range indicating a closed state to a threshold range indicating an open state. An indication of the determination that the package is open may be wirelessly transmitting.
US11999541B2
The hexagonal packaging unit includes a container adapted to hold contents, wherein the contents are on or more of pharmaceutical composition or medical devices. The hexagonal packaging unit includes a lid pivotally connected and configured to slideably rotate on a pivot and engage a top of the container, wherein the lid is rotatable in a first direction between a closed position resulting in the lid covering an opening in the container, and an open position resulting in the opening of the container at least being partially open. The hexagonal packaging unit includes a first latch portion associated with the lid comprising a first release lever and a second release lever. The hexagonal packaging unit includes a second latch portion associated with the container positionable to engage the first latch portion when the lid is in the closed position, and disengage when the lid is in the open position.
US11999536B2
This disclosure relates to a cover and a water container using the cover. The cover comprises a cover base, an upper cover, a bracket, a pressing ring and a button. The upper cover is hinged to the cover base and has a first snap portion. The pressing ring is hinged to the bracket and has a snap-fit portion for snapping the upper cover. The button is pivotally arranged on the cover base in a lever manner and has an upper end and a lower end. The upper end of the button has a second snap portion. The pressing ring is connected to the cover base by a reset elastic member. When the pressing ring is turned relative to the bracket and pushes against the lower end of the button, a pushing force is applied to the lower end of the button to disengage the second snap portion from the first snap portion. The user operates the overturn of the pressing ring with one hand to disengage the pressing ring from the upper cover and disengage the button from the upper cover, and then the cover is completely opened. After the pressing ring and the button return to their original positions, the user can turn the upper cover with one hand again, and then the cover can be easily closed. In this way, users can open and close the cover with one hand conveniently.
US11999534B2
A composite closure which includes an improved sealing gasket material and shape. The Closure includes an end panel that is received in a circular plastic fitment having a central opening therein defined by an inwardly extending flange which over-lies in an outer periphery of the end panel and an integral skirt downwardly depending from the flange. The fitment includes an inwardly extending circumferential bead or bead segments which include a substantially non-deformable flat vertical surfaces that are substantially parallel to the axis of the closure and axially positioned to contact the radial outer-most edge of the end panel when the closure is fully applied to a container. The sealing gasket has the shape of an annulus with a particular cross-section and formed from a PVC free material.
US11999533B2
A storage bag has a first closure profile attached to a first side surface, with the first closure profile forming a lip between an interlocking member and an edge of the first closure profile. The bag also includes a second closure profile attached to the second side surface, with the second closure profile forming a lip between an interlocking member and an edge of the second closure profile. The lips of the first and second closure profiles are visually distinct colors or different shades of a color in order to aid the user in locating the lips.
US11999513B2
Described is a spacecraft locker configured be deployed in outer space and configured to assemble satellites (e.g., CubeSats) within it and deploy them in outer space. In an embodiment, an unmanned spacecraft includes a housing configured to be deployed in a microgravity environment, the housing having an access point (e.g. a door), a storage area configured to store parts of a satellite, one or more robots movably positioned in the housing, and a controller configured to control at least one of the one or more robots to access parts from the storage area and to assemble the parts on an assembly platform of the housing. The controller may also control deployment of the assembled satellite through the door of the housing to a position in the microgravity environment.
US11999512B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that has a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, including receiving a request for an observation of an overhead viewing area from an observer location; discovering an interference of a satellite with the observation of the overhead viewing area; determining possible solutions to the interference; selecting a solution of the possible solutions; receiving the observation from one or more satellites responding to the solution selected; and providing a response to the request including the observation received. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US11999510B1
A shipping and storage stand for an airplane auxiliary power unit (APU) comprises a support stand assembly that is secured to a rectangular heavy-duty plastic crate. The crate lid is removeable, and the sides can be folded down or removed for APU access. The embodied support stand assembly holds an airplane APU by the designed lift points. The support stand assembly is placed within and bolted to a rectangular crate. The support stand assembly includes an engine cradle frame and shock isolators connected to an anchor frame. The outer crate provides two high stacking. A moisture and dust bag is included for long term storage.
US11999509B2
A system for an aircraft includes an electric energy module and a connector module operatively connected to the electric energy module. The connector module is: structured to attach the electric energy module to the aircraft when the connector module is in an engaged mode while in use, and operable between the engaged mode and a disengaged mode. The connector module in the disengaged mode while in use disengages the electric energy module from the aircraft.
US11999508B2
An airplane passenger transport system that includes an airplane and a first passenger module. The first passenger module is removably positionable in the airplane. The first passenger module is adapted to transport at least one person in an at least partially enclosed configuration. The first passenger module includes at least one of a seat and a bed for the at least one person can sit while being transported in the airplane.
US11999505B2
An unmanned vehicle includes a body and a gimbal assembly arranged at the body. The body includes a bottom cover arranged at a bottom of the body. The gimbal assembly includes a shock-absorbing structure arranged inside the body and fixedly mounted at an inner bottom wall of the bottom cover, and a gimbal arranged outside the body and coupled to the shock-absorbing structure. The inner bottom wall is arranged inside the body and faces towards a top of the body.
US11999495B2
A hybrid electric engine control module (ECU) can be configured to be operatively connected to a hybrid electric aircraft powerplant having a heat engine system and an electric motor system to control a torque output from each of the heat engine system and the electric motor system. The ECU can be configured to determine whether at least one of the electric motor system or the heat engine system are in a normal mode such that one of the electric motor system and/or the heat engine can provide a predetermined amount of torque. The ECU can be configured to switch to a degraded mode if either of the electric motor system or the heat engine system cannot provide the predetermined amount of torque. In the degraded mode the ECU can be configured to control the electric motor system and the heat engine system differently than in the normal mode or to not control one or both of the electric motor system or the heat engine system.
US11999492B2
An electric temperature control system for unpressurized aircraft and methods for operating are disclosed. The electric temperature control system may be electrically powered and used on all-electric aircraft or hybrid aircraft. The electric temperature control system may comprise a vapor cycle cooling system for cooling air and an electric heater for heating air. The electric heater may be a PTC electric heater with individually-controllable heating elements. Various input devices may be disposed in the aircraft allowing an operator to set a compartment temperature, an air source, and a fan speed. A controller controls operations of the electric temperature control system based on feedback received from a plurality of feedback devices and the operator inputs.
US11999487B2
An aircraft seat (1) is disclosed. The aircraft seat (1) comprises a seating surface (51), an armrest (7), and a gas strut (9) configured such that the armrest (7) can be moved between a raised position a lowered position in which an armrest surface (71) is substantially level with the seating surface (51). The gas strut (9) comprises a switch (92) with an unlocked configuration in which the stroke of the gas strut (9) can be adjusted and a locked configuration for locking the stroke of the gas strut (9) so that the armrest (7) can be held at any position between the raised position and the lowered position. A trigger (117) is configured to move the switch (92) between the locked and unlocked configurations upon actuation of an actuatable member (111) that is located upon a surface of the aircraft seat (1).
US11999474B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to a convertible rotor aircraft CRA able to convert between airplane and helicopter flight modes during flight, comprising a tillable proprotor assembly TPA comprising a proprotor. Optionally, the CRA comprises a flight control module FCM configured to control the TPA to reverse direction of thrust generated by the proprotor relative to the TPA when the TPA transitions between a first orientation for helicopter flight and a second orientation for airplane flight. Optionally, the CRA comprises a deployable guard for the proprotors, configured to have a stowed state and a deployed state, wherein: the guard in the deployed state is controlled to be configured as a partially air-permeable barrier.
US11999472B2
A rotor blade retention assembly includes a central hub, a rotor blade including an upper outer surface, a lower outer surface, a blade hole, and a proximal end coupled to the central hub, a strap member extending along a portion of the rotor blade such that a distal end receiving portion extends into the blade hole, and a retainer assembly disposed within the blade hole and coupled to the strap member. The retainer assembly includes an upper bushing and a lower bushing slidably disposed within the blade hole. The upper bushing includes a counterbored portion. The retainer assembly also includes an outboard blade pin disposed within the distal end receiving portion and includes a blade pin inner cavity.
US11999465B2
The embodiment is an unmanned aerial vehicle, including a body and wings. A first connection portion is disposed on one of the body and the wing. A second connection portion is disposed on the other of the body and the wing. The first connection portion and the second connection portion are detachably connected. The first connection portion is engaged with the second connection portion. The body and the wing are locked by rotating or sliding the second connection portion. The body can be conveniently assembled with or disassembled from the wing and the connection part meets the reliability of strength and rigidity and does not affect the flight performance.
US11999451B2
Semi-submersible wind turbine platforms capable of floating on a body of water and supporting wind turbines, and a method of manufacturing the semi-submersible wind turbine platforms from advanced cementitious composite material are provided. The method includes determining at a first iteration topological outputs of the wind turbine platform including a plurality of modular sections consisting of an advanced cementitious composite (ACC) material, obtaining a second iteration from the topological outputs, the second iteration including a second model platform and a second model tower of the wind turbine platform, and obtaining addition iterations via simulation to attain a final model platform and a final model tower, the final model platform and the final model tower including a layout of the plurality of modular sections and connections for a platform and a tower of the wind turbine platform.
US11999449B2
In an anti-biofouling context, an anti-biofouling system (20) is provided, which is configured to emit anti-biofouling light in an activated state thereof and to be applied to an object (10). Further, the anti-biofouling system (20) comprises a sensor system (30) that is configured to obtain measurement data relating to at least one structural feature of an anti-biofouling arrangement (1) including both the anti-biofouling system (20) and the object (10) in an actual case of the anti-biofouling system (20) being in place on the object (10). By having the sensor system (30) as mentioned in the anti-biofouling system (20), it is achieved that one or more structural aspects of the anti-biofouling arrangement (1) may be checked/monitored without a need for providing separate means for fulfilling such functionality.
US11999443B2
A selection system of a transmission gear in bicycles, comprising a central supporting axle of a wheel of a bicycle associated with a pair of forks of the bicycle; a cogset associated rotatable and axially sliding with the central supporting axle; a movement device/unit/component/mechanism (or the like) of the cogset on the central supporting axle; wherein the central supporting axle comprises a first end associated in a removable manner with a first fork and a second end associated axially sliding with a second fork, the central supporting axle being movable sliding with respect to the forks between a working position, wherein it is interposed between them, and a disassembly position, wherein it is at least partly pulled out of them through the second fork for the removal/assembly of the wheel.
US11999442B2
A bicycle with an electric pedal assist motor capable of driving a chainring independent of cranks includes wheel speed sensors and crank cadence sensors. The wheel speed sensors and the crank cadence sensors measure wheel speed and crank cadence, respectively, and provide the measured wheel speed and crank cadence to controller of the bicycle. The controller activates motor overdrive based on the measured wheel speed and/or the measured crank cadence.
US11999441B1
A rear derailleur assembly for mounting to a bicycle, wherein the bicycle includes a frame, includes an upper body for operationally engaging the rear derailleur assembly to the frame. The rear derailleur assembly also include a chain cage for engaging a chain of the bicycle; a controller pivotally connected to the upper body; and a lower body operationally connected to the chain cage, pivotally connected to the controller, and pivotally connected to the chain cage. The lower body includes a damper assembly configured to provide rotational resistance as the chain cage rotates in a first direction about the pivot axis.
US11999439B2
A cinch direct mount 2X ring system is disclosed. One embodiment discloses a chainring assembly having a drive side crank arm with a chainring assembly interface including a plurality of splines, a circumference, and an axial length. The chainring assembly includes a first chainring having a first outer diameter and a first center assembly shape. The chainring assembly includes a second chainring having a second outer diameter and a second center assembly shape, the second outer diameter being different than the first outer diameter. The chainring assembly also includes a fastener to couple the first chainring and the second chainring with the chainring assembly interface, such that at least one of the first center assembly shape or the second center assembly shape engages with the plurality of splines.
US11999435B2
A position adjusting system for use in a vehicle includes a seat for supporting a rider, a rear wheel and a steerable front wheel, a steering arrangement including a handle bar for allowing the rider to control the steerable wheel, and a hub for interconnecting the components of the wheeled vehicle. The steerable wheel is steerable about at least two axes. The position adjusting system includes an adjustable seat support movably connected to the hub, an adjustable handle bar support movably connected to the hub, and a releasable position locking system configured to lock the position of the components of the vehicle relative to the hub. The hub includes a first portion and second portion, wherein the first and second portions are moveably connected to one another, such as by pivoting, sliding, or a combination of pivoting and sliding.
US11999434B2
The saddle-riding motor vehicle (1; 107; 207) comprises a rear driving wheel (5; 105; 205) and a front steered wheel (7; 107; 207). The front steered wheel (7; 107; 207X, 207Y) is connected to a rotatable arm (9; 109; 209X, 209Y) provided with a rotary motion about a steering axis (A-A). A wheel support (37; 137) is connected to the rotatable arm (9; 109; 209) with the interposition of a suspension (17; 117; 217X, 217Y) comprising a shock absorber (22; 122). The suspension (17; 117) comprises a Watt four-bar linkage.
US11999430B2
The present invention relates to an electric bicycle, and more particularly, to a folding type electric bicycle capable of minimizing a volume to be folded. The present invention discloses a folding type electric bicycle including: a first body unit including a first frame in which a guide hole passing through at least a portion of a side surface of the first frame, a steering part passing through a front portion of the first frame, and a front wheel part supported by a lower side of the steering part; a second body unit including a second frame connected to the first frame, a pedal part disposed on the second frame, and a rear wheel part coupled to a rear portion of the second frame; and a movement unit passing through the guide hole to linearly move.
US11999427B2
A saddle-ride type vehicle includes a retainer that is provided behind a head pipe; an inflator; and an airbag that is housed in the retainer, inflates by gas discharged by the inflator, and is deployed in front of an occupant. The retainer is disposed below a handlebar. The airbag is formed in a bag shape by a joining structure of a front surface and a rear surface, and a panel that forms a circumferential length difference between the front surface and the rear surface in a side view is provided at a coupling portion between the front surface and the rear surface.
US11999419B2
A track system for traction of a vehicle (e.g., an all-terrain vehicle (ATV), an agricultural vehicle, etc.) may be designed (e.g., may comprise non-pneumatic tires) to enhance its use or performance and/or that of the vehicle such as, for example, by being lightweight and/or by better handling loads, including, for instance, those resulting from track tension within the track system and/or from unevenness or other aspects of the ground, including encounters (e.g., impacts) with obstacles on the ground (e.g., rocks, portions of trees, debris, bumps, abrupt changes in ground level, etc.). The track system may comprise tension-based non-pneumatic tires.
US11999413B2
The invention concerns a method for manufacturing a motor vehicle structural component (1) from an extruded multichamber hollow profile, with the following steps: a) provision of an extruded profile (2) with at least two precursor hollow chambers (8, 9) which are separated from one another by an inner wall (7), wherein at least one outer wall (3, 4) of at least one precursor hollow chamber (8, 9), in cross-section perpendicularly to the longitudinal extent of the extruded profile (2), has a region (16) with non-linear course, b) forming of the extruded profile (2) in at least one of its end regions into the motor vehicle structural component (1), wherein at least the region (16) with non-linear course of the at least one outer wall (3, 4) of the at least one precursor hollow chamber (8, 9), with non-linear course in cross-section, is at least partially straightened, with a change in cross-section of the respective precursor hollow chamber (8, 9) into the cross-section of the corresponding hollow chamber (14, 15) of the motor vehicle structural component (1).
US11999411B2
A vehicle is disclosed that includes: a grille supporting a functional accessory; a bumper beam that is located (positioned) axially inward of the grille; and a first energy absorber that is connected to the bumper beam. The first energy absorber defines a cavity that is configured to accommodate inward axial displacement of the grille resulting from a low-force impact between the vehicle and an external object to thereby inhibit damage to the functional accessory.
US11999408B2
An axially adjustable steering column assembly includes an upper jacket. The steering column assembly also includes a lower jacket, wherein the upper jacket is received within the lower jacket and is telescopingly adjustable therein, the lower jacket defining a pair of slots extending in an axial direction of the lower jacket. The steering column assembly further includes a column mounting bracket, wherein the lower jacket translates and rotates relative to the column mounting bracket. The steering column assembly yet further includes a pair of bushings positioned within the pair of slots. The steering column assembly also includes a geared rack operatively coupled to one of the pair of bushings, the geared rack correspondingly rotatable with the lower jacket. The steering column assembly further includes a sensor in operative contact with the geared rack to detect the axial position of the axially adjustable steering column assembly.
US11999407B1
A column for a handwheel actuator of a steer by wire system may include a column casting, a steering jacket operably coupled to the column casting such that the steering jacket moves telescopically within the column casting for extending the handwheel and retracting the handwheel, and a tunable stroke limiter operably coupled to the steering jacket to limit stroke length of the steering jacket responsive to a barrier event.
US11999395B2
A vehicle driving assistance method includes detecting a speed of a vehicle, obtaining a speed limit of the vehicle in a corresponding section of road based on images when the speed of the vehicle exceeds the speed threshold, and issuing a warning when the speed of the vehicle exceeds the speed limit of the vehicle in the corresponding section of road.
US11999378B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a control system for a vehicle, the control system comprising at least one controller and being configured to: obtain image data relating to terrain to be traversed by the vehicle, and for each of a plurality of sub-regions of the image data: determine probability data relating to whether the respective sub-region relates to a path region or a non-path region of the terrain; and determine a cost for the vehicle to traverse a portion of the terrain to which the sub-region relates depending on the probability data meeting one or more path probability criteria indicating that the sub-region relates to the path region, one or more non-path probability criteria indicating that the sub-region relates to the non-path region or neither the path probability criteria nor the non-path probability criteria; and determining a vehicle path in dependence on the determined costs.
US11999372B2
The subject matter described in this specification is directed to a computer system and techniques for operating an autonomous vehicle (AV) based on the availability of navigation information. In one example, while the AV is in an autonomous mode, first data is obtained from a first sensor and second data is obtained from a second sensor. A location of the AV is determined based on the first data and the second data. If navigational information is not available for the determined location, an alert is provided that the AV will exit the autonomous mode.
US11999369B2
This disclosure relates to a system and method for determining vehicle operator preparedness for vehicles that support both autonomous operation and manual operation. The system includes sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to vehicles and their operation. During autonomous vehicle operation, the system gauges the level of responsiveness of an individual vehicle operator through challenges and corresponding responses. Based on the level of responsiveness, a preparedness metric is determined for each vehicle operator individually.
US11999368B2
Vehicle fleet management includes processing event-based data corresponding to detected events to generate event data sets that include: at least video corresponding to the event and data identifying an event-type for the event. One or more pedagogical event pairs are identified, each of which includes a first event data set reflecting a “good” response to an event-type and a second event data set reflecting a “bad” response to the event-type. At least one cluster of drivers having similar occurrence rates for the event-type is identified. One or more training lessons are generated for the cluster based on the event type, which training lessons include at least the video of the first event data set and the video of the second event data set. The training lessons are administered to a driver of the cluster via a computing device. The autonomous control of one or more vehicle systems is instituted based on the administered training lessons.
US11999367B2
Dynamic throttle pedal filtering of a vehicle is provided. An automated throttle filtering system may be included in the vehicle that may operate to filter throttle pedal input based on detection of a rough driving surface. The rough driving surface detection may be based on an evaluation of wheel speed signals or an indication of traction loss. The throttle pedal input may be filtered corresponding to rough driving surface magnitude values determined based on the wheel speed signals. For example, filtered torque demand values may be determined based on the rough driving surface magnitude values and included in a torque demand request communicated to the vehicle's powertrain system. The resulting torque output may modulate an undesirable oscillating torque demand that may be generated in relation to operation of the vehicle on a rough driving surface.
US11999363B2
Systems and techniques that facilitate detecting fuel in oil, lube degradation, and foreign object contamination through optical and/or color characterization are provided. A signature component can generate a digital signature corresponding to a lubricant in a lubrication circuit of an engine. The digital signature can be based on optical or visual properties of a sensor array coupled to the lubrication circuit and exposed to the lubricant, wherein the optical or visual properties of the sensor array can depend on a health of the lubricant. An analysis component can characterize the health of the lubricant by comparing, via a machine learning algorithm, the digital signature with a baseline digital signature corresponding to a desired health-level of the lubricant. In some embodiments, a light emitter component can emit a first light onto the sensor array, and a light receiver component can receive a second light emitted by the sensor array in response to the first light. The signature component can then generate the digital signature based on the first light and the second light. In some embodiments, an image capture component can capture an image of the sensor array. The signature component can then generate the digital signature based on the captured image.
US11999350B2
There is disclosed a control system and a method for a host vehicle operable in an autonomous mode. The control system comprises one or more controllers. The speed and/or path of the vehicle in the autonomous mode is appropriate to a driving context.
US11999348B2
Methods, systems, and devices related to a method of controlling an autonomous vehicle, in particular, an autonomous diesel-engine truck are disclosed. In one example aspect, the method includes determining an available engine brake torque generation mechanism for reducing a current speed of the autonomous vehicle to a lower speed and selecting a brake mode corresponding to the engine brake torque availability. In case a rate of speed reduction is equal to or smaller than a threshold, the brake mode includes only an engine brake in which engine exhaust valve opening is adjusted for reducing the current speed. The threshold determined in part based on the available engine brake torque, gear position of the transmission, and the online estimated vehicle longitudinal dynamic model. In case the rate of speed reduction is greater than the threshold, the brake mode incudes a combination of the engine brake and the foundation brake.
US11999340B2
A vehicle control device for controlling platooning of platoon participating vehicles by connecting the platoon participating vehicles to one another via radio communication, the platoon participating vehicles include a lead vehicle and follow-up vehicles that perform automatic follow-up running in line at a predetermined intervehicle distance from the lead vehicle, the device comprises a control portion that, during execution of the platooning, sets a permissible output range of a drive amount with a current gear ratio of an automatic transmission remaining kept, as a change characteristic of the drive amount in each of the platoon participating vehicles so that change of the drive amount in response to change of a drive demand amount lies within a predetermined range, the automatic transmission being included in each of the platoon participating vehicles to transmit power of a power source to driving wheels.
US11999338B2
Disclosed are an integrated electronic brake apparatus and a control method thereof. The integrated electronic brake apparatus includes a main controller provided in a first area and configured to: drive a braking motor according to an operation of a pedal, drive an additional braking valve for additional braking, and generate a main control monitoring signal; the sub-controller provided in a second area and configured to: drive a main braking valve for braking of a vehicle and the braking motor according to the operation of the pedal, control a power of the additional braking valve, and generate a sub-control monitoring signal; and a connection bus configured to transfer a transmission/reception signal between the main controller and the sub-controller by connecting the first area and the second area within an enclosure with each other.
US11999326B2
A braking system including four hydraulically actuatable wheel brakes. A normally closed outlet valve is assigned to each wheel brake and a normally open inlet valve is assigned to each wheel brake. Two pressure supply devices are provided for active pressure build-up in the wheel brakes. A first and a second brake circuit are hydraulically configured with two wheel brakes respectively, wherein in each brake circuit a respective pressure supply device is hydraulically connected to two wheel brakes. A first and a second control and regulating unit are provided, wherein the first control and regulating unit electrically controls the pressure supply device of the first brake circuit, and wherein the second control and regulating unit hydraulically controls the pressure supply device of the second brake circuit, and the two control and regulating units are connected together via a data interface.
US11999315B2
A seatbelt system for a vehicle comprises a webbing (28), a belt retractor, a belt reel (16) and a belt reel angle sensor (22) having a first gearwheel assembly (32) and a second gearwheel assembly (36). The belt reel angle sensor (22) includes a multi-stage gearing (58) having a first gear stage with a first reduction ratio and a second gear stage with a second reduction ratio. The belt reel angle sensor (22) further comprises a rotation angle sensor (64) and a rotation angle transmitter (34) associated with the rotation angle sensor (64) as well as a reference signal sensor (68) and a reference signal transmitter (38) associated with the reference signal sensor (68). The rotation angle transmitter (34) is associated with the first gearwheel assembly (32) and the reference signal transmitter (38) is associated with the second gearwheel assembly (36). Relative to the reference signal sensor (68), the second gearwheel assembly (36) has a parking position, a base position and a reference position at which the reference signal transmitter (38) generates a reference signal in the reference signal sensor (68). Moreover, a method for determining the webbing extension by means of such seatbelt system is described.
US11999311B2
A pre/post-tensioning controller system for a wheelchair tie-down and occupant restraint system (“WTORS”) will be a comprehensive energy management system for controlling excessive excursions of a wheeled mobility device during various adverse driving scenarios. The system uses multiple pre-tensioning and post-tensioning events during a front, side, or rear impact crash or rollover scenario—and effectively controls excursions by the tensioning of the WTORS equipment at specific and ideal moments. The system also uses tensioning events on the tie-down equipment during a long duration turn or other aggressive maneuvers. The system may also use tensioning events on the occupant restraints. The energy management system can be adapted for use with traditional four-point tie-downs and newer three- and two-point tie-down systems that incorporate fixed or movable bumpers, as well as compressive-type securement systems, and other systems as well, including docking systems.
US11999310B2
A refrigeration trailer condenser protection apparatus having a pair of front rails with connection rods disposed thereon for connecting a street side bracket and a curb side bracket, the street side bracket and curb side bracket having mounting holes for mounting the protection apparatus to a lower side of the condenser unit.
US11999309B2
A retractable step and side bar assembly that can be used for raised vehicles, such as trucks. The retractable step can be configured to provide for significant reach in a deployed position to allow for a user to enter the raised vehicle. Further, in the stowed position the retractable step can be located within the side bar, thereby providing a low profile as well as an enhanced aesthetic appearance.
US11999290B2
A component for a vehicle interior configured to be illuminated by a light source may comprise a substrate; a light guide; and a cover comprising an exterior surface. The light guide may transmit light between the substrate and the cover. The cover may be at least partially light-transmissive. The cover may present an effect on the exterior surface. The effect may comprise an illumination/dynamic lighting effect when illuminated. The cover may comprise a profile configured to present a visual effect and/or a surface effect. The component may comprise a concealed heating element between a cover base and a cover layer of the cover. The heating element may comprise a three-dimensional form behind the cover. The cover layer may be formed into a three-dimensional form and the cover base may be formed into a three-dimensional form for the surface effect. The light guide may comprise micro-optical structures.
US11999284B2
A solar table mobile transport is described that moves a solar table to a point of installation. The solar table mobile transport comprises multiple motors that allow movement within a three-dimensional coordinate system as well as provide angular controls of pitch, yaw and roll. These motors enable at least one alignment process used to install the solar table to a mounting structure within a solar system.
US11999275B2
Provided is a conveyance seat equipped with a side airbag device with which an airbag can be inflation-deployed in a more stable state. The conveyance seat includes a seat back and a side airbag device attached to a side portion of the seat back. The seat back includes a back frame having a side frame and a side support member attached to the front part of the side frame and protruding to the seat front side beyond the side frame. The side airbag device has a first airbag inflated on the outside surface side of the side frame and a second airbag inflated on the inside surface side of the side frame. The second airbag passes through a gap formed between the side frame and the side support member in the seat front to back direction and is inflated on the inside surface side of side frame.
US11999272B2
A child safety seat includes a seat portion, a backrest assembly connected with the seat portion, and a backrest adjusting system carried with the backrest assembly and including a lock. The backrest assembly including a first portion, a second portion slidably connected with the first portion, and a third portion slidably connected with the second portion. The lock includes a first latching part operable to lock and unlock the third portion with respect to the second portion, and a second latching part operable to lock and unlock the first portion with respect to the second portion, the second latching part being coupled to the first latching part so that the first and second latching parts are movable in unison relative to the backrest assembly.
US11999253B2
A vehicle information management device that executes control of charging a storage battery with power generated in a train, the vehicle information management device includes an information obtainer to obtain information on a current operational state of the train, a storage to store charging control information therein, where in the charging control information, control contents of charging the storage battery with power generated by using an engine to be installed in the train are set correspondingly to an operational state of the train, and a controller to obtain charging control information that matches the current operational state of the train from the storage, and to control charging of the storage battery on the basis of the charging control information obtained.
US11999248B2
An inductive power transfer pad for inductive power transfer to a vehicle includes a stationary part and a movable part. The movable part is movable between a retracted state and an extended state. The movable part includes a primary winding structure and at least one inverter that is electrically connected to the primary winding structure.
US11999241B2
A locomotive, a first chopper circuit, and a second chopper circuit integrating a traction motor with an energy storage device are disclosed. The locomotive includes a prime mover, an energy management device, a DC power bus, a traction motor, an energy storage device, a resistor grid, and a chopper circuit. Each chopper circuit is controlled by the energy management device and includes a plurality of power semiconductors with variable switching frequency. The traction motor may be capable of operating in a motoring mode, where power is controllably supplied by either the prime mover and/or the energy storage device; and a dynamic braking mode, where generated power is controllably allocated to the energy storage device and/or the resistor grid.
US11999228B2
A pedal-application-error accident preventing device to be applied to a vehicle includes a steering-wheel-position changing mechanism, a steering-wheel-position adjuster, and an accelerator-pedal-position adjuster. The steering-wheel-position changing mechanism is configured to displace a steering wheel of the vehicle in a vehicle forward-rearward direction. The steering-wheel-position adjuster is configured to displace the steering wheel in accordance with an operation amount of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle such that the steering wheel is positioned further toward a vehicle rearward side as the operation amount of the accelerator pedal operated by a driver who drives the vehicle increases. The accelerator-pedal-position adjuster is configured to displace the accelerator pedal in a direction such that the operation amount of the accelerator pedal returns to zero in a case where the steering wheel is pushed back forward in a state in which the steering wheel is displaced toward the vehicle rearward side.
US11999220B2
An awning connector assembly includes a mounting bracket having first and second elongated and parallel beads, and an extension bracket defining first and second elongated and parallel grooves configured to slidingly receive the first and second beads in laterally locked engagement. The mounting bracket can be secured to a slide-out room by the vehicle manufacturer to facilitate after-purchase installation of an awning assembly if desired by the vehicle owner.
US11999214B2
Presented herein, inter alia, are suspension system components having tuned accumulator sizing and/or stiffness. Such suspension system components are envisioned for use in a distributed active suspension system of a vehicle. In particular, through appropriate sizing of accumulators of a suspension system component of a vehicle, ride quality of the vehicle may be improved and so called “rough ride” issues may be precluded. Alternatively or additionally, various valves or alternative compliant mechanisms may be included in the suspension system component, so that desirable performance may be obtained for a range of operating conditions.
US11999213B2
A chassis component (1, 32) has a first end section (2), a second end section (3), and a connecting section (4) between the two end sections (2, 3), with at least one bearing (9, 10) in one of the two end sections (2, 3). A sensor device (13) has a sensor housing (14, 33) with a first sensor element (16). To improve and/or enable the arrangement of the sensor device (13) and/or the sensor housing (14) on the chassis component (1, 32), the two end sections (2, 3) and the connecting section (4) of the chassis are made as a one-piece profile (5) open on one side along its length, such that the open profile (5) forms an at least partially free inside space (17), and where the first sensor element (16) is located within the inside space (17).
