US12005668B2
Provided is a carton production method capable of preventing quality deterioration which may happen during the sealing due to adhesion of an adhesive. This method comprises: a first insertion step K1 of rotating the lid body toward the one side surface of the box body to a position where the inserting flap overlaps the suspension hole; an application step K2 of applying an adhesive to the inserting flap through the suspension hole; a second insertion step K3 of curving the one side surface of the box body inserting the insertion flap and closing the upper surface of the box body with the lid body; and an adhesion step K4 of bonding the inserting flap to the inside of the one side surface of the box body.
US12005664B2
A method for manufacturing a midsole of an article of footwear includes generating a positive model of a midsole. The positive model includes a region of empty volume that defines an aperture or channel. The method further includes creating a negative model based on the positive model, and printing, layer by layer, a negative mold to form a physical representation of the negative model. The negative mold includes a region of solid volume that corresponds with the region of empty volume in the positive model. The method further includes supplying a midsole material to the negative mold to form the midsole. The midsole includes a midsole aperture or channel formed therein by the region of solid volume in the negative mold.
US12005662B2
An insert for a mould for vulcanising tyres for vehicle wheels, the insert arranged to receive in a seat formed on a moulding surface of the mould and comprising a base surface from which a plurality of projections extends; wherein, each projection comprises a lateral surface extending away from the base surface such that the lateral surface defines a tapered profile of the projection away from the base surface, is inclined at an angle between 10° and 25° with respect to a direction perpendicular to the base surface, and has a roughness between 4 and 11 μm.
US12005659B2
A method for manufacturing a coated lens by applying at least one single electromagnetic pulse to convert a coating precursor material into at least one coating. The electromagnetic pulse is delivered to the coating precursor material applied on a surface of an uncoated or precoated optical lens substrate. The at least one single electromagnetic pulse is applied from an electromagnetic source such as a flash lamp, a halogen lamp, a directed plasma arc, a laser, a microwave generator, an induction heater, an electron beam, a stroboscope, or a mercury lamp.
US12005635B2
A three-dimensional shaping device shapes a three-dimensional article by irradiating a powder material with an electron beam and melting the powder material. The three-dimensional shaping device includes an electron beam emitting unit emitting the electron beam, melting the powder material in order to shape the article, and performing preliminary heating of the powder material by irradiating the powder material with the electron beam before the article is shaped. The electron beam emitting unit moves an irradiation position of the electron beam in a spiral pattern when the powder material is irradiated with the electron beam for preliminary heating.
US12005627B2
The present disclosure provides a dual layer heat shrink tube having: an inner polymeric layer with a thickness t1 and an outer diameter D1; and an outer, expanded polymeric layer with a thickness t2′ and an outer diameter D2′ obtained by expanding a polymer tube from D2 to D2′ and t2 to t2′ at a selected temperature so that D2′−2(t2′)>D1, wherein a ring cut from a cross-section of the dual layer heat shrink tube, slit into a rectangle and gripped at cut ends by tension grips within a DMA, and subjected to a temperature sweep of 3° C./min at a frequency of 1 Hz from the onset of a melting endotherm of the inner polymeric layer to that of the outer, expanded polymeric layer is greater than 1° C. and less than 12° C. The disclosure further provides associated methods for preparing and using such tubes, as well as to products comprising such tubes.
US12005619B2
An injection molding system includes a conveyor apparatus that moves a mold, and an injection molding apparatus that performs, using an injection cylinder and a screw, injection molding with the mold, wherein the improvement of the injection molding system includes at least one structure located in proximity to at least a part of the conveyor apparatus, wherein the at least one structure includes at least one element that is moveable, and wherein, when the screw is removed from the injection cylinder, the at least one element is in a position to prevent the at least one element from contacting the screw.
US12005607B2
A composite material structure can be constructed using an airforming process that includes filling the inflated support mold with a fluid structural material and allowing the fluid structural material to harden within the support mold. Additional steps can include inflating the support mold with a first fluid, forming fluid escape outlets in the support mold, and removing the support mold after allowing the fluid structural material to harden. The first fluid can be air, the support mold can be a fiberglass resin, and/or the fluid structural material can be a concrete composite material. Fluid can escape through the fluid escape outlets during the filling. The finished structure can include multiple structural components formed from a homogenous concrete composite material and having curved and non-planar geometries. The concrete composite material can include aluminum alloy fibers.
US12005605B2
Methods of manufacturing honeycomb-structure-forming extrusion dies having a number of slots for use in producing extruded articles having complex honeycomb patterns and extrusion dies for use in the manufacture of extruded honeycomb bodies. The method includes inserting a die insert having a runner and a number of teeth into a slot of an extrusion die such that each of the teeth blocks at least a portion of the slot of the extrusion die. The method further includes separating the runner from the teeth so that the teeth remain within the slot of the extrusion die.
US12005602B2
The disclosure relates to a method for the production of wood fiberboards such as MDF boards.
US12005600B2
A method for cutting a pipe made of thermoplastic material including, in combination, the following steps: feeding a continuous pipe made of thermoplastic material; localised and circumferential heating of a first localised axial portion of the pipe for a predetermined time using a heating unit; cutting without removal of chippings, using a cutting unit, of the first heated axial portion, to obtain a piece of the pipe; localised and circumferential heating of a second localised axial portion of the pipe, for a predetermined time, the second axial portion being placed at a predetermined distance from the first portion.
US12005594B1
A pocket knife includes a chassis, a surface defined by the chassis, and a blade having a retracted position in which the blade is locked inside of the chassis and a deployed position in which at least a portion of the blade is locked outside of the chassis. An actuator is slidingly engaged with the chassis to reposition the blade between the retracted and deployed positions. A stop pin is connected to the blade. An end of the stop pin extends a predetermined distance from the blade to engage with the surface defined by the chassis when the blade is in the deployed position to prevent movement of the blade with respect to the chassis.
US12005588B2
Industrial robotic platforms are described. The robotic platform includes a universal platform configured to attach to interchangeable task-specific tooling systems and mobility systems. The robots may be mining robots, with a mining-specific tooling system attached to the universal platform, and configured for mining tasks. The platform is modular and may be used for other industrial applications and/or robot types, such as construction, satellite swarms, fuel production, disaster recovery, communications, remote power, and others. The robot may be included in a swarm or colony as part of an overall autonomous architecture. The robot may be part of an architecture having a colony or remote control center that communicates with and monitors the robots.
US12005581B1
Provided is a control method, an electronic device and a storage medium. The method comprises: when a first yarn spindle with a first identifier is transported on a transport channel and determining that the number of first yarn spindles located in a preset area needs to be detected, detecting the first number of first yarn spindles located in the preset area; and when the first number of first yarn spindles is less than the total number of yarn spindles that the first mechanical arm can grab, determining the target number of first yarn spindles to be replenished, and generating a first control instruction to instruct a second mechanical arm to grab the target number of first yarn spindles from a target trolley associated with the first identifier of the first yarn spindle, and place the target number of first yarn spindles in the transport channel or preset area.
US12005578B2
A reinforcement learning architecture for facilitating reinforcement learning in connection with operation of an external real-time system that includes a plurality of devices operating in a real-world environment. The reinforcement learning architecture includes a plurality of communicators, a task manager, and a reinforcement learning agent that interact with each other to effectuate a policy for achieving a defined objective in the real-world environment. Each of the communicators receives sensory data from a corresponding device and the task manager generates a joint state vector based on the sensory data. The reinforcement learning agent generates, based on the joint state vector, a joint action vector, which the task manager parses into a plurality of actuation commands. The communicators transmit the actuation commands to the plurality of devices in the real-world environment.
US12005572B2
A robotic system includes an end-effector configured for grasping an object, the end-effector including a suction cup assembly configured to engage the object, and a contact limit sensor configured to detect a pressure associated with the engagement between the suction cup assembly and the object, wherein the contact limit sensor transmits contact information when the contact limit sensor detects the pressure exceeding a contact threshold, a sensor unit monitoring contact information received from the contact limit sensor, and a controller, coupled to the sensor unit, configured to execute an operation for controlling the end-effector to limit movement of the end-effector toward the object based on the contact information received.
US12005562B2
A telescopic tube assembly includes a first tube and a second tube penetrated in the first tube. A handle is pivoted to a base sleeved on the first tube and pressed against the second tube when the handle is locked. Further, a pin is provided between the base and a cover mounted to the base, and a button is horizontally disposed in the base. When the button is pressed, the pin is pushed by the button to be disengaged from the second tube, such that the length of the second tube can be adjusted. When the button is released, the pin is pushed by an elastic member to be engaged with the second tube for locking the second tube in a desired length. By means of the dual lock design, the telescopic tube assembly of the present invention provides good positioning effect to reduce operational risk.
US12005558B2
A rock drilling arrangement includes an impact device having a frame, pressure chambers in the frame, and a piston arranged in the impact device. The arrangement further includes a rear mounting arrangement for attaching the impact device to a carriage, a front mounting arrangement for attaching the impact device to a machine component, at least one fore pressure accumulator arranged on a front side of the rear mounting arrangement in an axial direction of the piston, and at least one rear pressure accumulator arranged on a back side of the rear mounting arrangement. The fore pressure accumulator and the rear pressure accumulator are connected to one of the pressure chambers and arranged to absorb pressure fluctuations in the pressure chambers.
US12005553B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a combustion-powered fastener-driving tool including multiple combustion chambers and an exhaust gas recirculation system.
US12005544B2
In the case of a method for measuring the geometry of a drilled hole in a workpiece, a measuring system is used which has a measuring unit with a measuring mandrel that can be moved bidirectionally along a travel path parallel to a measuring mandrel axis. The measuring mandrel is calibrated at least once with the use of a reference device by way of at least one reference element. During a measuring operation, the reference device is arranged in a neutral location outside the travel path of the measuring mandrel in such a way that the measuring mandrel can be introduced into the drilled hole without dipping through the reference element. To carry out a calibration operation, the reference device is moved out of the neutral location. The measuring mandrel is moved into a calibrating location, where a measurement for calibrating the measuring mandrel is carried out.
US12005540B2
Power tools described herein include a housing, a motor supported by the housing, a battery pack configured to provide electrical power to the power tool, a user input configured to provide an input signal corresponding to a target speed of the motor, a plurality of sensors supported by the housing and configured to generate sensor data indicative of an operational parameter of the power tool, and an electronic controller. The electronic controller includes an electronic processor and a memory. The memory includes a machine learning control program for execution by the electronic processor. The electronic controller is configured to receive the target speed, receive the sensor data, process the sensor data using the machine learning control program, generate, using the machine learning control program, an output based on the sensor data, the output including one or more field weakening parameters, and control the motor based on the generated output.
US12005538B2
Methods and systems for supporting and/or positioning mechanical components or tools, the methods and system employing work stands that have a moveable base, a vertical support member disposed on the moveable base, a support platform attached to an upper end of the vertical support member via a support coupling that permits independent rotational movement of the support platform, a plurality of extendable arms that are each pivotally coupled at a lower end to the vertical support member and pivotally coupled at an upper end to the support platform, and each extendable arm can be independently and controllably extended and retracted. The work stands further include a controller for controllably extending and retracting the extendable arms to position the support platform in a desired orientation, and a user input coupled to the controller and configured so that a user employing the controller can position the support platform in the desired orientation.
US12005537B1
A fastener removal assembly comprises a drive housing operable to receive a drive unit, wherein the drive housing comprises a shaft configured to rotate based on operation of the drive unit, the shaft extending downwards and out of the drive housing. The fastener removal assembly further comprises a set of gripping jaws disposed under the drive housing and around a portion of the shaft and a first pneumatic actuator coupled to the set of gripping jaws configured to actuate the set of gripping jaws to expand and retract. The fastener removal assembly further comprises at least one second pneumatic actuator disposed on top of the first pneumatic actuator. The fastener removal assembly further comprises an intermediate coupler, wherein the intermediate coupler is coupled to a side of the drive housing, and wherein the at least one second pneumatic actuator is coupled to a bottom side of the intermediate coupler.
US12005535B2
A method for producing a shrink-fitted member by arranging a pillar shaped ceramic body inside a deep-drawn stainless steel pipe and shrink-fitting them. The method includes: a preparing step of preparing the deep-drawn stainless steel pipe produced by deep-drawing and the pillar shaped ceramic body; a heating step of heating the deep-drawn stainless steel pipe to 900° C. or more; and a shrink-fitting step of inserting the pillar shaped ceramic body into the heated deep-drawn stainless steel pipe and shrink-fitting them.
US12005531B1
A method of automatically welding a welded seam of a saddle line for a saddle-type T joint belonging to the technical field of welding is provided, including: establishing a groove cross-sectional model, solving a variation law of a groove cross-sectional area, and planning a welding bead and a welding process parameter according to the groove cross-sectional area; establishing a welding torch pose mathematical model and obtaining a pose homogeneous transformation matrix T of a welding torch; establishing a three-dimensional model of a main pipe and a branch pipe, building a welding system through offline software, importing welding spot pose information, and generating welding torch pose offline command through the offline software; and performing automatic welding of the welded seam of the saddle line for the saddle-type T joint according to the planned welding bead and the welding process parameter and the generated welding torch pose offline command.
US12005530B2
To stabilize a growth state of a droplet during an electrode negative polarity peak period in consumable electrode AC pulse arc welding. In an AC pulse arc welding control method for controlling welding which is performed by feeding a welding wire, and applying an electrode negative polarity base current during an electrode negative polarity base period, then applying an electrode negative polarity peak current during an electrode negative polarity peak period, and then applying an electrode positive polarity current during an electrode positive polarity period, to repeatedly apply these welding currents, the electrode negative polarity peak period includes a rising period Tu, a peak period Ta, and a falling period Td, a time ratio of the peak period Ta to the electrode negative polarity peak period is less than 20%, and the falling period Td is a period twice or more longer than the rising period Tu.
US12005529B2
A method for manufacturing an additively-manufactured object, includes: an additively-manufacturing step of building a layered body by depositing a weld bead obtained by melting and solidifying a filler metal, the layered body having an opening along a forming direction of the weld bead and an internal space surrounded by the weld bead; and a closing step of forming a closing wall portion connecting an edge portion of the opening with the weld bead for closing. In the additively-manufacturing step, the opening is formed with a width dimension larger than a bead width of the weld bead, and in the closing step, the closing wall portion having a width dimension larger than the bead width is formed by the weld bead to close the opening.
US12005511B2
A machine tool includes a spindle capable of holding a workpiece and rotatable on a spindle axis and a tool post on which a tool is attachable to machine the workpiece held by the spindle. The tool post includes a first turnable holder turnable on a first turning axis perpendicular to the spindle axis. The first turnable holder has a first tool unit mounting part where a rotary tool is attachable. The tool post further includes a second turnable holder turnable on a second turning axis perpendicular to the spindle axis and different from the first turning axis. The second turnable holder has a second whirling tool mounting part where a thread whirling tool is attachable.
US12005510B2
A cutting tool is a cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating film disposed on the substrate, in which the coating film includes a first layer, the first layer is composed of an alternate layer where a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked, the first unit layer is composed of AlaCr1-a-bCebN, a is more than 0.500 and 0.800 or less, b is 0.001 or more and 0.100 or less, the second unit layer is composed of AlcV1-cN, c is 0.30 or more and 0.75 or less, and a and c satisfy a relationship of a>c.
US12005508B2
A cutting tool is a cutting tool comprising a substrate and a coating film disposed on the substrate, in which the coating film includes a first layer, the first layer is composed of an alternate layer where a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked, the first unit layer is composed of Ti1-a-bAlaCebN, a is between greater than or equal to 0.350 and equal to or less than 0.650, b is between greater than or equal to 0.001 and equal to or less than 0.100, the second unit layer is composed of TicSi1-cN, and c is between greater than or equal to 0.20 and equal to or less than 0.99.
US12005504B2
The present invention is directed towards a method for fabricating a three-dimensional metal, ceramic, and/or cermet part, the method comprising forming the three-dimensional metal, ceramic, and/or cermet part by an additive manufacturing technique; encapsulating the three-dimensional metal, ceramic, and/or cermet part in a conformable fugitive material to form an encapsulated three-dimensional metal, ceramic, and/or cermet part; and cold isostatic pressing the encapsulated three-dimensional metal, ceramic, and/or cermet part with pressurized incompressible fluid that contacts the conformable fugitive material. Also disclosed are three-dimensional metal, ceramic, and/or cermet parts fabricated according to said method.
US12005500B2
A method determines position data of a platform at a plate of an additive manufacturing device, having scanner optics for scanning a laser. The plate has holes that receive a holder, marks on the plate, and receptors for receiving laser target parts. A first position dataset is obtained with a position of a holder inserted in a hole with respect to the marks. After mounting the plate and inserting the platform into the holder, a laser mark is marked on the laser target parts using the laser at laser mark positions in the scanner optics' coordinate system. A pre-manufacturing image of the support plate is acquired with the laser marks on the laser target parts. A second position dataset having positions of the marks with respect to the laser marks is obtained from the pre-manufacturing image. The position data is determined from the position datasets and the laser mark positions.
US12005497B2
Methods for large-scale additive manufacturing of high-strength boron nitride nanotubes (BNNT)/aluminum (Al) (e.g., reinforced Al alloy) metal matrix composites (MMCs) (BNNT/Al MMCs), as well as the BNNT/Al MMCs produced by the large-scale additive manufacturing methods, are provided. A combination of ultrasonication and spray drying techniques can produce good BNNT/Al alloy feedstock powders, which can be used in a cold spraying process.
US12005490B2
The method comprises a braiding step during which a braiding wire is wound in helical turns about, and along, a generatrix line which is closed in a ring about a main axis, so as to form a bead wire element called “braided torus” within which the braid wire has, on the one hand, a winding section which corresponds to the helical turns and which occupies a braid volume, and, on the other hand, in an extension of said winding section, a surplus length of braid wire called “excess section”. After the braiding step, there is a folding step during which the excess section is plastically deformed by folding, preferably by means of a punch and an anvil, so as to form an elbow which makes the excess section diverge with respect to the helical turns and makes said excess section protrude at least partly with respect to the braid volume.
US12005487B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a laminated core by punching electrical steel strips including an insulation coating to obtain core single sheets and laminating the core single sheets, the method including: pressurizing two or more electrical steel strips using a guide roller to temporarily bond the electrical steel strips immediately before the punching; and obtaining the core single sheets by performing the punching after inserting the two or more electrical steel strips after the temporary bonding into a punching die.
US12005485B2
Embodiments relate to one or more techniques that may be employed alone or in combination, in the refurbishment or recycling of used solar modules. In certain approaches, a (heated) wire may be used to cut through one or more layers (e.g., front encapsulant, back encapsulant, both front and back encapsulant, backsheet) of a solar module that is being recycled or refurbished. Some approaches may employ testing of a used solar module, alone or in combination with information (e.g., as part of a received package) regarding parameters of a used solar module such as panel size, width, length, height, thickness of glass, or others. According to specific embodiments, used solar modules may be subjected to various cleaning processes at one or more points during refurbishment/recycling.
US12005472B2
A manifold having a first side, a second side, a first channel extending from the first side to the second side, and a second channel extending from the first side to the second side is disclosed. The first channel and the second channel each define a linear longitudinal axis. In one embodiment, the first channel longitudinal axis and the second channel longitudinal axis are oblique to the first side and the second side of the manifold. The manifold of the present disclosure provides channels that can be easily cleaned and allow for an increased flow performance.
US12005469B2
According to the present disclosure, there is provided a coating determining device of a coating head that can prevent coating defect caused by clogging in multiple successive coatings. The coating determining device according to the present disclosure can determine a coating state of the coating head, wherein the coating head having a plurality of nozzles for ejecting paint, the plurality of nozzles being configured to eject the paint out of the nozzles so as to coat a workpiece with the ejected paint while moving in a direction, the coating determining device of the coating head being characterized by comprising: an image acquiring unit for acquiring an image of the coated workpiece; and a determination unit for determining, based on the image acquired by the image acquiring unit, whether coating the workpiece is implemented normally.
US12005468B2
An end effector, for adhesively attaching a first part to a second part, comprises a support, a first nozzle, movable relative to the support, and a second nozzle, movable relative to the support. The first nozzle comprises a first-nozzle-body outlet port and a first-nozzle separator plate. The second nozzle comprises a second-nozzle-body outlet port and a second-nozzle separator plate. The end effector additionally comprises a first ultrasonic-sensor roller that is rotatable relative to the support, translationally fixed relative to support, and located between the first nozzle and the second nozzle. The end effector also comprises a second ultrasonic-sensor roller that is rotatable relative to the support, translationally fixed relative to support, and located between the first ultrasonic-sensor roller and the second nozzle.
US12005463B2
A material applicator for controlling application of at least one material on a substrate includes a housing and an array plate with an applicator array positioned within the housing. The applicator array has a plurality of micro-applicators and each of the plurality of micro-applicators has an ultrasonic transducer, a material inlet, a reservoir, and a micro-applicator plate with a plurality of apertures. The applicator plate is in mechanical communication with the ultrasonic transducer such that at least one material is ejected through the plurality of apertures as atomized droplets when the ultrasonic transducer vibrates the micro-applicator plate.
US12005458B2
A gyratory crusher main shaft sleeve for friction fitting over an uppermost tapered end of a crusher main shaft includes an elongate axial wall extending from an upper end to a lower end and having external and internal facing surfaces aligned transverse so as to taper inwardly towards a central axis. The tapering is defined by a sleeve tapering angle formed between the internal facing surface and an imaginary axis parallel to the central axis. The internal surface of the sleeve has a section in the axial direction with an upper end and a lower end. The sleeve section, from the upper end to the lower end, has a section tapering angle formed between the internal surface and the imaginary axis. The section tapering angle is different from the sleeve angle defining the tapering of the sleeve from the sleeve upper end to the section upper end.
US12005443B2
Apparatus and methods are described including successively acquiring a plurality of microscopic images of a portion of a blood sample, and tracking motion of pixels within the successively acquired microscopic images. Trypomastigote parasite candidates within the blood sample are identified, by identifying pixel motion that is typical of trypomastigote parasites. It is determined that the blood sample is infected with trypomastigote parasites, at least partially in response thereto. An output is generated indicating that that the blood sample is infected with trypomastigote parasites. Other applications are also described.
US12005441B1
This disclosure describes single-use test cartridges, cell analyzer apparatus, and methods for automatically performing microscopic cell analysis tasks, such as counting and analyzing blood cells in biological samples. A small measured quantity of a biological sample, such as whole blood, is placed in a mixing bowl on the disposable test cartridge after being inserted into the cell analyzer. The analyzer also deposits a known amount of diluent/stain in the mixing bowl and mixes it with the blood. The analyzer takes a measured amount of the mixture and dispenses in a sample cup on the cartridge in fluid communication with an imaging chamber. The geometry of the imaging chamber is chosen to maintain the uniformity of the mixture, and to prevent cells from crowding or clumping as it is transferred into the imaging chamber by the analyzer. Images of all of the cellular components within the imaging chamber are counted and analyzed to obtain a complete blood count.
US12005438B2
An apparatus for collecting and combining a sample, and in particular, a biological sample, with a reagent, and uses thereof. The apparatus comprises a sample collection container and a complementary sealing cap. A sealed reagent reservoir containing a reagent, such as a preservative reagent, is provided in a lower portion of the collection container. A piercing insert is nested within the collection container, above the seal of the reagent reservoir. Following the collection of the sample into the collection container, the action of sealing the collection container with the cap causes the piercing insert to engage with and disrupt the seal on the reagent reservoir, thereby exposing the collected sample to the reagent.
US12005432B2
A configurable workstation includes a support frame defining a workspace for performing a scientific procedure, multiple modules that are configured to be selectively installed to the support frame for customizing a functional profile of the configurable workstation, and a server computing device hosting an application that provides a user interface for controlling operations of the configurable workstation.
US12005431B2
A reaction apparatus used for a continuous reaction process for the preparation of trifluoroethane includes a housing, a rotary cutting component, a submersible pump and a flow deflector. The flow deflector includes two sets of flow-deflecting plates, each set of said flow-deflecting plates including a plurality of flow-deflecting plates. Two sets of flow-deflecting plates are fixed to each of the two opposing side walls, and the two adjacent flow-deflecting plates are in offset alignment. The submersible pump is arranged inside the reaction chamber body. A liquid inlet line can connect a directly to the submersible pump without requiring the arrangement of an additional pipeline.
US12005427B2
A catalyst for methanation reaction and a method for preparing methane are provided. The catalyst for methanation reaction includes a core, a shell encapsulating the core, and an active metal. The core includes cerium dioxide (CeO2), the shell includes zirconium dioxide (ZrO2), and the active metal is in particle form and is disposed on an outer surface of the shell layer.
US12005416B2
The present invention relates to a process for ion irradiation of a particulate substrate containing the steps of embedding particulate substrate in a solid matrix having 10B atoms, and exposing the matrix obtained in the previous step to a neutron flux to give irradiated particulate substrate. The process is extremely effective and amenable to large scale and is particularly suitable for producing irradiated nanodiamonds and irradiated SiC particles.
US12005413B2
The current disclosure provides reinforced aerogel compositions that are durable and easy to handle, have favorable performance in aqueous environments, have favorable insulation properties, and have favorable, reaction to fire, combustion and flame-resistance properties. Also provided are methods of preparing or manufacturing such reinforced aerogel compositions. In certain embodiments, the composition has a silica-based aerogel framework, reinforced with an open-cell macroporous framework, and includes one or more fire-class additives, where the silica-based aerogel framework comprises at least one hydrophobic-bound silicon and the composition or each of its components has desired properties.
US12005411B2
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for mixing by asymmetric rotation using a servo motor to drive the symmetric rotation. The system may include a robotic arm and robotic controller.
US12005410B2
Agitation assemblies for a spreader having a rotatable feeding mechanism are provided that utilize the rotation of the feeding mechanism to oscillate an agitation member within the spreader. A crank is coupled to the feeding mechanism and a connecting linkage connects between the agitation member and the crank so that as a drive mechanism rotates the feeding mechanism to dispense spreading material towards a dispensing opening, the connecting linkage oscillates the agitation member. The agitation member can be a baffle or agitation plate. The oscillation of the agitation member can be pivoting or sliding oscillation.
US12005401B2
Provided are a hydrophilic porous membrane including a porous membrane and a hydroxyalkyl cellulose retained in the porous membrane, in which the average pore size differs between two surfaces of the porous membrane, the hydroxyalkyl cellulose distributed in the thickness direction of the hydrophilic porous membrane exhibits two or more peaks of detection intensity in GPC, and the weight-average molecular weight Mwmin of the peak that is detected latest among the above-mentioned peaks is less than 100,000; and a method for producing a hydrophilic porous membrane, the method including separately preparing a hydrophilizing liquid including a hydroxyalkyl cellulose having a smaller weight-average molecular weight and a hydrophilizing liquid including a hydroxyalkyl cellulose having a larger weight-average molecular weight, and applying each of the hydrophilizing liquids on two surfaces of the porous membrane or sequentially on one surface thereof.
US12005399B2
A desalination performance restoration agent for a cellulose acetate membrane contains: a solvent; and a modified polyvinyl alcohol mixed in the solvent. The modified polyvinyl alcohol has an acetyl group structure in at least part of polyvinyl alcohol.
US12005398B2
A method the filtering a liquid in a membrane filter immersed in the liquid and including membranes, the method including introducing a gas through a gas introduction device into a base of the membrane filter in successive pulses so that the membranes are cleaned wherein the gas introduction device includes a liquid flow channel which vertically penetrates a gas collection cavity and admits the liquid into a bottom of membrane filter; and initially filling a gas volume arranged below a free surface of the liquid and defined in a downward direction by an enclosed level of the liquid with the gas wherein the gas simultaneously displaces the liquid top down from a gas lifting channel until the enclosed level of the liquid drops below an inlet cross section of a gas flow out channel.
US12005395B2
Reverse osmosis (1) system having a first membrane unit (2) and at least a second membrane unit (3), the membrane units (2, 3) forming a chain of membrane units, the first membrane unit (2) having a first membrane (4) separating a first feed chamber (5) and a first permeate chamber (6), a first inlet (7) connected to the first feed chamber (5), a first permeate outlet (9) connected to the first permeate chamber (6), and a first concentrate outlet (8) connected to the first feed chamber (5), the second membrane unit (3) having a second membrane (10) separating a second feed chamber (11) and a second permeate chamber (12), a second inlet (13) connected to the second feed chamber (11), a second permeate outlet (15) connected to the second permeate chamber (12), and a second concentrate outlet (14) connected to the second feed chamber (11), wherein the concentrate outlet (8) of a membrane unit (2) in the chain of membrane units is connected to an inlet (13) of a following membrane unit (3) and a concentrate outlet (14) of at least one membrane unit (3) downstream the first membrane unit (2) in the chain of membrane units is connected to a hydraulic motor (18). In such a system the energy consumption should be optimized. To this end the hydraulic motor (18) is operatively connected to a first electric machine (21).
US12005389B1
A system to abate an emission stream from a semiconductor manufacturing process is disclosed. The system includes a media canister to abate the emission stream in response to an abatement fault in an abatement apparatus. The media canister includes a reaction chamber configured to receive the emission stream in response to the abatement fault, and a dry media disposed within the reaction chamber to abate the emission stream. The dry media includes at least one reactive and/or absorbent material which catalyzes at least one chemical reaction to remove at least one pollutant from the emission stream and yield exhaust substantially free of the at least one pollutant.
US12005386B2
A blood clot removal method for removing blood clots from the vascular system of a patient, the blood clot removal method carried out on an implantable device in the patient's body and comprising: allowing a blood flow through a passageway between a first side wall and a second side wall, filtering blood clots with a filter provided in the blood flow passageway, and cleaning the filter with a cleaning device, wherein the cleaning device is moved from the first side wall towards the second side wall to move blood clots away from the blood flow passageway.
US12005384B2
An air quality system includes an air precleaner, a filter identification component, and a control module. The air precleaner has a precleaner housing and a filter disposed inside the precleaner housing. The filter identification component is positioned within the precleaner housing at a first position and is mounted on the filter. The control module is positioned within the precleaner housing at a second position and is configured to emit an electrical field and communicate with the filter identification component via the emitted electrical field.
US12005371B2
Adjacent blocks are biased in directions of mutual contact using elastic cords, the adjacent blocks being changed so that surfaces having mutually different positional relationships are brought into contact with each other in resistance to the biasing force of the elastic cords, whereby the blocks can be transformed between a state of being folded so that the external shape becomes compact, and a state of being extended so as to take on the shape of an object to be expressed. Furthermore, at least two of the blocks among the plurality of blocks have a state in which two surfaces of each of the blocks simultaneously contact each other, the block-type transformable toy thereby being configured so that turning about the elastic cords is limited.
US12005350B2
An upscaling unit generates a first to-be-displayed image on the basis of first image data. An alternative image generation unit generates an alternative image by estimating, on the basis of the first image data, a second to-be-displayed image to be generated on the basis of second image data. A display control unit displays, after displaying the image generated on the basis of the first image data, any one of the image generated on the basis of the second image data and the alternative image, depending on whether or not reception of the second image data has succeeded. A transmission control unit controls whether or not to transmit, to a terminal, the second image data on the basis of a possibility of successful estimation of the second to-be-displayed image on the basis of the first image data by the alternative image generation unit.
