US12054953B2
A cornerbead for drywall construction having an elongated strip with a longitudinal nose bent at a substantially right angle and having a left side and a right side extending outwardly from the longitudinal arcuate nose; at least one raised portion extending the length of the left side; and at least one raised portion extending the length of the right side.
US12054951B2
The invention relates to a board for a sports facility comprising a handrail at its upper edge, the handrail having a handrail body having a profile extending in a longitudinal direction, in the outer surface of which a mounting channel runs essentially over the entire length of the handrail, which mounting channel is designed to mount a flat information element. The invention further relates to such a handrail for a board, a mobile sports facility and a method for constructing a mobile sports facility.
US12054950B2
Disclosed is a terrace canopy, comprising a beam having a top side, a bottom side, an inner side and an outer side, and, in its cross-section, is provided with a screen cavity which is delimited by an upright inner side wall and a horizontal top wall and an internal space above the screen cavity. An upright wall extends from the end of the horizontal top wall. The beam comprises either a first closure profile for closing off the internal space or a wall profile attached to the upright wall and a second closure profile for closing off the internal space. Thus, multiple configurations of the beam are possible and an additional wall holder may be provided on the outer side of the screen cavity such that a double side wall infill is possible.
US12054945B2
A system for introducing a noise-dampening polymer in-line in the manufacturing process of a manufactured wood product to achieve higher acoustic performance in siding, sheathing, roofing, flooring, and similar applications using the manufactured wood product. Several lines or bands of the noise-dampening polymer are deposited transversely across one side or face of the product. The polymer is deposited where the product is expected to contact joists or studs. The polymer may be a viscoelastic polymer.
US12054944B2
A curtain wall system includes a vertical member and a horizontal member coupled to the vertical member at a joint. A vertical bridge gasket is coupled to the vertical member and includes a vertically-extending interior gasket, a vertically-extending thermal break gasket, and a vertical bridge member extending between the vertically-extending interior and thermal break gaskets. A horizontal bridge gasket is coupled to the horizontal member and joined to the vertical bridge gasket at a corner joint, the horizontal bridge gasket includes a horizontally-extending interior gasket, a horizontally-extending thermal break gasket, and a horizontal bridge member extending between the horizontally-extending interior and thermal break gaskets. The vertical and horizontal bridge gaskets cover the joint between the vertical and horizontal members.
US12054943B2
The present invention relates to the exterior building envelope systems. This invention particularly relates to a façade system supported by a continuous anchor secured to the slab without embedded attachments.
US12054921B2
A corner guard includes a rear attachment portion defining a first fastener receiving void, a rear edge that is disposed along the direction of material flow, and a forward ramp portion that extends forwardly from the rear attachment along the direction of material flow, and vertically downwardly forming a front wear edge. The corner guard also includes an outer lateral side, and an inner lateral side. The outer lateral side is flared laterally, defining an outer lateral side extremity that is disposed along the direction of material flow adjacent to the front wear edge, forming a flared portion.
US12054920B2
A control method for a construction machine includes: generating a target value of an amount of control of each of a tilt bucket and a swing body, based on operation data obtained when working equipment and the swing body are operated and a design surface indicating a target shape of a construction target; calculating a predicted value of the amount of control of each of the tilt bucket and the swing body, based on the target values and a prediction model for the construction machine; calculating amounts of drive to control the working equipment and the swing body, based on the predicted values and the design surface to maintain a distance from the tilt bucket to the design surface and an attitude of the tilt bucket; and outputting control commands to control the working equipment and the swing body based on the amounts of drive.
US12054917B2
Provided is a construction machine. The construction machine includes a boom cylinder driving a boom, a rotation motor rotating a rotary body, an arm cylinder driving an arm, a bucket cylinder driving a bucket, a first main pump supplying working fluid to the boom cylinder and discharging the working fluid in opposite directions, a second main pump supplying working fluid to the rotation motor and discharging the working fluid in opposite directions, and a third main pump supplying working fluid to the arm cylinder or the bucket cylinder.
US12054912B2
A control module configured to be part of a control station inside a cabin of a machine: includes a fixed support, a main body movably mounted on the support between a work position and a retracted position, a locking means to lock the main body in the work position, the locking means can be operated between an unlocked state and a locked state in which they keep the main body in its work position The control module also includes an elastic means which is compressed when the locking means are operated between the unlocked state and an intermediate unstable state, and a sensor enabling activation of at least one power circuit of the machine only when the locking means move from the intermediate unstable state to the locked state.
US12054909B2
A system and a method for remote operation of a working machine comprising a tool is provided. The system includes an on-board controller configured to receive signals from a remote control station remotely controlling the operation of the working machine, and to obtain and send camera images to an off-board controller. The system also includes an off-board controller configured to receive the camera images from the on-board controller. The off-board controller identifies at least one visual tag in the camera images located on a load carrier, determines at least one distance between the tool and the load carrier based on the identified at least one visual tag, and provides, to the on-board controller and/or to an operator of the working machine, information based on the determined at least one distance between the tool and the load carrier in order to support the remote operation of the working machine.
US12054908B2
A working machine according to one aspect of the present invention, includes a support member, a turn member, a pin inserted to both of the support member and the turn member to turnably support the turn member on the support member, a flange fixed to the pin, a collar inserted to an insertion hole formed in the flange, a retainer bolt inserted to the collar and attached by being screwed to the turn member and the support member, a contact portion included in the flange, and a regulator included in the support member. The regulator contacts to the contact portion with a clearance kept between the collar and an inner circumference surface of the insertion hole, thereby regulating turning of the flange around the pin.
US12054894B2
Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for applying a magnetic pattern to lanes with magnetic paint. The apparatus includes an electromagnet for generating a write magnetic field toward the ground by being installed in a moving object, a current supplier for providing the current required to generate the write magnetic field, a portable power generator for supplying power required in order for the current supplier to generate the current, and a cooler for dissipating heat generated from at least one of the electromagnet and the current supplier.
US12054893B2
Systems and method for applying roadway marking materials into a groove(s) in a roadway surface and/or forming a recessed groove(s) in a roadway surface. The systems and methods incorporate a contour sensor that provides real-time information of the marking material and/or groove. Based on the contour information, a marking material applicator can be aligned with a recessed groove in a roadway surface to ensure the marking material is applied within the confines of the groove. Alternatively, such contour information may be acquired during groove formation to ensure depth, tilt and/or bottom surface smoothness of the groove is within predetermined limits.
US12054880B2
The application relates to a process for producing fibrous material with antimicrobial properties, wherein in the first step coniferous resin acid composition is emulsified into aqueous solution with emulsifier and wetting agent, and in the second step thus formed emulsion is transferred into fibrous material by impregnation. Further, the application relates to an aqueous antimicrobial composition for use as a water-soluble concentrate in the treatment of fibrous materials, and to a fibrous material with antimicrobial properties, and to its use in e.g. fabrics, fur, leather, clothes, canvas, tissues, plastics, webs, accessories, packaging materials, wallpapers, food-related products, household products, footwear, construction materials, insulating materials and medical products.
US12054872B2
The present disclosure relates to a laundry treatment machine. A pump motor provided in a drain pump is controlled to correspond to the operation of the main motor and the water level, so that the pump motor slows down based on the speed of rotation of the main motor and the water level and keeps operating at low speed. Therefore, the pump motor is able to keep operating without stopping operation, and the amount of noise caused by the start-up of the motor is reduced, and the time taken to align the rotor of the motor in position is reduced, thereby reducing drainage time and improving the drainage performance of the drain pump.
US12054867B2
A sewing machine has seam-forming tools, comprising a needle for guiding an upper thread and a looper. The needle is designed as a curved needle which is pivotable about a needle pivot axis. This embodiment is such that a distance of the curved needle from the pivot axis is equal to a radius of a curve of the curved needle about the pivot axis. The looper is designed as a looper which is rotatable about a looper rotational axis and has a lower thread reserve. The looper rotational axis runs parallel to a sewing material support region. The sewing machine can be used to produce a durable seam.
US12054862B2
The present invention provides compositions comprising aligned fibers of electrospun PNIPAAm and poly (ε-caprolactone) (PCL) (denoted PNIPAAm/PCL fibers). The PNIPAAm/PCL compositions enable enhanced growth and detachment of intact anisotropic cell sheets. The compositions do not require chemical modification or resource-intensive techniques, thus saving time and expense, and have the potential to generate tissue-specific, aligned cell sheets for transplant studies.
US12054855B2
Method for cleaning an air jet spinning device of a spinning station, an air jet spinning device and a thread-forming unit for an air jet spinning device. The air jet spinning device has a thread-forming unit having a thread-forming element arranged in a vortex chamber of a nozzle unit, and a nozzle unit having at least one air nozzle orientated towards the vortex chamber such that an air flow exiting the air nozzle impinges on the sliver in the vortex chamber with a rotation flow. The thread-forming unit has an element carrier for detachably receiving and releasing the thread-forming element or, alternatively or in addition, can be linearly shifted in conjunction with the air jet spinning device relative to the nozzle unit between a closed operating position and an open cleaning position, and the air jet spinning device can be linearly shifted and/or pivoted in the cleaning position.
US12054851B2
Methods and wafers for low etch pit density, low slip line density, and low strain indium phosphide are disclosed and may include an indium phosphide single crystal wafer having a diameter of 4 inches or greater, having a measured etch pit density of less than 500 cm−2, and having fewer than 5 dislocations or slip lines as measured by x-ray diffraction imaging. The wafer may have a measured etch pit density of 200 cm−2 or less, or 100 cm−2 or less, or 10 cm−2 or less. The wafer may have a diameter of 6 inches or greater. An area of the wafer with a measured etch pit density of zero may at least 80% of the total area of the surface. An area of the wafer with a measured etch pit density of zero may be at least 90% of the total area of the surface.
US12054846B2
An electroplating apparatus includes: an electroplating bath including an anode region, in which an anode electrode is arranged, a cathode region and a membrane; a head unit including a contact ring holding a wafer and configured so that a first cathode potential is applied to the contact ring during an electroplating process; a reverse potential electrode arranged adjacent to the membrane and configured so that a second cathode potential is applied to the reverse potential electrode during the electroplating process, and a reverse cathode potential is applied to the reverse potential electrode during a rinsing process; and a power supply unit configured to apply the first cathode potential and the second cathode potential during the electroplating process, and further configured to apply the reverse cathode potential and a reverse anode potential to the anode electrode during the rinsing process.
US12054844B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing a blank for hot stamping, which includes forming a plated layer on a steel plate by immersing the steel plate in a plating bath including aluminum and silicon; and heating the steel plate on which the plated layer is formed at a first temperature for a first time period.
US12054842B2
An aqueous composition comprising (a) metal ions comprising tin ions and silver ions and (b) at least one complexing agent of formula (C1) R1—X1—S—X21[D1-X22—]n—S—X3—R2, (C2) R1—X1—S—X31-D2-[X32—S—]nX3—R2, (C3) R3—X1—S—X41-[D3-X42—]nS—X3—R4 wherein X1, X3 are independently selected from a linear or branched C1-C12 alkanediyl, which may be unsubstituted or substituted by OH; X21, X22 are independently selected from X1, which may be further substituted by —X5—COOR12, —X5—SO2—O—R12, a C2 to C6 polyoxyalkylene group of formula —(O—CH2—CHR11)z—OH, or a combination thereof, and —X1—NH—CO—X6—CO—NH—X1—; X31, X32 are independently selected from a chemical bond and X1; X41, X42 are independently selected from X1; X5 is a linear or branched Ci to C10 alkyl; X6 is selected from X1 and a divalent 5 or 6 membered aromatic group; R1, R2 are independently selected from a monovalent 5 or 6 membered aromatic N-heterocyclic group comprising one N atom or two N atoms which are separated by at least one C atom, and its derivatives received by N-alkylation with a C1-C6-alkyl group, which may be substituted by —COOR12 or —SO2—O—R12, and which aromatic N-heterocyclic group may optionally further comprise, under the proviso that X21 is substituted by at least one OH, one S atom; R3, R4 are independently selected from a monovalent 5 or 6 membered aliphatic N-heterocyclic group comprising one N atom and one O atom; D1 is independently selected from S, O and NR10−; D2 is (a) a divalent 5 or 6 membered aliphatic heterocyclic ring system comprising 1 or 2 S atoms, or (b) a 5 or 6 membered aromatic heterocyclic ring system comprising at least two N atoms and optionally one or two S atoms; D3 is independently selected from S and NR10−; n is an integer of from 0 to 5; z is an integer from 1 to 50; R10 is selected from H and a linear or branched C1-C12 alkyl; R11 is selected from H and a linear or branched C1 to C6 alkyl; and R12 is selected from R10 and a cation.
US12054841B2
One object of the present disclosure is to improve the accuracy of detection of an abnormality of various devices, and/or to advance the timing of detection of an abnormality. There is provided an apparatus for plating a substrate, comprising: an anode placed to be opposed to the substrate; an electric field regulating member placed between the substrate and the anode, provided with an opening, and equipped with an opening adjustment member configured to change a dimension of the opening; a motor configured to drive the opening adjustment member; and a control device configured to obtain an electric current value or a load factor of the motor, to calculate an amount of change in the load factor of the motor per unit time from the obtained electric current value or the obtained load factor of the motor, and to detect an abnormality of the electric field regulating member when it is detected that the amount of change in the load factor of the motor per unit time exceeds a predetermined threshold value.
US12054840B2
Provided is a technique that allows ensuring a downsized plating apparatus. A plating apparatus includes a discharge module 50. The discharge module includes a module main body 51 including a plurality of nozzles 52 configured to discharge a process liquid upward, and a moving mechanism 60 including a rotation shaft 61 disposed at a side of a plating tank and connected to the module main body. The moving mechanism 60 moves the module main body by rotation of the rotation shaft. The moving mechanism moves the module main body between the first position and the second position. The plurality of nozzles are arranged such that the process liquid discharged from the plurality of nozzles is brought in contact with a lower surface of a substrate from a center portion to an outer peripheral edge portion when the module main body moves to the second position. The module main body further includes a recovery member configured to recover the process liquid dropped after being discharged from the plurality of nozzles and brought in contact with the lower surface of the substrate.
US12054834B2
The present disclosure provides methods for the chemical degradation of polymers, in particular to methods for the degradation of polyesters by electrochemical processes.
US12054832B2
The present invention refers to material that includes a compound of the formula ABOx wherein X is >1.5 and ≤2.5, A is independently selected from a transition metal of IUPAC groups 10 and 11, and B is independently selected from a transition metal of IUPAC group 6, 7, 8 or 9 or a main group element of IUPAC group 13, as highly active catalyst for a hydrogen evolution reaction (HER).
US12054829B2
Provided are a plated steel sheet and a method for manufacturing same, the plated steel sheet comprising: a base steel sheet; a Zn—Mg—Al plating layer provided on at least one surface of the base steel sheet; and an Fe—Al inhibition layer provided between the base steel sheet and the Zn—Mg—Al plating layer. The plating layer comprises, by weight %, 4 to 10% of Mg and 5.1-25% of Al and the remainder being Zn and unavoidable impurities with respect to components not including iron (Fe) diffused from the base steel sheet. The plating layer comprises a 24-50% MgZn2 phase in phase fraction. In the MgZn2 phase, an Al single phase is present in the ratio of 1-30% relative to the cross-sectional area of the total MgZn2 phase.
US12054825B2
Ampoules for a semiconductor manufacturing precursors and methods of use are described. The ampoules include a container with an inlet port an outlet port, a manifold having a serpentine base creating a tortuous flow path and a filter media assembly in a bottom-fed configuration. The torturous flow path is defined by a plurality of elongate walls and a plurality of openings of the serpentine base ampoule, through which a carrier gas flows in contact with the precursor.
US12054824B2
A substrate processing method is provided. The method comprises a first step of supplying a processing gas containing a halogen-containing gas and a basic gas to a substrate, which a silicon film is formed on and has a first temperature, and generating a reaction product by deforming a surface of the silicon film; and a second step of removing the reaction product by setting the substrate to a second temperature after the first step.
US12054821B2
A vacuum deposition facility for continuously depositing, on a running substrate, coatings formed from metal or metal alloy, the facility including—a vacuum chamber and a device for running the substrate through the vacuum chamber along a given path, wherein the vacuum chamber further includes: a central casing including a substrate entry and a substrate exit located on two opposite sides of the central casing and a vapor jet coater, the inner walls of the central casing being suited to be heated at a temperature above the condensation temperature of the metal or metal alloy vapors, a vapor trap in the form of an external casing located at the substrate exit of the central casing, the inner walls of the vapor trap being suited to be maintained at a temperature below the condensation temperature of the metal or metal alloy vapors.
US12054814B2
A hydrogen storage system includes a hydrogen storage alloy containment vessel comprising an external pressure containment vessel and a thermally conductive compartmentalization network disposed within the pressure containment vessel. The compartmentalization network creates compartments within the pressure vessel within which a hydrogen storage alloy is disposed. One or both of the compartmentalization network and the pressure vessel may be formed by a 3D printing process, such as by Selective Laser Melting (SLM) and/or Direct Metal Laser Sintering (DMLS). The hydrogen storage alloy is a non-pyrophoric AB2-type Laves phase hydrogen storage alloy having: an A-site to B-site elemental ratio of not more than 0.5; and an alloy composition including (in at %): Zr: 2.0-5.5, Ti: 27-31.3, V: 8.3-9.9, Cr: 20.6-30.5, Mn: 25.4-33.0, Fe: 1.0-5.9, Al: 0.1-0.4, and/or Ni: 0.0-4.0.
US12054812B2
Magnesium alloys and a process of manufacturing an article using magnesium alloys. During additive manufacturing, where the magnesium alloy is being deposited in a layer-by-layer manner, solidification of the melted portion of a deposited layer is performed in such a way as to ensure that about 15 percent or more of the portion being solidified includes a non-equilibrium eutectic constituent. This in turn reduces the likelihood of encountering solidification conditions that otherwise would lead to hot tearing problems. Further, upon subsequent heat treatment of the solidified layer, the eutectic constituents that were used for hot tearing resistance are dissolved so that the solidified layer may be returned to a substantially single-phase magnesium matrix such that desirable material properties such as improved flammability point, improved corrosion resistance and one or more of high yield strength, ultimate tensile strength and elongation are promoted.
US12054793B2
Oligomer nucleotides, compositions, methods, kits, and uses are provided for detecting or quantifying a human polyomavirus BK virus (BKV) nucleic acid, e.g., using nucleic acid amplification and hybridization assays.
US12054792B2
The present invention relates to methods for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis based on an analysis of a patient sample. For example, patient test samples are analyzed for the presence or absence of one or more lactobacilli and two or more pathogenic organisms. The presence or absence of one or more lactobacilli and two or more pathogenic organisms may be detected using PCR analysis of nucleic acid segments corresponding to each target organism. The quantity of the target organisms can then be used to determine a score which is indicative of a diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis.
US12054788B2
Among the various aspects of the present disclosure is the provision of a noninvasive and localized brain liquid biopsy using focused ultrasound. Briefly, therefore, the present disclosure is directed to methods and systems to identify brain lesion or tumor characteristics without the need for a solid brain biopsy.
US12054778B2
This document provides methods and materials related to treating a disease. For example, this document provides methods for treating a subject's disease based on identifying the risk of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy PML using a genetic test.
US12054754B2
The disclosure describes novel systems, methods, and compositions for the manipulation of nucleic acids in a targeted fashion. The disclosure describes non-naturally occurring, engineered CRISPR systems, components, and methods for targeted modification of DNA, RNA, and protein substrates. Each system includes one or more protein components and one or more nucleic acid components that together target DNA, RNA, or protein substrates.
US12054744B2
This disclosure describes an adaptive NK cell, an isolated population of adaptive Natural Killer (NK) cells, a composition including an adaptive NK cell, and methods for producing, preparing, and using an adaptive NK cell or an isolated population or composition including an adaptive NK cell. The adaptive NK cells may be used to treat a viral infection or a tumor.
US12054742B2
The disclosure relates to methods for producing mesodermal lineage cells, cardiac lineage cells, hematopoietic lineage cells, retinal lineage cells, and combinations thereof. In some aspects, the disclosure relates to methods of producing mixed tissue organoids comprising retinal lineage cells and cardiac lineage cells. When interaction of WDR5 protein at the binding pocket/interaction surface with RBBP5/MYC/KANSL2 is disrupted in the embryonic stem cell for a set period of time after differentiation of the embryonic stem cell has begun, and the disruption of that interaction is subsequently removed, differentiation of the embryonic stem cell to a mesodermal lineage cell is obtained. Such mesodermal lineage cells may, in some methods of the disclosure, be subsequently differentiated into cardiac lineage cells and hematopoietic lineage cells. The disclosure also relates to method for producing mixed lineage organoids, comprising retinal and mesodermal, including cardiac, lineage cells in a single organoid. The disclosure also relates to cells and organoids obtained by the methods, uses of the cells and organoids, and kits comprising the cells and/or reagents for producing them.
US12054729B2
Compositions and methods for conferring nematicidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. In particular, methods for killing or controlling a nematode pest population, particularly a Pratylenchus spp., e.g., Pratylenchus brachyurus, root knot nematode, reniform nematode, or Lance nematode population, are provided. The methods include contacting the nematode pest with a pesticidally-effective amount of a polypeptide comprising a nematicidal toxin, particularly a nematicidal toxin active against a Pratylenchus spp. nematode, e.g. Pratylenchus brachyurus. Further included are methods for increasing yield in plants by expressing the toxin of the invention.
US12054722B2
The present disclosure relates to a recombinant nucleic acid molecule based on point mutation of translation initiation element and use thereof in the preparation of circular RNA, and in particular to a recombinant nucleic acid molecule for preparing circular RNA, a recombinant expression vector, circular RNA, a composition, a method for preparing circular RNA, a method for expressing a target polypeptide in a cell, a method for preventing or treating a disease, a method for editing a translation initiation element sequence, and a system for editing a translation initiation element sequence. The recombinant nucleic acid molecule provided by the present disclosure provides a novel Clean PIE system for the in vitro preparation of circular RNA, which can avoid introducing additional exon sequences into circular RNA, improve sequence accuracy of circular RNA molecules, reduce changes in a secondary structure of circular RNA, and then reduce immunogenicity of circular RNA, and has a good application prospect in the fields of nucleic acid vaccines, expression of therapeutic proteins, gene therapy, etc.
US12054716B2
The present invention relates to the field of medicine. In particular, it relates to novel antisense oligonucleotides that may be used in the treatment, prevention and/or delay of Stargardt disease.
US12054714B2
Peptide docking vehicle compositions containing a therapeutic compound, such as an siRNA molecule, and a targeting ligand are provided, together with methods for their preparation and use. The compositions and methods allow targeted cell/tissue delivery of the therapeutic compound to a subject by linking a targeting ligand to the compound to provide enhanced therapeutic benefit. The subject may be an animal or a human.
US12054713B2
Provided are nucleic acid translators capable of carrying out logic operations with improved efficiency, maximized output and reduced off-target effects, in particular in a biological system. Methods of using these translators to transduce signal are also provided.
US12054705B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for nucleic acid synthesis, including ordered and continuous complementary DNA (cDNA) synthesis across non-continuous templates using a modified eukaryotic non-long terminal repeat reverse transcriptase (non-LTR RT) protein.
US12054699B2
A perfusion cell culture device includes a driving module and a plurality of cell culture modules. The driving module includes a driving source connecting opening and a chamber. The chamber and the driving source connecting opening are connected. Each of the culture modules includes a fluid channel, a first elastic element, two flow direction controlling units and a cell culture zone. The fluid channel is disposed above the chamber, the first elastic element is disposed between the fluid channel and the chamber, the two flow direction controlling units are respectively disposed on two ends of the fluid channel and connected to the fluid channel selectively, and the cell culture zone is connected to the two flow direction controlling units.
