US12032760B2
A peripheral device may include a body. The device may include a scroll wheel rotatably coupled with the body. The scroll wheel may include a ferromagnetic rotor. The rotor may be generally annular and may define an open interior. The rotor may define a first plurality of teeth arranged about a periphery of the open interior. The device may include a stator disposed within the open interior. The stator may define a second plurality of teeth that are alignable with the first plurality of teeth. The stator may include a plurality of electro-permanent magnets. Each of the electro-permanent magnets may be disposed within a conductive coil. The device may include a position sensor that is configured to detect an angular position of the rotor. The device may include control circuitry that controls delivery of current to the electro-permanent magnets of the stator to controls a speed of the scroll wheel.
US12032755B2
The present invention discloses an adjustable supporting assembly for a user of a conventional mouse, and an ergonomic adjustable computer mouse. The adjustable supporting assembly comprises at least one height adjustment member adapted to be coupled on a body of the conventional mouse for palm comfort. The adjustable supporting assembly also comprises at least one finger adjustment member protruding laterally from the at least one height adjustment member for finger support. The adjustable supporting assembly comprises a width adjustment member configured to extend laterally. The width adjustment member comprises a receptacle member for placing the conventional mouse, the receptacle member includes a plurality of holes for incorporating screws and a pair of adjusting plates attached to a base of the receptacle member, each of the pair of adjusting plates having a slot to incorporate a screw to be extended laterally along the slot.
US12032753B2
An entertainment system includes a user interactive device having an identification assembly configured to generate a pattern of light via reflective material, a camera configured to capture the pattern of light generated by the reflective material, and a controller having processing circuitry and a memory. The memory stores machine-readable instructions configured to cause the processing circuitry to receive an indication of the pattern of light and determine identification data associated with the user interactive device based on the pattern of light.
US12032745B2
One variation of a system for detecting and responding to touch inputs with haptic feedback includes: a magnetic element rigidly coupled to a chassis; a substrate; a touch sensor interposed between the substrate and a touch sensor surface; an inductor coupled to the substrate below the touch sensor surface and configured to magnetically couple to the magnetic element; a coupler coupling the substrate to the chassis, compliant within a vibration plane approximately parallel to the touch sensor surface, and locating the inductor approximately over the magnetic element; and a controller configured to intermittently polarize the inductor responsive to detection of a touch input on the touch sensor surface to oscillate the substrate in the vibration plane relative to the chassis.
US12032741B2
Systems and methods for a brain-computer interface (BCI) to increase a number of degrees of freedom (DOF) of one or more neural signals that are used to interact with the BCI.
US12032736B2
A computer implemented method for identifying a section of a first display corresponding to a user's initial gaze, identifying a string of text within the identified section of the first display, detecting a shift in the user's gaze from the identified section on the first display to an area on a second display, calculating coordinates corresponding to the area on the second display, identifying an input field in the second display closest to the calculated coordinates, and inputting the identified string of text within the input field in the second display. The method may further include determining whether content currently exists within the input field and subsequently removing the existing content from the input field, and replacing said existing content with the identified text.
US12032724B2
A method includes compressing data to generate compressed data having a first block size corresponding to a block-size requirement of a client device. The method further includes encrypting the compressed data to generate an encrypted data packet. The method further includes adding, by a processing device, a padding bit pattern to the encrypted data packet to generate a data block for storage, the data block having a second block size determined by a buffer size of a storage array.
US12032723B2
Systems, methods, and devices for managing privacy policies are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for management of a user's privacy preferences may include: identifying a computer application installed on a user electronic device, or a website accessed using a browser executed by the user electronic device; retrieving a privacy policy document analysis for a privacy policy document associated with the computer application or the website, the privacy policy document analysis comprising a valuation of a plurality of privacy policy segments within the privacy policy document; receiving a privacy preference analysis for the user, the privacy preference analysis comprising a valuation of a plurality of privacy preferences for the user; identifying a recommended action in response to the valuation of one of the privacy policy segments being outside the scope of the valuation of one of the plurality of privacy preferences; and executing the recommended action.
US12032720B2
Real time pseudonymization of personally identifiable information (PII) for secure remote processing
An approach for real time, round trip pseudonymization (a.k.a. anonymization or tokenization) of data on the fly, in real time, enabling remote secure processing of sensitive data such as by a cloud service. Sensitive data remains on premises with the client at all times. A user may thus run extensive queries that return sensitive data without noticing that such data was pseudonymized in transit.
US12032719B2
An electronic device and a method for controlling thereof is provided. The electronic device includes a memory including a neural network model, a display, a communicator including circuitry, and a processor configured to identify, based on a user command to transmit a first image to an external device being input, whether private information of a user is included in the first image by inputting the first image in the neural network model, based on identifying that private information of the user is included in the first image, display a first user interface (UI) asking whether to process at least one private information based on the private information included in the first image, and based on a user command input through the first UI, process the first image and control the communicator to transmit the processed to the external device.
US12032709B2
A computer-implemented method may include (1) providing, on a display screen of a computing device, a display that obscures an item of information in a secure field in a display layout without obscuring an entirety of the display; (2) detecting, by the computing device and after providing the display, a user action or user orientation; (3) in response, causing the display to show the item of information in the secure field; and/or (4) after causing the display to show the item of information in the secure field, (i) detecting, using at least a camera of the computing device, a change in orientation of the user relative to the computing device, and (ii) in response to detecting the change in orientation of the user, causing the display to again obscure the item of information in the secure field without obscuring the entirety of the display.
US12032706B2
A method includes receiving, by a computing device, metrics identifying vulnerabilities in an application; collecting, by the computing device, information related to the vulnerabilities; assigning, by the computing device, weights to the metrics using collected information; applying, by the computing device, a machine learning model on the weighted metrics; and generating, by the computing device, a predictive score for the vulnerabilities using the machine learning model.
US12032705B1
Proper functioning of an antivirus software running on an endpoint system is detected using a test data that is provided to the endpoint system. The test data is also provided to a backend system, which provides the endpoint system with an antivirus definition that includes information for detecting the test data. The antivirus software running on the endpoint system scans for the test data and reports detection of the test data to the backend system. The antivirus software is deemed to have failed the proper functioning test when the antivirus software fails to report detection of the test data. Proper functioning of the antivirus software is also detected by performing a challenge procedure, which involves sending a challenge message to the endpoint system. The endpoint system is expected to respond to the challenge message with a response that includes expected information.
US12032703B2
According to an aspect, a method is provided that includes: receiving a first report from at least a first vulnerability evaluation tool; pre-processing the first report by at least tokenizing the first report and generating a first vector for a first text portion of the first report; providing, to a machine learning model, the first vector as an input; classifying, by the machine learning model, the first vector based on a plurality of vulnerability vectors generated from a database of vulnerability policies required for an evaluation of the application; and outputting, by the machine learning model, a first indication of a first match between the first vector and a first vulnerability vector of the plurality of vulnerability vectors, the first indication representing a presence in the application of a first vulnerability mapped to the first vulnerability vector of the plurality of vulnerability vectors generated from the database of vulnerability policies.
US12032697B2
The present disclosure relates to a program verification method and apparatus, a platform, a user terminal, and an online service system, includes: acquiring a root evidence of a server-side program from a blockchain network, and acquiring a verification evidence of the server-side program from a server side, where the root evidence is written into the blockchain network after server-side program review succeeds, and the success of the server-side program review indicates a data processing method of the server-side program satisfies a preset data processing rule; verifying whether the root evidence and the verification evidence are matched, where the root evidence and the verification evidence being matched indicates the server-side program is a program that is operated in a TEE of a computer and is not modified after the root evidence is written into the blockchain network; and determining to connect a user-side program to the server-side program.
US12032696B2
One example method includes receiving data from a node of a data confidence fabric, in response to receipt of the data, creating an annotation bookmark that (i) identifies a storage node at which the data was received and that (ii) uniquely identifies the data, annotating a copy of the data with the annotation bookmark, and storing, at the storage node, the copy of the data in association with the annotation bookmark.
US12032693B2
Disclosed herein are systems and method for detecting malware signatures in databases. In one exemplary aspect, a method may comprise identifying a plurality of entries of the database, wherein each entry represents a record stored on a computing device and selecting at least one suspicious entry in the plurality of entries. The method may comprise retrieving a record associated with the suspicious entry and applying a transformation to original contents of the record. The method may comprise scanning the transformed contents of the record for a malware signature. In response to detecting a portion of the transformed contents that matches the malware signature, the method may comprise executing a remediation action that removes a corresponding portion from the original contents of the record and updating the database by replacing the at least one suspicious entry with an entry of the record on which the remediation action was executed.
US12032692B2
Embodiments provide a memory device including a memory comprising at least one chip, each chip comprising one or more banks for storing a plurality of bits, each bank comprising a set of rows and columns, each row and column comprising a number of bits, the device further comprising a controller configured to generate access commands to the memory, an access command identifying an address corresponding to a given row of the memory and a command operation to be performed on the given row, wherein the device further comprises a protection device. The protection device is configured to transform an address, in response to the receipt of an access command identifying the address, into a transformed address. The protection device uses an address storage data structure, such as a histogram, to store the transformed address depending on a frequency of access associated with the address, the address storage data structure being reset in response to a memory protection operation (refresh for example) performed in the memory device. The protection device further comprises an access frequency manager configured to determine whether the access frequency associated with an address maintained in the address storage data structure is greater or equal to a threshold, and if so trigger a memory protection operation in the memory from within the memory.
US12032686B2
A system monitors access to a computer file via a dynamically changeable non-heterogeneous collection load balanced across two hash tables. User activity is monitored on a target device to detect a user entered pattern including a wildcard character. A server in communication with the target device, receives the user entered pattern, selects one of the two hash tables, and calculates an index for the selected hash table based on the user entered pattern. The index is used to access the selected hash table to receive a stored pattern. The hash tables each have a plurality of entries, and each entry includes a list of one or more patterns that have the same hash index but different pattern values sorted by length in characters from longest to shortest.
US12032680B2
The technology disclosed herein enables an auxiliary device to run a service that can access and analyze data of a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). The auxiliary device may establish an auxiliary TEE in the auxiliary device and establish a trusted communication link between the auxiliary TEE and the TEE (i.e., primary TEE). The primary TEE may execute a target program using the primary devices of a host device (e.g., CPU) and the auxiliary TEE may execute a security program using the auxiliary device (e.g., DPU). In one example, the primary and auxiliary TEEs may be established for a cloud consumer and the auxiliary TEE may execute a security service that can monitor data of the primary TEE even though the data is inaccessible to all other software executing external to the primary TEE (e.g., inaccessible to host operating system and hypervisor).
US12032670B2
Systems and methods are provided for intelligent driving monitoring systems, advanced driver assistance systems and autonomous driving systems, and providing one-click driver image labeling to facilitate the assignment of drive time to a driver. Various aspects of the driver and/or passengers may be determined, which may include a driver identifier previously associated with the driver, whether the driver is wearing a facial covering, whether an image of the driver is partially occluded, whether the driver is facing in the direction of the camera, and whether an image of the driver is expected to be easily recognizable to a person tasked with assigning representative driver images to driver identifiers. These determinations may be used to improve the efficacy and ease-of-use of a visual login system.
US12032663B2
Cross-session acquisition of a verifiable credential. The first session includes generating a user secret known to the first session and to the user, and the generation of an encrypted identity token that includes claims about authentication of the user and the user secrete. In the second session, a second computing system uses the acquired identity token to get a verifiable credential. The user is prompted to prove knowledge of the user secret within the identity token. In response to successful proof of this knowledge and validation of the identity token, the issuer system issues a verifiable credential that relies upon one or more claims that were included within the identity token, and then provides the verifiable credential to the user.
US12032649B2
Systems that utilize connectors are provided. An example system includes a first computer configured to generate web content that comprises at least one reference that is indicative of at least one asset stored on an external system that is remote to the first computer and at least one local asset stored on a local content repository that is local to the first computer, the at least one local asset comprising content; a second computer configured to publish the web content when requested by an end user; and a third computer configured to provide a connector that is accessible to both the first computer and the second computer, the first computer being further configured to generate the at least one reference, the second computer being configured to resolve the at least one reference and obtain the at least one asset from the external system using the connector.
US12032630B2
An entity resolution data structure system compares two data graphs by creating a confusion matrix in a distributed processing environment. A benchmark file is created from one data graph for comparison to a reference data graph. Identifiers and metadata are appended to the benchmark file to allow the comparison to take place and the construction of a confusion matrix. The confusion matrix provides a high-level indication of the results of the comparison. When the data graphs contain personally identifiable information (Pll), the process does not require any Pll to be transmitted in either direction between the parties who maintain the data graphs to be compared.
US12032625B2
According to an embodiment, a display control apparatus includes a clustering unit, a sub-clustering unit, and a display control unit. The clustering unit is configured to classify images into a plurality of clusters based on similarity degrees of the images and a first threshold. The sub-clustering unit is configured to further classify images within each of the plurality of clusters into a plurality of sub-clusters based on the similarity degrees and a second threshold that is higher than the first threshold. The display control unit is configured to display, on a display unit, display information including a cluster representative indicative of a representative of images included in a cluster and a sub-cluster representative indicative of a representative of an image included in a sub-cluster.
US12032613B2
In order to facilitate a search and identification of documents, an information retrieval system is provided for performing a search on a corpus of data objects. The information retrieval system comprises a device and a database. The database is configured to store at least one syntactic search index data structure and at least one semantic search index data structure. The syntactic search index data structure is configured to index and store in the database a plurality of terms from the corpus of data objects along with syntactic annotations indicating syntactic information. The at least one semantic search index data structure is configured to index and store in the database the plurality of terms from the corpus of data objects along with semantic annotations indicating semantic information. The device comprises an input unit, a processing unit, and an output unit. The input unit is configured to receive a syntactic query and a semantic query. The processing unit is configured to match the syntactic query against the syntactic search index data structure to obtain a first set of data objects, each of which has a set of terms that are syntactically related to the syntactic query. The processing is configured to match the semantic query against The at least one semantic search index data structure to obtain second set of the data objects, each of which has a set of terms that are semantically related to the semantic query, wherein the second set of data objects is a sub-set of the first set of the data objects. The output unit is configured to output information of the second set of data objects.
US12032608B1
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to generating query suggestions. In some embodiments, a system for generating query suggestions for retail comprises a database comprising a query index including queries and query scores, and a control circuit configured to receive a query prefix from a user interface of a retail channel, retrieve, from the query index and based on the query prefix, query correction candidates, calculate edit distances for each of the query correction candidates, select, based on the edit distances, one or more query suggestions from the query correction candidates, calculate, based on the edit distances, a prefix completion cost for each of the query suggestions, calculate, based on the prefix completion costs and the query scores, the query correction costs for each of the query suggestions, and sort, based on the query correction costs, the query suggestions.
US12032606B2
An analytics platform for the extraction of structured observations from largely narrative sources using a hybrid approach of user configuration and machine learning is provided. The analytics platform collects and normalizes data from public and private sources and applies extractions to the data to create a world view of objects, traits, and relationships of interest and maintains that world view as data and/or extractions are updated. The platform is further configured to apply queries to the extracted world view for a variety of purposes including scoring objects for prioritized attention, generating notifications when specific conditions are met, providing data sets for exploratory analysis, and triggering the automatic collection of enhancing data from external sources.
US12032603B2
Methods and systems for interpreting inputted information are described herein. In some embodiments, a method comprises processing inputted information wherein processing inputted information uses one or more intelligence modules using one or more intelligence models to process the inputted information; making, by the one or more intelligence modules, one or more decisions about inputted information based on the one or more intelligence models; learning, by the one or more intelligence modules, to update the one or more intelligence models; and interpreting inputted information based on the one or more decisions.
US12032599B2
Systems and methods for tokenization of log records for efficient data storage, log querying, and log data analytics can utilize a trie pattern conversion of the log files, storing trie data pattern IDs, free parameters, and metadata instead of the entire log record. New trie patterns can be discovered automatically by counting the occurrences of tokens matching wildcards for existing patterns.
US12032596B1
Disclosed herein is a system, comprising a distributed database comprising a plurality of partitions allocated in memory for storing a plurality of datasets. Wherein each dataset stored in the distributed database comprises at least a primary data portion stored in a respective primary partition of the plurality of partitions and at least zero additional data portions stored in respective secondary partitions of the plurality of partitions. Wherein each data portion of each dataset is mapped to a respective partition in which it is stored by a respective identifier. Wherein the primary data portion of each dataset comprises metadata stored in the primary partition, the metadata is indicative of the identifier of all additional data partitions of the respective dataset.
US12032575B2
Aspects of the current subject matter are directed to providing query results to clients by incorporating pause and/or detach operations into the query execution after a first fetch of results. The pause and the detach operations for query execution consistent with implementations of the current subject matter result in reduced times and conserved resources in providing query results by computing only results necessary to satisfy a first fetch call prior to computing results necessary to satisfy subsequent fetch calls.
US12032569B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for script-based querying and aggregation of endpoint data via a directory access protocol. The present invention is configured to deploy a directory access protocol executor to a plurality of endpoint devices, determine an operating system for at least one of the plurality of endpoint devices, select a script to execute at the plurality of endpoint devices, and execute the script via the directory access protocol executor, wherein the script is executed as a login script, wherein the script determines a status of endpoint data at the endpoint, and wherein the endpoint data comprises endpoint tools currently available at the endpoint.
US12032564B1
A system for enterprise analytics may include a Machine Learning (“ML”) model data store containing at least one generic ML model and a fine-tuning data store containing prior natural language user requests and associated enterprise database queries generated by analysts. The system may also include an enterprise data store containing enterprise business data. A transformation framework may retrieve the generic ML model and fine-tune the model using the prior user requests and associated enterprise database queries to create a fine-tuned ML model. The framework may then receive a new natural language request from a user and use the fine-tuned ML model and new natural language request to automatically create a new enterprise analytics query. The new enterprise analytics query may then be executed to fetch enterprise analytics data from the enterprise data store. In some embodiments, an analytics chart may be automatically created and provided to the user.
US12032562B1
Systems and methods are provided for efficiently maintaining a transaction sequence witness service to ensure that requests to read data provide consistent results across all storage nodes in a distributed system. Each storage node that stores data in response to a particular update event may first update the transaction sequence witness service with the sequence number for the update event. Thus, any other storage node that services a subsequent request for the data will be able to see, via the transaction sequence witness service, the sequence number that must be available on the storage node to respond to the request.
US12032559B2
The described technology is generally directed towards fine-grained data expiration to reduce storage capacity used in a streaming data storage system. Segments of events are scanned, with each event's payload evaluated to determine whether that event is expired or unexpired. For example, for a log event, an expiration period can be determined based on the event creation time and the event logging level, both of which are typically within the log event's payload. Unexpired events are copied to a new destination segment that replaces the original, scanned source segment; the expired events are deleted when the source segment is deleted, reclaiming storage capacity used by the expired events. Also described is maintaining and using segment and chunk metadata to bypass individual event processing when the metadata indicates that the chunk contains only expired events and can be safely deleted.
US12032558B2
A blockchain maintenance method adds a target blockchain node group of a first tenant to a channel. In the method, a management node sends new channel configuration information of the channel to an execution node of a second tenant. The execution node of the second tenant generates incremental configuration information of the channel based on the new channel configuration information and old channel configuration information of the channel, and sends the incremental configuration information to a consensus organization. Each blockchain node group that has joined the channel obtains, from the consensus organization, a block including the incremental configuration information, and adds the block to a stored blockchain, to reach a consensus that the target blockchain node group joins the channel. The target blockchain node group is configured based on the incremental configuration information to join the channel.
US12032557B2
A method, a device, and a computer program product for data management are provided in embodiments of the present disclosure. A method for data management comprises: acquiring, from a storage system, a torrent file associated with downloading of a target file, the target file being stored in the storage system, and the torrent file comprising at least a plurality of data digests of a plurality of data blocks of the target file; generating metadata for the plurality of data blocks based on the torrent file, the metadata being in a format supported by a unified management system, and the unified management system being configured for data access across the storage system and at least one other storage system; and storing the metadata for data-block-level access to the plurality of data blocks through the unified management system.
US12032551B2
Data field lifecycle management mechanisms. Custom metadata about a database object is generated. The custom metadata includes at least a specified name for the custom metadata type, a specified one or more fields to contain configuration information for the custom metadata type, and specification of at least one relationship field having fields as its domain relating the custom metadata type to a column or field of the database object stored in a database. One or more objects of the custom metadata type are maintained with referential integrity to provide metadata corresponding to the database object. The custom metadata objects maintain tenant-specific information. The one or more objects of the custom metadata type are updated automatically. A notification to one or more users is generated for one or more objects of the custom metadata type that cannot be updated automatically, if any.
US12032528B2
An information sharing method, an apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining, in response to a file sharing request initiated by a sharing party, a file-for-sharing corresponding to the file sharing request; determining a sharing strategy for the file-for-sharing, including determining the sharing strategy for the file-for-sharing based on attribute information of the file-for-sharing, where the attribute information comprises a storage address; and sharing, based on the sharing strategy, the file-for-sharing to preset clients participating in sharing. In the method, the sharing strategy for the file-for-sharing is based on based on the storage address of the file in response to the storage address being a cloud address.
US12032525B2
Computer implemented methods and systems directed to a technological improvement in electronic data compression and transmission between two computer systems using semantic analysis are disclosed. The method includes the step of compressing, at a first computer, a plurality of queued artifacts based on one or more network decision variables. The compression includes prioritizing the queued artifacts. The compression further includes determining a first set of artifacts in a set of queued artifacts to transmit and a second set of artifacts in a set of queued artifacts to only send links. The compression further includes replacing unnecessary content in the set of queued artifacts with one or more identifiers. The method further includes the step of transmitting, from the first computer, one or more batches of the compressed data over a network to a second computer.
US12032524B2
A decompression apparatus comprises a number of stages including: a first stage which always reads a binary symbol from a first stage indicator file for each symbol which is to be decoded; one or more mid stages which conditionally read a binary symbol from successive indicator files based on the value of the last symbol read from a previous indicator file; and a final stage which conditionally reads a symbol from a reduced file based on the value of the last symbol read from the last stage indicator file.
US12032517B2
In some examples, a field replaceable unit (FRU) storage device includes a storage medium storing a plurality of information areas and a common header for the plurality of information areas. The common header contains an indicator that when set to a first value indicates presence in the FRU storage device of first electronic component data according to an extended format that is different from a first format governing storage of second electronic component data in the FRU storage device relating to an electronic component in an FRU. The common header contains a field set to location information referring to a storage location of a file system area on the FRU storage device when the indicator is set to the first value, the file system area containing the first electronic component data according to the extended format and that relates to an electronic component in the FRU, wherein the file system area is accessible by a file system using information in the file system area.
US12032514B2
Adaptive matching is provided, which is used to automatically match a block size of a transactional file system with an IO size of a client. An example method includes creating a share domain, wherein the share domain is created on a first file system, and a block size of the first file system is a first block size. The method further includes determining a block size of the share domain as a second block size, wherein the second block size is not equal to the first block size. If a block size of a second file system is the second block size, the share domain is migrated from the first file system to the second file system. By implementing the present application, it is possible to simplify user operations, improve operational convenience, and help to reduce storage space fragments and indirect blocks, thereby further improving the performance of a storage system.
US12032509B2
A system for camera serial interface lane implementation between camera sensor and host processor is disclosed. An input data receiving unit receives first input signal from a first camera sensor in at least one of a two-lane camera serial interface configuration (CSI) or a four-lane CSI configuration; receives second input signal from a second camera sensor in the two-lane CSI. A data selector device selecting a first port for forwarding input signal when the first input signal is received in the two-lane CSI, selecting a second port for forwarding the input signal when the first input signal is obtained in the four-lane CSI configuration. A host processor block including a first receiver block to generate a first output signal when the first input signal is received from the first port, a second receiver block generates a second output signal when the first input signal is obtained from the second port.
US12032504B2
A device for interconnecting two communication terminals. More particularly, the device interconnects a first terminal with a second terminal. The device includes a first male connector, intended to be inserted into a corresponding female connector of the first terminal and a second male connector intended to be inserted into a corresponding female connector of the second terminal. The first male connector is a reversible connector including at least two sets of functionally identical pins. The device also includes a female connector, at least partially connected to a first set of pins of the first male connector by a transfer circuit and the second male connector is at least partially connected to a second set of pins of the first male connector by an interconnection circuit.
US12032496B2
An apparatus to facilitate efficient data sharing for graphics data processing operations is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processing resource to generate a stream of instructions, an L1 cache communicably coupled to the processing resource and comprising an on-page detector circuit to determine that a set of memory requests in the stream of instructions access a same memory page; and set a marker in a first request of the set of memory requests; and arbitration circuitry communicably coupled to the L1 cache, the arbitration circuitry to route the set of memory requests to memory comprising the memory page and to, in response to receiving the first request with the marker set, remain with the processing resource to process the set of memory requests.
US12032492B2
In a method of operating a storage device including a plurality of storage regions, a first request is received. The first request is for a cryptographic erasure with respect to a first storage region. During a first time interval, a first encryption key corresponding to the first storage region is changed based on the first request. A second request is received. In response to receiving the second request within the first time interval, a region access signal is outputted. In response to determining, based on the region access signal, that the second request is associated with the first storage region, an execution of the second request is held. In response to determining, based on the region access signal, that the second request is associated with a second storage region among the plurality of storage regions, the second request is executed.
US12032486B2
In one embodiment, a processor includes circuitry to decode an instruction referencing an encoded data pointer that includes a set of plaintext linear address bits and a set of encrypted linear address bits. The processor also includes circuitry to perform a speculative lookup in a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) using the plaintext linear address bits to obtain physical address, buffer a set of architectural predictor state values based on the speculative TLB lookup, and speculatively execute the instruction using the physical address obtained from the speculative TLB lookup. The processor also includes circuitry to determine whether the speculative TLB lookup was correct and update a set of architectural predictor state values of the core using the buffered architectural predictor state values based on a determination that the speculative TLB lookup was correct.
US12032484B1
A technique of updating leaf pointers in a storage system includes creating a point-in-time copy of persisted metadata pages and scanning the copy for leaf pointers that point to redirected virtual blocks. Metadata pages that contain leaf pointers that point to redirected virtual blocks are read from cache and processed for updates, but no action is taken in cache for metadata pages that do not contain such leaf pointers.
US12032481B2
A method performed by a coordinating entity in a disaggregated data center architecture wherein computing resources are separated in discrete resource pools and associated together to represent a functional server. The coordinating entity obtains a setup of processor cores that are coupled logically as the functional server, and determines an index indicating an identity of a cache coherency domain based on the obtained setup of processor cores. The coordinating entity further configures one or more communicating entities associated with the obtained setup of processor cores, to use the determined index when handling updated cache related data.
US12032479B2
A memory control device implements split storage of user-data and metadata components of a compound write data word, outputting the user-data component via a memory control interface for storage within an external memory subsystem while separately storing the metadata component within a metadata cache implemented within the memory control device.
US12032462B2
Disclosed methods and system feature or perform operations including monitoring, within an operating system (OS) environment of an information handling system, telemetry data indicative of values for one or more hardware status parameters and generating any of one or more anomaly alerts responsive to identifying any of one or more anomalous conditions. Responsive to detecting an anomaly alert, an OS-context configuration may be determined based on the hardware status parameters monitored during a timebox associated with the anomaly alert. Responsive to detecting a reset of the information handling system, preboot operations may be performed wherein the pre-boot operations may include configuring the information handling system in accordance with the OS-context configuration and performing one or more hardware diagnostic routines while the information handling system is configured in accordance with the OS-context configuration.
US12032459B2
Techniques are provided for metadata management for enabling automated switchover in accordance with a configuration of storage solution that expresses a preference for either maintaining availability (e.g., a non-zero RPO mode) of the storage solution or avoiding data loss (e.g., a zero RPO mode). In one example, responsive to detecting a switchover trigger event, a node of a local cluster of a cross-site storage solution determines whether performance of an automated switchover from a failed cluster to a surviving cluster of the cross-site storage solution is enabled. Responsive to an affirmative determination, the node selectively proceeds with the automated switchover based on the configuration.
US12032455B2
Recovery points can be used for replicating a virtual machine and reverting the virtual machine to a different state. A filter driver can monitor and capture input/output commands between a virtual machine and a virtual machine disk. The captured input/output commands can be used to create a recovery point. The recovery point can be associated with a bitmap that may be used to identify data blocks that have been modified between two versions of the virtual machine. Using this bitmap, a virtual machine may be reverted or restored to a different state by replacing modified data blocks and without replacing the entire virtual machine disk.
US12032454B2
A repository definition computer program may (1) retrieve repository data from data repositories; (2) identify a data repository structure for each data repository; (3) generating data repository definitions for the data repositories; (4) provide the data repository definitions in a data serialization language to a repository management system; and (5) generate a hash of each file in the data repositories and save a copy of each file named its hash. A UAT management system computer program may (6) execute a repository extract process to repave one the data repositories with the hash-named files. The repository extract computer program may (7) retrieve the data repository definitions for the data repository being repaved from a repository management system server; (8) retrieve the hash-named files from object storage for the data repository being repaved; and (9) recreate the data repository from the data repository definitions using hard links to the hash-named files.
US12032449B2
A system and a method for client-side deduplication system for a plurality of backup streams, generated by a backup and recovery client from a client database, is presented. The system includes a stream handler configured to generate a unique file name for an underlying file of each backup stream of the plurality of backup streams based on one or more data blocks in each backup stream. The system further includes a file creator configured to create a data file corresponding to each backup stream of the plurality of backup streams in a local cache of a client database server, wherein each data file has a file name corresponding to the unique file name generated by the stream handler. The client-system furthermore includes a dedupe module configured to dedupe subsequent backup streams based on the data files in the local cache.
US12032439B2
A memory includes: a memory core including memory regions; a refresh-excluded region storing circuit storing therein information on a refresh-excluded region on which a refresh operation is not to be performed among the memory regions; an error correction circuit correcting an error in data read from the memory core based on an error correction code read from the memory core; an error check operation control circuit performing an error check operation of checking an error in the read data by using the error correction circuit; a bad region classifying circuit classifying a selected memory region as a bad region based on an error, which is detected in data read from the selected memory region during the error check operation; and a blocking circuit preventing the bad region classifying circuit from classifying the refresh-excluded region as a bad region based on the information.
US12032437B2
A technique is directed to handling a storage device error within storage equipment that includes a client and a driver. The technique involves providing an IO status communication from the driver to the client. The IO status communication indicates status of an IO operation performed by a storage device coupled with the driver. The technique further involves, in response to the IO status communication indicating that an error occurred while the storage device performed the IO operation, providing a query communication from the client to the driver. The query communication requests sense data corresponding to the IO operation. The technique further involves, in response to the query communication, providing the sense data corresponding to the IO operation from the driver to the client.
US12032434B2
Methods are provided for utilizing machine learning operations configured for use in processing missing pieces of visual data in image data to predict potential location of defects and/or damage in storage device disks. These predictions can allow for a sufficient ability to categorize disks during storage device quality inspections. This can allow for quality inspections to conclude before all areas of the disk surface are scanned. Because less surface area of the disks within the storage device require scanning, the time required for quality inspection scanning prior to deployment can be greatly reduced. Additionally, the partial scans occurring prior to deployment may be supplemented or updated after deployment through the performance of a dense scan. These secondary scans can be configured to scan all previously unscanned areas during storage device downtimes or in response to an environmental trigger such that the storage device will not exhibit any loss in performance.
US12032433B2
Implementations generally relate to validating data files. In some implementations, a method includes receiving at least one schema file, where the at least one schema file includes data fields. The method further includes adding annotations to the at least one schema file. The method further includes generating an object model based on the at least one schema file and the annotations. The method further includes receiving at least one data file. The method further includes validating the at least one data file based on the object model to ensure that the at least one data file complies with a requirements contract.
US12032428B2
In one aspect of the disclosure, a circuit includes an AFIFO in a first power domain coupled to a first data bus and configured to store up to N data words corresponding to N respective AFIFO outputs. A multiplexer (MUX) in the first power domain selectively coupled to the N AFIFO outputs may transfer, upon receiving a MUX input, less than N words onto a fixed interface. Read logic in a second power domain may send an asynchronous read pointer to the MUX input and may transfer the words output from the fixed interface to a second data bus. Write logic in the first power domain may send asynchronous write pointers to the AFIFO for tracking data writes thereto and to the read logic to determine values of the read pointer.