US11999211B2
An inertial regulation method and control system of vehicle active suspension based on a supporting force of each wheel comprises an inner loop control and an outer loop control. The inner loop control is to calculate, according to the dynamics, a theoretical supporting force of each wheel when the vehicle is driving on a virtual slope plane with a 6-dimensional acceleration and a pitch angle measured by an inertial measurement unit; compare the theoretical supporting force with the measured supporting force of each wheel; and control the expansion of each suspension cylinder according to the difference value, so that the supporting force of each wheel changes according to the theoretical supporting force. The outer loop control is to control each suspension cylinder for the same expansion of displacement, so that the average value of all the suspension cylinder strokes tends to a median value.
US11999206B2
The invention relates to a system (400) comprising a vehicle (402), an arm assembly (408), first and second cable portions (410a, 410b), at least one cable actuator (406), and an air supply line. The vehicle has a pneumatic source of pressurized air. The arm assembly has an end effector releasably coupled to an end of an axially-extendable arm coupled to the vehicle. The end effector has a gladhand coupling portion. The air supply line can be coupled to the end effector and can deliver pressurized air from the pneumatic source to a braking system of the trailer when the gladhand coupling portion is coupled to the gladhand receptacle of a trailer. After coupling to the gladhand receptacle, the end effector can be disconnected from the arm assembly to allow the remainder of the arm assembly to be stowed.
US11999198B2
A pneumatic tire includes, on a tread surface, a plurality of circumferential main grooves extending in the tread circumferential direction, and a plurality of land portions each defined between circumferential main grooves adjacent in the tread width direction among the plurality of circumferential main grooves, or by a circumferential main groove and a tread edge. A widthwise groove (widthwise sipe) (circumferential sipe) includes a widened portion, on the groove bottom side (sipe bottom side), at which the groove width (sipe width) is larger than on the tread surface side. The storage modulus of tread rubber located in a tire radial direction region including at least a reference depth position is larger than a storage modulus of tread rubber located in regions inward and outward in the tire radial direction from the tire radial direction region.
US11999171B2
A liquid cartridge includes: a cartridge case defining a liquid storage chamber; a liquid supply portion provided at the cartridge case; a residual-amount detecting portion configured to change a state of incident light according to an amount of liquid stored in the liquid storage chamber; and a plate member. The residual-amount detecting portion includes an optical access portion accessible by light traveling in a left-right direction in an attached posture of the liquid cartridge. The plate member is positioned above the liquid storage chamber and frontward of the optical access portion in the attached posture. The plate member is pivotable between a first position and a second position about an axis extending in an up-down direction. In the attached posture of the liquid cartridge, the plate member extends in a front-rear direction at the first position, and extends in a direction crossing the front-rear direction at the second position.
US11999170B2
An image recording device includes a cartridge mount to which a cartridge is mounted, a cartridge interface, a memory, a communication interface, a print engine configured to execute printing, and a controller. The controller is configured to obtain a transmission address stored in a cartridge memory of the cartridge through the cartridge interface, store the obtained transmission address in the memory, obtain, from the memory, notification information including at least one from a group of remaining amount information indicating a remaining amount of consumable in the cartridge mounted to the cartridge mount, order information indicating an order for the cartridge and status information indicating a state of the print engine, and transmission source information, and transmit the obtained notification information and the obtained transmission source information to the obtained transmission address through the communication interface.
US11999156B2
A method for the development of a thermally insulating sandwich-structured laminate, such as a sandwich-structured laminate of a housing of a climate chamber for the high temperature range, with an internal wall and an external wall, can include the method steps: providing the internal wall, adhering at least one high temperature stable insulation panel onto the internal wall, positioning the external wall with respect to the internal wall such that between the internal wall and the external wall the at least one high temperature stable insulation panel and a hollow volume are developed. The method can further include filling the hollow volume with a PUR foam for the formation of a second rigid foam layer connecting the at least one high temperature stable insulation panel and the external wall.
US11999146B2
Precision and chip contamination-free placement of two-dimensional (2D) material and van der Waals (VDW) layered materials accelerates both the study of fundamental properties and novel device functionality. The system transfers 2D materials utilizing a combination of a narrow transfer-stamper and viscoelastic and optically transparent film. Precise placement of individual 2D materials results in vanishing cross-contamination to the substrate. The 2D printer results in an aerial cross-contamination improvement of two to three orders of magnitude relative to state-of-the-art transfer methods from a source of average area sub um{circumflex over ( )}2. The transfer-stamper does not physically harm any micro/nanostructures preexisting on the target substrates receiving the 2D material such as, nanoelectronics, waveguides or micro-ring resonators. Such accurate and substrate-benign transfer method for 2D and VDW layered materials provides rapid device prototyping due to its high time-reduction, accuracy, and contamination-free process.
US11999142B2
An embodiment sound-absorbing material including a surface layer including low-melting (LM) fibers and melt-blown (MB) fibers and a sound-absorbing layer disposed on at least one side of the surface layer. An embodiment method of manufacturing a sound-absorbing material includes spinning melt-blown (MB) fibers, manufacturing a surface layer by mixing the melt-blown (MB) fibers with low-melting (LM) fibers, laminating a sound-absorbing layer on the surface layer, and hot-pressing a surface layer/sound-absorbing layer in which the sound-absorbing layer is laminated on the surface layer.
US11999138B2
Provided is a method for producing a glass unit. The method comprises a step (A) of obtaining a glass plate; a step (B) of applying a protective sheet to one face of the glass plate; an optional step (C) of subjecting the glass plate to at least one process selected from the group consisting of transportation, storage, processing, washing and handling; a step (D) of removing the protective sheet from the glass plate; and a step (E) of assembling a glass unit using the glass plate. The protective sheet comprises a substrate layer, and a PSA layer provided to at least one face of the substrate layer. The PSA layer has a surface hardness of 0.3 MPa or greater.
US11999137B2
The invention relates to systems and techniques for manufacturing articles containing cellulosic material, a coupling agent, and a binder resin, and related processes of making and using the cellulosic articles. In particularly exemplary embodiments, the manufactured articles are door skins, sometimes known as door facings, and doors made from the door skins. The article contains a lipophilic cellulosic material, a coupling agent, and a binder. The coupling agent is believed to increase the hydrophilicity (wetability) of the lipophilic cellulosic material.
US11999136B2
To provide laminated glass for a vehicle, which is excellent in heat-shielding properties and which is capable of maintaining visible light transmittance to be high even when used for a long period of time. Laminated glass for a vehicle, which is laminated glass comprising a pair of glass plates and an intermediate film sandwiched between the pair of glass plates, wherein in a laminated glass specimen of 1 cm2 cut out from the laminated glass in the thickness direction, the content of CeO2 is at most 0.4 mg, and the content of total iron converted to Fe2O3 is at least 6.0 mg and at most 10.0 mg; and the intermediate film is made of a resin film containing tin-doped indium oxide fine particles having an average particle diameter of at most 0.1 μm.
US11999135B2
Described herein are articles and methods of making articles, for example glass articles, comprising a thin sheet and a carrier, wherein the thin sheet and carrier are bonded together using a modification (coating) layer, for example a cationic polymer coating layer, and associated deposition methods, the carrier, or both, to control van der Waals, hydrogen and covalent bonding between the thin sheet and the carrier. The modification layer bonds the thin sheet and carrier together with sufficient bond strength to prevent delamination of the thin sheet and the carrier during high temperature (≤600° C.) processing while also preventing formation of a permanent bond between the sheets during such processing.
US11999134B2
A laminated glass according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a first glass plate, a second glass plate, and an interlayer film held between the first glass plate and the second glass plate. When a relative dielectric constant of the first glass plate is represented by εg1; a relative dielectric constant of the second glass plate is represented by εg2; a relative dielectric constant of a first interlayer film provided in a first region of the interlayer film is represented by εm1; a reflection coefficient at an interface between the first glass plate and the first interlayer film is represented by Γ1; and a reflection coefficient at an interface between the second glass plate and the first interlayer film is represented by Γ2, the reflection coefficients Γ1 and Γ2 satisfy relations 0.0≤Γ1≤0.2 and 0.0≤Γ2≤0.2.
US11999129B2
A dunnage producing system is disclosed. The system comprises a material feed section configured to feed a sheet stock material into the system to convert it into a dunnage product. The system further comprises a drive belt having a plurality of lugs fixed on the drive belt configured to engage one or more die-cut openings in the sheet stock or roll stock material. The system further comprises one or more folding mandrels and a glue feed section. The folding mandrels capture the engaged sheet stock or roll stock material between the drive belt and folding mandrels. The glue feed section comprises a tank loaded with pre-melted adhesive material, a hose to transfer the pre-melted adhesive material, and a dispensing nozzle to pump the melted adhesive material to the sheet stock material. A controller then receives measurement information and controls the functions of the system to produce dunnage product.
US11999127B2
An automatic packaging bag production device is provided. The automatic packaging bag production device includes an easy-tear line forming mechanism, a sealing and cutting mechanism, a tray, and a traction mechanism, where the easy-tear line forming mechanism includes a first passage and is configured to form an easy-tear line on a belt-shaped material passing through the first passage; the sealing and cutting mechanism includes a second base plate, and a cutting assembly and a sealing assembly arranged on the second base plate; the cutting assembly includes an upper cutter and a lower cutter that are movable close to or away from each other and a second passage is formed between the upper cutter and the lower cutter; the sealing assembly includes an upper sealer and a lower sealer, and a third passage is formed between the upper sealer and the lower sealer.
US11999108B2
A three-dimensional shaping device includes: a shaping table; a layer forming unit configured to form a powder layer on the shaping table; a head configured to eject a liquid containing a binder from a nozzle to a shaping region; and a control unit configured to control movement of the head with respect to the shaping table and driving of the head by applying a voltage. The control unit executes a first flushing operation when a distance between the shaping region and the flushing position is less than a threshold value, and executes a second flushing operation when the distance between the shaping region and the flushing position is equal to or greater than the threshold value.
US11999101B2
Various embodiments may include a powder for processing in an SLS method comprising a blend of a first material and a second material. The first material comprises at least one of an amorphous high temperature-resistant thermoplastic or a liquid-crystalline polymer and the second material comprises a semicrystalline material. The blend exhibits a crystallization melting point.
US11999100B2
An additive manufacturing system and an input material that overcomes that need to heat and extrude solidifying materials to create a three-dimensional structure. The system arranges subunits of the input material into repeating, interlinked subunits that can be arranged to manufacture a three-dimensional structure that is flexible but also has sufficient structural integrity to retain a desired shape during the additive manufacturing process or post-manufacturing usage. During the additive manufacturing process, the flexible input material can be manipulated and reformed to match the shape and structure of a target three-dimensional structure, upon which the manufactured three-dimensional structure is based. As elongated units of the input material are received by the additive manufacturing machine, the machine assembles the input material into the interlinked, repeating subunits, thereby removing the need to heat and extrude an input material to create a structure.
US11999093B2
Apparatus for treating plastic preforms, having a reservoir which is configured for receiving a plurality of plastic preforms, having at least one first transport device which transports the plastic preforms out of the reservoir, and having a sorting device which is arranged down-stream of the first transport device in a transport direction of the plastic preforms, and having at least one further transport device which is arranged downstream of the sorting device in the transport direction, wherein the apparatus has an inspection device for inspecting the transported plastic performs, arranged between the reservoir and the sorting device.
US11999091B2
The invention relates to a method for automatically regulating the size of a nozzle discharge slot of a nozzle assembly, wherein the nozzle assembly comprises a first and a second nozzle lip and a nozzle discharge slot arranged between the nozzle lips for setting in a controlled manner a thickness profile of a conveyable melt. A plurality of adjusting elements, in particular a plurality of adjusting pins, which are coupled to a respective thermoelement, is arranged at the first nozzle lip, wherein the thermoelements are controllable by the regulation in such a way that the slot adjustment can be realized by the action of a mechanical force from the respective adjusting element on the first nozzle lip as a result of an expansion or contraction of the thermoelements. At least one clamping blade is respectively arranged in a right-hand and left-hand edge region of the nozzle assembly, wherein the width of the nozzle discharge slot can be variably set. The method comprises the following steps, which are carried out automatically for adjusting the width of the nozzle discharge slot and for clamping the adjusting elements: unclamping the clamping blade within the nozzle discharge slot; displacing the clamping blade within the nozzle discharge slot; clamping the clamping blade within the nozzle discharge slot for fixing individual adjusting elements. Furthermore, the invention relates to a control and/or regulation system.
US11999089B2
A portable molding system is configured for forming insulation on pipes. A set of transportable process modules are configured to be shipped to a molding site, operatively connected together at the molding site to form a site-installed molding system, and subsequently disconnected for transport to another site. The set of transportable process modules includes one or more resin preparation modules configured to prepare resin for being formed into insulation on the pipes. One or more mold modules are configured to define a mold cavity. The one or more mold modules are configured to hold a pipe in the mold cavity, to receive resin prepared by the one or more resin preparation modules in the mold cavity around the pipe, and to form said resin received in the mold cavity into insulation on the pipe.
US11999086B2
Tooling, systems, and methods for forming composite parts. The system includes a mold having a first mold portion with a molding surface, a second mold portion with a molding surface, and at least one laminate sheet opening. When the mold is in a closed, molding configuration, the first molding surface and the second molding surface collectively at least partially form an internal cavity defining an outer contour of the composite part. The system also comprises an injection molding nozzle that injects resin into the internal cavity and a laminate sheet supporting frame. The laminate sheet supporting frame supports at least one laminate sheet such that a portion of the at least one laminate sheet is permitted to pass through the at least one laminate sheet opening and conform to at least one of the first molding surface and the second molding surface during the forming of the composite part.
US11999082B2
The present invention provides a fast-curing molding process for epoxy resin. The method includes the following steps: S1, mixing epoxy resin A glue and a protein-grafted manganese-zinc-iron oxide nanomaterial well into a colloidal state, and grounding the mixture for 10 to 30 min; S2, adding epoxy resin B glue to the mixed colloid in S1, and performing ultrasonic dispersion at 20 to 30° C. for 10 to 30 min; and S3, placing the mixture obtained after ultrasonic dispersion in S2 in a vacuum environment for 20 to 40 min, then taking the mixture out and injecting the mixture into a mold, placing the mold and the mixed colloid into an electromagnetic induction heater, placing the electromagnetic induction heater in a magnetic field environment with a magnetic field intensity of 1 to 1.5 mT for 2 to 3 h, cooling and then taking them out to obtain the cured epoxy resin.
US11999078B2
A mixing drum includes a body defining a head aperture and a discharge aperture opposite the head aperture, a head coupled to the body and extending across the head aperture, and a mixing element positioned within the volume and coupled to the body. The head and the body define a volume. The body is formed from at least a first section and a second section. The first section overlaps the second section.
US11999072B2
The present invention generally relates to a safety cutter. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention relate to a compact safety cutter apparatus with a retractable blade guard. Embodiments of the safety cutter apparatus are further comprised of an automatic blade guard release mechanism.
US11999068B2
A control device includes a first statistical processing unit a second statistical processing unit and a movement control unit. The first statistical processing unit acquires relative positions of the object calculated by the visual sensor and performs statistical processing on the acquired relative positions of the object. The second statistical processing unit acquires from the position sensor relative positions of the holding device corresponding to each of the relative positions of the object calculated by the visual sensor, and performs statistical processing on the acquired relative positions of the holding device. The movement control unit performs feedback control of the moving device based on the relative positions of the object and the relative positions of the holding, device and performs alignment of the object with the target position while moving the object closer to the target position.
US11999062B2
A method for limiting joint velocity of a plurality of joints of a surgical robotic system, the surgical robotic system comprising a robot having a base and an arm extending from the base to an attachment for an instrument, the arm comprising a plurality of joints whereby the configuration of the arm can be altered, the method comprising: obtaining joint states for a first group of k joints of the arm, where k>1; for each of the k joints: determining from the obtained joint state a permitted range of motion for that joint; deriving, using the permitted range of motion, a joint velocity limit for that joint; selecting the minimum joint velocity limit of the k joints to be a common joint velocity limit used to limit each of the k joints individually; and calculating drive signals for driving the k joints wherein the velocity of each of the k joints is limited using the common joint velocity limit.
US11999053B2
Method comprising: designing a gear in a software-based computer-aided manner in order to obtain a function-oriented geometry, using a software-based computer-aided method for ascertaining a theoretically producible gear geometry corresponding to or an approximation of the function-oriented geometry, providing production data representing the theoretically producible geometry, machining a gear using the production data in a CNC-controlled processing machine, measuring the gear to obtain an actual data set of the gear, carrying out a comparison of the actual data set with the production data in order to ascertain at least one correction variable, using the correction variable in order to ascertain corrected production data from the production data or carry out a machining correction in the processing machine, and post-machining the gear using the machining correction or using the corrected production data in order to machine at least one additional gear in the processing machine.
US11999050B2
A safety switch device includes a first support member and a second support member which are formed so as to secure a mobile terminal, and a grip part to be grasped by an operator's hand. The safety switch device includes an enable switch for transmitting a signal for permitting a robot to operate, and an emergency stop button for transmitting a signal for stopping the robot. The first support member and the second support member are formed so as to secure a plurality of types of mobile terminals having different sizes. The grip part is disposed at the center part of the shape of the back surface of the mobile terminal, which corresponds to the position of the center of gravity of the mobile terminal.
US11999046B2
The present disclosure is a combined screwdriver. A handle includes a cavity. A rod is arranged in the cavity, and the rod includes a positioning part. A storage assembly includes a storage seat and a stopper seat, and the storage assembly is sleeved on the rod. The storage seat includes a sleeve and a plurality of elastic clips, the sleeve may move out of the cavity. An abutting piece is fixed on the positioning part, and the abutting piece includes a plurality of elastic pieces. The plurality of elastic pieces elastically abuts the sleeve, and a cap covers the cavity.
US11999043B2
A hydraulic tool includes a head at a first end of the hydraulic tool, where the head is configured to apply a mechanical force to a work piece; a body including a first surface; a back portion including: a second surface at a second end of the hydraulic tool that is opposite the first end; a third surface that is between the first surface and the second surface, where the third surface is inclined with respect to the first surface and the second surface; an indicator light; and a window, at least a portion of which is positioned on the third surface, where the window covers the indicator light; and a grip that extends from the body away from the first surface.
US11999037B2
A slide hammer tool including a shaft having first and second opposing ends, a handle slidably coupled to the shaft, and a slide hammer weight assembly removable coupled to the handle via threaded fasteners. The slide hammer weight assembly including a number of slide hammer weights coupled together.
US11999036B2
A tool attachment device for assisting a power tool in performing nailing includes a shell assembly, a rocker, a connection device, a driving wheel, and a transmission assembly. A side of the shell assembly is formed with a hole passage. The rocker is partially placed in the hole passage and is rotatable in the hole passage. The connection device is connected to the rocker and rotates synchronously with the rocker. Nail feeding structures are formed on the driving wheel along a circumferential direction of the driving wheel. The transmission assembly is connected to the driving wheel and the connection device and is configured to drive the driving wheel to rotate unidirectionally. The transmission assembly is disposed between the connection device and the driving wheel.
US11999023B2
An application device for joining adhesive-tape sections that includes: a holder assembly having a plurality of holding devices that are movable relative to one another, each holding device configured to hold an adhesive-tape section such that a first main joining surface, a first end joining surface, and a second end joining surface of the adhesive-tape section are exposed; and a plurality of actuators. Further, each of the holding devices is configured for movement between first and second joining configurations. In the first joining configuration, each holding device holds an adhesive-tape section and each of the adhesive-tape sections are spaced apart from one another. In the second joining configuration, each holding device holds an adhesive-tape section wherein the first end joining surface of the adhesive-tape section bears against the second end joining surface of another adhesive-tape section, thus defining a continuous and closed adhesive adhesive-tape web.
US11999020B2
A method and apparatus for monitoring weld cell and related activity is disclosed. The activity is sensed using a variety of sensors, and reported to the controller, or to a remote location.
US11999019B2
The disclosed technology relates generally to welding, and more particularly to consumable electrodes based on aluminum and methods of welding using the same. In one aspect, a consumable welding electrode comprises a base metal composition comprising at least 70% by weight of aluminum and a fluidity-enhancing metal capable of forming a binary eutectic with aluminum, wherein the binary eutectic undergoes a binary eutectic solidification at a eutectic temperature of 595-660° C. The fluidity-enhancing metal is present in form and a hypoeutectic concentration of 0.05-0.5 weight % such that a solidification temperature range of a molten weld metal formed by melting the consumable welding electrode is less than 65° C.
US11999016B2
Embodiments are directed to the formation micro-scale or millimeter scale structures or methods of making such structures wherein the structures are formed from at least one sheet structural material and may include additional sheet structural materials or deposited structural materials wherein all or a portion of the patterning of the structural materials occurs via laser cutting. In some embodiments, selective deposition is used to provide a portion of the patterning. In some embodiments the structural material or structural materials are bounded from below by a sacrificial bridging material (e.g. a metal) and possibly from above by a sacrificial capping material (e.g. a metal).
US11999010B1
This invention relates to a method for manufacturing a metal part which comprises attaching a powder forged or wrought outer raced ID splined plate to a powdered metal inner splined connection gear, wherein the outer raced ID splined plate incorporates a female ID profile on the race, wherein the inner splined connection gear contains a mail OD profile on the exterior of the part, and wherein the splined plate and the splined connection gear are attached together by (1) sinter brazing, (2) laser brazing, (3) laser welding, (4) sintering a mechanical joint, or (5) staking. In practicing this method a tight mechanical joint is formed between the splined plate and the splined connection gear which can be made of highly dissimilar materials, such as a wrought metal and a sintered powder metal.
US11998999B2
A system for connecting electronic assemblies, in particular a soldering and/or sintering system, has a transport device for conveying the assemblies through the system, with a plurality of gas-tightly separable modules for connecting the assemblies to one another. At least one module is a soldering and/or sintering module and one module is a cooling module. Between the soldering/sintering and the cooling module, a further module is a soft cooling module for cooling between a process temperature of the soldering or sintering module and an intermediate temperature, in particular below a solder solidification temperature. In a soldering or sintering module in a gas-tightly sealable process chamber, in particular in the soft cooling module, at least one heat source is contactable with the assemblies for heating the assemblies and at least one cold trap is arranged, having in operation a surface temperature which is lower than a heat source operating temperature.
US11998995B2
A modular boring head includes a tubular main body having an internal thread with a first pitch and a pair of axially extending cantilevered members. A movable rod engages the tubular main body such that the movable rod is movable with respect to the tubular main body in an axial direction, D. The movable rod has an internal thread with a second pitch different than the first pitch. A leadscrew is disposed within the tubular main body and has a plurality of gear teeth. Rotation of the leadscrew causes the pair of axially extending cantilevered members of the tubular main body to cooperatively engage with the plurality of gear teeth of the leadscrew in such a manner so as to produce an audible and tactile click, each click being indicative of a distance the movable rod is displaced with respect to the tubular main body.
US11998971B2
The present disclosure provides a hot-press formed part comprising a plated steel sheet and an aluminum alloy plated layer formed on the plated steel sheet, wherein the aluminum alloy plated layer comprises: an alloying layer (I) formed on the plated steel sheet and containing, by weight %, 5-30% of Al; an alloying layer (II) formed on the alloying layer (I) and containing, by weight %, 30 to 60% of Al; an alloying layer (III) formed on the alloying layer (II) and containing, by weight %, 20-50% of Al and 5-20% of Si; and an alloying layer (IV) formed continuously or discontinuously on at least a part of the surface of the alloying layer (III), and containing 30-60% of Al, wherein the rate of the alloying layer (III) exposed on the outermost surface of the aluminum alloy plated layer is 10% or more.
US11998966B2
A method for mitigating the effects of coil collapse on hot strip mill coils. A hot strip coil is removed from the mandrel/downcoiler and pre-sagged to create an initial sag by allowing gravity cause the coil to sag in a first specific direction for a first period of time. Then, without coil eye support to limit sagging, the direction of the sag caused by the force of gravity is modified to a direction perpendicular to the first specific direction and gravity is allowed to sag said coil for a second period of time. The first period of time and the second period of time are chosen such that the initial sag created during the first period of time is substantially mitigated by the perpendicular sag during the second period of time. The hot strip coil being cooled enough by the end of the second period of time such that the rate of sagging of the hot strip coil has become negligible.
US11998962B2
The present disclosure provides a method of smart gas pipeline cleaning management for safety management and an Internet of Things system. The method comprises: obtaining operation feature of at least one gas pipeline and inspection data of the at least one gas pipeline; determining an area to be cleaned and an area feature of the area to be cleaned based on the operation feature of the at least one gas pipeline and the inspection data of the at least one gas pipeline; determining a pipeline cleaning solution based on the area feature of the area to be cleaned; evaluating a pipeline cleaning effect of the pipeline cleaning solution based on an implementation of the pipeline cleaning solution. The Internet of Things system comprises a smart gas user platform, a smart gas service platform, a smart gas sensing network platform, and a smart gas object platform.
US11998956B2
The present invention relates to a method of, and an apparatus for rinsing materialographic samples. The apparatus includes a sample holder configured to receive materialographic samples, a rotation head configured to rotate the sample holder and a vessel configured to receive the sample holder and a rinsing liquid. The apparatus also includes means for filling and emptying the vessel with rinsing liquid, means for applying ultrasound to the rinsing liquid and a control means. The control means is configured to control at least one of filling of the vessel with a rinsing liquid by injecting rinsing liquid through an inlet provided in the vessel to submerge the materialographic samples in the rinsing liquid, subjecting the rinsing liquid and the materialographic samples to ultrasound, or rotating the sample holder including the materialographic samples relative to the vessel.
US11998955B2
A device is provided which is capable of evenly etching the entire surface of a silicon core wire. An etching device (1) for a silicon core wire (C1, C2, C3) includes: an etching bath (11, 12) for holding an etching solution (L1, L2); and a plurality of core wire support members (31) for supporting the silicon core wire (C1, C2, C3), the plurality of core wire support members (31) each having a hole (31A) through which the silicon core wire (C1, C2, C3) is to pass; and a position change mechanism (40) for changing a relative position where the silicon core wire (C1, C2, C3) passes through in relation to the hole (31A).
US11998953B2
An automated process for separating and recycling a broad mix of waste material including, but not limited to, paper and flexible plastics. A materials recovery facility (MRF) collects, presorts, and separates into individual commodities the material, then separates partially processed 2D blends from 3D containers, while refraining from any quality control of the 2D blends, and bales the 2D blends. A fiber center receives the bales from the MRF, aggregates the partially processed 2D blends, removes recyclable commodities including flexible plastics from the 2D blends, aggregates each recyclable commodity that is removed from the 2D blends, and forms separate commodity streams of clean paper and clean flexible plastics. Also provided are a related fiber center (and an infrastructure including the center) and at least one computer-readable non-transitory storage medium embodying software for performing the process.
US11998948B2
The present disclosure relates to driver circuitry for driving a piezoelectric transducer. The circuitry comprises: a power supply; a reservoir capacitance; switch network circuitry; and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to control operation of the switch network circuitry so as to charge the reservoir capacitance from the power supply and to transfer charge between the reservoir capacitance and the piezoelectric transducer.
US11998946B2
A process for producing a coated electrical steel strip includes application of a pretreatment layer over a first flat side of a rolled electrical steel strip. The layer thickness of the pretreatment layer is in the range from 10 nm to 100 nm, in particular from 20 nm to 50 nm. The rolled electrical steel strip which has been coated with the pretreatment layer is then coated with an insulating lacquer layer over the pretreatment layer. The insulating lacquer layer is applied by roll application using a roll and no deliberate drying and/or crosslinking of the pretreatment layer is carried out after application of the pretreatment layer and before coating with the insulating lacquer layer.
US11998940B2
A bowl for spraying a coating product, intended to be integrated into a rotary spraying apparatus for spraying a coating product. The spraying apparatus includes a turbine for rotating the bowl about an axis of rotation, and a body that defines the axis of rotation and includes shaping air ejection orifices arranged in a crown. The bowl includes a body which is centered in relation to an axis and which defines an inner radial surface for distributing the coating product to a spraying edge, as well as an outer radial surface. The outer radial surface of the bowl includes a deflector for at least partially directing a flow of cleaning product towards the crown of the body, the cleaning product flowing along the outer radial surface towards the spraying edge.
US11998934B2
A drive circuit for a solenoid valve having a coil and a poppet configured to translate within the coil includes a drive switch operable to de-energize the coil to translate the poppet toward a closed position, a sensor configured to detect the poppet translating within the solenoid valve, and a drive circuit configured to energize and de-energize the coil of the solenoid valve to translate the poppet of the solenoid valve between an open position and a closed position. The drive circuit includes a controller configured to receive a closure signal from the sensor, determine a closing time of the solenoid valve based on the closure signal, determine a time delay between de-energizing the coil and the determined closing time, and determine a fluid flow value of fluid flowing through the solenoid valve based on the determined time delay.
US11998928B2
Roller packages (IO) for grinding devices (70), comprising a first roll (11), which is maintained by at least one first bearing body (13), and a second roll (12), which is maintained by at least one second bearing body (14). The first bearing body (13) and the second bearing body (14) are prestressed against each other and comprise stop elements (17,19) with stop surfaces (18, 20), the contact of which counteracts a contact of the rolls (11, 12). The rotational position of the first stop element (17) determines the minimum width of the grinding gap. Also disclosed are grinding devices (70), methods for operating a roll assembly (10) and methods for determining the radial force acting between the rolls (11, 12) of a roll assembly (10).
US11998924B2
A heavy-duty shredder, in particular for use in forestry, has a frame; a rotor, which is mounted on the frame so that it can rotate about an axis of rotation and has a drum coaxial with the axis of rotation; a plurality of annular discoidal sectors extending around the drum, integral with the drum and distributed along the axis of rotation so as to form annular cavities between the adjacent annular discoidal sectors; a plurality of first teeth integral with the drum and arranged in the annular cavities between two adjacent annular discoidal sectors; and a plurality of second teeth integral with the drum and aligned with the annular discoidal sectors.
US11998922B2
A grinder device is provided with two sets of counter-rotating impact elements that pulverize the material via collisions, which represent impact forces twice as powerful through the doubling of the tip velocity. A continuous self-discharge of harder and heavier particles is provided to assure higher energy efficiency and a cleaner product that subjects the unit to less wear and tear. Outlet ports are provided on flange caps that are removably attached to the grinder device so that the position of the outlet port with relation to the position of a grinder stator is selectively modified. The device of the present invention can be provided in a container for integrating into an existing system or to operate as a standalone unit.
US11998920B2
A configurable device for the flexible provision of connections and/or functions in a biopharmaceutical process includes a body in which predefined pipe sections and plug-in locations are formed by recesses in the material of the body. The configurable device further includes a plurality of functional elements which are adapted to be inserted into the plug-in locations.
US11998917B2
A microfluidic AM-EWOD device and a method of filling such a device are provided. The device comprises a chamber having one or more inlet ports. The device is configured, when the chamber contains a metered volume of a filler fluid that partially fills the chamber, preferentially maintain the metered volume of the filler fluid in a part of the chamber. The device is configured to allow displacement of some of the filler fluid from the part of the chamber when a volume of an assay fluid introduced into one of the one or more inlet ports enters the part of the chamber, thereby causing a volume of a venting fluid to vent from the chamber.