US12005346B2
A disclosed system includes a computing device that generates a virtual reality simulation, a head mounted display worn by a user, and a peripheral device having a haptic actuator. The system is configured to generate an immersive simulation experience for a user of the system and to control and update the virtual reality simulation based on detected motion of the peripheral device and signals generated by the peripheral device in response to user input to the peripheral device. The peripheral device includes a trigger that causes the haptic actuator to generate haptic reaction forces/impulses in response to actuation of the trigger, with actuation of the trigger further influencing the virtual reality simulation. The peripheral device includes first and second grips and is configured to be held by one hand of a user holding the first grip or by two hands of the user holding the first and second grips.
US12005336B2
Disclosed is a method, a device, a system and/or a manufacture of training utilizing a target comprising strike sectors and/or a mat comprising position sectors indicated to the user. In one embodiment, a method for combat training, athletic training, and workout includes determining a position sector ID from a training file associated with a position sector visually identified on a mat including a position detector. A strike sector ID is determined associated with a strike sector on a strike target capable comprising a strike detector and capable of receiving a strike from a human extremity. A first indicator signal is generated to communicate the foot placement to the user and a second indicator signal communicates the strike sector. A strike signal is received from the strike and/or a position signal is received from the foot placement on the mat. The user's strike and/or positioning performance may be assessed.
US12005334B1
A dribble training system and method of use has a base unit having a plurality of cone indicator lights and a plurality of cone units each having a cone body and a button operably installed on the cone body, whereby the base unit is wirelessly paired with the plurality of cone units as by setting a base unit group address selection and a cone unit group address selection to be corresponding and further by setting a cone identifier unique to each cone unit, and further whereby selective illumination of a specific cone indicator light on the base unit followed by touching the button of the specific cone unit corresponding to the illuminated specific cone indicator light causes wireless transmission to the base unit of an activation signal corresponding to the touched button, resulting in cessation of the illumination of the specific cone indicator light.
US12005333B2
The present invention relates to a body suspension exercise device primarily comprised of at least one pad, at least one strap, at least one ring with at least one mounting bracket and at least one clip, and at least one rope. In the preferred embodiment, the device has a plurality of pads attached to one another in a radial fashion, wherein the ring encloses the pads. A user can insert their legs into the pads, wherein the pads can then be tightened by the strap. The ring further receives a rope that allows the device to be suspended from an object or structure. Therefore, a user can suspend their legs using the device and perform a plurality of core, abdominal, and upper body exercises.
US12005332B2
A golf training apparatus to be worn on the arm of a player, for improving the player's swing by supporting his one (target directed) arm and thereby avoiding the tendency for inadvertent bending thereof during his swing. An elongate support member is clamped in position on the arm, and an adjustable loop on the apparatus is tighten-able by the player's free hand, to hold the elbow against bending. The advantage is improved accuracy of the club head, and minimization of undesirable slices or hooks. One hand operation is facilitated, to install or remove the accessory.
US12005328B1
Embodiments of golf club heads, golf clubs, and methods to manufacture golf club heads and golf clubs are generally described herein. In one example, a golf club head includes a body portion with an interior cavity, a face portion coupled to the body portion and having at least one back groove, a first mass portion, a first port having a first port opening in the interior cavity and configured to receive the first mass portion, a second mass portion, a second port configured to receive the second mass portion, and a filler material in the body portion coupled to the face portion. A distance between the first mass portion and a toe portion edge of the body portion is less than a distance between the first mass portion and a heel portion edge of the body portion. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
US12005311B2
An exercise device includes an elongate guide having a longitudinal dimension between spaced apart ends. A pair of foot supports are slidably mounted on, and relative to the elongate guide. A body engaging member is adjacent a side edge of the elongate guide and is engageable by an individual using the device. A linkage system is connected to the pair of foot supports and to the body engaging member through rotatable connections, with the rotatable connections permitting interconnected movement of the body engaging member and foot supports in the same longitudinal direction along the longitudinal dimension of the elongate guide. Preferably, an adjustable rail also is provided by a pair of rotatably mounted arms.
US12005305B2
A pedaling exercise device includes a rotation mechanism configured to pivotally support a rotation shaft to allow rotation, a pair of cranks having first ends connected to both ends of the rotation shaft of the rotation mechanism, respectively, a pair of links having first ends rotatably connected to second ends of the cranks, respectively, and having second ends provided with wheels, respectively, a pair of pedal portions connected to the links along a longitudinal direction of the links, respectively, a rolling surface connected to a first end of the rotation mechanism on a user side, and a restriction portion configured to restrict separation of the wheels from the upper surface of the rolling surface in a case where the first end of the rotation mechanism is lifted such that the rotation mechanism is erected in a state where a second end of the rotation mechanism is grounded.
US12005297B2
A jump box for training athletes that eliminates a lot of the hazards of using a traditional jump box. The device has a base, a back frame and a platform the height of which can be adjusted in small increments. The platform is sized and shaped to extend further towards the athlete than any other portion of the jump box making it considerably safer than other devices on the market. In addition, the platform of the jump box is angled downward slightly to make it easier for the athlete to jump on the device. The weight and construction of the device makes it virtually impossible to knock over. In addition, because of the shape and orientation of the platform, athletes can use the box without injuring themselves if they miss a jump.
US12005294B2
A rope pull training device is disclosed, which includes a mainframe having a vertical post, two laterally opposite hauling ropes respectively configured on the mainframe, a resisting unit connected to the mainframe to provide a resisting force against the pulling force applied on the hauling ropes, and a guiding structure fitted on the vertical post, capable of sliding up and down along the vertical post. Each of the hauling ropes is respectively connected to the guiding structure, and each of the hauling ropes respectively goes through the guiding structure. One end of the hauling rope close to the guiding structure is connected with a handle. The hauling ropes are in a cyclic form. The hauling ropes can maintain a tightened state, and can be applied in different exercising modes.
US12005293B2
The present invention relates to a novel fitness weight device designed to allow users to customize dumbbell weights by filling the air chambers with air. The device comprises a dumbbell-styled weight with an inflatable air chamber. The devices can be inflated via a push button. Users can inflate the dumbbell devices to a desired weight for customized workouts. Once finished, the user can activate the air release valve to compact or retract the dumbbell for storage.
US12005283B2
A removable crossbar assembly and an exercise ladder arrangement including the removable crossbar assembly. The crossbar assembly is configured to be secured to an exercise ladder to provide an exercise crossbar disposed between two fixed exercise crossbars on the exercise ladder. The crossbar assembly may also include a brace for securing an independent exercise device to the crossbar assembly. The crossbar assembly advantageously provides the placement of a crossbar for exercising closer to the desired height of a participant, e.g., closer to the should height of a participant, to increase the efficacy of the exercise.
US12005281B2
Tools for fire monitoring are presented. One method includes an operation for accessing values of features for monitoring a fire in a region. The features include satellite images at a first resolution, vegetation information, and weather data. Further, each satellite image includes first cells associated with the geographical region and the first resolution defines a first size of each first cell. The method further includes generating a map of the geographical region comprising a plurality of second cells having a second size, which is smaller than the first size. Additionally, the method includes operations for estimating, using a machine-learning model, probability values for the second cells in the map based on the features, each probability value indicating if the second cell contains an active fire, and for updating the map based on the probability values for the second cells. The map is presented in a user interface.
US12005267B2
An illumination apparatus is disclosed, comprising: a first light source having a first spectral light distribution with a first light intensity peak about a first peak wavelength, and a second light source having a second spectral light distribution with a second light intensity peak about a second peak wavelength being different from the first peak wavelength, a third light source having a third spectral light distribution with a main light intensity peak about a third peak wavelength being different from the first peak wavelength and from the second peak wavelength, wherein the illumination apparatus is configured to provide adjustment of light intensity of the first light source and of light of the second light source, wherein the illumination apparatus provides an adjustment of light intensity of the third light source to compensate for the adjusting of the relative light intensity between the first light source and the second light source.
US12005265B2
The present invention provides methods and compositions for the remote control of cell function based on the use of a magnetic field to excite paramagnetic nanoparticles targeted to specific cell types. The cell type of interest expresses an ion channel wherein excitation of the paramagnetic nanoparticles results in a physical change that is transduced into a cellular response. Such cellular responses may include, for example, increases in gene expression resulting in production of one or more physiologically active proteins. The expression of such proteins can be used to treat a variety of different inherited or acquired diseases or disorders in a subject.
US12005259B2
A medical device is configured to generate an acceleration signal and a temperature signal. The device is configured to determine an activity metric from the acceleration signal that is representative of patient physical activity. In response to determining that the activity metric is equal to or greater than a previously determined activity metric, the device is configured to adjust a target cardiac pacing rate based at least on a temperature change determined from the temperature signal. The device may include a pulse generator for generating cardiac pacing pulses based on the target cardiac pacing rate.
US12005257B2
An implantable medical device (IMD) configured to provide stimulation therapy using an instruction set architecture (ISA) includes a main processor operating at a first frequency and a secondary processor operating at a second frequency lower than the first frequency. Example ISA may comprise assembly-language-like instructions that may be executed by the secondary processor for configuring one or more stimulation engines (SEs) to cause stimulation of select electrode sets of a lead system based on one or more pulse definitions and one or more timing definitions corresponding to a therapy program selection effectuated by a user at an external device.
US12005253B2
Disclosed herein are methods of increasing sensitivity of a cancer cell to alternating electric fields comprising exposing the cancer cell to an alternating electric field for a period of time, the alternating electric field having a frequency and field strength, and exposing the cancer cell to an IGFR1 inhibitor, JNK inhibitor, RPS6 inhibitor or ERK inhibitor. Disclosed are methods of increasing treatment efficacy comprising applying an alternating electric field to a target site of the subject for a period of time, the alternating electric field having a frequency and field strength, wherein the target site comprises one or more cancer cells, and administering a therapeutically effective amount of one or more of an IGF1R inhibitor, JNK inhibitor, RPS6 inhibitor, and/or ERK inhibitor to the subject. Disclosed are methods of treating a subject having cancer comprising applying an alternating electric field to a target site of the subject for a period of time, the alternating electric field having a frequency and field strength, wherein the target site comprises one or more cancer cells, and administering a therapeutically effective amount of one or more of an IGF1R inhibitor, JNK inhibitor, RPS6 inhibitor, and/or ERK inhibitor to the subject. Disclosed are methods of reducing viability of cancer cells using an alternating electric field for a period of time, the alternating electric field having a frequency and field strength in combination with either an IGF1R inhibitor, JNK inhibitor, RPS6 inhibitor, and/or ERK inhibitor. Disclosed are methods of increasing apoptosis of a cancer cell comprising exposing the cancer cell to an alternating electric field for a period of time, the alternating electric field having a frequency and field strength; and exposing the cancer cell to an IGFR1 inhibitor, JNK inhibitor, RPS6 inhibitor or ERK inhibitor.
US12005246B2
A system configured to be at least partially implanted along an aorta includes an inelastic, static member and a pinching member. The pinching member is configured to receive an activation signal at an activation rate and in response to the activation signal, repeatedly compress the aorta at the second location at the activation rate to pump fluid within the aorta in a desired pumping direction. The system is configured to selectively control wave reflections in order to achieve both improved wave dynamics to reduce cardiac load and increased (or at least non-diminished) blood flow to targeted organs within the cardiovascular system.
US12005216B2
Embodiments include medical devices comprising a handle assembly including a wire tensioner component and an adjustment knob, the adjustment knob configured to rotate about a longitudinal axis of the handle assembly; an elongate shaft coupled to the handle assembly, the elongate shaft defining a lumen and including a deflectable section; a first wire coupled to the adjustment knob and extending from the adjustment knob through the lumen to at least a distal end portion of the deflectable section; and a second wire coupled to the wire tensioner component and extending from the wire tensioner component to at least the distal end portion of the deflectable section, the second wire having a deflectable extraluminal section configured to deflect independently of the deflectable section.
US12005213B2
Systems and methods for decontaminating a surgical drain and its reservoir are provided. An apparatus is provided in the form of a container having an interior chamber and an expansible opening to the interior chamber for insertion of a surgical drain therethrough. Ultraviolet light emitters are disposed within the interior chamber to emit beams of ultraviolet radiation at the surgical drain and/or its reservoir, thereby killing or neutralizing bacteria and fungus on the drain. Walls forming the expansible opening are collapsible to abut a portion of the inserted drain when inserted into the apparatus, and a fluid tight seal is formed between the drain and the apparatus.
US12005199B2
A catheter assembly is disclosed that includes a catheter adapter having a port disposed on its sidewall. A valve is coupled to the port to seal the opening in the port.
US12005189B2
A mask system to deliver a flow of air at a positive pressure with respect to ambient air pressure to an entrance to the patient's airways includes a frame and a cushion forming a plenum chamber. The mask system includes a mask vent including an exterior recess positioned outside the plenum chamber and including a bottom surface, a plurality of vent holes each including a vent inlet and a vent outlet, and a plurality of ribs extending from the bottom surface. The plurality of ribs includes at least a first rib and a second rib, the first rib having a free end spaced apart from a free end of the second rib, and the first rib or the second rib is positioned between the first vent outlet and the second vent outlet.
US12005187B2
A respiratory treatment apparatus provides respiratory treatment with improved power management control to permit more efficient power consumption and power supply units, such as battery powered operation. In one embodiment, power management prioritizes the flow generator (104) over other accessories such as the heating elements (111, 135) of a humidifier (112) and/or a delivery tube. The flow generator may control operations of the heating elements as a function of a detected respiratory cycle. For example, the timing of operation of the heating elements may be interleaved with the portion of an inspiratory phase of the respiratory cycle to permit the flow generator to operate during a peak power operation without a power drain or with a lower power drain from these components. Operations of distinct sets of components of the system (e.g., different heating elements) may also be interleaved to prevent simultaneous peak power operations.
US12005186B2
The present disclosure provides for a flow therapy apparatus that can implement one or more closed loop control systems to control the flow of gases of a flow therapy apparatus. The flow therapy apparatus can monitor blood oxygen saturation (SpO2) of a patient and control the fraction of oxygen delivered to the patient (FdO2). The flow therapy apparatus can automatically adjust the FdO2 in order to achieve a targeted SpO2 value for the patient.
US12005177B2
The present invention discloses a self-sealing cannula and methods of its use. The self-sealing cannula can be minimally invasively placed into the heart for drawing and/or returning blood with a self-sealing function at the interface of the blood access site. The disclosed cannula can be implemented as a single lumen cannula or a double lumen cannula, which can be used with ventricular assist devices for heart support or pump-oxygenators for ECMO and respiratory support. Through a self-sealing mechanism fixed on the ventricular wall or atrial wall, a cannula body is attached to the self-sealing fixture and blood is drawn into the lumen via an external pump and returned to the circulation system through a separate cannula. In the case of the double lumen cannula embodiment, the blood will be drawn into the drainage lumen of the double lumen cannula and returned through an infusion lumen at the desired location. The present invention achieves minimally invasive insertion without surgical sutures to the heart, and allows for optimal drainage of the blood from the heart. With use of the double lumen cannula, it prevents need for multiple cannulation sites, and greatly reduces the blood recirculation. Removal of the cannula is simplified without need for suturing or insertion of a plugging member.
US12005174B2
A method including automatically performing at least one integrity test on a dialysis machine after powering on the dialysis machine, wherein the at least one integrity test is selected from the group consisting of a battery test, a dialysate conductivity test, and a dialysate temperature test. The method also includes presenting, on a display of the dialysis machine, a first set of instructions for priming the dialysis machine after completing the at least one integrity test.
US12005166B2
A breast pump device and associated methods for extracting breast milk are disclosed. A pump head comprises an external shell with an elastic membrane disposed and bonded therein to define at least one hermetically sealed chamber. Manipulation of the elastic membrane, for example, by adjusting suction or pressure in the sealed chamber or within an interior volume defined by the elastic membrane permits radial mechanical compression (positive pressure) to be applied to a nipple positioned in the pump head to simulate compression of the nipple by the infant's tongue and simultaneously permits axial hydraulic or pneumatic suction (negative pressure) to be applied to the nipple to simulate the infant's minimum intra-oral vacuum. The breast pump device of the present invention can generate these simultaneous compressions and suctions with a single vacuum source, which may be an electric pump or a hand-operated mechanical pump.
US12005149B2
A sterilizer is provided to include: a first pipe having an inner wall with a light reflecting property; a second pipe disposed in the first pipe so as to pass fluid therethrough and formed of a light transmitting material; and a plurality of UV LEDs arranged on the inner wall of the first pipe and configured to irradiate sterilization UV light onto the fluid.
US12005134B2
A composition for stimulating facial hair growth includes a vasodilator including a medication that stimulates cell proliferation of a plurality of facial follicles of an individual, an additive, and a delivery carrier designed to be applied to the individual, wherein the delivery carrier is further configured to enhance stability of the vasodilator and the additive.
US12005133B2
An aqueous cosmetic includes water, a polyhydric alcohol and carminic acid. A content of the carminic acid is greater than or equal to 0.2 mass % and less than 2 mass % based on a total amount of the aqueous cosmetic.
US12005131B2
A method for masking the appearance of a support structure underlying a highly translucent ceramic dental restoration is provided. The porous form of a zirconia ceramic dental restoration is treated with a liquid masking composition comprising 0.4 wt % to 50 wt % of one or more masking agents. The masking composition is applied to the internal surface of a restoration and a region of the facial surface of the restoration that is opposite the internal surface. After application of the masking compositions, treated zirconia restoration is sintered to greater than 98% theoretical density.
US12005125B2
Nanoparticles for use in photodynamic therapies and methods of making, evaluating and using the same
A nanocomposition for use in treating cardiac, oncologic, bariatric, or dermatologic indications, conditions and diseases condition using phthalocyanine dye, such as IR700. A nanocomposition having IR700, an 8PEG nanoparticle and a RGD, or iRGD targeting agent. Administering a product comprising IR700 to a patient, whereby the IR700 is delivered to the target tissue, and found in only target tissue; and administering light to activate the IR700, thereby producing an ROS.
US12005124B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to complexes comprising a muscle-targeting agent covalently linked to a molecular payload. In some embodiments, the muscle-targeting agent specifically binds to an internalizing cell surface receptor on muscle cells. In some embodiments, the molecular payload promotes the expression or activity of a functional dystrophin protein. In some embodiments, the molecular payload is an oligonucleotide, such as an antisense oligonucleotide, e.g., an oligonucleotide that causes exon skipping in a mRNA expressed from a mutant DMD allele.
US12005115B2
Vaccines are provided that elicit neutralizing antibodies to Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Some vaccines comprise nanoparticles that display envelope proteins from EBV on their surface. The nanoparticles comprise fusion proteins comprising a monomeric subunit of a self-assembly protein, such as ferritin, joined to at least a portion of an EBV envelope protein. The fusion proteins self-assemble to form the envelope protein-displaying nanoparticles. Such vaccines can be used to vaccinate an individual against infection by different types of Epstein-Barr viruses as well as Epstein-Barr viruses that are antigenically divergent from the virus from which the EBV envelope protein was obtained. Also provided are fusion proteins and nucleic acid molecules encoding such proteins.
US12005105B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US12005100B2
This invention relates to the therapeutic and prophylactic use of a combination including lactoperoxidase and at least one other component, with an isoelectric point of, or substantially above 6.8, and which are extracted from milk, to modulate the microbiome of an animal by selectively against at least one pathogenic microoganism.
US12005099B2
Targeted antimicrobials are described and related, compositions, methods and systems.
US12005096B2
Compositions containing apoaequorin and vitamin D and methods for their use in treating symptoms and disorders related to calcium imbalances and vitamin D deficiency associated with, for example, sleep quality, energy quality, mood quality, memory quality or pain are provided by the present invention.
US12005089B2
Methods and materials for treating bacterial vaginosis (“BV”) are provided. Cervicovaginal secretions (“CVS”) from a woman with vaginal microbiota dominated (>50%) by one of the species of lactobacillus typically found in the human vagina, e.g. Lactobacillus crispatus, L. iners, L. gasseri, L jensenii, is transplanted to women with BV as a method for restoring beneficial vaginal microbial communities and/or increasing resistance to sexually transmitted disease. Efficacy can be enhanced, or the properties of the endogenous CVS improved, through administration of an acidifying agent such as lactic acid. The examples demonstrate the role of healthy CVS in disease resistance, and the effect of pH on CVS properties. The examples also describe the collection and transplantation of healthy beneficial CVS into women at risk for, or after treatment for, BV.
US12005088B2
This invention is referred to the field of medicine, namely preventative treatment, and may be used as a means of synergetic minimization of negative impact of flights on human health (brain, stomach, lungs, blood vessels, heart etc.) with application of known substances and medicines with newly discovered pharmacological properties in new conditions. The ultimate technical solution of this invention would be synergetic minimization of negative impact of flying on human health without foot swelling, belching, jet-lag, tiredness and fatigue etc. The claimed technical result is achieved by the method of synergetic minimization of negative impact of air flights on human health, including consumption of substances that improve osmotic concentration of blood plasma, in the form of oral rehydration solution, split into two intakes as a minimum, first intake in the amount of at least 0.3 liters up to 1 liter before boarding and further during the flight from half an hour to 2 hours at least 0.3 liters to 1 liter and on as-needed basis.
US12005087B2
The present invention relates to methods of improving body composition and reducing body fat percentage in an individual. The present invention relates to methods comprising administering to an individual a Bacillus subtilis composition wherein the individual's body fat percentage is reduced.
US12005083B1
A nutritional composition that includes a milk fat globule membrane component, at least one human milk oligosaccharide, and at least one additional component chosen from the group consisting of DHA, ARA, Vitamin E, Vitamin C, and sphingomyelin. The nutritional composition is in the form of a ready-to-drink composition, a food supplement, an extruded food bar, or a solid oral dosage form. The nutritional composition is typically administered or provided to adults, children, or infants through consumption.
US12005082B2
Provided herein are a recombinant chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) fusion protein, a method of modifying an immune cell into a CAR immune cell by treating the immune cell with the recombinant CAR fusion protein, and a method of treating cancer by administering the CAR immune cell to a subject in need thereof.
US12005081B2
Provided herein are acute myeloid leukemia antigen targets for chimeric receptors and methods of using same.
US12005075B2
Combination of dry extract of Rhodiola, dry extract of Trubulus terrestris, dry extract of Undaria pinnatifida, Moringa oleifera, folic acid and vitamin B12 in the form of food supplement for mitigating woman's disorders caused by ageing.
US12005071B2
Provided herein are pharmaceutically acceptable compositions containing macrolide antibiotics, in particular azithromycin. In particular, compositions containing azithromycin with low toxicity, especially for administration to felines, are provided herein.
US12005070B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a protective agent for the keratoconjunctiva or a suppressive agent for a keratoconjunctival disorder having an excellent suppressive effect on a keratoconjunctival disorder. The invention relates to a protective agent for the keratoconjunctiva or a suppressive agent for a keratoconjunctival disorder containing glucosylglycerol as an active ingredient, use of glucosylglycerol for the manufacture of a pharmaceutical for protecting a keratoconjunctiva or suppressing a keratoconjunctival disorder and a method of protecting a keratoconjunctiva or suppressing a keratoconjunctival disorder comprising administering glucosylglycerol.
US12005069B2
The present disclosure relates to ready-to-use liquid aqueous bortezomib compositions bortezomib and pharmaceutical excipients. Other aspects include methods of preparing such ready-to-use liquid aqueous bortezomib compositions, and methods of using such ready-to-use liquid bortezomib compositions in therapeutic applications.
US12005067B2
The present disclosure relates to topical treatment of skin diseases, such as psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, alopecia, vitiligo, Reiter's syndrome, pityriasis rubra pilaris, epidermolysis bullosa simplex, palmoplantar keratoderma, pachyonychia congenita, steatocystoma multiplex, cutaneous lichen planus, cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, hidradenitis suppurativa, contact dermatitis, ichthyosis, and a disorder of keratinization, using (a) a JAK inhibitor, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and (b) vitamin D3, a vitamin D3 analog, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US12005057B2
The present invention provides methods of administering a PARP inhibitor to a cancer patient.
US12005050B2
The present disclosure provides methods, drug combinations and kits for treating, ameliorating, reversing and/or preventing a Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection in a patient in need thereof.
US12005048B2
Methods and devices are disclosed for processing stromal precursor cells (i.e., cells which can differentiate into connective tissue cells, such as in muscles, ligaments, or tendons) which can be obtained from fatty tissue extracts obtained via liposuction. Normal processing of a liposuction extract involves centrifugation, to concentrate the stromal cells into a semi-concentrated form called “spun fat”. That “spun fat” can then be treated by mechanical processing (such as pressure-driven extrusion through 0.5 mm holes) under conditions which can gently pry the stromal cells away from extra-cellular collagen fibers and other debris in the “spun fat”. The extruded mixture is then centrifuged again, to separate a highly-enriched population of stromal cells which is suited for injection back into the patient (along with platelet cells, if desired, to further promote tissue repair or regeneration).
US12005041B2
The present invention relates to a solid pharmaceutical formulation comprising misoprostol or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. In particular, the invention relates to a dispersible tablet comprising misoprostol or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, providing alternative routes of administration. The tablet is particularly suited for cervical ripening, induction of labor, prevention and/or treatment of postpartum or post-abortion hemorrhage.
US12005035B1
Described herein is a composition that includes an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antagonist and a TAS2R receptor response mediating agent for treating neuropathic pain and depression. Methods for treating chronic pain with the described composition are also described.
US12005030B2
A pump set for use with a pumping apparatus to deliver nutrition to an infant includes a first container to receive breast milk; a second container to receive fortifier; tubing extending from the first container and from the second container; and a valve mechanism connected to the first and second containers by the tubing and configured to selectively pass liquid from the first container and the second container.
US12005028B2
A disposable port device for connecting a functional unit to a flexible wall of a disposable container includes a flange to be connected to the flexible wall of the disposable container and an insert providing or receiving the functional unit. The flange and the insert are separate parts made from different materials with different material characteristics. A method of manufacturing such a disposable port device includes the steps of producing the flange from a first material, producing the insert from a different second material, the first and second materials having different material characteristics, and connecting the insert to the flange.
US12005023B2
A gait motion assisting apparatus of the present invention can be connected to a knee-ankle-foot orthosis at three different positions in a vertical direction by upper, intermediate and lower connecting mechanisms. The intermediate connecting mechanism includes a ball stud arranged at the knee-ankle-foot orthosis extending outward in the user width direction on a brace-side pivot axis line X and an accommodation depression opened toward the knee-ankle-foot orthosis on the actuator-side pivot axis line Y so that the ball stud can be inserted thereinto. The accommodation depression is arranged at an innermost power-transmitting member among a driving arm and components of a transmission mechanism operatively transmitting rotational power from an electric motor to the driving arm.
US12005020B2
The present invention relates to an automated massage apparatus (10) having a substantially horizontal bed (20) which provides a massage surface (12). A massage element or roller (14) can move relative to the massage surface to provide an automated massage to the whole or selected parts of the body of a user lying upon the bed.
US12005018B2
The present invention is an apparatus and method for use in a treatment for prevention of arthrofibrosis that includes a first and a second substantially L-shaped frames, each L-shaped frame having a first member and a second member extending from the first member in a substantially perpendicular direction and terminating in a first end, a fixed plate extending between the first members of the L-shaped frames, the fixed plate being parallel with the first members of the L-shaped frames, a movable plate pivotally coupled to the first ends of the first members of the L-shaped frames with, a pneumatic piston coupled to the movable plate and the fixed plate, a hand operated valve operatively coupled to the pneumatic piston and a goniometer coupled to the movable plate and one of the L-shaped frames, the goniometer adapted and configured to indicate the angle between the movable plate and the fixed plate.
US12005017B2
A thermo-therapeutic apparatus is provided. The thermo-therapeutic apparatus according to one embodiment includes a first supporting plate having a plurality of through holes formed therein and formed of skin foam; a front cover disposed on the first supporting plate so that one side of the first supporting plate is exposed, and to which the first supporting plate is coupled; a plurality of ceramics each insertion-fixed to the plurality of through holes, and each configured to protrude to the outside of the first supporting plate to a predetermined height; a heater disposed on one sides of the plurality of ceramics and configured to heat the plurality of ceramics; a second supporting plate disposed on one side of the heater and including a vibrator; and a rear cover disposed on one side of the second supporting plate and coupled to the front cover.
US12005015B2
Patient transport apparatus with defined transport height comprises a support structure and a litter that are interconnected by a lift mechanism. The support structure comprises a base frame and a plurality of articulable support members or legs. The litter comprises a litter frame and a patient support surface with articulating back and leg sections. The lift mechanism may comprise one or more actuators configured to raise and lower the litter between a lowered position and one or more defined raised positions. The Patient transport apparatus may further comprise a controller coupled to one or more sensors and the lift mechanism. The controller may be configured to define a transport height for the litter based, at least in part, on a characteristic detected by the one or more sensors, and to manipulate the lift mechanism to adjust the litter to the defined transport height.
US12005013B2
A patient support apparatus includes a support frame and a patient support deck operatively attached to the support frame. The patient support deck includes an adjacent pair of deck sections. An actuator is coupled to a first one of the adjacent deck sections, and the actuator, in combination with a deck articulating assembly, moves the first one of the adjacent deck sections relative to the support frame and second one of the adjacent pair of deck sections between an initial configuration and a raised configuration. In the raised configuration, the inner adjacent end of the first deck section is spaced further from the corresponding inner adjacent end of the second deck section, and the outer end opposite the inner adjacent end of the first one of the adjacent deck sections is spaced further away from the support frame, than in the initial configuration.
US12005010B2
A personal lift mechanism and method are disclosed. The personal lift mechanism comprises: a lift having a base structure which pivotally retains a pair of struts which are pivotally coupled with a lift platform; an actuator coupled with at least one of the pair of struts; and a damper coupled with the actuator and operable to dissipate kinetic energy transferred between the lift platform and the actuator. In this way, less mechanically-robust components are required for the lift mechanism, damage to those components and the actuator is less likely, and any load on the lift platform and/or base structure will experience reduced shock due to the energy being instead dissipated within the damper.
US12005008B2
A rough terrain cart for a wheel chair includes a frame operable to support a wheel chair and a wheel chair user. A pair of cart drive wheels are rotationally mounted to the frame. A locking mechanism is engaged with the frame. The locking mechanism is operable to secure the wheel chair to the cart. A rotational mechanism is engaged with the frame. The rotational mechanism is configured to support a pair of wheel chair drive wheels of the wheel chair and is operable to enable the wheel chair drive wheels to rotate when the wheel chair is secured to the cart by the locking mechanism. A transmission system is engaged with the frame. The transmission system is connectable to the wheel chair drive wheels. The transmission system is operable to transmit torque from the wheel chair drive wheels to the cart drive wheels.