US12054684B2
Apparatus for monitoring the erosion of components of industrial plants comprising at least one optical fiber sensor (7′), the optical fibers (7′) not being provided with any Bragg grid, and an analysis unit, wherein the at least one optical fiber sensor (7′) is positioned inside a wall subjected to wear by erosion in such a way as to terminate immediately under the surface of the wall itself belonging to the components (10, 10′, 20, 20′) to be monitored, and the erosion depth is measured by using the light reflected from the eroded end of the optical fiber (7′) itself.
US12054681B2
Provided is a technology of converting an oil having a high content of Cl into a solvent. Impurities such as Cl, S, N, and metals are removed from an oil having a boiling point of 180 to 340° C. in a waste oil having a high content of Cl, and hydroisomerization is carried out, thereby applying an oil having a high isoparaffin ratio as a solvent. After a separation by boiling points according to the properties of the solvent product, a solid acid material and an oil having a high Cl content are mixed, impurities are removed by a heat treatment at a high temperature, and hydroisomerization is carried out by a noble metal/1-D zeolite catalyst, thereby, manufacturing a solvent product.
US12054677B2
The present invention relates to a novel process for the preparation of low molecular weight aromatic compounds such as benzene, toluene, and xylenes (BTX) from plastics. Provided is a thermo-catalytic pyrolysis process for the preparation of aromatic compounds from a feed stream comprising plastic, comprising the steps of: a) subjecting a feed stream comprising a plastic to a pyrolysis treatment at a pyrolysis temperature in the range of 600-1000° C. to produce pyrolysis vapors; b) optionally cooling the pyrolysis vapors to a temperature that is below the pyrolysis temperature; e) contacting the vaporous phase with an aromatization catalyst at an aromatization temperature in the range of 450 700° C., which aromatization temperature is at least 50° C. lower than the pyrolysis temperature, in a catalytic conversion step to yield a conversion product comprising aromatic compounds; and d) optionally recovering the aromatic compounds from the conversion product.
US12054667B2
A diverting agent is provided that exhibits sufficient filling properties against a fracture in a well because of swelling without complete dissolution for a certain period of time (about 30 minutes to 5 hours), and that quickly dissolves and can be removed even at a low temperature of 40° C. to 60° C. after a certain period of time has passed. Also provided is a diverting agent that contains a modified polyvinyl alcohol-based resin.
US12054666B2
A method of repairing a well is provided. The method includes injecting a brine solution into the well, injecting carbon dioxide into the well, and reacting the brine solution in the reservoir rock with the carbon dioxide to form calcite such that calcite precipitates into the desired flow path between a cold well and a hot well to effectively repair short circuits within the EGS reservoir.
US12054661B2
A two-part flame-retardant, a flame-retardant oriented strand (OSB) and method for forming a flame-retardant OSB is provided. The two-part flame-retardant composition includes an aqueous solution containing a water-soluble flame-retardant and a flame-retardant powder that is incorporated into an oriented strand board without substantially affecting the mechanical properties of the oriented strand board. The method includes applying the aqueous solution containing a water-soluble flame-retardant to an oriented strand board furnish and applying a flame-retardant powder to the wetted furnish, without requiring an additional drying step.
US12054648B2
An epoxy-based adhesive composition and the methods of manufacturing the same are provided. The adhesive composition provides excellent adhesion strength, peel strength and impact-resistant strength uniformly over a wide temperature range.
US12054645B2
An ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer may have an ethylene unit content of 1 mol % or more and less than 20 mol %, a viscosity-average polymerization degree of 200 to 5000 and a saponification degree of 80 to 99.7 mol %. A block character of ethylene units in the ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer may be 0.90 to 0.99. Such an ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer may have excellent high-speed coating ability and water-resistant adhesiveness, particularly when being used as an adhesive.
US12054633B2
A preparation method for a salt-spray-resistant polyaspartic acid ester includes mixing polyaspartic acid ester, cardanol resin and a catalyst together for transesterification reaction, and controlling a temperature at 100-130° C. and a relative vacuum degree at −0.095 MPa-−0.1 MPa, and stirring for reaction for 2-5 h to obtain the salt-spray-resistant polyaspartic acid ester; in particular, a molar ratio of the polyaspartic acid ester to the cardanol resin to the catalyst is polyaspartic acid ester:the cardanol resin:the catalyst=1:0.1-0.3:0.001-0.003, and the catalyst is tetraisopropyl titanate or dibutyltin oxide.
US12054632B2
A resin composition for secondary coating of an optical fiber comprises at least one polyoxyalkylene monoalkyl ether compound selected from the group consisting of a polyoxyalkylene monoalkyl ether having a number average molecular weight of 2500 or more and 10000 or less and a derivative of the polyoxyalkylene monoalkyl ether, a photopolymerizable compound, and a photopolymerization initiator.
US12054630B2
A coating composition comprising at least one alkyd resin and at least one reactive diluent selected from modified cardanol. Optionally, the coating composition may further include at least one dryer agent, at least one pigment, and at least one solvent. The use of a modified cardanol reactive diluent can reduce the amount of volatile organic solvent, while decreasing drying time, increasing adhesion, and improving corrosion resistance.
US12054628B2
An fibrous insulation product is provided that includes a binder comprising a polyol and a phosphorus crosslinking agent derived from a phosphonic or phosphoric acid, salt, ester or anhydride to form crosslinked phosphodiester linkages. The polyol is polyvalent, but may be monomeric or preferably polymeric; and may be synthetic or natural in origin. Carbohydrate polysaccharides are exemplary polyols, including water-soluble polysaccharides such as dextrin, maltodextrin, starch, modified starch, etc. Additionally, the carbohydrate polymer may have a dextrose equivalent (DE) number from 2 to 20. In exemplary embodiments, the binder may also include a catalyst, a coupling agent, a process aid, and other additives. The environmentally friendly, formaldehyde-free binder may be used in the formation of residential and commercial insulation materials and non-woven chopped strand mats. A method of making fibrous products is also provided.
US12054627B2
In the present disclosure, a joint compound composition is disclosed. The joint compound composition comprises water, a cementitious filler, a mineral filler, and an elastomer wherein the joint compound composition exhibits a viscosity of 50 poise or less when measured at a temperature of 23° C. and shear rate of 100 s−1 and/or a yield stress of 1,500 dynes/cm2 or less. The present disclosure is also directed to a method of making a joint compound composition. The method comprises combining and mixing water, a cementitious filler, a mineral filler, and an aqueous dispersion including an elastomer.
US12054624B2
An inkjet ink for an impermeable base material includes water, a resin-coated pigment in which at least a part of the pigment is coated with a crosslinked resin, a solvent A which is an alkanediol compound having a boiling point of 180° C. to 200° C., and a solvent B which is at least one of a monoalcohol compound having a boiling point of 70° C. to 160° C. or a glycol monoether compound having a boiling point of 70° C. to 160° C. An image recording method includes applying of the inkjet ink for an impermeable base material to record an image.
US12054614B2
The purpose is to provide rubber compositions and pneumatic tires which have reduced changes in tan δ over time. The present invention relates to rubber compositions containing at least one copolymer obtained by copolymerizing an aromatic vinyl compound and a conjugated diene compound, the rubber compositions having a heat aging resistance index defined by equation (1) of 2.0 or less.
US12054613B2
Dual composition block copolymers made from conjugated diene and monovinyl aromatic monomers in batch organolithium initiated polymerization show advantageous performance in the production of crosslinked microcellular rubber compounds and pressure sensitive hot melt adhesives. The dual composition block copolymers are partially coupled with a coupling agent linking inner monovinyl aromatic blocks. Their un-coupled low molecular weight fraction has greater monovinyl aromatic repeating unit content than their coupled high molecular weight fraction. Crosslinked microcellular rubber articles made from the dual composition block copolymers exhibit lower density, smaller and more homogeneous cell size, higher softness and higher resiliency than prior art block copolymers. Rubber compounding of formulations comprising the dual composition block copolymers proceed at slightly lower torque and slightly lower temperature than with prior art block copolymers. Pressure sensitive hot melt adhesives formulated with the dual composition block copolymers are very well suited for labels, exhibiting higher tack and higher softening temperature than those made from prior art block copolymers.
US12054610B2
In accordance with the invention a wire coat rubber composition for a tire comprises from 70 phr to 100 phr of cis 1,4-polyisoprene rubber, from 0 phr to 30 phr of solution styrene butadiene rubber, from 65 phr to 95 phr pre-silanized precipitated silica, from 0.1 phr to 5 phr of a cobalt salt, up to 15 phr carbon black, up to 10 phr of a resin, and up to 10 phr oil. Further the present invention is directed to a tire comprising such a wire coat composition.
US12054609B2
A thermoplastic resin composition comprises: about 100 parts by weight of a polycarbonate resin; about 3 parts by weight to about 20 parts by weight of a rubber-modified aromatic vinyl copolymer resin; about 12 parts by weight to about 28 parts by weight of talc having an average particle size of about 8 μm to about 20 μm and a blackness degree L* of less than about 90; about 5 parts by weight to about 20 parts by weight of acicular inorganic fillers; and about 10 parts by weight to about 30 parts by weight of a phosphorus flame retardant. The thermoplastic resin composition can have good properties in terms of light shielding, impact resistance, dimensional stability, flame retardancy, balance therebetween, and the like.
US12054607B2
The present invention relates in part to compositions displaying stress relaxation at the polymer-filler interface. The adaptive interface (AI) formed by coupling moieties capable of dynamic covalent chemistry (DCC) within the polymer-filler interface promotes stress relaxation and yields tough, and healable composites.
US12054605B2
The vinylidene-fluoride-based polymer composition according to the present invention comprises a vinylidene-fluoride-based polymer and a specific surfactant and contains no fluorinated surfactant, wherein the specific surfactant is contained in an amount of 10 ppm or larger but less than 100 ppm in terms of mass ppm of the solid components of the composition and has an HLB value of 10 or greater. The method for producing a vinylidene-fluoride-based polymer according to the present invention comprises emulsion-polymerizing specific monomers in an aqueous medium in the presence of a specific emulsifier and an initiator without using any fluorinated surfactant, the use amount of the emulsifier being 8.5 ppm or larger but less than 100 ppm in terms of mass ppm of the monomers.
US12054603B2
A composition for extruding or injection molding low-gloss articles exhibiting improved color retention and mechanical properties as compared with conventional pigmented or painted PVC or TPO resins includes polypropylene, a thermoplastic polyolefin elastomer in an amount sufficient to impart superior impact resistance and at least one particulate delustering agent in an amount sufficient to provide low-gloss without sacrificing impact strength.
US12054599B1
A foamed rubber shoe material is obtained from a rubber shoe base material by vulcanization, foaming, and cutting, the rubber shoe base material includes a rubber sheet and a cloth attached on the rubber sheet, the rubber sheet is prepared from a premixed rubber material in an open mill, the premixed rubber material includes the following components in parts by weight: 44-48 parts of rubber matrix, 24-28 parts of a filler, 5-7 parts of an oil material, 4-5 parts of a vulcanization agent, 1.8-2.2 parts of an antiager, 0.5-0.7 parts of an accelerator, 4-6 parts of triterpenoid saponin, 8-12 parts of n-butanol, 3-5 parts of an unsaturated fatty acid, 7-9 parts of sulfur, 1.6-2.4 parts of dicumyl peroxide, and 10-14 parts of a foaming agent, the foaming agent includes a combination of 4,4′-oxybis(benzenesulfonyl hydrazide), petroleum ether, dichloroethane and at least one bicarbonate, and the rubber matrix includes a natural rubber.
US12054587B2
Provided is a novel spherical polymethylsilsesquioxane particle having an unprecedentedly large specific surface area ratio. The spherical polymethylsilsesquioxane particle includes a particle main body containing at least: a network structure formed by silicon atoms (n) and oxygen atoms (n) bonded to the silicon atoms (n); a methyl group bonded to at least one of the silicon atoms (n); and an alkoxyl group bonded to at least one of the silicon atoms (n), wherein the spherical polymethylsilsesquioxane particle satisfies the following expression (1): Expression (1) S1/S2≥8.0, in the expression (1), S1 represents a specific surface area (m2/g) measured by a nitrogen adsorption BET one-point method, S2 represents 6/(ρ×D50) and a unit thereof is (m2/g), ρ represents a particle density (g/m3), and D50 represents a volume-based 50% cumulative diameter (m) measured by a laser diffraction/scattering method.
US12054574B2
The invention relates to a functionalized polymer to which at least one Diels-Alder adduct is covalently bonded, said Diels-Alder adduct containing a furan and a maleimide component and the furan or the maleimide component having a functional organyl group the molar mass of which is less than 800 g/mol.
US12054572B2
A composition comprising the following (A) to (D): (A) 40 to 75 parts by mass of a urethane (meth)acrylate having a number-average molecular weight of 5,000 or more based on 100 parts by mass of the total of (A) and (B); (B) a (meta)acrylic compound comprising: (B-1) a (meth)acrylate having no urethane bond, and (B-2) 15 to 25 parts by mass of a (meth)acrylic acid, based on 100 parts by mass of the total of (A) and (B); (C) a polymerization initiator; and (D) a reducing agent.
US12054570B2
The present disclosure describes functional oligomers or functional polymers. The functional oligomers or functional polymers may contain functional groups, e.g., —OH and/or —CHO. The functional oligomers or functional polymers may be obtained from hydrolyzing certain copolymers and may be soluble in commercially available solvents. The copolymers may be thermosetting polymers. The functional oligomers and functional polymers may be useful for recycling thermosetting polymers and may be useful as starting materials for preparing additional oligomers or polymers.
US12054562B2
The present application provides an inhibitory compound, such as a peptide, and methods for using the inhibitory compound in the treatment, diagnosis or monitoring of cognitive and mood disorders that are typically associated with memory loss and/or loss of executive function. In one example, the inhibitory compound is a peptide that mimics the N-terminal sequence of the intracellular loop of α5 subunit of α5GABAA receptors. Also provided are compositions and methods for treating a disorder associated with memory loss or loss of executive function. The therapeutic method comprises the step of inhibiting binding of radixin to α5GABAA receptors, for example, by administration of the presently described inhibitory compound or peptide.
US12054555B2
Anti-BAFFR antibodies are formulated as lyophilisate or liquid formulation. The lyophilisates can be reconstituted to give a solution with a high concentration of the antibody active ingredient for delivery to a patient without high levels of antibody aggregation. The lyophilisate can be reconstituted with an aqueous reconstituent to provide an aqueous composition in which the antibody has a concentration of at least 50 mg/ml. The lyophilisate or aqueous pharmaceutical composition may include one or more of a sugar, a buffering agent, a surfactant, and/or a free amino acid.
US12054553B2
Provided is a method of administering to a patient having cancer: (a) a 4-1BB agonist; (b) an IL-2Rβ-activating amount of a long-acting, IL-2Rβ-selective agonist; and/or (c) a toll-like receptor agonist, as well as related compositions, kits and compositions.
US12054552B2
An antibody that specifically binds to IL-1R3, comprising an antibody heavy chain amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 and a light chain amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2. A pharmaceutical composition is provided comprising the said antibody and a pharmaceutically acceptable diluent, carrier or excipient. Also said antibody for use in treating a disease or disorder in a subject in need thereof. The disease or disorder may be an autoimmune or autoinflammatory disease or disorder.
US12054544B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing a combination of a first antigen-binding molecule and a second antigen-binding molecule, wherein the first antigen-binding molecule and the second antigen-binding molecule are not linked by a covalent bond, and they are more likely to form a heterodimer than homodimers when mixed in solution. Furthermore, the present invention relates to antigen-binding molecules, therapeutic methods, and screening methods that are associated with the combination.
US12054538B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to compositions and methods for anti-HIV (anti-CD4 binding site) potent VRC01-like (PVL) antibodies targeted to gp120 having an amino acid substitution at a residue in the anti-CD4 binding site PVL antibody that is equivalent to Phe43 in CD4, these antibodies having improved potency and breadth.
US12054532B2
The present disclosure pertains to compositions comprising anti-VEGF proteins and methods for producing such compositions.
US12054531B2
The present disclosure relates to EGFR-derived polypeptides containing short juxtamembrane sequences, nucleic acids encoding them, and methods of using them to improve cell surface expression of truncated EGFR markers.
US12054529B2
An isolated chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) polypeptide, wherein the CAR includes an extracellular antigen-binding domain, including an antibody or antibody fragment that binds to a protein encoded by a herpes virus, or to a protein complex including the protein (herpes virus antigen), wherein the herpes virus antigen is present on the surface of a human cell that is latently infected with said herpes virus and supports the lytic phase of viral replication. The invention further relates to a nucleic acid molecule encoding the CAR of the invention, a genetically modified immune cell, preferably a T cell, expressing the CAR of the invention and the use of the cell in the treatment of a medical disorder associated with human herpesvirus, such as herpes virus-associated cancers, chronic active herpes virus infections or primary herpes virus infections. In preferred embodiments the herpes virus is Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) and a preferred herpes virus antigen target of the CAR is the EBV glycoprotein 350/220 (gp350/gp220).
US12054520B2
Described herein are constructs, compositions and methods for precise in vivo imaging of the structures and dynamics of protein-based scaffolds with and without their designated cargos.
US12054514B2
A binder comprising a polymeric binder comprising the products of a carbohydrate reactant and nucleophile is disclosed. The binder is useful for consolidating loosely assembled matter, such as fibers. Fibrous products comprising fibers in contact with a carbohydrate reactant and a nucleophile are also disclosed. The binder composition may be cured to yield a fibrous product comprising fibers bound by a cross-linked polymer. Further disclosed are methods for binding fibers with the carbohydrate reactant and polyamine based binder.
US12054510B2
The present invention relates to chemical compounds, the compounds for use in a method of treatment, particularly in a method of prophylaxis or treatment for cancer, a process for preparation of the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds. The compounds may, in particular, be useful in the treatment of leukaemia, lymphoma and/or solid tumours in Homo sapiens. The compounds are derivatives of cordycepin (3′-deoxyadenosine).
US12054504B2
The present application relates to 3-cyclic amine-indole derivatives of general Formula (I), to processes for their preparation, to compositions comprising them and to their use in activation of a serotonin receptor in a cell, as well as to treating diseases, disorders or conditions by activation of a serotonin receptor in a cell. The diseases, disorders or conditions include, for example, psychosis, mental illnesses, and other neurological diseases, disorders and conditions.
US12054498B2
Disclosed are heterocyclic heteroaromatic macrocyclic ether compounds of Formula (I): pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. The disclosure further relates to methods of treating or preventing cancer using the heterocyclic heteroaromatic macrocyclic ether compounds, pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds and pharmaceutical compositions thereof.
US12054488B2
Provided in the present disclosure is a type of pyrazolopyrimidine compound as shown in formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a preparation method thereof and the use of same in the preparation of a drug for treating or preventing cancers. Such a compound is a new-type PI3K inhibitor and has an excellent inhibitory activity, and can hopefully be used for treating a variety of malignant tumors.
US12054486B2
The present disclosure is directed to compounds of formula (1): wherein X, Y, R1, R2 and R3 are as described herein, as stereoisomers, enantiomers or tautomers thereof or mixtures thereof; or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates or prodrugs thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula (I), as described herein, which are useful as voltage-gated sodium channel modulators and are therefore are useful in treating seizure disorders such as epilepsy.
US12054482B2
A TLR8 (Toll-like receptor 8) agonist, a compound of the structure shown in formula (I), an isomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US12054474B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. in which q, R11, R12, R13 and R14 are as defined in the specification, for use in therapy.
US12054471B2
The present invention pertains to novel thiocycloheptyne derivatives of general formula (I): and in particular to thiacycloalkynesulfoimine derivatives and their synthesis. The invention also relates to the use of the novel thiocycloheptyne derivatives in coupling reactions with linkers and drugs. The invention further relates to the use of the novel thiocycloheptynes in bioorthogonal (copper-free) click reactions. The invention further pertains to the use of the novel thiocycloheptyne derivatives in the generation of advanced multifunctional drug delivery systems (drug-loaded) nanoparticles.
US12054465B2
The present disclosure relates to certain (2S)—N-[(1S)-1-cyano-2-phenylethyl]-1,4-oxazepane-2-carboxamide compounds (including pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof), that inhibit dipeptidyl peptidase 1 (DPP1) activity, to their utility in treating and/or preventing clinical conditions including respiratory diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), to their use in therapy, to pharmaceutical compositions containing them and to processes for preparing such compounds.
US12054464B1
An methyl 4-((5-(3-fluorophenyl)-4-phenyl-4H-1,2,4-triazol-3-ylthio)methyl)benzoate compound, its synthesis, and its use as an antimicrobial agent.
US12054451B1
A platinum (II) amino acid Schiff base corn, its synthesis, and its use as an anti-cancer or anti-tumor agent.
US12054439B2
A composite material can include: a substrate of a first reaction-bonded silicon carbide (first RB-SiC) material; and a reaction-bonded diamond-retaining silicon carbide (RB-DSiC) layer bonded to a surface of the substrate. In some aspects, the RB-DSiC layer includes diamond particles bonded with a second reaction-bonded silicon carbide (second RB-SiC) material. The diamond particles may be homogeneously distributed through the second RB-SiC or only at the surface thereof. The diamond particles can be in an ordered pattern or un-ordered pattern. For example, a CMP conditioning disc can include the composite material of one of the embodiments.
US12054438B2
A method of producing a melt infiltrated ceramic matrix composite (CMC) article that includes the steps of: forming a ceramic fiber preform; optionally, rigidizing the ceramic fiber preform with a fiber interphase coating via a Chemical Vapor Infiltration (CVI) process, infiltrating a ceramic slurry into the porous body or preform, conducting one or more secondary operations, and finally, melt infiltrating the preform with molten silicon or a silicon alloy to form the CMC article. The infiltration of a ceramic slurry into a ceramic fiber preform to form a green body is performed along with the use of convection and/or conduction as heat transfer mechanisms, such that the ceramic slurry does not require the incorporation of a pre-gelation material in order for the slurry to remain within the green body during subsequent processing steps.
US12054434B2
A method for constructing multiple ceramic layers by winding continuous ceramic filaments of different compositions to prepare multilayer RF-transparent structures is provided. In the method, different continuous ceramic filaments are braided to construct layers with specific dielectric constants and braiding count/thickness. Layers with same or different dielectric characteristics forms a sandwich design to fulfill the desired mechanical, thermal and electrical requirements.
US12054432B2
According to a method set forth herein a plurality of preform plies having first and second preform plies can be associated together to define a preform. The preform can be subject to chemical vapor infiltration (CVI) processing to define a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) structure.
US12054431B2
A method of making a fiber tow coating is provided. The method includes providing a fiber tow selected from the group consisting of carbon and silicon; and applying an oxide-based fiber interface coating onto the fiber tow using directed vapor deposition or other like deposition method.
US12054419B2
A cover glass includes: a glass substrate having a convex and concave shape formed on at least one of surfaces thereof by an antiglare treatment; and an antireflection film disposed on the surface of the glass substrate, the surface having the convex and concave shape. In the cover glass, a difference Δa* in a* value between any two points within a surface of the cover glass on the side where the antireflection film is present and a difference Δb* in b* value between any two points within the surface of the cover glass on the side where the antireflection film is present satisfy the following expression: √{(Δa*)2+(Δb*)2}≤4.
US12054411B2
A system for reducing total dissolved solids in wastewater can include a vertical reactor that can include a flexible sheet material, where the flexible sheet material can be configured to facilitate the growth and attachment of an algal biofilm. The vertical reactor can include a shaft, where the shaft can be associated with and can support the flexible sheet material, and a drive motor, where the drive motor can be coupled with the shaft such that the flexible sheet material can be selectively actuated. The system can include a fluid reservoir containing a portion of wastewater through which the flexible sheet material is configured to pass as well as a stressor operably configured to stimulate the algae to produce an extracellular polymeric substance. A method of reducing total dissolved solids in wastewater includes moving an algal biofilm through the wastewater and moving the algal biofilm through a gas.