US11998912B2
A tubing-free, sample-to-droplet microfluidic system includes a tubing-free, sample-to-droplet microfluidic chip; a valve control system connected to the tubing-free, sample-to-droplet microfluidic chip; a vacuum system fluidly connected to the tubing-free, sample-to-droplet microfluidic chip; and a droplet formation pressure system fluidly connected to the tubing-free, sample-to-droplet microfluidic chip. A microfluidic chip for a tubing-free, sample-to-droplet microfluidic system includes a tubing-free, sample-to-droplet interface section; a droplet mixing section in fluid connection with the tubing-free, sample-to-droplet interface section to received droplets therefrom; an incubation section in fluid connection with the droplet mixing section to receive droplets therefrom; and a detection section in fluid connection with the incubation section to receive droplets therefrom.
US11998908B2
In a recovery device, a removing target such as a blood cell is removed from a liquid sample in a sample container using a first filter unit, and a microorganism is filtered from the liquid sample using a second filter unit. A controller causes a first switch to block a flow channel in response to a sensor detecting a bubble. A medium flows from a second connection unit of the second filter unit toward a first connection unit. Thus, the microorganism filtered by the second filter unit is recovered by a recovery container together with the medium.
US11998904B2
A system for post-processing carbon powders includes a fluidized-bed reactor having an interior containing a fluidized-bed region. The system may include a gas feed source, a gas inlet value, a gas-solid separator, and an energy source coupled to the fluidized-bed reactor. Carbon nano-particulates may be loaded, in powder form, into the fluidized-bed region prior to operation. The gas feed source may output a gas-phase mixture into the interior of the fluidized-bed reactor, and the energy source may electromagnetically excite the gas-phase mixture and generate a plasma-phase mixture formed in a plasma region positioned adjacent to or within the interior of the fluidized-bed reactor. The energy source may be positioned at one or more positions relative to the gas inlet valve.
US11998900B2
A method of immobilizing a metal catalyst in a porous support includes additively forming a precursor structure on a substrate from a metal catalyst and at least one of a metal oxide or a metal cluster compound; exposing the precursor structure to a vapor of an organic linker; and reacting the at least one of the metal oxide or the metal cluster compound in the precursor structure with the organic linker to form a porous support that immobilizes the metal catalyst.
US11998898B1
Hydrotreating catalysts are provided having one or more phosphorus components carried on a composite support of a titanium-loaded binder component and post-framework modified ultra-stable Y-type zeolite. The support comprises the titanium-loaded binder component and a post-framework modified ultra-stable Y-type (USY) zeolite in which a portion of aluminum atoms constituting a zeolite framework thereof is substituted with zirconium atoms and/or titanium atoms and/or hafnium atoms. The active components including the phosphorous active component and one or more hydrocracking metals active components loaded on the support.
US11998888B2
A manufacturing method of a particle aggregate aggregated with wet particles in which active material particles and conductive particles are evenly dispersed and a manufacturing method of an electrode body including the particle aggregate are provided. The manufacturing method of a particle aggregate includes a first step of obtaining a first mixture by mixing conductive particles with a binder dispersion in which binder is dispersed in a dispersion medium, a second step of obtaining a clay-like mixture by kneading the first mixture with active material particles, and a third step of obtaining the particle aggregate aggregated with wet particles formed of the clay-like mixture.
US11998885B2
The present disclosure provides fluidic devices and fluidic device assemblies, including microfluidic devices and cartridges comprising the same, that in illustrative embodiments, can be used to make particles or protein precipitates, or to monitor precipitate formation. The fluidic devices typically include channels that connect a reaction well to an inlet port and an outlet port, and a fluidic constriction channel that is configured to help retain fluids in the reaction well and/or promote mixing within the reaction well. In some aspect, fluidic devices are interconnected into fluidic assemblies that can be used in continuous process methods.
US11998882B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for treating wastewater, the method comprising the steps of: providing a vessel for receiving wastewater and a gas, wherein the gas comprises one or more constituent gas components; directing the wastewater and a first gas component of the gas to the vessel; reducing the temperature of the contents of the vessel from a first temperature to a second temperature to facilitate the formation of clathrate hydrates comprising the wastewater and the first gas component; increasing the temperature of the contents of the vessel with respect to the second temperature to facilitate melting of the clathrate hydrates; and removing clean water and/or the first gas component from the vessel.
US11998881B2
A stirring and defoaming device is a stirring and defoaming device of a revolution and rotation type, wherein a vacuum unit for sucking air in each container to bring the inside of each container into a vacuum state includes sealing bodies that seal respective containers, a vacuum generation source, a suction path running toward a revolution center with each container as a starting end, passing through the revolution center to go outside the system, and reaching the vacuum generation source placed outside the system, at least part of the suction path being an independent path from the starting end in association with each container, and at least two or more vacuum measurement units, each provided in an independent path.
US11998879B2
A semipermeable membrane support containing polyolefin-based fibers, which can withstand repeated washing and backwashing, makes it easy for a semipermeable membrane component to permeate thereinto and difficult for the component to strike therethrough, and is excellent in adhesion to the semipermeable membrane and adhesion between a non-coating surface thereof and a resin frame. The semipermeable membrane support which is used by forming the semipermeable membrane thereon is a wet-laid nonwoven fabric containing core-sheath type conjugate fibers composed of polypropylene as a core component and polyethylene as a sheath component and has a burst strength of 300 to 1,000 kPa, or the Bekk smoothness and 75° mirror surface glossiness of the coating surface on which the semipermeable membrane is to be formed of the semipermeable membrane support being more than the Bekk smoothness and 75° mirror surface glossiness of a non-coating surface on the opposite side.
US11998873B2
Compressed air dryer systems are described. In an aspect, a system includes, but is not limited to, a plurality of dryer modules and a controller operable to regulate a run-time of each of the plurality of dryer modules. Each dryer module is configured to direct a portion of cooling medium past a stream of compressed air. Each dryer module includes a temperature sensor in thermal communication with the portion of cooling medium, and a chiller configured to reduce a temperature of the portion of cooling medium based on the sensed temperature and a temperature set-point. The controller communicatively is coupled with the plurality of dryer modules and operable to monitor a plurality of run-times. Each run-time is associated with a corresponding dryer module. The controller is further operable to direct operation of each dryer module based on its run-time by modifying the temperature set-point of the dryer module.
US11998872B2
A biogas upgrading system can include a multiple stage membrane system that is configured to remove oxygen so that the biogas is upgraded to have a higher concentration of methane, a pre-selected oxygen (O2) concentration (e.g. less than or equal to 0.2 mol %, etc.), and a pre-selected carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration (e.g. less than or equal to 5 mol %, etc.). The membrane system can be configured to reject O2 by utilizing a low CO2/O2 selectivity that is within a pre-determined range (e.g. less than 5 or less than 4.5). In some embodiments, the upgraded biogas that is output from the system can be entirely made up of methane, carbon dioxide, and oxygen. In other embodiments, the biogas can be almost entirely composed of these components along with a small amount of nitrogen and a trace amount (e.g. less than or equal to 0.2%-0.1%, etc.) of other components.
US11998871B2
Air flows across an air-liquid interface such that liquid desiccant flowing through the interface absorbs water from the air and is thereby diluted to form an output stream. The output stream is circulated through an electrodialytic stack having a central ionic exchange membrane and first and second outer ionic exchange membranes. A redox shuttle loop circulates around the first and second outer ionic exchange membranes. A voltage is applied across the electrodialytic stack, which regenerates the liquid desiccant.
US11998869B2
The subject matter of the invention is a filter element (13) for insertion into a vacuum cleaner, with an upper side (14), a lower side (15) which lies opposite the upper side (14), a filter body (19) which extends from the upper side (14) to the lower side (15) and which forms a wall (26) of a clean air space which is situated between the upper side and the lower side, and with a conveying opening (17) which is arranged on the upper side (14), opens into the clean air space, and through which an air flow which is driven by way of the vacuum cleaner can be conveyed. According to the invention, a deflecting surface (20) which extends in the direction of the lower side (15) is arranged in the clean air space below the conveying opening (17), which deflecting surface (20) is configured to deflect an air flow which is introduced through the conveying opening (17) in the direction of the wall (26) of the clean air space. The filter element (13) according to the invention can be relieved of filter cakes in a simple and effective way.
US11998868B2
A method of securing a filter element within a pressure vessel without a user breaching a plane of the pressure vessel is provided. The method includes attaching a filter locking nut to a removal/installation tool, wherein the removal/installation tool comprises an elongated body, inserting the filter locking nut into the pressure vessel, securing the filter locking nut to a threaded rod to secure a filter element in place, detaching the removal/installation tool from the filter locking nut, and removing the removal/installation tool from the pressure vessel. At least a portion of the elongated body of the removal/installation tool extends outside of the pressure vessel for the duration of the attaching, inserting, securing, detaching, and removing steps.
US11998867B2
An air filter includes a filter frame, a filter cloth, a plurality of wires, and one or more pulling elements directly attached to a surface of the filter frame. The air filter is characterized by an installed condition in which a majority portion of the air filter is disposed in a housing and an uninstalled condition in which another majority portion of the air filter is out of the housing. The one or more pulling elements facilitate a user's pulling the air filter out of the housing. The one or more pulling elements comprises a flap, a recess region, a thread, a split pin type pulling element, a patch, a loop, a letter L-shape dual hook tool, and a tool with a self lock tool. An other air filter is wider than a housing. A first member of a filter frame of the other air filter serves as a handle for a user to pull.
US11998865B1
A filter cleaning system including filter cleaning apparatus including a tubular mast rotatingly disposed on a support rod. One or more filter retainers adapted to retain a filter can be disposed on the tubular mast. A filter disposed on the tubular mast can rotate about the support rod. A fluid stream can be directed on the filter to clean the filter rotating about the support rod.
US11998863B2
A plant for separating at least one purified hydrocarbon stream from at least one crude hydrocarbon feed stream. The plant comprises a vessel with a single foundation. The vessel comprises an absorber section and a first divided-wall column. The first divided-wall column comprises a dividing wall, a stripper section, and a stabilization section.
US11998858B2
An improved agility system can include a first stanchion rotatably secured within a storage area of a first base by a shaft and rotatable at least ninety degrees from the storage area into an upright position with respect to the first base. The system can include a second stanchion rotatably secured within a storage area of a first base by a shaft and rotatable at least ninety degrees from the storage area into an upright position with respect to the second base, a retaining means formed within the stanchions, and a bar suspendable horizontally by the retaining means. Retaining means can be comprised of bore holes or notches formed at various distances along the stanchions from their respective shafts, metallic or magnetic strips formed along sides of the first and second stanchions, or metallic or magnetic elements disposed at various distances along sides of the first and second stanchions.
US11998853B2
One aspect of the disclosure relates to a system configured to provide a virtual space, in accordance with one or more implementations. Users of virtual spaces may encounter barriers in a game. During these barriers, users may receive and/or provide assistance to other affiliation members. One aspect of the disclosure relates to allowing affiliations or other groups to utilize in-game items to assist other players in game progress in an online game. This may incent positive player actions towards affiliation members, may enhance engagement between affiliation members, may provide an incentive for users to join an affiliation, and/or have other results. These results may ultimately contribute to enhanced retention, enhanced monetization, enhanced user satisfaction, and/or other enhancements.
US11998843B2
A game control method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer readable storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: receiving an object swap instruction on a pattern matrix on a first interface of a screen; swapping positions of a first pattern object and a second pattern object according to the object swap instruction, and upon detection that a predetermined number of pattern objects of the same type are connected after the positions of the first pattern object and the second pattern object are swapped, eliminating the connected pattern objects; and reducing a current health point value of a selected target attack object among multiple attack objects in a second interface. When the connected pattern objects are eliminated, the selected target attack object among the multiple attack objects is attacked to ensure the attack on the attack object during elimination of the pattern objects.
US11998833B2
Method for generating collectible media content items based on location information starts with processor receiving location information from location sensor coupled to first client computing device. Processor causes a map interface to be displayed that includes avatar of first user at a location based on the location information and a subset of a plurality of collectible items associated with geographical coordinates. When the first client computing device is determined to be within predetermined distance from a selected collectible item, processor causes front facing camera view to be displayed on the first client computing device, causes lens corresponding to selected collectible item to be applied to the front facing camera view, and causes the image of the selected collectible item displayed on the front facing camera view to change. Lens includes image of the selected collectible item that is overlaid on front facing camera view. Other embodiments are described herein.
US11998826B1
Sports apparatus having a piezochromic strike area according to any of devices, systems, assemblies and methods are shown and described. A sports apparatus may include a defined area serving as a strike area, a pod containing at least one piezochromic material integrated with a surface of the sports apparatus, that changes color with an impact force. In some instances, an initial color state is reobtained over a period of time with an absence of impact strikes.
US11998822B2
Disclosed is a mat, method, and program for measuring a golf posture that are capable of measuring a golf club swing speed. The golf posture measuring mat capable includes a sensor unit sensing a pressure corresponding to a golf posture of a user and a trajectory of a head of a golf club, a control unit analyzing the golf posture of the user and a swing speed of the golf club based on a sensed signal of the sensor unit, a display unit displaying analysis data analyzed by the control unit, and a storage unit storing the analysis data and reference data. A plurality of sensors in the sensor unit are arranged one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally on a mat plate. Each of the plurality of sensors includes a single sensor including one among a capacitive pressure sensor, a resistive pressure sensor, and a hybrid pressure sensor, or includes a composite sensor including two or more among the capacitive pressure sensor, the resistive pressure sensor, and the hybrid pressure sensor.
US11998816B2
Embodiments of an iron-type golf club head comprising a high moment of inertia and a damping system. The damping system includes an insert covering a lower portion of the back face and a badge covering an upper portion of the back face. The damping system covers a large proportion of the back face and provides a club head with desirable sound and feel characteristics.
US11998815B2
The plastics bat for playing ball games comprises a handle and a ball-striking head for striking resilient balls. The ball-striking head comprises a rigid outer ring frame integrally formed with the handle, a first discrete lattice structure comprising a semi-rigid single planar lattice element and an identical second discrete lattice structure comprising a semi rigid single planar lattice element. The lattice structures are securely connected to opposite sides of the frame so as to define ball-striking faces, respectively. The lattice structures define an unobstructed internal space between them. The ball-striking head has a lightweight monocoque construction wherein the lattice structures and the frame form a load-carrying outer skin surrounding the hollow internal space.
US11998810B1
A golf club head can include a body having a toe region and a heel region. The golf club body defines an opening to an internal cavity of the body and the opening is surrounded by a perimeter. The golf club head includes a face, a first support member, and a sole plate supported by the first support member and secured to the body at the perimeter. The sole plate is configured to be secured to the body in a plurality of arrangements.
US11998801B2
Systems and methods are described for verifying physical activities of users. The systems and methods can include tags having tag identifiers, where the tags are affixed to articles of manufacture to be worn or used by the user during physical activity. The tag identifiers can be associated with the articles and can be used by the system and methods for verifying the physical activities of the user via one or more verification procedures.
US11998800B1
A method and system for providing shot tracking data to a client device is disclosed herein. The system includes multiple golf ball tracking sensors positioned at multiple golf driving ranges, multiple shot application programming interfaces (API), and a shot API proxy. Each of the shot APIs is configured to receive shot data from each of the golf ball tracking sensors at a corresponding golf driving range venue such as a TOPGOLF® entertainment venue.
US11998798B2
Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for presenting a virtual guided fitness experience using the display of an eyewear device in augmented reality. A guided fitness application implements and controls the capturing of frames of motion data using an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and video data from one or more cameras. The method includes detecting exercise motions (with or without equipment) as well as detecting and counting repetitions. Relevant data about detected motions or equipment is retrieved and used to curate the guided fitness experience. A current rep count is presented on the display along with an avatar for playing messages, performing animated demonstrations, responding to commands and queries using speech recognition, and presenting guided fitness instructions through text, audio, and video.
US11998791B2
The invention relates to the field of barbell clamping technologies and particularly to a barbell clamping assembly including a barbell clamping body. A replaceable core is inserted into the barbell clamping body. Press blocks are inserted into the replaceable core. The replaceable core is connected to the press blocks through first springs. A hexagon bolt is inserted into the barbell clamping body. A rotating rod is inserted into the hexagon bolt. A handle is sleeved onto the rotating rod. A fixing block is disposed on a side of the handle. A clamping structure is inserted into the barbell clamping body and includes first and second clamping blocks inserted into the barbell clamping body. The first and seconds clamping blocks are connected to the barbell clamping body by second springs, and an arc fixing groove is disposed in the barbell clamping body and between the first and second clamping blocks.
US11998788B2
An exercise device comprising a foot carriage slidably mounted on tracks, the tracks are held together parallel to one another and dual magnetic and elastic resistance elements provide opposition against the relative motion of the foot carriage. The foot carriage can be a frame carrying wheels and straddle mounted by a frame structure composed of hat shaped beams for which low-profile footrests are pivotally mounted.
US11998777B2
There is provided a respirator for supplying clean air for a wearer. The respirator comprises a face assembly comprising an oronasal mask configured to seal against and cover a nose region and a mouth region of the wearer. The face assembly may be configured to be interchangeable on the respirator between a half-face assembly and a full-face assembly. The respirator comprises a securing headgear releasably securable with the face assembly, the securing headgear assembly configured to secure the respirator on a head of the wearer. The respirator comprises a facepiece assembly for supplying the wearer with air for inhaling and releasing air exhaled by the wear, the facepiece assembly releasably securable with the face assembly. One or more of the face assembly, the facepiece assembly, or the securing headgear are configured to be released from the respirator, sterilized, and releasably resecured with the respirator.
US11998775B2
A window breaker tool for use on a vehicle includes a body having a handle to enable a user to grip the tool, a glass breaker member extending from the handle configured to contact a glass window with force to break the glass window, and an accelerometer operatively coupled to the body to sense acceleration during impact and generate a signature signal. The tool also includes an RF signal communication device located on the tool for communicating with a plurality of RF signal communication devices on the vehicle to determine a location of the tool relative to the vehicle, wherein the RF signal communication device communicates with a controller for processing the signature signal and determining whether the signature signal is indicative of the tool in use to break a window, and wherein the controller further determines the tool is within the vehicle based on the location and outputs an alert signal.
US11998774B2
A reusable face mask with a foam face seal to protect against transmission of airborne pathogens. The face mask uses an easily interchangeable, readily available, non-proprietary, standard filter. It has a section specifically designed to mitigate the fogging of glasses, and has a user-interchangeable strap/harness system.
US11998765B2
Cancer imaging methods and cancer treatment methods using thermotherapy and drug delivery are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the temperature of heated tissue is determined from radio-frequency data from an ultrasound transducer based upon a change in backscattered energy of acoustic harmonics. In another embodiment, a plurality of nanocarriers containing an anti-tumor medication are administered to a patient, and are excited in a first non-thermal ultrasound mode and/or a second thermal ultrasound mode using an ultrasound source. In yet another embodiment, a plurality of nanoparticles are administered to a patient, then at least some of the nanoparticles are heated along with tissue at a site of a tumor, and a photoacoustic imaging unit is used to determine a temperature of the heated tissue at the site of the tumor.
US11998757B2
Reperfusion injury is limited during endovascular therapies (e.g., revascularization and/or reperfusion of end organ tissues) by conditioning the tissues against reperfusion injury using an optical fiber catheter to deliver far red and near infrared (R/NIR) light to the tissues. The light may be multiple wavelength or single wavelength light, and may have one or more wavelengths selected from the range of 510 to 830 nm. The R/NIR light may be delivered concurrently with the endovascular therapy, or in other instances may be delivered before or after a particular therapy.
US11998756B2
An apparatus for determining a thermal property of tissue includes a base unit with one or more energy source and at least two, preferably detachable, leads. The distal end of each lead, which is introduced into the tissue to be treated, has at least two longitudinally spaced temperature measuring elements to measure surrounding tissue temperature and at least two longitudinally spaced electrode surfaces for applying current to the tissue. Each distal end is also provided with an element which uses energy emitted by the sources of energy to heat up the surrounding tissue. The base unit has computing elements, current generating elements for generating an alternating current, and conductance determining elements for determining the tissue conductance between pairs of electrode surfaces based on the alternating current applied by the current generating elements to the tissue. Methods for using the device and leads for use in the device are also described.
US11998755B2
Helmets for applying a magnetic field to the head of a subject, comprising: a housing comprising a concave surface configured to receive a portion of the head of the subject; a motor coupled to one or more of: a first permanent magnet via a first axle along a first axis of rotation, wherein the first axle drives movement of the first magnet; a second magnet via a second axle along a second axis of rotation wherein the second axle drives movement of the second magnet; and a third magnet via a third axle along the third axis of rotation wherein the third axle drives movement of the third magnet, wherein the axes are parallel; and a fit mechanism comprising a adjuster coupled to the first magnet, wherein movement of the adjustor moves the first magnet independently of the second or the third magnet.
US11998754B2
Methods and devices for reducing inflammation, reducing pro-inflammatory cytokines molecules and increasing anti-inflammatory signaling molecules in a mammal is provided. In at least one embodiment, a device comprising, a power supply; an amplifier; an antenna and a waveform generator is provided and the one or more signals have an aperiodic continuous waveform function or an aperiodic pulse train that reduce inflammation, reduce pro-inflammatory cytokines molecules and/or increases anti-inflammatory signaling molecules in a mammal.
US11998749B2
An implantable medical device which performs the following steps during operation: a) performing a detection of whether the implantable medical device is in an implanted state; b) if it is detected that the implantable medical device is in an implanted state, activating a first diagnostic or therapeutic function of the implantable medical device, and subsequently activating a second diagnostic or therapeutic function of the implantable medical device, wherein the second diagnostic or therapeutic function is activated only after the fulfillment of at least one activation criterion selected from the group consisting of an elapse of a first time period from the activation of the first diagnostic or therapeutic function, an elapse of a second time period from the detection that the implantable medical device is in an implanted state, and a passing of a function test.
US11998747B2
A programmer configured to collect data from an implantable pulse generator about ongoing neurostimulation being applied during a stimulation titration process by the implantable pulse generator while in communication with the communication circuitry; display, via a user interface, an indication relating to a timing of neurostimulation bursts applied by the implantable pulse generator while in communication with the communication circuitry based on the collected data, the indication being displayed according to a time delay that accounts for a transport delay between the implantable pulse generator and the programmer such that the indication displayed coincides with an actual application of each stimulation burst by the implantable pulse generator; and adjust at least one stimulation parameter applied during the stimulation titration process by the implantable pulse generator.
US11998744B1
Systems for disease treatment using electrical stimulation are disclosed. A representative method for treating a patient includes changing an activity, expression, or both activity and expression of a fast sodium channel, a glial cell, or both a fast sodium channel and a glial cell of the patient by applying to a target neural population of the patient an electrical therapy signal having a frequency in a frequency range of 1.5 kHz to 100 kHz.
US11998741B2
A pulse current generation circuit (100) for neural stimulation includes an analogue signal receiving device (101) for receiving an analogue signal; an analogue-to-digital converter (102) for converting the analogue signal into a digital control signal; a current signal controller (103) for producing, according to the digital control signal, pulse current parameters for generating bidirectional pulse current signals; and a current generator (104) for generating, according to the pulse current parameters, bidirectional pulse current signals for neural stimulation, and the current generator can generate pulse currents of different precisions according to the pulse current parameters. In addition, the present invention further relates to a charge compensation circuit, a charge compensation method, and an implantable electrical retina stimulator using the pulse current generation circuit or the charge compensation circuit.
US11998739B2
A monolithic implantable medical device component includes multiple portions on a single substrate. The portions can be electrically connected to an electronics module, which may include output connectors and input connectors to and from the various portions of the substrate. A portion of the monolithic component to be disposed within, attached to, embedded in, or otherwise combined with a magnet retention feature, such as a plate.
US11998726B2
A system for injecting includes a cartridge body defining a proximal opening and a distal needle interface. The system also includes a plunger member defining a plunger interior and configured to be manually manipulated to insert a stopper member relative to the cartridge body. The plunger member includes a needle retention feature disposed in the plunger interior, an energy-storage member disposed in the plunger interior, and an energy-storage member latching member disposed in the plunger interior. The system further includes a needle hub assembly coupled to the distal needle interface of the cartridge body. The needle assembly includes a needle having a needle proximal end feature, a hub, and a needle latching member configured to couple the needle to the hub. The needle is retractable into plunger interior upon manipulation of the plunger member to actuate the energy-storage member latching member.
US11998725B2
An auto injector for delivery of a medicament is disclosed. The auto injector comprises a housing, a syringe holder configured to receive a syringe; a first drive module adapted to move the syringe holder relatively to the housing; and a rigid needle shield remover comprising a first part adapted for separating a rigid needle shield from the syringe.
US11998723B2
Vented syringes are described herein. A vented syringe includes a syringe body and a plunger body. The syringe body defines a syringe cavity. The plunger body is at least partially disposed within the syringe cavity. The plunger body includes an air intake channel defined within the plunger body. The vented syringe further includes a plunger seal that is sealingly engaged with the syringe cavity to cooperatively define a syringe volume. The vented syringe further includes a one-way valve in fluid communication with the air intake channel and the syringe volume, wherein the one-way valve is configured to prevent fluid flow from the syringe volume to the air intake channel and permit fluid flow from the air intake channel to the syringe volume.
US11998719B2
A sealed fluid transfer device comprised of tubing, a proximal fitting, and a distal needle assembly is provided. The needle assembly includes a needle hub secured to a needle cannula. A cantilevered actuator arm extends outwardly from the needle hub having an actuator button at its free end. The needle assembly is disposed in a barrel and can move from a distal position, where the needle is exposed, to a proximal position, where the needle is shielded. The barrel includes a septum which seals the barrel. A spring is disposed in the barrel for propelling the needle assembly to the proximal position. The barrel includes an aperture that receives the actuator button for locking the spring in a compressed condition. Depression of the actuator button enables the spring to propel the needle assembly into its proximal position. A safety mechanism prevents inadvertent depression of the actuator button.
US11998711B2
Provided are a micro-needle patch and a manufacturing method thereof. The micro-needle patch includes: a support on one surface of which grooves are formed; a gel membrane for delivery of a transmitter to be transferred in which the grooves are filled with a mixture of the transmitter with a biodradable resin, the mixture being in a gel phase; a plurality of micro-needles projected on the other surface of the support and for penetrating the skin; a first protective film that covers the gel membrane and is adhered on the support; and a second protective film that covers the plurality of micro-needles and is adhered on the other surface, wherein passages are formed by being penetrated from the support to each of the plurality of micro-needles or formed by penetrating the support between the plurality of micro-needles, so that the transmitter of the gel membrane is transferred to the skin.
US11998710B2
The present disclosure provides applicators adapted to or configured to deliver a product therefrom. The applicators can be particularly designed for delivery to certain body parts of the human body, such as to the vaginal area. The applicator can comprise a housing formed of a substantially continuous wall extending along a longitudinal housing axis between a base end and an application end, the substantially continuous wall defining: a base segment extending from the base end toward the applicator end; a delivery segment extending from the applicator end toward the base end; and a compression segment interconnecting the base segment and the delivery segment. The housing can define a substantially hollow interior configured for retaining a product for delivery through the delivery segment.
US11998709B2
A sheath assembly includes a first sheath, a second sheath, and an attachment mechanism. The first sheath includes a first sheath inner surface defining a first sheath lumen extending along a first sheath central longitudinal axis between a first sheath first end portion and a first sheath second end portion. The second sheath includes a second sheath inner surface defining a second sheath lumen extending along a second sheath longitudinal axis between a second sheath first end portion and a second sheath second end portion. The attachment mechanism couples the second sheath to the first sheath. The attachment mechanism includes an attachment mechanism step-up dilation. At least a portion of the attachment mechanism is asymmetrical, at the attachment mechanism step-up dilation, about the first sheath central longitudinal axis.
US11998707B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of medical devices and establishing fluid communication between body lumens. In particular, the present disclosure relates to devices and methods for establishing a controlled flow or access passage between body lumens. For example, a device may include an elongate tubular body defining a lumen along a length thereof. The elongate tubular body may have an unexpanded configuration and an expanded configuration. In the expanded configuration, a proximal portion of the elongate tubular body may expand into a proximal retention member and a distal portion of the elongate tubular body may expand into a distal retention member, leaving a cylindrical saddle region extending therebetween. The cylindrical saddle region may include a constricted portion configured to move between a first diameter configuration and a second diameter configuration larger than the first diameter configuration.
US11998700B2
A ventilator adaptor for switching between ventilator devices while maintaining respiratory support to a patient is described. The ventilator adaptor has a first movable element with a first inlet and a second inlet, and a second movable element movably attached to the first movable element and with an outlet. The outlet has an inner diameter of 14.5-15.5 mm, preferably 15 mm, and the first inlet and the second inlet have an outer diameter of 14.5-15.5 mm, preferably 15 mm. The outlet is in fluid communication with the first inlet in a first position or with the second inlet in a second position by moving the second movable element relative to the first movable element thereby aligning the outlet with the first inlet or the second inlet. The outlet may be attached to an endotracheal tube in order to form a ventilation assembly.
US11998693B2
An inflatable cuff for an endotracheal tube system has a sealing component that is one or a combination of (a) a proximal one-directional valve configured to deflect with underpressure during the intubation procedure and contact the tracheal wall of a patient to provide sealing, (b) a distal one-directional valve configured to deflect with overpressure during the intubation procedure and contact the tracheal wall to provide sealing; and (c) a cloud shape of the inflatable portion. The cloud shape is defined by at least one sealing section of the inflatable portion having a primary maximum inflated diameter and at least one non-sealing section of the inflatable portion having a maximum inflated diameter less than the primary maximum inflated diameter. The inflatable cuff may be inflatable by a ventilation tube. The system may include a cuff controller that senses airflow parameters and provides regulated flows of air during an intubation procedure.
US11998690B2
A blower includes a housing including a proximal opening and a distal opening that are co-axially aligned, a stator component provided to the housing, an impeller positioned between the proximal opening of the housing and the stator component, and a motor adapted to drive the impeller. The impeller includes a plurality of impeller blades. The stator component includes a plurality of air directing grooves along its exterior surface. The leading edge of the air directing grooves extend tangentially outwards from the outer tips of the impeller blades and are configured to collect the air exiting the impeller blades and direct it from a generally tangential direction to a generally radial direction by dividing the air from the impeller and directing the air along a curved path towards the distal opening so that airflow becomes substantially laminar.
US11998689B2
Therapy gas delivery systems that provide run-time-to-empty information to a user of the system and methods for administering therapeutic gas to a patient. The therapeutic gas delivery system may include a gas pressure sensor attachable to a therapeutic gas source that communicates therapeutic gas pressure data to a therapeutic gas delivery system controller, a gas temperature sensor positioned to measure gas temperature in the therapeutic gas source that communicates therapeutic gas temperature data to the therapeutic gas delivery system controller, at least one flow controller that communicates therapeutic gas flow rate data to the therapeutic gas delivery system controller, at least one flow sensor that communicates flow rate data to the therapeutic gas delivery system controller, and at least one display that communicates run-time-to-empty to a user of the therapeutic gas delivery system. The therapeutic gas delivery system controller of the system includes a processor that executes an algorithm to calculate the run-time-to-empty from the data received from the gas pressure sensor, temperature sensor, flow controller and flow sensor, and directs the result to the display.
US11998688B2
Nasal medication or drug delivery devices and methods for delivering adjustable or variable metered volumetric doses of medication or drugs to a nasal passageway of a user or patient. Relative movement between portions of a reservoir establish a set volume of medication for delivery. The delivery device may include a nosepiece for fitting into the nostril of the user or patient, a medication or drug reservoir or dosing chamber, and an external reservoir adapter for providing the medication from an external reservoir.