US12005006B2
A barrier configured to be located at a door a vehicle having a lift platform to enable an individual using a mobility device to exit and to enter an interior of the vehicle. The barrier includes a support base configured to be fixedly coupled to the vehicle. A first side and a second side each extend from the support base are spaced apart to define an access location for the individual using the mobility device. A barrier gate or a barrier plate include an entry position and a blocking position wherein, in at least one embodiment, movement of the lift platform moves the barrier plate from the entry position to the blocking position.
US12005001B2
In laser-assisted corneal lenticule extraction procedures, the lenticule incision profile includes anterior and posterior lenticule incisions, with one or more of the following features: plano transition zone outside the optical zone, to improve mating of anterior and posterior incision surfaces after lenticule extraction; shallow arcuate incisions above the anterior incision and near the lenticule edge, to improve surface mating; separate ring cut intersecting the anterior and posterior incisions in the transition zone, to reduce tissue bridges and minimize tear at the lenticule edges and facilitate easy lenticule extraction; larger posterior incision, which includes a pocket zone outside the lenticule edge, for better surface mating and bubble management during cutting; and a separate ring shaped pocket cut intersecting the pocket zone of the posterior incision, for bubble management. An entry cut can intersect either the pocket zone of the posterior incision or an entry extension zone of the anterior incision.
US12004998B2
A surgical device and procedure are provided for smoothly and easily accessing tissue to perform microsurgery, including a capsulotomy of a lens capsule of an eye. The device includes a handpiece with a tip for insertion into an incision in the cornea of the eye. A sliding element is disposed within the handpiece and a suction cup is mounted to the sliding element. The sliding element can be translated to move the suction cup into and out of the handpiece. A compression mechanism associated with the suction cup and the handpiece compresses the suction cup for deployment through the tip of the handpiece. The suction cup can expand inside the anterior chamber into a cutting position on the lens capsule. A cutting element mounted to the suction cup is used to cut a portion of the lens capsule and to remove the portion from the eye. The cutting element may be mounted to a cutting element support structure in a way that prevents heating of the device.
US12004993B1
A heat/thermal treatment is topically applied to skin lesions, skin cancers, including melanoma, squamous cell and basal cell cancer, and metastatic cancer to the skin, other cancers, abnormal pre-cancer dysplasia cells, bacterial, fungal, viral, parasitic and other pathogens on or below the skin or skull. Insect borne diseases such as cutaneous leishmaniasis includes the topical administration of temperature controlled hot air to the skin or skull, or below the skin or skull, or directly to an internal lesion of an infected patient, with a concentrated heat source to an open outlet to raise the skin lesion temperature to a temperature capable of destroying pathogens causing cutaneous leishmaniasis and/or other viral, bacterial, fungal, parasitic or other diseases on or below the skin or skull of a patient. The invention may be administered within the body of the patient if the interior of the body is exposed during surgery.
US12004990B2
An ostomy base plate includes an adhesive layer, an electrode assembly, and a monitor interface. The adhesive layer is located on a proximal side of the ostomy base plate. The electrode assembly is disposed on a distal side of the adhesive layer and includes a plurality of electrodes having connection parts and sensing parts. The monitor interface is connected to the ostomy base plate, with the monitor interface including a coupling part adapted to mechanically connect a data monitor to the ostomy base plate and electrically connect the data monitor to the plurality of electrodes of the electrode assembly. A lock is provided on the monitor interface to hold the data monitor in mechanical connection to the monitor interface to ensure electrical connection between the data monitor and the plurality of electrodes of the electrode assembly.
US12004980B2
Embodiments are directed in part to endovascular prostheses and methods of deploying same. Embodiments may be directed more specifically to stent grafts and methods of positioning and deploying such devices within the body of a patient.
US12004979B2
The present invention relates to a stent that uses a shape memory alloy wire, the stent being an expansion device installed on a part of a body lumen, which is constricted, or which has been constricted, so as to widen the passage of the lumen in response to the lesion part. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for manufacturing a stent using a shape memory alloy wire such that the stent maintains a high degree of conformability in a bent portion of a body lumen in which the same is inserted while substantially improving rigidness and durability against continuously applied fatigue, a stent manufactured thereby, and a jig for manufacturing the same.
US12004967B2
Systems and methods are provided for planning placement of an acetabular implant for a patient based on pelvic tilt. The system includes one or more sensors to be placed on the patient to provide measurements of a pelvic tilt angle of the patient taken with the patient in various functional positions to produce patient-specific data based on pelvic tilt from which to plan an inclination angle and a version angle of the acetabular implant for the patient.
US12004965B2
A device and methods for intervertebral spinal fusion of adjacent intervertebral bodies. An intervertebral spacer is positioned within a narrow disc space between adjacent intervertebral bodies of a patient. The spacer is arranged with upper and lower guides. The guides are adapted to simultaneously guide the deployment of upper and lower anchors of an anchoring device into their respective intervertebral bodies. The spacer is also adapted to lock the upper and lower anchors to the spacer in the deployed position.
US12004962B2
Provided is a structurally stable interbody cage. An interbody cage 1 includes a main body 2 distally including two branches 20,21 that are spaced apart from each other upward and downward, a rod 3 provided in the main body 2 so as to extend between the two branches 20,21, and a slider 4 configured to separate the two branches 20,21 upward and downward, the slider 4 being supported by the rod 3 so as to be movable in an axis direction of the rod, wherein the two branches 20,21 each distally have an inclined surface 26A, the inclined surfaces 26A facing each other, the distance between the inclined surfaces 26A gradually increasing toward distal ends thereof; the slider 4 slides on the inclined surfaces 26A of the two branches 20,21 when the slider 4 moves in the axis direction of the rod 3, and the two branches 20,21 each proximally have a constricted part 27 with a narrow thickness and an opening 5 is present between the upper constricted part 27 and the lower constricted part 27, the opening 5 being formed by a plurality of holes 50 to 52 continuous in the axis direction of the rod 3 and having an upper edge and lower edge that form protruding curves in a lateral view.
US12004958B2
A prosthetic device can include a neck defining an upper surface and a sidewall extending from the upper surface, an opening defined by the sidewall and extending into the neck, one or more interior surfaces extending into the neck from the opening to define a female receiving cavity, and a radial head including a male protrusion received within the female receiving cavity through the opening.
US12004956B1
An acetabular reconstruction prosthesis with a piling-cup system is provided, which includes an iliac posterior pile screw, an iliac anterior pile screw, a pubic pile screw, an ischial pile screw, abutments, a 3D (three-dimensional) printed porous titanium mesh cup, locking screws, nuts, and tail cap screws. Four pile screws are the iliac posterior pile screw facing posterior of the ilium, the iliac anterior pile screw facing iliac tubercle, the ischial pile screw running along ischium ramus, and the pubic pile screw running along pubic ramus. A stable prothesis support system is formed in the acetabular reconstruction prosthesis with a piling-cup system, which conforms to the biomechanical characteristics of physiological pelvis, reduces the risk of prosthesis loosening and dislocation, and improves long-term stability of the prosthesis through biological fixation.
US12004955B2
The present invention provides a method for treating a polymer workpiece for use in a joint implant. It comprises the steps of placing the polymer workpiece in an explosion chamber, introducing a combustible gas mixture into the explosion chamber and igniting the combustible gas mixture. Igniting the gas mixture in the explosion chamber produces a temperature that lies above the melting point of a polymer of the polymer workpiece.
US12004947B1
Methods and assemblies for attaching leaflets to a frame of a prosthetic heart valve using a connecting skirt are disclosed. As one example, a prosthetic heart valve can include an annular frame comprising a plurality of struts and a valvular structure mounted within the frame and comprising a plurality of leaflets. A cusp edge portion of each leaflet can be connected to the frame by a connecting skirt, where each connecting skirt comprises a central portion and opposing side base portions on opposite sides of the central portion that are connected to each of and disposed between the frame and the cusp edge portion of the leaflet and each connecting skirt can further comprise side extension portions that extend outward from the cusp edge portion of the leaflet and across struts of the frame that are disposed between cusp edge portions of two adjacent leaflets.
US12004942B2
The present invention relates to a mesh or membrane covering (2) based on biological material, for example collagen, or biosynthetic material for prostheses (1), in particular for a breast prosthesis (1), said prosthesis (1) having a rear surface that, when applied, is faced towards the person on whom (1) is applied, said covering (2) being characterized in that it provides a fixing system (4; 3) for fixing to said prosthesis (1), said fixing system providing a plurality of teeth or petals (4) or outer perimeter edge foldable on said rear surface of the prosthesis (1) by means (5). The invention further relates to a method for fixing said covering to a prosthesis, a prosthesis comprising said covering and a process for making said covering.
US12004940B2
A system for treating aortic dissection includes a sinotubular junction magnetic array having a first plurality of magnetic elements, a counter-magnetic array having a second plurality of magnetic elements, and an ascending aortic stent graft comprising a third plurality of magnetic elements. A method for treating aortic dissection includes the steps of positioning a sinotubular junction magnetic array at the sinotubular junction, advancing counter magnetic constructs from the femoral vein and positioning them in the right atrium, expanding the sinotubular junction ring at a target position, advancing the counter magnetic array to form an at least partial circumferential seal, and advancing and positioning an ascending magnetic graft within an interior of the sinotubular junction magnetic array. A system for treating aortic dissection, a fixation device for anchoring an ascending aortic stent graft, and a transcatheter device for treating aortic dissection are also described.
US12004938B2
Described herein are devices, systems, and methods for modifying blood flow and improving tissue oxygenation in an individual. More specifically, described herein are flow modifying implants, delivery systems, and methods of treatment using flow modifying implants. Also described herein are methods for preventing reperfusion injury in an individual using a flow modifying implant to prevent the reperfusion injury.
US12004924B2
Earmuffs include a bowl-shaped housing base having a first engagement portion, an annular plate-shaped base plate having a second engagement portion on one side and a third engagement portion on the other side, and is integrated with the housing base by causing the second engagement portion to be engaged with the first engagement portion, and a pad portion that includes a pad fixed on one side and a pad base having a fourth engagement portion on the other side, and is integrated with the base plate by causing the fourth engagement portion to be engaged with the third engagement portion. The base plate has a groove portion adjacent to the third engagement portion and the pad base has a rib that enters the groove portion. The rib enters the groove portion and restricts an inclination of the third engagement portion involved with an engagement with the fourth engagement portion.
US12004919B2
Dental attachment placement templates and dental appliance systems. The dental attachment placement templates may include a body configured to position a dental attachment over an attachment site on a surface of a tooth. The body may include an aperture, supports that extend from the body within the aperture, a connection member that connects the dental attachment to the supports, and a contoured surface shaped to register with one or more teeth. The connection member may be integrally formed with the dental attachment to provide a unitary structure. The connection member may be joined to the dental attachment at a breakable single point of connection and being further joined to the supports such that when the single point of connection is broken, the dental attachment is detached from the supports.
US12004918B2
A dental matrix system enabling back-to-back tooth cavity fillings to be less tedious and more efficient. A wedge attached to a matrix band that is designed to be inserted between two teeth and then expanded into position on opposing sides of a tooth so a ring can be placed. The device is inserted perpendicular to the biting/occlusal surface of the tooth or teeth identified for repair. The folded/bonded band is dropped down between the teeth. The matrix consisting of the matrix band and the end tail section of the wedge is pushed between the teeth. The bond between the two halves of matrix band is broken. The matrix band is folded into an open position. A ring is then placed over the device with the tips of the ring aligned inside the open geometry of the folded matrix band or outside of the matrix band after being folded in.
US12004912B2
A medical device system includes: an auxiliary rail including a frame and a flange extending from the frame; and a surgical arm mounting device including a coupler and a surgical arm interface. The frame is configured to be mounted on a side rail of an operating table. The coupler includes a clamp for the flange of the auxiliary table rail. The clamp of the coupler has a first mechanical state in which the mounting device is fixed to the auxiliary rail and a second mechanical state in which the mounting device is translatable along the auxiliary rail. The surgical arm interface receives a mating mounting device interface of a surgical arm.
US12004901B2
The invention relates to a method of identifying, from a number of ultrasound images (34) acquired during an ultrasound examination of a subject (6), the ultrasound image best suited to analyze a pre-determined anatomical structure of the subject. The method comprises the steps of (a) Providing a number of ultrasound images (34) acquired during an ultrasound examination of the subject; (b) Deriving at least one biometric parameter (96) related to the anatomical structure from a physical examination of the subject, (c) Retrieving a reference image (38) showing a target view of the anatomical structure (35); (d) For each of the number of ultrasound images (34), calculating an image similarity index between the ultrasound image and the reference image, (e) For at least the ultrasound image(s) having the best image similarity index, determining (100) a biometric parameter from the ultrasound image, and calculating a biometric similarity index, i.e. a measure of the agreement between the biometric parameter, as determined from the ultrasound image, and the corresponding biometric parameter as derived from the physical examination; and (f) selecting the optimal ultrasound image based on the biometric similarity index, and optionally on the image similarity index.
US12004900B2
Methods and systems are provided for evaluating a subject for a liver disease using ultrasound images. In one example, a method includes, in response to a request to evaluate the liver disease, determining, with a measurement model, that a selected medical image frame of the subject includes a target anatomical view and has an image quality above a threshold image quality, and in response, measuring, with the measurement model, a marker for the liver disease in the selected medical image, and outputting, for display on a display device, the measurement of the marker.
US12004885B2
An x-ray tomography system which can generate a qualitative 3D image of a region of interest using a an x-ray source, the x-ray source configured to emit x-ray radiation at the region of interest. The x-ray radiation or the x-ray source or the relative position of the x ray source configured to be moved in a two dimensional plane. An x-ray detector including a plurality of detector elements arranged in a two dimensional plane opposite the x-ray source, the x-ray detector configured to detect x-ray radiation after attenuation by the subject and provide an indication of the detected x-rays. And a processor configured to receive the indication of the detected x-rays and resolve the detected x-ray radiation into a three dimensional image. The three dimensional image is qualitative in nature.
US12004880B2
A risk management device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire biological information relating to a biological parameter of an evaluation subject and behavior information relating to a behavior parameter of the evaluation subject, a risk calculation unit configured to calculate an event occurrence rate, based on the biological information being acquired and the behavior information being acquired, a selection unit configured to select a biological parameter and a behavior parameter that serve as an improvable factor from the biological information and the behavior information, a contribution calculation unit configured to calculate a contribution to the event occurrence rate for each of the biological parameter and the behavior parameter selected as the improvable factor, and a generation unit configured to generate output data indicating a calculation result in the contribution calculation unit.
US12004873B2
The present technology relates to an information processing device and a method of ventilating an information processing device, which are able to prevent getting sweaty and damp when the information processing device is worn. The information processing device is to be worn by a user and includes a main body portion having a contact surface that is brought into contact with a skin of the user, and a groove that crosses the contact surface. The present technology is able to be applied to a wearable device of a type such as a wrist-band type, an earphone type, a neckband type, an eyeglasses type, a watch type, a bracelet type, a neckless type, a headset type, or a head-mount type.
US12004872B2
A biological information monitoring system includes: a biological information monitoring apparatus that monitors biological information of an organism wearing the biological information monitoring apparatus on an ear; and a charger that charges the biological information monitoring apparatus in a non-contact manner. The charger charges the biological information monitoring apparatus when the biological information monitoring apparatus is not monitoring biological information.
US12004868B2
Compositions and methods are provided for preventing one or more cardiac channelopathies or conditions resulting from irregularities or alterations in cardiac patterns, or both, in a human or animal subject comprising: one or more pharmacologically active agents that causes at least one of IKr channel inhibition or QT prolongation by inhibiting the activity of an ether-a-go-go-related gene (hERG); and one or more liposomes, wherein the liposomes are empty liposomes and administered prior to, concomitantly, or after administration of the pharmacologically active agent.
US12004864B2
A prick test kit comprises a bottom tray containing a plurality of wells disposed in an array, wherein each of the wells contains a vial of a small amount of a specific well associated antigen, with each well and associated vial having a different antigen disposed therein, each of the vials having a rubber cap disposed thereon that is sterile and able to be pricked by a needle such that the small amount of antigen can be removed therefrom. A penetrating plate is disposed above the wells and having on the lower surface thereof diametrically opposite from the vials in the wells a plurality of piercing needles, one associated with each of the wells and directed downward there to but not touching any of the files. A separating plate is disposed between the bottom tray and the penetrating plate. A sterile covering is provided for containing the entire assembly.
US12004863B2
A medical device system, such as an extra-cardiovascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator ICD, senses R-waves from a first cardiac electrical signal by a first sensing channel and stores a time segment of a second cardiac electrical signal in response to each sensed R-wave. The medical device system determines a morphology parameter correlated to signal noise from time segments of the second cardiac electrical signal, detects a noisy signal segment based on the signal morphology parameter; and withholds detection of a tachyarrhythmia episode in response to detecting a threshold number of noisy signal segments.
US12004857B2
In some examples, a sensor holder device is described. The sensor holder device may include a rigid body, a set legs attached to the rigid body, a sensor guiding structure, a sensor retaining structure, and an electrical trace. The sensor retaining structure may be sized to accommodate a sensor wire. The electrical trace may extend proximate the sensor retaining structure and along one of the legs.
US12004855B2
An implantable biosensor may be placed subcutaneously to monitor the concentration of an analyte in a body fluid. The biosensor may include an electrochemical cell and an antenna. The components of the biosensor, including the electrochemical cell and the antenna, may be disposed on a same substrate. The electrochemical cell may include multiple electrodes for performing electrochemical measurements that include a first measurement of the analyte concentration in the body fluid, a second measurement of a background interference present in the body fluid, and a third measurement of a pH level within the body fluid. The antenna may receive, from a transceiver, radio frequency (RF) waves for wirelessly powering the implantable biosensor. The antenna may further transmit, back to the transceiver, a backscatter signal encoding a result of the electrochemical measurements.
US12004851B1
A method of automatically detecting cough events from a continuous recording of ambient sound includes a step of detecting an onset of a possible cough event by analyzing acoustic energy distribution of an audio snippet in a frequency-time domain at a frequency above 100 Hz and classifying the event as a cough or a non-cough using convolutional neural networks. The method may be used for improved diagnosis in differentiating between various diseases having cough as a common symptom, monitoring the progression of a disease or efficacy of a treatment and for other purposes.
US12004839B2
A computer-assisted patient navigational communication system for receiving electronic and oral communications from a patient, scanning data to determine the medical needs of the patient, and displaying relevant information to appropriate medical personnel who can immediately advise the patient of the most appropriate source of medical assistance relating to the patient's identified symptoms.
US12004837B2
A storage system, including a storage element having a plurality of receptacles configured to store one or more tools therein, the storage element defining at least one aperture therethrough; an anchoring element configured to at least partially pass through the at least one aperture, the anchoring element having: a substantially cylindrical housing defining a passage therethrough; a plurality of clamping bodies circumscribing the passage and controllably movable towards the passage; and an actuator coupled to housing, where rotational operation of the actuator moves each of the clamping bodies along a substantially linear path towards the passage in order to at least partially obstruct the passage.
US12004835B2
A method for positioning an input device of a workstation for use by a seated user in controlling a robotic surgery system is disclosed. The input device is operable to generate input signals representing a position of a hand controller moveable within an input device workspace. The method involves determining a vertical position of the hand controller within the input device workspace for an input signal received from the input device while a seated user's hand is grasping the hand controller in an initialization position defined with respect to the user's body. The method also involves determining a user ergonomic height of the input device based on the vertical position of the hand controller at the initialization position, and causing a platform of the workstation on which the input device is mounted to move vertically with respect to a base of the workstation to position the input device at the ergonomic height.
US12004831B2
Surgical robotic systems including synchronous and asynchronous networks and methods employing the same are provided. One surgical robotic system includes a networked computing node, a slave robot assembly, and first and second communication paths. The slave robot assembly includes subunits, communicatively coupled to one another by way of the first communication paths, thereby forming at least a portion of a synchronous network. The networked computing node and a subunit are communicatively coupled to one another by way of the second communication paths, thereby forming at least a portion of a second network, and are configured to communicate one or more packets to one another by way of the second network. The subunit is configured to communicate, with the other subunits via the synchronous network, data from the one or more packets. A clock rate of the synchronous network is independent from a clock rate of the second network.
US12004825B2
A multi-stage robot (10) comprises a sequential series arrangement of a flexible robot arm (30), a robot platform (40), a snake robot arm (50) and an end-effector (60). In operation, the multi-state robot (10) is introduced through an incision or an anatomical opening into an anatomical region enclosing an anatomical structure, and the snake robot arm (50) and the end-effector (60) are further introduced through an incision or an anatomical opening into the anatomical structure. The robot platform (40) is thereafter attached to the incision or the anatomical opening of the anatomical structure to facilitate an actuation of the snake robot arm (50) relative to the robot platform (40) to thereby target position the end-effector (60) within the anatomical structure. The multi-stage robot (10) may further comprise a robot base at the proximal end of the multi-stage robot (10) and attachable to the incision or the anatomical opening into the anatomical region.
US12004824B2
A modular energy system for use in a surgical environment includes a plurality of functional modules including at least an initial module, a functional module, and a terminal module. Each of the plurality of modules has a module control circuit, and a local data bus. An internal data bus is composed of a serial array of the local data busses of the modules. The local data bus may includes a communication switch, a first switch data path between the communication switch and the module control circuit, a second switch data path in communication with the communication switch, and a third switch data path in communication with the communication switch. The third switch data path of a module N is in communication with a second switch data path of a module N+1. The system further includes a termination unit in communication with the third data path of the terminal module.
US12004822B2
Disclosed is a system and method for determining a location and configuration of an expandable member. A flexible coil can be provided on a shape changing portion, such as the expandable member, to measure a signal as the shape changes.
US12004820B2
A method of registering sets of anatomical data for use during a surgical procedure is provided herein. The method may include segmenting a set of first modality image data representing a model of one or more passageways within a patient and generating a first set of points based on the segmented set of first modality image data representing the model of the one or more passageways. The method may further include determining a set of matches between a second set of points and the first set of points, wherein the second set of points is obtained by a second modality and discarding a subset of the set of matches based on a first heuristic to generate a modified set of matches. The second set of points may then be moved relative to the first set of points based on the modified set of matches.
US12004810B2
The invention relates to a method for selecting a color filter intended to be worn by a subject in order to improve his visual performance for a given visual task to be realized in a given environment. According to the invention, said method comprises the steps of: —submitting said subject to a colored spatio-temporal visual stimulus adapted to evaluate said visual performance for said given visual task, said stimulus being designed so that its chromaticity may be modified; —evaluating the visual performance of the subject based on his visual perception of said visual stimulus, the chromaticity of the visual stimulus taking at least two distinct values, each chromaticity being uniform; and —selecting said color filter based on the results of said evaluation. The invention further proposes an optical article comprising such a color filter. The invention finally provides a system for selecting a color filter using said method.
US12004808B2
A method for determining parameters for operating a light source within a photo-thermal targeted treatment system is disclosed. The method includes cooling a treatment location, administering first laser pulses at the treatment location, the first laser pulses having thermal energy below a known damage threshold, tracking skin surface temperatures at the treatment location while administering the first laser pulses, estimating a relationship between parameters for operating the light source and the skin surface temperature by fitting tracked skin surface temperature to a correlation model, determining a safe operating range for the light source to avoid thermal damage at the treatment location while still effectively targeting the chromophore, administering second laser pulses at the treatment location, the second laser pulses staying within the safe operating range for the light source, and adjusting the light source according to the tracked skin surface temperatures to stay within the safe operating range.
US12004807B2
A method of treating a patient with a therapeutic laser pulse includes applying a cooling mechanism to a first skin area, cooling a target skin area within the first the skin area from a first surface temperature to a second temperature through application of the cooling mechanism prior to application of the therapeutic laser pulse, initiating application of the therapeutic laser pulse at a first timepoint, while continuing to apply the cooling mechanism, determining a surface temperature of the target skin area a plurality of times during application of the therapeutic laser pulse at a refresh rate of 25 Hz to 400 Hz, and terminating the application of the therapeutic laser pulse at a second timepoint, based on the surface temperature determinations. Each of the plurality of surface temperature determinations occurs during a single therapeutic laser pulse duration from the first time point to the second timepoint.
US12004801B2
Apparatus, having an insertion tube that is configured to be inserted into a body cavity. The apparatus also includes a distal tip connected to the insertion tube, the distal tip having an external surface and a cavity formed in the external surface, the cavity being surrounded by a region of the external surface having a curvature. The apparatus further includes a microelectrode configured to fit into the cavity so that a surface of the microelectrode is contoured, located and oriented to conform with the curvature of the region.
US12004792B2
A compression screw driver system including a drive member having a shaft extending from a proximal end to a distal end. A drive selection member is positioned about the shaft and is axially moveable along the shaft between an engagement position and a disengaged position. A distal portion of the drive selection member defines a first engagement structure. A compression sleeve is positioned over the distal end of the shaft. The proximal end of the compression sleeve defines a second engagement structure which complements the first engagement structure and the distal end of the compression sleeve defines a contact surface. In the engagement position the first and second engagement structures are engaged and the compression sleeve rotates with the drive member and in the disengaged position the first and second engagement structures are disengaged and the compression sleeve remains stationary while the drive member rotates.
US12004789B2
A metatarsus adductus technique may involve cutting an end of one or both of a second metatarsal and an intermediate cuneiform to create a wedge-shaped opening between the end of the second metatarsal and the intermediate cuneiform. The method may further involve cutting an end of one or both of a third metatarsal and a lateral cuneiform to also create a wedge-shaped opening between the end of the third metatarsal and the lateral cuneiform. The second metatarsal and the third metatarsal can then be moved in a transverse plane to close a metatarsus adductus angle. Movement of the second and third metatarsal may close the wedge-shaped openings forming during bone cutting. With the second and third metatarsals appropriately realigned, the clinician can fixate the moved position of the second metatarsal and the third metatarsal.
US12004785B2
A retrograde intramedullary nail for insertion in the medullary canal of a femur includes a body that is elongate and defines a leading end and a trailing end spaced from each other at a length sufficient to extend from an intercondylar region at least to a subtrochanteric region of the femur. The body further defines a leading portion that extends to the leading end. The leading portion defines at least one locking hole configured to receive a fixation member. The at least one locking hole defines a central hole axis that is oriented to extend through the neck and head of the femur.
US12004784B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an adjustable implant configured to be implanted into a patient that includes an adjustable portion moveable relative to a housing. The adjustable implant may include various smart components for enhancing operation of the implant. Smart components may include a controller for managing operations and a transducer for communicating ultrasound data with an external interface device. Additional smart components may include a load cell within the housing for measuring an imparted load; a sensor for measuring angular position of the adjustable portion; a dual sensor arrangement for measuring imparted forces; a reed switch; a half piezo transducer; and an energy harvester.
US12004777B2
Bone and joint stabilization devices or systems are described that include multiple-layer bodies. The approach offers dramatically improved fatigue life as compared to one-piece spring members that are otherwise similar or comparable. Coordinated improved-strength anchor embodiments, anchor loading tools and methods of use are also described.
US12004776B2
A manual intraosseous (IO) device for introducing a bone portal to a predetermined depth relative to a surface of a target bone, and methods for using same. The device is manually actuated and configured to limit the depth of penetration of a bone portal into a bone cortex independently of an applied driving force and independently of subcutaneous tissue thickness surrounding the bone cortex, while providing terminal feedback that the bone portal has been penetrated to the predetermined depth. The device has transfusion facilitating components that remain fixed at the penetration site following penetration of the bone portal to the predetermined depth and releasable components that are separated from the transfusion facilitating components prior to a transfusion operation. The device may also include a stabilizer, or base, that allows a health practitioner to easily locate the insertion site and allows low profile fixation of the IO transfusion component (IO catheter).
US12004774B2
A gas circulation system is disclosed for performing robotically assisted surgical procedures in a surgical cavity of a patient, which includes a multi-lumen tube set including a dual lumen portion having a pressurized gas line and a return gas line, and a single lumen portion having a gas supply and sensing line, a valve sealed access cap for cooperative reception with a first robotic cannula and having an inlet path for communicating with the gas supply and sensing line of the tube set, and a gas sealed access cap for cooperative reception with a second robotic cannula and having an inlet path for communicating with the pressurized gas line of the tube set and an outlet path for communicating with the return gas line of the tube set.
US12004771B1
Some embodiments of a rotational atherectomy device can remove (partially or completely) stenotic lesions in blood vessels by rotating one or more abrasive elements in an orbital path to abrade and breakdown the lesion. In particular implementations, multiple abrasive elements are arranged along a distal portion of a drive shaft with an improved configuration so as to facilitate both efficient navigation into smaller blood vessels below the ankle or in the heart and effective orbital paths for abrading stenotic material in such smaller vessels.
US12004764B2
A surgical instrument apparatus including an elongate tubular body having a proximal end and a distal end and a bore extending through the tubular body is disclosed. The apparatus includes an actuator link extending through the bore and operably configured to move longitudinally and having a first end connected to an actuator at the proximal end of the tubular body and a second end terminating in a coupler. The actuator is operably configured to cause the actuator link to selectively move between an extended state in which the coupler extends beyond the distal end of the tubular body to permit an end effector to be coupled to the coupler, and a retracted state in which the coupler is retracted back into the distal end of the tubular body for operation of the surgical instrument.
US12004763B2
A tongue elevator device having a handle portion, an elongated neck portion and a manipulator end portion. The handle preferably has an oblong main body having a relatively thin flat portion and a relatively thick transversely-extending end portion for secure and comfortable gripping between the fingers and thumb of the user. The elongated neck portion extends distally from the flat portion of the handle portion, and may be provided with measuring indicia to visually illustrate distances from the manipulator end portion of the device. The manipulator end portion has a concave distal edge, which may be formed angularly or arcuately, and a central recess or slot is provided in the concave distal edge to receive the frenulum tissue. A concave thumb recess may be disposed on the handle portion.
US12004760B2
A catheter that fits within a blood vessel wall includes electrodes aligned along a longitudinal axis of the catheter that produce unfocused shock waves that propagate radially toward the blood vessel wall for treatment.
US12004748B2
The present disclosure provides a circular stapler including an instrument body, a handle assembly and a staple pushing rod; wherein an indicator and a strike part are disposed in the instrument body, and the indicator is rotatably connected to the instrument body; when the stapler is in an initial state, the indicator is in a first position area and pressed against the strike part; when the stapler is in a firing state, the indicator is moved to a second position area and separated from the strike part; when the stapler being fired, the indicator returns to the first position area from the second position area, strikes the strike part and emits a strike sound. The strike sound prompts an operator that firing has been successfully completed, so that the operator can know the firing state of the stapler in time and user experience of the operator can be improved.
US12004746B2
An anvil buttress loading system includes an anvil assembly, an anvil buttress loading tool, and an anvil buttress. The anvil buttress is releasably retained on the anvil buttress loading tool with a body of the anvil buttress is positioned on a base of the anvil buttress loading tool, a proximal tab of the anvil buttress positioned over a loading ramp of the anvil buttress loading tool, and a distal tab of the anvil buttress positioned within a flange of the anvil buttress loading tool. The anvil buttress is transferrable from the anvil buttress loading tool to the anvil assembly such that the anvil buttress is releasably secured to the anvil assembly with the body positioned on a tissue facing surface of the anvil assembly, the proximal tab engaged with a pin assembly of the anvil assembly, and the distal tab engaged with an anvil tip of the anvil assembly.