US12054406B2
Smart membranes (14) are integrated into a small, unmanned surface vessel (20) to enable the efficient, automated cleanup of oil spills. Such a vessel (20) has the potential to provide a low-cost, modular solution for day-to-day oil-spill cleanup operations, especially in confined aquatic areas, such as under piers and in the small spaces between marine vessels and piers. The smart membranes (14) are provided on the surface of a conveyor belt (34) that circulates the membranes (14) through the surrounding body of water (10) for oil collection, as well as through an internal reduction chamber (22) of the vessel (20) for oil release. The smart membranes (14) are adapted to attract and repel oil (12) in response to low-voltage commands applied across the conveyor belt (34), using a process that is repeatable for a number of cycles, offering high efficiency and long durability (FIG. 5).
US12054405B2
Water disinfecting modules, water supply systems, methods of assembling a water supply system as well as method of disinfecting water are provided. The water disinfecting module includes a frame, hot and cold water flow switches and hot and cold UV treatment modules is provided. The frame supports a hot and cold water inlets and hot and cold water outlets. Hot and cold water flow switches are fluidly interposed between the respective inlets and outlets for sensing water flow. Hot and cold water UV treatment modules are fluidly interposed between corresponding inlets and outlets and are coupled to flow switches for activation upon sensing of water flow. All of the components are supported by the frame to form a complete unit. The systems and methods incorporate the use of such a water disinfecting module.
US12054403B2
A water treatment process (10) includes, in a crystallisation stage (12), passing a saline water feed (16) through an elongate conduit kept in a cold environment at a temperature below the equilibrium freezing temperature of the saline water, forming a slurry of brine and ice crystals inside the conduit, and, in a separation stage (14), separating the ice crystals from a bulk of the brine, producing a brine stream (22) and an ice stream (26). The elongate conduit is of a material, or has an inner material layer in contact with the saline water and with the slurry of brine and ice crystals, with a thermal conductivity of less than 5 W/m·K and has a length configured to ensure formation of the slurry of brine and ice crystals in the conduit at the flow rate of the saline water feed through the elongate conduit.
US12054392B2
The invention concerns a method of forming a graphene device, the method comprising: forming a graphene film (100) over a substrate; depositing, by gas phase deposition, a polymer material covering a surface of the graphene film (100); and removing the substrate from the graphene film (100), wherein the polymer material forms a support (102) for the graphene film (100).
US12054380B2
An automated fueling assembly includes a refueling station that is positioned at a gas station for refueling gas burning vehicles. The refueling station includes a control panel that is movably integrated into the refueling station to facilitate a driver of a vehicle to access the control panel. The refueling station includes a robotic arm that is actuatable to extend into a refueling port in the vehicle for refueling the vehicle without requiring the driver to exit the vehicle. A pair of sensing units is each positioned on a driveway adjacent to the refueling station. Furthermore, the refueling station is turned on when each the sensing units senses the weight of the vehicle.
US12054369B2
A hoist comprising: an upper hook; a support shaft that includes a hook-side large-diameter portion inserted through an insertion hole of the hook at a center portion, end large-diameter portions at both ends, an intermediate portion between the hook-side large-diameter portion and the end large-diameter portion, and a strain deformation portion that is provided at the intermediate portion; a main frame that includes a pair of support holes and is suspended and supported by the upper hook via the support shaft with the end large-diameter portion on one side inserted in the one support hole and the end large-diameter portion on the other side inserted in the other support hole; and a load measurement means that is attached to the strain deformation portion and measures a shear load acting on the strain deformation portion, wherein at least a portion of the intermediate portion is inserted in the support hole.
US12054367B2
The invention relates to a cable drum for a cable winch of a cable drive, having a drum body and two guard plates which surround the drum body on the face sides and delimit a winding space therebetween, wherein at least one of the guard plates has at least one inner wall part which is adjustable axially in the direction of the drum longitudinal axis such that the distance between the guard plates is adjustable.
US12054357B2
An improved elevator pad assembly includes a plurality of closely spaced, flexible loops secured to the backside of a protective elevator pad, preferably within the upper margin near the top edge of the pad. In one embodiment, the loops are formed as part of a narrow mounting strip affixed to the back cover of the pad. Each loop lies hidden from view below the upper edge of the pad, and remains hidden from view even when fastened to a wall stud or other mounting hardware affixed to the elevator cab walls or ceiling. The flexible loops eliminate the need for grommets and make it easy to mount the pad assembly on elevator cab mounting hardware, allowing the elevator pad to be neatly positioned against the wall without bunching or sagging.
US12054349B2
An image recording apparatus includes a recording unit, first and second rollers, a guide member, and a cutting unit. The recording unit performs image recording on a sheet conveyed in a conveying direction on a first conveyance path. The first roller is located further downstream than the recording unit in the first conveyance path. The second roller is located further downstream than the first roller in the first conveyance path. The guide member has a guide surface that forms a second conveyance path extending from a connection position of the first conveyance path between the first roller and the second roller. The cutting unit is located between the connection position and the second roller, cuts a sheet, and has a cutter. The guide member changes in posture between a first posture for forming the second conveyance path and a second posture for opening the second conveyance path.
US12054340B2
A tracked shelving system comprises a frame having a plurality of vertical posts and horizontal beams, and further comprises a track and shelving module connected to said frame, said modules comprising a plurality of beam hooks, a plurality of cross-beams, a plurality of track hooks, a plurality of track beams and a shelving assembly, wherein a beam hook comprises at least two telescopic U-shaped profiles, wherein an outer profile comprises a lip for hooking onto said horizontal beams, and an inner profile comprises a horizontal support surface for supporting a cross-beam.
US12054325B2
A container adapter includes a first chamber. The first chamber is adapted to attach to a container. The container further includes a second chamber. The second chamber includes a sealing surface and a resealable interface disposed between the first chamber and the second chamber. The second chamber is exposed to an ambient environment.
US12054324B2
A container that is configured to have an open state and a closed state, in which the container includes an outer cell having a plurality of side panels including a first side panel and a second side panel. The outer cell defines a chamber having a first opening. An inner locking member is attached to an inner wall of the first side panel. An extension panel is coupled to the second side panel. The extension panel includes a first cover panel and a tuck flap, in which the tuck flap includes an extension member and a tuck flap locking member. In the closed state of the container, the first cover panel covers the first opening, and the extension member and the tuck flap locking member are tucked inside the chamber. A bias member biases the tuck flap locking member toward a first position to cause the tuck flap locking member to engage the inner locking member.
US12054322B2
A display system includes a tray portion configured to hold and display product and a display header which is movably coupled to the tray portion. The display header includes a header board connected to a header mount via a rigid stem. The display header is movable from a retracted shipping position to an extended display position. An actuator movably couples the header mount and the stem to a wall of the tray portion by applying a biasing force which automatically pivots the header mount and stem to an upright position thereby placing the display header into the extended display position.
US12054311B2
A method of manufacturing a composite insert includes forming a polymer mold from a polymer sheet which may have a glass transition temperature of 70 to 160° C., the polymer mold either includes a cavity or may form a cavity disposed between the polymer mold and the carrier. The method proceeds by depositing a liquid reactive composite insert composition, which may be a two-component composition including a first part comprised of an isocyanate-epoxy blend and a second part comprised of an alcohol-epoxy blend, into the cavity under low pressure conditions of 0-10 bar and low temperature conditions of 15-100° C. The composition is then allowed to become dimensionally stable either within the polymer mold or between the polymer mold and the carrier.
US12054305B2
The present disclosure concerns process for manufacturing a closed head composite drum assembly, comprising: providing an inner shell defining a material-receiving cavity forming a material-filling opening in the inner shell; rotomolding at least partially a closed head outer drum defining an inner shell-containing cavity, the closed head outer drum at least partially enclosing the inner shell; and forming a bung opening in the closed head outer drum substantially in register with the material-filling opening. It also concerns a double wall closed head drum assembly.
US12054288B2
A ground power unit provides electrical energy for aircraft and a method maintains and operates the ground power unit. The ground power unit includes a base frame, a cable system formed in the base frame, at least one rectifier module for converting an input alternating voltage applied to a rectifier module input side into an intermediate direct voltage output at a rectifier module output side, wherein the rectifier module output side is coupled to an intermediate circuit conductor and at least one inverter module for converting the intermediate direct voltage applied to an inverter module input side into an output alternating current output at an inverter module output side, wherein the inverter module input side is coupled to an intermediate circuit conductor. The rectifier module and the inverter module are each realized as structurally-independent units, which can be replaced individually and independently of the base frame.
US12054287B2
A cargo hold of an aircraft having cladding elements and at least one housing element for accommodating electronic components and/or cables. The cladding elements are attached to supports, in particular structural elements, of the aircraft and have a plurality of cladding holes with predefined cladding hole spacings for attachment. The at least one housing element has at least one pair of housing holes for receiving fastening devices. The housing holes have a housing hole spacing which corresponds to at least one pair of cladding hole spacings.
US12054282B2
A load detection system detects loads applied to a landing gear assembly during landing. The landing gear assembly includes an axle coupled to a piston rod of a compressible shock strut and a wheel rotatably mounted the axle. A torque link includes a lower link coupled to the piston rod of the shock strut so that compression of the shock strut rotates the link about a first axis. The load detection system includes a probe rotatably coupled about a second axis. The probe engages a ground surface when the shock strut is uncompressed and the wheel contacts the ground surface. The lower link rotates the probe as the shock strut compresses. A sensor senses a position of the probe, which corresponds to a load on the wheel when the shock strut is uncompressed and the wheel is in contact with the ground surface.
US12054280B2
An aircraft including a first electrical distribution busbar and a second electrical distribution busbar extending at least in part in a fuselage of the aircraft, in a longitudinal direction of the fuselage. A first electric generator is connected to the distribution conductors of the first electrical distribution busbar via a first coupling switch directly connected to the first electric generator and to the distribution conductors of the first busbar. A second electric generator is connected to the distribution conductors of the second electrical distribution busbar via a second coupling switch directly connected to the second electric generator and to the distribution conductors of the second busbar. The first coupling switch and the second coupling switch are positioned in the aircraft independently of one another.
US12054276B2
A method of assembling an aircraft gearbox. The method includes mounting an outer race and a plurality of rollers of a roller bearing in an opening of a gearbox housing, mating a cylindrical guide sleeve having a lead-in chamfer with a gear assembly having a gear and a cylindrical shaft such that a trailing shoulder of the guide sleeve is positioned proximate a leading shoulder of the shaft, the shaft including an inner race of the roller bearing, axially passing the lead-in chamfer of the guide sleeve through the plurality of rollers, radially outwardly urging the rollers toward the outer race with the guide sleeve, axially passing the leading shoulder of the shaft through the plurality of rollers, positioning the inner race relative to the plurality of rollers to form the roller bearing and removing the guide sleeve from the gear assembly.
US12054274B2
A hybrid electric system for a rotorcraft can include a first thermal engine, a second thermal engine, and an electrical machine. The first thermal engine can be sized to produce a maximum first thermal engine power that is below a one-or-more-engine-inoperative (OEI) requirement power and the second thermal engine can be sized to produce a maximum second thermal engine power that is below the OEI requirement power. The electrical machine can be sized to provide at least a remaining power needed to reach the OEI requirement power in an OEI state.
US12054261B2
An active vibration control system (AVCS) and method for reducing motion and/or vibration of a seat frame within an aircraft includes vibration sensors, a controller, and force generators. In some embodiments, the vibration sensors and/or the force generators are attached to the seat frames. In other embodiments, the vibration sensors and/or the force generators are attached to aircraft structures, proximate to the seat frame. By monitoring the motion and/or vibration of the seat frame, the controller calculates a cancelling force to be generated by the force generators to reduce the vibration experienced by the seat frame and its occupant. Such seat frame vibration control can be implemented as a separate AVCS in an aircraft, or can be integrated in an existing AVCS that is also configured to provide vibration control in other parts thereof.
US12054246B2
A helicopter is described comprising a motor member comprising an output shaft and a first stator rotatably supporting the output shaft around a first axis; a main rotor adapted to provide the lift necessary for the support and the thrust necessary for the movement of the helicopter; a transmission interposed between the motor member and the main rotor; the transmission rotatable around a second axis and a second stator rotatably supporting the input shaft around the second axis; the helicopter also comprises a joint interposed between the first and second stator, angularly fixed with respect to the first axis, and configured to allow an inclination between the first and second stator in a plane parallel to said first axis; the joint comprises a first corrugated element made of an elastically deformable material, interposed between said first and second stator, and adapted to allow the inclination through elastic deformation.
US12054244B2
A system and method for protecting a rotorcraft from entering a vortex ring state, the method including monitoring a vertical speed of a rotorcraft, comparing the vertical speed to a vertical speed safety threshold, and performing vortex ring state (VRS) avoidance in response to the vertical speed exceeding the vertical speed safety threshold. The performing the VRS avoidance includes determining a power margin available from one or more engines of the rotorcraft, limiting the vertical speed of the rotorcraft in response to the power margin exceeding a threshold, and increasing a forward airspeed of the rotorcraft in response to the power margin not exceeding the threshold.
US12054243B2
A rotary-wing aircraft includes a fuselage, and an external device. The fuselage is provided with a rotary wing. The external device is mounted on the outside of the fuselage. The external device includes a mounting device, a mass variation device, and a damper. The mounting device is fixed to the fuselage and disposed so as to project in a lateral direction of the fuselage. The mass variation device is mounted on the mounting device and has mass that varies as the mass variation device is used. The damper couples the fuselage to the mounting device and supports the mounting device. The damper includes a stiffness variable mechanism configured to change stiffness of the damper in response to variation in the mass of the mass variation device.
US12054241B2
A locking device locks a landing gear mounted in rotation on an aircraft and includes a deployment hydraulic jack including a first chamber connected to a first hydraulic supply and a second chamber connected to a second hydraulic supply. The locking device includes a hydraulic actuator connected to a rotary distributor. The rotary distributor includes a coupling operationally connecting the rotary distributor to a strut of the landing gear, a first supply port fluidly connected to the first hydraulic supply, and a first outlet port fluidly connected to the hydraulic actuator.
US12054237B2
Skinned cell structures and methods of producing the same are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a placer to place foamable structures together to define a bundle, a restrainer to restrain the bundle, an activator to activate the foamable structures to expand and form a cell structure within the restrainer, a trimmer to trim the cell structure to define a core, and an assembler to couple a skin to the core to define the skinned cell structure.
US12054233B2
A pedal installation structure of a boat includes a slide rail, a pull rod, a slider, and a pedal. The slide rail has a plurality of spaced tooth grooves thereon. The pedal is installed on the slider. The slider is slidably installed on the slide rail. The pull rod is installed between the slider and the slide rail. One end of the slider is provided with a rotatable pawl. A lower surface of the pawl is provided with a plurality of spaced teeth. It is convenient to use the pedal that has a simple structure.
US12054232B2
An electric steering system (1) including a steering device (40), an actuating device (30) and a related method for controlling the electric steering system. The steering device (40) is configured to transmit steering signals in response to user operations. The actuating device (30) is configured to control the electric motor (301) to rotate a link arm (202) according to the steering signal, bringing the rotatable assembly (203) to rotate along an axis of the ship propulsion apparatus (20), thereby adjusting an orientation of the propeller (2034). The actuating device (30) is rotatably coupled to an end of the link arm (202).
US12054220B2
Rear suspension system for a bicycle in which there are two links pivotally interconnecting the front triangle (being, the bicycle component having the seat and bottom bracket) and the rear triangle (being, the component to which the rear wheel is mounted), configured such that at a designer determined percentage of suspension compression, the link pivots on the front triangle are on, or in the vicinity of, a notional line passing through the bottom bracket axis of rotation and the rear wheel axis of rotation.
US12054217B2
A lateral case for motorcycles provided with an improved coupling/release device for the coupling and release of the case itself to/from the vehicle frame is configured to allow the user to perform the coupling and release operations with a single and simple vertical movement of the bag with respect to the motorcycle frame, so that the coupling/release operation is simpler and more convenient for the user. Furthermore, the coupling/release device of the lateral case is easy for the user to activate and has a high degree of security towards accidental or fraudulent openings.
US12054213B2
The present invention relates to a bicycle lock for blocking of a wheel of a bicycle in a locked state. The bicycle includes a tube assembly including a frame with mutually fixed tube elements and movable tube elements, such as a front stay. The bicycle includes a housing, a bolt for providing a blocking action in a blocking state with which the wheel is blockable, a channel for arranging therein of the bolt, and a latch for, in a latching state of the lock, keeping the latest in the blocking state. The latch in the blocking state is in cooperation with receiving means defining a state of cooperation in which the bolt and the receiving means block the wheel of the bicycle.
US12054205B2
A method for the control of a power steering system includes a first drive and a second drive which are arranged in parallel and implement an evaluation and regulation step calculating the first compensation request and the second compensation request as a function of the first deviation and of the second deviation.
US12054200B2
A working vehicle includes a prime mover provided on a vehicle body, a first indicator light provided on the vehicle body, a second indicator light provided on a working device connected to the vehicle body, and an integrated controller including a first controller portion to control the prime mover, and a second controller portion to control the first indicator light and the second indicator light.
US12054185B2
A system (200) for monitoring a railroad grade crossing (100, 250) includes an illumination device (220, 230) for illuminating a section of a railroad grade crossing (100, 250), and a control device (240) in communication with the illumination device (220, 230). The illumination device (220, 230) is configured to obtain data of the section of the railroad grade crossing (100, 250) while illuminating the section, and the control device (240) is configured to receive and evaluate the data. Further, a method (600) for monitoring a railroad grade crossing (100, 250) is provided.
US12054180B2
A method for transitioning a drive mode of a vehicle from an assisted drive mode (AS) to an automated drive mode (AD), the method including: providing an assisted drive mode (AS) configured to support a driver controlling the vehicle at a medium support level; receiving an activation request for activating an automated drive mode (AD) configured to control a driving of the vehicle autonomously; reducing a support level (SL) to a safe assisted drive mode (ADAS) configured to support the driver at a low support level, the reduction of the SL from the AS to the ADAS including a first kinematic feedback; and if the activation request is successful, increasing the SL from the ADAS to the AD, the increase of the SL from the ADAS to the AD including a second kinematic feedback to the driver; or if the activation request fails, maintaining the ADAS.
US12054175B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to automated vehicle condition grading. In examples, a set of images for a vehicle are processed using a machine learning engine to generate an optical vehicle condition grade for each image of the set. The resulting set of optical vehicle condition grades may be aggregated to generate an aggregate optical vehicle condition grade for the vehicle. In some examples, additional information associated with the vehicle is processed, which may be used to generate an adjustment grade. Accordingly, the adjustment grade and the aggregate optical vehicle condition grade are used to generate a final vehicle condition grade for the vehicle. The final vehicle condition grade is associated with the vehicle in a vehicle condition grade data store for subsequent use by the vehicle grading service and/or by an associated client device, among other examples.
US12054172B2
A vehicle including one or more interior image sensors, one or more exterior image sensors, and a controller configured to automatically detect occupant risky behavior is provided. The controller is configured to: detect whether a vehicle occupant exists who may pose a risk; determine whether a detected vehicle occupant in engaged in potentially risky behavior in an area of interest (AoI) based on image data from the one or more interior image sensors or the one or more exterior image sensors; determine whether the potentially risky behavior poses an actual risk; classify a level of risk when the potentially risky behavior poses an actual risk; and perform risk mitigation actions based on risk classification.
US12054170B2
Directional stimuli are applied to a vehicle operator to enhance situational awareness. Characteristics within a vehicle's external environment may be assessed to determine whether they present at least a threshold safety risk. If so, a type and/or intensity of a directional stimulus to apply to the vehicle operator is determined. In addition, one or more output devices is selected to apply the directional stimulus. The selected output devices may, upon activation, apply the directional stimulus from a same direction as the underlying directionality, in relation to the vehicle, of a potential safety hazard present in the vehicle's external environment. In this manner, the applied stimulus elicits an immediate rise in the vehicle operator's situational awareness, and also immediately informs her—based on the direction from which the stimulus is applied/received—of the directionality of the potential safety hazard within the vehicle's external environment.
US12054167B2
The disclosure includes embodiments for resolving vehicle application version differences for connected vehicles. A method includes determining a common vehicle application that is installed in both a remote connected vehicle and an ego vehicle and identifying version differences in a common vehicle application installed in both the ego vehicle and the remote connected vehicle. The method includes forming a vehicular micro cloud. The method includes determining a maximum possible functionality of the common vehicle application. The method includes determining a set of tasks to be completed to achieve the maximum possible functionality. The method includes assigning a first subset of the set of tasks to the ego vehicle and a second subset of the set of tasks to the remote connected vehicle. The method includes using the vehicular micro cloud to cause the ego vehicle to complete the first subset and the remote connected vehicle to complete the second subset.
US12054164B2
Systems and methods for detecting hardware faults in computer-based feedback control systems. Multiple instances of the system control program(s) are run on system processors. System sensor data are input to each instance, and the control commands output by each instance are compared. As instantiations of the same programs receive largely the same sensor data, differences between output commands may indicate the presence of one or more hardware faults.
US12054160B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium stores instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to utilize artificial intelligence to update a mission for an aircraft flown by a pilot. The instructions include: receiving, from at least one storage device, pre-event preparation information that identifies a mission for the aircraft and includes historical information about the pilot; receiving, from an operator device, event execution information that describes how the aircraft is being flown; comparing the pre-event preparation information to the event execution information and the historical information about the pilot using artificial intelligence to determine a deviation from the mission indicating that the mission will likely not be successful; and updating the mission based on the deviation.
US12054157B2
An example operation includes one or more of determining a portion of memory in a transport to store data, establishing a timeframe when the data may be accessed based on a type of the data, and clearing the data from the portion of memory after the timeframe. The type of the data may be related to one or more of the transport and an occupant of the transport. A length of the timeframe is inversely proportional to a criticality of the type of the data.
US12054155B2
A method for adaptive estimation of a road surface adhesion coefficient for a vehicle with complex excitation conditions taken into consideration comprises the following steps: 1) designing an estimator according to a single-wheel dynamics model of a vehicle, and estimating a longitudinal tire force and a road surface peak adhesion coefficient under longitudinal excitation; 2) designing an estimator according to a two-degree-of-freedom kinematic model of the vehicle, and estimating a tire aligning moment and a road surface peak adhesion coefficient under excitation of a lateral force; and 3) determining an excitation condition met by the vehicle according to a vehicle state parameter, performing fuzzy inference to obtain limits achievable by current longitudinal and lateral tire forces, and designing a fusion observer to fuse estimation results. The method achieves favorable robustness, improves real-time capability, and can be performed quickly and accurately.
US12054153B2
Disclosed is a vehicle with an engine control unit including a unit for detecting the imminence of a breakdown with the engine or with an element associated with the engine, and a vehicle control unit including a unit for geo-locating the vehicle and the closest structure for repairing an imminent breakdown, a unit for formulating a route that the vehicle needs to follow in order to reach the structure and for geo-locating at least one safe stopping place that is en-route, the two units including a unit for receiving and transmitting information between them, the vehicle control unit sending the engine control unit a request for temporary malfunctioning of the vehicle just before the vehicle passes the at least one safe stopping place or the structure.
US12054143B2
A device includes a processor configured to: issue an alarm when a movement path condition is met and a prohibition condition is not met, the movement path condition being met when an approaching object of which a predicted movement path is a path along which the object passes by a door of the host vehicle is present; and not issue the alarm when the prohibition condition is met, even when the movement path condition is met, wherein the prohibition condition includes a condition to be met when a difference between a distance in a transverse direction from the host vehicle to a stationary object and a distance in the transverse direction from the host vehicle to the approaching object is equal to or less than a predetermined value in a case where the stationary object is present, the stationary object being stationary at a side of the host vehicle.