US11998673B1
An extracorporeal blood filtering machine can include a blood circuit, an effluent circuit, and a source fluid circuit and can be controlled by a controller. The extracorporeal blood filtering machine can also include access ports for connecting the source fluid circuit to the blood circuit, as well as blood sensors to detect possible issues with the extracorporeal blood filtering machine. The extracorporeal blood filtering machine can include density sensors and flow sensors that enable it to be more accurate and to operate while being transported. The extracorporeal blood filtering machine can further include a user interface and can display fluid inflow/outflow information. A medical fluid container can automatically empty after being filled. An apparatus for supporting a medical fluid container can include a hanger and an attachment member with the apparatus able to adjust to ensure the medical fluid container remains properly oriented directly under a medical fluid container scale.
US11998667B2
A multichannel air purification device comprising a plurality of adjacent air channels in fluid communication with one another having a UV-C light source illuminate at least one air flow chamber, an air input means for allowing air into the channels, an air output means for allowing the air to exit the channels, openings between the channels for allowing air to pass from one channel to another channel, and a fan for drawing air through the device.
US11998663B2
The present invention provides a thin-walled PTFE tube with appropriate elongation, sufficient strength, and good uniformity during stretching and a medical tube with excellent flexibility and dimensional accuracy. The polytetrafluoroethylene tube according to the present invention is a polytetrafluoroethylene tube having a wall thickness of about 0.04 mm or less, wherein the wetting tension of either of or both outer and inner surfaces of the polytetrafluoroethylene tube is 46 mN/m or more, and in a stress-strain curve obtained by a tensile test performed under an atmosphere of 200° C., tensile stress at 20% strain σ20 (N/mm2) of the polytetrafluoroethylene tube and tensile stress at 50% strain σ50 (N/mm2) of the polytetrafluoroethylene tube satisfy 2.0≤0.1×σ20+0.3×σ50<5.5 (Inequality (1)).
US11998656B2
The present invention is directed to hemostatic compositions comprising at least partially integrated agglomerated ORC fibers, fibrinogen, and thrombin and methods of forming a powdered hemostatic composition, comprising the steps of: forming a suspension of a mixture comprising particles of fibrinogen, thrombin, ORC fibers in a non-aqueous low boiling solvent; spraying the suspension through a nozzle onto a substrate, allowing the non-aqueous solvent to evaporate; separating from the substrate and sieving the composition.
US11998654B2
A biocompatible material for securing such implantable medical devices, for example by using an adhesive path.
US11998652B2
This present invention relates to a portable fogger disinfectant device which is used to disperse a novel disinfecting and sanitizing solution and related propellant to disinfect a room or other enclosed space. The spray material is stored in a pressure-activated cylinder with a nozzle, a sensor and a timer. In one embodiment, the disinfecting and sanitizing solution is comprised of an ethanol, an alkyl comprised of C14, C12, and C16, water as a base for other ingredients, fragrance oils, ethanolamine, a propellant and an ammonium hydroxide.
US11998644B2
Provided is a dry pad, including a wound-covering membrane formed by arranging a fiber containing a hydrophilic polymer that is swollen by an exudate secreted from a wound, a hydrophobic polymer, and a dry wound-healing agent that is released through swelling of the hydrophilic polymer and is difficult to store in a liquid phase, and a first release member, which is a support on which the fiber is arranged and which is separated from the wound-covering membrane.
US11998640B2
Room-temperature stable dosage forms for oral delivery of calcitonin are disclosed herein. Dosage forms for oral delivery of calcitonin with low water content are also disclosed herein. Further disclosed herein are methods for producing such room-temperature stable dosage forms and low-water content dosage forms. Methods of treatment comprising the administration of such room-temperature stable dosage forms and low-water content dosage forms are also disclosed herein.
US11998634B2
The invention relates to new emulsion formulations comprising polyethylene glycol (15)-hydroxystearate, polyglyceryl-3 oleate and one, two, three or more anti-cancer drugs as well as such emulsion formulations for use in the treatment of cancer and a method for producing such emulsion formulations. Preferably, the emulsion formulation can further comprise one or more immunomodulatory drugs or adjuvant.
US11998633B2
One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a sol-gel composition enabling reversible sol-gel transition and, more specifically, to a sol-gel composition of which the viscosity changes by external physical force so that reversible sol-gel transition is performed.
US11998628B2
Hair care compositions and methods for using the same are disclosed herein. According to one aspect of the disclosure, a hair care composition is provided that includes from about 1 to about 20 wt. % of an anionic surfactant; from about 0.5 to about 5 wt. % of an amphoteric surfactant; from about 0.1 to about 7 wt. % of a nonionic surfactant; from about 0.1 to about 5 wt. % of a thickening agent, wherein the thickening agent is a natural gum; and from about 0.05 to about 4.5 wt. % of a silicone wherein the hair composition is an emulsion and all weight percentages are based on the total weight of the hair care composition. Additionally, the hair care composition may have a weight ratio for the total amount of anionic surfactant to the total amount of amphoteric surfactant that is about 5:1 to about 20:1.
US11998618B2
The invention provides polynucleotides, vectors and viruses expressing frataxin and methods of treating Friedreich's Ataxia.
US11998617B2
The present invention relates to gene and cell therapy using a cell fusion technology and more particularly, cells overexpressing hemagglutinin neuraminidase (HN) and fusion (F) proteins have effects of enhancing cell fusion with other cells, restoring cell damage through the cell fusion with damaged cells, and transferring a normal gene. Therefore, when a vector including genes encoding the HN and F proteins of the present invention or a cell transformed with the vector is clinically applied to neurodegenerative diseases, muscular diseases, and the like, an effect of reducing the damage of damaged cells through cell fusion can be expected.
US11998608B2
There is provided a molecule comprising a chain of seven or more contiguous units of 4,6-dideoxy-4-acylamido-α-pyranose each pair of units joined by a C1-C2 or a C1-C3 link, the chain having a terminal end and a reducing end, wherein the pyranose ring in the unit of the chain most distal from the reducing end is linked to a cap structure. The cap structure is not a 4,6-dideoxy-4-acylamido-α-pyranose. There are also provided vaccine compositions comprising the molecule and methods of vaccinating an animal against infection by a Brucella organism, including methods of distinguishing between a vaccinated and an infected animal. There are further provided novel methods of detecting the presence in a sample of an anti-Brucella antibody.
US11998585B2
The disclosure relates to methods for treating a subject suffering from hyperalgesia caused by drug-induced neuropathy by administering to the subject an effective amount of an aromatic-cationic peptide. The disclosure also relates to methods for protecting a subject from hyperalgesia caused by drug-induced neuropathy by administering an effective amount of an aromatic-cationic peptide to a subject at risk for developing the condition.
US11998574B2
Compositions, systems and methods of improving the health of the microbiome of an individual's skin relate to the provision of skin contacting formulations containing beneficial bacteria, postbiotics, metabolites and other microbe components to foster the growth and maintenance of a healthy skin microbiome. One embodiment includes a topical application of Lactobacillus crispatus to ameliorate skin barrier damage and inflammation using unique combinations of probiotics, prebiotics, postbiotics, and other skin-beneficial ingredients, effectively treating inflammatory skin diseases, such as atopic dermatitis, psoriasis and acne, through the production of tryptophan metabolites that act as AHR agonists.
US11998569B2
The present invention relates to a method of transporting a stem cell population, the method comprising transporting the stem cell population contacted with a liquid carrier. In addition, the present invention concerns a method of treating a subject having a disease, the method comprising topically administering a defined mesenchymal stem cell population to the subject, wherein the mesenchymal stem cell population is administered within about 96 hours from the time point the mesenchymal stem cell population has been harvested. Also concerned is a unit dosage comprising about 20 million cells, of about 15 million cells, of about 10 million cells, of about 5 million cells, of about 4 million cells, of about 3 million cells, of about 2 million cells, of about 1 million cells, of about 0.5 million cells, of about 0.25 million cells or of less than 0.25 million cells of a defined mesenchymal stem cell population.
US11998553B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for treating lupus nephritis with compositions comprising an effective amount of certain (2S)-N-[(1S)-1-cyano-2-phenylethyl]-1,4-oxazepane-2-carboxamide compounds of Formula (I), including pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, that inhibit dipeptidyl peptidase 1 (DPP1) activity. In one embodiment, the compound of Formula (I) is (2S)-N-{(1S)-1-cyano-2-[4-(3-methyl-2-oxo-2,3-dihydro-1,3-benzoxazol-5-yl)phenyl]ethyl}-1,4-oxazepane-2-carboxamide (INS1007).
US11998551B2
The present invention provides a composition comprising one or more deoxyribonucleosides for use in the treatment of a mitochondrial DNA depletion and/or multiple deletions syndrome provided that the syndrome is not caused by a defect in the deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate (dNTP) metabolism. With the use of the invention there is a recovery in mitochondrial DNA levels independently from the severity of the patient's disease, which confers a great therapeutic value to the invention.
US11998540B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for the treatment of drug-tolerant glioblastoma, and in particular glioblastoma stem cells. Specifically, the methods comprise contacting a glioblastoma stem cell with a platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha inhibitor and one or more of a histone lysine demethylase inhibitor and a Notch inhibitor.
US11998539B2
The present invention covers aminoquinolone compounds of general formula (I), in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8 and n are as defined herein, methods of preparing said compounds, intermediate compounds useful for preparing said compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and combinations comprising said compounds and the use of said compounds for manufacturing pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular of diacylglycerol kinase alpha regulated disorders, as a sole agent or in combination with other active ingredients.
US11998532B1
Compounds for treating tuberculosis and, particularly, anti-tubercular compounds that are substituted 1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives and their use as anti-tubercular agents are provided.
US11998530B2
Disclosed herein are a micelle comprising a benzimidazole-carbohydrate conjugate compound represented by the following chemical formula 1, a preparation method thereof, and use thereof as an anticancer agent or an antiviral agent comprising the same: in the above formula, R1, R2, R3 and X are the same as those defined in the disclosure and claims.
US11998516B2
The present invention relates to methods for the treatment or prevention of depression, and related pharmaceutical compositions. Of particular interest are pharmaceutical compositions comprising cyclobenzaprine, alone, or in combination with an antidepressant drug.
US11998513B2
A two-part topical composition includes a first composition including a S-nitrosothiol nitric oxide donor and a carrier, and a second composition including zinc oxide. The second composition is to be mixed with the first composition. The zinc oxide reacts with the S-nitrosothiol nitric oxide donor at a temperature ranging from about 20° C. to about 40° C. to enhance a rate of release of nitric oxide from a mixture of the first composition and the second composition.
US11998505B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for preventing tipping of a walking aid including a sensor configured to detect an angle of tilt in a forward direction of a walking aid, an actuator configured to determine whether the angle of tilt crosses a pre-set threshold, and a retractable support that prevents tipping of the walking aid, wherein the actuator causes the retractable support to extend from the walking aid in the forward direction to limit the tilt of the walking aid when the actuator determines that the angle of tilt crosses the pre-set threshold.
US11998500B1
The invention provides a massage device, which comprises the shell and two symmetrical elastic massage parts, wherein the driving part and the guiding transmission part connected with the driving part are arranged in the shell. The guiding transmission part drives the two elastic massage parts to move towards or away from each other. The massage device of the invention is convenient to use, which could relieve the pressure and fatigue of people and makes them relaxed by massaging the body.
US11998497B2
A method of supporting a body part (16), comprising providing a device (100) comprising: a first portion (105) configured to support a body part, wherein, in use, the body part applies a first pressure to the first portion in a first direction; means for detecting the first pressure; and a second portion (115) having means (212) for applying a second pressure to the body part in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction; detecting the first pressure; determining the second pressure based on a user parameter; and applying the second pressure to the body part in the second direction at a pre-determined ratio relative to the first pressure using said means for applying the second pressure.
US11998496B2
In a power transmission mechanism 20, a line connecting a center shaft 21 of a reference gear member 40 and a first shaft 44 of a first planetary gear member 42 and a line connecting the center shaft 21 of the reference gear member 40 and a second shaft 47 of a second planetary gear member 45 form a specific angle α. Rotation in one direction is prevented when a first carrier member 22 and a second carrier member 32 are relatively rotated in a direction to decrease the specific angle α. Further, a rotation prevention release unit is provided to release a prevention state of the rotation when the first carrier member 22 and the second carrier member 32 are relatively rotated in a direction to increase the specific angle α.
US11998490B2
An apparatus for supporting an arm of a human patient during a medical procedure can include a base, an arm pad, and barriers for shielding scatter radiation. A medial portion of the base can lie between the human patient and a table on which the human patient is supported. The arm pad can be positioned on a lateral portion of the base. A first barrier can be mounted to the base and can be positioned laterally intermediate the medial and lateral portions, the first barrier extending upwardly from the base to above the arm pad. A second barrier can be mounted to the lateral portion of the base and extend downwardly. The arm pad can include a radiopaque panel that is horizontal.
US11998488B2
A compact system for performing laser ophthalmic surgery is disclosed. An embodiment of the system includes a mode-locked fiber oscillator-based ultra-short pulsed laser capable of producing laser pulses in the range of 1 nJ to 5 μJ at a pulse repetition rate of between 5 MHz and 25 MHz, a resonant optical scanner oscillating at a frequency of 200 Hz and 21000 Hz, a scan-line rotator, a movable XY-san device, a z-scan device, and a controller configured to coordinate with the other components of the system to produce one or more desired incision patterns. The system also includes compact visualization optics for in-process monitoring using a beam-splitter inside the cone of a patient interface used to fixate the patient's eye during surgery. The system can be configured such that eye surgery is performed while the patient is either sitting upright, or lying on his or her back.
US11998481B2
In one aspect, the disclosure relates to drug delivery devices for the ionophoretic delivery of a therapeutic agent(s) to the eye. In some aspects, the disclosed ionophoretic ocular delivery device is configured for delivery of a therapeutic agent to the anterior portion of the eye. In various aspects, the present disclosure provides methods for treatment of an ophthalmological disorder, disease, or clinical condition by delivering a therapeutic agent(s) to the eye using a disclosed ionophoretic ocular delivery device. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present disclosure.
US11998462B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to devices and methods for treating tricuspid valve insufficiency. For example, in some embodiments, a tricuspid insufficiency treatment device is provided, and includes a tubular member configured for implantation within a vena cava of a patient, where the tubular member is formed with a sidewall. The device also includes at least two (2) valves arranged circumferentially along the sidewall, where each valve comprises an opening formed in the sidewall, and a blocking member arranged to block and unblock a respective opening of the plurality of openings. Each blocking member comprises a flap or cover pivotally attached at or proximate a portion of a respective opening and arranged to block and unblock the opening during ventricular systole and ventricular diastole, respectively, such that the opening is unblocked in a direction opposite to the attachment of the flap or cover. The at least two valves are arranged along a first circumference at a first location between the ends of the tubular member.
US11998461B2
Various examples are provided for modular prosthetic devices and their use. In one example, a device includes a chassis assembly including a joint portion; and an interchangeable module that can be removably attached to the chassis assembly. The interchangeable modules can be configured for use in a wide variety of applications. The interchangeable modules can be quickly exchanged for different activities.
US11998454B2
Embodiments herein are generally directed to vertebral implants and implant trials for use with vertebral implant assemblies. In some embodiments, these implants and implant trials may be used in conjunction with corpectomy procedures.
US11998452B2
A modular augment cone system and methods of implanting the modular augment cone system. The system includes a main body cone a first cutout in the cone wall, and including a proximal end, a distal end, and a cone wall extending between the proximal and distal ends. A portion of the cone wall proximal to the first cutout includes an attachment feature. A first augment cone is positionable in the first cutout, the first augment cone including an attachment feature configured to mate with the attachment feature of the cone wall to attach the first augment cone into the first cutout. The main body cone can include a second cutout in the cone wall. In such systems, the modular augment cone system can include a second augment cone configured to mate with an attachment feature of the cone wall to attach the second augment cone into the second cutout.
US11998450B2
This disclosure relates to orthopaedic implants and methods for repairing bone defects and restoring functionality to a joint. The implants and methods disclosed herein include augments formed on respective baseplates. The augments may have geometries that may approximate a surface contour or bone void along a surgical site.
US11998437B2
Described herein are methods for lengthening tubular organs using expandable implants. The expandable implants may be secured along a length of a tubular organ by forming a plication at each end of the implant. Securing the expandable implants in this manner may be used to treat short bowel syndrome. Methods for selecting and implanting an expandable implant suitable for lengthening a tubular organ according to predetermined patient parameters are further described herein.
US11998410B2
Systems, methods, and/or computer-readable media described herein provide technical solutions to aid in the color matching of dental restorations. These systems, methods and/or computer readable media may receive a three-dimensional (3D) model of a tooth, where the 3D model includes a plurality of voxels, set each voxel to a starting optical property, and form a 3D visible light model from the 3D model by iteratively adjusting the optical property of each voxel based on optical properties measured from a scan of the tooth, where the 3D visible light model provides information to generate a color matched dental restoration.
US11998393B2
A deployable ultrasound imaging device is operably connected to an ultrasound imaging system including a processing unit configured to operate the transducer and the individual segments in order to emit ultrasound signals from the segments and to receive ultrasound signals from the structures surrounding the segments. The ultrasound imaging system/processing unit can process the transmitted and received signals by beamforming to direct the ultrasound signals emitted from the segments in order to provide data for an ultrasound image of the desired structure(s). The ultrasound imaging system/processing unit mechanically or acoustically determines the position of the individual segments with regard to one another to determine the angular position of the segments with regard to one another. Using the angular position, the ultrasound imaging system/processing unit can apply a beamforming correction to the ultrasound signals emitted from and/or received by the segments in order to produce an accurate ultrasound image.
US11998387B2
Described are systems, devices, and methods useful in the prevention and/or detection of liquid intrusion into ultrasound equipment. Ultrasound transducers and associated ultrasound circuitry, which can be located in an interior of an ultrasound system or device can be adversely affected by exposure to liquids. As described herein, ultrasound systems and devices can comprise a multilayer seal, for example, wherein the multilayer seal comprises one or more layers for preventing liquid intrusion and one or more layers for detection of liquid intrusion (e.g., wherein the one or more layers for detection of liquid intrusion comprise an indicator material capable of changing color when exposed to a liquid).
US11998386B2
An ultrasound probe assembly includes an ultrasound probe, an ultrasound cap, a solid hydrogel component, and a cover. The ultrasound probe can include a probe head and an orientation indicator. The probe head includes an acoustic surface. The ultrasound cap can include an opening defined by an opening perimeter, and a base configured to support a removable needle guide. The base can be aligned with the orientation indicator. The solid hydrogel component can include a probe-contacting side contacting the acoustic surface, a skin-contacting side extending through the opening, and an outer perimeter larger than the opening perimeter. The cover can be configured to cover the hydrogel component and at least a portion of the ultrasound cap.
US11998380B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program causes a computer to perform an analysis process based on a radiation moving image in which a dynamic state of a specific site of a subject is captured. The program includes the analysis process in which, an analysis is performed based on the radiation moving image wherein when a plane in which the specific site is movable is to be a movable plane, the radiation moving image is obtained by irradiating radiation on the specific site in a state in which the radiation is orthogonal to the movable plane.
US11998377B2
Provided is a PET scanner system having a PET scanner gantry that is configured for delivering a uniformly distributed cooling air to a plurality of detectors housed in the PET scanner gantry. The PET scanner gantry includes a cooling air delivery manifold that includes a patient tunnel portion; and a front funnel portion. The front funnel portion includes an annular interior wall defining an entry opening of the patient tunnel portion; and an air plenum has an annular structure for carrying a flow of pressurized cooling air received from a remote source supplements the pressurized cooling air with a supply of ambient air and directs it to the plurality of detectors.
US11998367B2
A facility for coordinating the safety care of a person is described. The facility receives sensor output indicating that the person has departed a place of repose. In response to this receiving, the facility establishes an alarm identifying the person, accesses a set of on-duty caregivers, and applies one or more precedence rules to establish a precedence among at least a portion of the set of on-duty caregivers. Until a caregiver has accepted the alarm, for each caregiver in the established precedence, the facility: causes a mobile device carried by the caregiver to render a message notifying the caregiver of the alarm and soliciting the caregiver's acceptance of the alarm; and allows the caregiver an interval of time of a first predetermined length in which to accept the alarm before proceeding to the next caregiver in the established precedence.
US11998363B2
A method of determining signal quality in a patient monitoring device includes acquiring one or more signals using the patient monitoring device. One or more signal quality metrics are determined based on the one or more acquired signals. A noise condition is detected based on the one or more signal quality metrics, and a determination is made whether the noise condition should be classified as intermittent or persistent. One or more actions are taken based on the classification of detected noise as intermittent or persistent.
US11998353B2
A camera having blood optical imaging function, comprising: a lens, an image sensor, a main control module, a blood optical imaging algorithm module and an IP network interface module; the lens is located at the image acquiring position of the camera; the output end of the image sensor are in electric connection with input ends of the main control module and the blood optical imaging algorithm module, respectively; the main control module is in electric connection with the blood optical imaging algorithm module and the IP network interface module, respectively. The blood optical imaging algorithm is directly applied to the camera, so that the algorithm module can directly acquire original RGB data from the sensor, improving the accuracy of detection and the quality of blood vessel imaging, and achieving remote detection of the blood optical images of a face, while detecting the blood optical images of a moving face.
US11998352B2
A neurological screening device and method for assessing brain dysfunction of a subject including a projection apparatus configured to project an image onto retinas of a subject, detectors configured to capture light reflected from the retinas, the reflected light indicating a fixation of the eyes, a controller configured to generate baseline cognitive performance data based at least in part on a presence or absence of fixation, cause output of a plurality of assessment images on displays of the neurological screening device, the plurality of assessment images corresponding to a cognitive assessment configured to stress the frontal lobe of the subject, generate stressed cognitive performance data based at least in part on a presence or absence of fixation during the cognitive assessment, and determine brain dysfunction of the subject based at least in part on the baseline cognitive performance data and the stressed cognitive performance data.
US11998350B2
The invention features a headset, and systems including the headset, equipped with electrical sensors. The headset is suitable for use by a child and suitable for use in a gaming system, e.g., to train attention.
US11998337B2
A monitoring system may include a processor and display system for displaying results from the monitoring. A user may be in a sterile field away from the processor and display system and selected input devices. A controller may be physically connected to the monitoring system from the sterile field to allow the user to control the monitoring system.
US11998325B2
A body-monitoring system (1), intended to be attached to a limb of a living being, having a first module (100) having fastening and clamping mechanisms (110) configured to hold and clamp the system (1) on a limb; a second module (200) having microneedles (210) configured to be inserted into the skin in order to sample and/or analyse a bodily fluid of the wearer of the body-monitoring system (1) when positioned on the limb, the two modules (100, 200) being able to be coupled together in position by a complementarity of shape. The first module (100) and the second module (200) are connected together by a separable link (300), the separable link being configured to be released when a tearing threshold is exceeded, the link also being reusable.
US11998322B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for patient monitoring. An example method comprises receiving an estimated glucose concentration level of the patient from a continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) system for a first time period. The method may also include receiving non-glucose information relating to the patient for the first time period and determining a relationship between the estimated glucose concentration level and the non-glucose information. The method may also include receiving non-glucose information relating to the patient for a second time period and determining diabetic information about the patient for the second time period based upon the determined relationship and the non-glucose information. The method may include electronically delivering a notification about the diabetic information.
US11998321B2
The disclosure relates to a method and system for controlling glucose levels comprising receiving behavioral sensor measurements and analyte sensor measurements, determining a plurality of analyte profiles from continuous analyte sensor measurements; grouping the plurality of analyte profiles into clusters; assigning a selected behavioral parameter or a selected pattern of behavioral parameters to each analyte profile in a first cluster, and providing a treatment recommendation.
US11998319B2
A flexible, multi-layered device for automatically sensing sweat biomarkers, storing and transmitting sensed data via wireless network to a computing device having software applications operable thereon for receiving and analyzing the sensed data. The device is functional in extreme conditions, including extremely hot temperatures, extremely cold temperatures, high salinity, high altitude, extreme pHs, and/or extreme pressures.
US11998317B1
Introduced here are techniques for digitally characterizing the movement of a subject in order to detect the presence of a disorder or monitor the progression of the disorder. More specifically, one or more angular features can be identified that define how certain part(s) of the human body move relative to other part(s) of the human body. These angular feature(s) can be used, for example, to affirmatively diagnose instances of a disorder, eliminate a disorder as the source of symptoms experienced by a subject, generate confidence scores that can be used to assist in diagnosing a subject, monitor disorder progression due to treatment or lack thereof, etc.
US11998316B2
According to an embodiment, a system comprises a target image display forming a skeleton image of a subject on a grid pattern with a predetermined unit length and coordinates via image processing by a three-dimensional (3D) depth camera, specifying, on the skeleton image, feature points corresponding to the subject's joints, a reference point corresponding to a measurement target among the feature points, and a motion point corresponding to a joint moving with respect to the reference point, and generating a connection line connecting the feature points and an information processor obtaining the body information from the skeleton image using the feature points, the connection line, the grid pattern, and a gravity line and median line of the subject, evaluating the posture information according to a preset posture classification criterion, and measuring the joint motion range by tracking motion of the motion point with respect to the reference point.
US11998313B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for respiration-controlled virtual experiences. In an embodiment, a controller presents a virtual experience via a user interface that is perceptible to a user. The controller receives a respiration-data stream from a respiration device with which the user is operably engaged. The respiration-data stream includes one or more respiration-parameter values of one or more respiration parameters associated with ongoing respiration of the user. The controller updates the virtual experience based at least in part on the one or more respiration-parameter values in the respiration-data stream. The virtual experience includes a plurality of sequential phases that have an associated phase sequence. Among the sequential phases is an active-induction phase that corresponds in time to the user receiving anesthetic induction via the respiration device, as well as one or more phases that each precede the active-induction phase.
US11998311B2
A catheter for positioning a guidewire across an occluded portion of a vessel includes an elongate catheter body, an integrated rotatable distal tip, a proximal handle region, and a catheter lumen extending through the elongate catheter body. The elongate body has a distal region configured to be bent to a set angle. The integrated rotatable distal tip includes one or more channeled flutes extending around the distal tip that are configured to be rotated in a first direction to dissect tissue and a second direction for bluntly contacting tissue. A proximal handle region includes a control for rotating the distal tip in either the first or second directions. The catheter lumen is configured to pass a guidewire.
US11998308B2
Method and apparatus for determining respiration phase, magnetic resonance imaging method and system
The present disclosure provides techniques for determining a respiration phase by extracting a distance characteristic value, a score characteristic value, and an area characteristic value from the respiration signal, wherein the distance characteristic value, the score characteristic value and the area characteristic value are used to indicate waveform variation between two adjacent waveforms in the respiration signal. The techniques include training a respiration signal model according to the distance characteristic value, the score characteristic value, and the area characteristic value to determine the respiration phase of the respiration signal using the respiration signal model.
US11998305B2
A system and method for using algorithms and acoustic input to control, monitor, annotate, and configure a wearable patch that monitors physiological signals. The method comprises the receiving a transmission at a wearable device wherein the transmission can identify a mode of operation, an annotation to the data in the device, a request for data from the device, a modification of the configuration of parameters, and signals in the device.
US11998304B2
Disclosed herein is a ring-shaped wearable device for detecting biometrics with a light source and a photodetector directed towards a digit wearing the ring-shaped device. The ring can thus detect oxygen saturation of a wearer based on light transmitted through the wearer's finger. The ring can include power saving measures to extend the battery life. A motion sensor can help determine opportune moments for data collection such as when the wearer is still. The motion sensor can be used to remove noise from the data caused by motion. After data is collected or during data collection, the ring can wirelessly communicate the data to another portable electronic device such as a phone or watch.
US11998293B2
A teleoperational medical system includes a teleoperational control system, a teleoperational manipulator configured for operating a medical instrument in a medical environment, and an operator controller. The teleoperational control system includes a processing unit including one or more processors. The processing unit is configured to determine whether a head portion of an operator of the operator controller is directed toward or away from a display region of a display device based on at least one marker on the operator that is configured to remain substantially fixed relative to the head portion of the operator during a movement of the head portion. The processing unit is further configured to, based on a determination that the head portion is directed away from the display region for at least a threshold time period, enter a standby mode such that movement of the operator controller does not provide corresponding movement to the teleoperational manipulator.
US11998290B2
A robotic catheter procedure system for performing a procedure to treat a vascular lesion including a bedside system and a remote workstation is provided. The bedside system includes a first percutaneous device including an end section, the end section structured to allow the first percutaneous device to create a bore through the vascular lesion. The bedside system includes a second percutaneous device. The bedside system also includes a first actuating mechanism configured to engage and to impart movement to the first percutaneous device and a second actuating mechanism configured to engage and to impart movement to the second percutaneous device. The remote workstation includes a user interface and a control system operatively coupled to the user interface and to the bedside system. The control system controlling the first actuating mechanism to cause movement of the first percutaneous device to create a bore through the lesion and the second actuating mechanism to cause movement of the second percutaneous device through the bore created by the first percutaneous device.
US11998286B2
A surgical tool assembly may include a first component, a second component, a tracker device connected at least to the first component. A quick connect system for releasably connecting the first component to the second component, the quick connect system including a male and female engagement, a latch mechanism for latching the first component to the second component. Complementary features are on the first component and on the second component to ensure a planned positional alignment between the first component and the second component upon latching of the male and female engagement, for tracking of the second component with the tracker device.
US11998281B1
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for performing robotic surgery in an extended reality (XR) collaborative customizable virtual operating room are disclosed. The disclosed systems provide a virtual environment in which a surgical robot network receives medical images of a patient and creates a digital twin from a patient's medical images. The surgical robot network allows a first user to create a virtual environment to perform a surgical procedure, select workflow objects, and perform actions on the digital twin. The data of the workflow objects and actions in relation to the digital twin is stored. The first user invites a second user to join the virtual environment who may collaborate with the first user on the workflow objects and actions performed to adjust the workflow, workflow objects, and actions performed. The workflow, workflow objects, actions in relation to the digital twin are sent to a surgical robot.
US11998273B2
A computer device implemented method includes displaying, via the computer device, content on a display device, sensing a pupil size of a user of the computer, and adjusting a luminosity setting of the display device based on the sensed pupil size and a pupil size setpoint.
US11998272B2
After OCT scans are acquired, error compensation is be applied anew by identifying motion tracking data that was collected simultaneously with (or closest in time to) each acquired OCT scan. The effects of any previously applied motion tracking information is removed from an OCT scan before applying the new motion tracking data, which may provide higher resolution motion tracking.
US11998266B2
A method to apply a nerve inhibiting cloud surrounding a blood vessel includes creating a treatment plan, wherein the treatment plan prescribes application of the nerve inhibiting cloud towards at least a majority portion of a circumference of a blood vessel wall, and applying the nerve inhibiting cloud towards the majority portion of the circumference of the blood vessel wall for a time sufficient to inhibit a function of a nerve that surrounds the blood vessel wall.