US12032416B2
The present application provides foldable hinge and a foldable display device. The foldable hinge includes a first support plate, wherein the first support plate is provided with at least two opposite arc-shaped grooves; two second support plates located on opposite sides of the first support plate; and at least two rotating mechanisms including a fixed plate fixed on one of the second support plates; and an arc-shaped arm connected to the fixed plate, wherein the arc-shaped arm is at least partially received and slided in the arc-shaped groove to drive the corresponding second support plate being unfolded or folded relative to the first support plate.
US12032415B2
An example apparatus comprises a first member with a first surface, where the first member is movable relative to a second member with a second surface. The first member comprises a first magnet configured to produce a first magnetic field. The second member comprises a sensor operatively connected to a processor and a second magnet adjacent to the sensor. In a first position, the first magnet and the second magnet are engaged to magnetically hold the first member to the second member such that at least a portion of the first surface of the first member opposes at least a portion of the second surface of the second member. In the first position, the sensor is to detect the first magnetic field produced by the first magnet and is to send a signal to the processor in response to detecting the first magnetic field produced by the first magnet.
US12032414B2
The present application provides a support plate and a display device. The support plate is provided with a hollow hole for providing an external module and a plurality of openings. The support plate is provided with a first region and a second region, wherein the plurality of openings are arranged in the first region, the first region is arranged on at least one side of the hollow hole, and the second region is arranged on at least one side of the first region away from the hollow hole. A rigidity of a portion of the support plate corresponding to the first region is less than a rigidity of a portion of the support plate corresponding to the second region.
US12032413B2
A foldable display device includes a flexible display panel, a case supporting the flexible display panel, a bonding member fixing the flexible display panel to the case. The case includes a hinge portion, and supports respectively coupled to the hinge portion at opposing sides of the hinge portion. The flexible display panel includes a bendable area corresponding to the hinge portion, and planar areas respectively at opposing sides of the bendable area and corresponding to the supports of the case. The bonding member is between a support of the case and the corresponding planar area of the flexible display panel, and is displaceable with respect to the support along one of a thickness direction and a width direction of the flexible display panel when the flexible display panel is folded.
US12032409B2
An electronic device is provided, including first and second bodies, a processing module, a touch display panel, and at least one sensing unit. The second body is rotatably connected to the first body. The processing module is disposed in the first body or the second body. The touch display panel is disposed on the second body, is coupled to the processing module, and has a main display part, and first and second display parts. The sensing unit is disposed in the first body or the second body and coupled to the processing module. When the sensing unit detects the first and second bodies are folded relative to each other, the processing module is switched to a second mode, wherein in the second mode, the main display part is activated, the first display part and the second display part are adapted to operate synchronously or operate individually.
US12032400B2
An adjustment system causes a target power supply device to execute first processing and second processing while causing at least one adjacent power supply device to perform a regular power supply operation. The first processing is processing for measuring a first voltage value while a power supply circuit of the target power supply device does not output an alternating current. The second processing is processing for measuring a second voltage value while the power supply circuit of the target power supply device outputs an alternating current. The adjustment system obtains a feeder circuit reactance of a feeder circuit based on the difference between the first voltage value and the second value, and executes adjustment processing for adjusting circuit characteristics with use of an adjustment unit in accordance with the obtained feeder circuit reactance in such a manner that the feeder circuit impedance is a predetermined impedance.
US12032397B2
A low dropout regulator includes an output circuit and an amplifier. The output circuit includes a signal input end configured to receive an input voltage and a signal output end configured to output an output voltage. The amplifier includes a first stage amplifier circuit, a second stage amplifier circuit, a first feedback circuit and a second feedback circuit. The first stage amplifier circuit includes a positive output end and a negative output end. The second stage amplifier circuit includes an input end and an output end, wherein the input end and the positive output end are coupled at a first node, and the output end is coupled to the output circuit. The first feedback circuit is coupled between the negative output end and the output end. The second feedback circuit is coupled between the first node and the output end.
US12032383B2
A vehicle control system for an agricultural vehicle, including a processing circuit including a processor and memory, the memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processing circuit to receive a location of a first vehicle, update a coverage map based on the location of the first vehicle, wherein the coverage map represents a region of operation for the agricultural vehicle and the first vehicle, designate one or more areas of the coverage map as repulsion areas based on the location of the first vehicle, and generate a path from the agricultural vehicle to the first vehicle based on the one or more repulsion areas.
US12032379B1
A method for using an autonomous vehicle includes receiving one or more user preferences for use of the autonomous vehicle. A destination is received for a trip using the autonomous vehicle. An arrival time is received for when the trip needs to be completed. A determination is made as to whether the user preferences includes a preference for physical activity for the trip. One or more routes are provided for the trip to the destination that permits the trip to be completed by the arrival time and that implements at least one of the user preferences. At least one of the routes comprises a hybrid route including one segment in which a physical activity selected by the user is suggested for traversing a distance of the one segment and another segment using the autonomous vehicle.
US12032377B2
Navigation of a mobility aid robot having a camera and gripping part(s) disposed toward different directions is disclosed. The mobility aid robot is navigated to approach a user by identifying a posture of the user through the camera, determining a mode of the robot according to a type of the specified task to be performed on the user and the identified posture of the user, controlling the robot to move according to a planned trajectory corresponding to the determined mode of the robot, and turning the robot upon reaching the desired pose such that the gripping part faces the user, in response to the determined mode of the robot corresponding to the specified task of an assisting type and the user at one of a standing posture and a sitting posture.
US12032375B2
A system and a method for autonomous decisioning and operation by an autonomous agent includes: collecting decisioning data including: collecting a first stream of data includes observation data obtained by onboard sensors of the autonomous agent, wherein each of the onboard sensors is physically arranged on the autonomous agent; collecting a second stream of data includes observation data obtained by offboard infrastructure devices, the offboard infrastructure devices being arranged geographically remote from and in an operating environment of the autonomous agent; implementing a decisioning data buffer that includes the first stream of data from the onboard sensors and the second stream of data from the offboard sensors; generating current state data; generating/estimating intent data for each of one or more agents within the operating environment of the autonomous agent; identifying a plurality of candidate behavioral policies; and selecting and executing at least one of the plurality of candidate behavioral policies.
US12032371B2
An autonomous running vehicle transmits a camera image around the vehicle photographed by a camera to a remote monitoring center. An obstacle is detected on the basis of information obtained from autonomous sensors including the camera. When an obstacle is detected, the autonomous running vehicle is automatically stopped. The remote monitoring center determines, when the autonomous running vehicle automatically stops, whether or not the run of the autonomous running vehicle is permitted to restart on the basis of the received camera video. When it is determined that the autonomous running vehicle can be restarted, a departure signal is transmitted to the autonomous running vehicle. When the departure signal is received from the remote monitoring center, the autonomous running vehicle restarts running.
US12032364B2
A computer-implemented method for defect analysis is provided. The computer-implemented method includes calculating a plurality of weight-of-evidence (WOE) scores respectively for a plurality of device operations with respect to detects occurred during a fabrication period, a higher WOE score indicating a higher correlation between a defect and a device operation; and ranking the plurality of WOE scores to obtain a list of selected device operations highly correlated with the defects occurred during the fabrication period, device operations in the list of selected device operations having a WOE score greater than a first threshold score. A respective one of the plurality of device operations is a respective device defined by a respective operation site at which the respective device perform a respective operation.
US12032361B2
An automated assembly and contacting of electrical components are disclosed. Before a fed component is gripped, a control device of a mounting device for mounting and contacting electrical components is provided with information associated with the component comprising, in relation to a component coordinate system of the component, the position, orientation and a relevant length of electrical connections of the component, and the position and type of handling of the handling locations of the component. A position and an orientation of the component in relation to a machine coordinate system are known to the control device. Using the position and the orientation of the component in the machine coordinate system, the control device converts the positions and orientations defined by the information associated with the component into the machine coordinate system and takes the positions and orientations into account when gripping and assembling the component.
US12032359B2
The present disclosure addresses the technical problem of prediction of a preheat refractory temperature profile of a ladle furnace. Operational temperature of the ladle furnace, stability of sensors and placement make sensors not feasible. Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations require large computation time and cannot be used for runtime applications in plants. The method and system of the present disclosure uses CFD modeling to carry out parametric study to generate data which is further processed to train an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model that serves as a prediction model for predicting the preheat refractory temperature profile for at least a portion of the side refractory and at least a portion of the bottom refractory layer separately for which a new set of input data is obtained. The trained prediction model of the present disclosure provides a quick runtime prediction in plants.
US12032355B2
A method for detecting an endpoint of a seasoning process for a plasma tool includes (a) operating the plasma tool to run a seasoning recipe on at least one seasoning wafer before running a monitoring recipe on at least one monitoring wafer; (b) collecting, while running the monitoring recipe on the monitoring wafer, monitoring data associated with the running the monitoring recipe; and (c) generating an estimated product parameter using a virtual metrology (VM) model that is configured to estimate a product parameter using the monitoring data. The VM model is based on production data associated with running a production recipe on production wafers and product parameters of the production wafers measured after the running the production recipe. The endpoint of the seasoning process is obtained by repeating (a), (b) and (c), and the endpoint is obtained when the estimated product parameter stabilizes.
US12032353B2
To easily perform examination of at least one facility based on detection signals of a plurality of sensors installed in the facility. Provided are an examining apparatus, an examining method and a recording medium, including: a group designation acquiring unit to acquire designation of a targeted group including a plurality of targeted sensors to be analyzed among a plurality of sensors installed in at least one facility; a sensor data acquiring unit to acquire sensor data from each targeted sensor included in the targeted group; a learning unit to learn an analysis model by using the sensor data from each targeted sensor included in the targeted group; and an examining unit to examine the facility by using the learned analysis model.
US12032345B2
Universal switch modules, universal switches, and methods of using the same are disclosed, including methods of preparing an individual to interface with an electronic device or software. For example, a method is disclosed that can include measuring brain-related signals of the individual to obtain a first sensed brain-related signal when the individual generates a task-irrelevant thought. The method can include transmitting the first sensed brain-related signal to a processing unit. The method can include associating the task-irrelevant thought and the first sensed brain-related signal with N input commands. The method can include compiling the task-irrelevant thought, the first sensed brain-related signal, and the N input commands to an electronic database.
US12032342B2
A controller for an outdoor power equipment tool may include processing circuitry operably coupled to a sensor network of the outdoor power equipment tool and in data communication with a network. The processing circuitry may be configured to receive fitness data of a user from a fitness device via the network. The processing circuitry may be further configured to receive sensor data from the sensor network. The processing circuitry may be even further configured to compare the fitness data to the sensor data, and in response to the comparison of the fitness data to the sensor data, cause an adjustment to the operational parameters of the outdoor power equipment tool.
US12032331B2
An electroconductive member for electrophotography including a support having electro-conductivity and an electroconductive layer on the outer surface of the support, the electroconductive layer including a matrix containing a crosslinked product of a first rubber and first electroconductive particles and domains each containing a crosslinked product of a second rubber and second electroconductive particles, wherein at least part of the first electroconductive particles are present as a primary particle in the crosslinked product of the first rubber, wherein, the first electroconductive particles of the matrix observed in a specific observation region have d1 of 200 nm or more, the second electroconductive particles in the domains observed therein have d2 of 50 nm or less, and 80 number % or more of the domains satisfy specific conditions.
US12032329B2
A developing cartridge includes: a casing; a developing roller; a shaft; and a cam. The casing is configured to accommodate developer therein. The developing roller is rotatable about a first axis extending in an axial direction. The shaft extends along a second axis extending in the axial direction. The shaft is movable along the second axis. The cam is movable along the second axis in response to axial movement of the shaft. The cam has a cam surface non-parallel with the second axis.
US12032312B2
A connector member connectable to a heating unit inside a heating roller of a fixing device includes a cover having a recess into which an end of a substrate of the heating unit in a first direction parallel to a rotation axis of the heating roller can be inserted, and an energizing terminal stored in the cover and including a contact portion on one side of the recess and to be in contact with a contact point on the substrate, and a connecting portion to which a conducting wire for receiving electric power is connected and located on the other side of the recess.
US12032309B2
An image forming apparatus includes a stacking portion which is a part of a top surface of an exterior of the image forming apparatus. The stacking portion is positioned downstream of a discharging outlet in a discharging direction and on which the recording material discharged from the discharging outlet is stacked and includes a first surface on which the recording material discharged from the discharging outlet is stacked, and a second surface which is positioned outward with respect to the discharging outlet in a width direction orthogonal to the discharging direction. A supplying inlet is located below the first surface, wherein a downstream end of the first surface is positioned downstream of a downstream end of the second surface in the discharging direction, and wherein the first surface is rotatable to expose the supplying inlet.
US12032301B2
A substrate support for supporting a substrate. The substrate support includes a main body, a clamping device and a dither device. The main body includes a support surface for supporting the substrate. The clamping device is arranged to provide the clamping force to clamp the substrate on the support surface. The dither device is configured to dither the clamping force. The dither device may be configured to dither the clamping force while the substrate is being loaded onto the support surface.
US12032295B2
In an embodiment, an apparatus includes an energy source, a support platform for holding a wafer, an optical path extending from the energy source to the support platform, and a photomask aligned such that a patterned major surface of the photomask is parallel to the force of gravity, where the optical path passes through the photomask, where the patterned major surface of the photomask is perpendicular to a topmost surface of the support platform.
US12032291B2
As described herein, photosensitive composition comprises RSnL3, where R is a hydrocarbyl ligand with 1-20 carbon atoms and one or more silicon and/or germanium heteroatoms and L is an acetylide ligand (—C≡CA, where A is a silyl group with 0 to 6 carbon atoms or an organo group with 1 to 10 carbon atoms). Methods are described wherein photosensitive compositions are synthesized by reacting RX, where X is a halide, and MSnL3, where M is an alkali metal, alkali earth metal or a pseudo-alkali earth metal, L is an acetylide or a dialkylamide. The radiation sensitive compositions are effective for radiation based patterning, such as with EUV light.
US12032290B2
According to the present invention, an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition including a resin P having a repeating unit represented by General Formula (P1) and a compound that generates an acid having a pKa of −1.40 or more upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation; and a resist film, a pattern forming method, and a method for manufacturing an electronic device, each using the composition, are provided. Mp represents a single bond or a divalent linking group. Lp represents a divalent linking group. Xp represents O, S, or NRN1. RN1 represents a hydrogen atom or a monovalent organic group. Rp represents a monovalent organic group.
US12032289B2
A polymer comprising recurring units having a multiple bond-containing acid labile group, recurring units having a phenolic hydroxyl group, and recurring units adapted to generate an acid upon exposure is used to formulate a resist composition, which exhibits a high sensitivity, low LWR and improved CDU when processed by lithography using EUV of wavelength 13.5 nm.
US12032284B2
Exemplary methods of packaging a substrate may include rotationally aligning a substrate to a predetermined angular position. The methods may include transferring the substrate to a metrology station. The methods may include measuring a topology of the substrate at the metrology station. The methods may include applying a first chucking force to the substrate to flatten the substrate. The methods may include generating a mapping of a die pattern on an exposed surface of the substrate. The methods may include transferring the substrate to a printing station. The methods may include applying a second chucking force to the substrate to flatten the substrate against a surface of the printing station. The methods may include adjusting a printing pattern based on the mapping of the die pattern. The methods may include printing the printing pattern on the exposed surface of the substrate.
US12032281B2
A pellicle cleaning apparatus includes a stage to support a pellicle, a particle remover above the stage, the particle remover being configured to remove a particle from a first surface of a pellicle, and the particle remover including a cantilever, and an adhesive material on a bottom surface of the cantilever, and a pressure controller adjacent to the stage, the pressure controller being configured to control a pressure of a fluid on a second surface of the pellicle.
US12032276B2
A light emitting diode includes a semiconductor layer sequence stack, a reflective polarizing layer and a diffuse reflection structure. The semiconductor layer sequence stack includes first and second semiconductor layers, and a light emitting layer disposed therebetween. The reflective polarizing layer is disposed on the semiconductor layer sequence stack. The diffuse reflection structure is disposed on the light emitting layer opposite to the reflective polarizing layer. A light emitting device including the light emitting diode, and a projector including the light emitting device are also provided.
US12032274B2
Disclosed are a multi-degree-of-freedom attitude adjustment camera apparatus, and a control method, device and medium, the apparatus includes: a fixed support; a camera adjusting module which includes an upper chassis, a lower chassis and three bolts, the upper chassis is fixed on the fixed support, the upper chassis is provided with three through holes with threaded structures, and the three bolts penetrate through the three through holes and are matched with the threaded structures on the through holes; first ends of the bolts penetrate through the through holes and then are connected with a first surface of the lower chassis; and a second surface of the lower chassis is provided with a connecting member for connecting a camera; three motors, wherein the motors are connected to second ends of the bolts; and an upper computer connected with the motors and the camera.
US12032266B2
Provided is a phase modulator including an antenna pattern, a lower reflective layer spaced apart from the antenna pattern in a vertical direction, a spacer provided between the antenna pattern and the lower reflective layer, and a phase shift pattern included in the spacer, the phase shift pattern including a phase shift material.
US12032260B2
Provided are electrolyte films or cells for use in variety of applications, such as electrochromic windows. An electrolytic film comprises a polymer layer, such as thermoplastic polyurethane or polymethyl methacrylate, and an electrolyte within the polymer layer. The electrolyte comprises a salt and a plasticizer. The plasticizer comprises one or more materials that are selected to provide sufficient conductivity and optical transparency for operation of the electrolyte film in an application requiring substantial optical clarity and switching speed, such as a smart window.
US12032258B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display panel are provided. In the array substrate, a first metal layer includes a common electrode, the common electrode includes a first frame and a wire disposed in the first frame, the wire and the first frame are insulated from each other and spaced apart, a second metal layer and the first metal layer are disposed in different layers, the second metal layer includes a share electrode, and the share electrode is disposed overlapping the wire.
US12032246B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel unit, wherein a first sub-pixel electrode trunk, a second sub-pixel electrode trunk, and a sub-pixel frame electrode divide a sub-pixel area into a first partition, a second partition, a third partition, and a fourth partition; the fourth partition is provided with a fourth sub-pixel electrode branch, the fourth partition is located in a lower right area of the sub-pixel area, and an included angle between the fourth sub-pixel electrode branch and a left side of a lower frame electrode of the sub-pixel frame electrode is an obtuse angle.
US12032239B2
Discussed is a backlight unit, including a base substrate; a partition wall on the base substrate and including a plurality of grooves; semiconductor light-emitting devices on the base substrate and in the plurality of grooves, respectively; a phosphor layer defined in each of the plurality of grooves to cover the semiconductor light-emitting devices and absorbs light in a specific wavelength band to emit light in a wavelength band different from the light in the specific wavelength band; a light diffusion layer that above the phosphor layer and diffuses light; and a spacer between the partition wall and the light diffusion layer, wherein the spacer includes: a body part attached to the partition wall; and a protruding part protruding in a direction toward the light diffusion layer and attached to the light diffusion layer, such that the light diffusion layer and the phosphor layer are spaced apart from each other.
US12032238B2
The present disclosure provides an optical adjusting film, a backlight module and a display device. The optical adjusting film according to the present disclosure includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to each other; a first electrode layer on a side of the first substrate facing the second substrate; a second electrode layer on a side of the second substrate facing the first substrate; a polymer dispersed liquid crystal layer between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer; and an anti-adsorption surface layer on a side of the first substrate away from the second substrate, and/or a side of the second substrate away from the first substrate, and configured to suppress adsorption between the optical adjusting film and a solid surface.
US12032235B2
An information handling system display has an edge-to-edge appearance with a polarizer disposed as an outer layer in a housing perimeter and supported by a stainless steel support structure coupled to an underlying display module that frames the display area and extends to the housing perimeter. Flowable optically clear adhesive disposed between the display module and polarizer provides a planar outer surface relative to a height of the support structure.
US12032234B2
Anti-peep display assembly and display device are provided. The anti-peep display assembly includes a backlight module, a first birefringence control type liquid crystal cell, a second birefringence control type liquid crystal cell, and a display liquid crystal cell. Along a thickness direction of the anti-peep display assembly, the first birefringence control type liquid crystal cell and the second birefringence control type liquid crystal cell are between the backlight module and the display liquid crystal cell, and the first birefringence control type liquid crystal cell is between the second birefringence control type liquid crystal cell and the backlight module. A first polarizer is arranged on a side of the display liquid crystal cell away from the second birefringence control type liquid crystal cell, and a second polarizer is arranged between the display liquid crystal cell and the second birefringence control type liquid crystal cell.
US12032228B2
A spectacle mount is described, comprising a front frame (2) with lateral lugs (4) and respective rods (5), each rod-lug pair comprising a first and a second articulation element (6, 7) and an insert (12) constrained to the first articulation element (6), a recess (17) being defined in the insert (12) and intended to receive, at least partially, a head (11) of the second articulation element (7) during the movement relative to the first articulation element (6), a shoulder surface (22) defined on the insert (12) being able to contact the head (11) during the articulation movement, so that the second articulation element (7) is movable from and towards open and closed positions of the rod on the mount, in a guided and contacted manner between the insert (12) and the first articulation element (6), to achieve a hinge movement between the lug (4) and the rod (5).
US12032209B2
An optical transmission apparatus includes an emitter that emits an optical signal in accordance with a bias current, and a Mach-Zehnder optical modulator that optically modulates the optical signal in accordance with an electrical signal. The optical modulator includes a detector that detects a temperature inside the optical modulator, and a controller that, when detecting activation of a power supply, controls the temperature inside the optical modulator such that the temperature detected by the detector reaches a target temperature.
US12032203B2
The present disclosure provides an optical fibre. The optical fibre includes a glass core, a glass cladding, a primary coating layer, and a secondary coating layer. The glass cladding surrounds the glass core. In addition, the primary coating layer sandwiched between the glass cladding and the secondary coating layer. Further, the secondary coating layer surrounds the primary coating layer. The primary coating layer has diameter of up to is in the range of 130 to 155 micrometers. Furthermore, the secondary coating layer has diameter in a range of about 160 micrometers to 180 micrometers. Moreover, diameter of the optical fibre is about 190 micrometers.
US12032192B2
Embodiments calculate birefringence of materials. One such embodiment builds one or more three-dimensional structure models of one or more compounds forming a material. Each built three-dimensional structure model is aligned along a molecular axis and one or more tilt angles are set for each aligned three-dimensional structure model. A molecular polarizability tensor for each three-dimensional structure model with the set tilt angles is then calculated. An embodiment accounts for anisotropy by measuring the width and length of each model with the set tilt angles to determine aspect ratios. To continue, birefringence of the material is calculated based on the determined molecular polarizability tensors of the one or more models. Embodiments can be employed for simulating, optimizing, and designing real-world objects, e.g., in an optimization to select a material for a phone display that conforms with performance/manufacturing requirements.
US12032188B2
Provided is an optically anisotropic film, an optical film, and a display device, which have a high contrast and excellent light fastness. The optically anisotropic film includes a liquid crystal compound and a dichroic substance, in which the liquid crystal compound is vertically aligned, the dichroic substance forms an arrangement structure, and in a case where, in a cross section observed with a scanning transmission electron microscope, a length of a major axis of the arrangement structure is defined as L, and a length of a minor axis of the arrangement structure is defined as D, 16 or more arrangement structures satisfying L≥30 nm are observed per 40 μm2.
US12032184B2
A terahertz wave lens concentrates or collimates a terahertz wave. The terahertz wave lens includes a substrate having a surface provided with an uneven structure that changes a phase of the terahertz wave. The uneven structure includes a plurality of pillars that are periodically arranged. The uneven structure includes a plurality of regions where the plurality of pillars are arranged. A height of the pillar in a thickness direction of the substrate and a width of the pillar differ for each of the regions. A distance (period) between centers of the pillars adjacent to each other is constant. Outer end portions of the uneven structure in the thickness direction are located on the same plane.
US12032179B2
A color conversion component and a display device. The color conversion component includes a light conversion layer including a black matrix, color conversion layers and concave-convex structure layers; the black matrix has a plurality of through holes arranged in an array; the color conversion layers are located within at least a portion of the through holes and capable of emitting a light in a wavelength range different than that of an incident light; and the concave-convex structure layers are arranged at least correspondingly in each of the through holes accommodating the color conversion layers, and each concave-convex structure layer is located on a light incident side of the light conversion layer and has a concave-convex structure surface facing towards the respective color conversion layer.
US12032176B2
A camera module includes: a housing; a rotation holder configured to tilt about an axis perpendicular to an optical axis with respect to the housing, and accommodating a reflective member; a first magnetic member disposed in the rotation holder; a middle guide disposed between the housing and the rotation holder; and a first ball group including three ball members disposed between the rotation holder and the middle guide. An inner region of a triangle connecting the three ball members of the first ball group to one another and the first magnetic member overlap each other in a direction of the optical axis.
US12032156B2
The present disclosure envisages an apparatus for communication to enable differently abled users to communicate their requirements to others. The apparatus comprises an eye wearable device adapted to emit infrared light signal from a certain area of at least one eye of the user. The apparatus further includes a monitoring device configured to receive the transmitted infrared light signal from the at least one eye of the user and further configured to identify the requirement of the user corresponding to the transmitted infrared light signal.
US12032154B2
Provided is a display apparatus including a vision correction lens. The display apparatus may include: an image forming device configured to form a virtual image; a vision correction lens configured to correct eyesight of a viewer; a combiner configured to mix the virtual image with light containing an outside landscape and having passed through the vision correction lens and provide the viewer with the virtual image and the light that are mixed with each other; and a virtual image positioner configured to adjust, according to a state of eyes of the viewer, a depth of a virtual image plane at which the virtual image is viewed, wherein the combiner may be arranged between the vision correction lens and the eyes of the viewer.
US12032150B2
A system and method for analyzing bodily fluid include a sample holder holding a bodily fluid sample, an image capture device generating an image of the bodily fluid sample comprising a plurality of fields of view. An image processor is programmed to determine a biofilm in the bodily fluid sample from the image, determine a biofilm area or volume within each of the plurality of fields of view to form a plurality of biofilm areas, determine a total biofilm area or total biofilm volume by adding the plurality of biofilm areas, determine a first value corresponding to a comparison of the total biofilm area or the total biofilm volume and a total volume of the bodily fluid sample, and classify the first value into a classification. An analyzer, using the classification, displays an indicator on a display for indicating the classification of the biofilm within the bodily fluid sample.
US12032149B2
Provided are an imaging method and apparatus for a self-luminous object on a biological sample film (A); said imaging apparatus comprises a housing (1), a photographic conversion element (2), and an image correction device (3); the inside of the housing (1) forms a darkroom space; the photographic conversion element (2) is arranged in the housing (1); the photographic conversion element (2) is used, when the biological sample film (A) is not inserted, for obtaining a first dark field image inside the housing (1); after affixing the biological sample film (A) to the surface of the photographic conversion element (2), the photographic conversion element (2) is also used for obtaining a second dark field image inside the housing (1); the image correction device (3) is used for correcting the second dark field image according to the first dark field image to obtain a target image corresponding to the self-luminous object. The imaging apparatus and imaging method can effectively and more accurately obtain a higher-definition target image of the self-luminous object; the operation process is simple and the time required for imaging is short; furthermore, the imaging apparatus has the advantages of a small structure, low cost of manufacture, convenient operation, and portability.
US12032134B2
An optical imaging lens, including a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element, and a seventh lens element sequentially arranged along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, is provided. Each of the first lens element to the seventh lens element includes an object-side surface and an image-side surface. An optical axis region of the object-side surface of the first lens element is convex. A periphery region of the image-side surface of the second lens element is concave. The fourth lens element has positive refracting power, and an optical axis region of the object-side surface of the fourth lens element is concave. An optical axis region of the image-side surface of the fifth lens element is convex.
US12032131B2
The present disclosure provides a camera optical lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens, a second, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, and an eighth lens; the first lens has a positive refractive power, and the camera optical lens satisfies conditions of: 0.95≤f/TTL; 2.00≤f2/f≤5.00; and −20.00≤(R13+R14)/(R13−R14)≤−3.00. The camera optical lens can achieve good optical performance while meeting the design requirements for long focal length and ultra-thinness.
US12032130B2
A camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens and a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies conditions of −4.00≤f1/f≤−2.20, 1.50≤f2/f≤3.50, 3.00≤R7/R8≤8.00, 1.50≤(R9+R10)/(R9−R10)≤8.00, and 1.50≤d8/d10≤5.00. Here f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, f2 denotes a focal length of the second lens, R7 denotes a curvature radius of an object-side surface of the fourth lens, R8 denotes a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the fourth lens, R9 denotes an curvature radius of an object-side surface of the fifth lens, R10 denotes a curvature radius of an image-side surface of the fifth lens. The camera optical lens of the present disclosure has excellent optical performances, and meanwhile can meet design requirements of a wide angle and ultra-thin.
US12032127B2
A camera optical lens is provided. The camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens, an eighth lens, and a ninth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 2.00≤f1/f≤4.50; and 3.00≤d9/d10≤12.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f1 denotes a focal length of the first lens, d9 denotes an on-axis thickness of the fifth lens, and d10 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the fifth lens to an object side surface of the sixth lens. The camera optical lens according to the present disclosure has good optical performance while meeting design requirements for large aperture, wide angle and ultra-thinning.
US12032124B2
Methods of processing coated articles, such as transparencies, are provided comprising flash annealing one or more layers of the coated article. The one or more layers may be reflective metallic layers, such as silver layers, or comprise a transparent conductive oxide, such as indium tin oxide, or a semiconductor.
US12032123B2
There is provided an optical body with improved antireflection capability, a display device, and a method for manufacturing an optical body, the optical body including: a first concave-convex structure formed on a surface of a base material; and a second concave-convex structure superimposed on the first concave-convex structure. An average concave-convex period of the first concave-convex structure is larger than a wavelength in a visible light region, an average concave-convex period of the second concave-convex structure is less than or equal to the wavelength in the visible light region, and projecting parts of the second concave-convex structure extend in a direction normal to a flat plane of the base material.
US12032118B2
An isotropic imaging filter is provided that includes a photonic crystal slab, where the photonic crystal slab includes a square lattice of air through holes, a dielectric constant, a thickness (d), a through hole radius (r), and a lattice constant (a), where the square lattice of air holes are separated according to a value of the lattice constant, where the thickness is configured according to d=M(a), where the through hole radii is configured according to r=N(a), where the thickness and the hole radii are configured to generate isotropic bands of guided resonances of an incident image.
US12032116B1
Various embodiments described herein provide for a balloon-borne aeroseismometer that can detect infrasonic signals and concurrent vibrations caused by the infrasonic signals. Through a set of motion sensors that can detect acceleration in three planes, the aeroseismometer can determine the direction of vibration and thus determine a travel path of the infrasonic signal relative to the aeroseismometer. The aeroseismometer can also translate the direction of the source from a reference frame of the aeroseismometer to an external reference frame, such as a planetary coordinate system, in order to identify potential locations of a source of the infrasonic signals.
US12032115B2
Electromagnetic probes for analyzing a flowing multi-phase fluid are described herein. The probes generally use a probe assembly for measuring liquid properties in a multiphase fluid flowing in a conduit, the probe assembly comprising a first member with a probe portion and a connection portion, the probe portion having a central bore with a conductor and a pressure-resistant insulator surrounding the conductor, the conductor extending from an opening at a distal end of the probe portion into the connection portion, the connection portion having a connector coupled to a distal end of the connection portion, the connection portion having a seal face with a groove extending around the probe portion; and a second member that, when assembled, is in direct contact with the first member at the distal end of the connection portion to apply compression and to retain the first member against a wall of the conduit.
US12032114B2
A pest detection device including a capacitive sensor having a plurality of traces that can be capacitively sensed using self-capacitance or mutual capacitance measurements. The sensor including conductive shield traces to facilitate a number of sensing applications. The sensor including a coated portion to facilitate crawling of pests over the sensing area of the circuit board.
US12032104B2
According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires a parameter relating to a predetermined imaging mode, the parameter including at least information on an instruction for executing transmit aperture synthesis, and determines a scanning condition for executing the transmit aperture synthesis together with step-alternating scan based on the parameter.