US12054139B1
A drive and control system is provided for use on a zero turn vehicle, and includes first and second hydraulic ground drives independently driving a set of driven wheels. Each ground drive has an electric actuator to control the output thereof. An operator mechanism generates a drive signal corresponding to a neutral drive position or to one of a plurality of non-neutral drive positions of the operator mechanism, and a steering signal corresponding to a neutral steering position or to one of a plurality of non-neutral steering positions of the operator mechanism. Sensors generate signals corresponding to sensed roll, pitch and yaw parameters. A stability control module includes a processor for receiving the drive and steering signals and for providing output signals to the electric actuators.
US12054137B2
An information processing device to be mounted on a vehicle includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive a first input as a request from an application via an application programming interface, convert the received first input into a second input that is an input for a manager to fulfill the request, and output the second input to the manager.
US12054129B2
A method for operating a vehicle brake system including a brake booster and an electronic traction control device, which is used as a fallback level in a malfunction of the brake booster. The position of an accelerator pedal is ascertained when a malfunction of the brake booster is detected, and under the precondition that the accelerator pedal is released, a predefined initial pressure is built up in a pressure chamber of a master brake cylinder of the vehicle brake system with the aid of the traction control device so that a deceleration of the vehicle is induced. A control unit which is designed to carry out the method, and a vehicle having a vehicle brake system and a control unit, are also described.
US12054128B2
A vehicle brake system, including: a wheel brake device including an actuator including a piston, a working fluid chamber, an electric motor, and a piston moving mechanism; a working-fluid supply device; and a controller configured to execute: a normal brake control to control a hydraulic braking force to a magnitude corresponding to a braking request; and a parking brake control to cause the wheel brake device to be operated as a parking brake, wherein, in the parking brake control, the controller controls the wheel brake device to generate the hydraulic braking force at a start timing of an operation as the parking brake, controls the actuator to perform a lock operation in which the electric motor is operated to move the piston forward in a state in which the hydraulic braking force is generated, and controls the wheel brake device to release the hydraulic braking force after the lock operation.
US12054123B1
Disclosed is a multi-use dismountable roof rack which is convertible into a free-standing structure and may be easily mounted to and removed from the roof of a vehicle.
US12054116B2
The present invention relates to an external airbag device optimized in design to reduce collision energy to be applied to a vehicle and safely protect a pedestrian, and the external airbag device includes deployment guides provided in an up/down longitudinal direction of a vehicle, and an airbag cushion configured to be deployed along the deployment guide and cover an outer surface of the vehicle.
US12054114B2
The motor vehicle comprising an aerodynamic underbody flap (1) rotating about a transverse axis (10) and a lower transverse structure (4) arranged at the rear of the lower part of a front bumper (6). The rear part of the lower transverse structure (4) comprises guide means (41, 42) which, in the event of a frontal impact, guide the backward movement of the lower transverse structure (4) such that the rear face of the lower transverse structure (4) comes into contact with the axis (10) of the aerodynamic underbody flap (1).
US12054111B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method for analyzing a state of a vehicle occupant and performing illumination and image output control by a projector in units of a screen sectioned area of a vehicle ceiling, in accordance with an analysis result. There is provided a data processing unit configured to execute state analysis of an occupant of a vehicle and execute output control of a projector in accordance with an occupant analysis result. The data processing unit performs projector control of outputting illumination light having luminance determined in accordance with the occupant analysis result, in units of a sectioned area of a screen of a vehicle ceiling on which projector output light is outputted. The data processing unit analyzes a state of an occupant on the basis of a camera-captured image, and outputs illumination light having luminance determined in accordance with an occupant state, in units of a screen sectioned area above each occupant.
US12054109B2
A vehicle including an intelligent driving control module is provided. The intelligent driving control module is connected to each system in the vehicle through a security gateway of the vehicle, and the intelligent driving control module has an open application programming interface (API). The open API is a data interface for a third-party developer to perform secondary development. After the third-party developer performs secondary development on the vehicle by using the open API, the intelligent driving control module obtains state data of the vehicle through the security gateway and intelligently controls the vehicle according to the state data.
US12054096B2
A method for simulating a noise in a motor vehicle includes the steps of defining a virtual noise source in a position outside the motor vehicle; simulating a noise from the virtual noise source, wherein the simulation takes place using real noise sources inside the motor vehicle; and changing the position of the virtual noise source relative to the motor vehicle depending on a speed of the motor vehicle.
US12054091B1
A system and method for changing the exterior color of a vehicle is disclosed. The system includes a vehicle with a color change system integrated into the vehicle body of the vehicle. The color change system can change the color of a portion of the vehicle body in response to commands from a color change module running on a computing system within the vehicle. The color change module can detect information about the vehicle's environment to determine an appropriate target exterior vehicle color that contrasts substantially with the vehicle's environment.
US12054089B2
A vehicle that is the leaning vehicle or the straddled vehicle includes a fiber optic cable extending from a laser beam source unit to both a forward light-emitting part and a rearward light-emitting part via a forward-rearward branch portion, the fiber optic cable allowing a laser beam emitted from the laser beam source unit to be branched in the forward-rearward branch portion, and then supplied to both the forward light-emitting part and the rearward light-emitting part. A length of the fiber optic cable between the laser beam source unit and the forward-rearward branch portion is shorter than a total length of the fiber optic cable between the forward-rearward branch portion and the forward light-emitting part and between the forward-rearward branch portion and the rearward light-emitting part in a side view of the vehicle.
US12054088B2
A bi-directional tightening device and a method for tightening of a threadable line, the tightening device having: a rotatable spool; a frame for supporting the spool, the frame has a handle for rotating the spool; a ratchet mechanism rotationally fixed to the spool; a drive pawl coupled to the frame; a locking mechanism configured for keeping the ratchet mechanism in place during a return stroke of the handle, wherein the ratchet mechanism has at least one first ratchet wheel for rotating the spool in a first direction, and at least one second ratchet wheel for rotating the spool in a second direction opposite the first direction, to allow bi-directional tightening of the line.
US12054086B2
A foldable ramp includes a first ramp element including a first end, a second end, and a first ramp surface extending between the first end and the second end, a second ramp element including a first end portion, a second end portion, and a second ramp surface extending between the first end portion and the second end portion, and a hinge connecting the second end of the first ramp element and the second end portion of the second ramp element. A first tension element has a first end section connected to the first end and a second end section. A second tension element has a first end segment pivotally connected to the first end portion and a second end segment connected to the second end section.
US12054085B2
The present disclosure is directed to commercial vehicle loading and unloading systems, and associated systems, devices, and methods. In one embodiment, a cargo loading and unloading system includes a cargo loading and unloading assembly and/or a cargo repositioning system. The assembly includes a first mechanical arm and a second mechanical arm that are mountable at opposite sides of an opening of the trailer. Each mechanical arm includes a first portion and a second portion pivotally coupled to the first portion. The first portions are configured to vertically raise and lower the second portions and move the second portions laterally along the opening of the trailer. The second portions include rollers and are configured to support cargo on the rollers as the mechanical arms are used to hold the cargo off the ground, and to selectively convey the cargo at least partially into or out of the trailer via the rollers.
US12054080B2
In a vehicle seat frame, a connection member that connects left and right links together in a seat left-right direction is disposed below a rear portion of a cushion pan included in a seat cushion frame. A sloped surface sloped with a downward gradient toward a seat rear side is formed at a lower surface of the rear portion of the cushion pan. The sloped surface of the cushion pan slides in a seat rearward and diagonally downward direction relative to the connection member when the cushion pan deforms in a seat downward direction under load from the occupant during a head-on collision of the vehicle.
US12054065B2
A method for load management of a charging station, in which the charging station is formed by at least two charging points, each with a charging control and a power electronics module assigned to the respective charging point, a charge management server and a transformer connected to an electricity supply network. The network provides a transformer power, in which the load management carried out by the load management server controls an allocation of the transformer power among the respective charging points, in which a respective charging operation of a particular electric vehicle at a particular charging point is controlled via the respective charging control connected to the load management. Charging power controlled by the load management is provided by the respective power electronics module assigned to the respective charging point. The load management has a dynamic and a static execution mode.
US12054057B2
In accordance with various embodiments, described herein are systems and/or methods for enabling efficient wireless power transfer and charging of devices and/or batteries, including in some embodiments freedom of placement of the devices and/or batteries in one or multiple (e.g. one, two or three) dimensions, and/or improved features such as ease of use and compatibility. Exemplary applications include beam inductive or magnetic charging and power for use in, e.g., mobile, electronic, electric, lighting or other devices, machines, batteries, power tools, kitchen, military, medical, industrial tools or systems, robots, trains, buses, trucks and/or vehicles, and other environments.
US12054049B2
An agent apparatus includes a shift position detector and an agent controller. The shift position detector is configured to detect a shift position of a vehicle. The agent controller is configured to control a personified agent. The agent controller is configured to cause the agent to face a driver of the vehicle in a case where the shift position is in a parking range. Upon communicating information, the agent controller is configured to cause the agent to output the information using voice and a movement of arms of the agent.
US12054048B2
An electronic apparatus disposed in a vehicle is provided. The electronic apparatus includes an input device including a body configured to be rotatable and pushable and a display disposed on the body; and a processor configured to acquire profile data of a user including preset information for function of the vehicle, control the display to display basic user interface (UI) corresponding to the function of the vehicle based on the acquired profile data of the user, and control a function of the vehicle corresponding to the basic UI in response to receiving an input on the input device.
US12054028B1
A system that a crossbar that is pivotally connected to a first structure and is pivotally connected to a second structure. The system also includes a first actuator that is located near the first structure and is connected to the crossbar. The system also includes a second actuator that is located near the second structure and is connected to the crossbar.
US12054017B2
An anti-theft tire valve includes: (a) a sleeve defining an outer wall and an pass-through channel to receive a threaded valve stem and allow a portion of the threaded valve stem to extend through an upper portion of the sleeve; (b) an internal threaded portion positioned within the upper portion of the sleeve configured to securely engage the threaded valve stem; (c) a torque locking surface defined on an external surface of the upper portion of the sleeve; and (d) a valve cap forming a cover and defining an internal thread configured to receive the threaded valve stem and abut an upper rim of the sleeve. The torque locking surface is configured to receive a locking wrench to rotate in a counter direction and press against the valve cap forming a tension lock configured to restrict the removal of the valve cap without the use of an external tool.
US12054011B2
Provided is a tire manufacturing feature in which even when an electronic component is embedded in a tire, damage due to impact load during traveling on the road surface is inhibited and the durability of the tire is prevented from deteriorating. A pneumatic tire provided with: a bead reinforcing layer provided in the tire-axial-direction outer side of the carcass of a bead part the bead reinforcing layer reinforcing the bead part from the outer side of the carcass; a clinch member provided on the tire-axial-direction outer side of the bead reinforcing layer; and an electronic device. The clinch member has a rigidity lower than that of the bead reinforcing layer, and the electronic component is embedded between the bead reinforcing layer and the clinch member.
US12054006B2
A caster braking assembly that has a base section, a first caster assembly coupled to the base section and having at least one wheel, a second caster assembly coupled to the base section and having at least one wheel and a brake switch pivotally repositionable between an engaged position and a disengaged position. When the brake switch is in the engaged position at least one wheel of both the first caster assembly and the second caster assembly are substantially restricted from rotating.
US12054003B2
Wheel hub adaptor (11) attachable to vehicle wheel to attach vehicle accessory for rotation with vehicle wheel, has an inner mounting plate (15) with recesses or apertures (17) to match a vehicle wheel stud pattern, a body (19) extending from the plate (15) to an outer mounting plate (27) having a mount to which the vehicle accessory attaches. The mount has apertures (65) which align with studs (75) on a mating mount of the vehicle accessory. The inner mounting plate and the outer mounting plate mount to the vehicle wheel and vehicle accessory respectively, by rotating apertures (17 65) to stop portions (35 71), and is secured by a bolt passing through one of two circular apertures (43 45) or (67 69). Vehicle accessories can be provided like a paddle to self-propel the vehicle in sand, and a wheel to widen the vehicle track.
US12053999B2
An optical display body (1) is provided with: a stripe mask (10) that includes a transmission part (T) and a reflection part (R) that is wider than the transmission part, a transmission part and a reflection part which are alternately arranged so as to form a stripe pattern; and a printed body (20) that includes a flattened design (21A) which is a visible image (21B) flattened in a Y direction and which is printed two or more times repeatedly in an X direction. The stripe mask, upon being superimposed on the printed body such that a stripe direction of the stripe mask will be coincident with the X direction of the printed body, allows a visible image to be displayed through the stripe mask.
US12053989B2
Inkjet printing systems and methods dynamically control meniscus pressure at a nozzle to more reliably deliver ink to a substrate. The systems and methods include inferring an angle of a longitudinal axis of a printhead relative to the vertical reference axis based on an orientation signal from an orientation sensor, determining a target feed fluid pressure upstream of the nozzle and a target recirculation fluid pressure downstream of the nozzle, thereby to maintain a target pressure differentiation across the nozzle based, at least in part, on the inferred angle of the longitudinal axis, and controlling a variable feed pump speed and a variable recirculation pump speed to obtain the target feed fluid pressure and the target recirculation fluid pressure.
US12053979B2
An aspect of the present invention is a liquid ejection apparatus including: a liquid ejection head including a heating element, a first protection layer, a second protection layer that functions as a first electrode, a second electrode that is electrically connected to the first electrode, and an ejection port; and a control unit configured to perform control of setting a potential difference between potentials of the first and second electrodes to a predetermined value by changing at least one of the potentials of the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the control unit sets the potential difference to a first value in a case where printing is performed, and the control unit sets the potential difference to a second value different from the first value and feeds power to at least one of a plurality of the heating elements in a case where printing is not performed.
US12053974B2
A printing device includes: a housing having a cassette attachment opening; a cover; a printing head; a platen roller; a holder holding one of the printing head and the platen roller; and a restriction member. The cover is movable between: a closed position where the cover covers at least a portion of the cassette attachment opening; and an open position where a printing cassette accommodating a printing tape is attachable to the housing. The holder is movable between: a nipping position where the printing head and the platen roller nip the printing tape therebetween; and a non-nipping position where the printing head and the platen roller do not nip the printing tape therebetween. The restriction member restricts movement of the holder when the cover is at a position other than the closed position. The restriction member allows the movement of the holder when the cover is at the closed position.
US12053973B2
A valve assembly for controlling airflow along sheet edges on a vacuum transport assembly, the valve assembly including a flexible plate, including a first end, a second end, a first top surface, and a first bottom surface, and a first actuator connected to the second end and operatively arranged to displace the flexible plate. Added is at least one magnet member designed to assist in controlling the valve assembly.
US12053972B2
A blade assembly of a waste catchment system for a roller having a support plate for attachment to a tray of the waste catchment system and a blade holder. The blade holder configured to receive a blade having a longitudinal axis and a free edge extending in the direction of the longitudinal axis and adapted to engage with the roller to be cleaned. The blade holder configured to receive and retain the blade, the blade being removably attachable to the blade holder. One of the blade holder and blades includes a channel and the other of the blade holder and blade includes a protrusion configured to be seated in and retained within the channel. There is a clearance fit between the channel and the protrusion.
US12053970B2
The present disclosure provides a display screen and a display device. The display screen includes a display panel, a cover plate, and a shielding layer disposed between the two. The display screen further includes a bonding layer disposed between the shielding layer and the display panel. The bonding layer includes a glue layer including a first side close to the display panel and a second side away from the display panel; and a light guiding portion including a light incident side configured to input ultraviolet light and a light-emitting side configured to output the ultraviolet light to the first side or the second side.
US12053969B2
Certain embodiments described herein are directed to articles that provide less sag. In some examples, the articles can include a fiber reinforced thermoplastic polymer core layer comprising reinforcing fibers and a thermoplastic polymer, and a frim disposed on the fiber reinforced polymer core layer. In certain examples, the frim comprises a film coupled to a scrim comprising an effective basis weight to prevent substantial sag of the article, e.g., during a forming operation.
US12053967B2
A screen protector installation tool for installing a screen protector on a screen of an electronic device, the tool includes a holding base and a pressing assembly, the holding base has a holding chamber for holding the electronic device and two guiding rails at two sides of the holding chamber, the pressing assembly includes a sliding element and a pressing element, wherein the sliding element includes two sliding portions which are respectively slidable along the two guiding rails, so as to allow the pressing element to move above the holding chamber to cause the screen protector positioned in the holding base to be installed on the screen of the electronic device.
US12053959B2
A polypropylene multilayer sheet includes: a biaxially oriented polypropylene layer F having a melting point TmF; and a biaxially oriented polypropylene layer N having a melting point TmN, the biaxially oriented polypropylene layer N and the biaxially oriented polypropylene layer F being alternately laminated, the polypropylene multilayer sheet having a thickness of 0.15 mm to 3.0 mm, wherein: TmF>TmN, a total number of layers is 3 to 11, the biaxially oriented polypropylene layer F is formed of a resin composition containing: a polypropylene-based resin as a component (A); and an inorganic filler as a component (B), a weight ratio of the component (B)/[the component (A)+the component (B)] is 0.5 to 60 wt %, the biaxially oriented polypropylene layer N is formed of a resin composition containing: a polypropylene-based resin as a component (a); and the component (B) as an optional component, and a weight ratio of the component (B)/[the component (a)+the component (B)] is 0 to 10 wt %.
US12053955B2
Provided is an interlayer film for laminated glass capable of making bluish fogging less likely to occur. An interlayer film for laminated glass according to the present invention contains a pigment, and in the interlayer film for laminated glass, a value YId obtained by subtracting a yellow index YIp calculated from parallel light transmittance from a yellow index YIt calculated from total light transmittance is −1.0 or more.
US12053949B2
A system that converts sheet material into packaging templates includes a converting assembly that performs conversion functions, such as cutting, creasing, and scoring, on the sheet material as the sheet material moves through the converting machine in a first direction. The converting assembly may be mounted on a frame such that the converting assembly is elevated above a support surface. One or more longhead converting tools performs conversion functions on the sheet material in a first direction and a crosshead converting tool performs conversion functions on the sheet material in a second direction in order to create packaging templates.
US12053938B2
A system for forming a composite stiffener includes a support surface to support a composite sheet and a sheet-locating device to locate the composite sheet such that a first sheet-portion is supported on the support surface and a second sheet-portion extends beyond the support surface. The system includes a separation device to separate the second sheet-portion from the first sheet-portion to at least partially form a composite charge. The system includes a layup tool including a longitudinal tool-axis and a layup surface configured to receive the composite charge. The layup surface includes a curvature along the longitudinal tool-axis. The system includes a compaction device to compact the composite charge on the layup surface. The system includes a tool-positioning device to position of the layup tool such that a compaction force, applied to the composite charge by the compaction device, is normal to the layup surface.
US12053937B2
A method for manufacturing an insulation member for a vacuum insulated structure includes the steps of forming a bag that has an opening using a single layer porous fabric, filling the bag with insulation materials via the opening, sealing the opening of the bag, and vibrating the bag to evenly distribute, de-aerate, and densify the insulation material to form a pillow. The method further includes the steps of compressing the pillow within a mold to define a compressed insulation member, and evacuating the compressed insulation member within an insulated structure to define a vacuum insulated structure.
US12053936B2
A component comprising a first concentric element and a second concentric element is disclosed. The first and second concentric elements are positioned relative to each other in the positions in which they are to be bonded together. The first concentric element comprises a first bonding portion (48) with a first bonding face (50), and the second concentric element comprises a second bonding portion (58) with a second bonding face (60), a first passage (62), and a second passage (64). The second bonding portion (58) partially surrounds the first bonding portion (48) and the first and second bonding faces (50, 60) face each other. The first and second bonding faces (50, 60) comprise a first and second void face (56, 61) respectively. Collectively the first and second bonding faces (50, 60) comprise an alpha plug (52) having an alpha plug face, a beta plug (54) having a beta plug face, an alpha bearing face, and a beta bearing face, in which the alpha plug face is in sliding contact with the alpha bearing face and the beta plug face is in sliding contact with the beta baring face, the alpha plug (52) is integral with one of the first or second void faces (56, 61) and the alpha bearing face is integral with the other of the first or second void faces (56, 61), the beta plug (54) is integral with one of the first or second void faces (56, 61) and the beta bearing face is integral with the other of the first or second void faces (56, 61), and the alpha and beta plugs (52, 54) and first and second void faces (56, 61) collectively define a void. The first and second passages (62, 64) each extend through the second concentric element from a mouth which opens onto the void to a mouth in an accessible surface of the second concentric element.
US12053935B2
A molded part includes a plurality of surfaces and an embossment extending from one of the plurality of surfaces. The embossment includes a body and a bore extending through a central portion of the body. The embossment further includes a first pocket extending through a sidewall of the body and into the bore and a second pocket extending through an opposite sidewall of the body and into the bore. The first pocket and the second pocket each define inwardly tapered walls. The first pocket and the second pocket are spaced axially along the body and are diametrically opposed.
US12053925B2
A system includes a carrier film including an outer surface and an inner surface. The inner surface is configured to contact rollers. The system further includes a first blade configured to form a layer of resin on the outer surface of the carrier film. The system further includes a second blade configured to prevent printed features from contacting the first blade. The system further includes a build platform. A portion of the layer of resin is to be added to an object being formed on the build platform.
US12053923B2
The present invention relates to a method and device for layer-wise instruction of a shaped body by stereolithography in subsequent layers.
US12053920B2
An apparatus dispenses a raw material in liquid form into a manufacturing zone. The raw material is, by computer-controlled, point-by-point targeted light irradiation, heated and solidified by the region of incidence of a light beam relative to the manufacturing zone being altered in a continuous and/or in a step-by-step manner. The light beam is emitted from the light beam source, or from an optical unit influencing the light of the light beam source, with a substantially ring-shaped light intensity profile. The ring-shaped light intensity profile is formed by a ring-shaped region in which the light intensity initially increases in the direction toward the center of the ring from the outer diameter and then drops off again toward the inner diameter of the ring, with the light intensity being equal to zero in the interior region of the ring.
US12053912B2
An extruding system includes a mixing unit configured to mix a polymeric material with a blowing agent and to form a mixture, and an injection unit coupled to the mixing unit and configured to inject the mixture. The mixing unit includes a mixing cartridge, a first mixing screw and a second mixing screw, the first and second mixing screws are disposed in the mixing cartridge. A method of extruding a mixture includes mixing a polymeric material and a blowing agent in a mixing cartridge of a mixing unit by at least one of a first and second mixing screws to form the mixture; conveying the mixture from the mixing unit to an injection unit; and discharging the mixture from the injection unit into a molding device. The mixture is sequentially in contact with the first mixing screw and the second mixing screw.
US12053903B2
A routing jig for enabling location of router guides prior to routing a feature into a workpiece includes a transparent or semi-transparent base component having longitudinal sides, a lower surface and an upper surface. The routing jig also includes retaining structure such as side bars and screws. The base component and the retaining structure together define a nominal width of the routing jig in a transverse direction. A plurality of shims are selectively and removably securable to the longitudinal sides of the base component by the retaining structure, thereby to increase the nominal width of the routing jig.
US12053899B2
In order to reliably avoid collisions between components of a slicing machine, in particular between a blade and another component, a control run is carried out before the start of a slicing operation, during which the respective component that has a risk of collision or the respective counter-component is brought into a position closest to the other component and tested to see whether a collision occurs.
US12053895B2
A system includes a transporter robot with a motion controller that changes the transporter robot's poses during transportation. A scanning device is fixed to the transporter robot. One or more processors are coupled to the transporter robot and the scanning device to generate a map of the surrounding environment. At a timepoint T1, when the transporter robot is stationary at a first location, a first pose of the transporter robot is captured. During transporting the scanning device, at a timepoint T2, the scanning device captures additional scan-data of a portion of the surrounding environment. In response, the motion controller provides a second pose of the transporter robot at T2. A compensation vector and a rotation for the scan-data are determined based on a difference between the first pose and the second pose. A revised scan-data is computed, and the revised scan-data is registered to generate the map.