US11998265B2
A method for invasive cardiac treatment, including inserting a catheter via a transvascular route into a beating heart of a patient who is anesthetically paralyzed and intubated for ventilation, and, after inserting the catheter, temporarily halting ventilation of the patient. The method includes moving the catheter between a plurality of locations of myocardial tissue of the heart while the ventilation is halted; and ablating the myocardial tissue of the heart at the plurality of locations while the ventilation is halted.
US11998264B2
Medical catheters, systems including medical catheters, and methods of positioning medical catheters
A method of navigating a catheter to a target location in an anatomical structure of a patient includes inserting a portion of a catheter into the patient. The catheter includes an elongate shaft having a proximal and a distal end, and a loop subassembly coupled to the distal end. The loop subassembly includes a loop coupled to the distal end and positioned parallel to the elongate shaft, and electrodes disposed on the loop. The method includes positioning one of a portion of the loop subassembly and a portion of the distal end of the elongate shaft in contact with a surface of the anatomical structure a distance from the target location, and translating the loop subassembly toward the target location with the one of the portion of the loop subassembly and the portion of the distal end of the elongate shaft in contact with the surface of the anatomical structure.
US11998259B2
A device and method for detecting faults in a shield of an electrosurgical instrument is described. The device has a relay configured to selectively interrupt power to the electrosurgical instrument, monitoring circuitry configured to monitor a shield in the electrosurgical instrument, control circuitry to control the relay, and a battery power source. The monitoring circuitry has an envelope detector and a detected average shield current detector. The monitoring circuitry is configured to compare a shield current peak value to a shield current peak threshold value, and to compare a detected average shield current value to a detected average shield current threshold value. The device is further configured to operatively couple an active electrode of an electrosurgical instrument and a return electrode to an electrosurgical generator.
US11998257B2
Methods and instruments for placement of orthopedic implants in bones of a patient. The placement may include selective placement of the implant relative to structure of the bone using a measurement system that may detect interfaces between layers of the bone. The orthopedic implants may be engaged by various embodiments of chucks. The chucks may include structure for engaging indexing features of a corresponding orthopedic implant to restrict movement of the implant relative to the chuck along a working axis. The chucks may allow for use of an instrument having a measurement system for accurate and repeatable placement of the implants using the instrument.
US11998247B2
A method of assembling a pivotal bone anchor assembly with tooling includes applying the tooling to a receiver assembly that includes a receiver having a central bore, and a retainer and a pressure insert secured within the central bore. The method also includes uploading a capture portion of a bone anchor through a bottom opening and into the retainer to cause the retainer to first widen within an expansion portion of the central bore to receive the capture portion and then to close around and secure the capture portion while providing for pivotal motion of the bone anchor relative to the receiver. The method further includes downwardly displacing the pressure insert within the central bore with the tooling until an outer surface of the pressure insert comes into forced interference engagement with interference wedging surfaces of the central bore, with the pressure insert thereafter being inhibited from moving back up within the receiver.
US11998237B2
Disclosed herein are medical device systems, and methods thereof, for automatically detecting access to a medullary cavity. Embodiments include intraosseous access systems with sensing obturators, configured to detect a change in modality, e.g. pressure, oxygen saturation, electrical impedance, etc. at a distal tip thereof. Signals can be transmitted to a control logic that can modify the activation of a driver in response. Signals can be transmitted by way of wired or wireless communication. In an embodiment, signals can be transmitted through conductive polymer material that forms the obturator and allows the obturator to be flexible enough to mitigate accidental needle stick injuries.
US11998234B2
A percutaneous introducer, particularly for flexible drainage tubes and with various profiles, includes a main body, the main body having a longitudinally extended tubular element arranged in the distal portion of the main body. The tubular element has a terminal arranged at the distal end of the tubular element. The percutaneous introducer has a sliding body which includes a longitudinally extended obturator arranged in the distal portion of the sliding body, the obturator being inserted and being movable longitudinally within the tubular element of the main body. The obturator includes a cutting blade arranged and fixed at the distal end of the obturator. The percutaneous introducer includes a return and positioning spring adapted to return the cutting blade to a retracted position within its seat, following the controlled exit of the cutting blade through a passage slot arranged in the terminal of the tubular element.
US11998232B2
A therapeutic device, therapeutic system and therapeutic method for myocardium repair, wherein the therapeutic device comprises a treatment needle for piercing the heart to release a therapeutant. The treatment needle includes a needle body (5a), the interior of the needle body (5) has a therapeutant conveying cavity, an end of the needle body (5a) is a needle (5b) which can pierce the myocardium and guide the needle body (5a) to pass through the myocardium, and the needle (5b) has a therapeutant output port which is connected to the therapeutant conveying cavity. The therapeutic device enters into the myocardium in a minimally invasive manner to release the therapeutant to the vicinity of the lesion to improve myocardial function or activity and prevent further deterioration of the disease.
US11998229B2
An ultrasonic surgical system is disclosed comprising a surgical instrument and a wrench assembly. The surgical instrument comprises a handle assembly and a body member pivotably coupled to the handle assembly. The handle assembly comprises a first finger grip, an ultrasonic blade, and a waveguide extending proximally from the ultrasonic blade. The body member comprises a second finger grip, a clamp arm movable relative to the ultrasonic blade to capture tissue therebetween, a first body surface defined on a first side of the body member, and a second body surface defined on a second side of the body member. The wrench assembly comprises a wrench and an adapter operably coupled to the wrench. The adapter comprises a first wrench surface configured to engage the first body surface and a second wrench surface configured to engage the second body surface.
US11998224B2
A platform of devices for removing obstructions and other objects within a blood vessel or other interior lumen of an animal is provided. The system may be deployed in the lumen from a catheter(s) and the system includes a proximal hub, and a distal basket comprised of a plurality of cells. A number of different baskets designs are disclosed. Methods of manufacturing such baskets out of a single tube of a memory metal without the need for any welding, and methods of use are also disclosed.
US11998219B2
A surgical blade having an attachment base positioned at a proximal end and a wedge-shaped blade. The wedge-shaped blade includes a cutting tip having a first plurality of cutting teeth, which define a cutting edge along the distal end for starting an osteotomy. The wedge-shaped blade includes a second plurality of teeth positioned along rows. Each row is positioned at offset planes from adjacent rows along the wedge-shaped blade.
US11998217B2
This is a device, belonging to the medical and hospital artifacts industry, developed to accelerate the hemostatic process for patients undergoing radial punctures, partially compressing the artery subjected to treatment; said cryo-hemostatic device is essentially presented in the form of a wristband (1), providing end bands (2) providing velcro-based closing, interconnected by an intermediate band (3) below which a first cryogenic reservoir pad is located (4), which can be filled with a saline substance by the action of a syringe connected to the first connection nipple (5) attached to the first tube (6), flanked by the second external reservoir pad (7), also provided with a second connection nipple (8), attached to the second tube (9).
US11998213B2
An embolic implant includes a detachment feature configured to engage and be released from a delivery member's engagement system. The engagement system can include a loop wire extending through an opening of the detachment feature a pull wire extending through the loop wire to secure the detachment feature to a delivery tube of the delivery member. The detachment feature can include a distal extension configured to engage a distal end of the pull wire to inhibit the pull wire from moving distally into the implant. The detachment feature can also include a sleeve to align the pull wire to the distal extension and/or provide a friction force against the pull wire to inhibit longitudinal movement of the distal end of the pull wire.
US11998208B2
An anastomotic coupler is provided. A ring can include a plurality of receiving portions. A fixation device includes a cartridge. The cartridge includes a plurality of fasteners. The ring is aligned with the cartridge such that the receiving portions are aligned with the fasteners. Upon actuation of the fixation device, the fasteners puncture the tubular structure and are received by the receiving portions such that the tubular structure is coupled with the ring.
US11998207B2
Methods and apparatus for creating an anastomosis or fistula between the gallbladder and an adjacent organ are disclosed. First, a parent magnet, typically a permanent magnet, is deployed in the stomach, small intestine, or another organ adjacent to the gallbladder, and a mating daughter material is deployed in the gallbladder in order to create a magnet-compression anastomosis. The gallbladder may then be ablated or otherwise functionally inactivated through the anastomosis. Another aspect of the invention relates to an all-in-one surgical kit that contains all the necessary specialized tools for a surgeon to perform the procedure.
US11998200B2
In various embodiments, a surgical instrument can comprise an end effector including a staple cartridge and a datum portion positioned proximal to the staple cartridge. The surgical instrument can further comprise a shaft and an articulation joint configured to articulate the end effector relative to the shaft. In addition, the surgical instrument can further comprise a firing member configured to deploy a plurality of staples from the staple cartridge and a drive assembly including a drive member configured to move the firing member. The drive assembly may also include a stop configured to engage the datum portion to limit the movement of the drive member after the plurality of staples are fired.
US11998195B2
An articulation tool includes proximal and distal links, an elongated shaft therebetween, and first and second locks. Movement of the proximal link about proximal first and second axes causes corresponding movement of the distal link about distal first and second axes. The first and second locks have unlocked configurations in which the proximal and distal links are movable with respect to the elongated shaft about the first axes, or the second axes, respectively, and locked configurations in which the proximal and distal links are held in a fixed orientation with respect to the elongated shaft about the first axes, or the second axes, respectively. Rotation of the elongated shaft while the first and second locks are in the locked configuration and the proximal and distal links are angled with respect to the elongated shaft causes the proximal and distal links to rotate about respective longitudinal axes.
US11998190B2
One-piece tissue fasteners are provided for securing two or more tissue layers to each other. Delivery devices are described by which a tandem array of such fasteners can be delivered and deployed to secure tissue layers in a number of locations without requiring removal or reloading of the removal tool.
US11998186B2
Methods and devices for tissue fixation. A cortical button with a rib between two slotted openings. The rib increases the cortical button structural rigidity without increasing palpability. An adjustable loop construct with two discrete locking passages that provides manageable loop reduction and improved tissue coupling. The adjustable loop construct may be coupled to tissue via a passing construct. An assembly with a reduction bar, a button and an adjustable loop construct, the assembly provided assembled in a first configuration that disassembles to guide steps of tissue fixation. The reduction bar may be assembled to the reduction bar for reducing the adjustable loop construct.
US11998184B2
Systems, devices and methods related to retractor systems that retract tissue to allow access to a surgical site are described. The retractor systems can include a first rotatable arm attachable to a first blade, a second rotatable arm attachable to a second blade and a third linearly translatable arm attachable to a third blade. An attachment mechanism that is attachable to a fourth blade can be removably coupled to a mount on the frame. The retractors systems can also include two blade systems whereby when the retractor is in a closed configuration, the two blades form an oval opening.
US11998181B2
The disclosure relates to a morcellation bag including at least one film of plastic material attached so as to define a surface of the bag with a first closed end and a second open end for introducing surgical specimens and a morcellator; characterized in that it is provided with at least one transparent region, said transparent region having an area of at least 1 cm2 and a thickness less than 200 μm; said transparent region being made of a material or materials with a total transmittance greater than 80%, a clarity greater than 80% and a haze less than 25%.
US11998175B2
The present invention relates to a capsule-type endoscope assembly which can be assembled or disassembled in a digestive organ of an examinee, and a capsule-type endoscope system using the same. A capsule-type endoscope of the present invention can be actively operated by the application of an external magnetic field. In addition, according to the present invention, after an examinee has separately swallowed various diagnosis and treatment devices modularized according to a purpose of diagnosis and treatment, the diagnosis and treatment devices can be assembled in a digestive organ of the examinee. Therefore, a function of a capsule-type endoscope can be extended to various diagnosis and treatment areas conventionally covered by a conventional general endoscope.
US11998174B2
An endoscope includes: a direction conversion module for converting rotational motions of the upper and lower sprockets to linear motions of the upper and lower chains while maintaining linear states of the upper and lower chains pulled, and pushed upon rotational operation of the operation part, in which the direction conversion module includes: first and second connection blocks for connecting both ends of the upper chain to one end of each of the first and second connection wires of the operation part, and third and fourth connection blocks for connecting both ends of the lower chain to one end of each of the third and fourth connection wires of the operation part.
US11998173B1
An imaging connector includes a proximal side and a distal side. The proximal side includes a light input opening and an image output opening. The distal side includes a light output opening and an image input opening. The imaging connector is operable to (i) transmit light from the light input opening to the light output opening, and (ii) transmit an image from the image input opening to the image output opening.
US11998166B2
The disclosure relates and extends to a light source having a strobing or pulsing sequence suitable for use with a CMOS sensor that does not require, have, or use a global shutter. Instead, the CMOS sensor synchronizes the strobing input with the blanking portion of the sensor readout pattern and disables the strobing during sensor readout, or when the strobing would otherwise leave artifacts in the image. The CMOS sensor freezes its readout during the strobing.
US11998162B2
A support device of the cleaner includes a charging stand body provided with a charging port for charging the cleaner and a plurality of fixing parts disposed to be spaced apart from each other on the charging stand body and each having a fixing groove in which a fixing protrusion provided on the cleaner is accommodated.
US11998160B2
An autonomous cleaning device is provided. The autonomous cleaning device includes: a device body; and a drive module, a cleaning module and a sensing module, wherein the drive module, the cleaning module and the sensing module are detachably assembled to the device body, respectively.
US11998159B2
A self-driving vacuum cleaner may include: a main body; a drive unit; a pattern irradiation unit, disposed on a front surface of the main body, for irradiating light; a camera, disposed on the front surface of the main body; and a controller for detecting a light pattern formed by the pattern irradiation unit using an image photographed by the camera, determining whether an obstacle exists in front of the main body on the basis of the brightness of the detected light pattern, and controlling the drive unit to pass or avoid the obstacle on the basis of the determination result.
US11998157B2
A reconfigurable surface treatment apparatus may include a wand and a pod removably coupled to the wand. The wand may have a first distal end that is configured to couple to a surface cleaning head and a second distal end that is configured to couple to a handle. The pod may include a suction motor assembly cavity, a battery cavity, and a dust cup cavity. The suction motor assembly cavity and the battery cavity may be disposed on opposing sides of a vertical plane, wherein the vertical plane extends along a central longitudinal axis of the pod. The dust cup cavity may be disposed between the suction motor assembly cavity and the battery cavity such that at least a portion of the dust cup cavity is disposed on each side of the vertical plane.
US11998156B2
A dishwasher fixing bracket apparatus may include a base bar and moving plates. The base bar has a flat top surface, and includes a slide rail on a bottom thereof to extend in a longitudinal direction. The moving plates are slidably coupled to the slide rail and are configured to change positions thereof on the base bar in the longitudinal direction of the base bar. The moving plates include a pair of outer plates and one or more inner plates. The outer plates respectively include a support strap protruding toward the corresponding distal end of the base bar. The support strap has a coupling hole through which the support strap is coupled to an external structure and is oriented toward the adjacent distal end of the base bar. The inner plates slide between the outer plates and having fixing holes through which the inner plates are coupled to the dishwasher.
US11998151B2
A cleaning roller mountable to a cleaning robot includes an elongate shaft extending from a first end portion to a second end portion along an axis of rotation. The first and second end portions are mountable to the cleaning robot for rotating about the axis of rotation. The cleaning roller further includes a core affixed around the shaft and having outer end portions positioned along the elongate shaft and proximate the first and second end portions. The core tapers from proximate the first end portion of the shaft toward a center of the shaft. The cleaning roller further includes a sheath affixed to the core and extending beyond the outer end portions of the core. The sheath includes a first half and a second half each tapering toward the center of the shaft.
US11998135B2
An adjustable coffee grounds tamper includes a top handle, a base threadingly connected to the top handle, and a middle ring disposed between the handle and the base and also threadingly connected to the base.
US11998133B2
A cooking vessel according to one example embodiment includes a food receptacle for holding food during cooking. The cooking vessel includes an inner shell and an outer shell. An outside surface of the inner shell forms the food receptacle. A portion of an inside surface of the inner shell is spaced from a portion of an inside surface of the outer shell forming a sealed volume between the inner shell and the outer shell. A heat pipe is positioned within the sealed volume between the inner shell and the outer shell for distributing heat through the sealed volume between the inner shell and the outer shell. Embodiments include those wherein each of the inner shell and the outer shell includes a respective bottom wall and a respective side wall.
US11998119B2
An outdoor chaise lounge may include a frame, multiple legs coupled to and extending below the frame to support the frame, a seat member coupled to the frame to enable a user to sit or lay on the seat member, a lock-box fixedly supported by the frame that enables a user of the outdoor chaise lounge to store and lock items therein. The lock-box may include a lock-box door inclusive of a user interface that enables a user to lock and unlock the lock-box. A door member may be coupled to the seat member and have a closed position and an open position such that when said door member is in the open position, the user has access to the user interface on the lock-box door.
US11998118B2
A chair, comprising, a backrest, a seat coupled with the backrest, a column coupled with the seat, a linkage statically attached to the backrest and rotatably attached below the seat, a leaf spring statically attached at one end and in contact with the linkage to provide a resistance to tilting of the backrest relative to the column, a first structure. A portion of the first structure has an arc shape that includes one or more teeth, and a second structure in contact with the first structure. The chair is configured such that, when a weight is applied to the seat, one or more teeth of the second structure move along the one or more teeth of the first structure to provide an increased resistance to tilting of the backrest relative to the column.
US11998114B2
A display stand connector can include a first part including a body member for attachment to a first part of a display stand and a protuberance extending from at least one surface of the body member. A second part of the display stand connector can include a base for attachment to a second part of the display stand, the base including a slot. The body member of the first part is locatable within the slot so as to connect the first and second parts of the display stand. The display stand connector is made from a pulp material.
US11998104B2
The invention relates to a system (10) for dispensing a product, comprising a dispenser that can house at least two cartridges, each of which includes a reservoir containing a base product, a first base product comprising at least 0.1 wt.-% particles having a density differential relative to the medium containing same, preferably of at least 0.5 g/cm3, in particular particles having a density greater than or equal to 2 g/cm3, and a thickening agent. The dispenser allows at least two base products to be dispensed in adjustable proportions, the viscosity of the first base product being preferably greater than 2 Pa·s and more preferably greater than or equal to 4 Pa·s.
US11998096B2
Rapid access storage devices and systems are provided herein, which allow a user to quickly retrieve items stored behind, to the side of, or otherwise out of a comfortable reach range of the user. The devices comprise a housing, and at least one carriage retractable from the housing via a retraction assembly. Rapid access storage systems may comprise a wearable item, including hanging items, that include or are coupled to one or more rapid access storage devices.
US11998090B1
Systems of the present disclosure can provide a watch band that provide a marker pattern to a computer-generated reality device. The watch band can include structures or features that provide an identifiable marker pattern to the computer-generated reality device. The structures or features that provide the marker pattern can be invisible or imperceptible to the user. Structures or features of the watch band can include infrared reflective thread, visually obscured markers, or lenticular lens assemblies.
US11998083B2
A method of forming and shaping a waterproof and moisture permeable shoe upper includes disposing a shoe upper and a waterproof and moisture permeable film on a shoe last, wherein at least one of the shoe upper and the waterproof and moisture permeable film includes microwave treatable material, and heating the shoe last with the shoe upper and the waterproof and moisture permeable film thereon by microwave, so that the shoe upper and the waterproof and moisture permeable film are combined by the microwave treatable material and shaped to form the waterproof and moisture permeable shoe upper after cooling.
US11998076B2
An apparatus includes a pair of opposing arms having a first arm and a second arm. The first arm and the second arm are joined at proximal ends. Each of the first arm and the second arm include a first section comprising the proximal end, a second section positioned between and connected to the first section of and a third section, and the third section having a first end portion and a second end portion. The third section having a first curvature disposed between the first end portion and the second end portion. The third section of the first arm includes a plurality of separating elements that extend from an interior surface of the third section.
US11998069B2
The disclosed garments are designed to address the need for a one-piece garment with convenient restroom accessibility. The activewear garment disclosed herein has a rear access space that address the limitations of existing one-piece garments. The rear access space is located at a wearer's lower back and may be widened to an extended position to allow for easy restroom use. The rear access space solution provides the wearer with security and comfortability during normal use and prevents the need to remove the entire garment to use the restroom.
US11998050B2
A capsule for an aerosol-generating device may include a housing defining inlet openings, outlet openings, and internal channels between the inlet openings and the outlet openings. The internal channels are configured to hold an aerosol-forming substrate. The housing is configured to facilitate a heating of the aerosol-forming substrate via conduction and/or convection so as to generate an aerosol.
US11998047B2
A personal vaporizer is constructed so that a tank module is filled with a vaporizing medium prior to being attached to a mouthpiece module. During filling, the tank module is in a first configuration in which a structure blocks media within the tank from flowing into an air path of the tank module. When the mouthpiece module is attached to the tank module after filling, the structure is modified, moving the tank module into a second configuration. However, in the second configuration an elongated tube of the mouthpiece module blocks media within the tank from flowing into the air path of the tank module.
US11998035B2
A moisture control apparatus includes at least one electrode configured to receive at least one of an alternating current or a direct current, and to direct at least one of an electric field, a magnetic field, an electromagnetic field, an electromagnetic wave, a sonic wave, or a supersonic wave toward a substance. The moisture control apparatus further includes a controller configured to communicate with the at least one electrode, wherein the controller is configured to control a voltage applied to the at least one electrode to induce a bonded state between water molecules of moisture present in the substance.
US11998034B2
The invention provides a particulate composition comprising at least 1 wt. % of malate particles, said malate particles having a diameter of 50 to 1000 μm and comprising at least 70 wt. % of co-crystal of malic acid and alkali metal hydrogen malate. Co-crystals of malic acid and alkali metal hydrogen malate can be produced in the form of powders that exhibit very low hygroscopicity and that are capable of imparting a sour flavour that is very similar to that of malic acid. The invention also relates to the use of the aforementioned malate particles as a food ingredient.
US11998027B2
The invention relates to a polypeptide for the hydrolytic cleavage of zearalenone and/or at least one zearalenone derivative, said polypeptide being a hydrolase having an amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 1-15 or a functional variant thereof, wherein the sequence of the functional variant is at least 40% identical to at least one of the amino acid sequences. The invention also relates to: an additive containing the polypeptide; an isolated polynucleotide that encodes the polypeptide; and a method for the hydrolytic cleavage of zearalenone and/or of at least one zearalenone derivative using the polypeptide.
US11998024B2
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of a frozen confection product comprising the steps of: a. rotating a receptacle about a substantially vertical axis and depositing a continuous stream of one or more frozen confections into the receptacle; b. depositing into the receptacle a batch of solid inclusions independently from the continuous stream of frozen confection of step a.; and c. cooling the product of step b. to −5° C. or lower; wherein, the duration of steps a. to b. is 2.0 seconds or less.
US11998017B2
A pesticide compositionally comprising one or more carrier oils; one or more repellent oils; and an effective amount of quisqualic acid, wherein the pesticide composition is an emulsion for spray application to foliage and wherein physical contact with the pesticide is sufficient to kill a Japanese beetle.
US11998015B2
The present invention provides methods for the cultivation of the Methylobacterium genus of bacteria. In particular the method provides methods for the efficient and inexpensive cultivation of these bacteria. Additionally, the invention provides methods for the utilization of these bacterial cultures to improve plant agriculture.
US11998014B1
Synthesis of a compound O-{1-[(3.5-dinitrobenzoyl)amino]propan-2-yl} (4-chlorophenyl)carbamothioate and its use as an insecticidal agent.
US11998008B2
Disclosed herein are agricultural biocontrol compounds and compositions comprising the compounds, and methods of using the same. Specifically, nematacide fungicidal and herbecidial compounds, compositions comprising thereof, and methods for preventing and inhibiting nematodes, fungi and weed growth are disclosed herein.
US11998007B2
A maize pollen composition containing polyether ether ketone and pollen for collecting pollen and storing pollen.
US11998005B2
The present disclosure generally relates to herbicidal compositions, and more particularly, herbicidal compositions comprising glyphosate or a salt thereof and a surfactant comprising at least one castor oil triglycidyl ether-based (“COTE-based”) adjuvant.
US11997999B2
The present disclosure relates to 3-dimensional (3D) articles with a printed fabric skin that provides an aesthetic appearance to the 3D articles. The printed fabric skin may be a photograph that is printed on a fabric material, which is then applied to a base material to form the 3D article. Registration markers are used to align features of the printed fabric material with corresponding textured features of the 3D body of the article. This provides a light-weight article (such as a decoy) with a 3D shape and texture and image quality printed fabric skin.
US11997998B2
A liquid insect bait system comprises an insect bait container including a housing defining an internal cavity holding a quantity of liquid bait, and an insect trap having an external housing. The housing of the insect trap includes an internal bait reservoir sized to hold bait received from the bait container, and an insect opening formed through the housing and in communication with the bait reservoir. A bait container opening is formed in housing and is sized to receive a portion of a bait holding container in an insertion direction. A portion of the bait container opening is in communication with the bait reservoir.
US11997994B2
This disclosure relates to genetically modified animals and cells with humanized light chain immunoglobulin locus and/or humanized heavy chain immunoglobulin locus. In one aspect, the endogenous light chain immunoglobulin locus comprises a limit number of human IGKV genes and human IGKJ genes.
US11997993B2
A smart agricultural automatic feeding device includes a feeding box, a weighing part is disposed in the feeding box and connected with a top of the feeding box; a separating part is disposed below the weighing part and rotatably connected to an inner wall of the feeding box, a feed end of the separating part is connected with a discharge end of weighing part; a delivery part is disposed below the separating part and includes delivery tubes arranged in parallel, the delivery tubes are fixed to the inner wall of the feeding box, feed ends of the delivery tubes are connected to the discharge end of the separating part and configured to be arranged correspondingly to a fish pond; an air supply part is disposed outside the feeding box and connected to the delivery tubes through a pressurized part, the pressurized part is in transmission connection with the separating part.
US11997992B1
A lobster tether has a strap configured for coupling a lobster to a handle configured on a handle extension that enables easier retrieval of a lobster from a tank. The handle extension is rigid and free-standing thereby placing the handle proximal to or above the water level in a tank. A lobster tether may be made out of a material that floats, such a plastic and may be a material that is food safe and can withstand cooking temperatures, such as boiling water. In addition, a lobster tether may be a monolithic part, made from a single piece of material, such as by injection molding. The strap has teeth that engage with latch teeth to secure the strap around a lobster or other shellfish.
US11997991B2
Aquaculture systems and methods are provided, as well as immunogenic compositions and methods of immunologically protecting bivalves against specified pathogens. Methods include inactivating specified pathogens using UV (ultraviolet) radiation, exposing invertebrates grown or to be grown in aquaculture to the specified UV-inactivated pathogens to enhance an immune reaction of the exposed invertebrates toward the specified pathogens, and growing the exposed invertebrates in aquaculture. For example, the methods were demonstrated to increase the immune response of oysters to ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1) following their prior exposure to UV-inactivated OsHV-1.
US11997986B2
A pet treat holder comprising a body, a clamp, a gripper frame, and a treat gripper, and a method of providing a pet treat to an animal.
US11997985B2
The application belongs to the technical field of pet instruments, in particular to a pet foot washer. The washer comprises a drive assembly and a cleaning bucket with a cleaning space; the drive assembly comprises a drive part, a wave transmission component, an installation block, an output shaft, a first drive pin and a second drive pin; a first end face and a second end face of the wave transmission component are both wave surfaces, the drive part is installed on the installation block, an output end of the drive part is connected with the wave transmission component, the wave transmission component is connected with the cleaning bucket through the output shaft; the first drive pin and the second drive pin are both rotatably installed on the installation block, and the wave transmission component is installed between the first drive pin and the second drive pin.
US11997984B2
A pet carrying backpack is provided and includes a backpack body having a bottom panel, a front panel, a rear panel, a right-side panel, and a left-side panel that collectively form an interior compartment. The backpack body also has a top portion with a collar that forms an opening through which a head of an animal disposed within the interior may protrude. The collar may be stretchable. Paw holes are disposed on a front of the backpack body which accommodate paws or legs of the animal. Shoulder straps are disposed on and extend from the front panel. A pet carrying platform is disposed on or within the bottom panel. The pet carrying platform includes a frame member and a pad member.
US11997980B2
The invention provides seeds and plants of pepper hybrid SVPB8500, pepper line SBO-E717-0902, and pepper line SBO-E717-0900. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SVPB8500, pepper line SBO-E717-0902, and pepper line SBO-E717-0900 and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a pepper plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid pepper hybrid SVPB8500, pepper line SBO-E717-0902, and pepper line SBO-E717-0900 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US11997974B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011200. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011200, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011200 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011200.
US11997973B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011190. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011190, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011190 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011190.
US11997970B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011173. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011173, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011173 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011173.
US11997955B2
An agricultural clip includes a base portion, a left arm portion attached to the base portion, a right arm portion attached to the base portion, and a curved protrusion. The left arm portion and the right arm portion define a clip receiving space to receive the agricultural item of interest and the support structure, and the curved protrusion includes a first end attached to one of the left arm portion and the right arm portion, and a second end which is a free end that protrudes into the clip receiving space.
US11997945B2
A hand push lawn mower includes a body including a cutting blade and an operating device for a user to operate and connected to the body. The body includes a deck, a motor, a height adjustment assembly and a grass baffle. The motor is configured to drive the cutting blade to rotate. The height adjustment assembly is used to adjust the deck to move up and down. The grass baffle is configured to prevent grass clippings from splashing towards the back of the hand push lawn mower. When the height adjustment assembly adjusts the height of the deck, a displacement of the grass baffle in a vertical direction is less than a displacement of the deck in the vertical direction.
US11997938B2
An articulated towing apparatus pulls a rotary driven implement in a forward working direction across a ground surface behind a towing vehicle. The apparatus includes a longitudinal frame pivotally connected at a leading end to the towing vehicle by a coupling frame and pivotally connected at a trailing end to a wheeled frame that supports the implement thereon. The coupling frame defines lateral and vertical pivot axes between the longitudinal frame and the towing vehicle. A drive line, connected between a power take-off of the towing vehicle and the implement, includes (i) a longitudinal drive shaft extending at a downward slope, and (ii) an output for connection to the implement that is rotatably supported on the wheeled frame.
US12004435B2
A method of manufacturing an RRAM cell includes forming a first wire, forming an insulator on the first wire, the insulator having a pore and an insulator surface, and forming a first electrode layer on the first wire and the insulator, the first electrode having an electrode surface. The method further includes recessing the first electrode layer such that the electrode surface is recessed toward the first wire from the insulator surface, forming a switching layer on the insulator and the first electrode, and forming a second electrode on the switching layer.
US12004428B2
An oscillator frequency modulation method includes: providing a piezoelectric material having a surface and an interior; and performing a pattern process on the piezoelectric material by a laser. A patterned processing zone is formed on the surface and/or in the interior of the piezoelectric material. The pattern process may be a material removal and/or a material modification. Therefore, without changing the appearance of the piezoelectric material, the pattern process on the piezoelectric material through the laser can accurately adjust the frequency of the oscillator and block unnecessary mode at the same time. An oscillator piezoelectric structure with frequency modulation is also provided.
US12004426B2
A terahertz detector and a method of manufacturing a terahertz detector, wherein the terahertz detector including a substrate (2) and at least one detection unit. Each detection unit includes: a channel material (1) arranged on the substrate, two electrodes (3, 4) respectively in ohmic contact with both ends of the channel material (1) in a longitudinal direction, and a three-dimensional grapheme (5) in direct or indirect thermal contact with the channel material (1).