US12004743B2
A staple cartridge is disclosed comprising a proximal end, a distal end, a cartridge deck, and a sloped nose. The cartridge deck comprises a first tissue-supporting surface extending distally to a first distal edge, a plurality of staple cavities defined in the first tissue-supporting surface, a sloped wall extending from the first tissue-supporting surface, a longitudinal slot defined in the first tissue-supporting surface and at least a portion of the sloped wall, and a second tissue-supporting surface. The sloped wall slopes from the first distal edge to a second distal edge. The sloped wall comprises a distal blocking surface. The longitudinal slot extends from the proximal end to the distal blocking surface. The second tissue-supporting surface extends from the second distal edge. The second tissue-supporting surface does not comprise staple cavities defined therein. The sloped nose is positioned distal to the second tissue-supporting surface.
US12004738B2
A needle holder for holding a curved needle to which a suture thread is connected. The needle holder includes a flexible tube; and a grasper provided at a distal end of the flexible tube. The grasper includes a first jaw having a groove, and a protrusion at a distal end portion of the first jaw; and a second jaw movably connected to the first jaw. The grasper can hold the curved needle between the second jaw and the protrusion of the first jaw, and can hold a part of the suture thread between a surface of the groove and the second jaw such that another part of the suture thread passes through a gap formed between another surface of the groove and the second jaw. The protrusion has a hook surface for hooking the suture thread extending outside the groove.
US12004732B2
A surgical instrument includes a mount body, a joint member, an arm, and a working end. The mount body has a top portion, a distal end, a proximal end and a bottom portion. The joint member is pivotally mounted at a distal end portion of the mount body, to allow positioning of a proximal portion of an arm extending distally from the joint member. The joint member is also configured to at least partially constrain movement of the proximal portion of the arm to a plane. The working end is mounted to a distal end portion of the arm. The surgical instrument can be configured as a heart stabilizer or a heart positioner. The joint member may further be configured as a slotted ball, a disk member, or a combination thereof.
US12004729B2
A method for use in a lung access procedure to aid in preventing pneumothorax includes providing a cannula having a pair of balloons, the pair of balloons including a first balloon longitudinally spaced from a second balloon along the cannula; inserting the cannula along an access opening and through pleural layers of a patient, with the first balloon and the second balloon of the pair of balloons respectively positioned on opposite sides of the pleural layers; inflating the pair of balloons with a first amount of a two-component sealant to compress the pleural layers together; and inflating the pair of balloons with a second amount of the two-component sealant that is sufficient to rupture the pair of balloons so as to comingle a first sealant component and a second sealant component of the two-component sealant at the site of the pleural layers so as to adhere the pleural layers together.
US12004723B2
An endoscope system that controls an amount of illumination light according to a change of a subject where the subject is illuminated with a plurality of pieces of light while the plurality of pieces of light are switched. The system includes a light source unit that emits first illumination light and second illumination light having an emission spectrum different from an emission spectrum of the first illumination light, a first processor, and a second processor. A set light amount-adjustment unit performs at least one of adjustment of the amount of second illumination light that is set at a first switching timing at which illumination light is switched to the second illumination light from first illumination light or adjustment of the amount of first illumination light that is set at a second switching timing at which illumination light is switched to the first illumination light from second illumination light.
US12004716B2
An optical system includes a first relay rod of a first material, a second relay rod of a second material, different from the first material, and a lens between the first and second relay rods.
US12004708B2
A modular endoscope system comprises an exoskeleton, a camera unit couplable to the exoskeleton, a therapeutic unit couplable to the exoskeleton, a steering unit couplable to the exoskeleton, and a control unit couplable to the exoskeleton. A method for building a modular endoscope comprises determining camera and therapeutic capabilities of the endoscope, selecting an exoskeleton for the endoscope, attaching a camera unit and therapeutic unit, if such capabilities are determined, to the selected exoskeleton to satisfy the determined capabilities, and attaching a control unit to the exoskeleton to control any camera unit and therapeutic unit attached to the exoskeleton. A method of processing modular endoscope components for performing a surgical procedure comprises identifying a patient to receive a treatment, selecting components of the endoscope to perform the treatment, treating the patient with the endoscope, and deconstructing the components of the endoscope into reusable and disposable components.
US12004705B2
A cleaning system comprising a vacuum source, a current sensor, a recovery tank having a shutoff float configured to float on a surface of fluid within the recovery tank, and a controller. The vacuum source is in fluid communication with a suction inlet via first and second air paths within the recovery tank. The shutoff float is further configured to block the first air path upon the fluid within the recovery tank reaching a desired level. The controller is configured to receive, from the current sensor, a signal indicative of the current drawn by the vacuum source. The controller is further configured to determine, based on the current drawn by the vacuum source crossing a threshold, the fluid within the recovery tank has reached the desired level and control an operating element of the cleaning system upon determining the fluid within the recovery tank has reached the desired level.
US12004701B2
A cleaner includes a suction motor that generates suction force, a dust separation unit that is disposed under the suction motor and separates dust from air, a handle disposed behind the suction motor, and a battery disposed under the handle and behind the dust separation unit to supply power to the suction motor.
US12004683B2
According to one example, an article of cookware includes a substantially horizontal bottom having an interior surface and an opposing exterior surface, and a sidewall extending upward from the bottom to terminate at a rim. The bottom, the sidewall, and the rim define an interior volume for one or more food items. The sidewall has an inverted frustoconical shape with an upper portion, and a lower portion positioned below the upper portion. The upper portion has an outward tilt of less than about 10 degrees from a vertical line. The lower portion has an outward tilt that is at least about 15 degrees greater than the outward tilt of the upper portion.
US12004680B2
A beverage brewing system with a beverage server and a brewer. The beverage server includes an information device to store a beverage recipe. The brewer includes a communication device to wirelessly read the recipe from the beverage server. During the brewing process, the brewer reads the recipe from the beverage server and sends control signals to create a brewed beverage according to the beverage recipe.
US12004678B2
The present disclosure relates to a beverage capsule for use in a brewed beverage machine including a piercing element, the capsule comprising: a container defining an interior volume including a base configured for being perforated upon contact with a piercing element; a filter assembly disposed in the interior volume and dividing the interior volume into a first chamber for receiving beverage ingredients and a brewing medium and a second chamber, the assembly comprising: a filter element; and a registration element disposed above the filter element and configured for disposing the filter assembly into the container, wherein the filter element separates the registration element from the second chamber and is arranged to be contacted and pierced by the piercing element.
US12004664B2
A merchandise access system for a retail merchandise display is provided. The system includes a product support structure, a door and a brake. The product support structure defines a product storage area. The product storage area is formed between a front end and rear end of the product support structure. The door is transitionable between an open orientation in which selected product of the plurality of product can be removed from the product storage area and a closed orientation in which the plurality of product cannot be removed from the product storage area. The brake transitions between a braking position that prevents unselected product of the plurality of product from being moved towards the front end due to a biasing force and a release position in which the unselected product can move towards the front end due to the biasing force.
US12004661B2
An outdoor chair is provided that can include a seat, a pair of front legs, a pair of rear legs, a backrest, and a pair of armrests. The pair of front legs and the pair of back legs can both depend from the seat. The backrest can be disposed adjacent to the seat. The pair of armrests can be coupled to the front legs and the backrest, where each armrest can be coupled to the backrest with a flared protrusion. The rear legs can include an angled leg extension and the seat can include a plurality of horizontal slats.
US12004655B2
A stackable rocking chair has a seat, a back, a right front leg and a left front leg attached to the seat, a right rocker and a left rocker, a right rear leg connected to the seat and the right rocker and a left rear leg connected to the seat and the left rocker, a right arm and a left arm that extend from the back and an arm support for each arm. The lower end of each arm support is attached to a rocker and the upper end of each arm support is attached to an arm. Each arm support is adjacent and substantially parallel to one of the front legs, such that there is a gap between the front leg and the arm support. One stackable rocker can be stacked on another stackable rocker by positioning the rockers of one chair within the gaps in the other chair.
US12004654B2
Compressible mattress assemblies for bed in a box applications generally include a first foam layer and a second foam layer, wherein the first foam layer has a thickness less than the second foam layer and has a property and/or a foam material that is different from the second foam layer. In other embodiments, the compressible mattress assemblies consist of a pocketed microcoil array intermediate the first and second polymeric foam layers.
US12004652B2
Disclosed is a joint device of a folding bed, which includes: a first connecting arm for connecting a supporting leg of the folding bed, with a through-hole provided thereon, a second connecting arm for connecting a frame of the folding bed, the second connecting arm being connected on an upper end part of the first connecting arm through a rotating shaft, and a connection locking mechanism including two pressing pieces arranged respectively on each side of the second connecting arm, each of the pressing pieces being connected with a hook, and the two pressing pieces being slidable toward or away from each other through springs, so that the hook passes through the second connecting arm and is hooked to or detached from the through-hole, thereby allowing the second connecting arm and the first connecting arm to be locked or unlocked relatively to each other.
US12004643B2
The present invention provides a slide rail assembly with an easy-to-position and safe unlocking mechanism to avoid the risk of injury when operating the slide rail assembly of a server case.
US12004642B2
A stackable organizer comprising a first tray, at least one first layer support and a second tray. The first tray comprises a first tray recess and a first tray wall. The at least one first layer support comprises an insertion and a body, wherein the body comprises a body recess. The second tray comprises a second tray recess and a second tray wall, wherein the second tray is coupled to the first tray by inserting the insertion into the second tray recess and locking the first tray wall within the body recess. A method for assembling the aforementioned stackable organizer is also disclosed. The method comprises: inserting the insertion into the second tray recess; and locking the first tray wall within the body recess. Another method is also disclosed, comprising: locking the first tray wall within the body recess; and inserting the insertion into the second tray recess.
US12004635B2
A hammock assembly is provided and includes, a hammock, a zipper fastening system and a cover and dual cover suspension lines. The hammock may be a bridge hammock using dual spreader bars to maintain the hammock in an expanded configuration. The dual cover suspension lines suspend the cover with a horizontal generally planar portion of the cover between the dual cover suspension lines, thereby providing an expansive canopy.
US12004633B1
A hinge having dual axes includes two hinge members each having a hinge leaf and one or more knuckles, a pivot pin received in a longitudinally extending bore in each knuckle, each pivot pin also received in one of two apertures in one or more connector plates that interconnect the hinge members, and one or more springs biasing the hinge members toward a closed position, so that the knuckles are rotatably disposed adjacent to each other, each hinge member independently rotatable about one of two pivot axes, and only a single seam is presented between the two knuckles as the hinge members move between open and closed configurations. In one embodiment a connector incorporating the connecting plates covers and hides the springs from view.
US12004622B2
A hair braiding kit includes a base mat with a first hair attachment and a second hair attachment attached at different locations to the mat. The first and second hair attachments have multiple strands configured in 3 columns, each strand attached to the mat midway between a first end and a second end. The strands of the second hair attachment are thinner than the strands of the first attachment. A hair braiding game includes a grid and multiple game pieces. The grid has multiple rows, a row-label column, and at least 3 lane columns, forming playing cells. The number of game pieces corresponds to the number of playing cells. Each game piece has one of several unique identifiers matching the number of lane columns. A pre-pluck, multi-ethnic mannequin head includes groupings of multiple strands affixed to the mannequin head. Each grouping has a unique characteristic thickness and/or texture.
US12004620B2
The present disclosure provides a suitcase (100) and a method of manufacturing a suitcase. The suitcase (100) comprises a frame (160) and a fabric cover (110) for the frame (160). The fabric cover (110) is provided external to all outer edges of the frame (160), and the outer edges of the frame (160) internally tension the fabric cover (110) to locate the fabric cover (110) and to define the shape of the suitcase (100).
US12004616B2
A keycase includes a longitudinal top plate, a longitudinal bottom plate, a flexible connector connecting the longitudinal top plate and the longitudinal bottom plate, a key post coupled to the longitudinal bottom plate and extending from the longitudinal bottom plate toward the longitudinal top plate. The key post is configured to hold one or more keys. The key case further includes a fastener configured to detachably connect the key post and the longitudinal top plate and secure the key post with the longitudinal top plate, and a key pushing liner coupled to the longitudinal bottom plate and configured to push the one or more keys toward the longitudinal top plate.
US12004615B2
A protective case for a mobile electronic device having a touchscreen constructed from at least two separate frame components is disclosed herein. The frame components include a back frame and a front frame or cover. In some embodiments, when a mobile electronic device is held within the back frame, a stretchable cover is stretched over the back frame and device to securely hold the device within the back frame. The front frame or cover includes a touchscreen cover. The front frame or cover is removably coupled to the back frame with grasping protrusions or engagement members that engage with corresponding components of the back frame.
US12004610B1
A watch band includes a connector including a first hole and a second hole arranged at opposite ends thereof; a first band connected to the first hole, and a second band connected to the second hole. The first band includes a first connection member connected to an end of a wearable electronic device, a free end section and an extension section connected between the first connection member and the free end section. The second band includes a second connection member connected to another end of the wearable electronic device. The free end section is extendable through the first hole to be fastened to the extension section by VELCRO-type hook-and-loop fasteners. The free end section is provided with loops, the fixing layer is provided with hooks engageable with the loops. The length of the watch band is adjustable via adjusting engaging position of the free end section and the fixing layer.
US12004606B2
A slider garage includes an overmolded body, the overmolded body oriented on a zipper, the overmolded body including an overmolded male portion and an overmolded female portion, the overmolded male and female portions positioned on an end of the zipper, such that each is on one side of the zipper, the overmolded male portion being shaped such that it fits in the overmolded female portion in a watertight fashion and the overmolded body is molded over a portion of the zipper.
US12004605B2
An article includes a first garment, a second garment, and a waterproof fastener system configured to join the first garment to the second. The waterproof fastener includes: a first annular gasket, coupled to the first garment, the first annular gasket including a flexible substrate and a continuous groove radially oriented on the first garment such that an engagement direction thereof is oriented perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the first garment, and a second annular gasket coupled to the second garment, the second annular gasket including a second flexible substrate and a continuous rib radially oriented on the second garment such that an engagement direction thereof is oriented perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the second garment. The continuous groove is configured to receive the continuous rib to form a waterproof interference fit.
US12004598B2
Systems and methods are disclosed including a tri-layer orthotic system having a heel portion and a forefoot portion to support respective heel and forefoot portions of a foot through at least a portion of a gait cycle. The tri-layer orthotic system can include an upper layer suspended over a mid-layer and a base layer to create a rear spring section, a mid-spring section, and a front spring section. A distal toe portion of the mid-layer can form the forefoot portion of the tri-layer orthotic system and a heel upper layer portion of the upper layer can form the heel portion of tri-layer orthotic system.
US12004593B2
An upper for a sports shoe may include a component such as a vamp or a rear portion. The shoe component may include a UV curable microlattice structure with a plurality of regions such that each region has a different density. In some cases, the microlattice structure may include a high density microlattice structure, a mid-level density microlattice structure, and a non-structural region with a low density microlattice structure.
US12004586B2
A sports helmet kit has a shell, attachable face guard, composite helmet liner, and fit pods to improve and customize the fit of the helmet to the wearer. The composite liner consists of a base liner and a selected group of fit elements, for example, fit pods, removably attached to the inner surface of the base liner (i.e., the surface of the base liner facing the wearer's head). The fit pods are selected from a set of fit pods having different properties, for example, different sizes, thicknesses, densities, and cross-sections. The selection of fit pods from the set may be aided by taking anatomical measurements of the wearer's head and analyzing the measurements with respect to the geometry of the helmet to produce a pressure map. The measurements may be taken by physical contact or by non-contact means. The fit pods may be selected to optimize a pressure map, and thus optimize the fit, for a given wearer of the helmet.
US12004585B2
There is provided a welding helmet (1) comprising a face protection member (3) moveable between a lowered position in which the face protection member (3) covers a wearer's face, and an upraised position, in which the face protection member (3) uncovers the wearer's face, a headband suspension system (9) for fixing the face protection member (3) to a wearer's head, a protective cap (17) comprising a flexible outer layer (19) and at least one compressible inner liner (21).
US12004584B2
A helmet may be worn on a head of a wearer having a shape and a contour. The helmet may have a plurality of layers coupled together including an energy management layer and an outer shell layer disposed over the energy management layer. The plurality of layers are integrally formed with one another, and the energy management layer is configured to absorb and dissipate energy received by the helmet during an impact by an external force. The outer shell layer is configured to disperse and dissipate impact energy from the external force. Each of the plurality of layers has a density and a geometry, and the density or geometry of at least one layer differs from the density or geometry of at least another layer.
US12004580B2
A garment is provided which includes a flat-warp-knitted fabric laminate made of at least one flat-warp-knitted fabric. The flat-warp-knitted fabric includes a polyurethane film which is stretchable in substantially all directions. A knit fabric made of fleecy thread may be adhesively bonded to the film and be positioned between the film and the inner lining. The garment can be made up of five tailored flat-warp-knitted laminate pieces: three flat-warp-knitted laminate pieces for the two front sides and the rear side of the torso, and two flat-warp-knitted laminate pieces for the two sleeves. The seams form the two sleeve cuffs, and the seams are sewn onto the flat-warp-knitted laminate pieces for the torso. The front pieces are sewn together, and the rear side of the torso piece is positioned along the side of the torso by a respective seam. The seams are used to connect these parts along the shoulders.
US12004578B2
A protective guard for a hand, finger or thumb includes a first thermoplastic layer heat welded to second thermoplastic layer. The second thermoplastic layer has a thickness that is greater than the thickness of the first thermoplastic layer.
US12004577B2
A glove magnetic attraction kit device is provided and includes glove bodies, and magnetic attraction devices arranged on wrist parts of the glove bodies respectively. Each of the magnetic attraction devices includes a base, a blind hole is arranged in a middle of the base, and a hollow convex plate used to place a magnetic attraction body is arranged on the base. A side part of the convex plate is provided with an opening used for taking out the magnetic attraction body. The glove magnetic attraction kit device has advantages of strong practicability, reasonable structure, low cost, simple use, safety and reliability.
US12004571B2
An inhalation device controller includes a holding portion configured to hold an atomizer including a heater configured to heat an aerosol source, a power supply unit configured to supply power to the heater of the atomizer attached to the holding portion, an amplifier to which a voltage according to a voltage of a node on a current path configured to supply the power to the heater is input, and a processor configured to acquire information from the amplifier and execute control according to the information. A first range that a value of the information takes in a holding state in which the holding portion holds the atomizer and a second range that the value of the information takes in a non-holding state in which the holding portion does not hold the atomizer do not include ranges overlapping each other.
US12004565B2
The method includes defining a duct within a capillary medium, first forming an air impingement structure, the air impingement structure including electrically conductive filaments, and connecting a first surface of the capillary medium to a second surface of the air impingement structure to form an assembly, a first end of the duct abutting the second surface, at least one first portion of the air impingement structure extending into the first surface.
US12004562B2
An aerosol generating device includes a cartridge configured to generate aerosol from an aerosol generating material; and a main body comprising an accommodation space for accommodating the cartridge, wherein an airflow passage for introducing external air is formed between a wall of the main body adjoining the accommodation space and a wall of the cartridge when the cartridge is accommodated in the accommodation space of the main body.
US12004558B2
A method of, and equipment for gathering fibres entrained a gas stream, for example by melt blowing, comprises an enclosure having an inlet, through which a gas stream carrying entrained fibres may be directed into the enclosure, a fibre outlet from which an assembly of gathered fibres may be withdrawn from the enclosure and an exhaust outlet through which gas may pass out of the enclosure. The enclosure is constructed to provide a pathway for the fibres from the inlet to the fibre outlet in which surplus gas in the gas stream is separated from the entrained fibres and directed to the exhaust outlet, thereby reducing turbulence in the fibres in the enclosure which may affect the quality of the finished assembly.
US12004557B2
The present apparatus and system relate to a machine and components thereof adapted to fill packages and which may be utilized according to a method. The machine progresses a package via a conveyor through sub-stations, such as a cone trimmer, product conveyor, packing head, folding station, and injection station. The cone trimmer trims the package to a desired length, the product conveyor deposits product into the packing head, the packing head packs the product in the package, the folding station folds the package, and the injecting station injects the package.
US12004555B2
The method for manufacturing inductively heatable tobacco rods comprises the steps of providing a continuous profile of a susceptor, guiding an aerosol-forming tobacco substrate along a tobacco substrate converging device, positioning the continuous profile of susceptor in the aerosol-forming tobacco substrate and converging the aerosol-forming tobacco substrate to a final rod shape. Therein, the step of positioning the continuous profile of susceptor in the aerosol-forming tobacco substrate is performed before performing the step of converging the aerosol-forming tobacco substrate to its final rod shape.
US12004548B2
A method for producing black ginseng concentrate is characterized by including steps of adding red ginseng to a continuous steaming-dryer followed by steaming, cooling, and drying to prepare black ginseng, carrying out extraction by adding alcohol to crushed black ginseng obtained by crushing the black ginseng prepared above followed by filtration to prepare black ginseng extract, and concentrating the black ginseng extract prepared above by using a plate type evaporative concentrator followed by heat treatment, and the present invention also relates to black ginseng concentrate prepared by the aforementioned method.
US12004544B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to a food product and a method of manufacturing a food product. One disclosed example provides a food product including a foamed aquafaba-containing substrate network, a strengthening component configured to provide mechanical strength to the foamed aquafaba-containing substrate network, a polysaccharide-based viscosity-increasing component, and a starch.
US12004536B2
An apparatus configured to process foodstuff materials can include an exterior tube, an inner shaft, and multiple differently shaped protrusions. The exterior tube can have a foodstuff inlet, an outlet, and a longitudinal axis, and can be configured to facilitate the conveyance of foodstuff materials along a material passage from the foodstuff inlet to the outlet. The inner shaft can be located within the exterior tube, can extend along the longitudinal axis, and can combine with the exterior tube to define the material passage. The inner shaft can be configured to be rotationally driven. The multiple differently shaped protrusions can be coupled to and extend from the inner shaft, and these differently shaped protrusions can be configured to process the foodstuff materials when the inner shaft is rotationally driven. Processing can include conveying, agitating, and/or hydrating the foodstuff materials.
US12004535B2
The invention provides a method for treating root—or tuber juice, comprising a) a pretreatment of the root—or tuber juice to remove root—or tuber lipids to a level below 28 g/kg dry weight; b) cooling the root—or tuber juice to a temperature of −0.3° C. to −16° C. to form ice crystals; and c) separating the ice crystals from the root—or tuber juice to obtain, as a first root—or tuber juice product, a concentrated root—or tuber juice. In addition, the invention provides methods to obtain protein depleted root—or tuber juice products, as well as products comprising root—or tuber free amino acids, and uses thereof.
US12004533B2
A machine for making liquid or semi-liquid food products includes a frame and a thermal system, which performs at least one thermodynamic cycle using a main heat exchanger fluid, and a production unit. The production unit is provided with a processing container having a cavity which defines a processing chamber for making a liquid or semi-liquid food product, a stirrer, applied or applicable on the frame at a fixed position and fitted or fittable in the processing container, and coupling means between the processing container and the drive shaft to allow coupling and hence transmission of motion from the motor to the processing container. In particular, the stirrer is provided with an inner core and an outer covering made of different materials.
US12004518B2
An electric sheeting machine for forming a sheet from a food dough, including: a supporting frame; two sheet forming rollers supported in the frame; a first scraper blade and a second scraper blade supported in the frame, staggered from each other in height and having a respective beveled edge. The machine further has: first and second articulated connection elements which connect the scraper blades with respect to the frame, in an oscillating manner; first and second elastic members which each stress a respective scraper blade to maintain an oscillated position, in which the respective beveled edge is arranged in sliding contact against the cylindrical lateral surface of the corresponding forming roller. The first and second connection elements are configured to allow the scraper blades to oscillate in opposition to the elastic force of the respective elastic member, in a second oscillated position, in which the beveled edge is spaced with respect to the cylindrical lateral surface of the corresponding forming roller and each scraper blade can be removed from the frame.
US12004517B2
A piping bag dispenser assembly includes a disk that has a receiver slot extending through the disk thereby facilitating a piping bag to be inserted through the receiver slot. A dispensing unit is rotatably integrated into the disk and the dispensing unit is aligned with the receiver slot. In this way the dispensing unit can frictionally engage the piping bag when the piping bag is inserted through the receiver slot. The dispensing unit urges the piping bag through the receiver slot when the dispensing unit is turned on. In this way the dispensing unit can urge icing outwardly through the piping bag for decorating a cake.
US12004514B2
Occidiofungin is a cyclic nonribosomally synthesized antifungal peptide with submicromolar activity. This invention is directed to compositions enriched for particular occidiofungin diastereomers/conformers, methods of making compositions enriched for particular diastereomers/conformers and microorganisms suitable for producing enriched compositions of particular diastereomers/conformers. Methods of treating fungal infections or plants infected by fungi are also provided.
US12004510B2
The present disclosure provides a composition. In an embodiment, the composition includes a pest repellent, a barrier polymer, and an ethylene-based polymer. The barrier polymer has a melt temperature, Tm, from 175° C. to less than 270° C. The barrier polymer is selected from the group consisting of one or more polyamides, one or more polyesters, and combinations thereof. Also disclosed is an irrigation tube having an annular wall. The annular wall is composed of the present composition.
US12004500B1
A fly trap device that traps insects and processes said trapped insects for storage and disposal is disclosed. In some embodiments, the fly trap device includes a trap body removably coupled to a main body; wherein the trap body includes a relatively horizontal top portion, a conical shaped bottom portion, a cylindrical sidewall, and an interior cavity; wherein the main body includes a grinding auger section and a collection tray. In other embodiments, the fly trap device includes one or more electrodes configured to disable trapped insects, an air filtration system, and a disposal pod.
US12004499B1
A wrist wearable fishing kit in unassembled or assembled state, and a method of assembling a wrist wearable fishing kit.
US12004496B2
The invention relates to a tray for use in large-scale industrial insect farming. More in particular, the invention relates to a live insects tray for incubating insects prepupae and pupae, the tray having a space limited by walls, for housing insect prepupae and pupae, wherein the walls are impenetrable by an insect, and that at least one of the walls is at least partly permeable for gases, such as the top wall. Furthermore, the invention relates to a rack for holding at least one tray and relates to an assembly having said rack and at least one of said trays. The invention also relates to the use of said rack with at least one tray or said assembly for incubating insect prepupae. In addition the invention relates to a method for incubating insect prepupae and/or insect pupae, preferably of black soldier fly.
US12004494B2
Provided herein are transgenic non-human animals whose genomes comprise two or more human genes selected from CD33, Siglec-5, Siglec-7, Siglec-9, Siglec-11, Siglec-14, and Siglec-16, to methods of screening candidate agents that bind to and/or modulate the function and/or activity of at least one of the human genes in the transgenic non-human animals, and to methods of screening candidate agents to determine their effect on one or more activities and/or functions associated with expression of at least one of the human genes in the transgenic non-human animals. Further provided herein are methods of recapitulating a human Siglec immune system in a non-human animal, and methods of generating a non-human animal disease model comprising a human Siglec repertoire.
US12004493B2
An animal model (e.g., mouse) and method of use, and cell culture assay method, for characterizing or screening a test compound for its effect on late onset Alzheimer's disease (LOAD). The test compound may be used as a therapeutic agent for treatment of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The AD animal model may be haploinsufficient for Shugoshin 1 (Sgo1) gene, or may comprise a genetic modification enabling modulation of Sgo1 expression in the brain of the animal when exposed to an Sgo1 expression-modulating compound, such as tamoxifen. After the test compound is administered to the animal model, the presence or amount of an AD biomarker is assessed or measured.
US12004491B1
A gravity-fed protein feeder improvement comprising a timed-access control system configured to increase opportunities to attract or harvest a target animal at a protein feeder site during daylight hours, said timed-access control system comprising a programable timer switch, a battery, a solar panel, a feed access control door assembly, an electromagnetic coil relay, a linear actuator, actuator alignment bracket and assembly mount.
US12004490B2
A dispensing device includes a container, wherein a bottom surface of the container includes a container opening to the interior storage; first and second tracks located below the bottom surface of the container on opposing sides of the container opening; first and second sliding members that engage with the first and second tracks, respectively; a bowl support connected to the first and second sliding members, and wherein the bowl support is configured to move between a filling position and a serving position; and a lever including a lever body including a first lever end and a second lever end. When the first lever end is in a first position, the bowl support is in the filling position. When the first lever end is in a second position, the bowl support is in the serving position.
US12004488B2
An artificially-created honey-yielding environment is established, including a hive and an associated flora cell, within which first and second plant populations cohabit. Within the cell, honey-producing insects from the hive are permitted to forage. One of the populations has been artificially introduced. The other may be indigenous to the cell. The first plant population serves as a primary source of nectar which yields bioactive honey and the second serves as a source of a nutrient, such as protein, which is not abundantly available from the first species at a nutritionally adequate level for sustaining the metabolism and energy of the foraging honey-producing insects for returning to the hive. The first flora population may be a Leptospermum species. An example of the second is Corymbia maculata.
US12004485B1
An assisted guidance region has a plurality of zones, each with an associated set of characteristics used to provide behavioral guidance to an animal Behavioral guidance is extended to a wayward dog who has moved outside of the assisted guidance region by providing stimuli to shepherd the dog back into a safe zone. Positive stimuli are provided when the dog is moving in a direction back towards the safe zone, by providing a safe zone or similar stimulus. Movement away from the safe zone will trigger the unit to deliver a non-aversive second alert zone stimulus. Movement that isn't getting closer or further away triggers a first alert zone stimulus. Calculation of relative movement direction with regard to the safe zone is preferably based upon a comparison of sequential data table position displacements from an approximate center of the safe zone or from a manually selected location.
US12004479B2
Pet litter systems and methods for sanitary servicing are disclosed. In some implementations, a pet litter system may comprise a bottom housing, a disposable inner box which may receive pet litter and pet waste, a service gap, and a safety liner which may be positioned in between the bottom housing and the disposable inner box, wherein the safety liner may protect interior surfaces of the bottom housing from contamination. In some implementations, a safety liner may be closable and usable as a disposal bag to seal contents comprising a disposable inner box, pet litter and pet waste therein, and may be safely removed from a bottom housing of a pet litter system and surrounding areas by a servicer of the pet litter system for disposal.
US12004477B2
The invention comprises systems and methods for controlling environmental conditions within and/or around an animal enclosure. The systems and methods preferably comprise a climate control system and infrared sensors in a poultry house having a first climate and housing poultry having one or more measurable parameters such a temperature. The infrared sensors detect infrared light information emitted by a head and/or vent of poultry in the house. The climate control system processes the information to calculate an internal temperature of poultry and activates one or more climate conditioning devices in the house to change the first climate to a second climate determined by the detected information and/or calculated internal temperatures of the poultry. The systems and methods may be deployed in houses comprising thousands of poultry and one or more climate zones. The systems and methods may make one or more climate changes based on one or more different parameters.