US12032102B2
Improved calibration of a vehicle sensor based on static objects detected within an environment being traversed by the vehicle is disclosed. A first sensor such as a LiDAR can be calibrated to a global coordinate system via a second pre-calibrated sensor such as a GPS IMU. Static objects present in the environment are detected such as signage. Point cloud data representative of the static objects are captured by the first sensor and a first transformation matrix for performing a transformation from a local coordinate system of the first sensor to a local coordinate system of the second sensor is iteratively redetermined until a desired calibration accuracy is achieved. Transformation to the global coordinate system is then achieved via application of the first transformation matrix followed by application of a second known transformation matrix to transition from the local coordinate system of the second pre-calibrated sensor to the global coordinate system.
US12032095B2
A LIDAR system includes a detector array comprising a first detector region and a second detector region, wherein the first detector region comprises a first detector and the second detector region comprises a second detector, at least one optical element configured to separate light received at the at least one optical element into a first portion and a second portion, incident on the first detector and the second detector, respectively, wherein the at least one optical element is configured to alter a characteristic of the light, and a circuit configured to receive a first detection signal from the first detector responsive to the first portion of the light that is incident thereon and a second detection signal from the second detector responsive to the second portion of the light that is incident thereon, and to generate an improved signal based on the first and second detection signals.
US12032080B2
A distributed power system including multiple DC power sources and multiple power modules. The power modules include inputs coupled respectively to the DC power sources and outputs coupled in series to form a serial string. An inverter is coupled to the serial string. The inverter converts power input from the serial string to output power. A signaling mechanism between the inverter and the power module is adapted for controlling operation of the power modules.
US12032077B2
The system and method facilitates Real-Time-Kinematic (RTK) GNSS with long baseline between a rover receiver and a base station receiver, even in the presence of scintillation or ionospheric disturbances that spatially fluctuate. Residual atmospheric errors can be estimated by a dual error model in a filter to promote efficient fixing or resolution of carrier phase ambiguities.
US12032068B2
A satellite orbiting in one of a plurality of orbital planes of a satellite constellation system at an altitude range corresponding to low earth orbit includes at least one processor configured to generate satellite state data, and to generate a navigation signal based on the satellite state data. The satellite includes at least one transmitter configured to transmit the navigation signal for receipt by at least one client device on earth. Each of the plurality of orbital planes includes a corresponding one of a plurality of satellite subsets of a plurality of satellites of the satellite constellation system. Each of the plurality of orbital planes is within the altitude range, and the plurality of orbital planes includes a set of inclined orbital planes at a non-polar inclination.
US12032065B2
Provided is a depth detection system and method of histogram binning for depth detection. The depth detection system includes a light source configured to emit a light pulse toward an object, an optical sensor configured to detect the light pulse reflecting off the object, the optical sensor including a first sensing pixel configured to detect the light pulse for a first event count according to the light pulse reflecting off the object, and a second sensing pixel configured to detect the light pulse for a second event count according to the light pulse reflecting off the object, and a processing circuit configured to determine a first aggregated histogram corresponding to the first sensing pixel based on the first event count and the second event count and determine a first peak of the first aggregated histogram to determine a first time of flight associated with the first sensing pixel.
US12032055B2
A moving object detection apparatus estimates, based on observed-point positions indicated respectively by a plurality of pieces of observed-point information, a tracking trajectory tracking movement of a moving object. The apparatus stores, based on received electric powers indicated respectively by the pieces of the observed-point information, a maximum received-electric-power. The apparatus determines, for each of the pieces of the observed-point information, whether a received-electric-power difference is greater than a drop determination value. The apparatus also determines, for each of the pieces of the observed-point information, whether the received electric power indicated by the piece of the observed-point information is not higher than a recognition determination value. When the received-electric-power difference is determined to be greater than the drop determination value and the received electric power is determined to be not higher than the recognition determination value, the apparatus suppresses the degree of tracking the observed points in the tracking trajectory.
US12032052B2
An emergency rescue equipment having a harmonic reflector circuit comprising an antenna connected to a non-linear circuit via a matching circuit and a casing that in part enclose the harmonic reflector circuit, wherein the harmonic reflector circuit is configured to receive a signal at a receive frequency (fRX), and configured to transmit said received signal at a transmit frequency (fTX), where the transmit frequency is a multiple of the receive frequency, the harmonic reflector circuit wherein the receive frequency (fRX) is in an interval from a first frequency to a second frequency, where the first frequency is at least 800 MHz; and the second frequency is at least 34 MHz larger than the first frequency; the received signal is transmitted at the transmit frequency (fTX) with an output power (Pout) of at least 70% of the maximum available output power (Pmax).
US12032048B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for optimizing a sub-sampling pattern for efficient capture of a sub-sampled image to be reconstructed to form a high-resolution image, in a data-driven fashion. For example, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans can be accelerated by under-sampling in k-space (i.e., the Fourier domain). Since the reconstruction model's success depends on the sub-sampling pattern, optimization of the sub-sampling pattern can be combined with optimization of the model, for a given sparsity constraint, using an end-to-end learning operation. A machine-learning model may be trained using full-resolution training data that are under-sampled retrospectively, yielding a sub-sampling pattern and reconstruction model that are customized to the type of images represented in the training data. The disclosed Learning-based Optimization of the Under-sampling PattErn (LOUPE) operations may implement a convolutional neural network architecture, appended with a forward model that encodes the under-sampling process.
US12032044B2
We have developed a high-performance, low-volume, low-weight, and low-power sensor based on a self-sustaining oscillator. The techniques described here may be used for sensing various fields; we demonstrate magnetic sensing. The oscillator is based on a dielectric resonator that contains paramagnetic defects and is connected to a sustaining amplifier in a feedback loop. The resonance frequency of the dielectric resonator shifts in response to changes in the magnetic field, resulting in a shift in the frequency of the self-sustaining oscillator. The value of the magnetic field is thereby encoded in the shift or modulation output of the self-sustaining oscillator. The sensor as demonstrated uses no optics, no input microwaves, and, not including digitization electronics, consumes less than 300 mW of power and exhibits a sensitivity at or below tens of pT/√{square root over (Hz)}. In some implementations, the sensor is less than 1 mL in volume.
US12032032B2
An energy storage apparatus includes external terminals, an energy storage device, a switch located in a current path from the energy storage device to the external terminal, a measurement unit that measures a current and a voltage of the energy storage device, and a management unit. The management unit cuts off discharge to an outside through the external terminal by controlling the switch when the voltage of the energy storage device falls below a threshold voltage equal to or higher than a minimum operating voltage of the measurement unit, and the management unit estimates a capacity of the energy storage device after an arbitrary time point t1 in a first period in which the voltage of the energy storage device decreases from the threshold voltage to the minimum operating voltage of the measurement unit based on an elapsed time from the arbitrary time point.
US12032022B2
A power consumption measurement assembly includes: at least two sampling modules respectively connected to a circuit to be measured in series; a gating module configured to gate one of the at least two sampling modules; an amplifying module configured to acquire and amplify a voltage signal across the gated sampling module; and a processing module connected to the gating module and the amplifying module and configured to: control and adjust the gated sampling module and an amplification of the amplifying module, calculate a power consumption value based on the amplified voltage signal and transmit the power consumption value.
US12032018B2
A method for bit error rate testing a processing unit using a bit error rate tester (BERT) includes transmitting a signal pair to a receiver of the processing unit, the signal pair having jitter levels complying with a jitter threshold, tuning the signal pair to obtain a first stressed eye measurement for the receiver, wherein the first stressed eye measurement complies with a stressed eye mask, placing the processing unit into a loop-back mode, wherein data transmitted to the processing unit by the BERT is transmitted back to the BERT, transmitting a data pattern to the processing unit, receiving a looped back version of the data pattern from the processing unit, and calculating a bit error rate in accordance with the data pattern and the looped back version of the data pattern.
US12032012B1
The present invention provides a semiconductor film layer inspection apparatus (10) and method with the same detecting the electrical characteristics of a semiconductor film layer (30) formed on one surface of a substrate (20) and including an oxide semiconductor layer (31), the apparatus including: a base unit (40) configured to allow the substrate to be seatingly disposed on one surface thereof; a detection unit (200) configured to be brought into close contact with at least two points on one surface of the oxide semiconductor layer to apply an electrical signal so as to detect the electrical characteristics of the oxide semiconductor layer; and a carrier generator (300) configured to increase a concentration of a carrier of the oxide semiconductor layer.
US12032009B2
A sensor system comprises a laser source that emits a pump beam at a first wavelength and a probe beam at a second wavelength, and an optical means for receiving the pump and probe beams. The optical means is operative to generate a plurality of light beams, each having a different frequency, from the pump and probe beams. One or more cells receive the light beams from the optical means and allow passage of the light beams therethrough, with the cells containing alkali atoms. A dichroic filter is configured to receive the light beams from the cells. The dichroic filter separates pump beam light and probe beam light from the light beams. A detector array receives the probe beam light from the dichroic filter. The detector array includes a two-dimensional array of photosensors that map out transmission of respective light beams corresponding to the probe beam light through the cells.
US12032008B2
A system for contactless testing of radio frequency apertures is provided. The system comprises a fixture having a fixture mount operable to be received in a fixture receiver of a robotic system, and a vector network analyzer (“VNA”) supported by the fixture. A radiating antenna is supported by the fixture, and is operable to be connected to the VNA via a cable. Upon movement of the fixture via the robotic system, the VNA, the radiating antenna, and the cable maintain a static positional relationship relative to one another.
US12032007B2
An apparatus comprises a signal generator; first and second electrodes, the second electrode being connected to a first terminal of the signal generator; a processor; and a first switch configured to connect the first electrode to the processor, the first switch having a first position and a second position. The processor is configured to determine one or more values of a first electrical parameter based on a signal received from the first electrode via the first switch in the first position, and to determine one or more values of a second electrical parameter based on a signal received from the first electrode via the first switch in the second position.
US12031996B2
An automated computer-controlled sampling system and related methods for collecting, processing, and analyzing agricultural samples for various chemical properties such as plant available nutrients. The sampling system allows multiple samples to be processed and analyzed for different analytes or chemical properties in a simultaneous concurrent or semi-concurrent manner. Advantageously, the system can process soil samples in the “as collected” condition without drying or grinding. The system generally includes a sample preparation sub-system which receives soil samples collected by a probe collection sub-system and produces a slurry (i.e. mixture of soil, vegetation, and/or manure and water), and a chemical analysis sub-system which processes the prepared slurry samples for quantifying multiple analytes and/or chemical properties of the sample. The sample preparation and chemical analysis sub-systems can be used to analyze soil, vegetation, and/or manure samples.
US12031990B2
The invention relates to methods of assessing a patient's risk of developing Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML).
US12031988B2
An image analysis method for determining the biomedical state of a tissue sample. The method includes receiving a digital image of a tissue sample identifying the number and location of A-type cells and B-type cells, obtaining an observed relative distribution, obtaining a reference relative distribution of expected distances between reference A-type cells and reference B-type cells, computing a proximity score as a difference of the reference relative distribution and the observed relative distribution, computing a combined score comprising the proximity score and the density of the A-type cells and/or the density of the B-type cells, and using the combined score for determining the biomedical state of the tissue sample and/or outputting the combined score.
US12031987B2
Disclosed herein is a system and method for transistor pathogen virus detector in which one embodiment may include a substrate layer, a silicon dioxide layer on the substrate layer, a nanocrystalline diamond layer on the silicon dioxide layer, a graphene oxide layer on the nanocrystalline diamond layer, fluorinated graphene oxide portions; and a linker layer, the linker layer including a plurality of pathogen receptors.
US12031980B2
Disclosed is a synthetic antigen and a solid substrate having an antigen immobilized thereto and a method for immobilizing the antigen onto a solid substrate. Also disclosed is a biosensor and tuberculosis detection system employing the said solid substrate. Also disclosed is a method of detecting the presence of antibodies against mycobacterial material in a sample using the synthetic antigen or solid substrate.
US12031977B2
Methods and compositions for determining multiplex interactions between drugs and drug transporters using an intestinal tissue explant are provided.
US12031975B2
Provided are methods and articles of manufacture for use with cell therapy for the treatment of diseases or conditions, e.g., cancer, including for predicting likelihood of the subject responding to a therapy, such as a cell therapy, e.g., a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy. In some aspects, the predicting is based on detecting certain biomarkers of immune cells associated with and/or that correlate with response following administration of the therapy. The methods generally involve detecting a marker by assaying a biological sample from a subject that is a candidate for treatment, optionally with a cell therapy, to determine if the subject is likely to respond to the therapy. The present disclosure also provides methods for treating a subject having a disease or condition, in some cases involving administration of the cell therapy, based on assessment the biomarker. Also provided herein are reagents and kits for performing the methods.
US12031973B1
The disclosure relates to a system (100) for determination of humidity of concrete, the system (100) comprises a gauge (A1,A2,A3) configured to be embedded into the concrete, a first wireless communication module (10a, 10b, 10c) configured for wide area radio communication, and a processing circuitry (102a, 102b, 102c) operatively connected to the a gauge (A1,A2,A3) and the wireless communication module (10a, 10b, 10c), configured to cause the system (100) to obtain first measurement data by the gauge (A1,A2,A3), and transfer data wirelessly by the wireless communication module (10a, 10b, 10c) for making a value, defining the humidity of the concrete, available at a remote location. The disclosure further relates to a method for determination of humidity of concrete and a computer program product (500).
US12031965B2
System and method for monitoring occupancy of a building using a CO2 concentration monitoring device
A building loses or gains heat through its envelope based on the differential between the indoor and outdoor temperatures. The losses or gains are due to conduction and infiltration. Conventionally, these effects are typically estimated by performing an on-site energy audit. However, total thermal conductivity, conduction, and infiltration can be determined empirically. The number of air changes per hour are empirically measured using a CO2 concentration monitoring device, which enables the infiltration component of total thermal conductivity to be measured directly. The conduction component of thermal conductivity can then be determined by subtracting the infiltration component from the building's total thermal conductivity.
US12031957B2
First and second electrode liquid seal members are arranged between a first electrode and a second electrode. First and second ion exchange membranes are arranged between the first electrode liquid seal member and the second electrode liquid seal member. An eluent seal member is arranged between the first ion exchange membrane and the second ion exchange membrane. A plurality of first mesh members having different charge amounts are stacked in a first electrode liquid flow path of the first electrode liquid seal member. Each of the plurality of first mesh members is constituted by a first wire group composed of a plurality of first wires and a second wire group composed of a plurality of second wires crossing the first wire group. The plurality of first wire groups of the plurality of first mesh members respectively extend in different directions, and the plurality of second wire groups of the plurality of first mesh members respectively extend in different directions and extend in directions different from those of the plurality of first wire groups.
US12031952B1
The invention provides an evaluation method for creep property of LUHPC. It includes the following steps: S1, testing the compressive strength, elastic modulus, environmental temperature and humidity, and creep deformation variables of LUHPC prism samples; S2, based on the test data obtained in the step S1, calculating the initial creep coefficient of LUHPC at different ages and different steel fiber contents, and establishing a primary LUHPC creep model; S3, performing nonlinear regression analysis on the primary LUHPC creep model and fitting it by using the least squares method to establish a secondary LUHPC creep model regarding compressive strength and steel fiber content; S4, calculating a creep coefficient based on the secondary LUHPC creep model to evaluate the creep property of LUHPC. The creep model considers the influence of concrete compressive strength and steel fiber content, which makes the long-term performance analysis of LUHPC structures more reasonable and accurate.
US12031948B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for conducting an ultrasonic-based inspection. The systems and methods perform operations comprising: receiving a plurality of scan plan parameters associated with generating an image of at least one flaw within a specimen based on acoustic echo data obtained using full matrix capture (FMC); applying the plurality of scan plan parameters to an acoustic model, the acoustic model configured to determine a two-way pressure response of a plurality of inspection modes based on specular reflection and diffraction phenomena; generating, by the acoustic model based on the plurality of scan plan parameters, an acoustic region of influence (AROI) comprising an acoustic amplitude sensitivity map for a first inspection mode amongst the plurality of inspection modes; and generating, for display, a first image comprising the AROI associated with the first inspection mode for capturing or inspecting the image of the at least one flaw.
US12031947B2
A sonic inspection device according to an embodiment includes: a sonic probe that includes a transducer configured to perform at least one of transmitting a sound wave and receiving a sound wave and has a sonic function surface constituting at least one of a transmitting surface of the sound wave and a receiving surface of the sound wave; a contact member that includes a couplant and a sheet-shaped member, the couplant having a first surface, which is in contact with the sonic function surface of the sonic probe directly or while interposing an intermediate member, and a second surface on an opposite side of the first surface, and containing an elastomer, and the sheet-shaped member laminated with the couplant to be in contact with the second surface and containing a polymer; and a loading mechanism configured to apply a load to the contact member.
US12031938B2
A gel for use in a pH or an ORP sensor, components of the gel comprising water, a reference electrolyte salt, a buffering system for adjusting pH of the gel, and a polymeric gelling agent, and the gel does not degrade under gamma irradiation.
US12031937B2
A sensor element including a first ceramic layer (105), and a measurement electrode (110a) and a reference electrode (108a) disposed thereon, further comprising a through hole (105a) formed in the first ceramic layer, a through hole conductor (121c), a reference lead (108b) connected to the reference electrode and connected to the through hole conductor, and a second ceramic layer (103) disposed to face the first ceramic layer, the sensor element further including a gas flow chamber (130) provided between the first and second ceramic layers, and facing the through hole and being in communication with the reference lead, and a gas flow passage (170) open to a second region (100s) of an outer surface of the sensor element, thereby establishing communication between the gas flow chamber and an outside atmosphere. Also disclosed is gas sensor including the gas sensor element and a method for manufacturing the gas sensor element.
US12031935B2
The present invention provides a process and method for the early detection and diagnosis of disease by reading and decoding volatile organic compounds (VOCs) for signatures associated with a specific disease. From its outset, each disease begins producing its own unique set of volatile organic compounds. For many diseases, this early-stage detection may be many months or years before noticeable symptoms. The VOC emissions when analyzed, result in a “signature” that identifies and distinguishes the developing, or at later stages, the developed disease. The device assays non-invasively obtained biosamples in real-time to output a VOC based signature that, when correlated with data in a disease signature library, identifies one or more diseases associated with the sample.
US12031934B2
An apparatus senses the proportion of FOG flowing with effluent from a sink to a p-trap. A pipe portion is connectable for use as a tailpipe for a sink with a first electrode within the pipe portion and a second electrode outside the pipe portion. Conductors connect the first and second electrodes to a capacitance sensor, so changes in capacitance between the electrodes caused by changes in proportions of FOG content in effluent from the sink can be detected and/or monitored. The monitoring can be remote and can cause an action when an excess FOG content is detected.
US12031932B2
A system for monitoring a condition of an article including a conductive coating includes: a measurement device electrically connectable to the conductive coating of the article configured to sense an electrical property of the conductive coating; and a processor electrically connected to the measurement device. The processor is configured to: receive the sensed electrical property of the conductive coating from the measurement device; determine a resistance of the conductive coating based on the received sensed electrical property; determine an estimated remaining usable life of the article based on the determined resistance of the conductive coating; and generate an output signal representative of the determined estimated remaining usable life.
US12031929B2
A physical state measurement apparatus includes a main solid material which generates fluorescence by excitation light from a light source part. A microwave application part applies microwaves to the main solid material so as to control an electron state of the main solid material. A detection part detects the physical state of an object to be measured by the fluorescence from the main solid material. A feedback part has a solid material for feedback and a control part and detects a difference in amplitude between operating points on a low-frequency side and a high-frequency side of a lowering portion of a spectrum amplitude centered on a resonance frequency of an electron spin resonance spectrum of fluorescence from the solid material for feedback and feedback-controls the microwave application part such that the difference becomes zero.
US12031921B2
A measurement system includes an optical probe array including the m-number of optical probe groups arranged, each including the n-number of optical probes, the m-number of optical signal selectors each corresponding one of the optical probe groups, and a control circuit configured to control the optical signal selectors. The respective optical signal selectors select and output one of optical signals output from the n-number of the optical probes of the corresponding optical probe groups. The measurement system causes the control circuit to control the optical signal selectors to repeat the selection of the optical signals until the optical signals output from all of the optical probes included in the respective optical probe groups are selected.
US12031911B2
A sample observation device includes a sample container that holds the sample stained with a first fluorescent substance and a solution including a second fluorescent substance, an irradiation unit that performs irradiation with first excitation light and second excitation light, a scanning unit that scans the sample container in one direction, an image formation unit that forms first fluorescent light from the sample and second fluorescent light from the solution, an imaging unit that outputs first image data based on the first fluorescent light and first image data based on the second fluorescent light, an image processing unit that generates a first fluorescent light image based on a plurality of pieces of first image data and a second fluorescent light image based on a plurality of pieces of second image data, and an analysis unit that specifies an area in which there is the sample on the basis of the second fluorescent light image and sets an analysis area in the first fluorescent light image.
US12031908B2
A method for studying cell viability and protein aggregation involves establishing a Fabry Perot etalon signal within an optical spectroscopic feature, e.g., in the near infrared region. Protein aggregation and cell viability can be reflected by changes observed in the magnitude of the Fourier Transform peaks observed in the frequency or space domain associated with the contrast of the etalon. In short, the presence of viable cells and protein aggregates can degrade the etalon contrast of an etalon window. In some cases, the concentration of cells and monomeric protein can be measured as well.
US12031904B2
Aspects relate to an optical fluid analyzer including a fluid cell configured to receive a sample fluid. The optical fluid analyzer further includes optical elements configured to seal the fluid cell on opposing sides thereof and to allow input light from a light source to be sent through the fluid cell and output light from the fluid cell to be input to a spectrometer. The optical fluid analyzer further includes a machine learning (ML) engine, such as an artificial intelligence (AI) engine, that is configured to generate a result defining at least one parameter of the fluid based on a spectrum produced by the spectrometer.
US12031901B2
A system and method for monitoring or detecting a level of biofilm growth in a fluid system and controlling operating parameters of the fluid system based a measured level of growth. The monitoring system and method comprises a dye injection system for periodically injecting dye into a portion of fluid from the fluid system, passing the portion of fluid though a narrow lumen tube to achieve laminar flow and using a light source and optical sensor to detect a transmission or emission indicating a level of biofilm growth in the tube corresponding to a level of growth on components in the fluid system. Information based upon the measurements or calculations made by the monitoring system may be used to manually or automatically alter various operating parameters to control the fluid system and aid in maintaining stable operation of the fluid system within preferred specifications.
US12031894B2
Provided herein are methods to characterize preparations of recombinant viral particles using analytical ultracentrifugation. Recombinant viral particles include recombinant adeno-associated viral particles, recombinant adenoviral particles, recombinant lentiviral particles and recombinant herpes simplex virus particles. Variant species of recombinant viral particles including empty capsids and recombinant viral particles with variant genomes (fragmented genomes, aggregates, recombinants) can be identified and quantitated. The methods can be used to characterize preparations of recombinant viral particles regardless of the sequence of the recombinant viral genome or the serotype of the recombinant viral capsid.
US12031893B2
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a device for measuring a turbidity of a solution containing fine particles comprises a laser module emitting a laser beam of a predetermined wavelength band, a coupler outputting the laser beam along a first laser path and a second laser path divided from each other, a probe outputting the laser beam output along the first laser path to a container containing the solution, a light receiving element receiving, through the first laser path, the laser beam reflected or scattered by the fine particles in the solution and detecting the received laser beam, and a controller calculating the turbidity based on a strength of the laser beam detected by the light receiving element.
US12031890B2
A lysis device including a sample vessel, at least one piezo element, and a controller is disclosed. The sample vessel has a microchannel formed therein. The sample vessel has at least one port extending through a surface to the microchannel. The piezo element is attached to the surface of the sample vessel. The controller has logic to cause the controller to emit a first signal including a series of frequencies to the at least one piezo element to cause the at least one piezo element to generate ultrasonic acoustic standing waves in the sample vessel, to receive a second signal indicative of measured vibration signals from the sample vessel detected by the at least one piezo element, and to determine a resonant frequency of the sample vessel using the measured vibration signals.
US12031888B2
Various examples are provided related to methane detection in harsh environments. In one example, a method includes drawing a sample of air from at least one first location; delivering the sample to a volume within a sensor block at a second location, where the sensor block includes a gas concentration sensor in communication with the volume; and where a vacuum is applied to the volume within the sensor block to facilitate delivery of the sample to the second location. In another example, a system includes a sampling unit that houses a sensor block, where a sample tube is coupled to an inlet of the sensor block, which includes a gas concentration sensor; an ejector that facilitates delivery of a sample of air from the first location via the sample tube; and a control unit that can receive a gas concentration sensor output from the sampling unit for processing.
US12031875B2
A method of calibrating temperature of a resistive element having a material with a Curie temperature includes generating a standard resistance-temperature (R-T) curve for the resistive element in isothermal conditions to identify values of the R-T curve and an inflection point at the Curie temperature, generating operational R-T curves for the resistive element over an operational time period, comparing the standard R-T curve to the operational R-T curves, and adjusting the operational curves to the standard R-T curve at the Curie temperature to calibrate temperature of the resistive element.
US12031874B2
The invention relates to a test sensor and a heater and thermocouple device for use in a test sensor and other assays, such as a diagnostic test sensor or strip and to a method of manufacturing a test sensor and a device and a method of conducting an assay using the test sensor or device. The invention relates to a test sensor comprising a heater and thermocouple device (100), the heater and thermocouple device (100) comprising: a substrate (10); on the substrate (10), a first layer (12) of a first conductive material of a first conductivity comprising: a first thermocouple element (14); a first connector track (16) connected to the first thermocouple element (14); a resistive heater element (20); and in which at least part of the first thermocouple element (14) is comprised of a portion of the resistive heater element (20); a second layer (22) of a second conductive material of a second conductivity comprising: a second thermocouple element (24) in contact with the first thermocouple element (14) (e.g. together with the first thermocouple element (14) forming a thermocouple junction (50)); a second connector track (26) connected to the second thermocouple element (24); two heater connector tracks (36A, 36B) spaced apart and connected to respective portions of the resistive heater element (20), each on a respective side of the thermocouple elements (14, 24).
US12031867B2
The invention relates to a system and a method for determining the color of teeth or tooth surfaces, wherein the system comprises a 2D or 3D camera and an attachment on said camera, which sets a geometry of a captured image in such a way that, compared to capturing an image without the attachment, the distance, spatial angle and orientation of tooth surfaces relative to the camera are restricted. The attachment according to the invention can in particular be fitted to the camera in a simple manner.
US12031842B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for binocular ranging, capable of achieving an improved accuracy of binocular ranging. The method includes: extracting features from a left image and a right image to obtain a left feature image and a right feature image; selecting a standard feature image and obtaining a cost volume of the standard feature image by applying a correlation calculation to the left feature image and the right feature image using a block matching algorithm; obtaining a confidence volume by normalizing computational costs of all disparity values in a disparity dimension for each pixel point in the cost volume; obtaining a confidence map by selecting a maximum value from confidence levels of all the disparity values in the disparity dimension for each pixel point in the confidence volume; obtaining a mask map by mapping each pixel point having a confidence level higher than a predetermined threshold in the confidence map to 1 and mapping each pixel point having a confidence level lower than or equal to the threshold in the confidence map to 0; obtaining a disparity map by calculating an argmax value for the confidence levels of all disparity values in the disparity dimension for each pixel point in the confidence volume; obtaining a target disparity map by multiplying the mask map with the disparity map; and estimating a distance based on the target disparity map.
US12031840B2
A display system for an aircraft, comprising at least one first display unit; at least one second display unit; a control unit that is configured to control the at least one first display unit and the at least one second display unit; and a storage unit with a main memory that is configured to store at least one configuration file, wherein the at least one configuration file is useable by the control unit for configuration of the at least one first display unit and the at least one second display unit, and wherein the at least one configuration file defines at least one displayable parameter for the at least one first display unit and the at least one second display unit.
US12031831B2
Systems and methods for ranking routes based on driving complexity are provided. The systems and methods may generate routes for a user based on factors indicative of difficulty levels of the routes (for example, based on the types of road features that exist on the route, among various other factors). The difficulty levels of the generated routes may then be used to automatically select, by a navigation system of a vehicle, a route that is suitable for the user based on their driving experience level. Alternatively, the routes may be presented to the user via the vehicle or a mobile device for selection by the user. The systems and methods may also be dynamic in that the difficulty levels of the routes may be adjusted as the user gains more driving experience.
US12031830B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and Internet of Things systems for determining a safety inspection plan based on a smart gas geographic information system (GIS). The method is implemented by a smart gas pipeline network safety management platform of the Internet of Things system for determining the safety inspection plan based on the smart gas GIS, including: generating an obtaining instruction; generating a grading instruction through a preset grading algorithm based on the geographical feature, the pipeline feature, the pipeline network historical data, and a count of gas pipeline network grades; determining an inspection plan through a first preset algorithm based on the grading result; and determining an inspection instruction through a preset generation algorithm based on the inspection plan, and sending the inspection instruction to a user terminal.
US12031827B2
Contemporary navigation systems are often tasked with routing a vehicle to a destination, but are poorly equipped to assist with finding a vacancy of a parking opportunity in which the vehicle may be parked. Static information, such as enumeration of parking garages and curbside parking meters, may be frustrating if such parking opportunities have no vacancies. The determination of vacancies with certainty may be difficult to achieve due to the characteristic volatility of parking, in which vacancies may be taken in seconds. Presented herein are navigation device configurations involving probabilistic evaluation of parking routes in a vicinity of a destination that may be generated and compared, optionally weighted by various factors, to identify a parking route with parking opportunities that collectively present a high probability of vacancy as compared with other parking routes, which may be presented to the user and/or appended to a current route of an autonomous vehicle.
US12031823B2
A system and apparatus for identifying a position based on multiple inertial measurement units (IMU). An exemplary embodiment may include multiple IMUs fixed to a support surface which houses a control unit. The IMUs may be arranged in opposing pairs in order to identify and cancel out the bias or error of each individual IMU. The control unit may employ parallel processing and an AI system to calculate an accurate position based on measurement data from the IMUs.
US12031820B2
A micromechanical system which includes a movably suspended mass. The micromechanical system includes a damping system, the damping system including a movably suspended damping structure, the damping structure being deflectable by applying a voltage. The damping structure is designed in such a way that a frequency response and/or a damping of the movably suspended mass are/is changeable with the aid of a deflection of the damping structure.
US12031816B2
The present invention relates to a displacement extensometer for measuring the linear displacement of an object to be measured, the displacement extensometer comprising: a first bracket installed at a reference point so as to provide support force; a second bracket fixed to an object to be measured; a displacement meter body fixed to the first bracket and including a center rod connected to the second bracket, so as to detect displacement while the center rod horizontally moves according to positions of the object to be measured; a first link connecting the displacement meter body to the first bracket; a second link connecting the center rod of the displacement meter body to the second bracket; and a friction compensation member provided in the displacement meter body so as to compensate for the friction due to sagging of the center rod while providing physical stress to the center rod.
US12031811B2
The disclosure relates to an object size estimation device and method. According to the disclosure, an object size estimation device comprises a reception unit receiving a reception signal reflected by the object, through the reception antenna, an object length calculation unit calculating a reflection point based on a position frequency of measurements included in the reception signal, calculating a horizontal length of the object based on a distance between a first straight line passing through the calculated reflection point and a measurement and calculating a vertical length of the object based on a distance between a second straight line orthogonal to the first straight line and a measurement, and an object size estimation unit estimating a size of the object formed with the horizontal length and the vertical length.
US12031808B2
Described herein is a projector for illuminating at least one object with at least two illumination patterns. The projector includes at least one tunable laser source and at least one diffractive optical element. The projector is configured to generate the at least two illumination patterns each including a plurality of illumination features by controlling at least one property of the tunable laser source. The projector includes at least one control unit. The control unit is configured for controlling the at least one property of the tunable laser source.
US12031807B2
The invention is a Mechanical Broadhead with adjustable expansion and related methods for using the mechanical broadhead are disclosed. According to an aspect, a mechanical broadhead includes a body that defines an interior space for holding the blades. The broadhead also includes an expansion adjustment mechanism. The blades each define a protrusion that extends substantially along a length of the body. The rotation of the first blade and the second blade extends in substantially opposing directions. The broadhead also includes a protruding member that prevents reverse rotation. The blade mechanisms comprise a resilient member that engages upon impact for starting rotation of the first and second blades after target penetration. The blade mechanisms comprise a blade tip member that engages after initial rotation for completing rotation. The adjustment feature prevents further rotation of the first and second blade to a desired blade expansion width.