US12004424B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of fabricating a thermoelectric device. The method includes disposing a metal layer on a dielectric layer to form a sub-assembly, forming patterned circuits on the metal layer, forming blind vias in the dielectric layer, fabricating first thermoelectric elements in a first series of blind vias, and fabricating second thermoelectric elements in a second series of blind vias to form thermoelectric units with the first thermoelectric elements and the patterned circuits. The sub-assembly is configured to be joined to an adjacent sub-assembly along a first direction, and the first and second thermoelectric elements of each thermoelectric unit are aligned in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The present disclosure further relates to a thermoelectric device which includes a plurality of thermoelectric units forming a strip extending in a first direction.
US12004420B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic electroluminescent compound and an organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. By comprising the organic electroluminescent compound, an organic electroluminescent device having a low driving voltage and/or a high luminous efficiency and/or a long lifespan can be provided.
US12004415B2
A display device includes a substrate including a first region, a second region, and a bending region between the first region and the second region, a protective substrate disposed below the substrate in the first region, the second region, and the bending region, a cushion layer disposed below the protective substrate in the first region and the second region, a pixel layer disposed on the substrate in the second region, and a drive chip disposed on the substrate in the first region. The substrate is bent at the bending region such that the first region overlaps the second region.
US12004414B2
A method for manufacturing a device, the method including: preparing a first laminate including a first buffer layer and a second buffer layer; preparing a second laminate including a third buffer layer provided on a carbon electrode; and attaching the first laminate to the second laminate so that the second buffer layer is in contact with the third buffer layer.
US12004413B1
A method of manufacturing a display device includes arranging a display substrate in a chamber, arranging a mask assembly in the chamber, and supplying a deposition material to the mask assembly by a deposition source. The arranging of the mask assembly includes disposing a stopping layer including a stopping layer opening on a first mask layer, disposing an inorganic layer on the stopping layer, forming a first mask opening in the first mask layer, and forming an inorganic opening of the inorganic layer by etching the inorganic layer corresponding to the stopping layer opening.
US12004408B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a first area, a bending area, and a second area arranged along a first direction, the second area being located underneath the first area when the bending area is bent; and a spacer between the first area and the second area, and including: a first part; and a second part protruding from the first part in the first direction. Opposite sides of the second part in a second direction that crosses the first direction define steps that are stepped from the first part, and the steps are located at an outside of the second area in a plan view.
US12004403B2
A display device according to an embodiment of the present technology includes an element substrate, a transparent substrate, a light shielding filter portion, and a transparent adhesive layer. The element substrate includes a first surface, an organic EL element that emits light from a display region of the first surface, and peripheral wiring disposed to overlap in plan view with a peripheral region surrounding the display region. The transparent substrate includes a second surface facing the first surface. The light shielding filter portion includes a first color filter disposed in the peripheral region of the first surface and a second color filter disposed on the second surface to face the first color filter, and shields the peripheral wiring from light. The transparent adhesive layer is provided between the first color filter and the second color filter and bonds the element substrate and the transparent substrate to each other.
US12004392B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel comprises a substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of data lines, a plurality of wiring structures and a plurality of pads. The substrate comprises a display area and a non-display area comprising a bending area. The sub-pixels and data lines are in the display area and electrically connected with each other. The wiring structures are in the bending area and electrically connected with the data lines. At least one wiring structure comprises a plurality of hollow patterns connected successively, each hollow pattern comprises a first conductive part and a second conductive part connected with each other. The plurality of pads are in the non-display area and located on a side of the plurality of wiring structures away from the display area and electrically connected with the plurality of wiring structures.
US12004385B2
Provided is a display substrate including a substrate, and a light-emitting device and an optical compensation structure which are located on the substrate. The optical compensation structure includes a photoelectric sensor, a transistor and a capacitor, and the photoelectric sensor is electrically connected to the transistor and the capacitor respectively. The photoelectric sensor includes a first electrode, a photosensitive layer located on a side of the first electrode distal from the substrate, and a second electrode located on a side of the photosensitive layer distal from the substrate; the transistor includes a source electrode, a drain electrode, a gate electrode and an active layer; and the capacitor includes a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate located on a side of the first electrode plate distal from the substrate.
US12004384B2
A display device includes a display panel having a general area including first subpixels, and a sensor area including second subpixels and light-transmitting area. Each of the first subpixels and the second subpixels includes a first active layer disposed on a substrate and formed of a first material, a first gate layer disposed on the first active layer, a second gate layer disposed on the first gate layer, a second active layer disposed on the second gate layer and formed of a second material different from the first material, a third gate layer disposed on the second active layer, and a light-blocking layer disposed between the substrate and the first active layer and overlapping the second active layer in a thickness direction.
US12004376B2
Provided are a display motherboard, a preparation method thereof, a display substrate and a display device. The display motherboard includes a plurality of display substrate regions and a cutting region located at a periphery of each of the plurality of display substrate regions; the display motherboard includes a driving structure layer arranged in each of the plurality of display substrate regions and a marking structure layer arranged in each cutting region, wherein the marking structure layer includes a cutting mark layer; and a planarization layer arranged on the driving structure layer and the marking structure layer, and covering the marking structure layer.
US12004375B2
Provided is a pixel defining layer of an organic light-emitting diode display panel. The pixel defining layer includes: an insulating transparent cladding layer; and a reflecting layer in the transparent cladding layer, wherein the reflecting layer is configured to reflect light emitted from a light-emitting layer of the organic light-emitting diode display panel. Organic light-emitting diode display panels and methods for manufacturing an organic light-emitting diode display panel are also provided.
US12004364B2
A light-emitting device and an apparatus including the same include a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the organic layer includes m emission units and (m-1) charge generating units, each of the charge generating units being between the emission units that are adjacent to each other, m is a natural number of 2 or greater, at least one of the (m-1) charge generating units includes an n-type charge generating layer, a p-type charge generating layer, and a p-type hole injection layer, wherein the n-type charge generating layer includes an n-type organic compound and a metal material, and wherein the p-type charge generating layer and the p-type hole injection layer each independently include an inorganic semiconductor material.
US12004363B2
A light-emitting structure, a display panel and a display device. The light-emitting structure comprises a first light-emitting element. The first light-emitting element comprises a first light-emitting layer, a first electron transport layer and a first cathode. The first cathode is in contact with the first electron transport layer. The energy level of conduction band minimum (CBM) of the first electron transport layer is greater than the Fermi level of the first cathode. A difference between the energy level of CBM of the first electron transport layer and the Fermi level of the first cathode is in a range from 0.3 to 0.6 eV.
US12004356B2
A memory device includes a cross-point array of magnetoresistive memory cells. Each magnetoresistive memory cell includes a vertical stack of a selector-containing pillar structure and a magnetic tunnel junction pillar structure. The lateral spacing between neighboring pairs of magnetoresistive memory cells may be smaller along a first horizontal direction than along a second horizontal direction, and a dielectric spacer or a tapered etch process may be used to provide a pattern of an etch mask for patterning first electrically conductive lines underneath the magnetoresistive memory cells. Alternatively, a resist layer may be employed to pattern first electrically conductive lines underneath the cross-point array. Alternatively, a protective dielectric liner may be provided to protect selector-containing pillar structures during formation of the magnetic tunnel junction pillar structures.
US12004349B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first stacked film including first electrode layers; an insulating layer provided on the first stacked film; a second stacked film provided on the insulating layer and including second electrode layers; and a columnar portion extending through the first stacked film, the insulating layer, and the second stacked film. The columnar portion extending in the insulating layer includes a first portion having a first width in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a second portion provided at a different location along the first direction and having a second width in the second direction. The columnar portion extending in the second stacked film includes a third portion having a third width along the second direction. The second width is larger than the first width and the third width.
US12004341B2
A variety of applications can include apparatus having a recessed channel FinFET. The recessed channel FinFET can include one or more fin structures between the source region and the drain region, where the one or more fin structures are recessed from a top level of the source region and from a top level of the drain region. The recessed channel FinFET can include a gate recessed from the top level of a source region and a drain region, where the gate can be separated from tip regions of the fin structures by a gate dielectric defining a channel between the source region and the drain region. Recessed channel FinFETs can be structured in a periphery to an array of a memory device and can be fabricated in a process merged with forming access lines to the array.
US12004336B2
A data processing device includes an internal volume for housing electromagnetic interference emitting devices. The data processing device further includes a first electromagnetic radiation absorbing vent. The data processing device further includes a second electromagnetic radiation absorbing vent. The first electromagnetic radiation absorbing vent and the second electromagnetic radiation absorbing vent delineate a gas flow path through the internal volume.
US12004333B2
A power converter includes: a semiconductor module that includes a semiconductor element for power conversion, the semiconductor module having a module surface on which an input terminal electrically connected to the semiconductor element is disposed; a capacitor in which a capacitor terminal is disposed, the capacitor having a capacitor surface facing the module surface; a cooler that is disposed between the semiconductor module and the capacitor; and a connecting member that electrically connects the input terminal and the capacitor terminal.
US12004319B1
A system and method are provided for an interlock that limits the number of electronic devices that may extend from a rack system. In the system, sensors attached to the rack detect the extension of a rail from the rack. The sensors provide a controller with data from which the controller determines a number of rails that are extended from the rack. If the number of extended rails is determined by the controller to exceed a threshold number, the controller actuates a latch system that closes to lock the remaining devices within the rack.
US12004317B2
Example implementations relate to a computing system having a flexible filter assembly. The computing system includes a chassis having an internal volume, a pair of guide rails, a flexible filter assembly, and a plurality of first electronic components. The pair of guide rails is disposed spaced apart from each other and coupled to the chassis. The flexible filter assembly is disposed within and connected to the chassis via the pair of guide rails. The flexible filter assembly splits the internal volume into first and second volume portions. The first volume portion is located downstream relative to flow of supply air. The flexible filter assembly slides into the chassis along the pair of guide rails to detachably connect to the chassis. The flexible filter assembly cleans the supply air and directs clean air towards the plurality of first electronic components disposed in the first volume portion and coupled to the chassis.
US12004309B2
A foldable electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a flexible display, a first window including a first surface facing the flexible display and a second surface facing the opposite direction to the first surface, the first surface adhered to at least partial region of the flexible display via a first adhesive, and a second window adhered to at least partial region of the second surface of the first window via a second adhesive, in which the first adhesive has a greater thickness than the second adhesive.
US12004306B1
A method of manufacturing a printed circuit board (PCB) includes forming a tridimensional (3D) dielectric substrate on a fiber-reinforced polymer with opposite sides; forming each side with channels and pockets by molding dielectric laminate, and the channels and pockets define a layout for conductive traces and pads of the PCB; forming the channels and pockets in a same side of the 3D dielectric substrate at a uniform depth; forming side walls of the channels and pockets of the 3D dielectric substrate with a draft angle in a range of greater than 0 degrees to about 5 degrees; depositing by electrolytic metallization the conductive traces and pads into the channels and pockets of the 3D dielectric substrate; and the outer surface of those conductive traces and pads are flush with the sides of the 3D dielectric substrate.
US12004294B2
A method of manufacturing a base plate includes the following steps: providing a first substrate, the first substrate including a first base layer, a first copper coating and a second copper coating covered on two sides of the first base layer; opening at least one first hole on the first substrate, the first hole penetrating the first base layer and the first copper; forming a first electroplated coating on the first copper coating, the first copper coating filling the first hole to form a first connecting portion; opening at least one second hole on the first connecting portion and the first electroplated coating to form a plurality of second connecting pins.
US12004281B2
A light fixture includes light sources arranged in groups that each include one or more light sources. Each of the groups is repeatedly switched on and off according to a repeating pattern that includes at least three different combinations of which of the groups is switched on and which is switched off. A moving average of an intensity of one or more of the groups is substantially constant within a period of time spanning 10 seconds or more, wherein the moving average is based on a sample period of 1 second or less. A moving average of a total intensity of all of the groups is substantially constant within a period of time spanning 10 seconds or more, wherein the moving average is based on a sample period of 1 second or less. A period of time before the repeating pattern repeats is equal to or less than 1/10 second.
US12004279B2
A control method of an appliance, including: the appliance includes a first unit that includes a first lamp, a first cavity, a first door and a first sensor; a second unit that includes a second lamp, a second cavity, a second door and a second sensor; and a controller that controls operations of the first unit and the second unit, includes sensing vibrations generated in any one of the first unit or the second unit by the first sensor and the second sensor; determining whether the sensed vibrations are caused by a knock, and when determining that the sensed vibrations are caused by a knock using the first sensor and the second sensor, transferring a knock-on signal to the controller; and comparing the knock-on signals received from the first sensor and the second sensor and determining which of the first unit or the second unit is given the knock by the controller, and outputting a lamp-on output signal to the first unit or the second unit in which the knock is generated by the controller.
US12004273B2
A sensing system includes at least one sensor and a movement subsystem configured to move the at least one sensor between a plant and a light source.
US12004270B2
The present disclosure relates to a control circuit for an electric blanket. The control circuit includes a main control circuit composed of a relatively low voltage power conversion circuit, a heating main loop, a micro control unit (MCU) main control circuit, an active/passive protection circuit and a main power carrier serial port circuit. The control circuit further includes a sub-control circuit. The sub-control circuit is composed of an auxiliary power carrier serial port circuit, a sub-control power extraction circuit, an MCU sub-control circuit, a function key input circuit and a display circuit. The main control circuit and the sub-control circuit exchange operating state information and user control information through the main power carrier serial port circuit and the auxiliary power carrier serial port circuit to implement heating control of the electric blanket in a mutually cooperative control mode.
US12004266B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media described herein can be operable to provide a 6 GHz backhaul within a premise. Adapters may facilitate a conversion of communications between one or more local area networks and one or more wide area networks. A 6 GHz backhaul may be used by one or more access points to support various wireless services having unique or differing operational and bandwidth requirements. A 6 GHz backhaul may be used to pass communications between an adapter and a network interface device and/or between the adapter and one or more access points.
US12004260B2
A method for managing user interactions with multiple mobile devices is provided. The method includes receiving, at one of the mobile devices, a user input to associate the mobile device with the on-duty vehicle driver, such that all remaining mobile devices within range of an in-vehicle network beacon are passenger mobile devices. The method then includes transmitting, by the driver mobile device, one or more signals to the passenger mobile devices, the one or more signals including a unique identifier and indicating the association of the driver mobile device with the on-duty driver. In response to the one or more signals from the driver mobile device, the passenger mobile devices enforce a different device usage policy (or suspend enforcement of a device usage policy) while a device usage policy on the driver mobile device is enforced to restrict access to functionality on only that device.
US12004258B2
A method for performing charging on a network resource is provided. The method mainly includes: determining a network slice performance indicator that is used for performing charging on a network slice instance; subscribing to data corresponding to the network slice performance indicator from a network slice management device; and performing charging on the network slice instance based on the data corresponding to the network slice performance indicator. According to the method, a charging result for a customer matches an input of an operator for the network slice instance, to help improve network resource utilization rate and meet diversified network service requirements of an industry customer.
US12004249B2
A method is provided by a wireless device for performing reconfiguration and/or resumption of a radio resource control, RRC, connections while operating in a Multi-RAT Dual Connectivity, MR-DC or standalone New Radio, NR, environment. The method includes suspending the wireless device to an inactive mode. The method further includes resuming operation of the wireless device from the inactive mode. The method further includes receiving an indication to perform one of: releasing a master cell group and perform a configuration on at least one of one or more radio bearer configurations and a secondary cell group configuration; or releasing configurations for a master cell group and a secondary cell group and perform the configuration on one or more radio bearer configurations.
US12004244B2
A method of controlling, by using a mobile terminal, at least one Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) device is provided. The method includes searching for at least one BLE device, displaying a BLE device list, including the at least one searched for BLE device, on a display unit of the mobile terminal, receiving an input of selection of a BLE device from the BLE device list, receiving an input of user added information from a user regarding the selected BLE device, and mapping and storing property information and the user added information regarding the selected BLE device.
US12004242B2
A system information indication method and apparatus and a communication system. In the embodiments of this disclosure, by indicating a correspondence between an area related ID or a system information related index and system information, and/or notifying information on a change of the area related ID or system information related index, a case may be avoided where a UE needs still to obtain system information from a network side when system information of a current cell is stored, thereby efficiently lowering power consumption of the UE in acquiring the system information.
US12004241B2
A private network is flexibly built while ensuring physical or logical separation from a public network. A base station device notifies system information including a first identifier corresponding to a communication network (for example, PLMN) in an identifier list. In that state, a second identifier used locally is added to the identifier list of the system information according to control information from a control device. Thereafter, notification of the system information including the first and second identifiers in the identifier list is started. Therefore, the private network is built.
US12004239B2
Techniques for random access (RA) in a cellular internet-of-things (CIOT) are discussed. An example apparatus configured to be employed within a User Equipment (UE), comprises a receiver circuitry, a processor, and transmitter circuitry. The receiver circuitry is configured to receive RA resource allocation information via one of a system information message or a downlink control information (DCI) message. The processor is operably coupled to the receiver circuitry and configured to: select a RA preamble sequence; generate a payload; and spread the payload via a spreading sequence. The transmitter circuitry is configured to transmit, based on the RA resource allocation information, a RA message comprising the RA preamble sequence and the payload, wherein the RA message is transmitted in a RA slot. The receiver circuitry is further configured to receive a response comprising a device identity of the UE and one of an uplink (UL) grant or a RA reject message.
US12004238B2
This disclosure provides systems and methods for requesting wireless resources for peer-to-peer (P2P) communications. In some implementations, a wireless communication device transmits a frame over a wireless medium to an access point (AP), the frame including a medium access control (MAC) header carrying a request for the AP to allocate part of a transmission opportunity (TXOP) for P2P communications between the wireless communication device and a client device. The wireless communication device receives a trigger frame allocating a portion of the TXOP for the P2P communications, and transmits or receives P2P data to or from the client device over the wireless medium during the allocated portion of the TXOP. In some instances, the MAC header of the frame includes a Quality-of-Service (QoS) Control field carrying the request. In some other instances, the MAC header of the frame includes an Aggregated-Control (A-Control) subfield carrying the request.
US12004229B2
Provided are a communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The terminal device receives configuration information sent by a network device, the configuration information being used for indicating one or more conditions for the terminal device to report random access-related information. The terminal device sends a successful handover report that does not contain the random access-related information to the network device in response to a random access of the terminal device not satisfying the one or more conditions for reporting the random access-related information.
US12004228B2
An information transmission method, a communications device, and a network device are provided. One example information transmission method includes: receiving a random access response, wherein the random access response comprises indication information and uplink grant information, the indication information indicates that a message 3 to be sent by a communications device is a first message 3 or a second message 3, the first message 3 is a message 3 that does not carry user data, and the second message 3 is a message 3 that carries the user data, and sending the message 3 based on the indication information, the first resource information, the second resource information, and the repetition quantity information.
US12004217B2
A random access preamble sending method includes sending, by a terminal device, a first random access preamble to a network device, and sending, by the terminal device during a first time period, a second random access preamble to the network device when the terminal device does not receive a random access response and when a first sending moment arrives, where the first time period is a time window to receive the random access response from the network device, and wherein the first time period comprises the first sending moment.
US12004214B2
Method and devices are provided for a channel access mechanism for accessing a network on a random access channel (RACH). Methods involve defining a listen-before-talk (LBT) category to be used as part of a contention based procedure and how a contention window that is part of the LBT can be dynamically adjusted.
US12004209B2
Techniques are described for configuring resources for remote interference mitigation (RIM). An example method includes configuring a first sequence for a reference signal (RS) in response to determining that the RS includes information indicative of a first type of status information. The method also includes configuring a second sequence for the RS in response to determining that the RS includes information indicative of a second type of status information, where the RS is transmitted in response to determining an interference and based on the configured first sequence or second sequence.
US12004204B2
The present specification provides a method for transmitting uplink data by using a preset uplink resource (PUR) in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method, which is performed by a terminal, includes: a step for receiving setting information from a base station in an RRC connected state, the setting information being for transmitting uplink data by using the PUR in an RRC idle state; a step for transitioning from the RRC connected state to the RRC idle state; and a step for using the PUR to transmit the uplink data to the base station in the RRC idle state on the basis of the setting information.
US12004199B2
In a vehicle to anything environment, in order to achieve good data reception, receiving equipment and transmission equipment are preconfigured and thus include all the parameters needed for data transmission. In order to increase the probability of the data being received by the receiving equipment, the transmission equipment uses a highly robust modulation and coding scheme to code and modulate the radio signal used to broadcast the data. However, the more robust the implemented modulation and coding scheme, the lower the spectral efficiency of the radio signal used for transmission. User equipments belonging to the same broadcast group are identified by means of an identifier of the broadcast group, which allows for the implementation of a mechanism of acknowledgement by the receiving equipments making it possible to inform the transmission equipment that an error has occurred in the reception of the broadcast data.
US12004198B2
A relay wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive a data transmission from a target WTRU. The data transmission from the target WTRU may be or may include an implicit indication that the target WTRU is unable to listen for a message directed to the target WTRU. The message directed to the target WTRU may be a broadcast preemption message (BPM) and may be transmitted from a source WTRU. Based on the reception of the data transmission from the target WTRU, the relay WTRU may determine that the target WTRU is unable to listen for the BPM. Based on the determination, the relay WTRU may monitor for the BPM. The relay WTRU may receive and decode the BPM. The relay WTRU may determine whether to relay the BPM in a message, such as a broadcast relay message (BRM). The relay WTRU may transmit the BRM to the target WTRU.
US12004196B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a method for multi-access point AP coordination and a related apparatus. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: generating, by a first access point AP, a first radio frame, where the first radio frame includes indication information used to indicate transmission duration of a second radio frame sent by a second access point AP; sending, by the first access point AP, the first radio frame to the second access point AP; and in a sending period of the second radio frame, sending, by the first access point AP, a third radio frame to a first station STA associated with the first access point AP.
US12004195B2
A configuration for local coordination between the child node and parent node to enable SDM communication between the parent and child node, without input or interaction from the CU. The apparatus receives, from a CU, an indication including an allocation of resources. The apparatus determines a type of communication with a second node based on the allocation of resources. The apparatus communicates with the second node based on the determined type of communication and utilizing the allocated resources. The apparatus coordinates with a parent node to utilize the allocated resources in an SDM operation between the child node and the parent node.
US12004190B2
A method for receiving downlink transmission by a terminal comprises the steps of: performing uplink transmission, which is related to channel occupancy shared between a base station and the terminal, to the base station; and receiving, from the base station, downlink transmission performed after a gap from a time point at which the base station has received the uplink transmission, wherein the downlink transmission is performed on the basis of channel access performed by the base station, the channel access is performed on the basis of the gap, and information included in the downlink transmission and a resource through which the downlink transmission is performed are determined on the basis of whether the base station has configured, for the terminal, a threshold value of energy detection for the channel occupancy.
US12004188B2
To solve a problem that although the increase of the number of frequency blocks by allocating discontinuous subcarriers (RBs) as in OFDM enables an increase in multi-diversity effect and an improvement in throughput, the number of RB allocation patterns increases with the increase of the number of frequency blocks, resulting in an increase in the amount of information relating to the allocated RBs, the resource block allocation unit is determined when resource blocks discontinuous on the frequency axis are allocated to a terminal, and the number of bits of scheduling information indicating the allocated resource blocks by using Tree Based is set to the number of bits corresponding to the determined allocation unit.
US12004171B2
A user terminal includes: a receiving section that monitors a physical downlink control channel for system information or paging in a connected mode; and a control section that determines a downlink reference signal that is quasi-co-location for the physical downlink control channel based on at least one of association between a physical downlink control channel monitoring occasion and a downlink reference signal and configuration information indicating a downlink reference signal that is quasi-co-location for a control resource set including the physical downlink control channel. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a physical downlink control channel can be appropriately monitored.
US12004167B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a first downlink control information (DCI) message from a base station on a first downlink control channel. The first DCI message may indicate a first set of transmission parameters. The UE may transmit a first uplink control information (UCI) message to the base station on an uplink control channel based on the first DCI message. The first UCI message may include feedback and a channel state information (CSI) report. The UE may receive a second DCI message from the base station on a second downlink channel based on the first UCI message. The second DCI message may indicate a second set of transmission parameters that are different than the first set of transmission parameters. The UE may communicate with the base station using the second set of transmission parameters indicated by the second DCI message.
US12004166B2
The present application relates to the field of mobile communications, and discloses an information transmission method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method comprises: determining at least one piece of feedback information associated with a first time domain unit, the at least one piece of feedback information comprising unpostponed feedback information and postponed feedback information, the unpostponed feedback information comprising feedback information corresponding to a first SPS PDSCH, the postponed feedback information comprising feedback information that is not successfully transmitted in a second time domain unit, and the feedback information that is not successfully transmitted in the second time domain unit being feedback information corresponding to a second SPS PDSCH; determining at least one PUCCH resource according to the at least one piece of feedback information; and according to the at least one PUCCH resource, determining feedback information transmitted in the first time domain unit.
US12004161B2
A base station of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The base station of the wireless communication includes a communication module; and a processor configured to control the communication module. The processor receives a radio resource control (RRC) signal from a base station of the wireless communication system through the communication module and determines a time-frequency resource corresponding to at least one resource-set indicated by the RRC signal. The processor receives a physical control channel from the base station through the communication module, determines a time-frequency resource domain in which physical data channel reception of the terminal is scheduled by the physical control channel, and receives a physical data channel based on a time-frequency resource in which the physical data channel reception of the terminal is scheduled and a time-frequency resource in which the at least one resource-set overlap. The resource-set is a set of time-frequency resources.
US12004154B2
The present disclosure provides a method for performing uplink transmission in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Specifically, a method for transmitting an uplink data channel by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication may comprise the steps of: receiving configuration information related to the uplink data channel; receiving control information for scheduling transmission of the uplink data channel; and transmitting the uplink data channel on the basis of the control information. Here, the configuration information may include one or more configurations including at least one of i) a transmission unit and ii) a beam, which are related to the transmission of the uplink data channel. In addition, on the basis of the one or more configurations, the control information may include information indicating a transmission unit and a beam to be applied to the transmission of the uplink data channel.
US12004153B2
A method, network nodes and wireless devices for scheduling transmissions over preconfigured uplink resources (PUR) are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method is performed by a network node for scheduling a plurality of wireless devices with periodic preconfigured uplink shared channel resources. The method includes configuring a wireless device of the plurality of wireless devices with preconfigured uplink resources, PURs, the PURs having a transmission length and a periodicity, the PURs being configured based at least in part on one or more multiplexing criteria for multiplexing the plurality of wireless devices for PUR transmission.
US12004149B2
A communication system is disclosed in which a communication device transmits, to a base station and using communication resources that may be used for grant-free uplink communications, uplink data and information from which the communication device can be identified, wherein the information from which the communication device can be identified comprises a Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) value that is encoded with identity information identifying the communication device (for example, a C-RNTI of the communication device).
US12004148B2
Disclosed in the present application are a method for transmission configuration indication (TCI) of a DMRS port and a related apparatus, and a storage medium. In the method, a network side device configures at least two DMRS ports for a terminal according to the correspondence between required TCI states and DMRS CDM groups, the at least two DMRS ports belonging to different CDM groups, and the different CDM groups comprising different numbers of DMRS ports; and sends DCI to the terminal, the DCI comprising a DMRS port index value, the DMRS port index value being an index value pre-defined in a DMRS port allocation table, and the DMRS port index value being used for indicating a DMRS port set allocated to the terminal, the number of CDM groups without data, and the number of preamble DMRS symbols, and being used for indicating the correspondence.
US12004142B2
A method of wireless communication by a UE (user equipment) includes setting a timing parameter based on an uplink TCI (transmission configuration indication) state. The method also includes adjusting uplink transmit timing for an uplink transmission based on the timing parameter.
US12004139B2
A method performed by a user equipment (UE) for handling an uplink (UL) cancellation indication (CI) is provided. The method includes receiving a UL grant scheduling a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), a frequency resource for the PUSCH being allocated within an active UL Bandwidth Part (BWP) of the UE; receiving the UL CI, the UL CI indicating a UL resource in a reference UL resource, the reference UL resource being allocated within a carrier including at least the active UL BWP; and defining a starting symbol of the reference UL resource. The method further includes in a case that the UL CI is received after the UL grant, determining whether the UL resource overlaps the PUSCH, and in a case that the UL resource overlaps the PUSCH, cancelling the PUSCH.
US12004127B2
Communication devices are provided that facilitate receiving information units and providing feedback to other communication devices.
US12004125B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may obtain an indication that a network node is configured to accept a request for the network node to perform network coding for a communication from the UE. The UE may transmit, based at least in part on the UE being within an area associated with the network node, the request for the network node to perform the network coding for the communication. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12004124B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a resource allocation mode determining method, a terminal and a network device. The method includes: obtaining resource allocation mode configuration information of a sidelink interface of a terminal; in the case that the resource allocation mode configuration information includes at least two resource allocation modes, determining one resource allocation mode allowed by the terminal on a preset frequency band at a preset time from the at least two resource allocation modes.
US12004118B2
An example operation includes one or more of determining, by a first node, a location of an aberration on a second node, determining, by the first node, a third node able to document the aberration for a minimum period of time, notifying, by the first node, the third node to document the aberration for the minimum period of time in a first mode, and receiving, by the first node, the documentation in the first mode.
US12004116B2
A method for receiving device position determination includes receiving beamformed position reference signals (BF-PRSs) on a plurality of communications beams from at least two transmitting devices in accordance with a BF-PRS configuration, making at least one observed time difference of arrival (OTDOA) measurement in accordance with the BF-PRSs on the plurality of communications beams, and transmitting OTDOA feedback including the at least one OTDOA measurement.
US12004113B2
A method for processing a Non-access stratum request and network devices are provided. The method includes: receiving the NAS request of a terminal device and at least two tracking area identities for the terminal device from a second network device and accepting the NAS request.
US12004110B2
A radio node that selectively performs a remedial action is described. During operation, the radio node detects a potential change in a location of the radio node relative to a predefined location. For example, the radio node may detect the potential change in the location based at least in part on a change in a network parameter of the radio node and/or by performing a scan of wireless signals in an environment of the radio node. Then, in response to detecting the potential change in the location, the radio node determines the location of the radio node (e.g., by using a positioning system). When there is at least a predefined change in the location of the radio node relative to the predefined location, the radio node selectively performs the remedial action. Notably, the remedial action may include: providing an alert or a notification, discontinuing transmissions, or re-register the radio node.
US12004109B2
The present application provides a communication method and apparatus, and a device and a medium in a deactivated state of a secondary cell group. The method includes: determining signal measurement and/or timing of a terminal for a secondary cell group (SCG) and/or a primary SCG cell (PSCell) of the SCG when the SCG is in a deactivated state; reconfiguring the signal measurement and/or the timing according to first information if the first information is acquired; where the first information indicates a communication status between the terminal and the PSCell related to the signal measurement and/or the timing, or, the first information is instruction information of a network device received by the terminal.
US12004107B2
The scheduling flexibility of CSI reference signals enables time and frequency synchronization using multiple non-zero CSI-RSs transmitted in the same subframe, or using CSI-RSs transmitted in the same subframe with other synchronization signals. Also, multiple synchronization signals may be scheduled in the same subframe to enable fine time and frequency synchronization without cell-specific reference signals.