US12053888B2
A robot system includes a robot; a peripheral device disposed around the robot; a control unit configured to operate at least the robot based on a program; a suspension unit configured to suspend a plurality of sequential operations performed by the robot in conjunction with the peripheral device based on an operation program if an irregular state occurs in the peripheral device; and a simulator. The simulator is configured to generate a recovery program based at least on a robot state information of the robot at the time of suspending the operation due to an occurrence of the irregular state, in which the control unit is further configured to cause the robot to operate with respect to the peripheral device based on the recovery program so that an operation by the suspended operation program becomes resumable.
US12053887B2
Various embodiments of the present technology generally relate to robotic devices, artificial intelligence, and computer vision. More specifically, some embodiments relate to an imaging process for detecting failure modes in a robotic motion environment. In one embodiment, a method of detecting failure modes in a robotic motion environment comprises collecting one or more images of a multiple scenes throughout a robotic motion cycle. Images may be collected by one or more cameras positioned at one or more locations for collecting images with various views. Images collected throughout the robotic motion cycle may be processed in real-time to determine if any failure modes are present in their respective scenes, report when failure modes are present, and may be used to direct a robotic device accordingly.
US12053885B2
A robot control method includes: determining a planned capture point and a measured capture point of the robot so as to calculate a capture point error of the robot; obtaining positions of a left foot and a right foot of the robot, and a planned zero moment point (ZMP) of the robot so as to calculate desired support forces of the left foot and the right foot; calculating desired torques of the left foot and the right foot according to the capture point error, the desired support forces of the left foot and the right foot; obtaining measured torques of the left foot and the right foot so as to calculate desired poses of the left foot and the right foot; and controlling the robot to walk according to the desired poses of the left foot and the desired pose of the right foot.
US12053883B2
A method for toy robot programming, the toy robot including a set of sensors, the method including, at a user device remote from the toy robot: receiving sensor measurements from the toy robot during physical robot manipulation; in response to detecting a programming trigger event, automatically converting the sensor measurements into a series of puppeted programming inputs; and displaying graphical representations of the set of puppeted programming inputs on a programming interface application on the user device.
US12053872B2
A system includes a universal handle and a variety of tools selectively secured within the handle. The tools can be tools for grooming or collecting hair, and are especially useful with animals such as household pets. One example tool includes a mat breaker that is adjustable for left handed or right handed use. Another example tool is a fur sweeper tool and a fur accumulator tool. Other tools include deshedders, brushes, and combs.
US12053869B2
A fastener device includes a tool housing, a multistage solenoid, a magnetic driver, and a controller. The magnetic driver is configured to travel through the multistage solenoid between a retracted condition and an extended condition. The controller is contained within the tool housing and is configured to adjust an amount of force the multistage solenoid imparts on the magnetic driver while the magnetic driver travels between a first stage and a second stage of the at least two stages that are adjacent to each other, by combining a magnetic field of the magnetic driver with at least a portion of a first electromagnetic field of the first stage of the at least two stages of the multistage solenoid and at least a portion of a second electromagnetic field of the second stage of the at least two stages of the multistage solenoid.
US12053868B2
This clamping tool uses optical distance verification with a laser. Clamping tools, like all tools, are known to be operated improperly. Many tools verify process completion by monitoring the pressure within the pneumatic tool. Previous qualifiers use pressure to determine many things. However, it often misses if a small object impedes a full stroke. With the addition of an optical laser sensor, we are able to determine if a clamping tool reaches full stroke.
US12053864B2
An electric tool system includes a motor, a control unit, and an output shaft. The motor includes a stator and a rotor. The control unit performs vector control on the motor. The control unit includes a first acquisition unit, a second acquisition unit, and a command value generation unit. The command value generation unit calculates, based on a torque current acquisition value (current measured value) as a value related to a torque current as acquired by the first acquisition unit and an acceleration acquisition value as a value related to acceleration of the rotor as acquired by the second acquisition unit, at least one of a command value of the torque current to be supplied to the motor or a command value of an excitation current to be supplied to the motor.
US12053863B2
An impact tool includes an electric motor, an impact mechanism, an acquisition unit, and a behavior decision unit (retreat detection unit). The electric motor includes a permanent magnet and a coil. The impact mechanism performs an impact operation that generates impacting force by receiving motive power from the electric motor. The behavior decision unit makes, based on at least one of a torque current acquisition value (current measured value) which is a value of a torque current acquired by the acquisition unit or an excitation current acquisition value (current measured value) which is a value of an excitation current acquired by the acquisition unit, a decision about behavior of the impact mechanism.
US12053862B2
A rotary impact tool includes a housing, an electric motor supported in the housing, and an impact mechanism for converting a continuous torque input from the motor to consecutive rotational impacts upon a workpiece. The impact mechanism includes an anvil and a hammer that is both rotationally and axially movable relative to the anvil for imparting the consecutive rotational impacts upon the anvil. The hammer is configured to rotate about an axis in a rotational direction when imparting the consecutive rotational impacts upon the anvil. The impact mechanism also includes a spring for biasing the hammer in an axial direction toward the anvil, and a means for biasing the anvil in the rotational direction about the axis.
US12053861B2
A golf club wrench with a bit portion having a plurality of tip features at one end of the bit portion is disclosed herein. The tip features may include threading, a Philips head shape, a flat head shape, a Torx® head shape, and a hex wrench shape. The different tip features on the wrench can be used to engage with both a mechanical fastener and a weight. The wrench may also include a handle contoured to fit within the hand of a golfer. The golf club wrench can be provided in a kit containing weights and mechanical fasteners having engagement features that mate with one or more of the tip features on the wrench.
US12053857B2
The present disclosure relates generally to coated abrasive articles that include a tribological performance enhancing composition in a make coat, a size coat, a supersize coat, or combinations thereof, as well as methods of making coated abrasive articles. The present disclosure also relates to coated abrasive articles including a supersize coating comprising a sulfide scavenging composition and/or a crosslinked zinc acrylic binder, as well as methods for making and using such abrasive articles. The present disclosure also relates generally to abrasive articles that include aggregates having an anti-wear composition or grinding aid disposed on or within the aggregates.
US12053856B2
An apparatus for machining flat workpieces has at least two tool carriers mounted to machining heads that are drivable by at least a first drive unit. The tool carrier of one machining head is arranged such that it is movable in a shifting range (V1) along a first axis relative to the carrier unit. The tool carrier of a second machining head is arranged such that it is movable in a shifting area (V2) along the first axis relative to the carrier unit.
US12053855B2
A power tool including a motor configured to rotatably drive an output shaft, a variable motor speed control input, a motor speed limit input, and a motor controller. The motor controller includes an electronic processor and a memory configured to store instructions. When executed by the motor controller, the instructions configure the motor controller to detect a motor speed limit from a setting of the motor speed limit input, and detect a variable speed control setting from the variable motor speed control input. The motor controller generates a motor speed control signal for driving the motor based on the detected motor speed limit and the detected variable motor speed control setting, and transmits the motor speed control signal to a motor driver circuit configured to drive the motor at a speed based on the motor speed control signal.
US12053843B2
A solder alloy comprises Ag: 3.1 to 4.0% by mass, Cu: 0.6 to 0.8% by mass, Bi: 1.5 to 5.5% by mass, Sb: 1.0 to 6.0% by mass, Co: 0.001 to 0.030% by mass, Fe: 0.02 to 0.05% by mass, and a balance Sn.
US12053834B2
Provided is a spot welding method by which welding can be successfully performed while inhibiting occurrence of expulsion. First to third metal plates W1 to W3 were welded in which ratio of total thickness to thickness of the first metal plate W1 is 7. In Example 1, peak current value A1 is 14.6 kA, effective current value A2 is 7.8 kA, peak duration T1 is 0 ms, and no-peak duration T2 is 5.9 ms. As a result, in Example 1, lower limit current value A3 is 6.9 kA, upper limit current value A4 is 8.42 kA, difference A5 between upper limit current value A4 and lower limit current value A3 is 1.52 kA, peak duration T1/no-peak duration T2 is 0, effective current value A2/peak current value A1 is 0.53, and rising time T3/falling time T4 is 0.79, furthermore, no expulsion occurs, and welding result was determined to be OK.
US12053830B2
A device for transmitting a torque from a drill to a drill bit includes a shank and a tool fitting. The shank has a first outer conical region, a groove region, and a second outer conical region and has first longitudinal grooves and second longitudinal grooves. The tool fitting has a basic body which has first outer rotary driving grooves, an intermediate element which has first inner rotary drivers, second inner rotary drivers, and first outer rotary drivers, and has a locking device. In the connected state, the first inner rotary drivers engage in the first longitudinal grooves, the second inner rotary drivers engage in the second longitudinal grooves, and the first outer rotary drivers engage in the first outer rotary driving grooves.
US12053828B2
A handle is coupled to an industrial machine tool, along with a method of operating the industrial machine tool via the handle. The handle comprises a housing, a first switch, and a second switch. The housing includes a first side, a second side, a top end, and a bottom end, the first side facing toward the industrial machine tool and the second side facing away from the industrial machine tool. The first switch actuates a float mode for the industrial machine tool, the float mode being a mode in which movement of a moveable portion of the industrial machine tool is power assisted for an operator of the industrial machine tool. The second switch actuates a machining portion, coupled to the moveable portion of the industrial machine tool, to perform a machining process on a workpiece.
US12053825B2
Methods using formulations for processing a manufactured metal or metal-alloy object, in particular a metal or metal-alloy object manufactured by an additive manufacturing process, are disclosed. Methods, systems and equipment for using the formulations to remove excess materials from the surface, remove support materials, and/or modify the surface of a metal or metal-alloy manufactured object are also disclosed.
US12053824B2
In a method for treating combustible and/or reactive particles (34) which have been separated from a gas stream (32) by means of a separation device (36) an oxidizing agent is supplied to an atmosphere surrounding the particles (34) so as to cause a passivating oxidation of at least a part of the particles (34). A content of the oxidizing agent in the atmosphere surrounding the particles (34) is detected and the supply of the oxidizing agent to the atmosphere surrounding the particles (34) is controlled in dependence on the detected content of the oxidizing agent in the atmosphere surrounding the particles (34).
US12053823B2
A manufacturing method of a diamond porous grinding block based on 3D printing. The manufacturing method includes designing a 3D printing model of a grinding block unit cell with an adjustable porosity according to an internal cooling space for abrasive debris required in a grinding process, importing the 3D printing model of the grinding block unit cell into a MAGICS software, filling a frame of a 3D printing model of a diamond porous grinding block with a plurality of 3D printing models of grinding block unit cells; preparing mixed powder of diamond abrasive particles and an aluminum alloy binder as printing powder, performing 3D printing to the 3D printing model of the diamond porous grinding block by an SLM technology to obtain the diamond porous grinding block. The diamond porous grinding block is configured to form a diamond structure grinding disc for grinding a semiconductor substrate.
US12053814B2
A method for making a profile with a micro-hole, in particular using a continuous composite extrusion process, comprises embedding, in a position in a matrix of the profile to be formed where a micro-hole is to be formed, a continuous wire having a shape and size consistent with that of the micro-hole; sawing a composite profile with the wire obtained by extrusion to a desired length; and removing the wire from the sawed composite profile using a predetermined physical or chemical method without changing the matrix of the composite profile so that the micro-hole of the predetermined size and shape is formed in the predetermined position in the profile. This method is simple, does not require any large, expensive, and sophisticated equipment, can produce continuous micro-holes of different specifications, and can be used in a wide variety of applications.
US12053811B2
A high temperature iron-chromium-aluminium (FeCrAl) alloy tube extending along a longitudinal axis, wherein the tube is formed from a continuous strip of a high temperature FeCrAl alloy and comprises a helical welded seam. The high temperature FeCrAl alloy tube is manufactured by feeding a continuous strip of the high temperature FeCrAl alloy toward a tube shaping station, helically winding the strip such that long edges of the strip abut each other and a rotating tube moving forward in a direction parallel to its longitudinal axis is formed, and continuously joining said abutting long edges together in a welding process directly when the tube is formed, whereby a welded tube comprising a helical welded seam is obtained.
US12053810B2
Processes for producing sheet metal products by machining a solid metal body with a cutting tool in a single step to continuously produce a continuous bulk form from material obtained from the solid metal body, and without performing a hot rolling operation thereon, cold rolling the continuous bulk form to produce a sheet metal product. The machining step is a large-strain machining process capable of being directly performed on an as-cast ingot or other solid body to produce a continuous intermediate product that can be directly cold rolled without any intervening hot rolling operation, and optionally without homogenization or annealing.
US12053807B2
A hub for use with a pipeline inspection device including a reel and a cable disposed at least partially within the reel, the cable including a camera. The hub includes a body configured to be selectively coupled to the reel, a mating member positioned on the body, where the mating member is configured to removably secure the body to the reel, a wireless communication module positioned within the body, where the wireless communication module is configured to create a wireless connection between the hub and a remote device including a display, a battery receptacle on the body, and a battery removably coupled to the battery receptacle, the battery configured to provide power to the camera.
US12053805B2
There is provided a technique that cleans a member in a process container by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including: (a) separately supplying a cleaning gas and an additive gas that reacts with the cleaning gas, respectively, from any two supply parts among at least three supply parts into the process container after processing a substrate; and (b) separately supplying the cleaning gas and the additive gas, respectively, from any two supply parts among the at least three supply parts into the process container, wherein at least one selected from the group of the cleaning gas and the additive gas is supplied from different supply parts in (a) and (b).
US12053797B2
An aerosol including an active material powder, a binder, and a gas is prepared. An electric field is formed between a substrate and a porous electrode. The aerosol is electrically charged. The aerosol after the electrically charging is introduced into the electric field. The aerosol passes through the porous electrode and thereby the aerosol is introduced into the electric field. At the time of the aerosol passing through the porous electrode, the aerosol comes into contact with the porous electrode and thereby the aerosol is electrically charged. In the electric field, the aerosol after the electrically charging flies toward the substrate due to electrostatic force. The aerosol adheres to a surface of the substrate and thereby an active material layer is formed.
US12053796B2
A multi-slot die coater which can improve a problem of structural vulnerability to deformation and torsion. The multi-slot die coater including a lower slot and an upper slot includes a lower die block; an intermediate die block disposed on the lower die block to form the lower slot therebetween; and an upper die block disposed on the intermediate die block to form the upper slot therebetween, wherein at least one of the lower die block, the intermediate die block, and the upper die block includes a metal coating layer on a ceramic body.
US12053795B2
A paste-like medium applicator comprising an inlet opening of the paste-like medium applicator, a plurality of outlet openings for applying a paste-like medium onto a surface to be treated, and a distribution channel for distributing the paste-like medium from the applicator's inlet opening to the outlet openings, wherein the paste-like medium applicator is formed of a first elongated half-shell with the inlet opening of the applicator and a second elongated half-shell with a plurality of outlet openings, wherein the side walls of the two half-shells have at each open end an integrally shaped circular edge surface, which, in the working position of the applicator, define a distribution channel, wherein the first and second half-shells are integrally connected by a film hinge and the first and second half-shells being respectively provided with latching elements with a barb and the second and first half-shells being respectively provided with receiving elements for receiving the latching elements so that in the working position of the applicator each latching element with the barb is latched in the corresponding receiving element. The advantage of the applicator is its monolithic configuration, which reduces the manufacturing costs and shortens the production time.
US12053794B2
Some implementations can include a zero turn radius utility vehicle that is operated in a standing position by an operator using foot controls provided on the utility vehicle. Accordingly, the operator's hands are free to operate handheld equipment (e.g., a line trimmer, edger, blower, etc.) while the operator controls the utility vehicle via the foot controls. Further, the utility vehicle may have a single third wheel (and no mower deck or other deck or protrusion) extending from the front of the vehicle frame so as to minimize any protrusions to the front of the vehicle, which can permit the operator to work on the ground in front of the utility vehicle using handheld equipment without interference from a mower deck, while remaining in a standing position on the utility vehicle and being able to simultaneously control the utility vehicle (via foot controls) and perform work with handheld equipment.
US12053792B2
An essential oil reflux-type atomizer comprising the following structures: chassis, housing, atomization chamber, gas pump, gas tube, gas nozzle, oil nozzle, and filter atomization mechanism. The filter atomization mechanism is installed in the housing and has an upper filter and a lower filter. The essential oil atomizer can be improved efficiency and reduced noise level.
US12053778B2
A method of manipulating and/or investigating cellular bodies (9) is provided. The method comprises the steps of: providing a sample holder (3) comprising a holding space (5) for holding a fluid medium (11); providing a sample (7) comprising one or more cellular bodies (9) in a fluid medium (11) in the holding space (5); generating an acoustic wave in the holding space exerting a force (F) on the sample (7) in the holding space (5). The method further comprises providing the holding space (5) with a functionalised wall surface portion (17) to be contacted by the sample (7) and the sample (7) is in contact with the functionalised wall surface portion (17) during at least part of the step of application of the acoustic wave. A system and a sample holder (3) are also provided.
US12053771B2
Provided herein are pipette tips having a proximal region with grooves and panels configured to facilitate wall expansion or wall compression when a pipette tip is mounted onto and sealingly engages with an appropriately designed liquid dispensing device.
US12053764B2
A catalyst for a hydrogenation reaction including: a polymer support; and a catalytic component supported on the polymer support. The polymer support includes a repeating unit represented by Formula 1.
US12053761B2
Methods for making a supported chromium catalyst are disclosed, and can comprise contacting a silica-coated alumina containing at least 30 wt. % silica with a chromium-containing compound in a liquid, drying, and calcining in an oxidizing atmosphere at a peak temperature of at least 650° C. to form the supported chromium catalyst. The supported chromium catalyst can contain from 0.01 to 20 wt. % chromium, and typically can have a pore volume from 0.5 to 2 mL/g and a BET surface area from 275 to 550 m2/g. The supported chromium catalyst subsequently can be used to polymerize olefins to produce, for example, ethylene-based homopolymers and copolymers having high molecular weights and broad molecular weight distributions.
US12053751B2
The present inventive concept relates to a system for dissolving gas. Specifically, an embodiment of the present inventive concept provides a system for dissolving gas, the system including a water supply unit configured to supply water, a gas supply unit configured to supply gas, a gas solution generation unit connected to the water supply unit and the gas supply unit, and a bubble gas solution generation unit connected to a rear end of the gas solution generation unit, wherein the gas solution generation unit includes a first gas solution generator connected in parallel to the gas supply unit and configured to generate a first gas solution and at least one second gas solution generator connected in parallel to the gas supply unit, connected in series to the first gas solution generator to receive the first gas solution from the first gas solution generator, and configured to generate a second gas solution having a gas concentration higher than a gas concentration of the first gas solution, and the bubble gas solution generation unit is connected to the second gas solution generator to receive the second gas solution from the second gas solution generator and generates a third gas solution containing a gas whose particles are smaller than particles of the gas contained in the second gas solution.
US12053749B2
An apparatus (100) for mixing a liquid (160) containing particulates (106, 108) comprising: a vessel (102) for containing the liquid (160) with a sidewall (120) and bottom (124); an impeller (300) rotates about a substantially vertical axis (X-X), the impeller submerging below the liquid surface (162) by a distance approximately one-tenth to one-half of the liquid (129) height; at least two spaced apart blades (310) extending radially outwardly of the vertical axis, the blades including back-swept blades pitched substantially parallel to the vertical axis, at least 50% of the length of each blade comprising an angled section (312) extending through a chord angle of 20 to 60 degrees to produce: an inner, upward flow region (164) along said vertical axis, a transition flow region (166) around the impeller in which liquid moves radially outwardly toward the vessel sidewall, and an outer, downward flow region (168) along the sidewall.
US12053745B2
Chemical liquid is injected into a tank. A concentration of a first gas dissolved in the chemical liquid is detected. Based on the detected concentration of the first gas, at least one of the first gas and a second gas is injected into the tank to sustain at least one of the concentration of the first gas and a concentration of the second gas in a range of a target value.
US12053742B2
A portable water conditioning system is provided that includes an incoming water inlet; a reverse osmosis stage in fluid communication with the incoming water inlet, the reverse osmosis stage having a permeate outlet and a concentrate outlet; a diversion device having a diversion valve, the diversion valve placing the concentrate outlet in fluid communication with a waste water outlet; a deionizing stage in fluid communication with a pure water outlet; a bypass valve configured to selectively place the permeate outlet in fluid communication with one or more of the waste water outlet, the deionizing stage, and the pure water outlet; and a controller configured to control the diversion device and the bypass valve to provide water at the pure water outlet of a desired condition.
US12053733B2
A pleated air filter media with a plurality of continuous-contact reinforcing filaments on at least one face of the pleated air filter. The filaments have locally-thinned bending zones each of which is registered with pleat tip or pleat valley of the pleated air filter media.
US12053731B2
Panel filter elements having a pleat block and a seal member are described. The panel filter elements are arranged such that the seal members and pleat blocks can have curved and/or angled elements. The seal member of a filter element may be curved, angled, twisted, and/or has a varying cross-section. The inlet and outlet faces of the pleat block of the filter element may be curved and/or twisted instead of planar. In some arrangements, both the seal member of the filter element and the faces of the pleat blocks can be curved and/or twisted. The described filter elements may be may be flexible, such that the shape of the filter element and/or seal can conform to the shape of a filter housing, or rigid, such that the shape of the filter element remains substantially the same before and after installation into a filter housing.
US12053728B2
Articles and methods relating to filter media are generally provided. In some embodiments, a filter media has an irregular surface structure. For instance, the filter media may comprise a plurality of peaks that are irregular in one or more ways. A ratio of a peak height standard deviation to an average peak height may be greater than or equal to 0.05, and/or a ratio of a peak spacing standard deviation to an average peak spacing may be greater than or equal to 0.08. In some embodiments, a filter media comprises a non-woven fiber web having a layer thickness of greater than 0.3 mm and/or a stiffness of less than or equal to 100 mg.
US12053725B2
A process for purifying a crude composition comprising rectifying the crude composition in a rectification plant. The rectification plant comprises a rectification column including: a first overhead condenser for condensing a head fraction, and a reboiler for evaporating a bottom fraction. A difference between a temperature of the head fraction and a temperature of the bottom fraction is less than or equal to 20° C. A heat pump is provided between the first overhead condenser and the reboiler. The heat pump is an indirect heat pump that is operated with water or methanol as a refrigerant, and the indirect heat pump includes an expansion valve and a compressor. The heat pump comprises a second condenser located upstream of the compressor.
US12053717B2
The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for the solvent extraction of a substance from a material. The disclosed systems include multiple tanks and an extraction chamber in communication with the tanks. Solvent transport is accomplished by heating and/or cooling selected tanks to cause the solvent to be transported between tanks.
US12053712B2
A kit and components for creating an elastic band model includes a form including at least one band retaining member. Elastic bands of different colors are assembled to the form using the band retaining member to hold the a plurality of linked elastic bands in place. The elastic bands fill out the form to create the shape and look of the model. The forms are part of a kit that includes the forms applicable to each unique model along with other components unique to that models shape and appearance.
US12053707B2
The present disclosure provides computer-implemented methods for difficulty-adjusted multi-participant interactivity. Also provided are computer readable media and computer devices that find use, e.g., in practicing the methods of the present disclosure. In certain aspects, the disclosure pertains to closed-loop assessment and adaptive methods and systems designed to equilibrate difficulty challenge levels across multiple (two or more) participants in interactive activities. In some embodiments, a first individual presents a first simulated challenge to a second individual and the second individual responds to it. Depending upon the response of the second individual to the first challenge, the second challenge presented by the first individual to the second individual may be unchanged, made more difficult, or made less difficult so that the modified second challenge is commensurate with the skills of the second individual. Thus, the disclosure provides customized experiences for individuals of disparate physical abilities to enjoyably interact with each other.