US12031792B2
A blank firing system for a firearm includes a barrel configured to mount to the firearm and having a smooth bore at least a portion of a length of the barrel; a blank firing adapter plus bullet trap configured to attach to the barrel; and a magazine configured to accept a stack of blank rounds and up to two live rounds.
US12031790B2
A firearm with a lower receiver and bolt catch assembly, the bolt catch assembly may include a left-side control, a right-side control, a bolt catch connected to the left-side control, and a bolt catch extension connecting the bolt catch to the right-side control. The bolt catch assembly may fit with a bolt catch recess of the lower receiver such that the left side control extends from a left side of the lower receiver, and the right-side control extends generally rearward along a right side of the lower receiver.
US12031788B2
A rifle having a straight pull bolt assembly with a bolt handle that extends outward and downward from a bolt operation mechanism. The bolt handle rotatable a limited rotational range forward and rearwardly about a horizontal axis for operating the mechanism. The handle can be reconfigured to position its rotational range about the horizontal axis and can be attached to the mechanism at either left or right sides to provide for ambidextrous operation. Bolt heads, lower frame members with magazine wells, and barrel assemblies can be readily swapped to change ammunition. The bolt assembly can be unlocked by firing or by a thumb push button release at the backside of the mechanism. A bolt removal release mechanism is forward of the thumb pushbutton and an ejector includes a spring bias and cam follower surface to reliably eject casings.
US12031781B2
A system capable of autonomous operation is disclosed for cleaning a tube bundle of a heat exchanger core. The system comprises a lance for directing a jet of fluid into spaces between the tubes of the bundle, a carriage for advancing the lance into the bundle, a mount movable relative to the carriage for holding the lance, and a sensor for detecting relative movement between the lance and the carriage, so as to detect when a reaction force acting on the lance upon encountering an obstruction in the tube bundle exceeds a predetermined limit.
US12031780B2
A manifold assembly provided for a server rack. The manifold assembly can include a manifold tube with a port hole within a spotface that extends inward from an external surface of the manifold tube. A channel can be included having a channel aperture. A bushing can also be included with a throughbore extending along a bushing axis. The bushing can be coupled to the channel with the bushing axis in alignment with a center of the channel aperture. The channel can be rigidly secured to the manifold tube to provide structural support thereto relative to the server rack, with the bushing captivated between the channel and the manifold tube and the bushing received within the spotface.
US12031775B2
An electron beam (EB) gun assembly for an EB furnace is provided. The EB gun assembly includes an EB gun-frame assembly including a skeleton frame and at least one EB gun mounted to the skeleton frame, and the EB gun-frame assembly is configured to rigidly mount onto a first EB chamber lid and melt material in a first EB chamber and be removed and rigidly mount onto a second EB chamber lid and melt material in a second EB chamber. In some forms, the EB gun assembly includes at least one mounting frame and the at least one EB gun is mounted to the at least one mounting frame and the at least one mounting frame is mounted to the skeleton frame.
US12031774B2
A gas blowoff nozzle includes: a casing including a gas blowoff face that blows off gas; a gas supply port provided to one end of the casing and supplying gas along the longitudinal direction of the nozzle; and a pressure equalizing chamber communicating with the gas supply port and the gas blowoff face, and including a partition plate including a plurality of tubular bodies having orifices on both ends. In each of the tubular bodies, an angle θ that a wall surface on a side closer to the gas supply port forms with the partition plate is 55° to 120° as an interior angle in a sectional shape of each of the tubular bodies. A gas circulation hole is provided on a face of each of the tubular bodies that comes into contact with the partition plate, the gas circulation hole passing through the face and the partition plate.
US12031764B2
A refrigerator includes a storage chamber, a cooler configured to supply cold air, a first tray, a second tray, a driver configured to move the second tray with respect to the first tray, a heater provided adjacent to at least one of the first tray or the second tray, and a controller configured to control the heater and the driver. The controller controls the heater to be turned on during ice making to make transparent ice.
US12031759B2
A refrigeration apparatus includes: a refrigerant flow path unit that comprises plates stacked together, and in which a refrigerant flow path is disposed; first components that are functional components each including a driving unit; second components other than functional components; and a casing accommodating the refrigerant flow path unit, and the first and second components. The first components and the second components constitute a refrigerant circuit. The refrigerant flow path unit: has a first surface and a second surface on both sides in a normal direction of the plates, and is disposed in the casing in a posture with the first surface and the second surface being upstanding. The first components are connected to the first surface. The second components are connected to the second surface. The refrigerant flow path unit includes joint tubes that connect pipes linked to the second components.
US12031753B2
Devices and methods are provided herein useful to thermal management. In some embodiments, a thermal management device includes a housing with a fixed amount of working fluid disposed therein. The substrate is in thermal communication with the thermal management device such that evaporation of the working fluid controls the temperature of the substrate. Evaporated working fluid exits the housing through one or more vents. The housing further includes a plurality of supports that increase the surface area to volume ratio of the housing. The high surface area to volume ratio of the housing increases the rate of heat transfer and also minimizes or otherwise reduces the size and weight of the thermal management device. The supports may further serve to mechanically support the substrate, enabling the housing to act as a combined thermal and mechanical device.
US12031747B1
A chilling system for reducing the temperature of water used in an evaporative air conditioning unit (EAC) to increase its efficiency and efficacy. The chilling system is integrated within a frame for convenient and secure retrofit to the EAC. Water is pumped into the chilling system via a water supply line from the EAC. When the temperature of the water in the water supply line is above a preset high temperature, the power supply turns on the thermoelectric chilling device to remove heat from coolant, which coolant passes through the heat exchanger to remove heat from the water passing through the heat exchanger. The water, now cooled, is discharged back into the reservoir of the EAC. This cycle continues until the temperature sensor indicates that the temperature of the water has fallen below a preset low temperature, at which point the power supply turns off the thermoelectric chilling device.
US12031742B2
A contaminant detector includes a detection object that is inclined relative to a horizontal direction in a drainage unit for accumulation of discharged water and on which a contaminant is to be deposited and a detection unit configured to emit energy toward the detection object to detect a contamination state of the detection object. The detection unit includes a transmission and reception module configured to emit and receive energy, a calculation module configured to calculate an amount of energy received from the detection object by the transmission and reception module, and a determination module configured to determine, based on the amount of energy calculated by the calculation module, the contamination state of the detection object.
US12031738B2
A gas powered appliance includes a burner for burning gas, a flame sensor positioned proximate the burner to detect a strength of a flame on the burner and to output signals indicative of the strength of the flame, and a controller connected to the flame sensor. The controller includes a communication interface, a processor, and a memory containing instructions that program the controller to control the burner, receive the signals from the flame sensor indicative of the strength of the flame, determine the strength of the flame from the received signals, and output, using the communication interface, an indication of the strength of the flame to a mobile device for display on the mobile device.
US12031735B2
A damper inspection system for a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a fuse link sensor configured to couple to a damper. The fuse link sensor includes a first contact and a second contact. The fuse link sensor is configured to transition between an engaged configuration in which the first contact is electrically coupled to the second contact and a disengaged configuration in which the first contact is electrically decoupled from the second contact. The damper inspection system includes a remote controller that includes control circuitry configured to electrically couple to the first contact and the second contact and to determine an operational status of a fuse link of the damper based on an electrical continuity between the first contact and the second contact.
US12031732B2
An air conditioning system includes an air conditioning device, a detector, and an alarm. The air conditioning device has a control unit and conditions air in an indoor space. The detector detects the concentration of refrigerant in the indoor space. The alarm notifies of refrigerant leakage in the indoor space. The detector or the alarm transmits information indicating whether or not the detector and the alarm are connected to each other in a wired or wireless manner, to the control unit. The control unit inhibits operation of the air conditioning device when the information indicates that the detector and the alarm are not connected to each other in the wired or wireless manner.
US12031729B2
The apparatus for supplying hot water comprises: at least one processor; a heat exchanger connected to the at least one processor, and configured to receive tap water through a tap water inflow pipe, heat the supplied tap water by means of heat exchange to thereby generate hot water, and discharge the generated hot water through a hot water supply pipe; a burner configured to directly or indirectly provide heat required to generate the hot water; a mixing valve connected to the at least one processor and installed on a mixing pipe connecting the tap water inflow pipe and the hot water supply pipe, and configured to mix the tap water with the hot water discharged from the heat exchanger and flowing through the hot water supply pipe; and a memory connected to the at least one processor and configured to store instructions.
US12031727B2
A cooking appliance includes: a cooking cavity with a bottom wall and a rear wall. A convection fan is disposed adjacent to the rear wall of the cooking cavity. A gas burner is located in a subjacent space beneath the bottom wall and adjacent to the rear wall of the cooking cavity. A heat duct provides communication through the bottom wall and includes an inlet positioned directly above and adjacent to the gas burner through which combustion gases from the gas burner can enter the heat duct. An annular portion of the heat duct defines a pass-through opening in which the convection fan is disposed. Flames from the gas burner extend upwardly toward or through the inlet of the heat duct and are substantially isolated from turbulent air flow generated by the convection fan.
US12031725B2
An under-fired grill includes a grate formed with a spaced plurality of metal burner shields each having a curved top support surface and two downward extending legs, wherein food is placed directly on the grate formed by a plurality of top support surfaces of the burner shields for cooking. Each burner shield includes an integrated burner formed below the top support surface.
US12031720B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a pulverized coal drying system for a pulverizer, a pulverized coal drying method therefor, a pulverized coal drying program, a pulverizer, and an integrated gasification combined cycle capable of stably drying a carbonaceous feedstock irrespective of the type of the carbonaceous feedstock to be used. There is provided a controller (50) of a pulverizer (10) that dries a supplied carbonaceous feedstock by using a drying fluid and includes a flow rate controller that controls the flow rate of the drying fluid within upper and lower limits of the flow rate of the drying fluid that are set to dry a plurality of types of the carbonaceous feedstock having different moisture contents in such a way that the temperature of the drying fluid discharged from the pulverizer (10) approaches a target temperature.
US12031718B2
A system and method to prevent an oxidizer overheating using cold side bypass for a volatile organic compounds (VOCs) treatment system with a series rotor are described, which is mainly used in the organic waste air treatment system. The system is equipped with a thermal oxidizer (to), a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, a third heat exchanger, a first cold-side transporting pipeline, a first adsorption rotor, a second adsorption rotor, and a chimney. A cold-side proportional damper is installed between the first desorption-treated air pipeline and the first cold-side transporting pipeline, or it is installed on the first desorption-treated air pipeline. When the VOCs concentration becomes higher, the cold-side proportional damper can regulate the airflow to adjust the heat-recovery amount or concentration, when treating the organic waste air, it can prevent the thermal oxidizer from being overheated due to high oxidizer temperature, and protect from thermal oxidizer shut-down.
US12031717B2
A method and apparatus for controlling a process in a system comprising pre-processing of a raw material, processing the pre-processed raw material and acquisition of the result of the processing of the pre-processed raw material, comprising the steps of: capturing input and output variables of the pre-processing; capturing output variables of the processing of the pre-processed raw material; creating a first, second and third process model for at least two different time scales, which describes the effects of adapting the pre-processing of raw material, the effects of adapting the processing of the pre-processed raw material, the effects of adapting the pre-processing of raw material and adapting the processing of pre-processed raw material on the output variables of the processing of pre-processed raw material; wherein the process in the system is controlled using the prediction of the process model which currently provides the best predictions for the process in the system.
US12031714B1
The present invention provides a shoebox light, the shoebox light includes a body and a support, the body includes a housing, an aluminum substrate, a lens, and a power source, the aluminum substrate is provided with a plurality of rows of LED beads on a surface facing the lens, the LED beads have consistent and irregular shaped light spots after undergoing polarizing treatment through the lens, the lens is provided with an arrow that matches the lens's polarization direction, and when the plurality of lenses are installed with different combinations of polarization directions, the shoebox light has different light types. By adopting the present invention, different light types can be achieved according to the needs of actual usage scenarios, increasing the range of application and enhancing user convenience.
US12031713B1
A lighting apparatus and system which employs light sources, preferably LED boards, situated in parallel housing platforms. Two lighting platforms are arranged in a spaced-apart relationship to provide indirect lighting to the surrounding environment. Each platform mounts a light source, such as a series of LED boards. Each LED board functions as an indirect lighting source. The first one of the platforms emits light toward a nearby architectural feature or surface (e.g., a room wall or ceiling) for reflection to the environment to be lighted. A second of the platforms emits light toward the first platform; the light emitted from the second platform is reflected from the first platform to the environment to be lighted.
US12031708B2
An elastic resin sheet that is a resin sheet formed using a resin composition containing a thermosetting resin and a curing agent, in which when a maximum height of a surface roughness on a first surface of the resin sheet is Rz1 (μm), a maximum height of a surface roughness on a second surface facing the first surface is Rz2 (μm), and a thickness is t (μm), the Rz1, the Rz2, and the thickness t (μm) satisfy relation of the following Formula (1): (Rz1+Rz2)/t≤0.5 (1), the elastic resin sheet includes a light-diffusing portion having irregularities with an arithmetic mean roughness Ra of 0.3 μm or more and 5.0 μm or less on at least one of the first surface and the second surface, and the elastic resin sheet has an initial tensile modulus of 0.5 MPa or more and 500 MPa or less.
US12031707B2
Disclosed is a night downlight, including a plastic case, a first lamp bead, a second lamp bead and a light guide ring. One end of the plastic case is provided with a light outlet, and the bottom of the plastic case is provided with the first lamp bead and the second lamp bead, the first lamp bead is arranged at the center of the bottom of the plastic case, the light guide ring includes a light guide inner ring and a light guide surface ring, the light guide inner ring is sleeved in the plastic case, one end of the light guide inner ring abuts against the second lamp bead, and the light guide surface ring is connected with the light guide inner ring and protrudes from the light outlet. The light guide area of the night downlight is larger, which can meet the needs of night lighting.
US12031701B2
The present invention relates to a light emitting device (100). The light emitting device comprising a carrier (130). The carrier comprising a first plurality of LEDs (110) arranged in a matrix arrangement, the matrix arrangement having a plurality of LED columns (112, 114, 116) and a plurality of LED rows (113, 115, 117), wherein LED columns of the plurality of LED columns (112, 114, 116) are spaced apart from each other with a first spacing (S1) and LED rows of the plurality of LED rows (113, 115, 117) are spaced apart from each other with a second spacing (S2) and, a second plurality of LEDs (120) arranged in a linear arrangement, the linear arrangement having a length (L) larger than a width (W), wherein LEDs of the second plurality of LEDs (120) are spaced apart from each other with a third spacing (S3), the third spacing (S3) being smaller than the first and the second spacings (S1, S2) and wherein the second plurality of LEDs (120) are arranged in between LEDs of the first plurality of LEDs (110) and within the first and the second spacings (S1, S2).
US12031689B2
A lamp comprises an input for connection to a high frequency ballast for gas discharge lamps. A power supply unit obtains power from a LED on voltage of the LED of the lamp, and the power supply unit powers an isolation switch at the input. During a preheat stage of the ballast, the power supply unit does not close the isolation switch, but the isolation switch is closed when the high frequency ballast is in a later state, i.e. the ignition phase.
US12031688B1
An LED decorative bulb and an LED lamp string containing a plurality of LED decorative bulbs. Each LED decorative bulb contains a housing and a light source assembly inside the housing; the light source assembly has a driving circuit and some LED light sources; the driving circuit contains a rectifier, a digital signal decoder, a plurality of switch tubes, a diode, a capacitor, a first power supply end and a second power supply end; the driving circuit and the LED light sources are so connected such that the LED light sources receives higher voltages to increase brightness and thereby enhancing the decorative effects.
US12031680B1
An aseptic liquid cryogen dosing head has a liquid cryogen reservoir in communication with a dosing outlet. An electromagnetic actuator is attached to an upper end of a dosing valve stem and is operable to move the dosing valve stem to open and close the dosing outlet. An air-tight seal extends about the dosing valve stem and separates the liquid cryogen reservoir from a cavity between the seal and the electromagnetic actuator. A controller is operable to perform a head leakage test, including pressurizing the cavity with a pressure higher than a pressure within the reservoir, to check for leakage past the seal; and pressurizing the reservoir to check for leakage from the liquid cryogen reservoir.
US12031677B2
A system and a method with boil-off management for liquefied fuel storage are provided. The system includes a cryotank for storing a liquefied fuel, a pump for providing and compressing a first stream of the liquefied fuel, a heat exchanger for provide cooling duty to the first stream of the liquefied fuel, and an expansion valve for expanding the first stream of the liquefied fuel after the heat exchanger into a multiphase stream comprising a liquid phase and a gas phase. The multiphase stream has a temperature lower than an initial temperature of the first stream from the cryotank. The system further comprises a liquid-vapor splitter for separating the liquid phase and gas phase in the multiphase stream. The liquid phase is returned into the cryotank.
US12031675B2
A high-pressure tank includes: a liner having a hollow liner body, a metal cap, a sealing member, and a reinforcing portion. The hollow liner body has an opening in an end portion in an axial direction, and a tubular insert ring harder than the liner body and integrated with the liner body to surround the opening. The metal cap is inserted into the opening. The sealing member seals between the insert ring and the metal cap. The reinforcing portion covers an outer side of the liner, and the insert ring extends to a front side in the axial direction with respect to the liner body and is mounted on the metal cap.
US12031672B1
A fluid draining system, for serving as an aid in emptying waste oil or other fluid from a fluid container to a fluid collection container, includes a main body, which may be made of injection molded plastic and may be at least partially transparent. The main body may have an opening for entrance of fluid from the fluid container, and a lower downward sloping chute for the exiting of the fluid towards the fluid collection container. A sleeve with one or more elastic seals may be provided at the main body to fluid-tightly yet operatively accommodate a socket extension or other tool for operating a drain plug of the fluid container. The fluid draining system may provide a unique hands free, confined fluid flow channel through which fluid will flow while draining from the fluid container, such as from an engine oil pan, crankcase, or transmission sump.
US12031669B2
A mounting assembly that can couple to a case for handheld electronic devices is disclosed herein. The mounting assembly can include a ring that can be rotated between deployed and stowed configurations. The ring can include flat edges flat edges that can securely support the case at an angle relative to a support surface. The mounting assembly can include a mount with a magnet that can be used to couple the case with the handheld electronic device therein to magnetic surfaces.
US12031664B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technology, and provides a curvature adjusting apparatus, a display apparatus and a display apparatus jig. The curvature adjusting apparatus is used for adjusting a curvature of a display surface of a flexible display substrate, and includes a rotating structure rotatable around a first rotation axis. The rotating structure is connected to the flexible display substrate and has a curved profile, The curved profile is used for supporting the flexible display substrate, and adjusting the curvature of the display surface of the flexible display substrate by driving the flexible display substrate to bend to different degrees when the rotating structure rotates around the first rotation axis. By applying the present disclosure, the structure is simple, and the curvature of the display surface of the flexible display substrate can be adjusted without other auxiliary tools.
US12031657B2
An apparatus and method for joining pipes includes a plate for melting mating surfaces of the pipes to be joined. Additionally, the apparatus utilizes a vacuum in order to push the first and second pipes together in lieu of hand or mechanical pressure which may be inconsistent. Additionally, the vacuum allows the pipes to be joined to settle on each other in order to create a pressure about a periphery of the end of the pipe being joined to the other pipe. The consistent pressure creates a very strong joint between the first and second pipes.
US12031655B2
A connector includes a connector body and a retainer. The connector body includes a first opening portion and a second opening portion. The retainer includes a first leg portion, a second leg portion, and an intermediate portion that is elastically deformable in an open manner so that a distance between the first leg portion and the second leg portion is widened. An end surface of the first opening portion includes a first guide surface that guides the first leg portion in a direction where the distance is widened when a force in an insertion direction is applied to the first leg portion. An end surface of the second opening portion includes a second guide surface that guides the second leg portion in a direction where the distance is widened when a force in an insertion direction is applied to the second leg portion.
US12031654B2
A connector is provided comprising first and second hollow connector bodies, the connector having a first expanded position providing a first fluid flow path through the first hollow connector body, and a second collapsed position providing a second fluid flow path through the first and second hollow connector bodies.
US12031649B2
A collar having a divided structure and surrounding a fitting connection part between a spigot portion and a socket portion in a sealed state is externally mounted over both pipe portions. A first disengagement blocking part that blocks, by contact, a relative disengagement movement beyond a certain level between the socket portion and the collar is provided at a location where the collar and the socket portion side face each other. A second disengagement blocking part provided with a retaining part in which falling-off resistance between the retaining part and an outer peripheral surface of the spigot portion increases according to a disengagement movement of the spigot portion is provided on a pipe support portion side on one end side in a pipe axis direction of the collar.
US12031644B2
A tubular molded body that can reduce restrictions on attachment to another member to be easily attached to another member. The tubular molded body 10 includes a tube main body 11 formed in a tubular shape and an attachment flange 100 formed in a flange shape to project from the tube main body 11. The attachment flange 100 includes a thin-walled hinge 130 and is rotatable by the hinge.
US12031640B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for power selection, including evaluating a first power source to determine if the first power source is available, evaluating a second power source to determine if the second power source is available, upon determining that a power source of the first and second power sources is available, selecting the power source, providing power from the selected power source to a sensor, and performing the diagnostic task based on an input from the sensor.
US12031631B1
A dynamically vented crankshaft seal and systems and methods thereof can include a seal assembly comprised of a wear sleeve; a main seal; a dust seal; and a plurality of vents circumferentially spaced from each other. Each of the vents can be formed by at least a channel. The channel may be formed in or by the wear sleeve, which can be a primary wear sleeve or a secondary wear sleeve. Further, each of the vents can extend from a first side of the seal assembly to between the main seal and the dust seal. An angle between a channel length axis of the channel and a trajectory of circumferential motion can be ninety degrees, acute, or obtuse for each of the channels.
US12031628B1
Described herein is a gearbox for an electric vehicle drivetrain unit comprising a gearbox enclosure, a support rod, a first piston, a second piston, and various hydraulic fluid passages. The support rod extends into the gearbox enclosure and at least partially protrudes/extends into the first and second pistons. The first piston, second piston, and support rod are fluidically connected with the hydraulic fluid passages such that when the gearbox is in a neutral gear, pressurized hydraulic fluid forces the first piston and the second piston against the support rod. When the gearbox is in a first gear, pressurized hydraulic fluid forces the support rod against the gearbox enclosure either directly or through the first piston. When the gearbox is in a second gear, pressurized hydraulic fluid forces the support rod against the gearbox enclosure directly or through the second piston. Also described are electric vehicles and shifting methods.
US12031626B2
There is provided a shift device including: a shift body configured to be moved by being pivoted or slid to change a shift position; and a locking mechanism provided with a lock member, the lock member being displaced from one side of a movement direction of the shift body to lock movement of the shift body from a predetermined shift position toward both sides in the movement direction.
US12031608B2
A power transmission belt includes a belt body made of an elastomer, and a cord made of carbon fibers and provided to be embedded in the belt body and to form a helical pattern having a pitch in the belt width direction. When the cord is viewed from a side orthogonal to its length direction, an angle θ of an outermost filament in the filament bundle of the carbon fibers forming the cord with respect to the length direction of the cord is 8° or more to 20° or less.
US12031607B2
A magnetorheological damper, wherein the damper comprises a housing that is at least partially filed with a magnetorheological fluid, and a magnetorheological valve disposed within the housing. The valve includes a magnetically permeable core having at least one coil reservoir formed therein, and at least one conductor coil, wherein each conductor coil is disposed around a portion of the core within a respective one of the coil reservoir(s). The valve additionally includes a fluid flow path adjacent the conductor coil(s). The fluid flow path is structured and operable to allow the magnetorheological fluid to flow adjacent the conductor coil(s). The valve further includes at least one coil cover, wherein each coil cover is disposed over a respective one of the coil(s) such that the respective coil is protected from exposure to magnetorheological fluid flowing through the fluid flow path.
US12031603B2
The invention relates mainly to an energy absorber for an aircraft seat, notably for a helicopter seat, comprising at least one energy-absorption element having: a first anchor point and a second anchor point, an energy-absorption zone extending between the first anchor point and the second anchor point, said energy-absorption zone being able to stretch as a tensile load is applied between the first anchor point and the second anchor point, characterized in that the energy-absorption zone has a meshed structure comprising a plurality of strands connected to one another by junction portions, and in that at least one junction portion provides a junction between at least three strands of said energy-absorption zone.
US12031589B2
A clutch hub assembly includes a hollow shaft extending in the longitudinal direction having an internal surface, an external surface, a first end, and a second end. A plate is engaged to the external surface of the shaft, extending outwardly from the external surface of the shaft in the radial direction and having a top surface and a bottom surface. A collar is engaged to the plate having an internal surface and an external surface, wherein the top surface of the plate and the internal surface of the collar define a cavity. A plurality of teeth radially extending from the external surface collar, and a support member extends outwardly from the collar.
US12031587B2
One aspect is a wrap spring clutch with a rotatable input and a spring having a first and a second end and having an equilibrium state and a flexed state, the spring engaged with the input through one of the first and second ends such that the spring rotates with the input and with an input torque transmitted exclusively through one of the first and second ends when the input rotates. A damper mechanism is engaged with one of the first and second ends such that the damper mechanism causes the spring to change from its equilibrium to its flexed state when the input transitions from stationary to rotational, and such that the damper mechanism allows the spring to change from its flexed to its equilibrium state when the input transitions from rotational to stationary. A rotatable output is positioned relative to the spring such that the output synchronously rotates with the input when the spring is in its flexed state and rotates independently of the input when the spring is in its equilibrium state.
US12031581B1
A bearing assembly includes an inner race, an outer race, a cage, and a plurality of balls. The inner race is configured to be coupled to a shaft. The cage includes a body having a plurality of projections and a plurality of openings. The cage is positioned between the inner race and the outer race, and is constructed from a corrosion-resistant and gall-resistant material. Each of the plurality of balls is received in an associated one of the plurality of openings, and the plurality of balls is positioned between the inner race and the outer race.
US12031574B2
Provided are bearing assemblies including one or more substrate assemblies, such as thrust bearing assemblies. The substrate assemblies include a bearing element fixed to a substrate. The bearing elements are formed from a thermally stable material such as a ceramic-bonded diamond composite. Methods for manufacturing the bearing assemblies are also provided.
US12031572B2
A deformable boom device includes a pair of shells, each shell of a substantially same arc length. A pair of hinges is mechanically coupled to the pair of shells to join the pair of shells into an open cross section as deployed in an extended state, and into about a flat structure in a flattened state. At least one of the pair of shells can include an about semi-circular cross section.
US12031561B2
A high load toggle bolt hollow wall anchor comprises a bolt and a two piece toggle member, wherein the first piece of the two piece toggle member is an elongated member with a threaded opening for receiving the bolt, and wherein a second piece of the two piece toggle member is a load plate having i) a planar wall engaging face, ii) a wall opening engaging ridge extending from the wall engaging face, and iii) a groove in a rear of the load plate configured to receive and to hold the elongated member therein. The load plate provides a load dispersing toggle member adaptor. A method of implementation is also disclosed.
US12031559B1
An integrated electro-hydraulic unit including a hydraulic machine having a shaft configured to rotate about an axis and a cylinder block. The cylinder block includes a distal portion spaced from the axis. The distal portion includes an axial span measured parallel to the axis. An electric machine has a stator and a rotor with an axial span measured parallel to the axis. The axial span of the rotor is larger than the axial span of the distal portion. A drive flange is situated between the distal portion and the rotor to define an interface. The rotor is secured to a rotor-receiving portion of the drive flange, and the distal portion is secured to a cylinder block-receiving portion of the drive flange. The axial span of the distal portion extends outside the axial span of the rotor.
US12031558B2
An artificial muscle includes a housing including an electrode region and an expandable liquid region and a dielectric liquid housed within the housing. The artificial muscle further includes an electrode pair positioned in the electrode region of the housing, the electrode pair comprising a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein the electrode pair is configured to actuate between a non-actuated state and an actuated state such that actuation from the non-actuated state to the actuated state directs the dielectric liquid into the expandable liquid region, expanding the expandable liquid region. The artificial muscle also includes a composite electrical insulating layered structure in contact with at least one of the first electrode or the second electrode, wherein the composite electrical insulating layered structure that includes an electrical insulator layer surrounded by adhesive surfaces. The adhesive surfaces are located between one or more flexible electrical insulators.
US12031557B2
A pneumatic control including a bus node, which is equipped with a first type communication interface and with a first type supply interface, further including a coupling module, which is equipped with the first type communication interface and with the first type supply interface and with a second type communication interface and a second type supply interface, and further including a valve module which is equipped on both coupling surfaces with the second type communication interface and with the second type supply interface, wherein a connection module is connected with the valve module, which connection module is equipped at a first coupling surface with the second type communication interface and with the second type supply interface, and which connection module is equipped at a second coupling surface with the first type communication interface and the first type supply interface.
US12031544B2
A fan includes an impeller including a boss and a plurality of blades; an air guide portion through which an airflow moves from one end to the other end of the air guide portion; and a bell mouth defining a first suction passage inside the bell mouth and defining, together with an inner surface of the air guide portion, a second suction passage outside the bell mouth. Between an upstream end point located in an inlet of the first suction passage and a downstream end point located in an outlet of the first suction passage of the bell mouth, the bell mouth includes a minimum possible radius point to which a distance, in a radial direction, from a rotation axis of the boss is smaller than a distance, in the radial direction, from the rotation axis to the downstream end point.
US12031543B2
A bearing system including a foil bearing assembly positioned within the cylindrical bore of the sleeve. The foil bearing includes a top foil layer and an outer layer. The bearing system includes a driveshaft including a recess axially aligned with the top foil layer. The recess defines a cavity having a volume and includes a leading end at a first circumferential position and a trailing end at a second circumferential position. The volume of the cavity decreases from the leading end to the trailing end.
US12031542B2
A multiple stage rotary vacuum pump comprising: a stator comprising multiple pumping stages; at least one inter-stage divider separating two adjacent pumping stages; the at least one inter-stage divider comprising two walls defining a cavity therebetween, an upstream wall bounding an upstream pumping stage and a downstream wall bounding a downstream pumping stage of the two adjacent pumping stages. The cavity comprising at least a portion of a pressure relief fluid flow path, the pressure relief fluid flow path providing a path from an outlet portion of the upstream stage towards an inlet portion of the upstream stage or towards an exhaust, the pressure relief fluid flow path comprising an orifice, the orifice comprising a valve seat; and a pressure relief valve configured to move between a compressed and an elongated state, the pressure relief valve sealing the orifice when in the elongated state and being configured to move to the compressed state such that the orifice is not obstructed, in response to pressure in the upstream stage rising above a predetermined value.
US12031541B2
A liquefied gas unloading and deep evacuation system may more quickly, more efficiently and more completely unload liquefied gases from transport tanks, such as rail cars, into stationary storage tanks or into truck tanks. The system may utilize a two stage compressor, an electric motor, a variable frequency drive, a four way valve, a three way valve, a two way valve, a programmable logic controller based control system and pressure and temperature transmitters. The valving enables deep evacuation of the transport or supply tank to more completely empty the transport tank. The programmable logic controller and variable speed drive may be used to variably control the speed of the two stage compressor so that the system may be running as fast as possible during changes in ambient temperature and/or different stages of offloading the liquefied gases without exceeding the compressor's horsepower limit.
US12031534B2
A brush ring assembly including a brush ring, a brush holder coupled to the brush ring, and a brush spring. The brush spring includes a coiled spring body, a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion and the second end portion are disposed on opposing ends of the spring body. The first end portion, the second end portion, and the coiled spring body are coupled to the brush holder. The first end portion is bent across at least a portion of the coiled spring body in a direction toward the second end portion.
US12031526B2
A portable wind turbine, consisting primarily of a nacelle with collapsible blades for transportation is provided. Each of these collapsible rotor blades has been designed with an impellor, or propeller, twist. This is typical of wind turbine blades in order to maximize torque and reduce drag during operation, with the exception that said blades also conform to the nacelle's surface, which is one of a solid of revolution shapes, for transportation of the turbine. The described portable wind turbine assembly is accompanied with collapsible mounting apparatus, for internal or external storage to the turbine's nacelle, wholly or partially stored control electronics within the nacelle, as well as an optional energy storage component that is located internally or externally to the turbine's body. This turbine invention can be person-portable, deployed on vehicles, trailers, marine vessels and structures, above water, or used for locations where storm-strength winds are a risk.