US12004105B2
This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and provides a time synchronization method and an apparatus, to perform positioning and/or timing error measurement on a target terminal in a wireless communications system, so as to avoid a relatively large positioning error caused by a timing error between the target terminal and a base station. The method is used in a wireless positioning system, where the wireless positioning system includes a first node and a second node, and the method includes: The first node receives an arrival time t2 of a first reference signal and a sending time t3 of a second reference signal that are sent by a second node, where the first reference signal is sent by the first node, and the second reference signal is sent by the second node.
US12004086B2
Method, carried out in a radio terminal (130), for configuring uplink output power of radio transmission from the radio terminal, comprising determining (402) a demand power reduction (P-MPR1) based on a maximum power level associated with a first uplink duty cycle (UDC1); transmitting (403), to a radio network node (120), an indication (233) of the demand power reduction; receiving (404), from the network node, an indication (253) of a target power reduction (P-MPR2) associated with an actual uplink duty cycle (UDC2); and configuring (406) the output power based on the target power reduction.
US12004085B2
A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a control section that determines transmit power in a transmission occasion in a period of uplink transmission over a plurality of slots, the transmission occasion being a period of a whole of the uplink transmission or a period of transmission in one slot in the uplink transmission; and a transmitting section that uses the transmit power in the transmission occasion.
US12004082B2
An antenna panel determination method, a user terminal and a computer readable storage medium. The method comprises: reporting measurement information to a base station, the measurement information comprising downlink measurement results corresponding to N antenna panels, wherein N is the total number of configured antenna panels, and N≥2; receiving instruction information issued by the base station, the indication information being obtained by the base station according to the measurement information and an uplink measurement result; obtaining, from within the instruction information, an antenna panel that is used for transmission and indicated by the base station; and using the antenna panel that is used for transmission to perform transmission. The solution above may reduce the power consumption of the user terminal.
US12004073B2
A closed subscriber group (CSG) cell is a cell that allows use of subscribers. In order to receive the service by the CSG cell, a CSG-ID is required to be notified to a user equipment, which cannot be obtained in a situation outside the reach of radio waves from a non-CSG cell. In a mobile communication system including base stations respectively provided to a CSG cell and a non-CSG cell in which access is made to the CSG cell with the use of a CSG-ID issued in a case where use of the CSG cell is allowed, the base station provided in the CSG cell refers to the notified identification information of a user equipment and then transmits a tracking area update request from the user equipment to a core network, and the core network determines whether the user equipment is allowed to use the CSG cell and, in the case where the use is allowed, transmits a signal for allowing assignment of radio resources to the user equipment and the CSG-ID. The user equipment accesses the CSG cell with the use of the CSG-ID.
US12004071B2
A user equipment (UE) is configured to access a first base station in a network via an access link, wherein the first base station is an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node in a first IAB network topology connected to a second base station via one or more backhaul links, wherein the second base station is an IAB-donor for the first base station, report, to the first base station, information for reducing a maximum data rate for the UE when the UE is deployed in one or more IAB network topologies and receive data packages with a reduced maximum data rate based on the reported information.
US12004068B2
A base station may configure a first node and at least one second node with an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network with the multipath multi-hop transmission configuration. The first node and the at least one second node may communicate with the first node through a direct path and a multi-hop transmission including the base station. The first node and the at least one second node may detect transmission failure on the direct path and retransmit the data packet to the multi-hop transmission, on a set of physical resource blocks (PRBs) configured by the base station. The first node may transmit remote buffer state report (rBSR) to the base station, and the base station may configure the set of PRBs for retransmissions based on the rBSR.
US12004061B2
A dual-mode Bluetooth terminal configured to receive a first input from a user, send a first BLE pairing advertisement message in response to the first input, where an address type in the first BLE pairing advertisement message is public, an advertisement address in the first BLE pairing advertisement message is a fixed advertisement address, and the first BLE pairing advertisement message carries an identifier used to indicate that the first dual-mode Bluetooth terminal does not support bit rate/enhanced data rate (BR/EDR), receive a second input from the user, enter a conventional Bluetooth discoverable mode in response to the second input, receive a paging message, and send a paging response in response to the paging message, where the paging response carries a media access control (MAC) address of the first dual-mode Bluetooth terminal, and the first input is different from the second input.
US12004048B2
A communication system, apparatus, and method are provided including a portable public safety (PS) radio that scans a portable non public safety (non-PS) communication device having electronic press credentials stored therein. A server temporarily registers the portable non-PS communication device and electronic press credentials. The server monitors movement of the temporarily registered device for boundary violations within a public safety incident scene, and communicates a warning to the temporarily registered device in response to boundary violations. Electronic press scores are saved and used as a basis to determine access to future registration requests at future incident scenes.
US12004047B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a vulnerable road user (VRU) user equipment (UE) indicates to a user whether a current position accuracy is sufficient or insufficient for approaching vehicles to determine if they present a hazard to the VRU. The position accuracy may be based on an accuracy threshold that is configured at the UE, such as by a serving base station or a road side unit (RSU). The accuracy threshold may be configured via common or dedicated signaling, through application-layer signaling, or may be pre-configured in the UE. When the VRU UE position accuracy exceeds the specified threshold for a particular interval of time, the UE may inform the user that approaching vehicles will be unable to determine their location with enough accuracy to take evasive maneuvers.
US12004041B1
Systems and methods for processing geographical zones are provided. The method involves operating at least one processor to: define a bounding box surrounding a geographical zone; iteratively partition the bounding box into a plurality of bounding boxes by, starting with the bounding box in the first iteration: determine whether the bounding box contains more than a predetermined maximum number of vertices; divide the bounding box into two additional bounding boxes if the bounding box contains more than the predetermined maximum number of vertices, repeat the steps of determining and dividing the bounding box for the additional bounding boxes in the next iteration until each additional bounding box does not contain more than the predetermined maximum number of vertices; generate a binary tree data structure representing the geographical zone; search the binary tree data structure to determine whether a vehicle is located within one of the bounding boxes.
US12004035B2
To support packet-based call, a first base station (102, 104) receives, by processing hardware, an indication of whether a user device supports packet-based video over a certain RAT (2302). When the processing hardware at the first base station determines (2304), based on the received indication, that the first base station supports packet-based video over the certain RAT, the base station configures radio resources for establishing a new packet-based video call with the user device over the certain RAT (2306), or hands over an existing packet-based video call, established between the first base station and the user device, to a second base station that operates according to the certain RAT (2308).
US12004034B2
Provided are a handover method and apparatus. The method includes following steps: a UE receives an RRC reconfiguration message sent by a source base station, where the RRC reconfiguration message includes a list of target cells for performing a conditional handover by the UE, information of each target cell in the list of the target cells for performing the conditional handover includes at least one of the following: frequency information of the target cell, a physical cell identifier of the target cell, a conditional handover command of the target cell generated by the target cell, or at least one piece of measurement configuration identifier information, and the at least one piece of measurement configuration identifier information is used for instructing an execution condition for the UE to perform a conditional handover in the target cell; and the UE performs a handover according to the RRC reconfiguration message.
US12004033B2
Disclosed are a method for switching between access network devices, a terminal device, and a network device. The method includes the terminal device initiating a random access to a target access network device while maintaining a connection with a source access network device. The method also includes the terminal device releasing the connection with the source access network device, after successfully accessing to the target access network device and in response to channel quality of the source access network device meeting a preset condition.
US12004017B2
The present application discloses a service processing method and apparatus, a chip, and a computer program, where the method includes: service support indication information; indication information of an effective area; indication information of a first behavior; status indication information of a terminal device; indication information of first behavior execution time; first behavior retry time. By applying the solution described in the present application, the reasonable deployment and handover control of the service can be realized.
US12004012B2
Disclosed by the present application is a method used for duplicate data transmission, which may implement effective duplicate data transmission in more than two duplicate data transmission mechanisms. The method comprises: a terminal device receiving first indication information; and the terminal device carrying out processing for a PDCP PDU according to the first indication information, the first indication information being used to indicate that a duplicate data transmission function of at least one PDCP entity is active or inactive and/or indicate an RLC entity used for transmitting duplicate data among a plurality of RLC entities associated with the at least one PDCP entity respectively.
US12004007B2
Techniques disclosed herein relate to reducing RRC signalling messages. Techniques can be employed to reduce the number of Random Access Channel (RACH) attempts to obtain NotBroadcasted (e.g., On Demand System Information(s) (SIs)) by a UE in response to a paging message indicating SI modification. The UE may monitor the Physical Broadcast Channel (PBCH) for a given duration in attempt to decode the On Demand SI(s) without initiating a RACH procedure. If the UE fails to decode the On Demand SI(s) within the given duration, the UE may initiate a RACH procedure to obtain the On Demand SI(s).
US12004006B2
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for use in a wireless network for compression and decompression of information centric network (ICN) names and/or ICN common fields at Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer. For example, an electronic device can include processor circuitry and radio front end circuitry coupled to the processor circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to receive a first information centric network (ICN) packet including an ICN name or an ICN common field and compress the ICN name or the ICN common field at a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP) layer. The processor circuitry can be further configured to provide the compressed ICN name or the compressed ICN common field to a lower protocol layer. The radio front end circuitry can be configured to transmit a second ICN packet including the compressed ICN name or the compressed ICN common field.
US12004005B2
A method for transmitting acknowledgement information by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for supporting the same are disclosed. More particularly, a method for allowing a user equipment (UE) to transmit acknowledgement information for each code block group (CBG) with respect to data received within one or more slots is disclosed.
US12004001B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method implemented in a terminal device for sidelink communication in a wireless network. The method comprises receiving (702), by the terminal device, a message containing sidelink performance information of a sidelink. The sidelink is for communication between the terminal device and another terminal device. A value within the message indicates that the message contains the sidelink performance information. The method also comprises performing (704) a sidelink procedure based on the sidelink performance information and characteristics of the terminal device to communicate through the sidelink.
US12003992B2
Systems and methods can support identifying pairings and channel parameters in short-range wireless communications such as Bluetooth low energy interfaces. Radio frequency sensors may be positioned within an electromagnetic environment where a master wireless device and a slave wireless device share short-range wireless communications. Signals transmitted between the master wireless device and the slave wireless device can be received by the radio frequency sensors. Inter-arrival times for packets within the received signals may be identified. Statistics of the inter-arrival times can be analyzed to identify connection intervals between the master wireless device and the slave wireless device, as well as back-to-back intervals exchanged within the connection intervals. Packet header contents may be used to reconcile the estimated timing parameters and time slots. Pairings between the master wireless device and the slave wireless device may be identified and tracked along with communication channel parameters.
US12003991B2
A base station transmits, to a wireless device via a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring occasion of PDCCH monitoring occasions for PDCCH repetition in a slot, a repetition of a downlink control information (DCI) triggering transmission of an uplink signal. The base station receives the uplink signal that is transmitted with a transmission power determined based on a number of symbols: before a starting symbol of the uplink signal and after a last symbol of a second PDCCH monitoring occasion among the PDCCH monitoring occasions of the slot, wherein the second PDCCH monitoring occasion has a latest ending time among ending times of the PDCCH monitoring occasions.
US12003988B2
A wireless device may select, based on a first group of search space sets for monitoring control resource sets (coresets) and a second group of search space sets for monitoring the coresets, reference signals, associated with the first group of search space sets, for link monitoring in both a first mode and a second mode. In the first mode, the first group of search space sets are monitored and the second group of search space sets are unmonitored. In the second mode, the first group of search space sets are unmonitored and the second group of search space sets are monitored. The wireless device may measure, both in the first mode and the second mode, the reference signals for the link monitoring.
US12003980B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting an interruption of a supply of operating power to a cell site of a cellular communication network, estimating an estimated time to restoration (ETR) of the supply of operating power to the cell site, wherein the estimating is based on information of an operator of the cellular communication network, determining, based in part on the ETR, to dispatch a portable generator to the cell site to provide a new supply of operating power to the cell site, and initiating a communication to dispatch the portable generator. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12003976B1
A wireless networking system is disclosed. The wireless networking system includes an application layer associated with one or more applications having a wireless bandwidth requirement. A first wireless transceiver resource associated with an actual MAC layer and PHY layer is employed. The first wireless transceiver resource has a first bandwidth availability up to a first actual bandwidth. A second wireless transceiver resource associated with the actual MAC layer and the PHY layer is employed. The second wireless transceiver resource has a second bandwidth availability up to a second actual bandwidth. A processing layer evaluates the wireless bandwidth requirement and the first and second bandwidth availabilities of the wireless transceiver resources. The processing layer includes a bandwidth allocator to allocate at least a portion of each of the first and second actual bandwidths to virtual MAC and virtual PHY layers, and to satisfy the application layer wireless bandwidth requirement.
US12003973B2
Proposed is a method and apparatus for transmitting a C-OFDMA PPDU in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a first AP transmits a C-OFDMA request frame to a second AP. The first AP receives a C-OFDMA response frame as a response to the COFDMA request frame from the second AP. The first AP transmits a first C-OFDMA PPDU to a first STA through a first channel. A second C-OFDMA PPDU is transmitted simultaneously together with the first PPDU through a second channel by the second AP. The C-OFDMA request frame includes first information indicating that using the second channel for the second AP is allowed. The first channel corresponds to a channel remaining after excluding a preamble-punctured channel from the entire channel, and the second channel corresponds to the preamble-punctured channel.
US12003971B2
The present application provides a method for sharing spectrum resource, device, electronic device and storage medium, which belong to the technical field of wireless communication and artificial intelligence. The method includes predicting traffic data amount of the at least two radio access technology (RAT) systems in a set first sharing period according to history traffic data of the at least two RAT systems and allocating spectrum resources in the first sharing period to the at least two RAT systems respectively according to the predicted traffic data amount. Based on the solutions provided by embodiments according to the present application, the utilization rate of spectrum resources can be effectively increased, and the user's traffic perception can be improved.
US12003965B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises a communication module, a processor, and a memory which stores a control list for a plurality of devices controllable through a communication network and which is operably connected to the processor, wherein the memory that are configured, when executed, to cause the processor to perform authentication for a first terminal in response to a control authority configuration request for controlling at least one device of the plurality of devices in a first terminal, transmit authentication information about the first terminal to the at least one device of the plurality of devices included in the control list, and configure a control right of the first terminal for the at least one device. In addition, embodiments other than the various embodiments of the present invention are possible.
US12003962B2
[Object] To provide a novel and improved communication system and communication device that make it possible to reduce an amount of time from when communication with an external device is completed to when communication data corresponding to a communication result is output to another device. [Solution] Provided is a communication system including: a communication device configured to transmit a selection solution that is selected depending on a result of first communication with an external device; and a control device configured to receive the selection solution from the communication device through second communication between the communication device and a communication partner that is different from the external device serving as a communication partner in the first communication.
US12003959B2
A method for authentication using location correlation is disclosed. The method includes determining geographic zones and zone identifiers associated with a location of a mobile communication device. Later, transaction data is received and a zone identifier is determined from that transaction data. If the zone identifier matches one of the previously determined zone identifiers, then a match indicator is sent to an authorizing entity computer system or the transaction may be allowed to proceed.
US12003958B2
An electronic device and an electronic device operating method according to various embodiments comprises: a processor operationally connected to the first communication module, the second communication module, and the security module, wherein the processor can be configured to control the second communication module such that the second communication module activates the accessory in response to the reception, through the first communication scheme, of a discovery signal broadcasted by the external electronic device, control the second communication module such that the second communication module transmits, to the accessory through the third communication scheme, the data to be used for authentication with the external electronic device, and control the accessory such that the accessory transmits, to the external electronic device through the second communication scheme, the data to be used for authentication with the external electronic device.
US12003955B2
A display apparatus and a method for controlling the display apparatus are disclosed. The display apparatus includes: a communication interface comprising communication circuitry, a display, a plurality of speakers, and a processor, and the processor is configured to: control the communication interface to receive an acoustic content corresponding to a sound signal of a plurality of channels corresponding to a specified frequency bandwidth, extend a frequency bandwidth of at least one channel of the plurality of channels based on a specified parametric equalizer (PEQ), perform correction of reducing a gain in middle frequency and high frequency bands of at least one channel of the plurality of channels with the extended frequency bandwidth, and output each sound signal of the plurality of corrected channels to the plurality of corresponding speakers so that a sound image of the sound signal is formed in a center area of the display.
US12003954B2
An audio system and a method of determining an audio filter based on a position of an audio device of the audio system, are described. The audio system receives an image of the audio device being worn by a user and determines, based on the image and a known geometric relationship between a datum on the audio device and an electroacoustic transducer of the audio device, a relative position between the electroacoustic transducer and an anatomical feature of the user. The audio filter is determined based on the relative position. The audio filter can be applied to an audio input signal to render spatialized sound to the user through the electroacoustic transducer, or the audio filter can be applied to a microphone input signal to capture speech of the user by the electroacoustic transducer. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US12003951B2
A statistical audibility prediction (SAP) method for predicting the audibility of a signal over time at a listening location, the signal from a signal source in the presence of a concurrent masking sound or masker from a masker source. The method includes receiving, via a processor over a plurality of auditory channels, a specific loudness of the signal and masker at the listening location. The method includes calculating for each auditory channel a standard deviation of a distribution of the specific loudness of the signal and masker, and calculating, via the processor, corresponding channel-specific detectability indices (d′t,i) for each auditory channel as a function of their standard deviations. The corresponding channel-specific detectability indices are then summed to produce a total detectability index (d′t), which may be output as an electronic signal that indicates the predicted audibility vs. time, e.g., to a downstream process and/or system or offline.
US12003949B2
A communication system provides audio content to one or more client devices capable of playing spatialized audio content. For example, the communication system receives audio content from a client device and transmits the audio content to other client devices to be played for users. The communication system dynamically modifies audio content transmitted to different client devices based on a payload including audio parameters (e.g., local area acoustic properties, an audiogram for a user, a head related transfer function for a user, etc.) received from a client device.
US12003946B2
A rendering mode may be determined for received audio data, including audio signals and associated spatial data. The audio data may be rendered for reproduction via a set of loudspeakers of an environment according to the rendering mode, to produce rendered audio signals. Rendering the audio data may involve determining relative activation of a set of loudspeakers in an environment. The rendering mode may be variable between a reference spatial mode and one or more distributed spatial modes. The reference spatial mode may have an assumed listening position and orientation. In the distributed spatial mode(s), one or more elements of the audio data may each be rendered in a more spatially distributed manner than in the reference spatial mode and spatial locations of remaining elements of the audio data may be warped such that they span a rendering space of the environment more completely than in the reference spatial mode.
US12003943B2
Electroacoustic drivers that can be utilized in loudspeaker systems that utilize drivers having a magnetic negative spring (MNS) (such as reluctance assist drivers (RAD) and permanent magnet crown (PMC) drivers). The electroacoustic drivers can be used at all audio frequencies, including subwoofer frequencies. The magnetic negative springs of the electroacoustic drivers can cancel, or partially cancel, the large pressure forces on a sound panel (of an audio speaker) so that substantial subwoofer notes can be efficiently and cost effectively produced in small/portable speakers. The electroacoustic drivers can include a stabilizing/centering mechanism to overcome the destabilizing forces of a MNS that are too large for a voice coil alone to produce.
US12003942B2
Electroacoustic drivers that can be utilized in loudspeaker systems that utilize drivers having a magnetic negative spring (MNS) (such as reluctance assist drivers (RAD) and permanent magnet crown (PMC) drivers). The electroacoustic drivers can be used at all audio frequencies, including subwoofer frequencies. The magnetic negative springs of the electroacoustic drivers can cancel, or partially cancel, the large pressure forces on a sound panel (of an audio speaker) so that substantial subwoofer notes can be efficiently and cost effectively produced in small/portable speakers. The electroacoustic drivers can include a stabilizing/centering mechanism to overcome the destabilizing forces of a MNS that are too large for a voice coil alone to produce.
US12003941B2
Electroacoustic drivers that can be utilized in loudspeaker systems that utilize drivers having a magnetic negative spring (MNS) (such as reluctance assist drivers (RAD) and permanent magnet crown (PMC) drivers). The electroacoustic drivers can be used at all audio frequencies, including subwoofer frequencies. The magnetic negative springs of the electroacoustic drivers can cancel, or partially cancel, the large pressure forces on a sound panel (of an audio speaker) so that substantial subwoofer notes can be efficiently and cost effectively produced in small/portable speakers. The electroacoustic drivers can include a stabilizing/centering mechanism to overcome the destabilizing forces of a MNS that are too large for a voice coil alone to produce.
US12003940B2
Electroacoustic drivers that can be utilized in loudspeaker systems that utilize drivers having a magnetic negative spring (MNS) (such as reluctance assist drivers (RAD) and permanent magnet crown (PMC) drivers). The electroacoustic drivers can be used at all audio frequencies, including subwoofer frequencies. The magnetic negative springs of the electroacoustic drivers can cancel, or partially cancel, the large pressure forces on a sound panel (of an audio speaker) so that substantial subwoofer notes can be efficiently and cost effectively produced in small/portable speakers. The electroacoustic drivers can include a stabilizing/centering mechanism to overcome the destabilizing forces of a MNS that are too large for a voice coil alone to produce.
US12003939B2
Provided is a voice coil wire for a sound generating device, comprising a wire body and a cavity provided in the wire body, the wire body is configured to be applied with a current signal, wherein the cavity is in a vacuum state or is filled with an insulating gas. Also provided is a voice coil, the voice coil is provided with the voice coil wire. Also provided is a sound generating device. By filling the cavity of the voice coil wire with the insulating gas or configuring the cavity to be in the vacuum state, the weight of the voice coil wire can be reduced, so the influence of skin effect on the voice coil wire is reduced, and the utilization rate of the voice coil wire is improved.
US12003938B2
A speaker includes a frame, a vibration system, and a magnetic circuit system. The vibration system and the magnetic circuit system are respectively disposed on the frame. The vibration system includes a sound film and a voice coil. The voice coil drives the sound film to vibrate and sound. The magnetic circuit system includes a lower clamping plate, a first magnetic steel, and a second magnetic steel. The first magnetic steel is disposed on the lower clamping plate. The annular second magnetic steel is disposed on the lower clamping plate and surrounds the first magnetic steel. The first magnetic steel and the second magnetic steel are disposed at intervals to form a first gap. The speaker has better performance.
US12003932B2
Systems and methods for selecting crossover frequencies for 2.1 speaker systems integrated into electronic displays are described. In an embodiment, an electronic display may include: a left speaker coupled to a left side of an enclosure, a right speaker coupled to a right side of the enclosure, and a subwoofer coupled to the left or right side of the enclosure. In another embodiment, a method may include: determining a position of an asymmetric subwoofer integrated into a display, and selecting a crossover frequency between the asymmetric subwoofer and a set of stereo speakers integrated into the display based, at least in part, upon the position.
US12003931B2
An electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention may include: a housing including a first housing and a second housing; a hinge unit rotatably connected to the first housing and the second housing; a display; a first speaker disposed in the first housing; a second speaker disposed in the second housing; at least one sensor; and a memory. The memory may store instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to: receive an event related to audio data; identify a state of the electronic device on the basis of information obtained through the at least one sensor; determine at least one speaker to output the audio data, among the first speaker and the second speaker, on the basis of the state of the electronic device; and output the audio data through the at least one speaker.
US12003924B2
The present disclosure provides a contact hearing device comprising a piezoelectric actuator. The attachment of the piezoelectric actuator to a tympanic membrane can vibrate the tympanic membrane based on a transmission received by the receiver assembly and produce perception of sounds.
US12003922B2
A speaker comprises a housing, a transducer residing inside the housing, and at least one sound guiding hole located on the housing. The transducer generates vibrations. The vibrations produce a sound wave inside the housing and cause a leaked sound wave spreading outside the housing from a portion of the housing. The at least one sound guiding hole guides the sound wave inside the housing through the at least one sound guiding hole to an outside of the housing. The guided sound wave interferes with the leaked sound wave in a target region. The interference at a specific frequency relates to a distance between the at least one sound guiding hole and the portion of the housing.
US12003913B2
A system comprises a first ear-worn electronic device configured to be worn by a wearer, and a second electronic device comprising a second ear-worn electronic device or other electronic device. A wireless transceiver operably coupled to an antenna is disposed in each of the electronic devices. One or both of the first ear-worn electronic device and the second electronic device are configured to transmit signals at a plurality of different frequencies in accordance with a frequency hopping sequence, collect 2-D RSSI data comprising an RSSI value as a function of frequency and of time in response to transmission of the signals, detect a particular input gesture of a plurality of input gestures of the wearer using the 2-D RSSI data, and implement a predetermined function of at least one of the first ear-worn electronic device and the second electronic device in response to detecting the particular input gesture.
US12003912B2
An electronic device comprises: a memory; a battery; a speaker; a sensor module; a communication module; and a processor electrically connected to the memory, the battery, the speaker, the sensor module, and the communication module, wherein the processor is configured to: control the communication module to establish a first communication link with a sound source electronic device and transmit a first posture value calculated based on a sensor value obtained from the sensor module over the first communication link, receive audio data rendered based on the posture value from the sound source electronic device, communicate, based on device state information of the electronic device, with an external electronic device through a second communication link so as to request a role switching preparation, and transmit a role switching message to the external electronic device and notify the sound source electronic device of role switching with the external electronic device, wherein after role switching, the electronic device transmits the first posture value to the external electronic device.
US12003910B1
A charging system, a device for charging earphones while the earphones are in use, process, and method of use are presented. The present disclosure is configured to provide a wireless, magnetic-induction charging cable for charging and/or recharging headphones and/or wireless headphones and/or earphones. In the arrangement shown, as one example, system 10 is generally configured of a cable having two ends. One end, a plug end (to be further described herein), accepts power from a power source. This end may be formed of a USB-C type connection, a Thunderbolt® connection, or the like. The charging end is configured to connect and accept wireless headphones therein, such as Airpods®, for example. Another example, and in an alternative embodiment, the charging end is configured to accept with close and tight tolerances, as well as through magnetic securement, Pixel Buds® for charging through inductance.
US12003904B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for capturing and interpreting data streams between an instrument and a controlling device. A processor is configured to receive a data stream sent by the instrument to the controlling device and identify data frames in the stream. The processor is configured to search for a bit pattern in the stream, identify bits corresponding to a message length of a first presumed data frame based on a location relative to the bit pattern, and identify a second presumed data frame in the data stream based on the message length of the first presumed data frame. The processor is further configured to identify a second instance of the bit pattern, increase a count, continue scanning, extract and store instrument measurement data or operational metadata from the identified data frames, and analyze or interpret the captured data and metadata for visualization or alerts.
US12003889B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for rendering a shared virtual meeting environment during a video meeting session. The shared virtual meeting environment comprises a shared virtual space which is accessible to the meeting participants and includes video streams for each of the respective meeting participants. The video streams may be repositioned within the shared virtual space based on user interaction within the shared virtual space.
US12003882B2
The present invention is an information processing device that performs information processing to output (produce and distribute) video content using video from multiple video sources including network cameras, the information processing device comprising: a switching means for performing switching based on video signals transferred by the transfer method used to transfer data without confirming reception by the receiving node with the transmitting node at the video source; and an information processing means that outputs (produces and distributes) video content based on information indicating which video source was switched at what time by the switching means and based on video data outputted from the video sources.
US12003879B2
The present application discloses a pixel unit and a signal processing method for a pixel unit. The pixel unit includes at least one pixel, and the pixel includes: an N-type main pixel, a P-type main pixel, and a sub-pixel; and the sub-pixel is located between the N-type main pixel and the P-type main pixel; or the pixel includes at least a first pixel and a second pixel that are adjacent to each other; the first pixel includes an N-type main pixel, and the second pixel includes a P-type main pixel; the first pixel and the second pixel share one sub-pixel; the sub-pixel is configured to generate and output a signal difference between the N-type main pixel and the P-type main pixel according to the current. By adding a sub-pixel between two main pixels, the sub-pixel generates and outputs the signal difference between the N-type main pixel and the P-type main pixel according to the current sent by the two main pixels, so that the received signal can be efficiently processed directly to reduce the amount of output data. Since there is no need to increase a circuit, the pixel area will not increase due to a complicated circuit.
US12003875B2
The disclosed photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel including a photoelectric conversion unit, an AD conversion unit that performs an AD conversion on an analog signal generated in the pixel, and a control unit configured to control the AD conversion unit. The control unit is configured to control the AD conversion unit to perform a plurality of times of the AD conversion on the same analog signal. A length of a first AD conversion period of the plurality of times is shorter than a length of a second AD conversion period of the plurality of times. A change rate of the reference signal in the second AD conversion period is smaller than a change rate of the reference signal in the first AD conversion period. In each of the first and second AD conversion periods, a potential of the reference signal changes to a first level.
US12003874B2
Indirect time-of-flight (i-ToF) image sensor pixels, i-ToF image sensors including such pixels, stereo cameras including such image sensors, and sensing methods to obtain i-ToF detection and phase detection information using such image sensors and stereo cameras. An i-ToF image sensor pixel may comprise a plurality of sub-pixels, each sub-pixel including a photodiode, a single microlens covering the plurality of sub-pixels and a read-out circuit for extracting i-ToF phase signals of each sub-pixel individually.
US12003868B2
Disclosed are an imaging system and an imaging method thereof. The system includes a light source, a light source modulator, an objective lens, a sensor array, a sensor read-write module and an imaging display module connected with the sensor read-write module. The light source modulator is configured for modulating the light source to a preset frequency; the objective lens is configured for imaging an optical signal reflected by a surface of a target object on the sensor array; the sensor array is configured for converting the received optical signal into an analog alternating current electrical signal; the sensor read-write module is configured for amplifying the analog alternating current electrical signal and extracting a target signal, converting the target signal into a digital signal and storing the digital signal; and the imaging display module is configured for restoring and displaying an image of the target object according to the digital signal.
US12003867B2
A method for displaying an image in an electronic device is provided. The method includes obtaining a first image including a plurality of subjects, setting a plurality of sub-regions respectively including the plurality of subjects, obtaining a distance between the plurality of sub-regions, when a distance between a first region and a second region, which are adjacent to each other, among the plurality of sub-regions is greater than or equal to a specified threshold distance, omitting at least a portion of a third region disposed between the first region and the second region in the first image, and displaying a second image obtained by resetting a size of each of the plurality of sub-regions and rearranging each of the plurality of sub-regions.
US12003854B2
An imaging device includes a focus driving unit for driving a focus lens; a tilting driving unit for tilting at least one of an image sensor and an imaging optical system; a detection unit for detecting a subject in an image; a setting unit for setting a plurality of focus regions in the image based on positional information of the subject detected in the image; a determination unit for determining respective driving amounts for the focus driving unit and for the tilting driving unit based on the positional information and focal information of the plurality of focus regions so that the plurality of focus regions is in focus; and a control unit for controlling the focus driving unit and the tilting driving unit based on the determined respective driving amounts.
US12003851B2
A digital mirror assembly for capturing photos using a plurality of cameras includes a base. The base has a front surface and a back surface. A plurality of cameras is positioned on the front surface. Furthermore, a plurality of lights is positioned on the front surface. A microprocessor is positioned in an interior of the base. The microprocessor is in electric communication with a battery, a receiver, the plurality of lights, the plurality of cameras, and a screen. The screen is positioned on the front surface of the base. The screen can either be a reflective surface or a computerized interface. The computerized interface resembles they layout of a smart phone device. The user can connect to the internet using the receiver. A flash positioned on the front surface goes off when the each of the cameras captures a photo. An actuator turns the digital mirror assembly on and off.