US12053703B2
An apparatus includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to determine a first setting of a first parameter associated with a first device. The first device is associated with a first device type. The one or more processors are further configured to detect an event. The event is associated with one of the first parameter or a second device that is associated with a second parameter, and the second device is associated with a second device type. The one or more processors are further configured to determine, based on detecting the event, a second setting of the second parameter for the second device based on a calibration relationship between the first parameter and the second parameter.
US12053700B2
The application describes methods and systems for dynamically generating a music clip for rendering at client devices in a multi-player gaming network. Player data and event data are acquired and classified into two or more profiles. The music clip is then generated by identifying a mood based on one of the two or more event profiles and one of the two or more player profiles and modulating one or more music elements of a segment of audio data based on the identified mood.
US12053686B2
The present invention may provide a screen used for screen golf, which can improve the brightness and clarity of the image projected on the screen by suppressing the light of the image from passing through the screen and increasing the reflectance of light from the front of the screen when an image is output by a projector on the screen. In addition, despite repeated golf shots of many users, the brightness and clarity of the image projected on the screen may not be damaged.
US12053681B2
Examples of golf bags and methods to manufacture stand golf bags are generally described herein. A golf bag may include a body portion with a first leg and a second leg. Each of the first leg and the second leg may be pivotally coupled to the body portion and moveable between a retracted position against the body portion and a deployed position away from the body portion. The first leg may include a first foot having a first retention portion configured to aid in retaining the first leg in the retracted position through magnetic attraction between the first retention portion and the body portion. The second leg may include a second foot having a second retention portion configured to aid in retaining the second leg in the retracted position through magnetic attraction between the second retention portion and the body portion. Other examples may be described and claimed.
US12053677B2
Disclosed herein is a driver-type golf club head that has a strike face. The strike face has a central region, defined by a 40 mm by 20 mm rectangular area centered on a geometric center of the strike face and elongated in a heel-to-toe direction. The driver-type golf club head is configured such that after 500 impacts of a standard golf ball at the geometric center of the strike face, where at each impact the standard golf ball has a velocity of 52 meters per second, the CT of the strike face at any point within the central region is less than 256 microseconds and the CT at the geometric center of the strike face is no more than five microseconds different than the initial CT value.
US12053676B2
A golf club head includes a face section, a crown section, a sole section, a heel section, and a toe section. A hollow section separated from the outside is formed inside the golf club head. The face section includes, on a back surface, a first thick section, a second thick section and a thin section thinner than the first thick section and the second thick section and disposed so as to surround the entire periphery of the first thick section and the entire periphery of the second thick section. The first thick section has a first portion disposed at the center in both the toe, and a second portion protruding from a part at the center of the first portion in the longitudinal direction toward the crown section.
US12053669B1
A multi-purpose exercise device has first and second hemispherical bodies each having a planar, circular face and a hemispherical dome extending from the face, and having a bore extending through the body. A rod is configured to be received within the bore of each body and the bodies have a configuration forming a spherical assembly wherein the rod extends through the bore of each body forming an axle. Handles connect to the rod on opposing sides of the spherical assembly, and are operable to receive a substantial downward force thereon. The handles prevent axial movement of each body relative to the rod. The spherical assembly is operable to roll on a floor surface with a substantial downward force applied to the handles. The bodies have a disassembled configuration, wherein the rod is removed from the assembly.
US12053668B2
The present invention relates to an indoor exercise bicycle capable of implementing an uphill mode and a downhill mode through a simple structure. An indoor exercise bicycle having uphill and downhill mode functions according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a brake unit that controls a pressing force applied to the circumferential surface of one side of a wheel, by means of forward movement of a brake mounting connected to a lead screw rotating through a motor; and a gear unit that is meshed with the brake unit of the lead screw while being spaced apart therefrom by a predetermined distance, and controls speed with respect to the rotational force of the wheel according to the rotation of the lead screw, wherein the brake unit may be operated in an uphill mode, and the gear unit may be operated in the downhill mode.
US12053666B2
A climbing machine having a single circulating transmission path structure is disclosed. The climbing machine includes a frame body, a first slide rail assembly, a second slide rail assembly, and a transmission unit. A transmission assembly of the transmission unit is continuously connected with a first pedal slider, a second pedal slider, a first handle slider, a second handle slider to form a single circulating transmission path instead of two independent paths on both sides of the frame body. The smoothness of the transmission path can be improved without the need for timing belts or connecting belts.
US12053661B2
An extendable fitness bar including an internal elastic member. The fitness bar includes two, hollow external bars with ends facing one another. On an interior of the two external bars is an internal bar. The elastic member extends through the two external bars and the internal bar. The elastic member is attached to a far end of each of the external bars. A user can grasp each external bar and separate them, exposing the internal bar and creating a longer continuous bar. This separation also causes the elastic member to stretch creating tension. The user may also twist the two external bars in opposing directions (clockwise and counterclockwise) for additional stretches.
US12053653B2
Disclosed are a focused ultrasound device and a method for setting an order of focused ultrasound treatment thereof. When using an ultrasound treatment method using mechanical energy, the focused ultrasound device according to an embodiment determines a next focal point position in consideration of at least one previous focal point position of focused ultrasound and thus can minimize thermal increase of an affected area and maximally utilize the mechanical energy.
US12053650B2
A method comprises presenting, by a server for display on a screen associated with a radiotherapy machine, a series of consecutive graphical user interfaces (GUIs), wherein a first GUI comprises: a first graphical indicator (GI) corresponding to a first attribute associated with configuration of the radiotherapy machine, and a second GI corresponding to a second attribute associated with the patient; when the server receives an indication that a user interacting with a pendant in communication with the server has inputted a first input corresponding to a first direction towards the first GI, presenting for display a second GUI comprising data associated with the first attribute; and when the server receives an indication that the user has inputted a second input corresponding to a second direction towards the second GI, presenting for display a third GUI comprising data associated with the second attribute.
US12053648B2
A planning and fusion system provides enhanced planning of focal therapy. Treatment zones are virtually planned on MR image data. The treatment plan generated on MR image data is registered to a second modality associated with a treatment device.
US12053634B2
A system for controlled sympathectomy procedures is disclosed. A system for controlled micro ablation procedures is disclosed. Methods for performing a controlled surgical procedure are disclosed. A system for performing controlled surgical procedures in a minimally invasive manner is disclosed. An implantable device for monitoring and/or performing a neuromodulation procedure is disclosed.
US12053631B2
Methods for treating medical disorders, such as migraine or other primary headaches, or fibromyalgia, by electrical stimulation of a nerve. The method comprises applying a first stimulus to a patient having a medical condition and measuring a first baseline physiological response from the patient. An electrical impulse is applied to a nerve within the patient and second stimulus is applied to the patient. A second physiological response evoked by the second stimulus is measured and compared to the first baseline physiological response. The methods may be used to optimize the placement of a stimulator, to test whether a patient is a suitable candidate for treatment using nerve stimulation, and/or to select the stimulation parameters that optimize acute or chronic treatment.
US12053626B2
An implantable electrical lead for use in the stimulation of biological tissues is provided. The lead has at least one surface electrode comprising a distal end and a proximal end. The at least one surface electrode is placed on the surface of tissue at an implant site, and at least one anchoring element with a distal end and a proximal end for holding the electrode at a desired position on the implant site is placed above the electrode at the implant site.
US12053621B2
A sliding cover for a liquid delivery device, such as a cap (100) for a pen injector (200), incorporates a set of sensors including a first optical sensor (110) with an output which changes during uncapping or capping motions on passing of a plunger (220) of the pen injector. This output is used together with at least one additional sensor output to determine the position of the plunger along a cylinder (210) of the liquid delivery device. By monitoring changes in the plunger position, the quantity of dosages delivered by the liquid delivery device can be determined, displayed, stored and/or transmitted to an external device for further data processing or storage.
US12053616B2
Aspects provide fluid responsive actuators and methods of using fluid responsive actuators capable of generating a power-to-volume ratio sufficient to inject a drug from a syringe within an injection period from about 1 to about 60 seconds after exposure of the fluid responsive elements to a fluid. The fluid responsive actuators can be used to inject viscous drugs to a patient.
US12053608B1
A micro-needling system, the system includes a micro-channeling device, a needle tip connector and a variety of micro-needling assemblies. The micro-channeling device is designed to provide reciprocal motion, in and out of skin, for the micro-needling assemblies when applied to skin. A quick connector is provided for easy interchange of the micro-needling assemblies. Benefits of the system include ergonomic holding, versatility of needle arrays and reduced vibration.
US12053607B2
An apparatus for treating skin has a console with a user input device and a handpiece assembly. The handpiece assembly is configured to treat skin. A fluid line provides fluid communication between the console and the handpiece assembly. A manifold system is coupled to the console and controlled by the user input device. The manifold system is configured to hold releasably a plurality of fluid sources and deliver fluid from at least one of the plurality of fluid sources to the handpiece assembly.
US12053604B2
A micropuncture kit for direct access of a surgically exposed vessel using direct visual guidance includes a micropuncture access needle having a proximal hub coupled to an elongate shaft defining an inner lumen and a visible depth indicator positioned on the elongate shaft a distance away from a distal tip of the elongate shaft. The kit includes an access guidewire sized to be received through the inner lumen of the micropuncture access needle and a microaccess cannula having an elongate body defining an inner lumen and a plurality of visible depth indicators formed on the elongate body. The guidewire includes a distal tip and at least one visible depth indicator positioned on the access guidewire a distance away from the distal tip of the guidewire. Each of the plurality of visible depth indicators identifies a distance from a distal tip of the cannula. Related systems, devices and methods are provided.
US12053595B2
The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for accessing a targeted vessel, such as a coronary artery, near the aortic root. A catheter device includes a proximal section, an intermediate section, and a distal section. The intermediate section includes a more proximal section (a proximal-intermediate section) and a more distal section (a distal-intermediate section). The proximal-intermediate section is microfabricated to enable preferred bending along a single plane. The distal-intermediate section is more rigid than the proximal-intermediate section and the distal section. In use, the proximal-intermediate section abuts against the aortic wall and bends to allow the distal-intermediate section to extend across the aortic root toward a targeted vessel on the opposite side of the aorta.
US12053592B2
A urinary catheter is disclosed, comprising a tubular shaft extending between an insertable end and a discharge end, and a tip fixedly connected to said insertable end of the tubular shaft. The tip has an outer diameter which at all places is equal to or lower than the outer diameter of the tubular shaft, and is very soft, so that the hardness of the tip is equal to or lower than 60 micro Shore A. It has been found that such a soft tip provides a catheter which is easier to insert into the urethra, in particular in urethras providing various types of obstacles. A corresponding method of manufacturing is also disclosed.
US12053580B2
Described is a system including a sensor and a processing arrangement. The sensor measures data corresponding to a patient's breathing patterns. The processing arrangement analyzes the breathing patterns to determine whether the breathing patterns are indicative of a REM sleep state. In another embodiment, the processing arrangement analyzes the breathing patterns to determine whether the breathing patterns are indicative of one of the following states: (i) a wake state and (ii) a sleep state. In another embodiment, a neural network analyzes the data to determine whether the breathing patterns are indicative of one of the following states: (i) a REM sleep state, (ii) a wake state and (iii) a sleep state. In another embodiment, the processing arrangement analyzes the data to determine whether the breathing pattern is indicative of an arousal.
US12053579B2
A device for placing a lung in a variety of different inflation states using positive air pressure. An exemplary device includes a housing and an air supply component. The housing includes a platform receives at least one of a synthetic lung or a real lung. The platform is at the same air pressure as a surrounding environment. The air supply component is located within the one or more internal cavities of the housing. The air supply component inflates the synthetic lung or the real lung with positive pressure.
US12053574B2
The present invention relates to a dry powder inhaler. The dry powder inhaler includes an inhaler housing, a drug container configured to be provided in the inhaler housing and accommodate the dry powder drug, a drug inlet configured to be disposed above the drug container and through which the dry powder drug is inhaled, and a mesh network configured to be installed on a path of the drug inlet and have a mesh part for collision with the dry powder drug formed therein.
US12053566B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for carrying out a peritoneal dialysis treatment comprising a reservoir for fresh dialysis fluid, a connector for connecting to a peritoneal catheter of a patient, a drain for consumed dialysis fluid, and a control unit connected to actuators, wherein the apparatus is configured to carry out a plurality of consecutive inflow-dwell-outflow cycles for a treatment on the basis of a prescription stored in the control unit, in which inflow-dwell-outflow cycles dialysis fluid is supplied to the patient from the reservoir and is led off through the outflow again after the elapse of a specific dwell time in the peritoneum of the patient, and wherein the apparatus is further configured to already replace a portion of the dialysis fluid present in the peritoneum of the patient with fresh dialysis fluid from the reservoir before the elapse of the dwell time in at least one cycle if, in at least one preceding cycle, the volume of fresh dialysis fluid provided in accordance with the prescription for this preceding cycle was not completely consumed.
US12053564B2
A lid that retains a pump tube which is elastic; a finger driving unit that is disposed facing the lid with the pump tube interposed therebetween, and that causes a plurality of fingers to sequentially move in the direction of contacting and separating from the lid; and a pump tube opening/closing mechanism that causes the finger driving unit to advance towards and retract from the lid, and that closes and opens the pump tube which is disposed between the fingers and the lid.
US12053563B1
Chemical carriers for fragrances include components in proportions that enable a rate of diffusion or volatilization of at least one fragrance to be tailored. Such a fragrance carrier may include isopropyl myristate (IPM), 3-methyoxy-3-methyl-1-butanol (MMB), and cyclomethicone. The fragrance carrier may enable a fragrance to be delivered by a variety of different dispensers. Methods for optimizing the rates of diffusion or volatilization and other characteristics of fragrances using such a fragrance carrier are also disclosed.
US12053549B2
Provided is a laxative tablet which includes magnesium oxide as a main constituent, wherein (1) the particle size by volume of 50% (D50) of particles which emerge when the tablet is suspended in water is 70 μm or less as determined by laser diffractometry, (2) the particle size by volume of 90% (D90) of the particles which emerge when the tablet is suspended in water is 130 μm or less as determined by laser diffractometry, and (3) the dissolution time of the tablet when the tablet is suspended in water according to the Japanese Pharmacopoeia—general testing methods—dissolution testing methods is 10 seconds or less.
US12053545B2
Described herein are transdermal solvent systems comprising at least one active agent in solution in a base solution, the base solution comprising at least one fatty acid ester compound, at least one monoterpene compound and a co-solvent in the form of DMSO or DMI and at least one plant oil. The base solution was found to be highly versatile and provide superior or at least comparable skin penetration efficacy and active agent compatibility. Methods of treatment, uses of the solvent system and methods of manufacture are also described.
US12053542B2
The instant disclosure generally relates to a multicomponent composition for coloring mammalian or synthetic substrate material and textiles, the composition comprising a first and second components and a third component. The first and second components comprise first and second silicone polymers respectively. Any one or more of the first, second and third components may also comprise pigment microparticles. The first, second and third compounds meld together on substrate material and textiles and especially on hair to form a highly remanent colored coating. The multicomponent composition formed and set in situ as a solid linked coating has a substantially permanent pigment lastingness and minimally alters the substrate material and textiles.
US12053534B2
Radiolabeled anti-PD-L1 antibodies and their use in immuno-PET imaging are provided herein. Included are methods of detecting the presence of PD-L1 proteins in a patient or sample.
US12053532B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds that are useful as near-infrared fluorescence probes, wherein the compounds include i) a pteroyl ligand that binds to a target receptor protein, ii) a dye molecule, and iii) a linker molecule that comprises an amino acid or derivative thereof. The disclosure further describes methods and compositions for incorporating the compounds as used for the targeted imaging of tumors. Conjugation of the amino acid linking groups increase specificity and detection of the compound. Methods and compositions for use thereof in diagnostic imaging are contemplated.
US12053531B2
The present application provides materials and methods for treating a patient with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) both ex vivo and in vivo. In addition, the present application provides materials and methods for editing a dystrophin gene in a cell by genome editing.
US12053516B2
The present disclosure relates to an immunogenic composition comprising a combination of meningococcal antigens which comprises at least one factor H binding protein (fHBP) A protein, at least one fHBP B protein, at least one Neisseria adhesin A (NadA) protein, and at least one detergent-extracted Outer Membrane Vesicle (dOMV). The meningococcal antigens may be from a Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B. The combination of antigens provided a broad coverage of bacteria strains. Further, the present disclosure relates to the use of the immunogenic composition in methods for eliciting an immune response.
US12053511B2
The present invention includes a composition and method of modulating a dysregulated gut-derived inflammation following a thermal injury comprising: identifying a mammal in need of treatment for the dysregulated gut-derived inflammation following the thermal injury; and providing the mammal with a recombinant Cystatin 9 (CST9) and Cystatin C (CSTC) in a synergistic amount sufficient to restrain or prevent a life-threatening, unrestrained systemic dysregulated gut-derived inflammation in the mammal caused by the thermal injury.
US12053498B2
Methods of improving mammalian carbohydrate metabolism and treating, preventing, or halting the progression of type 2 diabetes mellitus involve the consumption of a nutritional composition containing fruit or vegetable pomace. The pomace is produced from native plant tissue and contains a mixture of soluble and insoluble fiber. Periodic consumption of the composition normalizes blood glucose concentration and controls body weight.
US12053495B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods for the suppression of multi-drug resistant organisms. Provided herein are compositions and methods for treating diseases or disorders associated with bacterial colonization or treating diseases or disorders associated with an immune response induced by bacteria. Also provided herein are compositions and methods for suppressing colonization of the intestine of subject with oral microbiome bacteria.
US12053471B2
Amorphous solid dispersions and pharmaceutical compositions of the protein kinase inhibitor nilotinib. The pharmaceutical compositions may be used in methods of treating a proliferative disorder such as cancer. In some embodiments, the pharmaceutical compositions can be administered without regard to food consumption. In other embodiments, the pharmaceutical compositions can be administered at a significantly lower dose as compared to a commercially available immediate-release nilotinib formulation, while providing a comparable therapeutic effect.
US12053467B2
A new use of a cyclo(His-Pro) is disclosed. In particular, a method for treating fibrosis and/or inflammation which includes administering an effective amount of an isolated cyclo (His-Pro) to a subject in need thereof is disclosed.
US12053466B2
Provided herein is are methods of using 4-(4-(4-(((2-(2,6-dioxopiperidin-3-yl)-1-oxoisoindolin-4-yl)oxy)methyl)benzyl)piperazin-1-yl)-3-fluorobenzonitrile, or an enantiomer, a mixture of enantiomers, a tautomer, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and a bispecific antibody specifically binding to human B cell maturation antigen (BCMA) and to human CD3ε (CD3) provided herein, in treating, preventing or managing multiple myeloma.
US12053458B2
Compounds that activate pyruvate kinase R can be used for the treatment of sickle cell disease (SCD). Methods and compositions for the treatment of SCD are provided herein, including a therapeutic compound designated as Compound 1.
US12053456B2
The present invention relates to a combination product and its use in therapy.
US12053442B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions, methods of preparation of the compositions, and methods including administration of said compositions for the prevention of neurological damage associated with cerebral ischemia.
US12053439B2
Methods of making safe extracts of Curcuma are provided. The processes provided include methods that use an extraction solvent that is at least substantially non-toxic and useful also as a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier in liquid dosage forms. The processes can produce a significantly higher yield from a single extraction than the state-of-the-art processes. For example, liquid dosage forms can be produced directly from the extraction process without requiring removal of the extraction solvent, reducing complexity and cost of processing over the state-of-the-art. Methods of making microemulsions and nanoemulsions are also provided to enhance the bioavailability and stability of the extracts.
US12053424B2
Disclosed herein is a massage device having a shape-changeable structure. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is disclosed a massage device including a seat frame configured to support buttocks of a user, a link frame of which one end is connected to one end of the seat frame, and a link sub-frame connected to the other end of the link frame and disposed between the link frame and a driving force providing part, wherein an angle between the link frame and the seat frame is maintained at a predetermined angle, and an angle between the link frame and the link sub-frame changes according to the movement of the driving force providing part.
US12053421B2
An activation assembly for activating a release mechanism of a drive for a patient support apparatus includes a pivot pin, a bracket, bias member, and handle pivotable about the pivot pin. Force applied to the handle results in movement of the bracket, bias member, and handle about the pivot pin when the force is sufficient to overcome the bias of the bias member. Movement of the bracket results in the motion being transferred to the release mechanism.
US12053411B2
A dental guard (10) for preventing wear of the occlusal surfaces of a user's teeth resulting from bruxism is provided. The dental guard (10) can be can be custom-fitted to the teeth of the wearer. The guard (10) comprises a durable core (14) that is overmolded by a thermoplastic outer layer (12). The outer layer (12) can be softened through exposure to hot, but not boiling, water, and then formed around the user's teeth. The guard (10) may include one or more features (32, 84) that assist the user in proper positioning of the guard within his or her mouth during the custom fitting process.
US12053410B2
A more comfortable ostomy bag that will not irritate the skin from relative movement. The ostomy bag has a pair of flexible flat sheets of material bonded together at juxtaposed edges to form a seam. A soft outer edge outside of the seam is formed by extensions of the sheets that either remain disconnected so as to form loose flaps or are slit radially to form finger-like extensions, or both. The ostomy bag further has an inlet opening formed through one of the flat sheets.
US12053409B2
Examples relate to systems and methods to periodically apply inward pressure against the contents of non-intrusive bodily waste collection devices. The systems and methods disclosed herein utilize a non-intrusive bodily waste collection device having an outermost fluid impermeable barrier forming a chamber therein, one or more ports on the fluid impermeable barrier for removing fluids therefrom via a vacuum source, and one or more input ports fluidly coupled to a positive pressure source to input fluid into the chamber to collectively apply periodic inward pressure against the contents of the bodily waste collection device.
US12053405B2
An ankle brace includes a main body that is configured to receive a foot of a wearer. The main body has a first side portion and a second side portion opposite the first side portion. An adjustable stirrup assembly is coupled to the main body. The adjustable stirrup assembly includes an inner stirrup and an outer stirrup. The inner stirrup is configured to underlie the sole of the foot of the wearer. The inner stirrup includes a first inner stirrup strap and a second inner stirrup strap. The first inner stirrup strap is coupled to the first side portion of the main body. The second inner stirrup strap is coupled to the second side portion of the main body, and the second inner stirrup strap detachably couples to the first inner stirrup strap. The outer stirrup at least partially underlies the inner stirrup.
US12053401B2
A balloon system for delivery of a device. The balloon system includes a balloon including: an elongated central portion including a proximal tapered cone and a distal tapered cone, the elongated central portion and the proximal and distal tapered cones being in an uninflated state; a proximal receiving trench adjacent the proximal tapered cone and a distal receiving trench adjacent the distal tapered cone, and a distal backstop adjacent the distal receiving trench, the distal receiving trench being defined by the distal backstop and the distal tapered cone; and a proximal retractable cuff disposed over the proximal receiving trench and the proximal tapered cone and a distal retractable cuff disposed over the distal receiving trench and the distal tapered cone.
US12053398B2
A stent delivery system including an elongate shaft of a medical device, a stent selectively coupled to a distal portion of the elongate shaft, and a coupling mechanism for selectively coupling the stent to the elongate shaft by inserting a tab on one of the stent or the elongate shaft into an opening in the other of the stent or the elongate shaft. The tab may be deflected from a first position to a second position to disengage the tab from the opening.
US12053393B2
A bone graft delivery system for delivering graft material into a surgical site. The delivery system includes an elongate hollow tube constructed to receive the bone graft material and having a hollow interior and indicia formed on an exterior surface of the elongate hollow tube. The delivery system also includes a plunger adapted to extend in the elongate hollow tube and to form a substantially congruent fit with the hollow interior of the elongate hollow tube such that the plunger is precluded from rotating within the elongate hollow tube. The plunger is adapted to urge bone graft material through the elongate hollow tube to deliver bone graft material through an opening thereof.