US12031525B2
A nacelle housing of a nacelle of a wind turbine is provided. The nacelle housing includes a ventilation opening of a cooling system of the wind turbine, a cover closing the ventilation opening, the cover being configured to allow an airflow through the cover and the ventilation opening, and a service hatch for hoisting a load into or out of the nacelle housing. The service hatch is provided by the ventilation opening and the cover, wherein the cover is configured as a service door of the service hatch that is opened to allow the hoisting of a load through the ventilation opening into or out of the nacelle housing. Furthermore, a method of hoisting a load into or out of a nacelle housing of a wind turbine is provided.
US12031521B1
A bulkhead removal device is including a bulkhead cutting system for cutting a bulkhead in a wind turbine blade, a positioning system for positioning the bulkhead cutting system, and a deployment assembly for moving the bulkhead cutting system inside the wind turbine blade. A method for cutting a bulkhead inside a wind turbine blade is also provided which includes moving a bulkhead cutting system inside a wind turbine blade, positioning the bulkhead cutting system, and cutting a bulkhead with the bulkhead cutting system.
US12031520B2
A wind turbine which is configured to be disposed in or above a sea floor is provided. The wind turbine includes a tower configured to protrude from a sea level and having a transmitter configured to transmit an electromagnetic wave to be reflected on the sea level and a receiver configured to receive the reflected electromagnetic wave, wherein at least one of the transmitter and the receiver includes a leaky feeder; and a processing unit being in communication with the receiver and configured to analyse the reflected electromagnetic wave such that a wave characteristic of the sea level is determined.
US12031517B2
A method of manufacturing a rotor blade component for a rotor blade of a wind energy installation, a rotor blade component, and a wind energy installation comprising such a rotor blade component. The method includes manufacturing a layer system including a first layer of a first material and a second layer of a second material. The second material has a smaller modulus of elasticity than the first material, and the second layer extends at least partially along the first layer. The layer system is beveled at least at one end with the aid of at least one separation process such that the second layer projects beyond the first layer at the at least one end of the layer system. The layer system is connected to at least one other such layer system so as to form the rotor blade component.
US12031510B2
Systems and methods for improving operation of a vehicle are presented. In one example, a controller may respond to a presence or absence of a prediction of an increase in vehicle speed during a look ahead window. The controller may inhibit or allow automatic engine stopping in response to the presence or absence of the prediction of the increase in vehicle speed during the look ahead window.
US12031490B2
A system includes a gas turbine system including a compressor, a combustor, a turbine, and an exhaust section. The system also includes multiple sensors coupled to components of the gas turbine system. The system further includes a controller communicatively coupled to the gas turbine system and the multiple sensors and configured to control operations of the gas turbine system, wherein the controller is configured to calculate a surrogate value for turbine exit Mach number based on the feedback from the multiple sensors and to utilize the surrogate value to derive a control action for the gas turbine system.
US12031484B2
A method is provided for operating a gas turbine engine. The method includes: determining data indicative of an operation of a cooling system of the gas turbine engine during a shutdown of the gas turbine engine, following the shutdown of the gas turbine engine, or both; and modifying a startup schedule of the gas turbine engine in response to the determined data indicative of the operation of the cooling system of the gas turbine engine.
US12031474B2
A prechamber spark plug. The spark plug includes a housing, a cap, which defines a prechamber at least partially, and which includes a plurality of through holes that are configured to produce a connection between the prechamber and a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine; the through holes each having a hole center line; the cap including a recess at a region pointed towards the housing, the recess abutting the housing at a combustion-chamber-side end of the housing; a distance from an exit point of a through hole lying on the hole center line, to a recess, being in a range of 2 mm to 7 mm; and a first angle between a center axis of the prechamber spark plug and the hole center line being in a range of 30° to 70°. An internal combustion engine including such a prechamber spark plug is also described.
US12031471B2
A mat material having a sufficiently high initial compression surface pressure is provided. The mat material of the present disclosure includes inorganic fibers; and an inorganic binder and an organic binder attached to the inorganic fibers, wherein the mat material has an initial compression surface pressure of 900 kPa or more as measured when compressed to a bulk density of 0.50 g/cm3.
US12031457B2
A combined cycle power plant (CCPP) is provided. The CCPP includes a gas turbine that has a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section. The CCPP further includes a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG) that has a first economizer. The HRSG receives a flow of exhaust gas from the turbine section. The HRSG further includes a fuel heating system that has a fuel supply line and a high temperature heat exchanger disposed in thermal communication on the fuel supply line. The fuel supply line is fluidly coupled to the combustion section. The high temperature heat exchanger is fluidly coupled to the first economizer such that the high temperature heat exchanger receives water from the first economizer. The CCPP further includes a feedwater pump that is fluidly coupled to the high temperature heat exchanger.
US12031451B2
Provided is a jig for a vibration test of a stator vane, for use in the vibration test for evaluating high cycle fatigue characteristics of the stator vane, and the jig is provided with a base plate that is fixed onto an excitation table of a shaker, a first fixed wall that is fixed onto the base plate in a state where a vane root end portion of a guide vane is fixed, a movable wall that is slidably placed on the base plate in a state where a vane tip portion of the guide vane is fixed, a second fixed wall that is fixed onto the base plate, and a hydraulic jack that is disposed between the movable wall and the second fixed wall, to apply a load in the span direction to the guide vane. Consequently, in the vibration test for evaluating the high cycle fatigue characteristics of the stator vane, the test simulating an actual operation state can be carried out, and an assumed deformed state can be exhibited in the stator vane to be subjected to the test.
US12031441B2
A scroll compressor including a first bearing rotatably supporting a rotary shaft relative to a casing at one side of the rotary shaft with respect to a motor, a second bearing rotatably supporting the rotary shaft relative to the casing at the other side of the rotary shaft with respect to the motor, and a third bearing rotatably supporting the rotary shaft relative to an orbiting scroll at the opposite side of the first bearing with respect to the second bearing. The distance between a first bearing center and a third bearing center is a predetermined distance, the distance between a motor center and the third bearing center is longer than the distance between the motor center and the first bearing center, and the distance between a second bearing center and the motor center is longer than the distance between the second bearing center and the third bearing center.
US12031438B2
A cutter head arrangement comprising a cutter head portion including a cutter head side wall to define a chamber (or cavity) surrounded by the cutter head side wall. A substantially circular rim portion extends from (a distal end of) the cutter head side wall, the rim portion defining a working, contact face of the cutter head portion. A recessed wall portion extends away from the rim portion inwardly into the chanber so as to be surrounded by the cutter head side wall, with the rim portion and/or the recessed wall portion being fitter with a plurality of cutter elemenets, to enable the cutter head portion to blind bore a pilot hole in use. The recessed wall portion that extends away from the rim portion inwardly into the chamber is a substantially conical body so as to define a conical recess.
US12031436B1
Real-time monitoring system and method for coal mine roof fractures during roadway tunneling process
The disclosure provides a real-time monitoring system and a real-time monitoring method for coal mine roof fractures during a roadway tunneling process, where the monitoring system includes a roadway model building module for building a three-dimensional model of a roadway; a roof monitoring module for obtaining roof fracture development data in real time; a fracture analysis module for obtaining a development pattern of roof fractures according to the three-dimensional model of the roadway and the roof fracture development data; a fracture formation prediction module for judging a fracture formation time according to the development pattern of the roof fractures; and an early warning processing module for early warning according to the fracture formation time.
US12031430B2
Systems and methods include techniques for using smart polymers. Units of smart polymers with per-hydrogen (pH) sensitivity are inserted into drilling fluid pumped into a well during drilling. The smart polymers are configured to be triggered by hydrogen ion concentrations. An insertion timestamp associated with each unit is stored and indicates a time that each unit was inserted. Continuous images and observed characteristics of returning mud exiting through an annulus of the well and containing the units of smart polymer are captured by a camera positioned at a sensing location and linked to the monitoring system. An estimate of pH values at a drill bit of the drilling operation is determined using the continuous images, observed characteristics, and insertion timestamps, and based at least in part on executing image processing algorithms, machine-learning models, and deep-learning models. Changes to be made to drilling parameters are suggested.
US12031424B2
An apparatus and method of drilling a wellbore using a drill string and a smart downhole system that comprises one or more downhole controllers and one or more downhole sensors. The method includes storing, in the downhole controller(s), a target efficiency parameter; drilling the wellbore using the drill string; and measuring, by the downhole sensor(s), a parameter. The method also includes, using the downhole controller(s) to: calculate an efficiency parameter based on the measured parameter; calculate a difference between the calculated efficiency parameter and the target efficiency parameter; generate first instructions to reduce the difference; and send to a surface controller, the first instructions. The method also includes generating, by the surface controller, second instructions based on the first instructions; and implementing, by the surface controller, the second instructions to reduce the difference between the measured efficiency parameter and the target efficiency parameter.
US12031422B2
A system and method is described to recycle and reuse the gas and NGLs from producing wells thereby increasing on site for oil recovery. The process uses a one-step approach to separate and stabilize the crude from water, NGLs and the natural gas produced during production thereby reducing the complexity associated with oil production surface infrastructure and eliminating a majority of the fugitive emissions.
US12031411B1
A catching tool assembly, and method of use, for catching an electric submersible pump string or other equipment string in a well bore in the event of a tubing failure. The catching tool is self-orienting so that the tool can be set and retrieved by simply moving the mandrel of the tool up and down, without any need to rotate the equipment string or the mandrel.
US12031390B2
An anti-collision method includes storing information on a current position of at least one vehicle within a target work volume, scanning the target work volume by a radiofrequency radiation signal to detect the presence of at least one human operator within the target work volume, determining the current position of the at least one human operator within the target work volume, comparing the current position of the at least one human operator with the current position of the at least one vehicle, and, if the current position of the at least one human operator at least partially overlaps the current position of the at least one vehicle, activating at least one safety device.
US12031387B2
A cylindrical tool string assembly for downhole data transmission comprises a cylinder comprising a transmission element such as an inductive coupler installed within a groove in its top surface connected to a transmission line housed within its exterior wall. The assembly includes a split spring ring housed within a groove formed in a bore wall of a tool string component such as a drill pipe or a downhole tool within the bottom hole assembly. The spring ring may be compressed and released when positioned within the groove. The spring ring provides a platform on which cylinder may be mounted. The split provides a passageway for the transmission line to exit the cylinder. The cylinder includes a recess in its top surface housing an extractor to facilitate removal of the cylinder. An anti-rotation lock between the cylinder and bore of the tool string component may prevent movement of the cylinder.
US12031386B2
A blade on a downhole drilling tool includes a blade body and a blade cover. The blade cover is pre-sintered and conforming to the blade outer shape. The blade cover is attached to the blade body. The blade cover includes a seamless connection between a cover leading face and a cover outer face to reduce wear on the outer face of the blade.
US12031384B2
A cutting element may include a substrate and an ultrahard layer. A top surface of the ultrahard layer includes a peripheral edge extending around the cutting element, a cutting crest extending across a major dimension of the cutting element from a cutting edge at a first portion of the peripheral edge to a modified region at a central axis of the ultrahard layer, and a lateral portion extending across a minor dimension of the cutting element from the peripheral edge to the modified region. The modified region along the major dimension includes a concave cross-sectional shape. The lateral portion along the minor dimension from the peripheral edge to the modified region includes one or more of a linear shape and a convex shape, and the modified region along the minor dimension includes a planar shape perpendicular to the central axis.
US12031377B2
Window lite assemblies and methods for installing the assemblies are provided herein. The assemblies described herein are configured to be installed in new and existing buildings, especially in building corners, while leaving some or all of the horizontal structural members such as headers and sills in place.
US12031370B2
An oven comprising a multi-door operating apparatus is provided. In one example, the multi-door operating apparatus comprises a first panel comprising a first plurality of grooves that traverse a first inside surface of the first panel and a second panel comprising a second plurality of grooves that traverse a second inside surface of the second panel, wherein first inside surface faces the second inside surface, and wherein the first plurality of grooves and the second plurality of grooves extend in a first direction and then turn to extend in a second direction. The multi-door operating apparatus further comprises two or more oven doors configured to move in the first direction and turn to the second direction via projections that extend from the respective oven doors into the first plurality of groves and the second plurality of grooves.
US12031367B2
An opening system for a cowling access door, to a cowling access door with such an opening system for a cowling of an aircraft, to an aircraft comprising such a cowling access door, and to a method of operating such an opening system. The opening system may include an overcentering latch that automatically latches in the over-centered state to prevent the cowling access door from returning to the closed position, and a release system that is coupled to the overcentering latch and adapted for transitioning the overcentering latch from the over-centered state to an unclamped state. The opening system further includes a remote actuator that is located spaced apart from the release system and adapted for remotely actuating the release system.
US12031366B2
A hinge includes: a first and second gear; a cover configured to attach the gears; a first outside surface associated with the first panel; a second outside surface associated with the second panel; wherein when the first and second outside surfaces are in a generally co-planer orientation, a tooth from one of the first and second gears fits next to a tooth from the other of the first and second gears to form a water shedding joint. A method of forming a hinge includes: extruding a gear together with a panel having a first outside surface; a second panel a second outside surface; wherein when the first and second outside surfaces are in a generally co-planer orientation, a tooth from one of the first and second gears fits next to a tooth from the other of the first and second gears to form a water shedding joint.
US12031354B1
In general, the present invention is incorporated in a cam lock housing that is securable relative to a drawer or door. Coupled to the cam lock housing is an actuator package. The actuator package of this exemplary cam lock system can include a retractable geared plate or tongue, a micro gear motor, a controller, and a power system. In operation, the drive gear/pinion causes lateral displacement of tongue towards or away from a latch in order to lock or unlock the item. As such, a medicine cabinet (or similar), can be remotely locked or unlocked. Alternatively, rotation of a physical key within the cam lock rotates the cam lock housing and the tongue towards or away from a latch so that the cam lock can also be operated manually.
US12031353B2
An exemplary lock apparatus generally includes a shackle, a crossbar, a lock device, a first bolt, and a trigger. The lock device has a locked state in which the lock device retains a spindle in a spindle locking position, and an unlocked state in which the lock device does not prevent movement of the spindle to a spindle unlocking position. The first bolt is engaged with the spindle such that movement of the spindle between the spindle locking position and the spindle unlocking position drives the first bolt between a first locking position and a first unlocking position. The trigger is movably mounted in the crossbar for movement between an engagement position, in which the trigger maintains the spindle in the spindle unlocking position, and a disengagement position, in which the spindle is operable to move to the spindle locking position.
US12031351B2
An automatic swimming pool cleaner having a body can be caused to travel laterally along a surface of a swimming pool by varying a characteristic of operation of at least one motive element. For example, a first motive element (such as a brush and/or wheel on one side of the body) can be driven at a different speed and/or in a different direction than a second motive (such as a brush and/or wheel on the opposite side of the body) element to cause the automatic pool cleaner to move laterally along the surface of the swimming pool.
US12031345B2
A mast (10) which includes an elongate post (12) with a first end (14) and a second end (16), the first end (14) being pivotally secured to a ground-engaging support base, at least a first mechanism (22) to restrict pivotal movement of the post (12), a winch (26) which is attached to the post (12), and a cable (28) which is engaged with the winch (26) and which is secured at one end to an anchor (30), wherein the winch (26) is actuable to allow the post (12) to pivot, from an elevated position, in a first direction (54) which lowers the post (12) against the action of the movement restricting first mechanism (22), and which is actuable to pivot the post (12) in a second direction (56) which opposes the first direction (54) to elevate the post (12).
US12031341B2
A binding machine includes a wire feeding unit, a curl forming unit, a cutting unit, and a binding unit. The wire feeding unit includes a feeding member having a part that is in contact with the wire and configured to feed the wire with being displaced along a feeding direction of the wire. An amount of contact between the feeding member and the wire is switched in accordance with the feeding direction of the wire. As compared to the amount of contact in an operation of feeding the wire in one direction, the amount of contact in an operation of feeding the wire in other direction, which is opposite to the one direction, is made larger.
US12031335B2
The present disclosure relates generally to siding, for example, suitable for covering the exterior surface of a building. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a siding repair clip including a hub configured to be secured to a replacement siding panel so as to be rotatable with respect to the replacement siding panel. The siding repair clip also includes a leg extending from the hub in a first radial direction and configured to engage with a lip of a bottom lock of an upper siding panel. A positioning member extends from the hub in a second radial direction and includes a first detent configured to impede rotation of the hub with respect to the replacement siding panel. The siding repair clip further includes a rotating member configured to rotate the siding repair clip about the hub in a first circumferential direction with respect to the replacement siding panel.
US12031333B2
A handrail attachment system. The system can comprise a connector comprising a body for being at least partially received in a recess in a support structure and an outer face for engaging an end face of a handrail. The connector can include a handrail mounting hole for at least partially receiving a first fastener for at least partially mounting the connector to the end face of the handrail and a support mounting hole for at least partially receiving a second fastener for mounting the connector to the support structure.
US12031320B2
One variation of a panelized structural building system includes, a set of wall panels, each including: an outer face; a set of hardpoints, each arranged proximal a corner of the outer face, defining a lateral wall panel datum facing outwardly from a side of the wall panel, and defining an exterior façade mount facing outwardly from the outer face; and a load-bearing structure extending between the set of hardpoints and inset from a maximal wall panel perimeter defined by the set of hardpoints; wherein the set of wall panels are assemblable into a wall with lateral wall panel datums—defined by hardpoints in adjacent wall panels—abutting to laterally space the set of wall panels along the wall. The system also includes a set of exterior façade panels configured to install onto exterior façade mounts—defined hardpoints in adjacent wall panels—to conceal outer faces of these wall panels.
US12031317B2
A foldable building structure is provided that includes a fixed space portion including a first floor portion, a first ceiling portion, a first wall portion rigidly secured to the first floor portion and the first ceiling portion. The foldable building structure includes a second wall portion which is movable between a folded position and a deployed position, and a third wall portion which movable between a folded position and a deployed position. The second and third wall portions when in their deployed positions form with the first wall portion a first wall component of the foldable building structure. The second wall portion is capable of being moved between the folded position and the deployed position without moving the third wall portion between the folded position and the deployed position.
US12031313B2
A retractable switch mechanism, comprising an intelligent toilet having an inner cavity and a switch assembly arranged in the inner cavity of the intelligent toilet. An avoidance hole communicated with the inner cavity of the intelligent toilet is formed in the side wall of the intelligent toilet, and the switch assembly comprises a switch capable of moving between a first position where the switch extends out of the avoidance hole and a second position where the switch retracts into the avoidance hole. The switch can extend out of the inner cavity of the intelligent toilet when needing to be used and can be accommodated in the inner cavity of the intelligent toilet when not needing to be used, so that the risk that when the intelligent toilet is mounted in a bathroom without dry-wet separation.
US12031310B2
A drain control assembly having a pop-up stopper controlled by a cam actuating mechanism allowing the stopper to alternately seal and unseat from the drain opening by pressing down on the stopper. Actuator guide rings extending from vertical fins and tabs are used to align and removably secure the actuator in position within the drain pipe. The stopper seal seats against the sink housing the drain providing a water tight seal. The assembly has a removable catch screen to retain items fallen into the drain. The stopper and actuator assembly can be dislodged and the entire assembly removed and items in the catch screen can be retrieved or the actuator removed for cleaning. The assembly can then be reinstalled by simply inserting it down into the drain.
US12031303B2
An installation error of a machine-body inertial measurement unit around a first axis is computed on a basis of sensing results of inertial measurement units of a front work implement, and the machine-body inertial measurement unit obtained while the upper swing structure is in a first calibration posture in which the upper swing structure faces a predetermined direction relative to a lower travel structure; and an installation error of the machine-body inertial measurement unit around a second axis is computed on a basis of a sensing result of the machine-body inertial measurement unit obtained while the upper swing structure is in a second calibration posture in which the upper swing structure is swung by 90 degrees relative to the lower travel structure from the first calibration posture, and the installation error of the machine-body inertial measurement unit around the first axis.
US12031297B2
A first operating mechanism 7 of a work machine 1 includes a first guide member 74 which tilts a fourth operating lever 5 in the right-left direction, and a first actuator 72 which generates a driving force for tilting a first direction guide member 74 on the basis of an operation command. The first actuator 72 is disposed at a position on the opposite side of the fourth operating lever 5 from a slave-side seat 3.
US12031290B2
A work machine control device includes a lift force detection unit, a control amount determination unit, and a command output unit. The lift force detection unit detects a lift force of the work machine. The control amount determination unit determines a control amount for the work machine based on a change amount of the detected lift force. The command output unit outputs, to an actuator driving the work machine, a control command according to the determined control amount. The control amount determination unit determines the control amount such that the control amount monotonically increases with respect to the lift force until a lift amount of the work machine reaches a predetermined threshold. A work vehicle includes the work machine control device, a vehicle body, a work machine supported by the vehicle body, and an actuator that drives the work machine.
US12031289B2
A working machine includes a machine body, an engine on the machine body, a motor/generator to perform an assisting action in which the motor/generator functions as a motor to assist the engine in driving and an electricity generating action in which the motor/generator functions as a generator to generate electricity using power from the engine, a working device to function using power from the engine and the motor/generator, a work operation actuator for operation of the working device, an action controller to cause the assisting action to be performed when a rotation speed of the engine is equal to or less than a first rotation speed and cause the electricity generating action to be performed when the rotation speed of the engine is equal to or greater than a second rotation speed greater than the first rotation speed, and a speed controller to change the first rotation speed or the second rotation speed according to an operation amount of the work operation actuator.
US12031246B2
The invention relates to a fabric. The fabric (10) comprises, in the fabric material, threads (11a1, 12a1; 13a1, 14a1) of a material conducting electricity well, by means of which electro-magnetic radiation and magnetic fields are filtered. The threads (11a1, 12a1; 13a1, 14a1) are placed next to each other. Furthermore, the threads are wound around their winding axes (X1, X2; Y1, Y2) so that the first thread (11a1, 13a1) in the fabric is wound clockwise, and the second thread (12a1, 14a1) next to it is wound counterclockwise.
US12031244B2
There is provided an oxidation heat treatment oven including a heat treatment chamber configured to heat-treat a fiber bundle that is an aligned acrylic fiber bundle in an oxidizing atmosphere to form an oxidized fiber bundle; a slit-shaped opening configured to take the fiber bundle in and out of the heat treatment chamber; guide rollers installed at both ends of the heat treatment chamber and configured to turn the fiber bundle back; a hot air supply nozzle that has a longitudinal axis along the width of the fiber bundle traveling and that blows out hot air, in a direction substantially parallel to a traveling direction of the fiber bundle, above and/or below the fiber bundle traveling in the heat treatment chamber; and a suction nozzle configured to suck the hot air blown out from the hot air supply nozzle, in which the hot air supply nozzle satisfies disclosed conditions (1) to (3).
US12031235B2
Provided is a nanofiber composite membrane for guided bone regeneration, which includes: spinning a spinning solution by an electrospinning method to produce nanofibers; accumulating the nanofibers, to prepare a certain thickness of a nanofiber web; and drying and thermally calendering the nanofiber web to sterilize the nanofiber web, wherein the spinning solution contains a biocompatible plasticizer to maintain physical properties, flexibility and elasticity of the membrane, by suppressing an increase in brittleness in a sterilization treatment.
US12031234B2
The present invention is directed to a method and a system for the production of at least one polymeric yarn comprising means for mixing a polymer (1) with a first solvent yielding a mixture; means for homogenizing the mixture; means for rendering the mixture inert (21, 22, 23); means for dipping the mixture into a quenching bath (30), wherein an air gap is maintained before the mixture reaches the quenching bath (30) liquid surface forming at least one polymeric yarn; means for drawing (41) the at least one polymeric yarn at least once; means for washing (5) the at least one polymeric yarn with a second solvent that is more volatile than the first solvent; means for heating the at least one polymeric yarn (6); means for drawing at room temperature (7) the at least one polymeric yarn at least once; and means for heat drawing (8) the at least one polymeric yarn at least once. The instant invention also concerns a system and method of dosing a polymer mixture with a first solvent into an extruder (26), a device (5), a system and a method of solvent extraction from at least one polymeric yarn, and a method and system of mechanical pre-recovery (4) of at least one liquid in at least one polymeric yarn.
US12031223B2
An apparatus for stripping metal (12, 14) deposited on a cathode plate (16), comprises a first robotic arm (46) carrying a first stripping apparatus (40), the first stripping apparatus having a first gripping apparatus (62, 63) to grip the cathode plate such that the first robotic arm operates to lift the cathode plate out of the stripping station following stripping of the metal sheets from the cathode plate. A second robotic arm (48) carrying a second stripping apparatus (42) is located on a second side of the cathode plate, the second stripping apparatus having a second gripping apparatus (76, 77) for gripping one or both of the first sheet of metal (12) and the second sheet of metal (14). The second robotic arm can be operated to move the first sheet of metal and the second sheet of metal to a metal storage region following stripping from the cathode plate (16). The metal is stripped from the cathode plate without breaking the bridge of metal that interconnects the first sheet of metal and the second sheet of metal.
US12031221B1
Methods and systems which involve separating liquid products are disclosed herein. A disclosed method includes supplying a volume of oxocarbon carbon to a cathode area of an oxocarbon electrolyzer to be used as a reduction substrate, generating a volume of an organic anion using the reduction substrate, and obtaining a liquid stream from the oxocarbon electrolyzer which includes the volume of the organic anion and a volume of a base. The method also includes generating, using a separation process and from the liquid stream, a first stream and a second separate stream. The separation process separates a volume of cations from the liquid stream. The first stream includes a second volume of the base. The second stream includes a volume of organic acid. The volume of organic acid includes the volume of organic anions. The second volume of the base includes the volume of cations.
US12031214B2
The present invention relates to an aqueous chemical composition C for removing from a substrate selectively under heat residues of a nickel-platinum alloy containing at least 8% by weight of Pt compared to the total weight of nickel-platinum alloy, characterised in that it is prepared by mixing a composition B comprising bromide ions and a composition H comprising hydrogen peroxide such that in the composition C, at the moment of mixing, the molar concentration of bromide ions is comprised between 0.15 mol/L and 0.45 mol/L and the molar ratio of hydrogen peroxide with respect to bromide ions is comprised between 1.1 and 2. The invention also pertains to a method for selectively removing nickel-platinum alloy residues containing at least 8% by weight of Pt compared to the total weight of nickel-platinum alloy from a substrate, comprising the following steps: preparing under heat a chemical composition C according to any one of claims 1 to 3, placing the hot chemical composition C and the substrate in contact for a sufficient duration to remove the nickel-platinum alloy residues from the substrate.
US12031213B2
A laminate including a metallic base material, a nickel-containing plating film layer formed on the metallic base material, and a gold plating film layer formed on the nickel-containing plating film layer, in which pinholes in the gold plating film layer are sealed with a passive film having a thickness of 15 nm or greater. Also disclosed is a constituent member of a semiconductor production device including the laminate and a method for producing the laminate.
US12031212B2
Described are yttrium fluoride compositions, including deposited films, e.g., coatings, that contain yttrium fluoride; methods of preparing yttrium fluoride compositions and deposited film coatings that contain yttrium fluoride; as well as substrates that have a deposited film coating that contains yttrium fluoride at a surface and methods and equipment that include the substrates.
US12031210B2
A method is disclosed for doping a quantity of powder particles. A container having a central chamber is initially charged with a quantity of powder particles. A quantity of precursor is sublimed to form a heated precursor. A quantity of carrier gas is mixed with the precursor to form a mixture of heated precursor/carrier gas. The central chamber is charged with the heated precursor/carrier gas and then moved to cause interaction of the powder particles with the heated precursor/carrier gas to form a first monolayer coating on the powder particles. The heated precursor/carrier gas is then removed from the central chamber and the central chamber is charged with a O2/O3 gas under a plasma. The central chamber is then further moved to produce interaction of the O2/O3 gas with the first monolayer coating on the powder particles to modify the first monolayer coating to create a different, single monolayer coating forming an oxide coating on the powder particles.
US12031206B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for depositing layers comprising a transition metal and a group 13 element. The layers are formed onto a surface of a substrate. The deposition process may be a cyclical deposition process. Exemplary structures in which the layers may be incorporated include field effect transistors, VNAND cells, metal-insulator-metal (MIM) structures, and DRAM capacitors.
US12031202B2
A high carbon martensitic stainless steel is disclosed. Said high carbon martensitic stainless steel comprises 1.7 to 1.9% by weight C, 17 to 18% by weight Cr, 1.6 to 2.0% by weight Mo, 2.9 to 3.5% by weight V, 0.40 to 0.60% by weight Nb, and Fe as main constituent. Further, the high carbon martensitic stainless steel has a microstructure comprising of primary carbides in an amount of 15 to 30% by volume and secondary carbides in an amount less than 2% by volume.
US12031201B2
The present invention relates to a plated steel sheet for hot stamping comprising a steel sheet and a Zn—Ni plating layer formed on at least one surface of the steel sheet, wherein the Zn—Ni plating layer has an Ni concentration of 8 mass % or more, a plating deposition amount of 10 g/m2 or more and 90 g/m2 or less per surface, and an average grain size of 50 nm or more, and a difference between a diffraction peak of the Zn—Ni plating layer after heat treating the plated steel sheet for hot stamping at 200° C. for 1 hour, and a diffraction peak of the Zn—Ni plating layer before heat treating it, is 0.3° or less.
US12031197B2
A low-cost hydrogen storage material has hydrogen absorption (storage) and desorption properties suitable for hydrogen storage. A hydrogen storage container including the hydrogen storage material and a hydrogen supply apparatus including the hydrogen storage container are disclosed. The hydrogen storage material includes an alloy having a specific elemental composition represented by Formula (1), in which, in a 1000×COMP image of a cross section of the alloy obtained by EPMA, a plurality of phases enriched with R are present, the phases having phase diameters of 0.1 μm or more and 10 μm or less, and 100 or more sets of combinations of two phases in the phases are present in a visual field of 85 μm×120 μm in the COMP image, the shortest separation distance between the two phases being 0.5 to 20 μm. [Chem. 1] Ti(1-a-b)RaM1bFecMndM2eCf (1)
US12031190B2
A method for producing a Ni- or Ti-based alloy product includes preliminarily processing a hot working material of a Ni- or Ti-based alloy after hot working into a predetermined shape; heating and holding the material at a solution treatment temperature to obtain a material held in a heated state; and cooling the material to obtain a solution-treated material. The cooling step includes placing a flow path-forming member having a space for forming a flow path for a fluid on a surface of the material held in a heated state to form a fluid flow path defined by the surface of the material held in a heated state and an inner surface of the space of the flow path-forming member; and allowing a fluid to flow in the fluid flow path so that the fluid in the flow path locally cools a part of the surface of the material.
US12031170B2
The invention provides a genetically modified micro-organism for intracellular biosynthesis of a cellular metabolite, comprising a synthetic error correction system having a penalty gene, whose expression leads to arrested growth or cell death (e.g. a toxin gene) in combination with a survival gene, whose expression provides an antidote that restores cell viability and normal growth (e.g. a cognate antitoxin gene). Alternatively, the system has a survival gene, alone, whose expression is essential for growth (i.e. essential gene). The synthetic error correction system further comprises a biosensor, whose function is to induce expression of the survival gene which leads to cell growth, only, when the cell produces a pre-defined level of a given metabolite. The invention further encompasses: a method for producing the genetically modified micro-organism; a method for producing a cellular metabolite with the genetically modified micro-organism; and use of the genetically modified micro-organism for producing a cellular metabolite.
US12031165B2
Disclosed is a double enzyme tandem preparation method of L-2-aminobutyric acid, and belongs to the field of bioengineering. In the disclosure, recombinant Escherichia coli expressing L-glutamate mutase and recombinant Escherichia coli expressing L-aspartate-β-decarboxylase are separately cultured to obtain L-glutamate mutase and L-aspartate-β-decarboxylase. The two enzymes are added to a reaction system at a certain mass ratio, and L-glutamate is used as a substrate to carry out an enzyme reaction to prepare the L-2-aminobutyric acid. When the dosage of the L-aspartate-β-decarboxylase is 2 mg/mL, and the reaction time is 24 h, 8.5 mmol/L L-2-aminobutyric acid is produced by conversion, with a molar conversion rate of 85.00%. Compared with a chemical production method, the method disclosed by the disclosure has a safe production process and no environmental pollution. Compared with a multi-enzyme synthesis system with threonine as a substrate, the substrate is cheaper and the process is simpler.