US12004476B2
The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 20R750B3XF. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 20R750B3XF. Also provided by the invention are methods of using cotton variety 20R750B3XF and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 20R750B3XF with itself or another cotton variety and plants and seeds produced by such methods.
US12004475B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01091767. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01091767. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01091767 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01091767 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US12004464B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011179. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011179, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011179 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 CH011179.
US12004457B2
A hydroponic tower including a cavity defining a front tower surface and a rear inside surface, and further comprising a plant plug holder inserted within a cut-out defined in the front tower surface. The plant plug holder includes an edge member that encircles the holder's opening and which may be sealed to the front tower surface, and a base member configured to support a plant plug and which extends rearward from the edge member and into the cavity of the tower. The plug holder further includes a rear shroud top member and a pair of side members that maintain the position of the plant plug within the plug, holder such that the plant plug contacts the rear inside surface of the cavity when inserted into the plug holder.
US12004452B2
A system for detecting one or more parameters associated with a header configured for use with an agricultural vehicle includes a header component and a radar sensor supported relative to the header component. The radar sensor has a field of view along which the radar sensor is configured to transmit radio waves for reflection off a surface. At least a portion of the header component is positioned within the field of view of the radar sensor or passes through the field of view of the radar sensor and is formed from one or more radar-transparent materials.
US12004450B2
A cleaning fan for use in a cleaning system of a fruit harvester includes a housing and a rotor disposed within the housing. The rotor includes a hub and a plurality of blades. The cleaning fan is configured as a mixed flow fan combining high-volume flow characteristics with increased pressure delivery characteristics. The hub is a frustroconical shaped hub with an axis of rotation, a smaller diameter inlet end, and a larger diameter outlet end. Each of the blades is attached to the hub and curves from the inlet end toward the outlet end, relative to a direction of rotation of the rotor, whereby air is blown during operation both axially and radially.
US12004448B2
Methods and systems are described for providing a local electrical power source at a header of a combine harvester. An alternator is mechanically coupled to a header backshaft. The header backshaft is mechanically coupled to a drive mechanism of the combine harvester to cause rotation of the header backshaft which, in turn, causes the alternator to generate electrical power. A power supply circuit transferred electrical power from the alternator to one or more electric devices mounted on the header. In some implementations, the header does not include any physical cables between the combine and the header.
US12004442B2
A system for detecting material accumulation relative to rotating ground-penetrating tools of an agricultural implement includes an agricultural implement having a frame and at least one rotating ground-penetrating tool supported relative to the frame. The rotating ground-penetrating tool(s) is configured to penetrate into the ground to a given penetration depth. The system also includes a tool speed sensor configured to provide data indicative of a rotational speed of the ground-penetrating tool(s) and a computing system communicatively coupled to the tool speed sensor. The computing system is configured to monitor the rotational speed of the ground-penetrating tool(s) based on the data provided by the tool speed sensor, determine a threshold rotational speed based at least in part on the penetration depth of the ground-penetrating tool(s), and determine when the rotational speed of the ground-penetrating tool(s) falls below the threshold rotational speed.
US12004441B2
This is an approach to the prediction of soil density and subsoil crop growth. The approach may include subsoil sensor which can monitor changes in soil pressure and moisture conditions. The sensor data can be sent to a computer module which can process the data using a machine learning model predicting the soil density around a subsoil crop and the yield of the subsoil crop. A soil maintenance plan can be generated from the soil density prediction and/or the crop yield prediction. The soil maintenance plan can be sent to soil management robots, which can execute the soil maintenance plan.
US12010929B2
A memory device is provided. The memory device may comprise: a first electrode; a resistance change layer placed on the first electrode and containing an alkali metal and a transition metal; and a second electrode placed on the resistance change layer, wherein the content of the alkali metal in the resistance change layer ranges from 40 at % (exclusive) to 88 at % (exclusive).
US12010917B2
A thermoelectric conversion material is represented by a composition formula Ag2S(1-x)Sex. The value of x is not smaller than 0.2 and not greater than 0.95.
US12010911B2
Provided is a fluorene derivative of Chemical Formula 1: and an organic light emitting device comprising the same.
US12010902B2
An apparatus for manufacturing a display apparatus includes: a polisher at which a polishing material is supplied to a base member of the display apparatus and the base member is polished with the polishing material to provide a polished base member having a polished surface; a conveyer to which the polished base member is provided from the polisher and from which the polished base member is transferred to outside the apparatus; and a suction unit corresponding to the conveyer and by which a pressure around the conveyer is provided to be lower than a pressure at remaining portions of the apparatus.
US12010897B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a foldable display panel, comprising a display area. The display area is provided with a plurality of foldable areas, and a metal supporting layer is provided with a hollow pattern in the foldable areas. A material of the metal supporting layer is SUS stainless steel.
US12010889B2
Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate, a drive module layer, a first auxiliary layer, an anode layer, an organic light-emitting layer, a cathode layer and an auxiliary conductive portion. The drive module layer, the first auxiliary layer, the anode layer, the organic light-emitting layer and the cathode layer are sequentially disposed on the substrate. The drive module layer is provided with a plurality of drive modules; and the anode layer includes a plurality of blocky anodes. The projection of at least part of the auxiliary conductive portion in a direction perpendicular to the substrate is located between the blocky anodes. At least one jumper layer is disposed between the drive module layer and the first auxiliary layer, where the at least one jumper layer is disposed on a side of the auxiliary conductive portion close to the substrate.
US12010883B2
A display device includes: a first layer including a pixel array disposed on a base substrate, a side terminal disposed on the base substrate, and a transfer wiring electrically connected to the side terminal and the pixel array; a second layer coupled with the first layer; a seal disposed between the first layer and the second layer and surrounding the pixel array; a filler, spaced apart from the seal, overlapping at least a portion of the side terminal and filling a space between the first layer and the second layer; and a conductive connection pad disposed on a side surface of the first layer and contacting the side terminal.
US12010880B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept provides a display device including: a substrate; a plurality of first wires extending along a first direction on the substrate; a first insulating layer disposed on the plurality of first wires; a plurality of second wires disposed on the first insulating layer and extending along a second direction crossing the first direction; a second insulating layer disposed on the plurality of second wires; and a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed on the second insulating layer, wherein the second insulating layer includes a first opening which is disposed between the plurality of pixel electrodes.
US12010863B2
A display device is provided. A first transistor, a second transistor, and a third transistor are disposed above the surface of a substrate. The first transistor includes a first semiconductor and a first gate electrode. The first semiconductor includes a silicon semiconductor. The first gate electrode overlaps the first semiconductor in view of the normal direction of the surface. The second transistor includes a second semiconductor including a first oxide semiconductor. The third transistor includes a third semiconductor and a third gate electrode. The third semiconductor includes a second oxide semiconductor. The third gate electrode overlaps the third semiconductor in view of the normal direction of the surface. A first electrode is disposed above and electrically connected to the third semiconductor. The first electrode overlaps the third gate electrode in a cross-sectional view of the display device.
US12010862B2
Embodiments of an electroluminescent device are described. The electroluminescent device includes a substrate, a first electrode disposed on the substrate, an emission layer comprising luminescent nanostructures disposed on the first electrode, a hybrid transport layer disposed on the emission layer, and a second electrode disposed on the hybrid transport layer. The hybrid transport layer includes an organic layer and inorganic nanostructures disposed within the organic layer. The luminescent nanostructures are separated from the inorganic nanostructures by the organic layer.
US12010860B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to illumination devices using luminescent nanostructures. An illumination device includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, a hole transport layer, an electron transport layer and a material layer that includes a plurality of luminescent nanostructures. The hole transport layer and the electron transport layer are each disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The material layer is disposed between the hole transport layer and the electron transport layer and includes one or more discontinuities in its thickness such that the hole transport layer and the electron transport layer contact each other at the one or more discontinuities. Resonant energy transfer occurs between the luminescent nanostructures and excitons at the discontinuities.
US12010841B2
An alternating stack of first material layers and second material layers is formed over a substrate. A hard mask layer is formed over the alternating stack. Optionally, an additional hard mask layer can be formed over the hard mask layer. A photoresist layer is applied and patterned, and cavities are formed in the hard mask layer by performing a first anisotropic etch process that transfers a pattern of the openings in the photoresist layer through the hard mask layer. Via openings are formed through an upper portion of the alternating stack by performing a second anisotropic etch process. A cladding liner can be optionally formed on sidewalls of the cavities in the hard mask layer. The via openings can be vertically extend through all layers within the alternating stack by performing a third anisotropic etch process.
US12010835B2
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, memory opening fill structures vertically extending through the alternating stack in a memory array region, and an electrically conductive spacer extending vertically and electrically connecting a first drain-select-level electrically conductive layer to a second drain-select-level electrically conductive layer.
US12010834B2
Embodiments of 3D memory devices and methods for forming the same are disclosed. In an example, a 3D memory device includes a plurality of memory blocks in a plan view and at least one stabilization structure extending laterally to separate adjacent ones of the memory blocks in the plan view. Each of the memory blocks includes a memory stack including vertically interleaved conductive layers and first dielectric layers, and a plurality of channel structures each extending vertically through the memory stack. The stabilization structure includes a dielectric stack including vertically interleaved second dielectric layers and the first dielectric layers.
US12010832B2
A semiconductor memory device may include at least one semiconductor pattern including a horizontal portion extending in a second direction parallel to a top surface of a semiconductor substrate and a vertical portion extending in the first direction, at least one gate electrode on the horizontal portion of the at least one semiconductor pattern and extending in a third direction different from the first direction and the second direction, and at least one information storage element connected to the vertical portion of the at least one semiconductor pattern, wherein a thickness of the horizontal portion of the at least one semiconductor pattern in the first direction is smaller than a thickness of the vertical portion of the at least one semiconductor pattern in the first direction.
US12010821B2
A thermal diode device including an electronic unit to be cooled, a heat-dissipation medium, a temperature sensor for measuring the temperature of the heat-dissipation medium, and an actuator configured to thermally disconnect the electronic unit from the heat-dissipation medium if the temperature of the heat-dissipation medium is higher than a reference temperature, so as to inhibit any heat transfer between the heat-dissipation medium and the electronic unit, and to thermally connect the electronic unit to the heat-dissipation medium if the temperature of the heat-dissipation medium is lower than the reference temperature, so as to allow a conductive heat transfer between the electronic unit and the heat-dissipation medium.
US12010820B2
The present disclosure refers to an immersion cooling system and process. Representative embodiments include an interface for interconnecting the inside of the vessel to the outside using an exemplary pass through plates. Additional embodiments include carbon tapes at the opening areas of the vessel. In one example embodiment, a ledge for returning any fluid that is condensed on the top door of the vessel may be provided. Representative features also may include roller covering or overlays, pipes to deliver a spray to clean components, and/or cooling a pump to prevent premature failure. Other embodiments include mechanisms for pump life improvement, gap fillers to reduce fluid needed, and improved vapor management techniques.
US12010819B2
Systems and methods for operating a datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a power delivery system includes one or more fuel cells to provide a source of electrical power for a datacenter, where waste heat produced by a fuel cell is to be captured and provided to an absorption chiller to produce a cooled liquid for use in a cooling system for this datacenter.
US12010817B2
A computing device includes a thermal excursion detection unit and a power supply unit. The thermal excursion detection unit is configured to monitor a temperature of an internal volume of the computing device and to control the operation of the power supply unit. The power supply unit is configured to provide power to hardware components in the computing device and the power supply unit only provides power to the hardware components when the thermal excursion detection unit permits.
US12010815B2
A cooling module includes a first cooling plate having a first internal channel and a second cooling plate having a second internal channel. The cooling module includes an interconnect frame coupled in between the first and second cooling plates, the interconnect frame includes a third internal channel that connects the first internal channel to the second internal channel. The cooling module includes a first injection plate attached to a bottom portion of the first cooling plate and a second injection plate attached to a bottom portion of the second cooling plate, the first and second injection plates manage a distribution of coolant fluid to dedicated areas of electronic chips adjacent to the first and second injection plates. The cooling module includes a first pump frame coupled to an inlet port at the first cooling plate, a first pump disposed at the first pump frame to directly intake a coolant fluid.
US12010791B2
A device includes an elastic base, a device body provided on the base, a wiring line provided on the base, a coupling member coupled to the wiring line, and an electrically conductive adhesive layer provided between the wiring line and the coupling member. The wiring line extends from the electrically conductive adhesive layer to the device body. The wiring line has a wiring portion overlapping with the electrically conductive adhesive layer. The degree of polymerization of the electrically conductive adhesive layer decreases in the extending direction of the wiring portion.
US12010788B2
Embodiments of systems, devices, and methods relate to initiating beam transport for an accelerator system. An example method includes increasing a bias voltage of one or more electrodes of the accelerator system to a first voltage level and extracting a charged particle beam from a beam source such that the beam is transported through the accelerator system. The beam has a beam current that results in a first transient voltage drop within a threshold. The method further includes increasing the beam current at a rate that results in one or more subsequent transient voltage drops within the threshold until the accelerator system has reached nominal conditions. Another example method includes biasing one or more electrodes of an accelerator system and selectively extracting, according to a duty cycle function, a charged particle beam from a beam source such that the charged particle beam is transported through the accelerator system.
US12010779B2
A method of controlling one or more devices (13) of a plurality of devices (13,15) associated with a control system comprises a control system (1) receiving input signals from at least one device (15) of the plurality of devices, determining events from the input signals, transmitting the events to a further system (26), receiving control commands destined for the one or more devices from the further system, and transmitting output signals representing the control commands to the one or more devices. The method further comprises determining a relationship between the events and the control commands, establishing a new rule based on the determined relationship, receiving a new input signal from the at least one device, determining a new event from the new input signal, and controlling the one or more devices according to the rule in dependence on the new event.
US12010773B2
A control device includes a data bus interface, which can be a CAN bus data bus interface, a computer core (microcontroller) and a number nLED of a plurality of driver circuits, wherein nLED is a positive integer greater than 1. Each driver circuit is designed to be able to supply at least one lamp group with electrical power. The nLED driver circuits are thus designed to be able to supply at least nLED lamp groups with electrical power. Each lamp group comprises one or more lamps, which can comprise one or more light-emitting diodes. The data bus interface and the computer core (microcontroller) and the nLED driver circuits are accommodated on a common semiconductor substrate.
US12010771B2
A detection device and a detection method for a light emitting element are provided. The detection device includes a piezoelectricity sensor and a light sensing circuit. The piezoelectricity sensor includes a first piezoelectricity element, wherein the first piezoelectricity element is used to contact a first electrode of the light emitting element to cause a first deformation of the first piezoelectricity element. The first piezoelectricity element generates a first voltage based on the first deformation to power the first electrode. A second electrode of the light emitting element is coupled to a reference voltage. The light sensing circuit is used to sense whether the light emitting element powered by the first voltage emits light.
US12010755B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for performing communication in a wireless communication system. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, at least one of secondary cell (SCell) configuration information, channel state measurement configuration information, and timer configuration information used for discontinuous reception (DRX), measure a channel state based on the received configuration information, and transmit information about the measured channel state to the base station.
US12010754B2
Embodiments described herein include DRX operations that address impacts of beamforming to current DRX operations. It is recognized herein that the new NR-PDCCH may affect the downlink control channel monitoring in DRX operations. DRX embodiments described herein also address the impact of new NR-PDCCH to DRX operations. It is further recognized herein that, in NR, multiple DRX configurations may be supported, and L1/2 signaling (such as MAC CE based) can be used for dynamic DRX configuration switching. Embodiments described herein include signaling and other mechanisms that support multiple DRX configurations, and switching between multiple configurations. Embodiments described herein also include DRX operations that address the impact of HARQ design in NR to DRX operations. Embodiments described herein further include DRX operations that address the impact of multiple SR configurations in NR to DRX operation.
US12010746B2
Optimization of radio communications of a wireless network of a local site may be provided. A probe frame or an association frame may be received from a Client Device (CD) operating in the local site that identifies at least one operating class and Multi-Link (ML) capability information of the CD. Channel information of at least one Access Point (AP) having ML capability in the local site may be embedded in a probe response frame or in an association response frame based on the at least one operating class and the ML capability information of the CD. The probe response frame or the association response frame that includes the channel information of the at least one AP having ML capability in the local site may be transmitted, as unicast, to the CD.
US12010742B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and computer-readable medium for pairing two proximate devices. An advertisement message associated with an accessory device may be received by a host device (e.g., a smart phone). The advertisement message may be communicated using a Bluetooth protocol (e.g., BLE). Payload data may be extracted from the advertisement message and utilized to obtain a media asset (e.g., an image, a video, an icon, etc.) associated with the accessory device. The media asset may be presented via a user interface at the host device. Input may be received indicating a request and/or an approval to perform a pairing procedure with the accessory device. In accordance with the input, the host device may execute the pairing procedure with the accessory device.
US12010739B2
Present disclosure provides techniques for migrating integrated access and backhaul (IAB) nodes from the source centralized unit (CU) to a target IAB-donor-CU of a base station. Features of the present disclosure achieve such migration by configuring the IAB distributed unit (IAB-DU) to establish F1-connection (F1-C) with the target IAB-donor-CU via the source path before the user equipment (UE) context transfer occurs. To this end, the source IAB-donor-CU may initiate an F1-C establishment between IAB-node DU and target IAB-donor-CU. The source IAB-donor-CU may do so by acting or presenting as an IAB-node-DU proxy to the target IAB-donor-CU. At the same time, the source IAB-donor-CU may act or present as a target-IAB-donor-CU proxy to the IAB-node-DU. Thus, in some cases, the source IAB-donor-CU may present as both the IAB-node-DU proxy (to the target IAB-donor-CU) and as a target-IAB-donor-CU proxy (to the IAB-node-DU).
US12010738B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for enhancing the reliability in a wireless communication system. An operating method of a user plane function (UPF) in a wireless communication system includes: receiving network function (NF) set related information changed through an association procedure with respect to an NF; changing a profile of the NF, based on the received NF set related information; and performing an operation related to the NF, based on the changed profile.
US12010734B2
An approach is described for a base station (gNB) that includes the following features. The features include transmitting, by the gNB, a PDCCH signal to a user equipment (UE), wherein the PDCCH signal includes an indication of a PDCCH ordered 2-step RACH procedure. The features also include receiving, by the gNB, a first step of the 2-step RACH procedure, wherein the first step includes a PRACH preamble and an associated MsgA physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) from the UE.
US12010732B2
A terminal apparatus, which is able to establish a connection with a base station apparatus via a two-step random access procedure by transmitting a first signal including a random access preamble and predetermined information to the base station apparatus and receiving a second signal as a reply to the first signal from the base station apparatus, acquires a random access-radio network temporary identifier (RA-RNTI) on the basis of a radio resource having been used to transmit the predetermined information with the first signal, and executes reception processing of the second signal using the RA-RNTI.
US12010726B2
Embodiments of the present application provides an apparatus and a method for transmitting and receiving uplink data, and relates to the field of communication technologies. The method includes: performing uplink data transmission via a contention-based random access (RACH) procedure. The embodiments of the present application implement that, when transmitting uplink data in an RRC idle mode, the user equipment does not need to establish an RRC connection, and may directly transmit the uplink data via the RACH procedure, so that the power consumption of the UE may be reduced, and the waste of system resources may be reduced.
US12010722B2
Example embodiments relate to wideband communications based on availability assessment. A method for communication comprises performing availability assessment on a set of configured frequency subbands to obtain an availability result, the availability result indicating that at least one of the set of configured frequency subbands is available for a period of time for transmission of intended information and transmitting supplementary information that has been prepared using the at least one frequency subband during a first portion of time within the period of time. The method also comprises preparing the intended information based on the availability result and transmitting the prepared intended information using the at least one frequency subband during a second portion of time following the first portion of time within the period of time. As such, the processing of the intended information can be adapted depending on the dynamic available subband(s) indicated by the availability result.
US12010708B2
In some implementations, a method of wireless communications between a wireless communications network and wireless user equipment includes receiving, using a primary Time Division Duplex (TDD) configuration, data on a primary component carrier in a first frequency band. Using a secondary TDD configuration, data on a secondary component carrier is received in a second frequency band different from the first frequency band. A Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) for data received on the secondary component carrier is transmitted using a supplemental TDD configuration. A transmission or retransmission on the secondary component carrier uses a supplemental TDD configuration as well. The supplemental TDD configuration is different from the secondary TDD configuration. Furthermore, an uplink supplemental configuration may be different from a downlink supplemental configuration.
US12010699B2
Systems and methods related to partial interlace frequency domain resource allocations for uplink transmissions from a wireless device are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device comprises receiving a resource allocation for an uplink transmission that allocates resources in one or more partially allocated interlaces and performing an uplink transmission on the allocated resources in the one or more partially allocated interlaces in accordance with the resource allocation. In this manner, a low-complexity approach to support flexible frequency domain resource allocation is provided. In addition, using this approach, an interlace may be shared by two or more wireless devices, which may increase spectral efficiency and reduce latency.
US12010698B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for communicating a dynamically scheduled transmission that overwrites a transmission in a semi-static scheduling occasion. A method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a first control message, activating a first semi-static scheduling configuration and a second semi-static scheduling configuration for full duplex communication, wherein: the first semi-static scheduling configuration comprises a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) occasion and the second semi-static scheduling configuration comprises a configured grant (CG) occasion. The method may further include receiving a second control message dynamically scheduling a transmission that overwrites a downlink transmission in the SPS occasion or an uplink transmission in the CG occasion and taking one or more actions to communicate at least the transmission that overwrites the downlink transmission in the SPS occasion or the uplink transmission in the CG occasion.
US12010694B2
Provided are a data sending and receiving method, an apparatus, a system, a terminal, a base station and a storage medium. Data carried in a non-Long-Term Evolution (non-LTE) downlink control region of a subframe is mapped to an LTE downlink control region of the subframe, and data carried in the non-LTE downlink control region and the LTE downlink control region of the subframe is sent to an MTC terminal.
US12010690B2
A communication method, and a communications apparatus. The method includes: a terminal device determines uplink information; when the uplink information is first feedback information, the terminal device determines a first uplink control channel resource corresponding to the first feedback information, and sends the first feedback information on the first uplink control channel resource; or when the uplink information includes A-CSI, the terminal device determines a second uplink control channel resource corresponding to the uplink information, and sends the uplink information on the second uplink control channel resource, where the first uplink control channel resource is different from the second uplink control channel resource. Therefore, a network device identifies, according to the control channel resource for the received uplink information, whether the uplink information includes the A-CSI, so that the uplink information can be correctly received without times of blind detection, and receiving complexity is low.
US12010686B2
A first apparatus may be configured to generate a scheduling request to request to transmit at least one of data or control information on a sidelink channel. The first apparatus may be further configured to transmit, to another UE, the scheduling request on resources of a channel configured to carry feedback responsive to transmissions on the sidelink channel. A second apparatus may be configured to monitor resources on a channel for transmissions from other UE, the channel being configured to carry feedback from the other UE responsive to transmissions on a sidelink channel. The second apparatus may be further configured to receive at least one scheduling request from at least one of the other UE on the resources of the channel configured to carry the feedback based on monitoring the resources on the channel.
US12010679B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, particularly, to a method and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving demodulation reference signal (DMRS) configuration information; receiving scheduling information about a plurality of transmission time intervals (TTIs); and transmitting data on the basis of the DMRS configuration information in a plurality of continuous TTIs, wherein first DMRS configuration information of the DMRS configuration information is applied to a first group from among the plurality of continuous TTIs, and second DMRS configuration information of the DMRS configuration information is applied to a second group from among the plurality of continuous TTIs.
US12010676B2
A common CORESET determining method, an apparatus and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving configuration information, wherein the configuration information indicates where a physical resource block occupied by a first common control resource set is located in a first downlink bandwidth part; determining a frequency domain resource of the first common control resource set based on a frequency domain resource of the first downlink bandwidth part and the physical resource block occupied by the first common control resource set within the first downlink bandwidth part; and monitoring a physical downlink control channel in the first common control resource set before the first downlink bandwidth part configured by a SIB1 takes effect to obtain scheduling control information. According to this application, complexity of determining a frequency domain location of the first control resource set can be reduced.
US12010673B1
Methods and apparatus for combining received uplink transmissions. In an embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving a descrambled resource element associated with selected second channel state information (CSI2) and receiving a descrambling sequence used to generate the descrambled RE. The method also includes rescrambling the descrambled RE using the descrambling sequence to generate a rescrambled RE and modifying the descrambling sequence to generate a modified descrambling sequence. The method also includes descrambling the rescrambled RE with the modified descrambling sequence to generate a modified descrambled RE and accumulating the modified descrambled RE to form a combined CSI2 value.
US12010658B2
Techniques and apparatus for managing release of resource reservations for sidelink communications are provided. At least one resource reservation is determined from a resource pool having time-frequency resources allocated for sidelink communications with one or more user equipments. Control information that includes an indication of the at least one resource reservation and an indication of whether the at least one resource reservation is releasable is transmitted. A determination of whether to reclaim the at least one resource reservation is made, based on the control information. A set of resource reservations is selected from the resource pool for sidelink communications, based on the determination.
US12010655B2
A CSI reporting method, a CSI reporting device, a terminal and a network side device are provided. The CSI reporting method includes: acquiring a resource set configured by a network side device, the resource set including a plurality of measurement resources; measuring a downlink reference signal for a plurality of transmission nodes in accordance with the plurality of measurement resources, to determine a target CSI-RS port set for CSI measurement; and performing calculation in accordance with the target CSI-RS port set to acquire to-be-reported CSI.
US12010652B2
The present invention relates to a user device, a base station, and data transmission and reception methods to be performed by a user device and a base station in a communications system. The user device comprises circuitry which, in operation, calculates the starting location of a paging region comprising resources in which user devices are paged, the paging region including paging information for paging said user device; and determines an offset with respect to the starting location of the paging region, the offset indicating the location of the paging information for paging said user device relative to the starting location of the paging region.
US12010649B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a paging early indication (PEI) indicating whether at least one UE in a UE group or a UE sub-group including the UE is to be paged in a paging occasion. In some aspects, a sequence on which the PEI is based is a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH)-based sequence. In some aspects, the PEI is a sequence-based PEI and is received based at least in part on a sequence configuration configured on the UE. In some aspects, the PEI is a sequence-based PEI and is received based at least in part on a distributed resource block allocation associated with the sequence. The UE may selectively process a paging PDCCH associated with the paging occasion based at least in part on the PEI. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12010646B2
A method performed by a first terminal is provided. The method includes determining whether a first delay related to the first terminal is necessary, transmitting, to a second terminal, a delay message including first delay information in case that the first delay is necessary, in response to the delay message, receiving, from the second terminal, an allocation message including information on one or more nodes, determining whether information on the first terminal is included in the information on one or more nodes included in the allocation message, and allocating the first delay in case that the information on the first terminal is included in the information on one or more nodes.
US12010623B2
A wireless device (14) is configured for use in a wireless communication system (10). The wireless device (14) configures a number of parallel hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, processes (18) as being available for use. The wireless device (14) discontinuously monitors a downlink control channel (20), including monitoring the downlink control channel (20) during an active time (24) that is based on how many of the configured number of parallel HARQ processes (18) are used.
US12010620B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to power saving over a forward link of a star topology of user equipment (UE) are provided. In some aspects, a first UE may monitor the forward link connecting a second UE to the first UE for a control message transmitted by the second UE to the first UE. The first UE may then establish an operational mode based on the result of the monitoring for the control message, such as but not limited to a power saving mode or an active mode.
US12010618B2
A method includes determining one or more active slots and inactive slots in an ultra-wide band (UWB) ranging round. The method also includes determining multiple silent periods in the ranging round based on an arrangement of the inactive slots. The method also includes determining a target silent period in the ranging round, among the multiple silent periods, to be used for WiFi communication. The method also includes determining multiple target wake time (TWT) parameters such that a TWT session period defined by the TWT parameters overlaps with the target silent period. The method also includes determining one or more second silent periods preceding the target silent period in which the TWT parameters can be negotiated with an access point (AP) for the WiFi communication. The method also includes negotiating the TWT parameters with the AP during the one or more second silent periods.
US12010610B2
A session management function (SMF) sends, to a network repository function (NRF), a discovery request for at least one user plane function (UPF) that supports a layer 2 tunneling protocol (L2TP) tunnel. The SMF receives, from the NRF, a discovery response comprising an identity of a UPF that supports the L2TP tunnel. The SMF selects, based on the UPF supporting the L2TP tunnel, the UPF. The SMF sends, to the UPF, a session request message comprising tunnel information of the L2TP tunnel.
US12010601B2
Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for providing a Diameter multifold message. In one embodiment a method is disclosed, comprising: providing a multifold-command Attribute Value Pair (AVP), the multifold-command AVP including an AVP code, a set of VMP flags, an AVP length and a vendor ID; including the AVP in a Capabilities Exchange Request (CER) command for a Diameter stack supporting multiplexing of commands in one message; and using the AVP to combine messages from multiple applications running on a single Diameter node and multiple commands from a single application.
US12010599B2
An apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus is configured to obtain, based on a first mobile alert associated with a first subscriber identity module (SIM) being scheduled for broadcast from a first network, an indication of receiver resources assigned for receiving the first mobile alert associated with the first SIM. The apparatus is further configured to refrain, based at least in part on the indication, from receiving a second mobile alert associated with a second SIM scheduled for broadcast from a second network. The first mobile alert and the second mobile alert may be associated with messages from at least one of a CMAS or an ETWS.
US12010597B2
In general, the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods, systems, and program products for receiving a voice query at a mobile computing device and generating data that represents content of the voice query. The data is provided to a server system. A textual query that has been determined by a speech recognizer at the server system to be a textual form of at least part of the data is received at the mobile computing device. The textual query is determined to include a carrier phrase of one or more words that is reserved by a first third-party application program installed on the computing device. The first third-party application is selected, from a group of one or more third-party applications, to receive all or a part of the textual query. All or a part of the textual query is provided to the selected first application program.
US12010590B2
A communication device, which is capable of performing communication via a second wireless communication system that is different from a first wireless communication system, in a frequency band that is used by the first wireless communication system, the first wireless communication system periodically transmitting a reference signal, transmits, to a base station device of the first wireless communication system, information for operating the base station device in a mode in which the periodical transmission of the reference signal is interrupted for a predetermined period, and performs communication involving a predetermined signal of the second wireless communication system while the base station device of the first wireless communication system is operating in the mode.
US12010589B2
A method at a network element within a Vehicle to Everything (V2X) Communications Domain, the method including receiving a tracking request at the network element for a target vehicle, the tracking request including identifying information for the target vehicle; creating a target vehicle list based on the tracking request; distributing the target vehicle list to at least one V2X endpoint; receiving at least one sighting report from the at least one V2X endpoint; and forwarding the at least one sighting report to a second network element.