US12003838B2
A camera module and a molded photosensitive assembly and manufacturing methods thereof, and an electronic device are disclosed. The molded photosensitive assembly includes an imaging assembly, a molded base and a filter assembly. The imaging assembly includes a circuit board and at least one photosensitive element, and each photosensitive element is conductively connected to the circuit board. The molded base has at least one stepped peripheral groove to define a light window through each stepped peripheral groove, the molded base embeds a part of the imaging assembly, and a photosensitive region of each photosensitive element respectively corresponds to each light window of the molded base. The filter assembly includes at least one filter element, and each filter element is correspondingly arranged in each stepped peripheral groove of the molded base, so that each filter element respectively corresponds to each light window of the molded base.
US12003835B2
A camera actuator according to an embodiment includes a housing; a prism unit disposed in the housing; and a driving unit for tilting the prism unit, wherein a ball bearing and a pulling magnet for generating attractive force to each other are disposed in the prism unit and the housing, and wherein the prism unit is supported to the housing by the attractive force between the ball bearing and the pulling magnet.
US12003833B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for creating interactive digital experiences for linear content. This includes identifying a plurality of assets relating to presentation of linear content. It further includes generating interactive content using the linear content, including generating an interactive sequence referencing one or more of the plurality of assets and combining the linear content with the interactive sequence on a timeline sequentially describing the linear content. The timeline includes one or more branches relating to the linear content, and selection of a first branch of the one or more branches is based on the interactive sequence. It further includes transmitting the interactive content to a user.
US12003830B2
A method for a media environment driven content distribution platform includes obtaining synchronization data and ancillary data pegged to instants in the synchronization data, and communicating the synchronization data and the ancillary data pegged to the instants in the synchronization data such that subsequent alignment of the synchronization data to the content synchronizes the ancillary data pegged to the instants in the synchronization data derived from the content to the content.
US12003829B2
An operating method of an electronic device includes detecting a reference timing point and a reference location within text broadcasting data and a sports play video, respectively, by mapping the text broadcasting data and the sports play video based on events occurring during sports play, detecting a target location from the reference location in the sports play video using a time interval between the reference timing point and target timing point within the text broadcasting data, and providing a target video based on the target location within the sports play video.
US12003824B2
Systems and methods for tracking the status of an anticipated dynamic event and displaying a corresponding notification icon on a media progress indicator. A media guidance application receives, from an application (e.g., Uber), a notification (e.g., “Driver Found”) during consumption of a media asset (e.g., “Fast and Furious”) and determines that an expected event without a fixed time of occurrence will happen (e.g., arrival of driver at user's location). The media guidance application determines an anticipated time of the expected event and generate a visual icon representing the expected event on the media asset's consumption progress indicator at the anticipated time relative to the consumption (e.g., 56-minute mark of the movie). As updated information (e.g., traffic, driver's route, etc.) is received, the media guidance application recalculates the anticipated time and shift the visual icon based on the new calculation.
US12003823B2
According to one embodiment, a channel device includes a memory, an interface, and a processor. The memory stores a watch list. The watch list includes n predetermined number of channels, wherein n is an integer and the predetermined number of channels are ranked from one to n. The interface is configured to receive program information for a first channel, wherein the first channel is a channel of a watch list. The processor is further configured to determine a change from a previous channel to a current channel. The processor dynamically updates the watch list to include the previous channel, wherein the previous channel is ranked as one. The processor removes the channel ranked as n from the watch list.
US12003819B2
A media server is hosted in a service provider's network so that media content can be stored from or rendered to a private network such as a Digital Living Network Alliance network. Media content may be stored by accessing the media server or by downloading the media content to the media server. Support of set top boxes interacting with voice-on-demand (VOD) controllers and computers interacting with IP-based video content servers are integrated through the media server. Consequently, VOD assets can be played on IP-based devices and IP-based content can be played on set top boxes. A gateway function converts IP-based content to a VOD asset, and renders the VOD asset to a set top box while mapping digital rights management information for the VOD asset. Conversely, the gateway function may convert a VOD asset to IP-based content that can be played on an IP-based device.
US12003816B2
The presentation invention relates to methods and apparatus for managing cable network power consumption. An exemplary method in accordance with one embodiment includes the steps of: receiving a message by a cable modem instructing the cable modem to reduce power consumption; increasing, by the cable modem, a buffer size of at least one of: (i) a cable modem downlink buffer included in the cable modem, or (ii) a cable modem uplink buffer included in the cable modem in response to receiving the message; and switching, by the cable modem, from a first mode of operation to a second mode of operation after performing one or both of: (i) transmitting uplink data to the cable modem termination system, and (ii) transmitting downlink data to a wireless base station, said second mode of operation being a power savings modem of operation.
US12003813B2
A broadcast reception device receives a digital broadcast service capable of executing an application cooperating with a broadcast program, and is provided with: a broadcast reception unit which receives broadcast waves of the digital broadcast service; a separation unit which separates video information relating to the broadcast program and application-related information from the received broadcast waves; a broadcast video decoding unit which decodes the video information relating to the broadcast program; an application acquisition unit which acquires an application on the basis of location information included in the application-related information; an application execution unit which executes the acquired application and acquires additional data from a server device; a video conversion unit which converts broadcast program video decoded by the broadcast decoding unit into high-quality video having a higher quality than the video using the acquired additional data; and a display unit which is able to display the high-quality video.
US12003788B2
An audio-visual live content delivery system includes a client having access to a provider network via a gateway, an audio-visual live content delivering equipment comprising a multicaster for transmitting audio-visual live contents in multicast form via the provider network, a de-multicaster being able to perform a conversion in unicast form of audio-visual live contents received in multicast form from the multicaster, and a controller managing routing of requests to get audio-visual live contents. The client performs a discovery procedure aiming at receiving information on potential presence and availability of the de-multicaster. When the client intends receiving a targeted audio-visual live content, the client sends to the controller a request providing indication of presence and availability, or not, of the de-multicaster. Then the controller decides how redirecting the client to fulfill the request, according at least to the indication of presence and availability, or not, of the de-multicaster.
US12003783B2
A method for adaptive loop filtering of a reconstructed picture in a video encoder is provided that includes determining whether or not sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering is applied to the reconstructed picture, and using adaptive loop filtering with no offset for the reconstructed picture when the SAO filtering is determined to be applied to the reconstructed picture.
US12003781B2
The present invention relates to a block partitioning structure from among the video coding schemes, and a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding the block partitioning structure. The video encoding and decoding method comprises the steps of: combining two or more encoding units of maximum size into a single encoding unit group; acquiring encoding data corresponding to the combined single encoding unit group; and decoding, according to a decoding order, the two or more encoding units of maximum size contained in the single encoding unit group.
US12003769B2
Disclosed herein are a point cloud data transmission method including encoding point cloud data, and transmitting a bitstream containing the point cloud data, and a point cloud data reception method including receiving a bitstream containing point cloud data, and decoding the point cloud data.
US12003762B2
A technique for interpolating positional information of a target in an image of a frame in which positional information of the target has not been acquired. An information interpolation device includes: a target information acquisition unit 4 acquiring target information that is information related to a target in an image of each frame composing an input video; an indicator determination unit 5 determining, based on the target information, an indicator indicating validity as a starting frame for each frame, the starting frame starting predetermined image processing on a target; a starting frame determination unit 6 determining a starting frame based on the determined indicator; and a target information interpolation unit 7 interpolating, when a frame in which positional information of a target is not included in target information exists among frames within a predetermined number from the determined starting frame, positional information of the target of the frame that does not include the positional information of the target by using positional information of the target included in target information of a frame other than the frame that does not include the positional information of the target.
US12003759B2
An encoding method includes: determining a merge mode to be applied to a current block, the merge mode including a sub-block merge mode and a first merge mode, wherein in the merge mode, inter-prediction parameters are inferred from a neighboring block neighboring the current block, and wherein in the sub-block merge mode, the current block includes a plurality of sub-blocks, and inter-prediction parameters are provided for each of the plurality of sub-blocks; in response to the merge mode being determined to be the first merge mode, generating a prediction image for the current block by performing a bi-directional optical flow prediction process, wherein the bi-directional optical flow prediction process uses a spatial gradient for the current block; and in response to the merge mode being determined to be the sub-block merge mode, generating a prediction image for the current block by not performing the bi-directional optical flow prediction process.
US12003755B2
A picture decoding device includes a spatial candidate derivation unit configured to derive a spatial candidate from inter prediction information of a block neighboring a decoding target block and register the derived spatial candidate as a candidate to a first candidate list, a history-based candidate derivation unit configured to generate a second candidate list by adding a history-based candidate included in a history-based candidate list as a candidate to the first candidate list, a candidate selection unit configured to select a selection candidate from candidates included in the second candidate list, and an inter prediction unit configured to perform inter prediction using the selection candidate.
US12003750B2
A method and apparatus for performing transformation and inverse transformation on a current block by using multi-core transform kernels in video encoding and decoding processes. A video decoding method may include obtaining, from a bitstream, multi-core transformation information indicating whether multi-core transformation kernels are to be used according to a size of a current block; obtaining horizontal transform kernel information and vertical transform kernel information from the bitstream when the multi-core transformation kernels are used according to the multi-core transformation information; determining a horizontal transform kernel for the current block according to the horizontal transform kernel information; determining a vertical transform kernel for the current block according to the vertical transform kernel information; and performing inverse transformation on the current block by using the horizontal transform kernel and the vertical transform kernel.
US12003726B2
A picture decoding method performed by a decoding device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises the steps of: deriving a context index for a split flag syntax element on the basis of split availability information of a current block; determining a context model on the basis of the derived context index; decoding a value of the split flag syntax element on the basis of a CABAC, using the determined context model; deriving a current coding unit from the current block on the basis of the value of the split flag syntax element; deriving a predicted block on the basis of inter prediction or intra prediction for the current coding unit; and generating a reconstructed block on the basis of the predicted block.
US12003715B2
In an exemplary aspect, a method for visual media processing includes identifying a boundary at a vertical edge and/or a horizontal edge of two video blocks; calculating a boundary strength of a filter based on at least one of the two video blocks crossing a vertical edge or a horizontal edge is coded using a combined intra-inter prediction (CIIP) mode; deciding whether to turn on or off the filter; selecting a strength of the filter in case the filter is turned on; and performing, based on the selecting, a deblocking filter (DB) process to the video blocks.
US12003712B2
A method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a picture of a video that includes one or more blocks and a bitstream representation of the video, whether a virtual boundary is enabled for a block within the picture for a filtering process based on a rule related to a relationship between a bottom boundary of the block and the picture. The method also includes performing the conversion based on the determining.
US12003710B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for intra prediction. The methods may include selecting a candidate prediction block from a plurality of prediction blocks of a video slice according to a first condition, wherein a width of the candidate prediction block is different from a height of the candidate prediction block; selecting an angular prediction mode from a plurality of candidate prediction modes of the candidate prediction block; and determining a filter for the angular prediction mode of the candidate prediction block according to a second condition.
US12003705B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: obtaining image information including an output layer set (OLS) decoded picture buffer (DPB) parameter index for a target OLS and DPB parameter information; deriving DPB parameter information for the target OLS on the basis of the OLS DPB parameter index; performing a picture management process on pictures of a DPB on the basis of the DPB parameter information for the target OLS; configuring a reference picture list for a current picture on the basis of the pictures of the DPB; and performing an inter prediction on a block in the current picture on the basis of the reference picture list.
US12003698B2
Devices, systems and methods for digital video coding, which include sub-block based inter prediction methods, are described. An exemplary method for video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current block of video and a bitstream representation of the video, a maximum number of candidates in a sub-block based merge candidate list and/or whether to add sub-block based temporal motion vector prediction (SbTMVP) candidates to the sub-block based merge candidate list based on whether temporal motion vector prediction (TMVP) is enabled for use during the conversion or whether a current picture referencing (CPR) coding mode is used for the conversion, and performing, based on the determining, the conversion.
US12003696B2
Provided is a display device. The display device includes a display panel and a microlens array disposed on a light-emitting side of the display panel, wherein the display panel includes a plurality of pixel islands in which a first pixel island displaying a first color, a second pixel island displaying a second color, and a third pixel island displaying a third color adjacent to one another form a repeating unit. In a same repeating unit, three sub-pixels at the same positions relative to their respective microlens units in the first pixel island, the second pixel island, and the third pixel island are disposed at three vertexes of a triangle respectively, and thus form a color fusion pixel. In addition, the display device further includes microlens arrays in one-to-one correspondence with the plurality of pixel islands to realize 3D display.
US12003692B2
A device includes a processor that is configured to obtain first facets of a first wide field-of-view image. An object is identified in a facet of the first facets. A second wide field-of-view image is obtained. A location of the object is identified in the second wide field-of-view image. Using the location of the object, the second wide field-of-view image is partitioned into second facets such that no boundary of any of the second facets overlaps the object. The second facets are then encoded in a compressed bitstream.
US12003686B2
A supply item has toner for use in an imaging device. A chip has memory storing quanta indicating allowed usage of the supply item over its lifetime and a multiplier correlating the quanta to toner mass. The imaging device requires quanta to conduct imaging operations and loads the quanta and multiplier by way of a certificate stored in the memory. The imaging device retrieves quanta from the chip over time and both devices keep tally. Initialization between the supply item and imaging device includes providing encrypted and unencrypted instances of firmware versions and certificates from the supply item that the imaging device can compare for security. Alternatively, the supply item defines a fuser assembly, imaging unit, intermediate transfer member, or other component installed for use in the imaging device.
US12003681B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to perform control such that display elements representing steps in a workflow are displayed in a row, and perform control such that a first display element representing a branch in the workflow is displayed in a mode indicating that a branch destination of the branch is not determined.
US12003680B2
An image processing system includes: a first processor that is mounted on an image processing apparatus including at least one of an image forming unit that performs processing of forming an image on a medium or an image scanning unit that performs processing of scanning an image on a medium; and a second processor that is mounted on a control apparatus that is connected to the image processing apparatus via a virtual leased line, and controls a part of at least one of the processing of forming an image on a medium or the processing of scanning an image on a medium performed by the image processing apparatus, in which the first processor is configured to: control a timing of connection using the virtual leased line with the control apparatus according to a function used by a user among functions of the image processing apparatus.
US12003673B2
An audio processing method may involve receiving output signals from each microphone of a plurality of microphones in an audio environment, the output signals corresponding to a current utterance of a person and determining, based on the output signals, one or more aspects of context information relating to the person, including an estimated current proximity of the person to one or more microphone locations. The method may involve selecting two or more loudspeaker-equipped audio devices based, at least in part, on the one or more aspects of the context information, determining one or more types of audio processing changes to apply to audio data being rendered to loudspeaker feed signals for the audio devices and causing one or more types of audio processing changes to be applied. In some examples, the audio processing changes have the effect of increasing a speech to echo ratio at one or more microphones.
US12003671B2
Voicemail spam detection is performed based on content of voicemail messages. The content of an incoming voicemail message is compared to a spam template that includes a representation of a spam voicemail. Spam templates may be generated based on spam indications provided by users for voicemail messages they have received. User indications for sufficiently similar voicemail messages may be aggregated by maintaining a vote count for a spam template that reflects how many times a user has indicated a matching voicemail message is spam. A spam template may also include an occurrence count that reflects how many times voicemail messages matching a spam template have been detected in a telephony system. An incoming voicemail message may be compared to spam templates and, responsive to a match of content and/or a corresponding vote count or occurrence count meeting a condition, the voicemail message may be identified as spam.
US12003660B2
The invention relates to processes and systems for using Web Real-Time Communications (RTC) to connect and communicate with devices used in an Internet of Things (IoT) framework, and devices made for the same.
US12003640B2
A method includes a server computer receiving a cryptogram request message comprising a token associated with a first credential during an interaction between a user of a user device and a resource provider of a resource provider application on the user device. The server computer generates a detokenization request message comprising the token. The server computer then provides the detokenization request message to a token service computer. The server computer receives a detokenization response message comprising a second credential from the token service computer. The server computer obtains a cryptogram for the interaction. The server computer generates a cryptogram response message comprising the second credential and the cryptogram, and then provides it in response to the cryptogram request message.
US12003636B2
Proving reliability of a second public key of a second key pair generated in association with a first key pair. A generator 210 calculates and stores x·H(n) which is proof data and ax·H(n), when the second public key ax·g1 which is of the second key pair is generated (S301). The generator 210 provides the calculated proof data to a receiving apparatus 220 (S302) which has received the proof data, transmits a proof request to the proving apparatus 230 for requesting a proof that the second public key ax·g1 is generated by an owner of the first public key a·g1 (S303). In response to the proof request, the proving apparatus 230 verifies the proof data by calculating a verification formula for the proof data (S304). The proving apparatus 230 transmits the verification result as a response to the proof request from the receiving apparatus 220 (S305).
US12003633B2
Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and techniques to perform and facilitate secure ladder computational operations whose iterative execution depends on secret values associated with input data. Disclosed embodiments balance execution of various iterations in a way that is balanced for different secret values, significantly reducing vulnerability of ladder computations to adversarial side-channel attacks.
US12003631B2
A method is provided for determining a unique identifier of a device, the device including a quantum tunnelling barrier unique to the device. The method comprises applying a potential difference across the quantrum tunnelling barrier, the potential difference sufficient to enable tunnelling barrier. The method further comprises measuring an electrical signal, the electrical signal representative of a tunnelling current through the quantrum tunnelling barrier. The method further comprises determining, from the measured electrical signal, a unique identifier for the device. Related apparatuses, systems, computer-readable media and methods are also provided herein.
US12003630B1
A system and method reduces use of restricted operations in a cloud computing environment during cybersecurity threat inspection. The method includes: detecting an encrypted disk in a cloud computing environment, the encrypted disk encrypted utilizing a first key in a key management system (KMS); generating a second key in the KMS, the second key providing access for a principal of an inspection environment; generating a snapshot of the encrypted disk; generating a volume based on the snapshot, wherein the volume is re-encrypted with the second key; generating a snapshot of the re-encrypted volume; generating an inspectable disk from the snapshot of the re-encrypted volume; and initiating inspection for a cybersecurity object on the inspectable disk.
US12003608B2
A computer-implemented method for repurposing one or more software configurable layer 2 switches in an IP (Internet Protocal) computer network to function as a layer 1 switch. Ternary Content-Addressable Memory (TCAM) is reconfigured in each of the one or more layer 2 switches and one or more pipeline engines are routed to emulate layer 1 switching functionality in each of the one or more layer 2 switches.
US12003601B2
A system and method for split rendering immersive media using proxy edge cloud computing architecture. The system and method may include dynamically determining a task-split or splitting a task for rendering a scene in an immersive media stream into two or more computational tasks based on one or more processing delays, wherein the task-splitting splits the scene into first part including one or more first tasks performed by an edge computing system and second part including one or more second tasks performed by a cloud computing system. The system and method may include transmitting the first parts of the scene, and transmitting the second parts of the scene.
US12003600B2
Systems and methods for coordinating network connectivity and communication between proxy servers, exit-nodes and client modules are disclosed. In one aspect, the proxy infrastructure enables network connectivity between exit-nodes and proxy-nodes without the need of any proxy-gateways or middleware entities to delegate the connections. Proxy-nodes in the proxy infrastructure accept connections with exit-nodes based on geographical proximity, proxy-node metrics, such as server loads and clients' frequent preferences. Further, a single instance of proxy-node can communicate and instruct another instance of proxy-node, to service the client request via a suitable exit-node. Further still, a single instance of proxy-node can communicate and instruct another instance of proxy-node to redirect a suitable exit-node towards the first proxy-node in order to service the client request. In another instance, the proxy-infrastructure enables client modules to connect to proxy-nodes based on geographical proximity, client parameters, and client's behavioral informatics. In yet another aspect, proxy infrastructure enables a proxy node to redirect exit-nodes to a different proxy—node in the event of a) system overload or resource exhaustion, b) graceful shutdown c) erroneous network connection between exit-nodes and the proxy-node.
US12003598B2
The technology disclosed relates to causing delivery of Segmentation as a Service™ (SegAAS) instrumentation code and segment processing code to run on a user's machine and generate data that tracks a user session on a website, receiving and processing data from the user session and invoking callback function code, configured to run on the user's machine, that performs actions specified by the website's operator, as triggered by delivery of segment codes. Also included is receiving readings from the user session, analyzing the data to track progress of the session, and generating segment codes that characterize results of the analysis in an actionable way specified by rules provided by the website operator. Further included are repeatedly causing delivery of updated lists of the segment codes based on the analyzing of the progress and timing delivery of unsolicited actions directed to retaining the visitor and extending the user session with the website.
US12003593B2
System and techniques for network entity modeling are described herein. A set of network entities is obtained in which a first member of the set of network entities hosts a first service and, when in operation, has a connection to a second member of the set of network entities hosting a second service. A direct efficiency score is calculated for the first member of the set of network entities. The direct efficiency score is based on first resources required to use the first service. An aggregate efficiency score is also calculated based on second resources required to use the second service on the second member via the first member and the connection. Then a representation of the first member is provided that includes the direct efficiency score and the aggregate efficiency score.
US12003590B2
In a scenario involving a primary and secondary server, resource requests can be managed to avoid sending multiple requests to the secondary server. In particular, requests for data object attributes can be queued when another request has already been made. Hashkey and locking mechanisms can be used to support scenarios involving multiple users and multiple data object instances. Performance of the overall system landscape can thus be improved by effectively consolidating resource requests.
US12003583B2
Embodiments are directed to communicating with and controlling operation of electronically-controlled appliances. In one scenario, a computer system receives a first input from a computing system indicating that an electronically-controlled appliance is permitted to communicate with a cloud computing platform. The computer system generates a notification that is to be sent to a software application, where the software application is configured to control functions of the electronically-controlled appliance. The computer system transmits the generated notification to the software application, where the generated notification indicates that the cloud computing platform is communicably connected to the electronically-controlled appliance. The computer system then receives a second input from the software application indicating that specified functions are to be performed on the electronically-controlled appliance, and transmits instructions to the electronically-controlled appliance to perform the specified functions. These functions are then interpreted and carried out by a hardware controller on the electronically-controlled appliance.
US12003576B2
Example techniques relate to cloud queue tombstones. An example implementation may involve a computing system receiving instructions to remove a particular media item from a playback queue. Based on the instructions, the computing system removes the particular media item from the playback queue and adds, to the playback queue, a tombstone indicator indicating that the particular media item has been removed from the playback queue. The computing system receives, from the media playback system, a request for a window of one or more media items from the playback queue. Based on the request, the computing system sends, to the media playback system, data representing a particular window of media items from the playback queue, wherein the particular window includes the tombstone indicator. The computing system detects a given tombstone removal trigger from among multiple tombstone removal triggers and based on the detecting, removes the tombstone indicator from the playback queue.
US12003571B2
Methods and apparatus for client-directed placement of remotely configured service instances are described. One or more placement target options are selected for a client of a network-accessible service based on criteria such as service characteristics of the placement targets. The selected options, including a particular placement target that includes instance hosts configurable from remote control servers, are indicated programmatically to the client. A determination is made that a service instance is to be configured at the particular placement target on behalf of the client. A remote control server is configured to issue administrative commands to an instance host at the particular placement target to configure the service instance.
US12003569B2
A system designed for increasing network communication speed for users, while lowering network congestion for content owners and ISPs. The system employs network elements including an acceleration server, clients, agents, and peers, where communication requests generated by applications are intercepted by the client on the same machine. The IP address of the server in the communication request is transmitted to the acceleration server, which provides a list of agents to use for this IP address. The communication request is sent to the agents. One or more of the agents respond with a list of peers that have previously seen some or all of the content which is the response to this request (after checking whether this data is still valid). The client then downloads the data from these peers in parts and in parallel, thereby speeding up the Web transfer, releasing congestion from the Web by fetching the information from multiple sources, and relieving traffic from Web servers by offloading the data transfers from them to nearby peers.
US12003565B1
A system for providing quality of experience (QoE) metrics to incoming application data transferred to a vehicle includes a cloud-based dynamically updatable application QoE policy engine adapted to establish QoE metrics and prioritization criteria for incoming application data and to assign QoE policies to the vehicle, and a data controller within the vehicle adapted to receive QoE policies from the application QoE policy engine and enforce the QoE policies assigned, wherein the data controller is adapted to enforce the QoE policies assigned with an enhanced distributed control access (EDCA) algorithm adapted to prioritize incoming application data traffic received via IEEE 802.11 standard supported wireless LAN technology channels and with a resource block allocation and network slicing (RAN) algorithm adapted to prioritize incoming application data traffic received via cellular channels.
US12003557B2
A method for use in a processing system includes receiving information regarding a work, where the information does not include a valid unified numbering system identifier that identifies a particular work of a plurality of works, and where the information includes one or more received attributes associated with the work. The method further includes obtaining a plurality of sets of attributes from one or more databases, which include a set of attributes associated with each work of the plurality of works. The method further includes determining whether a threshold number for a set of attributes of the plurality of sets of attributes matches corresponding ones of the one or more received attributes. When the threshold number does not match, the method further includes assigning a new unified numbering system identifier associated with the work and storing the new unified numbering system identifier in a database of the processing system.
US12003553B2
A voice track (VT) device obtains a talent-to-master schedule and a station-to-master schedule. A master broadcast log, which includes an empty master VT associated with a user, is identified based on the talent-to-master schedule. The master broadcast log is displayed in a GUI on the VT recording device. User input selecting the empty master VT is received. Subscribing stations that use the identified master broadcast log as a basis for generating station broadcast logs are identified based on the station-to-master schedule, and obtained from the stations. For each station broadcast log that includes a station VT corresponding to the empty master VT, a match status is determined. The match status indicates whether media items scheduled for broadcast in slots adjacent to the station VT differ from media items scheduled for broadcast in slots adjacent to the empty master VT. Match statuses of station VTs corresponding to the empty master VT are displayed on a child window of the GUI.
US12003548B2
Techniques are described for managing communications between multiple intercommunicating computing nodes, such as multiple virtual machine nodes hosted on one or more physical computing machines or systems. In some situations, users may specify groups of computing nodes and optionally associated access policies for use in the managing of the communications for those groups, such as by specifying which source nodes are allowed to transmit data to particular destinations nodes. In addition, determinations of whether initiated data transmissions from source nodes to destination nodes are authorized may be dynamically negotiated for and recorded for later use in automatically authorizing future such data transmissions without negotiation. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US12003546B1
The present application generally relates to methods, systems, and programming for detecting security issues within a computing environment. In some embodiments, data flows may be analyzed to determine links between data sources and metadata. Using the derived relationships, a determination may be made as to whether the is a security issue, such as a security policy ambiguity, or a potential security issue. If so, one or more actions may be taken to prevent or minimize an impact of the security issue.
US12003545B2
In one aspect, a computerized system includes an access manager server connected to one or more target computer systems. The access manager server is connected to the one or more target computer systems via an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) system. The EDR system continually monitors one or more target computer systems (e.g. endpoints) and responds to mitigate a cyber threat to the one or more target computer systems. The EDR system includes an EDR control plane that manages and communicates with one or more EDR agents. The EDR control plane causes a specific computer security action in the one or more target computer systems via one or more EDR agents. One or more EDR agents are installed in the one or more target computer systems. The one or more EDR agents are made available via the EDR API.
US12003542B2
A method, system, and computer program product for recommending an initial database security model. The method may include identifying a plurality of nodes connected to a security network. The method may also include analyzing security characteristics of each node of the plurality of nodes. The method may also include identifying, from the security characteristics, key factors for each node. The method may also include calculating similarities between each node of the plurality of nodes. The method may also include building a self-organized centerless network across the plurality of nodes by grouping nodes with high similarities based on the similarities between each node, where the self-organized centerless network is a centerless network without a central management server, and includes groups of nodes from the plurality of nodes. The method may also include generating federated security models for the groups of nodes.
US12003536B2
An automated creation of a phishing document uses personal data of a person stored in a database of persons and anonymous and categorisable personal properties stored in a hierarchical properties database. A relevance value is assigned to each personal property. At least one property of the person contained in the personal data has a correspondence in the properties database, that is a correspondence property. It is verified whether one of the correspondence properties is hierarchically subordinate to a phishing-document-specific default personal property. This subordinate correspondence property forms a creation property. The phishing document is created based on the creation property if this requirement is met. It is verified whether the relevance value of the creation property corresponds to a predefined target relevance value. The creation property is selected as a preparation property and used to prepare the phishing document if the assigned relevance value corresponds to the target relevance value.
US12003530B2
The present application provides a method and apparatus for suppressing the spread of viruses in a local area network. The method includes determining, in response to receiving a first service packet initiated by a target terminal, whether a destination port carried in the first service packet indicates one of the preset risky ports; determining, in response to that the destination port indicates one of the preset risky ports, whether a number of interacting terminals in the LAN that have performed ARP interaction with the target terminal reaches a first preset threshold; and in response to that the number of interacting terminals reaches the first preset threshold, providing protection to the target terminal so to suppress virus propagation in the LAN.
US12003527B2
A method or system for automatically detecting vulnerabilities. The system obtains an identifier associated with a vulnerability and one or more vulnerability detection parameters associated with the vulnerability. The system also obtains a script based in part on the one or more vulnerability detection parameters. The system then periodically executes the script to determine whether the vulnerability has been remediated or reintroduced. Responsive to determining that the vulnerability has been remediated, the system transmits a request to a vulnerability tracking system to resolve a security alert. Responsive to determining that the vulnerability has been reintroduced, the system transmits a request to the vulnerability tracking system to reactivate the security alert.
US12003526B2
A computer system is provided. The computer system includes a memory and at least one processor coupled to the memory and configured to extract, from a website vulnerability scanner log, a uniform resource locator (URL) and a vulnerability score and vulnerability classification associated with the URL. The at least one processor is further configured to generate an application vulnerability graph comprising connected nodes that are associated with a field of the URL. The nodes are labeled to indicate the associated field of the URL and color coded based on the vulnerability score. The nodes are also associated with the vulnerability classification. The at least one processor is further configured to enable or disable security protection against a user-selected vulnerability classification of a user-selected node by generating web application firewall security rules and/or web application firewall relaxation rules.
US12003523B2
An attribute-value extraction unit (101) extracts as a plurality of model-generation attribute values, a plurality of attribute values belonging to an attribute associated with a monitoring subject for anomaly detection. A division-data generation unit (102) extracts for each model-generation attribute value, a normal event associated with the model-generation attribute value from normal data indicating a plurality of normal events each of which is found out to be normal, each of which is associated with one attribute value of the plurality of attribute values, and each of which includes a plurality of characteristics, and generates for each model-generation attribute value, division data indicating the extracted normal event. A characteristic selection unit (103) selects a combination of characteristics to be used for generation of a normal model to be used for anomaly detection, from a plurality of characteristics included in a plurality of normal events indicated in a plurality of pieces of division data. A normal-model generation unit (104) generates the normal model for each model-generation attribute value, using the combination of characteristics selected.
US12003514B2
Software programs are updated and upgraded regularly. This is a cause for infection by malware (or a faulty program). By attaining the statistical relation between the input data to the program and the output data from the program the presence of malware may be detected with high fidelity. The base for this approach is the fact the necessary and sufficient conditions to determine the working of a program is evaluation of input against output.