US12031164B2
Fusion proteins containing a targeting sequence, exosporium protein, or exosporium protein fragment that targets the fusion protein to the exosporium of a recombinant Bacillus cereus family member are provided. The fusion proteins further comprise an enzyme having ACC deaminase activity, a phospholipase, a lipase, a xylanase, a xylosidase, a lactonase, a chitosanase, a protease, a glucanase, a phytase, an acid phosphatase, a pectinase, a mannanase, and/or an expansin protein. Also provided are recombinant Bacillus cereus family members that express the fusion proteins, exosporium fragments derived from the recombinant Bacillus cereus family members, and formulations containing the recombinant Bacillus cereus family members or exosporium fragments. Plant seeds treated with the recombinant Bacillus cereus family members, exosporium fragments, or formulations are also provided. The invention further relates to methods for stimulating plant growth and/or promoting plant health using the recombinant Bacillus cereus family members, exosporium fragments, or formulations.
US12031161B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions for disrupting expression of nuclear receptor interacting protein 1 (Nrip1) in adipose cells, and methods of use of such adipose cells for treating, or reducing risk of, a condition associated with an elevated body mass index (BMI).
US12031158B2
A method of culturing cells includes placing a cell suspension including i) one of more types of adhesion molecules selected from the group consisting of fragments of laminin molecules, fragments of a basement membrane matrix mixture, and a complete basement membrane matrix mixture and ii) kidney cells on a culture surface of a substrate; and culturing the kidney cells on the substrate to form a confluent monolayer of the cells.
US12031152B2
Provided herein are nutrient media formulations and engineered growth factors, and methods thereof, useful for the production of slaughter-free meat.
US12031151B2
Methods of improving recombinant protein titer and cell titer in cell culture using cell culture media having reduced impurities are provided, and well as cell culture media having reduced impurities that can used for the production of a recombinant protein and cells with improved titer. The cell culture media having reduced impurities comprises a HEPES buffer, and the reduced impurities are HEPES related impurities. In certain aspects, methods and media improve protein titer, cell growth, and/or viable cell density.
US12031147B2
The present disclosure provides recombinant adeno-associated virus (AAV) virions comprising: a) a variant capsid protein; and b) a heterologous nucleic acid comprising one or more nucleotide sequences encoding one or more heterologous gene products. The rAAV virions are useful for delivery of gene products to a retinal cell. The present disclosure provides methods of delivering a gene product to a retinal cell in an individual.
US12031145B2
The invention concerns a modified oncolytic adenovirus; a pharmaceutical composition comprising same; and a method of treating cancer using same.
US12031142B2
Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.
US12031133B2
The invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) targeting a G-alpha q subunit (GNAQ) of a heterotrimeric G gene, and methods of using the dsRNA to inhibit expression of GNAQ.
US12031132B2
Genome editing systems, guide RNAs, and CRISPR-mediated methods are provided for altering portions of the HBG1 and HBG2 loci, portions of the erythroid specific enhancer of the BCL11A gene, or a combination thereof, in cells and increasing expression of fetal hemoglobin.
US12031127B2
The present invention provides a composition comprising a plurality of labeled neurons, each of which is labeled by an expression construct that encodes a unique barcoded nucleic acid.
US12031121B2
In one embodiment, an algae cultivation system includes a basin that contains a liquid and a photobioreactor at least partially immersed in the liquid of the basin, the photobioreactor comprising a closed container including multiple panels that together define an interior space in which algae can be cultivated, at least one of the panels being transparent, the photobioreactor further comprising an inflatable float associated with the container that can be filled with a gas to change one or both of the position and orientation of the container within the liquid.
US12031120B2
The present invention relates to the field of culturing unicellular red algae (URA). The invention relates in particular to a method for culturing URA, characterised in that the culture medium includes milk permeate as the main contribution of at least one carbon source. The invention also relates to biomass which can be obtained by the method according to the invention, to the uses of said biomass and to the products that can include said biomass.
US12031114B2
The present invention relates to methods for preparing cereal-based beverages. Particularly, the present invention provides, for example, methods for steeping and germination of cereal grain under continuous aeration. The present invention also provides for wet milling of germinated cereal grains and direct transfer of the germinated grain, without drying, to the brewery for further processing. Compared to current methods the methods of the present invention significantly reduces water consumption, energy consumption and transport need.
US12031112B2
Detergent compositions that include a lipase variant of a parent lipase which has lipase activity and includes one or more substitutions corresponding to G23S, D27N, A40, F51I,L, E56R, D57N, V60E,K, K98I, N101D, R118, G163S, T231R, N233R, Y220F, T244E, and P256T using SEQ ID NO: 2 for numbering. Water-soluble unit dose articles including water-soluble film and a detergent composition including lipase variants. Methods of cleaning and/or treatment of surfaces using such compositions.
US12031111B2
The cleaning performance of washing agents when washing textiles, in particular against antiperspirant stains, was to be increased. This was substantially achieved by the use of xylan carbamates.
US12031109B2
The present invention is a hydrophilization treatment agent composition containing (A) a branched anionic surfactant, (B) a di-long chain hydrocarbon cationic surfactant, and water, wherein a molar ratio of (B) to a total of (A) and (B), (B)/[(A)+(B)], is 0.1 or more and 0.8 or less.
US12031101B2
A lubricating oil composition, a method of reducing low-speed pre-ignition (LSPI) in a direct-injected spark-ignited internal combustion engine, and a use of a lubricant composition to reduce LSPI events in such an engine. Preferably, the composition comprises a detergent comprising an overbased calcium detergent having a total base number (TBN) of at least 150, wherein the lubricating oil composition has a calcium content of at least 0.08 wt. %, based on the weight of the lubricating oil composition, and wherein the lubricating oil composition has a silicon content of at least 12 ppm by weight, based on the weight of the lubricating oil composition.
US12031088B2
A method for enhancing geological storage by injecting nanoparticles to stabilize CO2 microbubbles, which belongs to the technical field of multiphase flow. The method first improves the physical properties of the fluid by pre-mixing CO2 and nanoparticles, and then the fluid is transported to the underground through high-pressure pipelines, and then CO2 microbubbles containing nanoparticles are generated through a dense perforated plate arranged by an injection well to improve the dissolution rate and sweep efficiency of the gas in the saline aquifer, so as to enhance the later mixing of the fluid. The combined injection can improve CO2 storage capacity and storage safety, and further reduce the risk of gas leakage in the reservoir.
US12031087B2
Described herein are techniques, methods, and systems for producing hydrocarbons from a reservoir and, particularly, from subterranean formations. The disclosed techniques employ oxygenated solvents, such as ketones, to improve or enhance oil or hydrocarbon production from subterranean formations. In some cases, ketones can be used in combination with surfactants to improve or enhance oil or hydrocarbon from subterranean formations.
US12031079B2
The invention relates to a polymerisable LC medium with flat, negative or positive optical dispersion, a polymer film with flat, negative or positive optical dispersion obtainable from such a material, and the use of the polymerisable LC medium and polymer film in optical, electro optical, electronic, semiconducting or luminescent components or devices.
US12031074B1
The present invention relates to devices for measuring property changes via in-situ micro-viscometry and methods of using same. The aforementioned device is inexpensive and can be used to quickly and accurately measure numerous physical and chemical property changes, including but not limited to the rate of chemical cure, change in tack, and rate of mass loss, for example, rate of moisture, solvent and/or plasticizer change.
US12031073B2
A nitride near-infrared fluorescent material has a general molecular formula of the nitride near-infrared fluorescent material is (Ca1−x−y−zSrxBayEuz)3[LiaMgbAlcSid]N6. In the general molecular formula, 0≤x<1; 0≤y≤0.3; 0
US12031049B2
An aqueous coating material composition, includes: a polyolefin resin aqueous dispersion (A) containing a polypropylene (a1); a crosslinking agent (B) having a functional group that reacts with a carboxyl group; and a polyester resin aqueous dispersion (C) having a resin acid value of 3 mgKOHg to 100 mgKOH/g, and with respect to a total solid content of the polyolefin resin aqueous dispersion (A), a solid content of the crosslinking agent (B) is 0.1 mass % to 20 mass %, and a solid content of the polyester resin aqueous dispersion (C) is 0.5 mass % to 30 mass %.
US12031045B2
A radiation-curable composition includes at least one monofunctional acrylate monomer and/or methacrylate monomer and/or at least one monofunctional acrylamide monomer, at least one multifunctional acrylate monomer and/or methacrylate monomer and at least one oligomer and/or at least one polymer, wherein the composition at 40° C. has a viscosity of ≥50 mPas, in particular >50 mPas.
US12031033B2
A zwitterionic polysiloxane polymer (e.g., a polyurethane elastomer) composition having poly(dialkylsiloxane) blocks and a zwitterionic moiety is prepared by the copolymerization of a poly(dialkylsiloxane) diol, a diisocyanate, a tertiary amine alkyl diol, and a poly(dialkylsiloxane) diamine to form a poly(urethane urea) copolymer. A substituted saturated heterocylic compound is reacted with the tertiary amine of the poly(urethane urea) copolymer to introduce a zwitterionic group into the poly(urethane urea) copolymer backbone. A polysiloxane polymer having a zwitterionic moiety is prepared by reacting a diallyl tertiary amine compound and a substituted saturated heterocylic compound to form a diallyl zwitterionic macromer and cross-linking a vinyl terminated poly(dialkylsiloxane) and the diallyl zwitterionic macromer with a curing agent to introduce a zwitterionic group into the poly(dialkylsiloxane) polymer.
US12031032B2
A thermoplastic resin composition, may include a thermoplastic resin (A) and, per 100 parts by mass of the thermoplastic resin (A), from 0 to 0.2 parts by mass of a metal salt-containing flame retardant (B), and not less than 0.05 parts by mass and less than 3 parts by mass of an organopolysiloxane (C), wherein the organopolysiloxane (C) has a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) in a range of from 1.01 to 1.4.
US12031027B2
Graphene is an allotrope or one of the several physical forms of carbon, other examples being graphite, fullerenes, and diamond. At the atomic level, it is in the form a sheet with a thickness nominally under 1.0 nanometer and up to 1 micron in diameter. Sheets of such dimensions when added to other composites facilitate increases in thermal and electrical conductivity and in the case of elastomer nanocomposites, improvements in hysteresis, compounding ingredient dispersion, aging resistance, and reductions in permeability. In the case of conveyor belt cover compounds, natural rubber based formulations are preferred due to high tensile strength, tear strength and damage resistance, and high resistance to abrasion. Graphene as a performance additive enables further improvement in these critical properties.
US12031023B2
Resin composition comprises 35 to 59.9 parts by mass of a propylene polymer (A) satisfying below; 25 to 40 parts by mass of a soft propylene copolymer (B); 0.1 to 10 parts by mass of a polyolefin (C) containing a structural unit derived from an unsaturated carboxylic acid and/or a derivative thereof; and 15 to 30 parts by mass of an ethylene polymer (D) (provided that the total of (A), (B), (C), and (D) is 100 parts by mass), wherein an MFR measured at 230° C. and a load of 2.16 kg according to ASTM D-1238 is 7 g/10 min or more and 25 g/10 min or less, with each component satisfying certain requirements.
US12031020B2
A composition comprising the following components: A) a first ethylene/alpha-olefin interpolymer with a melt index I2A; B) a second ethylene/alpha-olefin interpolymer with a melt index I2B; and wherein the difference in melt index (I2): (I2A−I2B)≥400, and wherein I2B≤100 g/10 min; C) a filler, and wherein the filler is present in an amount ≥50 wt %, based on the weight of the composition; D) a tackifier; and wherein the melt viscosity, at 165 C, of the composition, excluding the filler (component C), is ≤30,000 cP.
US12031015B2
The present disclosure relates to surface modified silica, where the surface of the silica is modified by a quaternary ammonium-based polymer. Modification of the silica surface in this manner allows for production of silica particles with a high zeta potential and minimal change in particle size.
US12031012B2
An antidegradant composition, an antidegradant master batch comprising the antidegradant composition and a rubber composition comprising the antidegradant composition or the antidegradant master batch. The antidegradant composition comprises antidegradant TMPPD and one or two selected from antidegradant N3100-B and an antidegradant N3100-C. The antidegradant composition and antidegradant master batch render a rubber compound and a rubber article excellent discoloration resistance, fatigue resistance, ozone resistance, and mechanical properties before and after thermal oxidative aging and enables the rubber compound to be used in the manufacture of all or part of the rubber matrix, especially as a tire sidewall rubber composition and a tire tread rubber composition.
US12031008B2
The present invention includes a hydrogel and a method of making a porous hydrogel by preparing an aqueous mixture of an uncrosslinked polymer and a crystallizable molecule; casting the mixture into a vessel; allowing the cast mixture to dry to form an amorphous hydrogel film; seeding the cast mixture with a seed crystal of the crystallizable molecule; growing the crystallizable molecule into a crystal structure within the uncrosslinked polymer; crosslinking the polymer around the crystal structure under conditions in which the crystal structure within the crosslinked polymer is maintained; and dissolving the crystals within the crosslinked polymer to form the porous hydrogel.
US12031006B2
The invention relates to the use of polyolethers as additives in aqueous polymer dispersions for producing porous polymer coatings, preferably for producing porous polyurethane coatings.
US12030994B2
A preparation method for and an application of a modified siloxane-based supercritical carbon dioxide thickener are disclosed. The method includes the following steps: using 1,3-diallyl-1,3,5-triazine-2,4,6-trione as a polymerization monomer, and dropwise adding 1,3,5,7-tetramethylcyclotetrasiloxane for hydrosilylation in the presence of a catalyst to obtain a modified siloxane polymer. The obtained modified siloxane polymer is directly used as a supercritical carbon dioxide thickener without purification post-treatment; when in use, the modified siloxane polymer is prepared into a solution with a concentration of 1-2%, has an excellent thickening effect with no cosolvent required, and has high solubility in carbon dioxide and high temperature resistance.
US12030985B2
Poly(amine-co-ester) polymers, methods of forming active agent-load polyplexes and particles therefrom, and methods of using them for delivery of nucleic acid agents with optimal uptake have been developed. Examples demonstrate critical molecular weights in combination with exposed carboxylic and/or hydroxyl groups, and methods of making. Typically, the compositions are less toxic, more efficient at drug delivery, or a combination thereof compared to a control other transfection reagents. In some embodiments, the compositions are suitable for in vivo delivery, and can be administered systemically to a subject to treat a disease or condition.
US12030981B2
The invention relates to an anion-exchange membrane (AEM) having a multiblock copolymer including a hydrophilic norbornene-based monomer and a hydrophobic alkene-based or norbornene-based monomer. The hydrophilic norbornene-based monomers include one or more cationic head groups such as a quaternary ammonium ion, which can optionally be crosslinked with a crosslinking agent to increase the structural stability of the polymer. These AEMs can be employed in electrochemical devices such as fuel cells.
US12030971B2
Two-part cyanoacrylate/cationically curable adhesive systems are provided.
US12030968B2
Build materials for 3D printing applications are described herein which, in some embodiments, comprise monomeric species operable for producing articles with high Tg and/or high heat deflection temperature while maintaining shelf stability. In one aspect, a polymerizable liquid comprises at least 20 weight percent isocyanurate polyacrylate; a photoinitiator component; and a crystallization inhibitor component comprising monomeric curable material, oligomeric curable material or mixtures thereof, wherein the polymerizable liquid does not exhibit crystallization over a period of 28 days at a storage temperature of 5-10° C.
US12030966B2
A centric spray pipe apparatus is disclosed, The centric spray pipe includes a plurality of nozzles designed to provide full coverage of liquid spray to a vessel.
US12030959B1
The present disclosure provides methods and kits for treating or preventing an allergic reaction to a food allergen consumed by a human subject with one or more food allergies. In particular, the present disclosure provides prophylactic therapies comprising administration of an anti-IgE antibody at a specific dose to a human subject who is allergic to one or more food allergens.
US12030951B2
The present invention provides an anti-OX40 antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof, a preparation method therefor and the use for treating OX40-related diseases or conditions.
US12030947B2
The present invention relates to anti-FcRH5 antibodies, including anti-FcRH5 antibodies comprising an FcRH5 binding domain and a CD3 binding domain (e.g., FcRH5 T cell-dependent bispecific (TDB) antibodies), and methods of using the same.
US12030944B2
Methods are provided for targeting cells for depletion, including without limitation tumor cells, in a regimen comprising contacting the targeted cells with a combination of agents that modulate immunoregulatory signaling. Immunoregulatory modulating agents include (i) an agent that blockades CD47 activity; and (ii) an agent that agonizes an immune costimulatory molecule, e.g. CD137. The regimen may further comprise an agent that specifically binds to the target cell, e.g. an antibody or biologically active fragment or derivative thereof. The level of depletion of the targeted cell is enhanced relative to a regimen in which a single immunoregulatory modulating agent is used; and the effect may be synergistic relative to a regimen in which a single immunoregulatory modulating agent is used.
US12030941B2
The present invention provides novel anti-PD-1 antibodies that specifically bind to cell surface PD-1. Also provided are the nucleic acid molecules encoding the anti-PD-1 antibodies, expression vectors and host cells used for the expression of the anti-PD-1 antibodies. The invention further provides the methods for producing the anti-PD-1 antibodies and the use thereof.
US12030930B2
Single-domain antibodies (SAbs) against three Yersinia pestis surface proteins (LcrV, YscF, and F1), nucleic acid sequences encoding the SAbs, and polypeptides comprising two or more SAbs capable of recognizing two or more epitopes and/or antigens. The present invention further includes methods for preventing or treating Y. pestis infections in a patient; methods for detecting and/or diagnosing Y. pestis infections; and devices and methods for identifying and/or detecting Y. pestis on a surface and/or in an environment.
US12030928B2
Provided herein are antibodies that bind to neuraminidase (NA) of different strains of influenza B virus, host cells for producing such antibodies, and kits comprising such antibodies. Also provided herein are compositions comprising antibodies that bind to NA of different strains of influenza B virus and methods of using such antibodies to diagnose, prevent or treat influenza virus disease.
US12030927B2
The invention relates to antibodies useful for the prevention, treatment and/or diagnosis of coronavirus infections, and diseases and/or complications associated with coronavirus infections, including COVID-19. In particular, the invention relates to antibodies capable of binding to the spike protein of coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and uses thereof.
US12030925B2
The present disclosure provides a method of treating hemophilia A in a human subject in need thereof comprising administering to the subject a chimeric polypeptide comprising (i) a factor VIII (FVIII) protein and (ii) a von Willebrand factor (VWF) fragment comprising a D′ domain of VWF and a D3 domain of VWF at a dosing interval.
US12030921B2
The disclosure discloses an anti-metabolic disorder FGF analog and an application thereof, and belongs to the technical field of medicines. According to the disclosure, modification is performed based on an FGF19 mutant NGM282 to obtain a FGF19 analog, and the FGF19 analog is used in treating liver impairment, metabolic disorders, obesity, overweight, metabolic syndrome, diabetes and dyslipidemia and has no side effects of elevated cholesterol and dietary decline in a therapeutic process.
US12030917B2
An excellent photosensitivity is exhibited by a protein including, at a position or positions corresponding to one or two or more positions selected from the group made of the following (1) to (3) in a first amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1: (1) positions 39, 94, 98, 102, 110, 113, 114, 162, 224, 225, 230, 231, and 235, (2) positions 53, 61, 68, 74, 76, 80, 130, 137, 194, 195, 198, 200, 204, 205, 209, 210, 253, and 254, and (3) positions 46, 83, 84, 87, 90, 91, 116, 117, 120, 124, 139, 142, 143, 146, 173, 214, 216, 217, 238, 242, and 245, an amino acid residue different from that in the first amino acid sequence, and that has channel activity.
US12030916B2
Disclosed herein are compositions comprising one or more therapeutic proteins for oral administration. The disclosed proteins, which may be directed to a variety of GI and systemic target antigens, resist denaturation and degradation in the stomach and intestines of a patient. The disclosed proteins may be delivered intact to a target region within the gut, or anywhere in body to target specific molecules, cells, tissues, or organs. In some embodiments, the disclosed proteins may include two or more proteins for targeting two or more target antigens.
US12030909B2
Methods for targeted protein quantification by bar-coding affinity reagent with unique DNA sequences
Provided herein are affinity reagents having affinity for particular target, each reagent having a unique DNA barcode, and methods for using the same to measure the abundance of targets in a sample. In particular, methods are provided in which unique barcodes linked to affinity reagents are contacted to a sample to bind antigens if present in said sample. In cases in which the affinity reagents are antibodies and the targets are antigens, antibodies that are bound to their target antigens can be separated from unbound antibodies and the DNA barcode associated with the affinity reagent is amplified, such as with a PCR reaction. In some cases, amplified barcode DNA is subjected to DNA sequencing as a measure of the levels of the target protein in the sample.
US12030908B2
A method of treating an infection of a lung in a patient in need thereof according to an embodiment includes administering to the patient an effective amount of a compound having the formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US12030907B2
A method of making a compound represented by Formula (I): includes a reducing step, a protecting step, and a phosphitylating step, where X is NH; Y is OCF3, —O(CR42)aCR43, —O(CR42)bOCR43, or —O(CR42)b—CR4═CR42; Z is H; B is adenine (A), guanine (G), thymine (T), cytosine (C), uracil (U), 5-methylcytosine (5-me-C), or a protected version of A, G, T, C, U, or 5-me-C; each R1 is independently C1-6 alkyl or cycloalkyl; R2 is CH2CH2CN or C1-6 alkyl; or R1 and R2 together form an optionally substituted C1-6 cycloalkyl; R3 is H or PG; PG is a protecting group; R4 is independently in each instance H or F; a is 1 or 2; and b is 1, 2, or 3.
US12030902B2
This is to provide a polymer crosslinking agent which is capable of improving affinity for ester oil. The polymer crosslinking agent is a (meth)acrylic-based graft silicone which comprises (meth)acryl-based repeating units represented by the following formulae (I), (II) and (III) as a main chain, and an unsaturated bond(s) and an organopolysiloxane structure at the side chain. Also, the high molecular weight polymer is an addition polymerization product of the polymer crosslinking agent and an organohydrogen polymer, and a composition is a material in which the high molecular weight polymer is swollen by a liquid oil agent.
US12030880B2
The present invention relates to a iminosulfanone compound represented by formula (I) as a bromodomain protein inhibitor and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and to a preparation method, pharmaceutical composition, and medical use thereof.
US12030876B2
The present invention provides AHR agonists, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
US12030874B2
The present disclosure relates to novel processes for the preparation of compounds of Formula I. Some of these compounds are useful as stimulators of soluble guanylate cyclase (sGC). Others are useful intermediates towards the preparation of said stimulators. These processes are amenable to large scale preparation and produce stable 3-(2-pyrimidinyl)pyrazoles of Formula I in high purity and yields. The present invention has the additional advantage of facile reaction conditions, amenable to scale up for large scale manufacturing. The disclosure also provides novel intermediates useful in the preparation of said compounds.
US12030870B2
The invention provides novel benzamides of pyrazolyl-amino-pyrimidinyl derivatives of Formula (I) as selective and potent JAK inhibitors for treating various diseases and disorders. The invention also provides pharmaceutical composition of these compounds and methods of their preparation and use thereof.
US12030856B2
A compound of the general formula (I), and the pharmaceutical composition including a compound of formula (I) and optionally a pharmaceutically acceptable additive. Also, the treatment of a cardiac disease, disorder or condition in a mammal, which includes the administration to the mammal a therapeutically effective amount of at least one compound of formula (I), or the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US12030854B2
The invention provides a method for producing a dichloro addition product of an aliphatic olefin by photocatalysis under visible light. The method includes reacting an aliphatic olefin as a substrate with hydrochloric acid as a chlorine source in an organic solvent under visible light irradiation in the presence of copper chloride with visible light absorption ability as a catalyst, to obtain the dichloro addition product of the aliphatic olefin, wherein the reaction is carried out under an oxygen-containing atmosphere, the aliphatic olefin comprises a carbon-carbon double bond and a C9-C15 aliphatic chain connected to the carbon-carbon double bond by a covalent bond. In the invention, visible light is used to provide the energy and a transition metal chloride with visible light absorption ability is used to undergo light-induced electron transfer from chloride with a reaction substrate, thereby initiating an addition reaction to obtain a dichloro addition product.
US12030835B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I) or a stereoisomer, a tautomer, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, wherein Q is a 5-membered heterocyclyl or 5-membered heteroaryl having 1 to 4 heteroatoms independently selected from N, O, and S, substituted with zero to 4 R1; and A, X1, X2, X3, X4, Z1, Z2, R1, R2, R3a, R3b, a, b, and d are defined herein. Also disclosed are methods of using these compounds to modulate the activity of farnesoid X receptor (FXR); pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds; and methods of treating a disease, disorder, or condition associated with FXR dysregulation, such as pathological fibrosis, transplant rejection, cancer, osteoporosis, and inflammatory disorders, by using the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions.
US12030833B2
A method for producing a hetero-type monodisperse polyethylene glycol, which includes (A) carrying out a nucleophilic substitution reaction between a compound of formula (2) and a compound of formula (3) so as to satisfy expression (F1) to obtain a compound of formula (4), (B) of carrying out a Michaels addition reaction of a compound of formula (5) to the compound of formula (4) at a temperature condition of 10° C. or lower to obtain a compound of formula (6), (C) detritylating or debenzylating the compound of the formula (6) to obtain a reaction product containing a compound of formula (7), (D) purifying the compound of formula (7) from the reaction product, (E) reacting the compound of formula (7) with phthalimide and performing dephthalimidation to obtain a compound of formula (8), and (F) subjecting the compound of formula (8) to an acid hydrolysis treatment to obtain a compound represented by formula (1).
US12030832B2
The invention relates to a new dialkyl tin oxide catalyst composition and its use for the synthesis of amino alkyl (meth)acrylates by transesterification from an alkyl (meth)acrylates and an amino alcohol, and especially 2-dimethylaminoethyl (meth)acrylate. The invention also relates to polymers made with quaternized amino alkyl (meth)acrylates and use of said polymers in water treatment, sludge dewatering, papermaking process, agriculture, cosmetic and detergency composition, textile process, oil and gas recovery process such as enhanced oil recovery, fracturing, mining operation such as tailings treatment.
US12030829B2
The present disclosure provides a fire starter that does not require oxygen from the air to ignite or maintain a flame and makes it easy to ignite using one or no fingers, such as teeth. A fire starter includes a burnable casing forming a sealed chamber. A first burnable mixture and a second burnable mixture are separately disposed in the sealed chamber. The first burnable mixture can form a flame without oxygen from the air. An igniter is disposed in the sealed chamber adjacent to the first burnable mixture and configured to generate a first thermal event to ignite the first burnable mixture without oxygen from the air. The first burnable mixture combusts during the first thermal event and triggers a second thermal event to ignite the second burnable mixture. An actuator is configured to activate the igniter to generate the first thermal event without using more than one finger.
US12030823B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of ceramic tiles, in particular, to a ceramic tile decorated with a dry particle ink and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method comprises the steps of A: decorating a ground coat; B: decorating to form a pattern; C: drying firstly; D: embellishing with dry particles; E: spraying a protective glaze; and F: firing. The manufacturing method has simple operation steps and convenient control, simplifies the process flow, improves production efficiency, and reduces production difficulty and production cost. By spraying with the dry particle ink, jet printing is carried out on a designated position on the surface of a green body, so that the texture sprayed can accurately correspond to the pattern-decorated texture, and the uniformity and adhesion of the dry particle distribution on the surface of the green body can be improved.
US12030822B2
An article includes a ceramic-based substrate and a barrier layer on the ceramic-based substrate. The barrier layer includes a matrix, diffusive particles, and gettering particles. The gettering particles include at least one of non-gas-evolving particles and porous particles. An article and a method are also disclosed.
US12030820B2
Disclosed is a method of making high temperature fiber including chemically bonding high temperature material to a fiber template at a first temperature to form a precursor fiber and processing the precursor fiber at a second temperature to form the high temperature fiber. The first temperature does not equal the second temperature. Also disclosed are high temperature fibers made by the method.
US12030803B2
A glass plate, containing: a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to each other, wherein an in-plane void region having a plurality of voids is arranged on the first main surface, a plurality of internal void rows each having one void or two or more voids are arranged from the in-plane void region toward the second main surface, and a cut surface obtained by cutting the glass plate to pass through the in-plane void region and the plurality of internal void rows has a compressive stress layer formed by applying a chemical strengthening treatment in the center of the cut surface.
US12030801B2
The present disclosure discloses a saline wastewater treatment system using solar-assisted heat pump. A method of solar thermal collector coupled with a heat pump can treat saline wastewater at low carbon and high efficiency, and industrial salt and fresh water can be obtained by concentration. The system includes a wastewater pretreatment system, a wastewater heating system, and a wastewater evaporation and concentration treatment system. The wastewater pretreatment system is connected to the wastewater heating system; and the wastewater heating system is connected to the wastewater evaporation and concentration treatment system.
US12030800B2
A method of treating water with a combined chlorine-ferrate(VI) mixture to convert reduced nitrogen compounds electively to a nitrogen gas via controlled oxidation processes, and simultaneously generating insoluble precipitates of iron-phosphorus compounds Fex(PO4)y, by addition of said compounds in combination wherein chlorine is added within the range of about a weight ratio (FeO42−/NH3) of 2-25, and ferrate(VI) is added within the range of about a weight ratio (FeO42−/NH3) of 1.0 to 10.0, with pH & Eh adjustment as defined in disclosures, to establish an alkaline environment and oxidation state of between 0 and 6, and reaction kinetics control of between one and twelve minutes, thereby controlling the oxidation process wherein the product of said oxidation process is a nitrogen gas, which is released, while simultaneously generating a settleable precipitate of iron phosphate, thereby yielding a treated effluent with a reduced total nitrogen and phosphorus content in one treatment.
US12030799B2
A peritoneal dialysis system includes a water purifier, a cycler, and a disposable set operable with the cycler. The disposable set includes a pumping cassette including a water inlet port, a heater/mixing container in fluid communication with the pumping cassette, a water accumulator, a first water line segment, and a second water line segment. The first water line segment is in fluid communication with the water inlet port and the water accumulator. Additionally, the second water line segment is in fluid communication with the water accumulator and the water purifier.
US12030795B2
A device (10) for capacitive deionization of an aqueous media containing dissolved ion species, said device comprising a cell with a first primary electrode (2) and a second primary electrode (3) arranged opposite the first primary electrode (2) and preferably separated by at least one non-conductive spacer (4, 4′). A third electrode (7) is arranged between the first and the second electrode. The third electrode (7) is grounded whereas the first and the second electrodes are polarized versus the grounded third electrode.
US12030791B2
The inventive subject matter disclosed herein includes multiple novel filter media made of activated rice husks, as well as filtration systems and methods for removing contaminants from an aqueous solution, such as wastewater produced as a byproduct of various industrial processes, including mining, oil and gas exploration and extraction, farming, manufacturing, and the like.
US12030787B2
The present invention generally relates to a process for synthesizing rare earth-doped cobalt-chromite (CoCr2-xRxO4) pigments for capacitive and resistive humidity sensor applications, the process includes of crushing individually metal nitrates and rare earth material (R) using a hydraulic press to form a powder of metal nitrates and rare earth nitrates; dissolving the powder of metal nitrates and rare earth material (R) with fuels in 30 milliliters of distilled water with constant stirring using a magnetic stirrer to form a green color solution; heating the green color solution at 425 degrees Celsius for half an hour to obtain a green powder; extracting and grinding the green powder in an agate mortar for 1 hour to form a fine green pigment; and annealing the fine green pigment in a muffle furnace for two hours at a temperature of 500-600 degrees to remove organic residue and obtain rare earth-doped cobalt-chromite (CoCr2-xRxO4) pigments.
US12030785B2
Methods of processing magnesium silicate materials are described to produce a number of products including magnesium hydroxide. Related methods of use of processed magnesium silicate and other reaction products are described for energy production, cement manufacture and carbon sequestration. In one embodiment the method comprises subjecting a magnesium silicate source to an acid digestion; increasing the digested liquid pH to produce a magnesium salt solution; subjecting the magnesium salt solution to electrolysis; and recovering magnesium hydroxide produced from electrolysis. By-products such as silica, iron oxy(oxides) and others are also described along with further reaction products such as magnesium oxide and magnesium carbonate.