US12010588B2
Disclosed are indoor positioning methods, apparatuses, electronic device and computer readable storage medium. The indoor positioning method includes: obtaining state data of a mobile terminal; based on a pre-trained position classification model, determining a position classification of the mobile terminal according to the state data of the mobile terminal; when the position classification of the mobile terminal is an anchor point position, taking the mobile terminal as a beacon terminal and sending an anchor point position broadcast instruction to the beacon terminal to enable the beacon terminal to broadcast the anchor point position. In the technical solution, a mobile terminal meeting anchor point requirements is taken as a beacon terminal to provide convenient positioning services, so as to avoid deployment and maintenance of a large number of beacons, hardware of routers, and related mapping relationship, thus greatly reducing investment costs and facilitating promotion of use.
US12010584B2
Implementations of a sex trafficking prevention mobile application are provided. In some implementations, the sex trafficking prevention mobile application comprises a mobile application for a portable computing device, such as a smart phone or similar device, and a corresponding software application for a computing device, such as a desktop or laptop computer. In some implementations, the sex trafficking prevention mobile application is configured to guide users to nearby safe locations to avoid or escape attack by sex traffickers. In some implementations, the sex trafficking prevention mobile application is configured to allow users to request nearby help from the community to avoid or escape attack by sex traffickers.
US12010580B2
A neighboring cell determines that uplink interference from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) exceeds a first threshold at the neighboring cell. The neighboring cell transmits an uplink interference indicator to the UAV. In some examples, the UAV informs its serving cell of the uplink interference experienced by the neighboring cell. The serving cell can utilize information received from the UAV to make handover decisions or scheduling decisions for the UAV that caused the uplink interference. In other examples, the UAV can temporarily refrain from transmitting on at least some of its uplink resources or utilize different uplink resources for uplink data transmissions. In still other examples, the UAV can utilize downlink measurements to select which neighboring base station System Information Block messages should be monitored for an uplink interference indicator.
US12010569B2
Methods to operate a wireless device in a wireless communication network are discussed. Respective signal qualities of a plurality of cells of the wireless communication network are determined. The plurality of cells are ranked based on the respective signal qualities of the plurality of cells. Measurement information for at least one of the plurality of cells is logged in memory of the wireless device based on ranking the plurality of cells, wherein the measurement information includes a cell identity and beam information for the at least one of the plurality of cells. A report is transmitted to the wireless communication network, wherein the report includes the measurement information. Related wireless devices and computer programs are also discussed.
US12010552B2
A method for 5G Session Management (5GSM) handling of network rejection not due to congestion control is provided. A User Equipment (UE) receives a 5GSM reject message from a mobile communication network. The 5GSM reject message indicates a network rejection not due to congestion control. The UE associates a back-off timer with a Home Public Land Mobile Network (HPLMN) Single-Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (S-NSSAI). The UE prevents itself from sending a 5GSM request message for the same HPLMN S-NSSAI that is associated with the back-off timer.
US12010550B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for customer-defined capacity limit plans in communication networks. In one embodiment, a request for a service from a radio-based network is received from a first client device. A network function in the radio-based network is determined to be at a capacity limit. Service from the network function to a second client device to the network function is suspended in response to determining that the network function in the radio-based network is at the capacity limit and based at least in part on a rule set specific to the radio-based network. The first client device is provided access to the network function instead of the second client device.
US12010548B2
Provided herein is an apparatus and a method for congestion handling in RAN. The disclosure provides an apparatus for a relay node in a RAN including the relay node and a donor node providing an interface to a core network and a backhaul link to the relay node. The apparatus includes a RF interface to receive and transmit downlink data for one or more UEs or UE bearers; and a processing circuitry coupled with the RF interface. The processing circuitry is to determine a downlink congestion occurs at the relay node; and generate a downlink congestion indication to identify a UE or a UE bearer or a backhaul RLC channel affected by the downlink congestion. The RF interface is to transmit the downlink congestion indication to the donor node. In addition to the downlink congestion handling, the relay node can also be to handle uplink congestion in a similar way.
US12010542B2
A user terminal includes a control section that measures a plurality of Signal to Interference plus Noise Ratios (SINRs), based on one or more signal measurement resources and a plurality of interference measurement resources, and a transmitting section that reports one or more SINRs among the plurality of the SINRs and one or more indices associated with the resources used for the one or more SINRs. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, appropriate beam reporting can be performed.
US12010534B2
The present invention is designed so that DL controls channels are monitored adequately even when the unit of scheduling in the time direction is subject to control. According to the present invention, a user terminal monitors a downlink (DL) control channel and receives downlink control information (DCI), and this user terminal has a receiving section that receives time interval information, which shows a time interval for monitoring the DL control channel, and a control section that controls monitoring of the DL control channel based on the time interval information.
US12010529B2
A wireless device may receive one or more configuration parameters. The one or more configuration parameters indicate: one or more physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources, and a default beam is used for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions. The wireless device may receive downlink control information (DCI), with DCI format 0_0, scheduling a PUSCH. The wireless device may transmit, via the PUSCH, a transport block according to a default spatial relation in response to: a DCI format of the DCI being the DCI format 0_0, the configuration parameters indicating that the default beam is used, each PUCCH resource of the one or more PUCCH resources not being configured with a spatial relation, and the wireless device being in a radio resource control (RRC) connected mode.
US12010504B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method for spherical video streaming over a network by a processing system including a processor, the method including prefetching audio data for rendering the spherical video; determining whether there is a single source or a plurality of sources of audio in the audio data; responsive to a determination that there is only one dominant source of the audio in the audio data, prefetching video data in a field of view centered on spatial coordinates of the dominant source of audio; responsive to a determination that there is the plurality of sources of the audio in the audio data, sorting the plurality of sources of the audio according to an estimated sound source energy for each source in the plurality of sources, thereby creating a sorted list of the plurality of sources; and prefetching video data in plural fields of view centered on spatial coordinates of each audio source in the sorted list of the plurality of sources, wherein the prefetching is performed in an order corresponding to the sorted list, and wherein the prefetching occurs within an available bandwidth of the network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12010486B2
Methods and systems for signal processing an audio signal in a hearing device to detect when feedback path change occurs and controlling an adaptive feedback canceler to remove the feedback are provided. The hearing device includes a receiver and a microphone. An exemplary method includes detecting whether a tonal signal is caused by a feedback path change by estimating a product of a subband error signal and a subband output signal generated in response to a subband audio input signal; estimating a fast metric based on the estimated product and estimating a slow metric; and applying or maintaining an adaptation rate to the adaptive feedback canceler of the hearing device, wherein the adaptation rate applied or maintained is selected based upon a value of the difference between the fast and slow metrics compared to a threshold value.
US12010484B2
Method, apparatus, and computer-readable media focusing sound signals from plural microphones in a 3D space, to determine audio signal processing profiles to optimize sound source(s) in the space. At least one processor determines plural virtual microphone bubbles in the space, and defines one or more bubble object profiles which comprise(s) specific attributes and functions of audio processing functions for each bubble, each bubble object profile including: (a) an individual bubble object profile when the bubble has been configured for an individual bubble; (b) a region object profile when the bubble has been configured for a region of one or more bubbles; and (c) a group object profile when the bubble has been configured for a group having one or more bubbles. The audio signal processing functions are used for the at least one bubble, for any combination of (a), (b), and (c).
US12010471B2
Wireless-enabled loudspeaker includes a capacitive touch user interface. The loudspeaker may comprise at least one electroacoustic transducer, a processor in communication with the at least one electroacoustic transducer, and an exterior surface comprising a capacitive touch user interface that allows a user to control operation of the loudspeaker. The exterior surface acts a dielectric for the capacitive touch user interface. The loudspeaker may comprise a wireless transceiver circuit for receiving and transmitting wireless communication signals via a wireless network. The wireless transceiver circuit may receive wirelessly audio content from streaming audio content servers that are connected to the Internet. The capacitive touch user interface comprises a plurality of capacitive sense electrodes.
US12010460B2
The monitoring device of the disclosure includes a carrying unit having at least one carrying area for carrying a monitored object, at least part of the carrying area is provided with a corresponding image capturing unit and a corresponding optical path adjusting unit; the image capturing unit captures a monitoring image of the carrying area, each image capturing unit has a preset field of view, each image capturing unit forms the monitoring image according to light incident from the field of view; at least part of the carrying area is an extension area, the extension area is positioned outside the field of view of the image capturing unit; the optical path adjusting unit enables the light emitted from the extension area of the carrying area corresponding thereto to enter the image capturing unit from the field of view of the image capturing unit corresponding to the carrying area.
US12010459B1
A plurality of device-sharing participants may be detected that are participating in a videoconference via a shared computing device. The detecting of the plurality of device-sharing participants may be performed based, at least in part, on at least one of an audio analysis of captured audio from one or more microphones or a video analysis of captured video from one or more cameras. A plurality of participant connections corresponding to the plurality of device-sharing participants may be joined to the videoconference. Each of the plurality of participant connections may be identified within the videoconference using a respective name. A plurality of video streams and a plurality of audio streams corresponding to the plurality of participant connections may be transmitted, and the plurality of video streams and the plurality of audio streams may be presented to at least one other conference participant.
US12010453B1
An apparatus for selectively displaying a reverse image of a user includes a screen configured to display images, an imaging device hidden behind the screen, a processor, and a memory. The memory includes instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to capture the first image of a user, determine an eye-level height of the user based on the captured first image, move the imaging device to the determined eye-level height of the user, capture a second image of the user at the eye-level height of the user, render a mirrored image of the second image based on the vertical axis of the imaging device, and display the rendered mirrored image on the screen.
US12010450B2
In an on-screen display (OSD) image processing method for generating an interpolated frame with interpolated blocks, motion compensation is performed to generate motion compensation (MC) data according to a first motion vector referring to a previous frame and a second motion vector referring to a current frame. Zero-motion data are generated according to a zero-motion vector referring to the previous frame and the current frame. The MC data of a first weight and the zero-motion data of a second weight are blended to generate each interpolated block as a processed block. When the number of pixels having OSD data in the processed block is less than a first positive threshold and larger than a second positive threshold, the processed block is determined as an extended OSD block and the second weight of the extended OSD block is less than that of an OSD block.
US12010447B2
A dynamic vision sensor (DVS) or change detection sensor reacts to changes in light intensity and in this way monitors how a scene changes. This disclosure covers both single pixel and array architectures. The DVS may contain one pixel or 2-dimensional or 1-dimensional array of pixels. The change of intensities registered by pixels are compared, and pixel addresses where the change is positive or negative are recorded and processed. Analyzing frames based on just three values for pixels, increase, decrease or unchanged, the proposed DVS can process visual information much faster than traditional computer vision systems, which correlate multi-bit color or gray level pixel values between successive frames.
US12010446B2
A method in an integrated circuit device to compress images, including: generating, by an image processing logic circuit and based on first data representative of an input image, input data; generating, by an inference logic circuit and based on the input data, a column of inputs; converting, by the inference logic circuit using voltage drivers connected to wordlines and memory cells storing a weight matrix, and into output currents of the memory cells summed in bitlines, results of bitwise multiplications of bits in the column of inputs and bits stored in the memory cells in a form of threshold voltages of the memory cells; digitizing currents summed in the bitlines to obtain column outputs; generating, by the inference logic circuit, output data based on the column outputs; and generating, using the output data, second data representative of an output image compressed from the input image.
US12010444B2
According to an embodiment, an image sensor using photon counting includes: a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in one pixel; pulse generators which are respectively connected to the plurality of sub-pixels, and are configured to generate pulse signals based on electric signals generated based on photons incident on the plurality of sub-pixels; a synchronizer and serializer configured to synchronize and serialize pulse signals respectively output from the pulse generators; and a counter configured to count and output a number of the pulse signals that are synchronized and serialized.
US12010440B2
The present disclosure describes systems and techniques directed to optical image stabilization movement to create a super-resolution image of a scene. The systems and techniques include a user device (102) introducing (502), through an optical image stabilization system (114), movement to one or more components of a camera system (112) of the user device (102). The user device (102) then captures (504) respective and multiple frames (306) of an image of a scene, where the respective and multiple frames (306) of the image of the scene have respective, sub-pixel offsets of the image of the scene across the multiple frames (306) as a result of the introduced movement to the one or more components of the camera system (112). The user device (102) performs (506), based on the respective, sub-pixel offsets of the image of the scene across the respective, multiple frames (306), super-resolution computations and creates (508) the super-resolution image of the scene based on the super-resolution computations.
US12010428B2
Systems and methods of capturing imagery are provided. In particular, an imaging platform can be configured to capture imagery using a dual-axis steering mirror and one or more image capture devices. The line of sight angle of the imaging platform can be controlled by controlling the motion of the steering mirror in accordance with a motion profile. In example embodiments, the motion profile can correspond to a sawtooth wave. The imaging platform can further include one or more position sensors used to determine a position and/or orientation of the imaging platform along a path on which the imaging platform travels. The motion of the steering mirror can then be controlled to rotate about a first axis and a second axis to compensate for line of sight errors based at least in part on the determined position and/or orientation.
US12010416B1
An embedded ceramic substrate package includes a ceramic substrate embedded in one or more layers. The one or more layers include at least a bulk molding compound (BMC) and a redistribution layer (RDL). At least a portion of the one or more layers includes electrical signal trace routing. The embedded ceramic substrate package is attached to an image sensor that is configured to capture light projected onto a surface of the image sensor.
US12010409B2
A dedicated self-cleaning cycle for a camera for imaging a cavity of an oven is provided. An indication is received to perform a localized pyrolytic cycle to clean a view port glass protecting an image sensor of the camera from heat or detritus in the cavity of the oven. Responsive to the indication, a camera viewport heating element configured to provide localized heating to the view port glass is operated to perform the localized pyrolytic cycle. The camera is utilized to view the cavity of the oven.
US12010403B2
For example, in a competition, such as a race competition, in which comparison with others is important, there is a demand for viewing a relationship between a motion of the entire competition and a motion of each player at once. For this purpose, an information processing apparatus includes: a content generation unit that generates display content by combining a first image captured by a first imaging device and a second image captured by the first imaging device or another imaging device and having a part of subjects in the first image as a subject.
US12010402B2
In a data processing method for an immersive media, independently coded region description information of an independently coded region of the immersive media is acquired. The independently coded region corresponds to a segmented video of a plurality of segmented videos encapsulated in tracks of a same track group. The independently coded region description information includes an independently coded region information and coordinate information. The coordinate information includes coordinate system identification information that indicates a coordinate system of the independently coded region. Further, the segmented video of the immersive media is displayed according to the independently coded region description information. Apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium counterpart embodiments are also contemplated.
US12010398B2
Systems and methods for graphical data presentation during a sporting event broadcast are disclosed. A server platform is constructed and configured in network communication with at least one input device and at least one display device. The at least one input device transmits input data with time code related to the sporting event to the server platform in real time or near real time. The server platform processes the input data according to a production sequencing of the sporting event, thereby creating processed data. The server platform creates and integrates the processed data with a video presentation of the sporting event based on the production sequencing of the sporting event. The at least one display device displays a customized graphical presentation of the processed data with the video presentation.
US12010394B2
Techniques for a trusted system for secure content distribution and trusted recording of content consumption are described. In some embodiments, the trusted system transcodes and transcrypts a media content item using a key obtained from a content provider and one or more keys based on an entitlement from a service provider to generate an encrypted media content item. The trusted system further receives a request to provide the media content item to a client device. The trusted system also obtains a signed audit token recording the request upon an authorization by the service provider based on the entitlement and a confirmation by the content provider, where the signed audit token is signed by the content provider and the service provider. The trusted system additionally provides the one or more keys for decrypting the encrypted media content item and reports the signed audit token.
US12010393B2
A processor may automatically generate one or more transcripts based on a media context. The processor may append at least one of the one or more transcripts to the media. The processor may modify the at least one of the one or more transcripts based on an adjustment to a weight factor.
US12010390B2
Methods, systems and computer products disclosed herein are directed to an O.C. Engine that detects a first request sent from a requesting account during a target account session, the target account associated with multiple sessions. The O.C. Engine generates a first request parent node active for a range of time. The O.C. Engine detects a subsequent second request sent from the requesting account and generates a second request node. The O.C. Engine verifies that the subsequent second request is not an initial request by the requesting account during a range of time that has not yet expired. Upon verification, the O.C. Engine identifies the second request node as a child node by generating a link between the parent node and the child node.
US12010381B2
An electronic device including a display device configured to render first content. The electronic device is communicably coupled to the display device and controls one or more imaging devices to receive one or more images from the one or more imaging devices. The electronic device further determines a first position of one or more living objects within a pre-defined region from the display device, based on the received one or more images and the rendered first content. The electronic device further controls an orientation of the display device towards the determined first position of the one or more living objects.
US12010380B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to measure exposure to streaming media are disclosed. An example apparatus to measure media exposure, the apparatus including memory, computer readable instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the computer readable instructions to obtain an image of streaming media presented by a media device, the media device separate from the processor circuitry, extract a video watermark from a chroma key of the obtained image, convert the video watermark into text formatted metadata, and transmit the text formatted metadate to a central facility.
US12010372B2
Systems and methods for managing group encryption are described. In certain methods, a content asset may be encrypted with an asset key. An account key may be determined. Using the account key, an encrypted content asset package may be generated. The asset key may make up at least a portion of the encrypted content asset package. The encrypted content asset package is decryptable with the account key. The encrypted content asset package and an identifier associated with the account key may be transmitted, for example to a playback device.
US12010371B2
An information processing apparatus generates structural information of a digest video from a video material. In the information processing apparatus, a video acquisition means acquires a video material. A condition acquisition means acquires a generation condition for generating the digest video from the creator. A generation means generates structural information indicating a structure of the digest video that is generated based on the video material based on the generation condition, and outputs the generated structural information.
US12010367B2
Techniques for broadcast in-home streaming are described. In some embodiments, the method is performed at a gateway device. The gateway device demultiplexes a broadcast stream to a plurality of streams, including a first stream and a second stream and anchors a first presentation time range of a first segment based on a random access point in the first stream and a first frame in the second stream. The gateway device also identifies one or more frames in the first stream based on presentation timestamps and decoding timestamps of a last frame in the first presentation time range and a first frame in a second presentation time range. The gateway device further captures frames from the second stream within the first presentation time range and generates the first segment having the first presentation time range, including the random access point, the one or more frames, the first frame, and the frames.
US12010357B1
The present invention provides a server platform in communication with a plurality of user devices. The server platform retrieves and transmits data regarding a live broadcast event to the plurality of user devices and provides an interactive activity related to the live broadcast event. In one embodiment, in order to account for delays between the broadcasts of different players, the server platform utilizes at least one graphical element and/or at least one audiovisual element of the live broadcast event to generate separate pools of players participating in the interactive activity, thereby increasing fairness.
US12010345B2
A method for decoding of a video bitstream implemented by a decoding device, wherein the video bitstream includes data representing one or more sequence parameter set, SPS, flags, the method comprising: for an SPS flag of the one or more SPS flags, obtaining two variables of the SPS flag, respectively, by parsing the video bitstream, wherein the value of one variable of the two variables is the minimum allowed value of the SPS flag, and wherein the value of the other variable of the two variables is the maximum allowed value of the SPS flag; obtaining the SPS flag, by parsing the video bitstream; evaluating whether the value of the SPS flag is valid based on the values of the two variables; and in case that the value of the SPS flag is valid, decoding the video bitstream according to the value of the SPS flag.
US12010339B2
An image decoding device (200) includes: a prediction signal generation unit (241D) configured to determine whether or not an application condition of BDOF processing is satisfied for each block, generate a prediction signal by executing the BDOF processing in a case where it is determined that the application condition is satisfied, and set the application condition based on a weight coefficient in a case where calculation is performed using pixel values of two reference frames or values calculated from the pixel values in the BDOF processing such that the application condition includes a condition on time distances between the two reference frames and a target frame.
US12010332B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for video compression. The present implementations more specifically relate to video compression techniques that account for spatial-temporal changes in pixel values. In some aspects, an encoder may determine a change importance factor (CIF) for each image tile of a current image to be encoded. The encoder may calculate the CIF for an image tile of the current image (the “current image tile”) based on a degree of variation among the pixel values in the current image tile, a degree of change between the current image tile and a respective image tile of a previously-encoded image (the “previous image tile”), and a degree of variation among the pixel values in the previous image tile. In some implementations, the encoder may determine whether to transmit each of the current image tiles to a receiving device based on the CIF associated with the respective image tile.
US12010329B2
Examples described herein relate to decoding and encoding signals. Certain examples described herein encapsulate custom data that is not signal data within a stream of encoded signal data. The custom data may comprise a wide variety of metadata that annotates the signal data, or provides additional information relating to the signal data. Certain examples described herein encapsulate custom data within a set of transformed coefficient values that represent data derived from a transform operation that forms part of the signal encoding. The encapsulation is may be performed by applying a bit shift operation to coefficient bits representing the set of transformed coefficient values.
US12010326B2
An image encoding/decoding method may comprise deriving at least one merge candidate of a current block, generating an initial merge candidate list of the current block by using the derived at least one merge candidate and generating a reconfigured merge candidate list by using the initial merge candidate list.
US12010325B2
An example apparatus includes a first frame buffer configured to store video data; a second frame buffer configured to store video data; and one or more processors configured to: reconstruct samples of a first block of a current picture of video data; store, in parallel, a compressed version of the samples of the first block of video data in the first frame buffer and an uncompressed version of the samples of the first block of video data in the second frame buffer; and responsive to determining to reconstruct a second block of the current picture of video data using intra block copy: obtain, from the second frame buffer, samples of a predictor block located in the current picture of video data, the predictor block at least partially overlapping the first block of video data; and predict, based on the obtained samples of the predictor block, samples of the second block.
US12010323B2
Provided is an image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus including deriving a temporary reference motion vector for a current block included in a current picture, deriving a reference motion vector for the current block by applying clipping to the temporary reference motion vector, deriving a motion vector for the current block based on the reference motion vector, deriving a predicted block for the current block based on the motion vector for the current block, and generating a reconstructed picture for the current picture based on the predicted block for the current block, wherein a number of bits of a binary code representing the reference motion vector is less than a number of bits of a binary code representing the temporary reference motion vector.
US12010308B2
The present invention relates to a method and device for transmitting block division information for efficient image coding in a video compression technique for a high-definition security camera. To this end, the present invention obtains block division information from a bitstream, determines the division form of an image by computing and predicting omitted information if there is omitted information in the obtained information, and performs video decoding in the unit of a divided block.
US12010307B2
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for subband-coding a frequency conversion unit and a video encoding/decoding method a video encoding/decoding apparatus using the same. The method and the apparatus for subband-coding the frequency conversion unit include generating an encoding stream by splitting the frequency conversion unit into one or more frequency domains, generating frequency domain encoding information according to whether there is a non-zero frequency coefficient in each frequency domain, scanning the frequency coefficient of each frequency domain to generate a frequency domain frequency coefficient stream, and binarizing and encoding the frequency domain encoding information and the scanned frequency domain frequency coefficient stream.
US12010304B2
A video signal encoding/decoding method and apparatus according to the present invention divide a current block into two prediction units, construct a list of merge candidates for the current block, derive motion information of the current block using a merge candidate index and the list of merge candidates of the current block, and perform inter-prediction of the current block using the derived motion information.
US12010303B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus may include determining a chroma array type of a current image, determining an adaptive loop filter (ALF) indicator of a chroma component based on the chroma array type, and performing ALF filtering with respect to a reconstructed image based on a value of the ALF indicator. The value of the ALF indicator may be determined to be a predetermined value without being obtained from a bitstream, based on the chroma array type being a predetermined type, and the value of the ALF indicator may be obtained from the bitstream, based on the chroma array type being not the predetermined type.
US12010290B2
An image display method according to the present disclosure includes: a step of extracting each portion obtained by dividing one display target of the first and second display targets from one display target (S11); a step of determining whether the extracted portion is in contact with the other display target for each portion of one display target based on attribute information indicating presence of contact between each portion and the other display target among the first and second display targets (S12); and a step of displaying the extracted portion on a display device that displays the other display target when it is determined that the extracted portion is in contact with the other display target (S13) and displaying the extracted portion on a display device that displays one display target when it is determined that the extracted portion is not in contact with the other display target (S14).
US12010289B2
A communication head-up display system includes a communication device and a head-up display. The communication device includes a first controller which determines eye-positions of eyes of a user in at least one direction. The head-up display includes a display panel, an optical element, a reflector. The display panel displays a parallax image. The optical element defines a propagation direction of image light emitted from the parallax image. The reflector reflects the image light whose propagation direction is defined by the optical element. The reflector includes a reflection element and a drive device. The reflection element reflects the image light. The drive device changes at least one of position and posture of the reflection element so that the image light reflected by the reflection element arrives at the eye-positions.
US12010283B2
An image processing apparatus is connected to an information processing apparatus via a network. The image processing apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive, from the information processing apparatus, sending information including at least any of a sending destination, a sending source, and a reply destination of an email, and a job relating to sending of the email using the sending information, a setting unit configured to set the sending information received by the reception unit for at least any of the sending destination, the sending source, and the reply destination, and a sending unit configured to create and send the email using the sending information.
US12010282B2
An image forming system operable to perform image formation on a sheet includes a storage for storing a sheet, a conveyor configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path a sheet size setter configured to set a size of the sheet stored in the storage, a sheet size detector configured to detect a size of the sheet conveyed by the conveyor, at least one memory that stores at least one program, and at least one processor. The at least one program causes the at least one processor to perform obtaining a difference between the size set by the sheet size setter and the size detected by the sheet size detector, and controlling image formation, wherein when the difference is greater than a first reference value, the processor interrupts image formation, and when the difference is less than or equal to the first reference value and greater than a second reference value, which is smaller than the first reference value, the processor notifies a warning without interrupting image formation.
US12010278B2
An image reading apparatus includes a document bed on which a document is placed, an automatic document feeder (an example of an opening/closing member) configured to be opened/closed with respect to the document bed, a rotational supporting section provided at one end of the document bed and rotatably supporting the automatic document feeder with respect to the document bed, and a height adjustment mechanism that adjusts the height of the automatic document feeder relative to the document bed. The rotational supporting section has a holding section fixed to the document bed and a rotary fulcrum section attached to the holding section and being movable in the up-down direction relative to the holding section. The height adjustment mechanism adjusts the height of the rotary fulcrum section relative to the holding section to adjust the height of the automatic document feeder relative to the document bed and overlaps the holding section and the rotary fulcrum section in the vertical direction.
US12010275B2
In a case where an image processing apparatus and a terminal display screens in an associated manner, if the terminal receives a user operation in a state where an enlarged screen is displayed only on the terminal, and the terminal transmits information about the operation as it is to the image processing apparatus, processing not intended by the user may possibly be performed. Therefore, when the terminal receives a user operation in a state where an enlarged screen is displayed only on the terminal, the terminal does not transmit the operation information as it is to the image processing apparatus.
US12010273B2
A wireless tag communication device includes an antenna, a first maximum value acquiring unit, a second maximum value acquiring unit, a first minimum value acquiring unit, a second minimum value acquiring unit, and a polarization direction determining unit. The wireless tag communication device acquires, for each of n wireless tags provided on a sheet, a maximum value M1(k) of a received power intensity of the wireless tag when the radio wave is transmitted from the antenna to the sheet in a first polarization direction; acquires, for each of the wireless tags, a maximum value M2(k) of a received power intensity of the wireless tag when the radio wave is transmitted from the antenna in a second polarization direction that is different from the first polarization direction; acquires a minimum value m1 of M1(k); acquires a minimum value m2 of M2(k); and determines the polarization direction along which one of m1 and m2 that is not smaller is acquired as the polarization direction of the radio wave transmitted to the sheet.
US12010271B1
In one example, a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) endpoint device such as a smart phone or other CPU device interfaces with a data communications server which provides VoIP services to a plurality of VoIP-capable endpoint devices. The VoIP endpoint device includes at least one computer processor circuit and memory circuit that are configured to obtain current geolocation data. The VoIP endpoint device retrieves previously-reported geolocation data from the memory circuit and determines, based upon the previously-reported geolocation data and the current geolocation data, that a mismatch trigger event has occurred. The VoIP endpoint device sends, in response to the determining, the current geolocation data from the particular endpoint device to the VoIP server. The current geolocation data is stored in the memory circuit.
US12010270B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of a digital assistant device (305) of managing a voice call established between a calling party (300) and a recipient (303), the voice call having been queued to await a response by a human representative (303a) of the recipient (303) of the voice call, and a digital assistant device (305) performing the method. In a first aspect, a method of a digital assistant device (305) of managing a voice call established between a calling party (300) and a recipient (303), the voice call having been queued to await a response by a human representative (303a) of the recipient (303) of the voice call, is provided. The method comprises detecting (S101), from a voice indication of the voice call, information indicating a point in time when the human representative (303a) of the recipient (303) is expected to be able to provide a response to the queued voice call, and setting (S102) the calling party (300) in contact with the recipient (303) at the determined point in time.
US12010260B2
In some implementations, a system may capture audio from a call between a calling device and a called device. The system may filter the captured audio to generate a background audio layer. The system may generate an audio footprint that is a representation of sound in the background audio layer. The system may determine that the audio footprint includes a triggering sound footprint based on one or more audio characteristics of the audio footprint. The system may detect synthetic sound based on the audio footprint and after determining that the audio footprint includes the triggering sound footprint, wherein the synthetic sound is indicative of a sound recording. The system may transmit a notification to one or more devices associated with the call based on detecting the synthetic sound.
US12010259B2
An electronic device includes an extendable support including a first structure and a second structure to receive at least a portion of the first structure and guide relative movement of the first structure with respect to the second structure, a display having compact and expanded positions based on the relative movement of the first structure, a motor to generate an output force to cause the relative movement of the first and second structures, a sensor to detect a posture in which the electronic device is positioned, and a processor to change the output force of the motor based on the posture of the electronic device detected by the sensor.
US12010258B2
The invention enables digital music content to be downloaded to and used on a portable wireless computing device. An application running on the wireless device has been automatically adapted to parameters associated with the wireless device without end-user input (e.g. the application has been configured in dependence on the device OS and firmware, related bugs, screen size, pixel number, security models, connection handling, memory etc. This application enables an end-user to browse and search music content on a remote server using a wireless network; to download music content from that remote server using the wireless network and to playback and manage that downloaded music content. The application also includes a digital rights management system that enables unlimited legal downloads of different music tracks to the device and also enables any of those tracks stored on the device to be played so long as a subscription service has not terminated.
US12010249B1
A method and device for zero-trust fusion computation of multi-party data is provided, which adopts a chip-level based trusted execution environment (TEE) technique, and by improving a development preparation phase of a fusion computation background and improving a calculation phase, enable fusion computation of multi-party data to be performed in a zero-trust secure running environment, guaranteeing that the data is in a secure state without trusting any party during an entire process of transmission, storage and fusion computation, and allowing for enhanced data privacy protection. The solution brings many advantages in terms of data storage security, data transmission security and data use security as well as universality and performance superiority.
US12010246B2
Systems and applications are described that use group signature technology to allow for anonymous and/or semi-anonymous feedback while allowing for the application of rules and parameters. The use of group signature technology may serve to potentially mitigate or prevent malicious identification of individuals or entities providing a communication such as feedback. Feedback may range from constructive feedback all the way to the ‘whistleblower’ variety. It may be desirable to identify the individuals as belonging to a particular group or having a particular status or position while maintaining the anonymity of the individuals within the particular group.