US12053391B2
An inflatable central distractor is inserted in to a disc space between two vertebral endplates. A perimeter balloon is inserted into the disc space in such a manner as to surround the central inflatable distractor. The perimeter balloon and the central inflatable distractor are simultaneously expanded such that as the central inflatable distractor expands the perimeter balloon surrounds the central inflatable distractor and such that the central inflatable distractor and the perimeter balloon, when expanded, contribute to forcing adjacent vertebral endplates apart.
US12053389B2
Shoulder arthroplasty systems and configurations for components thereof are described. For example, implant systems for a total should arthroplasty (TSA), hemi shoulder arthroplasty, and reverse should arthroplasty (RSA) are described. In addition, exemplary configurations for baseplates, glenoid components, glenosphere components, humeral components, humeral head components, humerosocket components, connectors, and adaptors, are described.
US12053387B2
A knee joint prosthesis may be for implantation in a knee of a patient. The knee prosthesis may comprise a tibial component configured to be implanted on the tibia and a femoral component configured to be implanted on the femur. The femoral component may comprise a medial condyle with a medial articulation surface and a lateral condyle with a lateral articulation surface. The medial articulation surface and the lateral articulation surface may be shaped substantially symmetrically to each other across a femoral component plane bisecting the femoral component. The tibial component may comprise an articulation surface with a medial articulation side configured to articulate with the medial articulation surface and a lateral articulation side configured to articulate with the lateral articulation surface. The medial articulation side and the lateral articulation side may be shaped substantially asymmetrically to each other across a tibial component plane bisecting the tibial component.
US12053377B2
A quick-connect heart valve prosthesis that can be quickly and easily implanted during a surgical procedure is provided. The heart valve includes a substantially non-expandable, non-compressible prosthetic valve and a plastically-expandable frame, thereby enabling attachment to the annulus without sutures. A small number of guide sutures may be provided for aortic valve orientation. The prosthetic valve may be a commercially available valve with a sewing ring with the frame attached thereto. The frame may expand from a conical deployment shape to a conical expanded shape, and may include web-like struts connected between axially-extending posts. A system and method for deployment includes an integrated handle shaft and balloon catheter. A valve holder is stored with the heart valve and the handle shaft easily attaches thereto to improve valve preparation steps.
US12053366B2
A tubular structure has succeeded in achieving excellent puncture resistance as well as maintenance of flexibility in a base by covering the base with a cover having excellent flexibility. The tubular structure includes a tubular base and a cover which covers the base, wherein the cover includes a copolymer containing a silicone monomer and a polymerizable monomer having a fluoroalkyl group(s) as monomer units.
US12053365B2
A combined sheath with a wire body and a filter. The filter may be removably coupled to the sheath within a filter capsule for temporary placement and retrieval.
US12053357B2
An absorbent article in the form of a feminine hygiene pad is disclosed. The article includes a topsheet formed of a section of formed nonwoven web material having an ordered arrangement of zones, each zone comprising one or more attenuated regions adjacent to one or more built-up regions, wherein the attenuated regions have a first average basis weight and the built-up regions have a second average basis weight. Through configuration of the regions and the ordered arrangement, inclusion of melt additive to the resin(s) from which the filaments are spun and/or application of a surfactant to a surface of the topsheet, the topsheet may be imparted with a Rewet of no greater than 0.50 g and an Acquisition Time of no greater than 25 seconds, balancing competing topsheet performance characteristics in a manner acceptable or preferable for consumers/users.
US12053343B1
A manufacturing system and method obtain a first digital model of teeth, create a modified digital model of the teeth by adding a locator feature to the first digital model of the teeth, and create a physical model of the teeth based on the modified digital model. A portion of the physical model is created based on the locator feature. A dental aligner device is formed on the physical model of the teeth with extraneous material of the dental aligner device extending away from the dental aligner device. The extraneous material is removed from the dental aligner device from the physical model of the teeth. The forming of the dental aligner device and/or the removing of the extraneous material is performed by positioning the physical model using the locator feature.
US12053342B1
A system and method for treating a necrotic tooth in a root canal and includes using a dual function double barrel reciprocating syringe in conjunction with a dual channel needle to provide both an irrigant for irrigation and aspiration of the irrigant and organic debris within the necrotic tooth. Once optimally positioned and secured in place by a rubber seal, root canal of the tooth can be treated through irrigation and aspiration of the dual channel needle.
US12053336B2
Apparatuses, components, devices, methods, and systems for generating dentures are provided. An example system includes a motion capture system that captures patient jaw motion and generates patient jaw motion data; and a denture design system that generates a denture design based on the patient jaw motion data. An example method includes acquiring a digital reference denture model of a reference denture; selecting a denture tooth library based on the digital reference denture model; selecting and aligning denture library teeth from the selected denture tooth library to the digital reference denture model; generating a denture base digital model based on the digital reference denture model and the aligned denture library teeth; and fabricating a physical denture based from the denture base digital model.
US12053332B2
A method for operating a microscopy system is provided. The microscopy system includes a microscope and a stand supporting the microscope. The microscope is arranged on the stand. The stand includes at least one drive device configured to move the microscope. The method includes determining a specified value or a specified change of a modulable inertia of the microscopy system based on a state variable and/or based on user information and/or based on a force acting on the microscopy system and/or based on a current instance of application. The at least one drive device is controlled such that a divergence between the specified value and an actual value of the modulable inertia is reduced or the modulable inertia is varied in accordance with the specified change.
US12053330B2
Described herein are methods and systems for testing transducers and associated integrated circuits. In some cases, a method or system described herein can comprise modulating a bias voltage using a test signal in order to produce a modulated bias voltage signal useful in testing a plurality of transducers of a transducer array in parallel.
US12053327B2
Systems, devices, and methods are provided to provide serial monitoring for a patient. An ultrasound system is provided which may include subdividing a portion of the anatomy of a patient into a number of zones. Imaging data may be received by an imaging device. This imaging data may be used to generate a severity score for each zone based on imaging parameters within the imaging data. Changes in the severity score for each zone may be displayed over time, such that a medical professional may monitor each zone in a serial manner.
US12053315B2
A CT apparatus includes an annular frame that rotates around a subject positioned in a bore, three columns that hold the frame to be rotatable and movable up and down in a vertical, an elevation mechanism that moves up and down the frame, and a rotation mechanism that rotates the frame. A radiation source and a radiation detector are attached to the frame at positions facing each other. The frame has a width smaller than a width of the radiation source and the radiation detector in a height direction over a whole periphery. An imaging controller performs control for operating the elevation mechanism in response to a return instruction from an operator to move the frame to a retreat height position set at a position of a highest point in an elevation range of the frame on an upper end side of the columns. The imaging controller performs control for operating the rotation mechanism in response to the return instruction from the operator to rotate the frame to a position of 60° that is a first rotation position where the radiation source overlaps the columns.
US12053309B2
A waste collection device and a docking device are provided for collecting waste generated in a medical process. The waste collection device is docked with the docking device to discharge the waste. The waste collection device comprises a portable cart; at least one waste collection container mounted to the portable cart and configured to store waste generated in a medical process; a mating bracket mounted to the portable cart and configured to mate with the docking device; two collection end connectors attached to the mating bracket and connected to the at least one waste collection container; and two floating sleeve heads mounted to the mating bracket and correspondingly sleeved on the two collection end connectors. The floating sleeve heads can guide docking end connectors to connect with the corresponding collection end connectors so that said connectors are accurately connected, and the invention has a simple structure and low manufacture cost.
US12053305B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided to predict or diagnose an ischemic event, such as a stroke or a transient ischemic attack (TIA). A machine-learning model such as a neural network is generated that allows for recognition of an ECG consistent with an ischemic event. A system is trained and used to process a recording of ECG data from a patient to generate a prediction indicating a likelihood that the patient will experience a stroke. In other examples, a system is trained and used to process a recording of ECG data from a patient and detect an ischemic event for the patient who did not appear to have such an ischemic event.
US12053301B2
Images of a plurality of users are captured concurrently with the plurality of users evincing a plurality of expressions. The images are captured using one or more eye tracking sensors implemented in one or more head mounted devices (HMDs) worn by the plurality of first users. A machine learnt algorithm is trained to infer labels indicative of expressions of the users in the images. A live image of a user is captured using an eye tracking sensor implemented in an HMD worn by the user. A label of an expression evinced by the user in the live image is inferred using the machine learnt algorithm that has been trained to predict labels indicative of expressions. The images of the users and the live image can be personalized by combining the images with personalization images of the users evincing a subset of the expressions.
US12053299B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for facilitating a secure platform for point-to-point brain sensing are provided herein. An exemplary method includes presenting a user of a brain-computer interface with learning content; monitoring brain signals of the user using a brain-computer interface while the learning content is being presented; determining, based at least in part on said monitoring, that a confusion state of the user exceeds a personalized confusion threshold in regard to at least a part of the learning content; in response to said determining, outputting information to assist the user in understanding the part of the learning content until the confusion state of the user is below the personalized confusion threshold.
US12053298B2
A wearable device may be provided for detecting cumulative alcohol consumption. Such a wearable device may include an adhesive layer that adheres to skin and that allows sweat from the skin to pass through and a customizable ink layer that reacts irreversibly to change color along a gradient as ethanol is detected in the sweat. The customizable ink continues to increase color intensity along the gradient as ethanol continues to be detected in the sweat over time.
US12053289B2
A system and method for identifying a stimulation location on a nerve is disclosed. The system includes an image-based navigation interface used to facilitate advancing a stimulation element within a patient body toward a target nerve stimulation site. Using the system one determines, separately for each potential target nerve stimulation site, a neuromuscular response of muscles produced upon applying a stimulation signal at the respective separate potential target stimulation sites. The image-based navigation interface is configured to display a graphic identification of which muscles were activated for each respective potential target nerve stimulation site upon applying the stimulation signal.
US12053288B2
Some systems, devices and methods detailed herein provide a system for use in determining metrics of a subject. The system can provide, as an output, a function-metric value determined based on a defined relationship between physiological measures and a chronological age.
US12053276B2
A medical device for providing therapy to a patient comprises at least one processor configured to receive a first patient biometric signature from at least one first sensor interface. The at least one processor is further configured to record the first patient biometric signature in a patient encounter record in at least one memory. The at least one processor is further configured to receive patient information from an external source, the patient information comprising a second patient biometric signature. The at least one processor is further configured to make a determination that the second patient biometric signature corresponds to the first patient biometric signature. The at least one processor is further configured to, in response to making the determination, merge the patient information and the patient encounter record into a merged record for a patient encounter.
US12053267B2
A method and a device for non-contact determination of temporal color and/or intensity variations in objects in a scene. Monoscopic overview images of the scene are detected with first and second overview cameras from two different viewing directions, and calculated to form a stereoscopic overview map. A two-dimensional detail image is detected by a detail camera from a third viewing direction and is projected on the overview map. Measurement surfaces in the scene are selected based on criteria which are predetermined depending on parameters on which conclusions are to be drawn from the color variations and/or intensity variations. Light emitted by the measurement surfaces is detected in a spatially-resolved and wavelength-resolved manner in a continuously-captured series of measurement images in a predetermined spectral range. The measurement surfaces are analyzed in the measurement images with respect to temporal variation of the intensity and/or color of the light, and the results displayed.
US12053257B2
A wearable, open and adjustable MRI head coil system having an assembly of support members, panels, or portions defining one or more access openings. The support members, panels, or portions can support, house, or otherwise include radiofrequency receiver antennae or imaging coils such that the assembly is positionable or wearable by a patient for MRI scanning. The radiofrequency receiver antennae or imaging coils, and other devices can be simultaneously in contact with a patient's head, thereby enabling use during diagnostic, therapeutic, surgical or other interventional procedures.
US12053255B2
A surgical method includes, for example, positioning a patient relative to a robot, moving an end effector of the robot relative to a surgical site of a patient, defining a go-zone and a no-go-zone associated with the surgical site based on the moving the end effector of the robot relative to the patient, and effecting a surgical procedure at the surgical site of the patient with a tool attached to the end effector of the robot based on the defined go-zone and the defined no-go-zone, and wherein the effecting the surgical procedure maintains the tool in the defined go-zone and avoids contact with the defined no-go-zone.
US12053253B2
A robotic electromechanical surgical instrument includes a housing, an elongated shaft that extends distally from the housing, a wrist assembly supported on the elongated shaft, an end effector coupled to the wrist assembly, a universal joint assembly supported within the wrist assembly, and cables coupled to the wrist assembly. The elongated shaft defines a longitudinal axis. The wrist assembly includes a first joint coupled to a second joint. The universal joint assembly is rotatable to actuate a function of the end effector. The plurality of cables is movable to manipulate the first and second joints to enable the universal joint assembly and the wrist assembly to articulate relative to the longitudinal axis.
US12053248B2
A system (502) includes an elongate ultrasound imaging probe (504) with a long axis and a top side that extends along the long axis. The elongate ultrasound imaging probe includes an elongate tubular handle (606; 1606), a head (1608), an elongate tubular shaft (608; 1610) between the elongate tubular handle and the head, and a transducer array (514) disposed in the head and configured to transmit in a sagittal plane, which is a plane that cuts through the long axis of the elongate tubular shaft, only in a direction extending out from the top side. The elongate tubular handle is both not centered on the elongate tubular shaft and not shifted down in the sagittal plane away from the top.
US12053247B1
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems, devices and methods for tracking a head mounted display for generating a virtual display superimposed onto a patient during a surgical procedure. The head mounted display (HMD) is tracked using a first fiducial marker, sub-array or array integrated or attached to the HMD over a first movement range and using a second fiducial marker, sub-array or array integrated or attached to the HMD over a second movement range. The system is configured to superimpose and maintain a virtual display onto the patient over a head movement range that is greater than the first or the second movement range.
US12053240B2
An analytic tool for supporting alignment of an optical component in preparation for an interferometric test and performance of such a test. Apparatus and methods involve employment of the datum features on the optical component and/or metrology frame supporting such component. The metrology frame may include a secondary set of holograms (provided for use with a conventional system already employing a primary hologram that forms the testing optical wavefront). The conventional primary hologram is preferably substituted with a set of primary holograms (contained in the same, unitary or spatially-complementary housing sets) that perform different but complementary functions and that facilitate the alignment of the metrology frame with or without the tested optical component.
US12053239B2
A device, method and booth for automatic determination of the subjective ocular refraction of a patient. The device, which is preferably set up in a booth, has an automatic refractor, a central unit, a data input unit, an instruction-generating system controlled by the central unit and configured to generate instructions to the patient at least during an eye test, an interface system provided between the patient and the central unit and configured to detect, and to transmit directly to the central unit, indications generated in the form of gestures by the patient at least during an eye test, the central unit being configured to automatically perform at least one eye test, by controlling the automatic refractor and by receiving indications generated by the patient by way of the interface system, and to automatically determine, from these indications received, the subjective ocular refraction of the patient and/or a prescription for spectacles.
US12053230B2
An electrosurgical instrument includes a housing and an elongated shaft extending from the housing. An end effector is disposed at a distal portion of the elongated shaft. The end effector is configured to deliver electrosurgical energy to tissue. The end effector includes a first jaw member having a first electrode plate and a second jaw member having a second electrode plate. A movable handle is operably coupled to the housing. The movable handle is configured to move at least one of the first or second jaw members between an open position and a closed position. A first plate is disposed on the first jaw member. A second plate is disposed on the first plate. The second plate includes an opening defined therein. A bead is disposed on the first plate and is configured to protrude through the opening defined in the second plate.
US12053225B2
Instrument and systems for applying ablative energy to epicardial tissue via a subxiphoid access surgical approach. The instrument has a head assembly sized and shaped for a subxiphoid surgical approach to a patient's heart and defines a contact face. The head assembly includes a paddle body, a first ablation electrode, and a second ablation electrode. The ablation electrodes are coupled to the paddle body in a spaced apart, spatially-fixed fashion. The ablation electrodes are exteriorly exposed at the contact face. A tubular member extends from the head assembly and maintains wiring connected to the ablation electrodes. The instrument is manipulable to locate the contact face on epicardial tissue of a patient's heart via a subxiphoid surgical approach, such as between the left and right pulmonary vein junctions of the posterior left atrium.
US12053224B2
An end-effector is disclosed. The end-effector includes a clamp arm and an ultrasonic blade configured to acoustically couple to an ultrasonic transducer and electrically couple to a pole of an electrical generator. The clamp arm includes a clamp jaw and an electrode configured to electrically couple to an opposite pole of the electrical generator. In one configuration, the electrode is segmented. In another configuration, the ultrasonic blade includes electrically insulative material deposited on selected areas to prevent electrical shorting in the event of the ultrasonic blade contacts the electrode. In another configuration, the clamp arm, the ultrasonic blade, or both include selectively coated components.
US12053221B2
Multi-electrode ablation systems, methods, and controllers are described. In one example, a method of beginning an ablation procedure using a multi-electrode ablation system is described. The method includes selectively coupling the output of a power supply to a first electrode of a plurality of electrodes to increase a temperature at the first electrode to a first temperature set-point and limit a rate of increase of the temperature at the first electrode to a predetermined first rate.
US12053220B1
An elongate electrode is configured to flex and generate plasma to incise tissue. An electrical energy source operatively coupled to the electrode is configured to provide electrical energy to the electrode to generate the plasma. A tensioning element is operatively coupled to the elongate electrode. The tensioning element can be configured to provide tension to the elongate electrode to allow the elongate electrode to flex in response to the elongate electrode engaging the tissue and generating the plasma. The tensioning element operatively coupled to the flexible elongate electrode may allow for the use of a small diameter electrode, such as a 5 μm to 20 μm diameter electrode, which can allow narrow incisions to be formed with decreased tissue damage. In some embodiments, the tensioning of the electrode allows the electrode to more accurately incise tissue by decreasing variations in the position of the electrode along the incision path.
US12053219B2
A fastener guide that includes a body. The body includes a through-bore configured for receiving a fastener and an end configured for contacting a bone plate. The fastener guide further includes at least one member configured for contacting and retaining the fastener within the body.
US12053211B2
A posterior cervical fixation system including an occipital plate member, a cross connector, a pair of elongated spinal rods and a plurality of polyaxial screws. The occipital plate member configured for fixing to an occipital bone comprises an aperture to receive a bone anchor member to secure the occipital plate member to the occipital bone and at least one rod clamping element dimensioned to receive at least one spinal rod. The cross connector secures the pair of elongated spinal rods to vertebral bodies. The cross connector includes a pair of collet connectors and a cross bar that is configured to secure the pair of elongated spinal rods in a desired distance. Each polyaxial screw has an anchor head associated with a fastening member. The pair of elongated spinal rods is configured to extend along the vertebral bodies between the occipital plate member and at least one of the polyaxial screws.
US12053209B2
A spinal fixation system includes a plurality of bone anchors and an array of receiver sub-assemblies, with each bone anchor having a common universal capture portion configured for bottom loading into one of the receiver sub-assemblies that includes at least one of a multiplanar receiver sub-assembly, a monoplanar receiver sub-assembly, and a monoaxial receiver sub-assembly that further include, respectively, a multiplanar retainer sub-assembly for providing pivotal motion of the bone anchor relative to the receiver in multiple planes, a monoplanar retainer sub-assembly for limiting pivotal motion of the bone anchor relative to the receiver to a single plane, and a monoaxial retainer sub-assembly for inhibiting all pivotal motion of the bone anchor relative to the receiver while providing of rotation the monoaxial receiver sub-assembly about the longitudinal axis of the bone anchor.
US12053208B2
Bone anchoring methods and systems employed by such methods. The bone anchoring methods involve implanting a vertebral adjustment system into a vertebral body of a patient. The vertebral adjustment system includes a flexible member and a tensioning mechanism coupled to the flexible member. The tensioning mechanism is capable of imparting a force on the flexible member to change the tension of the flexible member. The methods include the step of engaging the tensioning mechanism to the flexible member, enabling the flexible member to be tensioned and secured in place.
US12053205B2
A wound debridement system includes a wound dressing having an active layer and a wound interface layer. The active layer is formed from one or more drive elements arranged about a film layer, by which the drive elements are attached to the wound interface layer. Activation of the drive elements is configured to cause the movement of the wound interface layer relative to a tissue site to which the wound dressing is applied. The drive elements may include one or more drive members formed of a material having a shape memory effect configured to transition the drive members between expanded and collapsed configurations and/or one or more motors configured to translate or oscillate the active layer. The wound interface layer may be formed having an abrasive wound-facing surface, such that the movement of the wound interface layer causes a mechanical disruption and debridement of debris at the tissue site.
US12053201B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide improved methods and apparatus of treating the prostate. In many embodiments, at least a portion of the prostate is enucleated with a water jet, in order to decrease the invasiveness of the surgery. The access to the prostate can be provided with one or more of open surgical access, percutaneous access, or urethral access. The prostate can be enucleated such that an inner portion of the prostate comprising adenomatous tissue of the prostate is separated from a portion an outer the prostate comprising the capsule. In many embodiments, the patient is treated with energy of the water jet configured to separate the capsule from the inner tissue of the prostate and to inhibit cutting of blood vessels.
US12053199B2
An ultrasonic surgical instrument assembly including an irrigation sleeve assembly defining a lumen and an ultrasonic tip at least partially disposed within the lumen of the irrigation sleeve. The irrigation sleeve assembly may comprise a hub and an irrigation sleeve coupled to the hub. The irrigation sleeve may comprise an inner sheath and an outer sheath, both extending distally from the hub. The outer sheath may surround at least a portion of the inner sheath to define an irrigation passageway between the outer sheath and the inner sheath configured to deliver irrigation fluid to the surgical site. The distal end of the inner sheath may extend beyond the distal end of the outer sheath. Each of the inner and the outer sheath may be coupled to the hub by an annular sealing member configured to create fluid-tight seal between the hub and the respective inner and outer sheath.
US12053183B2
Neurovascular flow diverter and delivery systems, and methods of using the same are disclosed herein. The systems can include an introducer sheath, a catheter, a deployable flow diverter that can be contained in the introducer sheath or in the catheter, a core wire, and one or several deployment features coupled to the core wire and engaging the flow diverter. The deployment features can include one or more of a pusher, one or several friction bumps, one or several deployment coils, a claw mechanism, a self-expanding element, a supporting coil, a tip coil, and/or an atraumatic tip. One or more of the deployment features can be radiopaque.
US12053172B2
A suture passer device for passing a length of suture through an object. The suture passer device includes a hollow tube having a proximal end and a curved distal tube portion extending to a distal end. The suture passer device also includes a handle attached to the proximal end of the hollow tube, an actuator on the handle movable between first, second, and third positions, and an internal arm within the curved distal tube portion and connected to the actuator. The internal arm is movable between first, second, and third configurations. When the actuator is in the first position, the internal arm extends out from the distal tube portion at an angle from the distal tube portion in the first configuration. When the actuator is in the second position, the internal arm is retracted within the distal tube portion in the second configuration.
US12053169B2
A device for delivering an agent may comprise a source of agent; a mixing chamber for receiving fluid and the agent; an outlet in fluid communication with the mixing chamber to deliver the fluid and the agent; and an actuator configured to (1) deliver a first flow of the fluid substantially free from the agent through the outlet; (2) after delivering the first flow, deliver a second flow of the fluid and the agent through the outlet; and (3) after delivering the second flow, deliver a third flow of the fluid substantially free from the agent through the outlet.
US12053163B2
Disposable controls, re-usable devices, and their methods of use. The disposable controls and reusable devices are adapted to in operable communication during a procedure or process, and thereafter the disposable control can be discarded while the reusable device can be reused in a subsequent procedure or process. The disposable controller and reusable portion can be part of an intubation system.
US12053152B2
A tip part for an insertable vision device, and an insertable vision device including the tip part. The tip part includes a housing accommodating an electronic vision receptor and adapted to extend from a distal end of an insertable elongate portion of the insertable vision device, and a light guide positioned within the housing, the light guide having a predetermined length in a longitudinal direction between a light reception end and a light emission end, the light reception end configured to receive light emanated from a light source and the light emission end configured to emit the light. The light guide includes, along at least a portion of the predetermined length, an expanding sector or a narrowing sector.