US12030778B2
In one aspect, provided is a method for producing a semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube dispersion. This method allows semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes to be separated from a single-walled carbon nanotube mixture containing semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes and metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes in an aqueous medium, and yet requires only an easily available separation agent and a simple operation. One aspect of the present disclosure relates to a method for producing a semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube dispersion. The method includes (A) preparing a single-walled carbon nanotube dispersion to be separated that contains single-walled carbon nanotubes composed of semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes and metallic single-walled carbon nanotubes, an aqueous medium and a nonionic polymer containing a constitutional unit A derived from a monomer represented by the following formula (1), and (B) centrifuging the single-walled carbon nanotube dispersion to be separated and then collecting a supernatant containing the semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes from the centrifuged single-walled carbon nanotube dispersion. A content of the constitutional unit A in all constitutional units of the polymer is 2 mol % or more. The polymer is water soluble. CH2CR1—COO-(EO)p(PO)q—R2 (1)
US12030777B2
The invention relates to a millimeter-sized bulk spa amorphous carbon material and a method of preparing the same, and the method comprises a step of performing a high-temperature and high-pressure (HTHP) treatment on C60 powder at a temperature of 450-1100° C., preferably 700-1000° C., more preferably 900-1000° C., and most preferably 1000° C., and a pressure of 20-37 GPa, preferably 20-30 GPa, and most preferably 27 GPa, so as to obtain the millimeter-sized bulk sp3 amorphous carbon material. The sp3 carbon content in the amorphous carbon material is adjustable by changing the temperature and pressure conditions, so that the sp3 content is greater than 80%, and the sp3 content of high-quality samples is close to 100%. The optical band gap and thermal conductivity of the series of amorphous carbon materials can be effectively adjusted. The obtained series of amorphous carbon materials have ultra-high hardnesses, high thermal conductivities, adjustable band gaps (1.90-2.79 eV) which exceed the ranges of the band gaps of amorphous silicon and germanium. As a result, a new space is opened up for the application of amorphous materials.
US12030771B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus, system, and method for a microelectromechanical (MEM) device formed on a transparent, insulating substrate. The MEM device may take the form of an electrostatic comb actuator. The fabrication process employs three-dimensional structuring of the substrate to form the actuator combs, biasing elements, and linkages. The combs and other elements of the actuator may be rendered electrically conducting by a conformal conductive coating. The conductive coating may be segmented into a plurality of electrodes without the use of standard lithography techniques. A linear-rotational actuator is provided, which may comprise two perpendicularly-arranged, linear actuators that utilize moveable linkage beams in two orthogonal dimensions. A linear or torsional ratcheting actuator is also provided by using comb actuators in conjunction with a ratcheting wheel or cog. Furthermore, several methods for electrically connecting non-contiguous or enclosed elements are provided.
US12030769B2
A fuel dispensing system includes a fuel tank, a pump that pumps fuel from the fuel tank, and a fuel sentry controlling pumping of the fuel from the fuel tank. The fuel sentry includes a processor, storage storing configuration data, a communication module, and memory operatively coupled to the processor, the storage, and the communication module. The memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive, from an external device and via the communication module, a request to perform a fuel dispensing operation from the at least one fuel tank, determine, based on the configuration data stored in the storage, whether a user of the external device is authorized to perform the fuel dispensing operation from the at least one fuel tank, and in response to determining that that user is authorized to perform the fuel dispensing operation from the at least one fuel tank, transmit power to the pump from a power source to allow the user to pump fuel.
US12030768B2
A network-controlled dispensing device is provided. The dispensing device may include a display, a scannable device identifier (e.g., QR code, RFID tag, etc.) that uniquely identifies the dispensing device to a scanning device, and a network device to establish communications with a server based, at least in part, on the scannable device identifier. The dispenser includes a controller to control dispensing of a product based on one or more product selections received from the server. The controller generates a dispense code in response to receiving one or more product selections from the server and presents the dispense code on the display. If the code received from the server matches the dispense code, the controller dispenses a product based on the one or more product selections received from the server.
US12030765B2
Disclosed is a corkscrew extraction of a cork from a neck of a bottle, including a body, a propping lever, an extraction screw for extraction of the cork, wherein the corkscrew is provided with an extension element of the extraction screw. An extraction method with two sub-phases of a cork from a neck of a bottle by continuous movement without interruptions is also disclosed.
US12030764B2
A bottle centering device for a capping machine for caps made of compressible material includes a support structure, associated with a compression box at a cap compression seat and defining an opening for passing a compressed cap and a cap insertion punch. The support structure is mountable on the compression box so that the through opening has a central axis axially centered on the cap compression seat. A bottle centerer defining an invitation seat and a central through opening is configured for engagement by a bottle mouth and is shaped to guide the mouth towards the through opening axially aligning with the central axis. The bottle centerer includes pieces angularly distributed about the central axis and each partially defining a portion of the invitation seat. The pieces are radially movable with respect to the central axis to vary radial dimensions of the invitation seat and the central through opening.
US12030762B2
A pallet shelfing apparatus for shelf racking of a pallet in a shelf structure, configured to operate in loading, unloading, and hibernate/transport modes. A transporter thereof transports and positions the platform. On a platform configured for loading and unloading the pallet from a selected shelf of the shelf structure, at least one deployable pallet carrying structure is mounted and configured for carrying, reaching and engaging the pallet. At least one deployable anchor, for temporarily stabilizing the pallet shelfing apparatus against at least one hold is deployed in the loading or unloading mode, to engage the at least one hold for stabilizing, and features the at least one hold located off ground, off ceiling, or inside the volume confined by the convex hull of the shelf structure. This volume may be disposed between the platform and at least one of the at least one hold, while in the loading or unloading mode, at least before changing mode into the hibernate/transport mode. The at least one deployable anchor is configured to change the elevation of the at least one deployable pallet carrying structure, after the carrying structure initially engages the pallet.
US12030750B2
A method for mounting or dismounting components of a wind turbine is provided. The mounting or dismounting is accomplished by fastening at least one retaining rope or guide rope to a component to be mounted by fastening the retaining rope or the guide rope to a rope winch unit and by raising or lowering the component to be mounted or to be dismounted by means of a crane. The component to be mounted or to be dismounted is held or guided by means of the retaining rope or guide rope. The rope winch unit comprises a base, a pivot arm and a retaining unit. The pivot arm is pivot-ably coupled to the base at its first end. A rope winch for receiving the retaining rope or guide rope is provided at its second free end. The retaining unit is pivotably coupled to the pivot arm. The base comprises a plurality of latching units for receiving a first end of the retaining unit.
US12030749B2
An informing device is an informing device mounted on a work vehicle that includes a lower base body, and a swivel body swivelably provided at the lower base body. The informing device includes a first detection unit that detects the actual amount of rotation of a drive device which swivels the swivel body or a driven part driven by the drive device, and a notification unit that issues a notification regarding information corresponding to the amount of rotation detected by the first detection unit.
US12030728B2
A container guiding device has a railing with two guide elements that are spaced from one another, that extend in the transport direction of a container transport device, and that guide containers or packages. At least one guide element can be adjusted transversely to the transport direction relative to the other guide element by an adjusting device. The adjusting device has a drive body which can be rotated about a rotational axis and a coupling element which is connected to the at least one guide element and to the drive body such that a rotation of the drive body produces a translation of the coupling element transversely to the transport direction. The drive body has a control element which is in engagement with the coupling element and which runs in a spiral shape about the rotational axis of the drive body, at least along some sections.
US12030708B2
A frame package including a back panel, an inside panel tab, a front panel, and an inside panel is provided. The inside panel tab extends from the back panel. The front panel extends from the back panel and defines a region to rest upon a corner portion of a frame. The inside panel extends from the front panel and includes an inside panel tab slot. The back panel, the front panel, and the inside panel are arranged with one another to fold about the corner portion of the frame and for the inside panel to extend through a frame opening such that the corner portion of the frame is covered by at least one of the back panel and the front panel. The inside panel tab is received within the inside panel tab slot to secure the back panel to the inside panel without an additional fastener.
US12030703B2
The present invention is a pressure-controlled release dispenser. More particularly, the present invention relates to a blister pack with individual compartments that can contain a fluid, e.g., hand sanitizer, with a piercing mechanism within an individual compartment that enables pressure-controlled release of single use portions of the fluid contained therein. A blister pack of the present invention can also contain single use portions of dry flowable materials or solid materials.
US12030702B2
A can lid made of a resin laminate steel sheet for a resin-metal composite container, includes: a top sheet portion; and a curved portion located at an outer periphery of the top sheet portion, in which the resin laminate steel sheet includes a steel sheet, a thermoplastic polyester-based resin layer provided at a first surface of the steel sheet, a modified polypropylene-based resin layer provided at a second surface of the steel sheet, a polypropylene-based resin layer, and an ethylene-propylene copolymer resin layer, a melting point of the ethylene-propylene copolymer resin layer is 135° C. or higher and 150° C. or lower, a melting point of the thermoplastic polyester-based resin layer is higher than a melting point of the polypropylene-based resin layer by 40° C. or more, and a range of a proportion of the ethylene component in the ethylene-propylene copolymer in the ethylene-propylene copolymer resin layer is 1.0 mass % or more and 45.0 mass % or less.
US12030700B2
A cable tie having a tie body that is provided with slots which are arranged along an extension thereof that is used for tightening. The slots are arranged transversely with respect to the extension. The body has an elongated shape with a plate element at one end and a traction ring at the other end.
US12030699B2
A cross-brace assembly for a package for a household appliance and method of assembling are provided. The cross-brace assembly can include a holder having a body having opposing first and second sides. The body includes first and second inner tabs that include first and second apertures, respectively. A first outer tab projects from the first side of the body, adjacent to the first inner tab, and a second outer tab projects from the second side of the body, adjacent to the second inner tab. A brace having opposing first and second ends can be received within the first and second apertures such that the first end of the brace is disposed adjacent the first outer tab and the second end of the brace is disposed adjacent the second outer tab to retain the brace relative to the holder.
US12030683B2
A filling station includes a transport tray having a plurality of transfer receptacles, an optical detection device configured to generate one or more images of transfer receptacles having drug portions arranged therein and a control device coupled to the optical detection device. The control device causes display of a filling template of which transfer receptacles are to be filled with one or more drug portions and compares an actual filling of the transfer receptacles based on the one or more images of the transfer receptacles generated by the optical detection device to ta target filling. The control device also determines if no deviation exists between the actual filling and the target filling and releases the transport tray for transferring the drug portions to a secondary tray.
US12030682B2
A gripper, an apparatus, and a method for assembling kits of sanitary products in an automated fashion are disclosed. The sanitary products are pre-loaded into containers including a plurality of independent housings for the sanitary products, each of the housings being configured to allow loading of a sanitary product therein and withdrawal of the sanitary product therefrom independently of the other housings, and the kit is assembled in batches on the gripper, and released by the latter into a package.
US12030679B2
A method for producing a cartridge is proposed, where a fluid is filled into an opening of a container and a closure part is inserted into the container, thereby moving a movable piston arranged within the container.
US12030677B2
A system includes a detector attachment member and a communication system. The detector attachment member includes a first end configured to be coupled to an unmanned aerial vehicle; a second end configured to be coupled to a detector; and a body extending between the first end and the second end, the body of a length selected such that an interference of the unmanned aerial vehicle at the detector is less than an interference threshold. The detector attachment member also includes a lift system coupled to the body. The communication system is coupled to the detector attachment member and is configured to provide communication between the unmanned aerial vehicle and the detector.
US12030672B1
A system and method for on-demand retention, release, and positioning of structures including space structures (e.g., solar panels, probes, antennae, scientific instruments, fairings, etc.). The system allows for a lightweight and reliable deployment mechanism utilizing shape memory alloy (SMA) technology that allows for structure transition from a stowed to a deployed configuration. SMAs are used for both the active actuation members (e.g., wires) and passive connecting members (e.g., hinges). The retention and release (R&R) mechanism includes the SMA actuator, a static and detachable plate, a pin puller, and retaining latches/hooks. Once released, the deployment and positioning mechanism consists of SMA preloaded hinges and latches. The innovative system and method may be used for deployment of CubeSat and smallsats solar panels, antennae, and the like where volume and power resources are very limited. The innovative system and method may also be used for deployment of components for other classes of small satellites.
US12030665B2
A ground station for aerial vehicles including a protective casing, at least one charging mechanism, and an extendable landing pad. The extended landing pad is operable to transition between a closed configuration having dimensions suitable to be contained within said protective casing, and an open configuration having dimensions suitable to land the aerial vehicle.
US12030660B2
Systems and methods for noise suppression for aircraft are disclosed. The aircraft may include a fuselage. The aircraft may include a plurality of wings connected to or formed with the fuselage. The aircraft may include at least one engine configured to generate a propulsion force to propel the aircraft. The at least one engine may include a nozzle assembly having a nozzle body with an outlet that releases an exhaust air or a jet flow. The aircraft may include a noise suppression assembly. The noise suppression assembly may be configured to interact with the exhaust air or jet flow to substantially suppress, mitigate, reduce, or otherwise modify noise generated by the aircraft.
US12030656B1
An electric propulsion system for a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft having a heat exchanger to cool fluids used in an electrical engine, the electric propulsion system comprising at least one electrical engine mechanically connected directly or indirectly to a fuselage of the VTOL aircraft and electrically connected to an electrical power source. The electrical engine may comprise an electrical motor having a stator and a rotor; a gearbox assembly comprising a sun gear; at least one planetary gear; a ring gear; and a planetary carrier. The electric engine may include an inverter assembly comprising a thermal plate and an inverter assembly housing; an end bell assembly that is connected to the thermal plate of the inverter assembly; and a heat exchanger comprising an array of cooling fins and tubes.
US12030655B2
An aircraft including a battery pack having a plurality of battery cells arranged to vent into a venting region of the battery pack. A path is defined between the venting region and an exterior of the aircraft, whereby thermal products vented by the cells can exit the aircraft via the path. In some embodiments, the venting region is or is in fluid communication with an air channel through which air flows from an aircraft air inlet to an aircraft air outlet. In other embodiments, the path joins the venting region and an opening in an external surface of the aircraft.
US12030652B2
An aircraft comprising a fuselage and an unducted turbine engine. The fuselage having a divot with an upstream edge and a downstream edge. The divot is defined by a straight reference line having a length (L) and a maximum depth (h) relative to the straight reference line. The unducted turbine engine having an engine core, a nacelle, and a set of blades. A first flow ratio (FR1) is equal to: h L .
US12030642B2
The present invention relates essentially to a double-door module for aircraft seats, characterized in that it comprises: a first door that is mobile in translation between a stowed position and a deployed position, a second door that is mobile in translation between a stowed position and a deployed position, the first door and the second door overlapping completely when the first door and the second door are simultaneously in the stowed position, and a control system comprising a device for locking and unlocking the first door and/or the second door.
US12030636B2
The current document is directed to an enclosure for electronic equipment that secures the electronic equipment within a storage space, provides ventilation for the electronic equipment, which generates heat during operation, and protects the electronic equipment from mechanical insults while, at the same time, providing access to control features and display features on the front panel of the electronic equipment. The currently disclosed enclosure includes cooling ports that allow for exchange of air between the external environment and the interior of the enclosure. One implementation of the currently disclosed enclosure can be partly disassembled in order to quickly secure the electronic equipment within the enclosure and can then be quickly reassembled for storage.
US12030635B2
A component (6) for a passenger cabin (2) of a passenger aircraft (4) contains a base body (8) with a surface (10), and a layer structure (12), which is applied to the surface (10) and contains at least two layers in the form of at least one active layer (14) and an adhesive layer (16) arranged between the active layer (14) and the surface (10), wherein the active layer (14) contains at least one surface section (18a-c) which is formed from an electrically controllable colour-changing film (20), wherein at least a part of the colour-changing film (20) forms a visible surface (22) for the intended purpose in the passenger cabin (2).
US12030634B2
The technology relates to payload separation during descent of an aerial vehicle. A flight termination system (FTS) for a lighter than air (LTA) vehicle can include a first, a second, and a third mechanical actuation system. The first mechanical actuation system can be triggered in a first stage, causing an envelope and a payload of the LTA vehicle to separate. The second mechanical actuation system can be triggered in a second stage, causing a parachute to deploy from a component coupled to the payload. The third mechanical actuation system can be triggered in a third stage, causing a parachute to deploy from the envelope. In some cases, one or more of the mechanical actuation systems includes a squib.
US12030631B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has a wing assembly that is coupled to a cargo carrying pod. The pod has a pallet storage volume and an aerodynamic outer surface. The wing assembly has wings that are coupled to rotor booms that include motors and rotors. A tail assembly is coupled to tail booms that extend back from the wings. Rudders are coupled to the rear portions of the tail booms and an elevator is coupled to top portions of the rudders. The elevator is at least 84 inches high and the rudders are at least 48 apart so that a forklift can drive under the elevator and between the rudders to a rear door of the pod to place cargo on a pallet into the storage area of the pod.
US12030620B2
A landing gear for a flight vehicle is used during landing. The landing gear for a flight vehicle includes a first cylinder structure configured to have an upper end which is coupled to be able to roll with respect to the flight vehicle; and a second cylinder structure configured to have a lower end which is able to come into contact with the ground, configured to be able to relatively move in an axial direction along a reference axis with respect to the first cylinder structure, and configured to be able to relatively rotate about the reference axis with respect to the first cylinder structure. The first cylinder structure and the second cylinder structure switch the landing gear between a stowed state and a released state by means of the relative movement and the relative rotation.
US12030619B2
An uplock for the selective retention of a capture pin of a movable element includes a hook, a locking member, and a detector. The hook is movable between a release position and a retaining position for retaining the capture pin. The locking member moves between a locked position, and an unlocked position. The detector detects whether the hook is in the retaining position and the capture pin is in the hook. The detector includes a sensor movable relative to a target. The target or the sensor is carried by the locking member and the other by an indicator lever which is movable between a first position indicating absence of the capture pin in the hook and a second position indicating presence. The target and the sensor are only in the proximate position if the locking member is in the locked position and the indicator lever is in the second position.
US12030618B2
A hinge assembly 8a for an aircraft component comprises first and second hinge plates 9, 10, each hinge plate including a plurality of fingers 13 to 17. The fingers of the first and second hinge plates are interleaved. A seal assembly 28 to 32 is provided between at least some of the fingers. The provision of a hinge including interposed fingers allows for a hinge assembly having a complex aerodynamic profile to be made, while the sealing function is performed by the seals filling the gaps between the fingers.
US12030616B2
The invention relates to a composite blade (5) for a turbine engine rotor, for example, an unducted propeller, comprising a skin (6) made of woven fibres forming the outer profile of the blade and an attachment (11) with cylindrical geometry in the direction of the span emerging from the blade root (9), which attachment is intended to retain the blade (5) on a hub of the rotor, characterised in that it further comprises a spar (16) having a hollow tube structure made of braided carbon fibres, fixed to the attachment (11) and extending inside the skin (6) over at least part of the span of the blade (5). The invention also relates to a propeller comprising said blade and to a method for manufacturing said blade.
US12030614B2
A coupling system and method are configured to secure one or more spars of a wing of an aircraft to one or more struts. The coupling system and method include a plurality of interface joints that secure the one or more spars to the one or more struts. At least a portion of a front surface of the one or more spars is linearly aligned with at least a portion of a rear surface of the one more struts.
US12030610B2
A swivel gyro-mount system for a self-contained air conditioning system, disclosing a unit having a main body with an evaporator having an evaporator cover with an aperture bordered on a side opposite of the evaporator by a plurality of frustum-spherical wall sections, thereby creating a boundary. A frustum-spherical gyro-swivel ring is positioned within the boundary of the frustum-spherical wall sections. A fitment ring is removably affixed to a protruding lip of the frustum-spherical gyro-swivel ring. The frustum-spherical wall sections movably contain the frustum-spherical gyro-swivel ring in a tight periphery, thereby allowing the frustum-spherical gyro-swivel ring to adjust in orientation, whereby the adjustment in orientation influences a direction of airflow in a conical range of orientations to a blower, whereby said blower may expel air in a plurality of selectable directions in a range of angulation resembling a dual conical shape.
US12030607B1
A method of operating a steering system on a marine vessel includes changing a maximum drive angle defining a permitted drive angle range for at least one marine drive and then, based on a steering map correlating wheel positions of a manually rotatable steering wheel to drive angles of the marine drive, adjusting at least one end stop wheel position to an adjusted end stop wheel position based on the changed maximum drive angle. Once it is determined that a current wheel position of the steering wheel is approaching the adjusted end stop wheel position, a resistance device is controlled to apply a resistance force against rotation of the steering wheel in a first rotational direction past the end stop position. The steering actuator associated with the marine drive is then controlled based on the steering map such that a drive angle of the marine drive stays within the permitted drive angle range.
US12030604B2
A propeller (20) for a marine vessel (10), the propeller (20) comprising a plurality of propeller blades (24, 26). The propeller blades comprise a leading edge (30), a trailing edge (32) and an outer edge (34) located between the leading edge and the trailing edge. A transition from the leading edge to the outer edge occurs at a first transition point (36) and a transition from the outer edge to the trailing edge occurs at a second transition point (38). A straight line from the first transition point to the second transition point coincides with the outer edge (34) or is located at least partially outside the propeller blade. A smallest distance (D2) from the second transition point to the axis of rotation (A) is smaller than a smallest distance (D\) from the first transition point to the axis of rotation.
US12030601B2
The invention relates to an underwater device for capturing images of a seabed, comprising at least one sensor for detecting a sensor value, at least one electrical consumer and an electrical energy source for supplying electrical energy to the electrical consumer. The underwater device is characterised in that, based on the sensor value, it is determined whether a hazardous condition exists for the electrical consumer and an energy distribution unit is provided which disconnects the electrical consumer from the electrical energy source if a hazardous condition exists.
US12030597B2
A system for transmission of power offshore comprises two or more power stations operably connected with a high voltage cable system. The high voltage cable system may comprise a dynamic, dry type high voltage submarine cable of varying length configured to transmit at least about 45 megawatts of power. In some cases the dynamic, dry type high voltage submarine cable comprises a first end connected to an offshore power station and second end connected to a static submarine cable system which is connected to an onshore power station. The systems may facilitate transmission of power for applications such as compressing and/or pumping subsea natural gas in deep water.
US12030582B2
A processing device is configured to perform a process of bringing a response speed of a first sensor close to a response speed of a second sensor when a value using a detection value of the first sensor is extracted at a timing determined by using an output value of the second sensor having a response speed different from that of the first sensor.
US12030578B2
A leaning vehicle including a vehicle body frame, at least one steerable wheel, a handlebar, of which the manipulation by a rider generates a steering torque, a steering actuator steering the at least one steerable wheel, a roll rate sensor detecting a roll rate of the vehicle body frame, and a steering actuator controller. The steering actuator controller includes a torque estimation section that receives an input to thereby generate an estimated value of the steering torque, and a current determination section that obtains a control current based on the estimated valued of the steering torque generated by the torque estimation section, and outputs the control current to the steering actuator to control the steering actuator. The input of the torque estimation section includes the roll rate obtained from the roll rate sensor, but is free from any value of the steering torque detected by a torque sensor.
US12030571B2
A locator pin assembly includes a locator pin with a locator portion and a threaded portion and a bracket assembly including a tab portion and a nut portion that receives the threaded portion. A structure includes an opening receiving the locator pin and a slot near the opening that receives the bracket assembly.
US12030562B2
A semi-trailer for transporting a load to be moved has a wheeled front module having a right-hand front row and a left-hand front row of front bogies each provided with a respective hydraulic suspension driven by its own hydraulic cylinder; a wheeled rear module comprising a right-hand rear row and a left-hand rear row of rear bogies each provided with a respective hydraulic suspension driven by its own hydraulic cylinder; a coupling unit of the wheeled front module for the coupling to a tractor and comprising a pair of hydraulic jacks for transferring a part of the load to be moved to the tractor; a first hydraulic unit interposed between the hydraulic cylinders of the front and rear rows of bogies and configured in such a way that the sum of the instantaneous load-supporting pressures acting on the hydraulic cylinders of the right front row and of the cylinders of the left-hand rear row is equal to the sum of the instantaneous pressures controlling the cylinders of the left-hand front row and of the cylinders of the right rear row; and a second hydraulic unit configured to control the hydraulic jacks based on the sum of the instantaneous load-supporting pressures acting on the hydraulic cylinders of said right front row and of said left-hand front row.
US12030555B2
A method of making a roof assembly includes bringing first and second adhesive beads into contact with a roof panel and a roof stiffener to thereby define a chamber. The first adhesive bead forms a continuous perimeter around a first vacuum aperture in the roof stiffener to thereby define a first vacuum chamber. The second adhesive bead defines a second continuous perimeter around a second vacuum aperture in the roof stiffener to thereby define a second vacuum chamber. A vacuum is created in each of the first and second vacuum chambers. An outer periphery of each of the first and second adhesive beads is in direct fluid communication with the surrounding atmosphere through a perimeter opening of the chamber.
US12030550B2
A steering column for a motor vehicle may include an inner casing in which a steering spindle is mounted rotatably about a longitudinal axis that extends in a longitudinal direction and is received in an outer casing in a slidingly adjustable manner in the longitudinal direction. A pretensioning apparatus may have a pressure piece that can be braced from an outside in a tensioning direction transversely to the longitudinal axis against the inner casing. The pressure piece is held in the longitudinal direction on the outer casing and is supported against a fixing element counter to the tensioning direction. The fixing element is fixed in a recess of the outer casing. The fixing element has a forming means that is plastically furrowed into the recess, and/or the recess has a forming means that is plastically furrowed into the fixing element.
US12030549B2
A clamping apparatus may include a stroke-generating disk that is rotatable about a clamping axis and is connected via a first stroke-generating gearing and a second stroke-generating gearing to a pressure disk, which is stationary relative to the rotation of the stroke-generating disk. The first stroke-generating gearing converts a relative rotation of the stroke-generating disk in a first actuating angle range in the clamping direction into a first axial stroke relative to the pressure disk. The second stroke-generating gearing converts a further rotation of the stroke-generating disk following the first actuating angle range in a second actuating angle range into a second axial stroke between the stroke-generating disk and the pressure disk. At least one of the stroke-generating gearings is a tilting pin gearing, with at least one tilting pin supported in the direction of its pin axis between corresponding bearing points on the stroke-generating disk and the pressure disk.
US12030548B2
A steering column for a motor vehicle may include a casing unit in which a steering spindle is mounted such that the steering spindle is rotatable about a longitudinal axis that extends in a longitudinal direction. The casing unit has at least two telescopically guided casing tubes that are adjustable relative to one another in the longitudinal direction, an intermediate element that is movable in the longitudinal direction and is arranged between the casing tubes, and a positioning device for positioning the intermediate element in the longitudinal direction relative to the casing tubes. The positioning device may have elongate guide tracks that are arranged on the casing tubes and the intermediate element and interact with one another such that they position the casing tubes and the intermediate element relative to one another in a defined manner.
US12030547B2
A steering wheel assembly for a vehicle includes a support member connectable to a vehicle steering column. A steering wheel has first and second rim portions. At least one of the first and second rim portions is pivotable about a pivot axis between a steering position and a folded position. At least one linear actuator is connected to the support member and operably connected to at least one of the first and second rim portions. Actuation of the linear actuator pivots at least one of the first and second rim portions about the pivot axis.
US12030545B2
A utility trailer is disclosed. The trailer is a two-wheel trailer with rotating handle and yoke tube that locks to the chassis of the trailer in two positions. The trailer also includes two dump pivot points and a release lever mounted to the tub of the trailer.
US12030543B2
An autonomous luggage cart system and method for transportation of objects in facilities such as hotels, condos, universities, and convention centers, providing a cart having a floor, a bumper, riser pipes, and an underside housing, wheels driven by electric motors, a high-capacity battery and a battery charge manager, front and rear tow hitches and tow-hitch sensors, corner sensors, a camera-sensor package, directional sensors, RFID units, a controller unit applying machine learning and artificial-intelligence methods to sensor data, and a communications unit and a remote unit for external communications with other systems.
US12030535B2
A railway automation network includes a publish/subscribe system with at least one transmitter-end application, at least one transmitter-end message broker, at least one receiver-end message broker and at least one receiver-end application. The at least one transmitter-end message broker is configured to map a message published by the transmitter-end application or one of the transmitter-end applications onto at least two redundant, at least partially physically independent network paths of the railway automation network on the basis of a subject specified in the message. The railway automation network is configured to transmit the message to the receiver-end message broker or at least one of the receiver-end message brokers simultaneously over the at least two network paths. The receiver-end message broker is configured to transmit the message to the at least one receiver-end application. A method for transmitting messages in a railway automation network is also provided.
US12030527B2
A method of controlling an Autonomous Vehicle (AV) 110, comprising the steps of: detecting a fault in a first AV 110-1; in response to detecting said fault, transmitting a communication for alerting an AV of the fault, wherein said communication is a device-to-device wireless communication; receiving said communication at a second AV 110-2; identifying the second AV as being capable of retrieving at least part of the first AV and delivering said at least part to an intended destination; and instructing the second AV to perform the retrieving and delivering.
US12030520B2
Method and system for validating an automated control software, ACS, for a vehicle, wherein the ACS is adapted for operating a vehicle in autonomous driving mode. The method comprises simulating use of the ACS in agent movement scenarios, wherein said simulating includes providing input sensor data to each vehicle agent to which an ACS has been assigned, and wherein movement of each of the other agents in the simulation is controlled to move either according to a replay of a corresponding real-world agent, or by an agent movement model.
US12030518B2
A computer-implemented method comprises: initiating, by an assisted-driving system that is controlling motion of a vehicle, a lane change of the vehicle from an ego lane to a target lane, the lane change to be performed based only on local information of the vehicle; defining, by the assisted-driving system, a parametric representation of the target lane, the parametric representation based on first waypoints of the target lane; receiving, by the assisted-driving system and during the lane change, a first output of a perception component of the vehicle, the first output being the local information and reflecting second waypoints of the target lane; performing, by the assisted-driving system, a comparison based on the first output and the parametric representation; and providing, by the assisted-driving system, references of a first global path to controllers of the vehicle for actuating the lane change, the references selected based on the comparison.
US12030517B2
A method for determining a driving maneuver includes obtaining vehicle parameters (P) from a driving maneuver planning module (22) of the vehicle (10). At least one possible driving maneuver (M) is determined via the driving maneuver planning module (22) based on the vehicle parameters (P) received by means of at least one decision-making submodule of the driving maneuver planning module (22), At least one possible driving maneuver (M) is transmitted to a motion planning module (24) of the vehicle (10). An evaluation variable (B) is obtained from the motion planning module (24) via the driving maneuver planning module (22). The at least one decision-making submodule is adapted based on the evaluation variable (B) obtained. Furthermore, a system for determining a driving maneuver of a vehicle, a vehicle for executing the driving maneuver, a control device for a vehicle and a computer program for executing the method are shown.
US12030516B2
Vehicle advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) techniques include, during an ADAS event where a controller at least partially takes control of the vehicle from a driver, detecting, using at least a driver monitoring system, a driver attentiveness level and a control urgency level indicative of how important it is for the driver to potentially retake control of the vehicle, determining, based on the detected driver attentiveness level and the detected control urgency level, a desired driver alert level for attempting to regain the driver's attention for the driver to potentially retake control of the vehicle from a plurality of predetermined driver alert levels each including at least one of an audio/visual/haptic (AVH) alert and a degree of a braking event, and commanding, according to the desired driver alert level, at least one of an AVH alert system and an anti-lock braking system (ABS).
US12030515B2
A vehicle control apparatus includes an actuator used for traveling, an output device outputting information, and a microprocessor and a memory coupled to the microprocessor. The microprocessor performs capturing an image ahead of the vehicle, recognizing a traffic sign included in an imaging range of the captured image, controlling at least one of the output device and the actuator based on information of the recognized traffic sign, and determining whether the vehicle is traveling in a restricted section in which a predetermined travel restriction including at least one of a vehicle speed limit and overtaking limit is imposed temporarily. The microprocessor performs the controlling including controlling, when it is determined that the vehicle is traveling in the restricted section, at least one of the output device and the actuator without using the information of the traffic sign even if the traffic sign is recognized.