US12010233B2
A computer implemented method and system is described which uses blockchain technology as a storage system for data acquired from a digital twin. The blockchain can be used to generate an immutable transaction history of data produced by the digital twin. In the case of an error, failure, incident, or accident, parties of interest can then access and analyse an immutable set of data. The blockchain network can also execute a digital smart contract based on the data received from a digital twin. The invention may be used in conjunction with the Bitcoin blockchain or another blockchain protocol.
US12010230B2
The reliability of a second public key which is part of a second key pair generated in association with a first key pair is certified. A generating apparatus 210 provides certification data to a receiving apparatus 220 (S301). The receiving apparatus 220 transmits a certification request requesting a certification that the second public key PK2 is in a parent-child relationship with the first public key PKI to a certifying apparatus 230 (S302). In this example, the certification request includes the certification data, but if the certification data is provided directly from the generating apparatus 210 to the certifying apparatus 230, the certification request does not need to include the certification data. The certifying apparatus 230 verifies the certification data by calculating a verification formula for the certification data in response to the certification request (S303).
US12010226B2
A node in a blockchain network may generate a key for a first ring, wherein the key unlocks a first collection of data, defining a second ring including a second node of a second organization, derive a second key for a second collection of data, wherein the first key and the second key access the second collection of data, and distributing the second key to the second node.
US12010225B2
A system and a receiver for generating quantum key(s) using conjugated homodyne detection is provided. The receiver may communicate with a transmitter via an insecure quantum channel and a classical channel to generate the quantum key(s). A decoder, in the receiver, may determine, based at least in part on quadratures X, P measured by conjugated homodyne detectors, a raw-key signal corresponding to a key signal generated by the transmitter, and a distribution of photon numbers corresponding to a quantum signal received via the insecure quantum channel. Information about the key signal is exchanged between the receiver and the transmitter via the classical channel and used to determine a quantum bit error rate of the determined raw-key signal. A gain is also obtained. A secure-key rate is calculated based at least in part on the gain, the quantum bit error rate, and the photon number distribution.
US12010222B2
A quantum-computing threats surveillance system for use in quantum communication environments is a quantum-surveillance technology which detects quantum computing threats based on free electron monitoring and entangled state measurement, and performs time-and-space analysis on quantum communication environments via making use of specific Fourier transforms, and then collaborate with a system of Lotka-Volterra competition models for variance analysis, so as to determine whether there is suspicious or potential quantum computing in a quantum communication environment. Furthermore, it can monitor different quantum-teleportation channels to achieve the effect of tracking specific quantum-computing behaviors for a long term.
US12010216B2
The present disclosure relates to highly secure, high speed encryption methodologies suitable for applications such as media streaming, streamed virtual private network (VPN) services, large file transfers and the like. For example, encryption methodologies as described herein can provide stream ciphers for streaming data from, for example, a media service provider to a plurality of users. Certain configurations provide wire speed single use encryption. The methodologies as described herein are suited for use with blockchain (e.g. Bitcoin) technologies.
US12010202B2
A user plane function UPF receives, from a SMF, a DU identification information for identifying a plurality of packets for one or more DUs of an application. The UPF receives a first plurality of packets, of the plurality of packets, of a first DU of the application; and a second plurality of packets, of the plurality of packets, of a second DU of the application. The UPF sends, to an access node and using the DU identification information a first GTP container comprising a first GTP header comprising a first number identifying the first plurality of packets, and a second GTP container comprising a second GTP header comprising a second number identifying the second plurality of packets.
US12010196B2
A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The client device accesses an acceleration server to receive a list of available tunnel devices. The requested content is partitioned into slices, and the client device sends a request for the slices to the available tunnel devices. The tunnel devices in turn fetch the slices from the data server, and send the slices to the client device, where the content is reconstructed from the received slices. A client device may also serve as a tunnel device, serving as an intermediate device to other client devices. Similarly, a tunnel device may also serve as a client device for fetching content from a data server. The selection of tunnel devices to be used by a client device may be in the acceleration server, in the client device, or in both. The partition into slices may be overlapping or non-overlapping, and the same slice (or the whole content) may be fetched via multiple tunnel devices.
US12010195B2
Techniques are disclosed for utilizing control packets to manage flows by a smart network interface card (smartNIC). In one example, an accelerator determines that a cache entry is a candidate for removal, the cache entry being part of a cache that is managed by the accelerator, the cache entry storing flow state of a particular flow, the accelerator being responsible for forwarding packets associated with the particular flow based at least in part on the flow state, and the flow information formatted utilizing a particular header format. The accelerator generates an instruction to remove the cache entry of the particular flow from the cache based at least in part on receiving the determination that the cache entry is the candidate for removal. The accelerator removes the cache entry of the particular flow from the cache based at least in part on the instruction.
US12010189B2
A system and method for managing third-party software packages at a roadside edge node. The method includes: receiving a third-party software package at an edge node management controller that is located at a roadside edge node, wherein the edge node management controller is used to execute a software manager application; using the software manager application, installing the third-party software package at the roadside edge node; executing the third-party software package at the roadside edge node; and providing sensor information to the third-party software package indicating information concerning one or more sensors that are present at the roadside edge node.
US12010186B2
Disclosed herein is a method for indirect communication in a core network of a wireless communication system using a Service Communication Proxy, SCP, with Transport Layer Security, TLS, the method comprising: at a Network Function, NF, service consumer: sending, to the SCP, a Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP, message that is intended for a first NF service producer instance, the HTTP message using a Fully Qualified Domain Name, FQDN, of the SCP and having a path that includes a query parameter set to a first value; and at the SCP: receiving the HTTP message from the NF service consumer; obtaining a HTTP response for the HTTP message; and sending the HTTP response to the NR service consumer; and at the NF service consumer: receiving the HTTP response from the SCP.
US12010185B2
An experience sharing system is configured to share an experience between a request user terminal and an execution user terminal. The experience sharing system includes an accepter, an experience sharing determiner, an information acquirer, and a distributor. The accepter is configured to accept each of request information related to a request of the experience from the request user terminal and execution information related to performing the experience from the execution user terminal. The experience sharing determiner is configured to determine the experience to be shared between the request user terminal and the execution user terminal based on the request information and the execution information. The information acquirer is configured to acquire shared information when the shared information including a voice or an image to share the experience is acquired by the execution user terminal. The distributor is configured to distribute the shared information to the request user terminal.
US12010184B1
Embodiments of a method for building funnel websites using artificial intelligence (AI) in a tiered software framework comprise receiving a prompt with requirements for generating a funnel website, performing, by an AI engine, a search for a plurality of funnel website templates based at least on the prompt, ranking the plurality of funnel website templates returned in the search from a highest rank to a lowest rank, and selecting a funnel website template having the highest rank. The tiered software framework includes data from accounts of a plurality of subscribers, and the requirements are from one subscriber in the plurality of subscribers. The method further includes retrieving business information of the one subscriber, filling the selected funnel website template with the business information to generate the funnel website, and deploying the funnel website at one of a plurality of tiers of the tiered software framework.
US12010182B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to methods, computer-readable media, systems, and apparatuses for receiving data. An electronic computer implemented method of API testing and validation is provided. In the method, via a computer-based network, includes receiving a plurality of executable code requests for a first plurality of uniform resource network nodes associated with a first network protocol and a second plurality of uniform resource network nodes associated with a second network protocol. In the method each of the executable code requests are associated with a baseline attribute data value. Further, the method includes electronically receiving a plurality of payload response attribute data values associated with each executable request and electronically parsing the payload response attribute values with Parser component. The method includes electronically processing the parsed payload response attribute values with Comparator component and mapping to each of the code requests associated with the baseline attribute value to generate a virtual hash map of key pairs.
US12010173B2
Techniques and apparatus for data networking are described. In one example, a method of queuing Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) packets includes receiving a first RDMA packet having a first quality-of-service (QoS) data field; based on a value of the first QoS data field, queueing the first RDMA packet in a first queue of a plurality of queues; receiving a second RDMA packet having a second QoS data field; and based on a value of the second QoS data field, queueing the second RDMA packet in a second queue of the plurality of the queues, the second queue being different than the first queue.
US12010165B2
Methods for loading a module on a plurality of device types without modification includes initializing an application native to the client device, the application including a web browser; determining a module to be loaded on the application, the module written in a web-based format and having a set of dependencies indicated within a code thereof; and loading the determined module on the web browser for recognition by the application native to the client device. The loading the determined module on the web browser includes loading the set of dependencies of the module.
US12010149B2
Integrated controls frameworks are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for using an integrated control framework for an application comprising a plurality of application modules may include: (1) defining an application profile, an application model, and a target cloud environment for an application; (2) identifying a plurality of security, resiliency, and controls requirements for the target cloud environment; (3) configuring a plurality of security controls for the application based on the plurality of security, resiliency, and controls requirements; and (4) deploying the security controls to the target cloud environment.
US12010146B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for unified security configuration management. A method may comprise: determine a security configuration to be executed; determine at least one security application which is installed on at least one node and is associated with the security configuration; format for the security configuration, instructions corresponding to each of the at least one security application, respectively; and send the instructions to the at least one node for respective configuration for each of the at least one security application.
US12010137B2
A method and system for creating a composite security rating from security characterization data of a third party computer system. The security characterization data is derived from externally observable characteristics of the third party computer system. Advantageously, the composite security score has a relatively high likelihood of corresponding to an internal audit score despite use of externally observable security characteristics. Also, the method and system may include use of multiple security characterizations all solely derived from externally observable characteristics of the third party computer system.
US12010132B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for automatically mitigating potential network services attacks based on service usage patterns learned using Machine Learning (ML) comprising, collecting operational data indicative of resource utilization of one or more network services serving a plurality of connections and of a plurality of operational factors of the plurality of connections, detecting degradation of the network service(s) based on analysis of the operational data, applying trained ML model(s) to the operational data in order to identify negative operational factor(s) of one or more suspected connections to the network service estimated to induce the degradation where the one or more ML model is trained to predict an impact pattern induced by each of a plurality of operational factors on the resource utilization of the one or more network services, and disconnecting, at least temporarily, the suspected connection(s) from the network service(s).
US12010131B2
Examples of the present disclosure relate to a system, method, and computer-readable medium for link anomaly detection across an inter-processor link in an infotainment system of a vehicle. In an example, the system includes a first processor, a second processor, and an inter-processor link to connect the second processor to the first processor. The system may include an anomalous detector and corrector module (ADCM) located on at least one of the first processor and the second processor, the ADCM to monitor a data exchange over the inter-processor link and initiate a correction action in response to an identification that the data exchange over the inter-processor link is anomalous.
US12010128B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to build privacy preserving models. An example apparatus disclosed herein includes a training manager to generate a first modeling plan for client-side resources, and transmit the first modeling plan to the client-side resources. The example apparatus also includes a data aggregator to search for a primary validation flag in response to retrieving client-side model parameters, and an accuracy calculator to, in response to detecting the primary validation flag, perform a secondary validation corresponding to the client-side model parameters using a server-side ground truth data set, and determine whether to update the global model with the client-side model parameters based on a comparison of results of the secondary validation and a validation threshold.
US12010111B2
A server application can serve a web application to a client device as a client web application from a web application host. The server application can be a secure HTTPS website. The web application on the client device can provide a token over a local network using a HTTP request to a target device on the local network. The token is associated with a secure area of a remote repository. Having received the one or more tokens, the target device can indicate that a link has been established to the secure area by writing to or reading from the secure area as the server application informs the client web application executing in a browser at a client device of the read/write. The target device and client web application can then communicate via the secure area, for example, to store or retrieve data associated with a user.
US12010105B2
A first device and a home hub have a same TEE platform, and a second device and the home hub have different TEE platforms. A control method includes the home hub receiving an identity credential of the second device and public key information of the first device from the second device. The home hub controls an IoT device based on the identity credential of the second device. The home hub receives private key information that is of the first device and that is from the first device. The home hub forms an identity credential of the first device based on the public key information of the first device and the private key information of the first device to control the IoT device.
US12010092B2
A solution is disclosed for providing automatic multicast address assignment and conflict resolution for AV streams multicast over a networked AV system. The solution includes a device for monitoring the system for messages associated with AV streams multicast over the system and implementing a conflict resolution protocol when a conflict of multicast addresses is detected, where the conflict resolution protocol utilizes automatically randomly selecting a preliminary multicast address from a defined range of addresses.
US12010091B2
There is provided mechanisms for configuring an MQTT client node with a topic prefix. A method is performed by the MQTT client node. The method comprises sending a request to a DHCP server for configuration. The method comprises receiving a response from the DHCP server. The response comprises configuration information and at least one prefix string defining the topic prefix to be used together with a topic by the MQTT client node when publishing data on said topic.
US12010090B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage nameservers for domain name system (DNS) requests. In one implementation, a computing element receives a domain name system (DNS) configuration from a coordination service that includes a plurality of rules. The computing element identifies an operating system configuration on the computing element and maps each of the rules to local rule implementations on the computing element based on the operating system configuration. Once the local rule implementations are identified, the computing element applies the local rule implementations on the computing element.
US12010073B2
Current chatbot systems cannot understand enough different topics to converse with students who have questions about college admissions, financial aid, courses, and other topics on the path to and through college. Current chatbots also have a hard time understanding misspellings, slang, and context-specific language, e.g., like the language used by students. “Learning” new topics is very time-consuming for current chatbots. And it is difficult for administrators to participate in student conversations carried out in part by current chatbots. To address these technical problems, an inventive chatbot uses a natural language processor (e.g., a neural network) to receive, classify, and respond to queries on thousands of different topics. An inventive chatbot can also request real-time assistance from an administrator when faced with a difficult query and learn on-the-fly from the administrator's response. This ability to learn on-the-fly gives inventive chatbots significant performance advantages over current chatbots.
US12010068B2
A method of operating a wireless communication device including a plurality of antennas according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes determining an antenna subset including at least one of the plurality of antennas, transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) switching signal to a base station through at least one antenna of the antenna subset, receiving a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) transmitted using a first beam from the base station, selecting a precoding matrix indicator (PMI) based on the CSI-RS, transmitting the selected PMI to the base station, and receiving a signal transmitted from the base station through a second beam determined based on the SRS switching signal and the PMI.
US12010067B2
A method for operating a cell, performed by a network node. The method includes transmitting a frame comprising a set of slots receiving Channel State Information, CSI, reports at least indicative of interference measured by a user equipment using the set of slots, estimating a transmission direction pattern of an adjacent cell relative a transmission direction pattern of the cell based on the received CSI reports, and transmitting a signal to the user equipment based on the estimated transmission direction pattern of the adjacent cell.
US12010064B2
A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure has a transmission section that transmits uplink control information by using an uplink shared channel, and a control section that selects resource elements, which are provided at given frequency intervals, and which are for mapping the uplink control information, in a symbol adjacent to a symbol for a demodulation reference signal for the uplink shared channel.
US12010062B2
A method is performed by a wireless device for transmitting a Sounding Reference Signal, SRS. The method comprises receiving downlink control information triggering an aperiodic SRS transmission, and identifying a slot indicated by the downlink control information. If the slot indicated by the downlink control information is a downlink slot, the wireless device transmits the SRS in a slot that is not a downlink slot.
US12010057B2
A set of different pilot structures are designed for use in different environments and/or different user behaviours that are expected to occur in a cell. The radio conditions for a user are estimated. Each user is then assigned an area (108A-E) in resource space for its communication, which has a suitable pilot configuration. In one embodiment, the entire resource space is provided with different pilot structures in different parts (110A-D) In advance and allocation of resources to the users are then performed in order to match estimated radio conditions to the provided pilot structure. In another embodiment, allocation is performed first, and then the actual pilot structure is adapted within the allocated resource space area to suit the environmental conditions.
US12010054B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable media for DMRS transmission. A method implemented at a terminal device comprises selecting, from a plurality of computer generated (CG) sequences, a CG sequence for an uplink channel modulated with a predetermined modulation technique. The method further comprises generating, based on the selected CG sequence, a DMRS sequence for the uplink channel. In addition, the method further comprises transmitting, over the uplink channel, the DMRS sequence to a network device. The embodiments of the present disclosure can provide a set of candidate CG sequences with low PAPR, good autocorrelation performance and good cross-correlation performance for generating DMRS sequences for π/2-BPSK modulated PUSCH or PUCCH.
US12010035B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining data pertaining to a plurality of user equipment and a plurality of network resources, analyzing the data to identify that a first user equipment included in the plurality of user equipment is a reduced capability device, based on the analyzing, allocating first network resources included in the plurality of network resources to the first user equipment, resulting in a first allocation, and based on the analyzing, allocating second network resources included in the plurality of network resources to a second user equipment included in the plurality of user equipment, resulting in a second allocation. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12010033B2
There is disclosed a router for routing data on a computing chip comprising a plurality of processing elements, the router comprising: a packet processing pipeline; a dropped packet buffer; and one or more circuits configured to: determine that a data packet in the packet processing pipeline is to be dropped; move the data packet that is to be dropped from the packet processing pipeline to the dropped packet buffer; and re-insert the dropped data packet from the dropped packet buffer into the packet processing pipeline for re-processing.
US12010030B2
The present disclosure discloses a flow specification (FlowSpec) message processing method. In the method, a controller forwards device interface information reported by the forwarding device; selects at least one forwarding device interface to which a FlowSpec rule needs to be applied from the received forwarding device interface information; generates an application interface rule based on the at least one forwarding device interface to which the FlowSpec rule needs to be applied; and sends a FlowSpec message to the forwarding device.
US12010020B2
A system for storing data includes a controller, an Ethernet switch and a storage device. The controller is configured to receive data routing instructions, and manage forwarding rules of a switch forwarding table to implement the data routing instructions. The Ethernet switch is configured to receive data, access the switch forwarding table, and route the data to the storage device using the switch forwarding table.
US12010016B2
Embodiments of this application provide a data stream transmission method. The method includes a sending device that dynamically determines a packet-loss-concealment policy based on first path status information of a path used to send a data stream. The sending device generates a packet-loss-concealment packet for the data stream according to the packet-loss-concealment policy. The sending device sends the data stream on the path. The data stream includes an original packet and the packet-loss-concealment packet. Therefore, when receiving the data stream, a receiving device decodes the data stream according to the packet-loss-concealment policy received from the sending device, and recovers, by using the packet-loss-concealment packet, an original packet lost in a transmission process. This effectively improves a packet loss recovery effect, and improves user experience.
US12010009B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for distributing content, an electronic device, and a computer program product. The method for distributing content provided in embodiments of the present disclosure includes acquiring neighboring topological information of a plurality of nodes in a collaborative storage network, the plurality of nodes being used for collaboratively storing a plurality of contents requested by a client, the neighboring topological information at least indicating a one-hop relationship between directly connected one-hop node pairs among the plurality of nodes and a two-hop relationship between two-hop node pairs connected via an intermediate node among the plurality of nodes; determining a potential cost of transmitting a plurality of to-be-distributed contents among the plurality of nodes based on the neighboring topological information; and distributing a target content among the plurality of contents to a node among the plurality of nodes based on the potential cost.
US12010006B2
Techniques are disclosed for capturing network traffic in a computing environment comprising a plurality of computing devices. A data capture definition defines a network element of interest and data traffic that is to be captured for the network element. The network element to selectively identifies the data packets to be captured. The identified packets are encapsulated within a VXLAN session and sent to a storage service.
US12010004B2
A system manages a network using a graphical user interface (GUI) that maps the network. The mapping includes a topology of network layers and includes the generation of a path through the network, which may use virtualization technology. The path may be an AB network path that is automatically discovered and may be compared with a golden path.
US12009995B2
An example embodiment may involve a method performed by a software application executable on a central enterprise resource planning (ERP) client of a plurality of ERP clients. The ERP clients may be contained within a managed network. Each ERP client may be associated with one or more computing devices of the managed network on which ERP software is executable. Each ERP client may include a database that stores user-related data for individual users of the managed network whom are authorized to access the ERP client. The method may involve communicating with other ERP clients of the plurality of ERP clients to retrieve the user-related data stored in databases of the other ERP clients, storing the user-related data from the other ERP clients, and transmitting the user-related data to a computing device of a computational instance contained in a remote network management platform associated with the managed network.
US12009990B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for simulating hardware-based faults in a cloud provider network. A first computing device can send a command to an offload card installed on a second computing device to introduce a simulated hardware fault into the second computing device. Then the first computing device can determine whether the second computing device has successfully recovered from the simulated hardware fault. Alternatively, an entry in an access control list (ACL) of a network switch can be modified to block network traffic to a first network interface of a host machine that is connected to the network switch. Then, a command can be sent to a second network interface of the host machine to instruct the host machine to perform a hard reset. Then it can be determined whether the host machine has successfully booted subsequent to the hard reset.
US12009989B2
An data driven approach to generating synthetic data matrices is presented. By retrieving historical network traffic data, probabilistic models are generated. Optimal distribution families for a set of independent data segments are determined. Applications are tested and performance metrics are determined based on the generated synthetic data matrices.
US12009987B2
Some embodiments provide a method of transmitting data in a logical network that includes multiple hubs in a hub cluster and multiple branches. Each branch connects to a hub of the cluster through a virtual private network (VPN) tunnel. The method is performed by a network controller. The method assigns one of the hubs as a master hub. The method then sends a command to each of the other hubs in the hub cluster to establish a VPN tunnel between the other hub and the master hub. The method then advertises, to the other hubs, routes between the other hubs through the master hub. Each branch, in some embodiments is connected to only one hub in the hub cluster.
US12009983B1
Devices, computer-readable media, and methods for automatically configuring network elements in multi-vendor and multi-domain topologies. In one example, a method includes determining a need of a communications network, where a topology of the communications network includes a plurality of network functions from at least two different vendors, predicting a subset of the plurality of network functions and respective configuration parameter values for network functions in the subset, that are expected to support the need of the communications network, and modifying the configurations of the network functions in the subset to reflect the respective configuration parameter values.
US12009978B2
A system for NETCONF based alarm management for a PON network.
US12009974B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for self-optimizing networks. In some implementations, a method for self-optimizing networks includes obtaining information indicating performance metrics of a first set of computing resources of a distributed system; generating information representing usage of a wireless network at a first point in time; providing the information to a machine learning model trained to predict network events at a time subsequent to the first point in time; determining that at least one particular network event predicted in the output is addressable by using a second set of computing resources of the distributed system; transmitting a signal configured to adjust the distributed computing system to deploy the second set of computing resources.
US12009968B1
The present disclosure generally relates to a failover management service that can continuously monitor attributes of regional network resources to characterize resource availability per region. The failover management service associates the regional resource availability information with a set of hash values in which each individual hash value is representative a concatenation of a resource identifier and a client identifier associated with one or more individual clients. For individual hash values, the failover management service associates failover information, which is propagated to a DNS service. If a network-resource becomes unavailable, clients can transmit DNS queries including a hash value that discovers the appropriate failover information for the specific network-based resource and client device.
US12009960B2
Computerized wireless transmitter/receiver system that automatically uses combinations of various methods, including transmitting data symbols by weighing or modulating a family of time shifted and frequency shifted waveforms bursts, pilot symbol methods, error detection methods, MIMO methods, and other methods, to automatically determine the structure of a data channel, and automatically compensate for signal distortions caused by various structural aspects of the data channel, as well as changes in channel structure. Often the data channel is a two or three dimensional space in which various wireless transmitters, receivers and signal reflectors are moving. The invention's modulation methods detect locations and speeds of various reflectors and other channel impairments. Error detection schemes, variation of modulation methods, and MIMO techniques further detect and compensate for impairments. The invention can automatically optimize its operational parameters, and produce a deterministic non-fading signal in environments in which other methods would likely degrade.
US12009959B1
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Techniques described herein provide for managing peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) using an index modulation scheme. A first communication device may generate a set of information bits to convey to a second communication device via the index modulation scheme. A set of extra information bits may be generated using a linear coding scheme, and the set of extra information bits may be inserted into the set of information bits. The first communication device may encode the set of information bits with the inserted extra, and the first communication device may transmit, to the second communication device, a signal including the encoded set of information bits.
US12009951B2
Embodiments address optimization of an electrical interface between an optical host device and an optical module device at installation time. Certain methods try each entry in a set of Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter settings at the host transmitter, while asking the module to measure the signal integrity for each. The module will then provide an indication of which entry was the best choice for signal integrity in the current hardware configuration. Note that for the module to host electrical interface, this same technique can be used in reverse, whereby the host asks the module to configure its transmitting FIR filter, and the host records and keeps track of which filter setting is the best, and then configures the module with that filter setting. In both cases, for modules supporting CMIS (Common Management Interface Specification) for module configuration and control, methods are provided.
US12009948B2
A data processing apparatus and method, a base station, and a storage medium are provided. The apparatus includes: a processor, configured to determine a computation parallelism degree according to the number of antennas and pilot frequency information, acquire antenna data and channel estimation matrices of respective users, and store the antenna data and the channel estimation matrices in groups in a memory, and determine, according to the computation parallelism degree, target antenna data processed in parallel by an arithmetic unit in a single computation, wherein the target antenna data is part of the antenna data of the respective users; the memory, configured to store the antenna data and the channel estimation matrices in groups, and output the target antenna data and the channel estimation matrices to the arithmetic unit; and the arithmetic unit, configured to compute user data based on the target antenna data and the channel estimation matrices.
US12009939B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive one or more repetitions of a broadcast message for broadcast service in one or more transmission occasions. The UE may determine a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) configuration that indicates whether HARQ combining is supported for the broadcast message based at least in part on one or more properties of the broadcast message. The UE may perform a decode attempt on a transport block carried in the one or more repetitions of the broadcast message based at least in part on the HARQ configuration. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12009938B2
Disclosed herein is a web-based videoconference system that allows for video avatars to navigate within the three-dimensional virtual environment. The system and methods provided include those for: (1) using zones in a three-dimensional virtual environment for limiting audio and video, (2) access control using zones, (3) access control of the three-dimensional virtual environment itself, and (4) controlling user connections in a three dimensional virtual environment.
US12009936B2
Systems, methods, and related technologies for device identification and policy enforcement using Power over Ethernet (PoE) are described. In certain aspects, a communication that originates from a Power over Ethernet (PoE) enabled device can be received. The communication can be processed to determine a characteristic of the device. An action can be initiated based on the characteristic.
US12009934B2
The present application is related to a method and apparatus for transmitting HARQ-ACK feedback on unlicensed spectrum. A method for HARQ-ACK multiplexing includes receiving a plurality of downlink transmissions, generating a HARQ-ACK codebook corresponding to the plurality of downlink transmissions, wherein the HARQ-ACK codebook is to be transmitted in a slot, receiving another plurality of downlink transmissions; generating another HARQ-ACK codebook corresponding to the another plurality of downlink transmissions, wherein the another HARQ-ACK codebook is to be transmitted in the slot, and transmitting the HARQ-ACK codebook on an uplink channel in the slot.
US12009924B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment may determine a first decoding result for a plurality of downlink control channels of a diversity enhancement based non-coherent joint transmission communication and a second decoding result for a plurality of data channels corresponding to the plurality of downlink control channels; and selectively provide feedback regarding the first decoding result and feedback regarding the second decoding result, the feedback regarding the first decoding result indicating whether reception of one or more downlink control channels, of the plurality of downlink control channels, is successful, and the feedback regarding the second decoding result indicating whether decoding of a codeword of the plurality of data channels is successful. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12009916B2
An example method includes receiving, by a communication controller of a source device and from an audio source of the source device, audio data to be wirelessly transmitted to a sink device, wherein the audio data is received from the audio source at a rate; storing, by the communication controller and in a buffer, the audio data as a sequence of audio blocks, wherein each audio block includes audio data for a respective output time; transmitting, by the source device and to the sink device, audio blocks of the sequence of audio blocks using a wireless link between the source device and the sink device; determining a current condition of the wireless link; and automatically adjusting, by the communication controller and based on the current condition of the wireless link, the rate at which audio data is received from the audio source.
US12009915B2
A signal-of-interest is received by using a first and second planar electrically conductive disc to define an antenna. The antenna produces RF signal outputs at three output ports Ex, Ey and Ez, each having a different associated gain pattern and polarization response. At least one null is automatically asserted in a pattern defined by the antenna in a specified direction by selectively weighting a gain and a phase of the RF signals respectively produced from the three output ports and then combining the RF signals to produce a first receiver signal output.
US12009909B2
Embodiments presented herein are directed to “content linking multicast streaming” The embodiments connect a listener to over-the-air (OTA) broadcast radio content using an Internet Protocol (IP) multicast stream of the broadcast radio content when, for example, (i) a traditional broadcast radio receiver is not available, or (ii) an OTA broadcast radio signal that carries the content is not available. For example, when recovery of the OTA broadcast radio signal by a car radio is not possible because of poor reception or because the car radio is not configured with a suitable broadcast radio tuner, the embodiments generate a link to a multicast stream of the OTA broadcast radio content (also referred to as a “multicast broadcast radio stream” or simply a “multicast stream”), and provide the link to the car radio. The car radio can then access the multicast stream of the OTA broadcast radio content using the link.
US12009908B2
Provided is a mechanism which is capable of improving wireless link quality regarding transmission from a terminal device on the ground to a non-ground station device. A terminal device including a control unit configured to acquire information regarding a type of a base station device and control a transmission timing of a signal to the base station device on the basis of the information regarding the type of the base station device.
US12009902B2
The present invention relates to a method for exchanging data between drones of a drone swarm comprising at least four drones, the method comprising: emitting, by each drone, a signal comprising data to be emitted comprising the identifier of the drone, the direction and the identifier of each signal received at the preceding moment by the drone, receiving, by a drone, called receiver drone, the signal emitted by another drone of the swarm, determining, by the receiver drone, the direction of each received signal, and determining, by the receiver drone, for each received signal, the relative position of the drone corresponding to the identifier of the received signal.
US12009885B2
In a communication system that includes an access point, a repeater #1, and a repeater #2 and wirelessly communicates with a terminal, the access point wirelessly communicates with the repeater #1 on at least a first channel included in a first frequency band and wirelessly communicates with the repeater #2 on at least a second channel included in a second frequency band different than the first frequency band, the repeater #1 wirelessly communicates with the terminal on at least a third channel included in the second frequency band, and the repeater #2 wirelessly communicates with the terminal on at least a fourth channel included in the first frequency band.
US12009882B2
A simulation device includes: a layout setting unit which sets a layout of a power line communication (PLC) network; a parameter setting unit which sets an electrical parameter of the PLC network; a simulation execution unit; and a result output unit which outputs an electrical property obtained by the simulation. The layout setting unit includes: an information obtaining unit which obtains structure information indicating a structure of a building where the PLC network is to be provided and position information of one or more elements included in the PLC network; and a display information output unit which displays, on a display unit that displays information that relates to the PLC network, a diagram that is based on the structure information, and displays at least a portion of the PLC network that is based on the position information such that the portion is superimposed on the diagram.