US12030513B2
A vehicular alert system includes at least one sensor disposed at a vehicle and sensing exterior of the vehicle. The at least one sensor captures sensor data. Electronic circuitry of an electronic control unit includes a processor for processing sensor data captured by the at least one sensor to detect presence of objects viewed by the at least one sensor. The vehicular alert system, responsive to determining a likelihood that the vehicle is parking, tracks a position of a detected object until the object leaves a field of sensing of the sensor. The vehicular alert system predicts a position of the object relative to the vehicle and determines the object is a hazard based on the predicted position. The vehicular alert system, responsive to determining that the detected object is a hazard, alerts an occupant of the vehicle of the detected object.
US12030503B2
Vehicle movement sensor for a vehicle travelling on a road surface. An optoelectronic sensor from a first sample area on the road surface at a first location relative to the vehicle and generating a pixel pattern image of road surface irregularities in the first sample area. A processor for sampling pixel pattern images of the first sample area and determining movement of the vehicle using digital image correlation of sequential sampled pixel pattern images of the first sample area.
US12030501B2
A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and viewing exterior of the vehicle. The system, responsive to processing by an image processor of image data captured by the camera, determines presence of a leading vehicle ahead of the equipped vehicle and travelling in the same lane as the equipped vehicle. The system, via processing by the image processor of image data captured by the camera, determines an indication at the leading vehicle indicative of a safeness of a passing maneuver by the equipped vehicle. The indication is representative of a determination by the leading vehicle that the safeness of the passing maneuver exceeds a threshold safeness level. The system, based on the determined indication, at least in part controls operation of the equipped vehicle to overtake and pass the determined leading vehicle.
US12030494B2
The disclosed subject matter describes a method for setting an automatic distance from and behavior with respect to a vehicle in front. The automatic distance can be optimized based on the situation and energy efficiency. A current traffic situation is detected. A traffic situation on a road section yet to be traveled can be predicted. Energy consumption depending on a variation in the distance from the vehicle in front can be measured. A distance from the vehicle in front can be set depending on the currently detected traffic situation, the predicted traffic situation, and the measured energy consumption.
US12030488B2
The reliability of path planning calculation can be evaluated with low load without using multiplexing of calculation or an additional sensor. The electronic control device includes an integration unit that acquires information around a vehicle as sensor information from a plurality of sensors for each processing cycle, and integrates the acquired sensor information to create vehicle peripheral information for each processing cycle, a path planning unit that calculates a planned path on which the vehicle will travel in the future using the vehicle peripheral information for each processing cycle, and a path evaluation unit that evaluates reliability of the path planning unit, in which the path evaluation unit that uses, in the planned path calculated by the path planning unit in a first processing cycle, a position of the vehicle in a second processing cycle, which is a processing cycle after the first processing cycle, and the vehicle peripheral information created by the integration unit in the second processing cycle to evaluate the reliability of the path planning unit in the first processing cycle.
US12030483B2
The system includes a vehicle information acquisition unit that acquires positional information of target vehicles including the autonomous driving vehicle and a communicative vehicle which is not capable of performing autonomous driving and is capable of performing inter-vehicle communication in the parking place, a condition determination unit that determines whether or not the target vehicles satisfy an inter-vehicle communication traveling condition, and an inter-vehicle communication traveling instruction unit that causes the target vehicles determined to satisfy the inter-vehicle communication traveling condition by the condition determination unit to perform inter-vehicle communication traveling by inter-vehicle communication. In the inter-vehicle communication traveling, the autonomous driving vehicle is caused to preferentially perform vehicle speed adjustment for vehicle approach suppression by the inter-vehicle communication over the target vehicle speed for the automated valet parking.
US12030480B2
Systems and methods to coordinate clunk and shuffle management with engine starts in MHT drivetrains
Systems and methods for starting an internal combustion engine of a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, the internal combustion is started via closing a driveline disconnect clutch and limiting a torque output rate of an electric machine so that vehicle speed may increase continuously without decreasing during engine cranking and run-up periods.
US12030474B2
A brake pedal module for a brake-by-wire brake system of a vehicle is disclosed. The brake pedal module includes a pivotably mounted brake pedal and a damping unit. The damping unit is mechanically coupled to the brake pedal to generate a resistance when the brake pedal is actuated. The brake pedal module comprises a sensor unit for detecting a braking intention of a driver. The sensor unit comprises at least one sensor for detecting an actuating travel, which is arranged on a pivot bearing of the brake pedal, and at least one further sensor for detecting an actuating force, which is arranged on a rear side of the brake pedal when considered in a plan view of an actuating surface of the brake pedal.
US12030470B2
Disclosed herein a hydraulic supply apparatus includes a motor coupled to a modulator block including flow paths and valves for adjusting brake hydraulic pressure therein, the motor having a stator and a rotor; a sleeve coupled to the rotor to rotate together, and including an accommodating space inside and a first screw thread provided on an inner circumferential surface thereof; a screw shaft provided in the accommodating space, and including a second screw thread meshing with the first screw thread on an outer circumferential surface thereof to convert a rotational motion of the sleeve into a linear motion; and a piston connected to an end of the screw shaft; wherein a central axis of the piston is arranged eccentrically with respect to a central axis of the screw shaft.
US12030468B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods apply, with a fan, a braking force to a vehicle that includes an axle. The fan is rotated at a first rotational speed based on a rotation of the axle that rotates at a second rotational speed. The first rotational speed is different from the second rotational speed. The fan applies the braking force when the fan rotates at the first rotational speed.
US12030464B2
Methods and systems are provided for heat sanitizing a vehicle. In one example, a method may include, responsive to receiving a request for cleaning an interior of a vehicle, adjusting a position of a sun shade based on at least one of an ambient temperature outside of the vehicle and a sun load of the vehicle, and operating a heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) system to heat the interior above an upper threshold temperature for a first threshold duration. In this way, the HVAC system may be advantageously used to expose the vehicle interior to temperatures that kill or inactive microbes.
US12030455B2
A side air bag apparatus for a vehicle. The side air bag apparatus includes: a first cushion configured to cover and protect an upper body area of a passenger who has adopted a relax mode while tilting rearward a seatback; a second cushion configured to cover and protect a head area; and a valve member configured to open and close a vent hole connecting the first cushion to the second cushion. Accordingly, both the upper body area and the head area of the passenger in the relax mode are efficiently and sufficiently protected.
US12030445B2
A vehicle is electrically connected to one or more accessories. The vehicle includes at least one controller that may be configured to identify the accessory based on accessory identification information. The controller may also be configured to provide one or more commands to control an operation of the accessory.
US12030442B2
The invention relates to an arrangement (10) for providing at least one communication function for electronics (2) of a vehicle (1), preferably for a door handle electronics (2) of the vehicle (1), preferably for a communication interface (40) of the vehicle (1), exhibiting a support element (20) adapted to be mounted at mounting positions (I, II) on different sides of the vehicle (1) to selectively perform the mounting at at least a first (I) or second (II) of the mounting positions (I, II), a first communication means (41) arranged at a first layer (21) of the support element (20), a second communication means (42) arranged at a second layer (22) of the support element (20), said communication means (41, 42) being arranged opposite to each other and electrically connected in parallel to create at least one communication area suitable for different selected mounting positions (I, II).
US12030440B2
Provided is a technology for supporting a wiring member with a rod-like member including a plurality of rod-like portions connected in the radial direction. A support member configured to be attached to a rod-like member including a plurality of rod-like portions connected in a radial direction includes an engagement portion configured to fit over the plurality of rod-like portions and engage with an outer circumferential portion of the rod-like member, wherein a wiring member is provided in an attachable manner on an outer side of the engagement portion.
US12030439B2
A digital license plate comprising includes a display system capable of showing a first image and a power supply rail connected to the display system. A display controller is provided with a data connection to the display system and arranged to measure at least one of power consumption and impedance of the power supply rail. The display controller is further configured to prevent sending a second image to the display system if display failure is indicated by measured power consumption or impedance as being below a defined threshold.
US12030429B2
A light system comprising: a first light blade; a second light blade; a plurality of first light sources directing light into the first light blade in a first direction; a plurality of second light sources directing light into the first light blade, the second light blade, or both so that the light exiting the first light blade, the second light blade, or both extends in a second direction that is substantially normal to the first direction away from a vehicle housing the light system; wherein the plurality of first light sources and the plurality of second light sources provide a light function; and wherein the plurality of first light sources, the plurality of second light sources, or both are configured to illuminate in sequence so that the first light blade, the second light blade, or both are illuminated from a first edge toward a second edge.
US12030419B2
An intermodal container includes a base (100) having a defined number of sides. The base is configured to support products during transport. The intermodal container further includes a removable cover (104) having a top and a defined number of sides matching the defined number of sides of the base. The removable cover is configured to be releasably secured to the base to define an enclosure in a use position and to be removed and flattened in a stored position.
US12030413B2
Rigidity is improved at a part where side frame pieces overlap each other in a side frame. In a vehicle seat provided with a seat back frame, a side frame of the seat back frame has a first side frame piece and a second side frame piece partially overlapping each other in a direction of extension of the side frame. The side frame has an overlapping part where both the first side frame piece and the second side frame piece overlap each other. At the overlapping part, the side frame pieces overlap each other in a state where a plurality of closed regions and closed by being surrounded by both side frame pieces are formed in a cross section of the overlapping part intersecting with the direction of extension of the side frame.
US12030412B1
An integrated cargo and headrest cover includes a headrest cover that conforms to a vehicle headrest and an elongated strap extending downwardly from the headrest cover, the elongated strap being configured to secure cargo to the vehicle seat. The system reduces shifting of cargo while driving, providing protection for the cargo and reducing driving hazards. The strap includes a plurality of couplers positioned in offset relation for releasably securing the strap to the cargo and for adjusting the strap. A cargo cover may be connected to the strap to conceal and provide additional protection for the cargo.
US12030409B2
A seating assembly includes a coupling member, a seat, a seatback, a swivel plate, and a base. The seat is pivotably coupled to the coupling member. The seatback is pivotably coupled to the coupling member. The swivel plate is coupled to the coupling member. The swivel plate includes a plurality of swivel anchors. The base is coupled to the swivel plate. The swivel plate enables rotational movement of the coupling member, the seat, the seatback, and the swivel plate about a vertical axis. The base includes a plurality of base anchors. The plurality of base anchors receive the plurality of swivel anchors.
US12030408B2
A device for unlocking a seat for a vehicle includes a base frame mounted on a movable rail of a seat rail, a seat frame mounted on the base frame to be able to tilt, a lock pin fixed to a side of the seat frame, a support bracket mounted on a floor panel, and a lock plate rotatably mounted on a side of the base frame, and configured to be locked to the lock pin when coming in contact with the support bracket and to be unlocked from the lock pin when coming apart from the support bracket, whereby it is possible to automatically unlock a seat when it is required to tilt the seat through a walk-in mechanism to secure a passage for a passenger to get in/out of a vehicle.
US12030407B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for determining the occupancy status of a seat of a motor vehicle, the method being implemented by a determination system comprising a seat, six interdigitated capacitive sensors, and a controller comprising a reference capacitance value and a threshold value for each interdigitated capacitive sensor, the method comprising a step of measuring three capacitance values for each interdigitated capacitive sensor, the following steps being implemented by the controller for the measured capacitance values: calculating a resulting capacitance value based on the measured capacitance values, calculating the difference between the resulting capacitance value and the reference capacitance value, comparing the calculated difference to the threshold value, determining the occupancy status of the seat, based on the result of the comparison.
US12030398B2
A DC matrix power switch structure electrically connects m DC power modules to n charge dispensers for charging electric vehicles. The matrix includes an input structure having m conducting input busbar pairs and an output structure having n conducting output busbar pairs. A first busbar of m input busbar pairs is connected to a positive voltage terminal and a second busbar of m input busbar pairs is connected to a negative voltage terminal of each of m DC power modules. A third busbar of n output busbar pairs is connected to a positive voltage terminal and a fourth busbar of n output busbar pairs is connected to a negative voltage terminal of each of n charge dispensers. The combination produces two times m×n busbar crossing points. A power switch, when activated, electrically connects to the associated busbar at the busbar crossing point.
US12030392B2
A vehicle body lower structure includes a battery case, a side sill, and a case-mounting frame. The case-mounting frame has a frame main body portion and a battery case reception flange. The battery case reception flange extends to an inward side in a vehicle width direction from the frame main body portion and is joined to a lower surface of a bottom wall of the battery case. A battery support frame extending in a vehicle body forward-rearward direction and supporting a battery is fixed to the bottom wall of the battery case. A recessed portion protruding downward is provided between a joint portion with respect to the battery case reception flange and a joint portion with respect to the battery support frame in the bottom wall of the battery case.
US12030384B1
A hybrid drive system has an internal combustion engine, electric engine, and transmission having a first spur gear section and a second spur gear section, which provide output via at least one layshaft, and a four-shaft planetary transmission, which has a first planetary gear set having a first sun gear, a first planetary carrier and a first annular gear, and a second planetary gear set having a second sun gear, a second planetary carrier and a second annular gear. The first annular gear is couplable with a crankshaft of the internal combustion engine. The first sun gear is permanently connected to the second annular gear fixed against rotation. A rotor of the electric engine is couplable with the second annular gear fixed against rotation. The first planetary carrier is permanently connected to the second planetary carrier fixed against rotation. A first input shaft of the first spur gear section rotatable around a main axis of rotation is connected to the second planetary carrier fixed against rotation.
US12030364B2
A method of warming a valve assembly includes receiving an exhaust flow through a first heat exchanger first inlet; heating a coolant received through a first heat exchanger second inlet with the exhaust flow; exhausting the exhaust flow through a first heat exchanger first outlet; and discharging heated coolant through a first heat exchanger second outlet towards a second heat exchanger assembly that is coupled to the valve assembly to heat the valve assembly.
US12030359B1
An active suspension control system for a vehicle includes a mathematical model based on a modal expansion of the vehicle. Model parameters of the vehicle can be extracted from the modal expansion using sensor data generated on the vehicle, e.g., on demand and/or in real time. The model parameters and the modal expansion can be used to determine a vehicle state, predict future vehicle states, and control aspects of an active suspension system based on the predicted future vehicle states. The model parameters may also be used to update the mathematical model, e.g., to account for component wear over time, and/or to detect anomalies or defects in the active suspension system.
US12030358B2
An active suspension device includes: a preview sensor that detects a height of a road surface in front of a wheel; and an ECU that controls a stroke of a suspension to perform a preview control. The ECU includes: a front wheel preview control part that performs a preview control; a preview control success determination part that determines whether the preview control is successful; and a rear wheel control part that controls a stroke of a suspension of a rear wheel. When the preview control of the front wheel is successful, the rear wheel control part performs a preview control and a skyhook control of a rear wheel to control the stroke of the suspension of the rear wheel. When the preview control of the front wheel is unsuccessful, the rear wheel control part cancels the preview control of the rear wheel and perform the skyhook control of the rear wheel.
US12030357B2
This invention pertains to shock absorbers, and a method of controlling their operation. Specifically, this invention relates to use of a user interface allowing to control the sensitivity of various parameters used by a programmed electronic control unit. When in operation, said electronic control unit automatically send calculated and user-adjusted electronic signals to electronic control devices which proportionally regulate flow of fluid within each shock absorbers of a vehicle.
US12030356B2
A method for analyzing and managing a vehicle load carried by a vehicle, the vehicle having a fluid suspension system, the method including sampling, at a manifold of the fluid suspension system, a set of fluid pressure corresponding to a set of fluid springs of the fluid suspension system, wherein the set of fluid springs supports the vehicle load; determining an existing stiffness distribution, the existing stiffness distribution including a stiffness value associated with each of the set of fluid springs; determining a contextual dataset during vehicle operation; determining a desired stiffness distribution based on the contextual dataset; automatically controlling the set of fluid springs at the plurality of actuation points based on the desired stiffness distribution, wherein controlling the set of fluid springs includes setting the stiffness value of the fluid spring associated with each of the plurality of actuation points.
US12030355B2
The unit includes a lower support cap, an upper bearing cap, and at least one bearing disposed between the caps. The unit further includes at least one stiffening insert provided with a plurality of axial through-holes, through which connecting sections of a plastics cap are accommodated.
US12030343B2
A tread of a tire can include a cap layer and a base layer. A loss tangent of the cap layer at 30° C. may be not greater than 0.30, and a loss tangent of the base layer at 30° C. may be less than the loss tangent of the cap layer at 30° C. The base layer can be inward of a reference end of the tread in an axial direction A fixing layer can be between the cap layer and a carcass in a radial direction. A first end of the fixing layer can be outward of an end of the base layer in the axial direction, or a position of the first end of the fixing layer can coincide with a position of the end of the base layer in the axial direction. Adhesiveness of the fixing layer can be higher than adhesiveness of the cap layer.
US12030341B2
The invention provides a caster having a wheel and a wheel lock assembly that is configured to lock the wheel against rotation about a first axis. The wheel lock assembly allows the caster to move between a locked configuration, in which the wheel is engaged by a detent of the wheel lock assembly, and an unlocked configuration, in which the detent is spaced from the wheel. In certain embodiments, the caster moves between its locked and unlocked configurations in response to rotation of a rotatable cam. Other embodiments provide a wheel lock assembly including a rotatable track wall, which comprises a generally cylindrical wall configured to rotate about a second axis. In such embodiments, the caster is configured such that the rotatable track wall rotates about the second axis when the caster moves between locked and unlocked configurations.
US12030333B2
The present invention particularly relates to a method for physical vacuum deposition of a coating (R) comprising at least one material (M) on at least a portion of a front face (10) of a support (1), said at least one material (M) originating from an evaporation source or an atomisation source (2), wherein: —use is made of a support (1), at least a portion of the front face (10) of which is smooth, that is to say, does not have any roughness and/or reliefs and/or recesses; —said vacuum deposition is carried out while varying the thickness distribution of the material (M) on said front face (10), that is, while progressively varying the thickness deposited, from a central region (11) in the direction of at least one lateral region (12) contiguous to the central region (11), without modifying the position of the evaporation source or atomisation source (2) of the material particles (M).
US12030326B2
A system and method for printing and drying flavors and fragrances is provided. The system and method include a source of flavor or fragrance, a print assembly adapted to print the flavor or fragrance, a movable product conveyor that directly receives the printed flavor or fragrance and a drying component. As the movable product conveyor passes through or adjacent to the drying component, the printed flavor or fragrance is dried thereby providing a free-flowing flavor or fragrance product.
US12030316B2
A cleaning liquid, usable for cleaning of an ink-jet recording apparatus, includes: a nonionic surfactant, solubility of the nonionic surfactant in water at 20° C. being less than 0.2% by mass; a first water-soluble organic solvent of which solubility parameter is not less than 13; a second water-soluble organic solvent of which solubility parameter is less than 12; and water. The cleaning liquid satisfies the following conditions (1) to (4): X≥0.1; Condition (1): A−B≥0; Condition (2): B/X≥15; Condition (3): 10≤A+B≤60. Condition (4): X: a content amount (% by mass) of the nonionic surfactant, A: a content amount (% by mass) of the first water-soluble organic solvent, and B: a content amount (% by mass) of the second water-soluble organic solvent.
US12030307B2
An image processing apparatus comprises a first storage and a second, a plurality of image processing units that perform image processing on pixel data of image data read from the first storage or the second storage, and a writing unit that writes the pixel data, processed by the plurality of image processing units, into the second storage. The plurality of image processing units include a directivity image processing unit that performs image processing on the image data in mutually different directions by reading and supplying to an image processing unit of the plurality of image processing units the pixel data written into the second storage. Target pixel data processed by the directivity image processing unit is written into the second storage in an order of arrangement which is different from the order of arrangement of pixels in the image data stored in the first storage.
US12030295B2
A fiber-reinforced resin composite material includes first and second members. The first member includes a first fiber and a first matrix resin. The first fiber includes a reinforcing fiber and is impregnated with the first matrix resin. The reinforcing fiber has a melting point and a tensile strength higher than those of an aliphatic polyamide fiber. The second member includes a stack and a second matrix resin. The stack includes a second fiber and a third fiber filled with the second matrix resin. The second fiber includes the reinforcing fiber. The second matrix resin includes a component common to that of the first matrix resin, and includes a first polyamide resin that includes an aliphatic polyamide resin. The third fiber includes a second polyamide resin that includes an aliphatic polyamide resin and has a melting point higher than that of the first polyamide resin by 7 to 50 degrees centigrade.
US12030294B2
The invention relates to a composite material for use in a face mask. The composite material comprises at least one fabric layer comprising a metallic fiber material; and at least one polymer layer laminated with the at least one fabric layer to form a single composite layer; wherein the at least one polymer layer is of substantially the same shape and size as the at least one fabric layer, such that any air stream passing through the composite layer will be effectively filtered by both the at least one fabric layer and the at least one polymer layer.
US12030283B2
A food packaging film comprising a polymer-based core layer having a food-facing side and an exterior-facing side, a food-facing skin layer on the food-facing side of the core layer, and an exterior skin layer on the exterior-facing side of the core layer, wherein the core layer and the food-facing skin layer each contains a natural or synthetic antioxidant, and the film is free of BHA and BHT.
US12030274B2
An article includes a completed fabric structure that has multiple plies of fiber reinforced fabric. A first portion of the fabric structure has a three-directional fiber reinforced configuration and, exclusive of the first portion, a second portion of the fabric structure having a two-directional fiber reinforced configuration. In the three-directional fiber reinforced configuration there are multiple plies that are bound together via a matrix and a plurality of fibers normal through the multiple plies. In the two-directional fiber reinforced configuration the multiple plies are bound to one another via the matrix and not fibers normal through the multiple plies.
US12030268B2
A manufacturing method for manufacturing a pipe joint including a circular tube-shaped housing and an elastically deformable circular tube-shaped seal member provided at an inner peripheral side of the housing. The pipe joint manufacturing method includes a process of placing the seal member inside a mold in a state in which the seal member is fitted to an outer periphery of a retaining pin, and a process of causing a molten resin to flow into the mold so as to mold the housing in a state in which the seal member is cooled through the retaining pin.
US12030264B2
Equipment for forming a tubular rod from a bundle of fibrous material comprising a mandrel constructed to form a space within the bundle of fibres; the mandrel includes a passage for delivering a treatment fluid to facilitate the formation of the fibres into a tubular structure as the fibre bundle as the bundle passes over the mandrel.
US12030256B2
A coated tubular construct for biological and industrial applications includes a plurality of channels, where each channel is radially surrounded by a wall comprising a first polymer, and a conformal coating comprising a second polymer is disposed on an outer and/or an inner surface of each wall. A method of producing a tubular construct includes 3D printing a template structure comprising a sacrificial material and a photoinitiator, and immersing the template structure in a first prepolymer solution comprising a first prepolymer and a co-initiator. During the immersion, the template structure is exposed to light, and the first prepolymer undergoes radical polymerization to conformally coat the template structure with the first polymer, forming a coated template. The sacrificial material is removed from the coated template, and a tubular construct comprising the first polymer is formed.
US12030254B2
A system and method is provided to construct a structure using three dimensional printing of extrudable building material to a wall surface of a structure. According to one embodiment, a printing assembly is moveably disposed above the surface, and extrudable building material is applied from a nozzle onto the surface. One or more profilometers measure at periodic intervals along a geometric cross-section of a bead of extrudable building material. One or more controllers compare the measured cross-section to a predetermined, target cross section and one or more controllers periodically change, for example, the rate of application and/or the viscosity of the extrudable building material applied along the longitudinal axis. The nozzle direction can change, and the profilometers can be rotated about the nozzle along different longitudinal axes, or directions, depending on the wall locations being formed.
US12030244B2
An apparatus for manufacturing a three-dimensional object by selective additive manufacturing comprises: a support (140) suitable for supporting at least one layer (150) of additive manufacturing powder, a laser source (110) suitable for emitting a laser beam (111), a scanning device (130) suitable for directing the laser beam onto the powder layer so as to scan at least a portion of the powder layer, and a device (120) for modulating the scanning trajectory, arranged upstream of the scanning device, the modulating device comprising a modulating mirror (121) suitable for reflecting the laser beam emitted by the laser source and for directing it towards the scanning device, the angle of incidence of the laser beam emitted by the laser source on the modulating mirror being between 20 and 45°.
US12030242B2
A method of fabricating an article by fused filament fabrication. The method comprises providing a filament (3) comprising a first set RF of reinforcement fibres (300), including a first reinforcement fibre (300A), surrounded, at least in part, with a first polymeric composition (30); forming a first discontinuity (310A) of a first set D1 of discontinuities (310) in the first reinforcement fibre (300A); and depositing the filament (3), including the first discontinuity (310A) of the first set D1 of discontinuities (310) formed in the first reinforcement fibre (300A), comprising softening, at least in part, the first polymeric composition (30) and solidifying the softened first polymeric composition (30); wherein depositing the filament (3), including the first discontinuity (310A) of the first set D1 of discontinuities (310) formed in the first reinforcement fibre 300A, comprises depositing the filament (30), including the first discontinuity (310A) of the first set D1 of discontinuities (310) formed in the first reinforcement fibre (300A), in a first arc (320) of a set of arcs A.
US12030240B2
A system comprising: a substrate; a fixture for receiving the substrate; and four fasteners. The substrate has two axes, and a build surface. The substrate comprises four slots through the substrate from the build surface to an opposite surface. Lengths of first and second slots are aligned along a first axis. The first and second slots are at opposite sides of the build surface to each other. Lengths of the third and fourth slots are aligned along the second axis. The third and fourth slots are at opposite sides of the build surface to each other. The fasteners fit through respective slots. The lengths of the slots are greater than diameters of portions of the fasteners that are positioned through the slots.
US12030238B2
A method of 3D printing to achieve a desired surface quality on at least one surface of a 3D printed object comprising selecting a base surface having the desired surface quality; and printing the 3D printed object on the base surface, so that the desired surface quality is imparted to one surface of the 3D printed object during printing. The surface quality may be glassiness, roughness, smoothness and texture in general. Objects may thus be manufactured in which electronic components are integrated in or under a glass-like surface.
US12030237B2
Machines are provided for removing masking from regions of glazing panes. Also provided are methods of removing masking from regions of glazing panes. The machines can include a head assembly and a processing station. The head assembly can have various combinations and/or configurations of features, including one or more of a plurality of cutters, a plurality of belts, and at least one pressurized gas nozzle.
US12030232B2
A method and apparatus for thermolysing organic material. The method comprises steps of: A) feeding the material in a single-screw extruder (100), the extruder comprising —a cylindrical rotor member (1) having diameter (D) and length (L) and comprising a feeding zone (14), —the rotor member (1) arranged in a barrel (2), —the cylindrical surface of the rotor member (1) carrying cavity/cavities and/or projection(s) (5) arranged in helically extending rows, —the helically extending row(s) of the rotor member (1) having a pitch (P) and depth (d) in the feeding zone (14) of the rotor member, wherein —the relation of the depth (d) to the diameter (D) of the rotor member, i.e. d:D, is not more than 1:20, and —the relation of the pitch (P) of the rotor member to the diameter (D) of the rotor member, i.e. P:D, is not more than 1:4, B) heating the material in the single-screw extruder (100) to a flowable state, and C) thermolysing the material.
US12030221B2
A system for opening and closing a mixing manifold includes a drive motor, a cam plate, and a valving rod connector. The drive motor imparts movement in first and second directions. Movement imparted in the first direction causes the cam plate to move linearly in a third direction and movement imparted in the second direction causes the cam plate to move linearly in a fourth direction. Movement of the cam plate in the third direction causes the valving rod connector to move linearly in a fifth direction and movement of the cam plate in the fourth direction causes the valving rod connector to move linearly in a sixth direction. Movement of the valving rod connector in the fifth direction causes retraction of a valving rod of the mixing manifold and movement of the valving rod connector in the sixth direction causes extension of the valving rod.
US12030218B2
A fiber-reinforced resin molding material [C] includes a chopped fiber bundle [A] and a matrix resin [B], the material being characterized in that, when divided into n layers along the thickness direction of the fiber-reinforced resin molding material [C], the number-average fiber length [Lk] of the chopped fiber bundle [Ak] constituting each layer Fk (1≤k≤n) gradually increases from one outermost layer F1 of the fiber-reinforced resin molding material [C] toward the other outermost layer Fn. Also provided is a molded article obtained by molding the fiber-reinforced resin molding material. This fiber-reinforced resin molding material exhibits excellent flowability, and can exhibit excellent mechanical properties when made into a molded article.
US12030217B2
A process of forming a non-optically detectable authentication marking (110), includes the step of: applying a marking at a surface of a diamond (200) using a focused ion beam (FIB) writing process so as to provide a non-optically detectable authentication marking (110) which is formed by alteration in the optical characteristics of a portion of the diamond material at the outer surface of the diamond to form a marked portion; wherein the marking is optically invisible, and wherein the marking is viewable by an imaging method which provides an observable contrast between the portion of the diamond having altered optical characteristics and the non-marked portion of the diamond. The marking process can assist in the prevention of the counterfeiting of precious articles, and be of assistance in the incident of theft. A marking, a diamond, a process of viewing a marking on a diamond are further disclosed.
US12030216B2
A method for separating wafers from donor substrates incudes: determining at least one individual property of a respective donor substrate, the at least one individual property including doping and/or crystal lattice dislocations of the respective donor substrate; generating donor substrate process data for the respective donor substrate, the donor substrate process data including analysis data of the analysis device, the analysis data describing the at least one individual property of the respective donor substrate; generating, via a laser device, modifications inside the respective donor substrate to form a separating region inside the respective donor substrate, the laser device being operable as a function of the donor substrate process data of the respective donor substrate; and generating mechanical stresses inside the respective donor substrate to initiate and/or guide a crack for separating at least one wafer from the respective donor substrate.
US12030208B2
The disclosure relates to a cutting device which is adapted for cutting substantially round packaging corners from a film web, wherein the cutting device has at least one cutting tool comprising a cutting punch which has at its outside at least one concavity provided for forming a cutting edge of the cutting punch. According to the disclosure, the cutting edge has a cutting contour extending both transversely and longitudinally along the cutting punch. The disclosure further relates to a method for manufacturing a cutting punch.
US12030205B2
In a sheet processing apparatus including a guide member that rotates by contact with a sheet processing unit, collision of the sheet processing unit with the guide member in a rotating state is avoided. A sheet conveyance apparatus includes: sheet processing units that move along one movement path intersecting a conveyance direction of a sheet; guide members that each include a fixed end rotatable about a rotation center line and support the sheet from below; a biasing member that biases the guide member so as to return to an original orientation in which a part of the guide member is located on the movement path; and a collision determination unit that determines, before at least one of the sheet processing units is moved and based on a movement start position and a target position of a movement target sheet processing unit and a size and an orientation before start of movement of the guide member, whether or not there is a possibility of occurrence of collision of the movement target sheet processing unit with the guide member in a rotating state.
US12030204B1
A knife is provided having an interchangeable and replaceable blade. A knife may include: a knife base defining a base protrusion and a base recess; a replaceable knife blade defining a blade protrusion and a blade recess; and a fastener, wherein the knife base is held fixed relative to the replaceable knife blade in a plane along which the replaceable knife blade extends in response to the base protrusion engaging the blade recess and the blade protrusion engaging the base recess; and where the knife is held fixed relative to the replaceable knife blade in an axis orthogonal to the plane of the replaceable knife blade by the fastener securing the knife base to the replaceable knife blade.
US12030181B2
The three-dimensional geometry of an attachment is measured before work is started. A maximum dimension of a take-out head 60 in the X direction, a maximum dimension of the take-out head 60 in the Y direction, and a maximum dimension of the take-out head 60 in the Z direction are measured on the basis of an image of the take-out head 60 captured by at least imaging devices C11 and C12 before the take-out head 60 starts work with the take-out head 60 being mounted to an elevating frame 59B of an apparatus 5 for taking out a molded product, as an orthogonal three-axis robot.
US12030174B2
The machine control system includes: a machine configured to execute a motion according to a machine command; a controller server configured to control the machine; and a communication server. The controller server includes control circuitry configured to repeat operations according to a control cycle, the operations including: executing a motion program to generate the machine command for the machine; adding first cycle information designating a first use timing to the machine command; and transmitting the machine command including the first cycle information to the communication server. The machine includes a machine circuitry configured to repeat local operations for controlling the machine according to a local control cycle. The machine circuitry is further configured to: store the machine command received from the communication server; and call the stored machine command, based on the first cycle information added to the stored machine command, to use the machine command in the local control cycle corresponding to the first use timing.