US12009881B2
An air to ground (ATG) communication system testing platform may be configured to operably couple a base station to an aircraft base radio in a lab environment. The testing platform may include a position simulator and a channel simulator. The position simulator may be configured to generate simulated aircraft position information and communicate the simulated aircraft position information to an aircraft base radio and a base band unit of the base station. The channel simulator may operably couple a remote radio head of the base station to the aircraft base radio, and may be configured to emulate channel conditions with respect to transmission of signaling generated by the remote radio head for communication to the aircraft base radio based on the emulated channel conditions.
US12009878B2
Disclosed is an over-the-air (OTA) antenna meter application (“meter app”) that wirelessly connects to an OTA antenna meter (“meter”) installed with an OTA antenna and presents information that facilitates a user in installing the OTA antenna at the premises of a customer. For example, the meter app can help the user in pointing and peaking the OTA antenna for one or more broadcast channels, e.g., those selected by the customer. The meter app can store installation information of the OTA antenna for various installations, which can be used in generating a recommendation of, or predicting, installation information for installing the OTA antenna at a specified address. The predicted installation information can include broadcast channels that would be available for reception at the specified address and their signal strength, a specific location of installation on the premises, or whether a pre-amplifier and/or filter is required.
US12009870B2
A system can receive a request for service from the computing device of a requesting user of the network service. The system can select a driver to provide the service for the requesting user, and transmit an invitation to the computing device of the selected driver to facilitate the request for service. The system can receive a dataset from a first device of the computing device of the requesting user or the computing device of the selected driver, the dataset indicating that the first device has detected an ultrasonic signal outputted by a second device of the computing device of the requesting user or the computing device of the selected driver. Based on receiving the dataset, the system can verify that a rendezvous between the requesting user and the selected driver has occurred.
US12009860B2
A visual light communication (VLC) method for a lighting system comprising an LED driver and a plurality of LEDs or LED groups includes the steps of: receiving a set-point representing a desired illumination characteristic, comprising an intensity set-point, a color set-point or a combination thereof, and data that is to be transmitted using VLC; determining a current profile for each LED or LED group of the plurality of LEDs or LED groups based on the desired illumination characteristic represented by the set-point, whereby an envelope of a combined current profile is modulated for a corresponding intensity variation as perceived by a sensor to represent a variable length VLC code comprising one or more code words; and generating one or more control signals to drive the plurality of LEDs or LED groups in accordance with the current profiles for the plurality of LEDs or LED groups to transmit the VLC code.
US12009859B2
For time-division based wireless optical networks, it is important to keep neighboring coordinators synchronized to a common time base, in order to avoid interference to a network device located in the overlapping area of such neighboring coordinators. However, given that the common time base is located remotely, there is still timing synchronization uncertainty remaining at a coordinator side. A novel auxiliary scheduler subsystem, and the related methods and systems, are disclosed in this invention. By reserving time margins in the allocated time slots by the auxiliary scheduler subsystem, interference due to timing synchronization uncertainty is reduced.
US12009852B2
The present invention relates to a hard hat, comprising: a rigid outer shell, a vibration transducer secured to the exterior of the rigid outer shell, the vibration transducer operative to vibrate the rigid outer shell when active; and a control system coupled to the hard hat, the control system further operably coupled to the vibration transducer such that the control system controls vibration of the vibration transducer. The control system converts received audio communication into a signal sent to the vibration transducer such that activation of the vibration transducer results in vibration of the rigid outer shell, with the rigid outer shell thereby acting as a harmonic resonance acoustic chamber replicating the received audio communication. A kit for converting a hard hat and a method of communication are also disclosed.
US12009847B2
Embodiments presented herein provide apparatus and techniques to reduce a direct current (DC) voltage offset between a transmitter and receiver. Embodiments include a shared reference voltage signal generated by a reference voltage source. The receiver may include a first unit gain buffer to receive a reference voltage signal from the reference voltage source. The transmitter may be communicatively coupled to the receiver via one or more connections and may include a second unit gain buffer communicatively coupled to the first unit gain buffer via one of the connections. An amplifier (e.g., an operation amplifier) of the transmitter may include multiple positive inputs coupled to the second unit gain buffer and an offset tracker. The offset tracker may compensate for a DC offset caused by at least a power supply and/or a ground bounce.
US12009842B2
Systems and methods described herein may relate to providing a dynamically configurable error correction code (ECC) circuitry able to process data having one of a variety of widths. This multi-width ECC circuitry may generate error correction code bits (ECC bits) using, for example, an encoder or a decoder characterized by a fixed data width. Translation circuitry (e.g., a format converter) may translate data received from data utilization circuitry between a data width used by the data utilization circuitry and the fixed data width used by the encoder or the decoder.
US12009839B2
A multi-carrier transmitter apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus includes an outer encoder, a shell mapper and an inner encoder. The outer encoder is configured to receive a signal, perform error correction using an outer code on the received signal and generate an outer encoder signal. The shell mapper is configured to perform constellation shaping on a subset of bits from the outer encoder signal and generate one or more constellation shaping bits. The inner encoder is configured to perform inner error correction/encoding using an inner code on a second subset of bits from the outer encoder signal and generate an inner correction signal.
US12009837B2
A syndrome calculation circuit includes a matrix product calculation circuit. The matrix product calculation circuit is configured to generate syndrome bits in a composite field by calculating a matrix product of input data bits and a first arithmetic matrix. The first arithmetic matrix is a matrix product of a basis conversion matrix for converting a data string from a Galois field to the composite field and a second arithmetic matrix, which is at least a part of a parity check matrix.
US12009832B2
A sampling switch circuit, comprising an input node, connected to receive an input voltage signal, a sampling transistor comprising a gate terminal, a source terminal and a drain terminal, the source terminal connected to the input node, a hold-control node connected to receive a hold-control voltage signal, an output node connected to the drain terminal of the sampling transistor, a buffer circuit having a buffer input connected to the input node and a buffer output connected to a track-control node, the buffer circuit configured to provide a track-control voltage signal at the track-control node dependent on the input voltage signal and switching circuitry configured to connect the gate terminal of the sampling transistor to the track-control node or to the hold-control node in dependence upon a clock signal.
US12009831B2
A system includes an ADC configured to generate a superposition signal by the ADC being configured to under-sample an input signal at a sampling frequency in which the input signal that is input to the analog to digital converter has a bandwidth and the sampling frequency is less than a Nyquist rate for the bandwidth of the input signal. The system includes a digital signal processor (DSP) configured to digitally process the superposition signal to separate the superposition signal into a plurality of bitstreams, where each of the plurality of bitstreams corresponds to information in a different one of a plurality of separable, distinct frequency bands within the input signal. The information in the superposition signal for at least one of the said plurality of bitstreams is present in the input signal at frequencies greater than the sampling frequency, and the DSP is configured to output said plurality of bitstreams.
US12009830B2
A time-interleaved analog to digital converter (TI-ADC) includes a first sub-ADC configured to sample and convert an input analog signal to generate a first digital signal and a second sub-ADC configured to sample and convert said input analog signal to generate a second digital signal. Sampling by the second sub-ADC occurs with a time skew mismatch. A multiplexor interleaves the first and second digital signals to generate a third digital signal. A time skew mismatch error determination circuit processes the first and second digital signals to generate a time error corresponding to the time skew mismatch. A slope value of said third digital signal is determined and multiplied by the time error to generate a signal error. The signal error is summed with the third digital signal to generate a digital output signal which eliminates the error due to the time skew mismatch. This correction is performed in real time.
US12009823B2
A pulse width modulation (PWM) method for converting an input signal into an output PWM signal includes the following steps: generating a first linear periodic wave and a second linear periodic wave which are triangle waves or sawtooth waves, wherein the amplitude of the first linear periodic wave is greater than the amplitude of the second linear periodic wave; determining whether the level of the input signal is lower than a light load threshold; when the level of the input signal is lower than the light load threshold, generating the output PWM signal according to a comparison between the input signal and the second linear periodic wave; and when the level of the input signal is higher than the light load threshold, generating the output PWM signal according to a comparison between the input signal and the first linear periodic wave.
US12009821B2
An output driver is provided. The output driver includes: a pull-up driver connected between an output power supply voltage and an output node, and configured to pull up a voltage at the output node based on a pull-up driving signal and a pull-up reference voltage; a pull-down driver connected between the output node and a ground voltage, and configured to pull down the voltage at the output node based on a pull-down driving signal and a pull-down reference voltage; and a reference voltage compensation circuit configured to perform a short operation during transitions of the pull-up driving signal and the pull-down driving signal, wherein the short operation includes electrically connecting any one or any combination of the pull-up reference voltage to the ground voltage, and the pull-down reference voltage to the output power supply voltage.
US12009819B2
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for operating superconducting circuitry. In one aspect, a superconducting component includes: (1) a superconductor having a plurality of alternating narrow and wide portions, each wide portion having a corresponding terminal; and (2) a plurality of heat sources, each heat source thermally coupled to a corresponding narrow portion such that heat from the heat source is transmitted to the corresponding narrow portion; where the plurality of heat sources is electrically isolated from the superconductor.
US12009816B2
A level-shifting circuits utilizing storage cells for shifting signals low-to-high or high-to-low include control drivers with moving supply voltages. The moving supply voltages may power positive or negative supply terminals of the control drivers. The control drivers drive gates of common-source configured devices coupled to storage nodes of the storage cell.
US12009815B2
An electronic device uses, as power, a first voltage and a second voltage lower than the first voltage. The electronic device includes: an internal circuit configured to be driven by the second voltage, and output an output signal having a level corresponding to the second voltage; and an interface circuit configured to receive the output signal, the first voltage, and the second voltage, shift the output signal to a level corresponding to the first voltage, and provide the shifted output signal to a pad. The interface circuit includes an ESD (electrostatic discharge) block connected to the pad. The interface circuit further includes a plurality of transistors, and all of the transistors of the interface circuit are driven at the second voltage and broken at the first voltage.
US12009814B2
A level shifter includes a low-level adjustment circuit, a comparator circuit, and a high-level adjustment circuit. The low-level adjustment circuit pulls down a level of one between a first input node and a second input node to a first low supply voltage. The comparator outputs a one having higher level between the level of the first input node and a second low supply voltage to a first output node, wherein the second low supply voltage is higher than the first low supply voltage. The high-level adjustment circuit selectively adjusts the level of the first output node according to the level of the first input node and the level of the second input node to generate an output signal.
US12009809B2
The present invention provides a drive module for a GaN transistor, including: a first pull-down transistor and a gate ringing and overshoot suppression unit, where the gate ringing and overshoot suppression unit and a first end of the first pull-down transistor are directly or indirectly connected to a gate of the GaN transistor, the gate ringing and overshoot suppression unit is connected between a second end of the first pull-down transistor and the ground; the gate ringing and overshoot suppression unit is configured to: when a gate voltage of the GaN transistor drops, control the release of a gate charge of the GaN transistor with a first impedance if the gate voltage is higher than a specified threshold; and control the release of the gate charge of the GaN transistor with a second impedance if the gate voltage is less than the specified threshold, where the first impedance is less than the second impedance.
US12009807B2
A drive circuit configured to apply a slew rate controlled drive signal to the control terminal of a power transistor. The drive circuit may be part of a system that includes one or more sub-circuits in which each sub-circuit includes a regulation loop, a matched replica of the power transistor and regulated voltage node. The voltage reference voltage for each sub-circuit connects to the control terminal of the power switch through a buffer circuit to apply a sequence of voltages to the control terminal of the power switch. A switching controller circuit may manage the operation of the one or more sub-circuits so that the drive circuit may output a precisely controlled voltage profile to the control terminal of the power transistor. The circuit may include a second buffer under the control of the switching controller circuit to further manage the operation of the power transistor.
US12009798B2
Acoustic resonators and filter devices, and method of making acoustic resonators and filter devices. An acoustic resonator includes a substrate having a surface and a piezoelectric plate having front and back surfaces, the back surface attached to the surface of the substrate except for a portion of the piezoelectric plate forming a diaphragm that spans a cavity in the substrate. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate such that interleaved fingers of the IDT are disposed on the diaphragm. The interleaved fingers have an irregular hexagon cross-sectional shape.
US12009791B2
Systems and methods are provided for architectures for a digital class D driver that increase the power efficiency of the class D driver. In particular, systems and methods are provided for a digital class D driver having a feedback analog-to-digital converter (ADC) that can have a latency of 1 cycle or more than 1 cycle. A feedback ADC with a latency of 1 cycle or more is significantly lower power than a low latency feedback ADC. Systems and methods are disclosed for a power efficient digital class D driver architecture that allows for a latency of one or more cycles in the feedback ADC.
US12009789B2
A cryogenic integrated circuit or integrated module includes a travelling wave parametric amplifier or a Josephson parametric amplifier. The cryogenic integrated circuit or integrated module also includes an oscillator, a signal input, a biasing input, and a signal output. The oscillator is connected to an input of the amplifier and is configured to produce an oscillating drive signal. The signal input couples input signals into the amplifier. The biasing input couples biasing signals into the oscillator. The signal output conveys output signals from the amplifier out of the cryogenic integrated circuit or integrated module.
US12009786B2
A circuit device includes a waveform-shaping circuit that waveform-shapes an oscillation signal and provides an output clock signal based on a clock signal. A bias voltage output circuit of the circuit device provides a bias voltage of the oscillation signal that is input to the waveform-shaping circuit. A comparator of the circuit device compares a DC voltage obtained by smoothing the clock signal with a reference voltage. A logic circuit of the circuit device sets an adjustment value of the bias voltage. In a test mode of the logic circuit, the logic circuit changes the adjustment value to determine a set value of the adjustment value based on output of the comparator when the adjustment value is changed and stores the determined set value in a storage circuit.
US12009785B2
In some embodiments, there is provided an apparatus including a common bus and a plurality of oscillatrode circuits coupled to the common bus, the plurality of oscillatrode circuits including a first oscillatrode circuit outputting a first frequency tone when a first input voltage is detected by the first oscillatrode circuit and a second oscillatrode circuit outputting a second frequency tone when a second input voltage is detected by the second oscillatrode circuit, wherein common bus carries the first frequency tone and the second frequency tone at different frequencies in a frequency division multiplex signal. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US12009777B2
A solar panel rail for mounting a photovoltaic module frame thereto is provided and has a rail body configured to for attachment of a rail bracket, an indexing flange located on the rail body and configured to box and maintain a module frame position along a short-side direction of the module frame, a tab located on the rail body and configured to hold the module in place along a long-side direction of the module frame, wherein the indexing flange and tab are configured to provide a predetermined locked in installation position of the module frame during installation thereof.
US12009767B2
A motor control device for controlling a brushless motor including a rotor and a three-phase armature coil includes: a position detection unit which detects the rotational position of the rotor; a control unit which outputs, in a first control mode or a second control mode, a first drive signal or a second drive signal to an inverter at a current-supply timing based on the rotational position of the rotor; and the inverter which outputs a first current-supply signal or a second current-supply signal to the three-phase armature coil when the first drive signal or the second drive signal is input. For any two of the three phases, a duty value when the duty of the applied voltages is the same is larger in the second control mode than in the first control mode.
US12009765B2
A load protection apparatus for protecting an electrical load connected to an output terminal of the load protection apparatus against overcurrent, includes an overcurrent protection circuit having a power switch through which the electrical load receives an electrical load current via the output terminal and having a sensor component connected in series with the power switch. The sensor component is adapted to directly generate a voltage drop corresponding to the current rise speed of the electrical load current flowing from an input terminal of the load control apparatus, via the sensor component and the power switch to the output terminal. The sensor component further includes a driver circuit adapted to detect an occurring overcurrent depending on the voltage drop generated by the sensor component and depending on a voltage drop along the power switch adapted to switch off said power switch upon detection of an overcurrent within a switch-off period.
US12009762B2
A system and method for supplying electric power to various pieces of fracturing equipment in a fracturing operation with gas powered generators. The system and method also includes switch gears, auxiliary trailers, transformers, power distribution panels, new receptacles, and cables to supply three-phase power to electric fracturing equipment. The switchgear in the power supply system is weatherproof and able to endure the wear and tear of mobilization. The novel system and method provide clean and quiet electricity to all the equipment on site.
US12009761B2
A triboelectric generator is disclosed. The triboelectric generator according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a flexible electrode part comprising a first and a second dielectric layer, and at least one metal layer; and a fixed electrode part spaced apart from both sides of the flexible electrode part, and comprising a first and a second electrode connected to each other, wherein the flexible electrode part generates triboelectrification based on contact and non-contact by a fluid flow, and an electric charge moves through the metal layer, thereby effectively moving electric charges generated by triboelectrification, and increasing the friction frequency to enhance power generation efficiency.
US12009755B2
Provided is a high-frequency power supply device capable of causing an appropriate current to flow through a transformer. A self-oscillation high-frequency power supply device is provided with a DC power supply, an LC resonant circuit, a switching circuit, and a transformer. The LC resonant circuit includes an induction coil for plasma generation and a capacitor. The switching circuit includes a semiconductor element, the switching circuit being configured to subject DC power supplied from the DC power supply to switching processing to supply high-frequency power to the LC resonant circuit. The transformer includes a primary coil included in the LC resonant circuit and a secondary coil connected to the semiconductor element to turn on/off a semiconductor element. The transformer has a coaxial structure in which the primary coil and the secondary coil are coaxially provided. The LC resonant circuit includes a resistor connected in parallel to the primary coil.
US12009751B2
The power conversion device includes a converter including a main switch element, a main rectifying element, an output capacitor, and a primary winding of a coupled inductor and a resonance assist circuit based on a closed-loop circuit including a first series circuit having a secondary winding of the coupled inductor, a first rectifying element, and an auxiliary switch element, a second series circuit having a tertiary winding of the coupled inductor and a second rectifying element, and an auxiliary capacitor to which the first series circuit and the second series circuit are connected. The secondary winding and the tertiary winding are separate bodies and the first series circuit and the second series circuit are connected in parallel to the auxiliary capacitor, or the tertiary winding is integrated with the secondary winding.
US12009747B2
Techniques and mechanisms for determining a delivery of power by a programmable power supply. In an embodiment, controller circuitry of a platform receives an indication that a load of the platform is to transition to a particular operational mode. Based on a power requirement of the operational mode, the controller circuitry identifies a mode of voltage regulation which is to be provided with converter circuitry of the platform. The controller circuitry signals that a programmable power supply, which is coupled to the platform, is to output a supply voltage at a level which is based on an amount of power loss associated with the mode of voltage regulation. In another embodiment, the controller circuitry identifies the mode of voltage regulation based on an amount of charge which is currently stored by a battery of the platform.
US12009734B2
A noise propagating to outside of a power conversion device is reduced. A power conversion device includes at least one external electrode, a switching element, a noise filter connected between at least one external electrode and switching element, at least one first wire to connect at least one external electrode and noise filter, a second wire to connect noise filter and switching element, and a magnetic filter attached to second wire. An attenuation characteristic A [dB] and an attenuation characteristic B [dB] satisfy a relationship of B
US12009730B2
A mobile power generation system includes a mobile platform upon which is coupled a turbine, an electric generator, a water boiler, and a liquid pump through a closed loop pipe. The water boiler is coupled to a source of flammable gas. The liquid pump is in fluid communication with a liquid discharge tank. The power generation system may also include a liquid supply tank in fluid communication with the discharge tank and an electronic controller that manages the operation of the system. The controller also includes a battery banked storage unit that runs through a battery inverted to change the power from DC current to AC current which runs the controller and pump.
US12009729B1
An electric motor assembly is disclosed. The electric motor assembly can include a plurality of electric motors coupled to a common gear assembly. Individual motors within the electric motor assembly can be dynamically controlled to increase motor efficiency at a given torque and RPM output.
US12009728B2
A gear motor includes a gearing system, an electric motor, and an adapter. The adapter is situated between the electric motor and the gearing system, the adapter has an adapter shaft, the adapter shaft is at least partially inserted into an input shaft of the gearing system, the adapter shaft is connected to the input shaft in a torsionally fixed manner with the aid of a bellows, and a sealing ring is situated between the adapter shaft and the input shaft.
US12009724B2
A motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a support member. The rotor includes a rotor magnet, a magnet holding portion, and spoke portions. The stator includes a plurality of coils and a stator core. The support member includes a stator holding portion and a mount portion. The mount portion includes a plurality of slits extending radially inward from a radially outer end portion of the mount portion. The slits each have openings in an outer circumferential end and an upper surface of the mount portion. The openings of the slits positioned in the upper surface of the mount portion are positioned between the coils adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction when viewed in the axial direction.
US12009723B2
Systems and methods for cooling an electric motor in an electric drive unit are provided. In one example, the electric drive unit includes electric motor with a housing with a water jacket arranged therein, a stator that includes a plurality of stator laminations positioned within the housing, and an oil inlet mounted to and extending through the housing. The plurality of stator laminations includes a radial opening that is designed to receive oil from the oil inlet and direct oil to one or more oil ducts that axially extend through at least a portion of the plurality of stator laminations.
US12009722B2
An electric machine for a vehicle is disclosed. The electric machine includes a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator about a rotational axis that defines an axial direction. A housing at least partially surrounds a housing interior and includes a first housing part and a second housing part that bound the housing interior. The rotor is rotatably mounted on the first housing part and the second housing part via a bearing device. At least one heat transmission body is arranged along the axial direction between at least one of the first and second housing parts and the rotor. The heat transmission body bounds, together with the at least one of the first and second housing parts, a coolant space through which a coolant can flow.
US12009717B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for an electric machine where the stator is a coil assembly and the rotor is a magnetic toroidal cylindrical tunnel or where the rotor is a coil assembly and the stator is a magnetic toroidal cylindrical tunnel.
US12009716B2
An armature is provided with an armature winding, an armature core and a first and second insulation sheets. The first insulation sheet is arranged to sequentially pass through a field magnet side of a first phase conductor, a portion between the first phase conductor and a second phase conductor, an armature core side of the second phase conductor and a third phase conductor and a portion between the third phase conductor and the first phase conductor. The second insulation sheet is arranged to sequentially pass through a portion opposite to the first phase conductor with respect to the first insulation sheet, a field magnet side of the second conductor, a portion between the second phase conductor and the third phase conductor, a portion between the third phase conductor and the first insulation sheet and a portion between the third phase conductor and the first insulation sheet.
US12009715B2
A method includes: selectively actuating switches of an inverter module and first, second, third, and fourth switches of a motor; and charging a battery with power from a charger using at least one of first, second, and third stator windings of the motor, the battery having a first voltage and being electrically connected in parallel with the inverter module, and the charger having a second voltage that is less than the first voltage.
US12009713B2
A stator for an electric motor according to the present disclosure includes a stator core having a plurality of slots and teeth, and a stator coil wound via the plurality of slots, wherein the stator coil includes a plurality of hairpins inserted into the plurality of slots and connected in series with one another, wherein the plurality of hairpins is spaced apart from one another by a partial discharge suppression distance to suppress partial discharge between adjacent hairpins, wherein a partial discharge suppression distance between hairpins with a high voltage distribution ratio is farther than a partial discharge suppression distance between hairpins with a low voltage distribution ratio when power is applied to the stator coil. This may result in suppressing reduction of lifespan of the stator coil due to the partial discharge of the hairpins.
US12009708B2
A rotary electric machine includes a rotor and a stator. The stator has a coil end. The coil end has a plurality of lead wires. The plurality of lead wires have an inner lead wire with respect to the radial direction RD and an outer lead wire outside the inner lead wire with respect to the radial direction RD. The rotary electric machine includes a plurality of connection members. The inner lead wire and the outer lead wire are electrically and mechanically connected to the plurality of connection members. The plurality of connection members provide a heat transfer path from the inner lead wire. The inner lead wire and the outer lead wire demonstrate different vibration characteristics.
US12009697B2
A motor is provided and driven by two phase. The first and second control signals have a phase difference of 90 degrees and are configured to control the first and second driving units, respectively, and the first and second control signals drive the first and second coil sets, respectively. Each of the first and second poles of the permanent magnet occupies a mechanical angle of 360/2n degrees of the permanent magnet, respectively, and n is 1 or 3. The four sets of the coils of the stator are equally located on the stator, each set of the coil occupies a mechanical angle of 360/2m degrees of the stator, any two sets of the coils adjacent to each other are separated by a mechanical angle of 90−(360/2m) degrees, and m is 3 or 2, wherein m corresponds to 2 when n is 1, m corresponds to 3 when n is 3.
US12009696B2
A system comprises a stator core defining a plurality of winding slots between circumferentially spaced apart teeth. A respective cooling channel is defined within each of the circumferentially spaced apart teeth for circulation of coolant fluid through the stator core. The stator core is a laminated structure, where the teeth, winding slots, and cooling channels are part of a common laminated structure with the stator core.
US12009690B2
A power converter converts a medium-voltage output from a solar module to an appropriate voltage to power a solar tracker system. The power converter includes a voltage divider having at least two legs, a first semiconductor switch subassembly coupled in parallel with a first leg of the voltage divider, and a second semiconductor switch subassembly coupled in parallel with a second leg of the voltage divider. The power converter may be a unidirectional or a bidirectional power converter. In implementations, the signals for driving the semiconductor switches of the first and second semiconductor switch subassemblies may be shifted out of phase from each other. In implementations, if the bus voltages to the semiconductor switches are not balanced, the pulse width of the driving signal of the semiconductor switch supplied with the higher bus voltage is decreased for at least one cycle.
US12009685B2
A power supply unit for an aerosol generation device includes: a power supply configured to supply power to a heater configured to heat an aerosol source; a step-up system configured to function by a stepped-up voltage supplied from the power supply; a step-down system configured to function by a stepped-down voltage supplied from the power supply; and a direct-coupling system configured to function by a voltage supplied from the power supply.
US12009679B2
The invention relates to a method for operating an electrical energy store, comprising a storage cell for storing electrical energy and a control unit, wherein a safety switch is provided which is designed to interrupt an electrical line of the electrical energy store, wherein a current flowing through the electrical line is detected and an actuation of the safety switch only occurs if the current is below a predefinable threshold value.
US12009677B2
In a power supply system for wirelessly supplying power between a power transmission device and a power reception device, the power transmission device includes a power transmission unit for generating supply power and transmitting the generated supply power to the power reception device; a power transmission side magnet for alignment with the power reception device; a magnetic sensor for detecting a magnetic force from a power reception side magnet provided in the power reception device; and a control unit for controlling the power transmission device. The power reception device includes: a power reception unit for receiving the supply power supplied from the power transmission device; the power reception side magnet for alignment with the power transmission device; and a control unit for controlling the power reception device. When the power transmission device and the power reception device are in close contact with each other, power is wirelessly transmitted from the power transmission unit to the power reception unit in a state in which the power transmission unit and the power reception unit are aligned by an attractive magnetic force between the power transmission side magnet and the power reception side magnet. When the power transmission device and the power reception device are apart from each other, the control unit of the power transmission device starts or stops power transmission from the power transmission unit according to a magnetic force detection signal from the power reception side magnet detected by the magnetic sensor.
US12009675B2
Wirelessly powered receiver system and sensors are described. In an embodiment, the power receiver system, includes an inductive coil that receives wireless power from an external transmitter, a capacitor bank that optimizes power transfer to an energy harvesting device, and a power-receiving frontend RF-DC rectifier with a periodically enabled closed feedback loop that adapts settings of the capacitor bank in real-time to adapt to changes on the inductive coil to maximize power transfer efficiency.
US12009657B2
An ESD clamp circuit has an ESD detection circuit connected between a first terminal and a second terminal, with a first output node and a second output node. The ESD detection circuit is configured to output respective first and second control signals at the first and second output nodes in response to an ESD event. A discharge circuit includes a p-type transistor having a source, a drain and a gate, with the gate connected to the first output node. An n-type transistor has a source, a drain and a gate, with the gate connected to the second output node. The drain is connected to the drain of the p-type transistor. The discharge circuit is configured to establish a first ESD discharge path from the first terminal, through the p-type transistor and the n-type transistor, to the second terminal, and to further establish a second ESD discharge path in parallel with the first ESD discharge path. The second ESD discharge path includes a parasitic silicon controlled rectifier (SCR).
US12009653B2
The control apparatus includes an electrical signal detection unit, a control unit, a contactor, a first execution unit, a protection unit, and a second execution unit. The electrical signal detection unit detects an electrical signal on a loop, and send the electrical signal to the control unit. The control unit generates a control signal, and send the control signal to the first execution unit. The contactor is connected to the loop. The first execution unit controls the contactor to be closed or opened, where when the contactor is closed, the loop is connected, and when the contactor is opened, the loop is disconnected. The protection unit detects a current value on the loop when the contactor is closed, where an opening instruction is sent to the second execution unit when the current value reaches a trip threshold. The second execution unit opens the contactor when receiving the opening instruction.
US12009646B2
Disclosed is a device for accommodating a cable assembly. The device comprises a casing having a receiving portion with a connecting piece which is connected at its first end to the casing and extends away from the casing toward its second end; with two side sections each connected to the connecting piece at one end, extending toward the other end away from the connecting piece, and extending in different directions. The device further comprises a cover having an insertion part for insertion into the receiving portion, the insertion part having two sub-sections and each sub-section has an engaging element. The device is designed such that the insertion part can be inserted into the receiving portion, wherein the connecting piece is then located between the sub-sections. When the insertion part is inserted until each engaging element has passed a side section, the engaging elements prevent the insertion part from sliding out.
US12009641B2
A pressure relief device including a gas-permeable body to which a membrane adheres that is preferably impermeable to moisture. The membrane can be a rubber membrane that is formed by applying liquid rubber to the pressure relief body and, optionally, a component which supports the liquid rubber and surrounds the pressure relief body.
US12009636B2
An optical semiconductor device outputting a predetermined wavelength of laser light includes a quantum well active layer positioned between a p-type cladding layer and an n-type cladding layer in thickness direction. The optical semiconductor device includes a separate confinement heterostructure layer positioned between the quantum well active layer and the n-type cladding layer. The optical semiconductor device further includes an electric-field-distribution-control layer positioned between the separate confinement heterostructure layer and the n-type cladding layer and configured by at least two semiconductor layers having band gap energy greater than band gap energy of a barrier layer constituting the quantum well active layer. The optical semiconductor device is applied to a ridge-stripe type laser.
US12009631B1
Described herein are methods for developing and maintaining pulses that are produced from compact resonant cavities using one or more Q-switches and maintaining the output parameters of these pulses created during repetitive pulsed operation. The deterministic control of the evolution of a Q-switched laser pulse is complicated due to dynamic laser cavity feedback effects and unpredictable environmental inputs. Laser pulse shape control in a compact laser cavity (e.g., length/speed of light <˜1 ns) is especially difficult because closed loop control becomes impossible due to causality. Because various issues cause laser output of these compact resonator cavities to drift over time, described herein are further methods for automatically maintaining those output parameters.
US12009628B2
The passively q-switched diode end-pumped solid-state laser is used the gain medium made of Er:Yb doped crystal and the Q-switch made of Co2+:MgAl2O4 crystal. The optical elements are optimally designed for the resonator to achieve pulse energy in a range 0.5 mJ≤E≤2 mJ with the pulse width in a range of 4 ns-15 ns. The resonator is appropriate to use in laser rangefinders, target designator, and other products in military and civilian applications.