US12053145B2
A medical image processing apparatus includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a medical image, a classifier that classifies the medical image or a region of interest included in the medical image into any of two or more classes based on a feature amount obtained from the medical image, a reliability calculation unit that calculates reliability of a classification result of the medical image or the region of interest from the classifier, and a confirmation unit that confirms the classification result of the medical image or the region of interest based on the calculated reliability.
US12053144B2
Certain aspects relate to systems and techniques for luminal network navigation. Some aspects relate to incorporating respiratory frequency and/or magnitude into a navigation system to implement patient safety measures. Some aspects relate to identifying, and compensating for, motion caused by patient respiration in order to provide a more accurate identification of the position of an instrument within a luminal network.
US12053140B2
An example of a surface cleaning head may include a main body, a neck pivotally coupled to the main body, a stabilizer, and a linkage pivotally coupled to the main body and the stabilizer. The linkage may be configured to cause the stabilizer to transition between an extended position and a retracted position in response to a pivotal movement of the neck.
US12053131B2
A surface cleaning apparatus, such as a carpet extractor, includes a fluid recovery system for drawing dirty cleaning fluid from a surface to be cleaned. The fluid recovery system includes a recovery tank with a removable lid that has a handle that is pivotally mounted to the lid and is configured to releasably lock the lid to the tank and to assist in removing the lid from the tank.
US12053120B2
In an embodiment, a grill system can include a grill assembly and a first side assembly. The grill assembly can include a grill cart and a burner box coupled to a top portion of the grill cart. The first side assembly can include a first side cart and a first panel. The first side cart is configured to be transitioned between a folded state and an upright state; wherein the grill assembly is coupled to the first side assembly. When the first panel is coupled to an outer side of the first side cart, the first side cart is locked into the upright state. Other embodiments are also included herein.
US12053118B2
A self-contained system is provided for cleaning a food flow path in a food processor. The system can be operably engaged without requiring disassembly and reassembly of the food processor or can be operably engaged after a partial disassembly of the food processor. The system includes a control assembly for directing passage of a solution through the food processor without requiring constant operator oversight. The system can employ available positive pressure water supply, such as public utility water pressure to selectively and automatically push solutions, including rinses, backwards or forwards through a food flow path in the food processor, though typically countercurrent to the normal processing food flow. A manifold assembly includes an intake manifold and a distribution manifold, with an induction port and/or access port in the distribution manifold for introducing additives or agents into a controlled motive stream passing through the manifold assembly.
US12053117B1
The disclosure generally relates to a beverage dispensing system for parallel beverage extraction. The beverage dispensing system may include two brew chambers configured to both prepare beverage components at the same time. The beverage dispensing system may include two dispensing points configured to simultaneously dispense beverage components prepared by a first brew chamber and a second brew chamber. In some embodiments, a beverage dispensing system configured to prepare beverage components in one brew chamber can be modified to include one or more components, features, and/or functionalities from the beverage dispensing system for parallel beverage extraction.
US12053116B2
The beverage appliance of the present invention includes a venturi having a steam inlet and a milk inlet. The steam inlet and milk inlet each include a solenoid valve configurable between an open state and a closed state. The solenoid valves are electrically coupled to a processor and are controllable through first and second switches. In operation, upon activation of the first switch, the solenoid valves are controlled to their open states to deliver milk and steam to the venturi to produce frothed milk. When a desired amount of frothed milk has been dispensed, the user deactivates the first switch and the processor controls only the milk inlet solenoid valve to its closed state. The steam inlet solenoid valve remains in its open state for a predetermined amount of time such that a burst of steam only is forced through the venturi and distribution lines to purge them of milk.
US12053114B1
A beverage cap with pressure-activate valve for use with a beverage filter press having a hollow cylinder and removable piston that when pressed downward forces liquid through the cylinder and beverage cap into an open vessel. The beverage cap includes a plurality of protrusions that are discontinuous and distributed through the cavity of the cap so as to improve filter support and distribute pressure more uniformly through the cavity and along the filter, thereby allowing use of thin paper filters and avoiding tearing or blow out. The beverage cap can include a removable valve insert that includes a valve body supporting a movable vale and one or more support members that further support the filter at a central valve region, further reinforcing the filter to avoid blow out of paper filters. The beverage cap and beverage cap are suited for pressing of tea or coffee beverages, especially espresso.
US12053111B2
Provided is a sleeping bag including a warmth-improving portion. The warmth-improving portion includes a first insulation layer located on one surface in an inward direction of a sleeping bag outer covering and configured to block an inflow of the cold from the outside, a first compressed fiber layer located on one surface of the first insulation layer, and a heat-retention layer located on one surface of the first compressed fiber layer. According to the present invention, since it is possible to block the cold from the outside and to prevent warmth inside from being released using a first insulation layer, heat-retaining performance may be maximized. Since heat is generated on the basis of steam outside and inside a sleeping bag using a heat-retention layer, it is possible to easily increase and maintain a temperature inside the sleeping bag without a separate heat source.
US12053107B2
A system for presentation and sale of self-service items comprises a peg configured to be attached to a vertical wall of a retail display unit. The peg is configured to retain items in packaging having a hole therein for the passage of the peg. The peg comprises a smooth rod with a section less than or equal to the section of the hole over a length of the rod configured to receive the packaging, and a notched free end section. The system further includes spacers formed by rings. Each ring has a lumen of section complementary to that of the rod and greater than the section of the notched free end, and at least one tooth configured to be disengaged by an external actuating mechanism to interact at rest with the notching. Each ring has an outer section greater than the section of the hole in the packaging.
US12053106B2
A deck panel for a retail shelving system is provided. The deck panel includes a panel and a region of strengthening ribbing. The panel has a top surface configured for supporting retail merchandise and a bottom surface. The region of strengthening ribbing includes a plurality of ribs extending outward from the bottom surface of the panel. The bottom surface of the panel has a border region that extends around the region of strengthening ribbing on at least three sides. The deck panel may be part of a shelf which may be part of a shelving system.
US12053100B2
The posture-enforcing seat is a chair. The posture-enforcing seat is a therapeutic structure. The posture-enforcing seat is adapted for use with a patient. The posture-enforcing seat forms a physical boundary that limits the lateral motion of the thighs of the patient. The posture-enforcing seat comprises a chair structure and a plurality of corrective structures. The plurality of corrective structures attach to the chair structure. The plurality of corrective structures forms the boundary structure that limits the lateral motion of the thighs of the patient.
US12053098B2
A bed may provide pneumatic effects. An array of pumps may be used in providing the pneumatic effects. In some embodiments less than all of the pumps may be operated to provide some of the pneumatic effects, and in some such embodiments no individual pump may be able to provide others of the pneumatic effects, and in some or other such embodiments all of the pumps may be required to provide at least one of the pneumatic effects.
US12053090B2
A set of panels including a first panel and a second panel configured to assume a locked state in which a first main plane of the first panel is arranged at an angle of between 30° and 150° relative to a second main plane of the second panel. A separate tongue arranged in an insertion groove of a groove is configured to cooperate with a tongue groove provided in an edge section of the second panel for locking the first and second panels to each other in a first direction perpendicular to the first main plane, and the edge section is configured to cooperate with the groove for locking the first and second panels to each other in a second direction parallel to the first main plane. A bottom portion of the groove includes an elevated portion arranged at least in an outer section of the groove along the second direction, wherein an area of the elevated portion is at least 3% of an area of a rectangular bounded region extending along boundaries of the bottom portion.
US12053088B2
A mounting bracket is provided that includes a plate having a mounting hole for attachment to a surface. The mounting bracket includes a hooking portion attached to the plate for supporting a hardware mounting component. The mounting bracket further includes a biasing member attached to the plate and biasing a tab of the biasing member to a first position for engagement with the hardware mounting component to secure the hardware mounting component to the plate. The tab of the biasing member is movable to a second position where the tab does not engage the hardware mounting component.
US12053085B2
A smart desk and barricade provide ad-hoc protection during emergencies and an augmented presentation environment. A first desk tabletop includes a connection positioned on an underside of the first desk tabletop, that is configured for detachable coupling to a desk frame. Removal of the tabletop from the desk frame provides a shield. An interlocking element is positioned on one or more edges of the first desk tabletop. The interlocking element is configured to temporarily connect to an edge of a second desk tabletop. A temporary attachment of the first desk tabletop to the second desk tabletop forms a barricade system. In some embodiments, a computing device is integrated into the desk tabletop. A smart room environment may network the desk with integrated computing device to other computing devices in the room.
US12053079B2
A hair clip includes a first clamping body having a first base portion and a first clamping portion, a second clamping body having a second base portion and a second clamping portion, and a joint by which the first base portion and the second base portion are coupled to one another along a swivel axis. An elastic element forces the first clamping portion and the second clamping portion into a combined position. A first actuator is arranged on the first base portion for moving the first clamping portion relative to the second clamping portion from the combined position into a spread position. Further, the first base portion includes a receptacle for receiving an element of the first actuator so that the first actuator is movable through the receptacle relative to the first base portion from a first position into a second position relative to the first base portion.
US12053074B2
A double container includes: a nozzle for discharging a content through a discharge hole under pressurization of a user; a pump assembly for discharging the content under the pressurization of the nozzle; an inner container having a first accommodation portion adapted to accommodate the content therein and a first edge portion formed on top of the first accommodation portion to accommodatedly seat at least a portion of the pump assembly thereonto; an outer container having a second accommodation portion adapted to accommodate the inner container therein and a second edge portion formed on top of the second accommodation portion; and a shoulder detachably coupled to the second edge portion of the outer container and adapted to pressurize the inner container through the coupling to the outer container to allow the inner container to come into close contact with the outer container, wherein the outer container may be made of glass.
US12053073B2
The present application relates to a decoration member including a pattern layer provided on one surface of the substrate and including a convex structure or a concave structure arranged two-dimensionally, and a method for preparing the decoration member.
US12053072B2
A process for treating, especially for washing, the hair, including applying at least one cosmetic active ingredient to the head of hair using a dispensing device. The dispensing device including a hand piece preferably having at least two nozzles, the jets of which collide with one another, to form a mixture of water and of the active ingredient, this mixture originating from a collection basin arranged below the user's head.
US12053069B2
A blister package for a contact lens is provided that includes a body and a seal, one or both of which is made up of a double layer foil component. The double layer foil component can be a seal component made of a sheet of material folded upon itself and defining a seal, a flap, and a fold. The seal and the flap intersect at the fold and the flap can be pulled away from the seal to form a pull tab useful to peel back the seal and open the bowl. The body can also, or instead, be made of a double layer foil component that forms at least the bowl such that the bottom of the bowl is double-walled. The double-walled bowl exhibits improved strength and can be provided with strengthening features such as ribs, ridges, channels, or grooves.
US12053065B2
A Brunnian link is a link formed from a closed loop doubled over itself to capture another closed loop to form a chain. One or more beads may be assembled to a linked item formed with Brunnian links. The beads include tapered sides to provide a curved interface that corresponds with the shape of a completed linked item.
US12053064B2
A stackable form of a numismatic that includes a visible, centrally embedded magnet for the purpose of reducing plastic waste by providing storage modalities for such that preclude the need for plastic sleeve holders. The stackable magnetic numismatic may also include embossed and debossed formations, decorations, and/or script. Such stackable magnetic numismatics may be displayed within a balanced magnetic field of a decorative device.
US12053063B2
Disclosed is a mobile support mechanism for an object, adapted for being integrated into a wearable piece of jewelry, including a support system bearing an object that is intended to be animated in rotation about a first axis of rotation under the effect of an unbalance within the support system. The support system includes a first frame that is pivotably mounted on a chassis element about the first axis of rotation, and an inner frame that is pivotably mounted in the first frame about a second pivot axis which is substantially orthogonal with respect to the first pivot axis. The object is mounted to a first extremity of a shaft mounted in the inner frame, a second extremity of the shaft being supported by an eccentric element pivotably mounted to a static frame element at a rotation point such that it can freely rotate therearound.
US12053059B2
A fastener for incorporation into an article of clothing, for example an adjustable cap, is disclosed. The fastener includes a first fastener counterpart and a second fastener counterpart that are co-operatively configured to define a plurality of co-operating connection systems. Each one of the plurality of co-operating connection systems, independently, includes a plurality of first interlocking counterparts and a plurality of second interlocking counterparts. The first and second fastener counterparts are cooperatively configured for disposition in a plurality of connected configurations. The plurality of connected configurations includes at least one multi-coupled connected configuration defined by at least one operative adjacent pair of releasably coupled relationships and participating first interlocking counterparts are releasably coupled with corresponding or participating second interlocking counterparts so that at least one non-participating second interlocking counterpart is disposed between the participating ones of the second interlocking counterparts of the operative adjacent pair of releasably coupled relationships.
US12053053B2
Footwear uppers include a footwear upper base formed from one or more component parts and including: (i) an instep region including at least one of a tongue base region or instep base region and (ii) a heel-containing region. A bladder is engaged with the footwear upper. The bladder includes: (i) at least a first instep chamber engaged with the instep region, (ii) at least a first heel and/or ankle support chamber engaged with the heel-containing region, and (iii) a first fluid line connecting the first instep chamber and the first heel and/or ankle support chamber and placing the first instep chamber in fluid communication with the first heel and/or ankle support chamber. Fluid moving from the first instep chamber to the first heel and/or ankle support chamber (e.g., under force applied by a footwear securing strap) provides further support for the wearer's heel and/or ankle.
US12053051B2
An article of footwear, such as a shoe, includes an upper and a sole. The upper may be formed with an outer layer and a floating textile layer relative to one or more portions of the outer layer. The floating textile layer has an apparent elongation that is less than an apparent elongation of the outer layer in response to an equal tensile force applied to each of the floating textile layer and the outer layer along a same axis of orientation. The differential in apparent elongation of the outer layer and the floating textile layer may increase wearability and functionability of the upper.
US12053048B2
A midsole may include an electrorheological (ER) fluid housing. The ER fluid housing may be located between top bottom surfaces of the midsole in at least a forefoot region of the midsole. The midsole may include a plate located over the ER fluid housing.
US12053047B2
An article of footwear has an upper, an outsole attached to the upper, and a midsole. The outsole includes a ground-engaging surface and an inner surface disposed on opposite sides. The midsole has a footbed and a bottom surface disposed on opposite sides. The bottom surface opposes the inner surface to define a cavity therebetween. The article of footwear also includes a first series of projections extending into the cavity from one of the inner surface and the bottom surface in a first direction toward the other of the inner surface and the bottom surface. The article of footwear also includes a second series of projection extending into the cavity from one of the inner surface and the bottom surface in the first direction toward the other of the inner surface and the bottom surface. The article of footwear also includes a quantity of particulate matter disposed within the cavity.
US12053045B2
A ratchet dial mechanism used on ballistic protective personal equipment and ballistic protective personal helmets, which enables the chin straps to be adjusted by tightening and loosening so that the helmet fits snugly on the user's head with precision and decreases the manufacturing cost and time due to fewer parts needed for assembly.
US12053042B2
The present application relates to an elastomeric article, such as a glove, comprising: (i) an elastomeric film comprising one or more film layers, and including an external surface and an internal surface, (ii) an antimicrobial agent that is effective against both beneficial and harmful microorganisms on the external surface of the elastomeric film, and (iii) a skin-protective agent selected from a probiotic, a prebiotic, or a combination thereof on the internal surface of the elastomeric film; wherein the inner surface of the film is free of an antimicrobially-effective amount of an antimicrobial agent that is effective against both beneficial and harmful microorganisms. The elastomeric articles may further comprise a barrier film layer that provides separation between the antimicrobial agent and the skin-protective agent. Also described are methods for the manufacture of such articles.
US12053041B2
Aspects herein are directed to an article of apparel having a vent opening formed by overlapping the edges of a first panel and a second panel. A plurality of discrete overlay film structures are applied to the second panel adjacent to the vent opening. When the article of apparel is exposed to an external stimulus, the film structures undergo a reversible increase in dimension in at least the z-direction which cause the second panel of material to undergo a reversible decrease in dimension in the direction of a longitudinal axis of the vent opening thereby causing the vent opening to dynamically transition from a closed state to an open state.
US12053040B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for a pouch-style mask having upper and lower mask substrates, each having a first layer comprising spunbond material and a second layer comprising meltblown material, a perimeter comprising a user contacting portion and a non-user contacting portion, and a shoulder proximate a left-side transition between the user contacting portion and the non-user contacting portion and a shoulder proximate a right-side transition between the user contacting portion and the non-user contacting portion. The mask also has a head strap assembly comprising first and second head straps each having first and second end portions, where the first end portions of the first and second head straps are attached to the left upper and lower shoulders in a side-by-side configuration and the second end portions of the first and second head straps are attached to the right upper and lower shoulders in a side-by-side configuration.
US12053037B1
A thermal modification device for modifying the skin temperature of a user, the thermal modification device including: a first elongated flexible container including a first substance disposed therein and a first wall and a second wall, wherein the first substance is a fluid having thermal properties of a first substance; and a second elongated flexible container including a second substance disposed therein and a first wall and a second wall, wherein the second substance is a fluid having thermal properties of a second substance, wherein a ratio of the mass of the first substance and the mass of the second substance is at least one of about 0.22 and about 0.31, the first elongated flexible container and the second elongated flexible container are disposed with the second wall of the first elongated flexible container disposed in contacting relationship with the first wall of the second elongated flexible container.
US12053030B2
Provided are devices for delivering volatile compound(s) to individuals. The delivery devices can be unpowered devices. The volatile compound(s) can be flavored. Delivery device can comprise engageable components releasably held together by a selectively releasable attachment mechanism. In aspects, the delivery devices further comprise an adjustable airflow control mechanism. In aspects, movement of delivery device components is associated with visual, audible, tactile, or audible and tactile indication of movement or position of device elements. In aspects, element(s) of a delivery device or a device in a system serve as a fidget movement element, being detectably moveable within a short period upon application of a small initiation force easily being returned to a position suitable for repeating the movement. Further provided are methods of using such delivery devices or systems for promoting user sensory experiences or for other beneficial effects, such as reducing habit-related behaviors or sensations.
US12053025B2
A non-combustion heating-type smoking article comprises: a mouthpiece having a suction port hole; a flavor source accommodation section that accommodates a flavor source, and that has a vapor discharge port that discharges a vapor component generated by evaporation of the flavor source; a heater for heating and evaporating the flavor source; a chamber section for establishing communication between the vapor discharge port and the suction port hole, and temporarily storing the vapor component generated by evaporation of the flavor source; and an air intake hole that establishes communication between the inside and the outside of the chamber section. The vapor discharge port is opened to only the chamber section, and during each suction, the vapor component that has accumulated in the chamber section is mixed with intake air that has flowed into the chamber section from the air intake hole and is then transported to the suction port hole.
US12053018B2
A water-assisted smoking apparatus is provided having two chambers in substantially vertical alignment and separated by a choke point. Each chamber has at least two vents configured to be sealed with a plug or with a smoke generating and conveying assembly that holds a quantity of a combustible substance and conveys smoke therefrom into the upper chamber through suction generated by the apparatus. The apparatus is operable with a quantity of liquid and controlled venting to draw in and collect smoke generated from burning of the combustible substance in both a first orientation in which the first chamber is the upper chamber and the second chamber is the lower chamber and also when the apparatus is inverted to a second orientation in which the second chamber is the upper chamber and the first chamber is the lower chamber.
US12053017B1
A snap-off smoking device assembly including a base plate having a base plate passage defined therein and a base plate aperture formed therethrough; a base plate insert adapted to be slidably positioned within at least a portion of the base plate passage and repeatably slidable between a retracted position and an extended position within the base plate passage, wherein the base plate insert aperture extends through a portion of the base plate insert; and an insert release button, wherein a portion of the insert release button is positioned through the base plate insert aperture and wherein the insert release button is repeatably slidable between an engaged position and a disengaged position, wherein in the retracted position and the engaged position at least a portion of the insert release button extends through the base plate insert aperture and into at least a portion of the base plate aperture.
US12053015B2
The present disclosure relates to an aerosol-generating article, including an article body and a magnetic recording medium disposed on a surface of the article body and/or inside the article body. The magnetic recording medium is an information storage unit storing readable information. The present disclosure also provides an aerosol-generating device and an aerosol-generating system.
US12053013B2
A method of manufacturing an aerosol-generating film for generating an aerosol upon heating is provided, including: preparing a film-forming composition including a cellulose based film-forming agent, a non-cellulose based thickening agent, at least about 30 wt percent of water, and at least about 20 wt percent of a polyhydric alcohol being glycerin; forming a layer of the composition less than 1 millimeter thick; and heating the layer to evaporate at least some of the water to obtain the film, the layer being heated to a temperature and for a time such that the film contains less than or equal to about 30 wt percent of water, and the step of preparing the composition further includes dissolving the cellulose based agent and the non-cellulose based thickening agent in the water to form a water-based preparation, defoaming the preparation, and mixing the polyhydric alcohol into the preparation to obtain the composition.
US12053008B2
A method of making a microwavable frozen dumpling, whereby a raw dumpling containing a dough and one or more filling ingredients is boiled to form a boiled dumpling, and the boiled dumpling is frozen to form the microwavable frozen dumpling. The dough of the microwavable frozen dumpling includes a rice flour, an oil, and a modified cellulose polymer, and has a moisture content of at least 52.0 wt. %. A method of preparing a cooked dumpling is also provided, whereby the microwavable frozen dumpling is heated in a microwave oven without covering the microwavable frozen dumpling.
US12053007B2
The present invention relates to the use of a nutritional composition having a low amount of protein, such as less than 1.8 g/100 kcal for administration to infants of non-obese and non-overweight mothers so as to reduce the risk of developing metabolic syndrome, increased weight gain, increased fat deposition, overweight, obesity, insulin resistance, glucose intolerance or diabetes mellitus later in said infant's life.
US12053004B2
The invention herein is directed to pig waste silage, which is derived from the conversion of pig waste, a fermentable sugar source, and lactic acid fermentable culture, thereby pig waste is transformed into a nitrogen-rich, crude protein concentrate ingredient, suitable for consumption by cattle, sheep, and goat diets. The pig waste silage of the invention herein is a crude protein source that can lower operational costs for cattle and other ruminant producers, by using less protein-based grains, as well as reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, through a better and more efficient digestion of ruminants, based on physiological principles.
US12053002B2
The present disclosure provides a composition comprising, (i) protein at a protein content of at least about 16% by dry weight, wherein at least about 50% by dry weight of the protein has an amino acid sequence encoded by one or more fungal genomes, and (ii) one or more materials selected from the group consisting of a flour, an oil, a flavoring agent, and a nutritional supplement, wherein the composition has a water content that is less than or equal to about 30% water by weight.
US12053001B2
The present invention relates to a leaktight food filling deposition system providing ease of mounting/demounting, maintenance and cleaning. The present invention particularly relates to a deposition system for depositing food fluids of various temperatures, acidities, viscosities and densities onto, between and into the food products, said deposition system being individually operated, requiring no maintenance, having a high deposition capacity, optionally allowing for each nozzle to deposit different materials and comprising low weight deposition nozzles and a low weight manifold.
US12052986B2
The present disclosure includes a system to preserve tissue and associated methods. The system can include a portable oxygen source to provide oxygen and apply a pressure gradient to a flow of the oxygen, an organ preservation system having an inlet to fluidly couple to vasculature of the tissue, and an oxygen line to fluidly couple the portable oxygen source to the organ preservation system at the inlet, wherein the portable oxygen source is to apply the pressure gradient to pump fluid containing the oxygen through the organ preservation system.
US12052984B2
An intelligent pesticide spraying robot self-adaptive to terrain of mountain land is provided. Walking mechanisms are respectively connected to both side ends of a chassis. A pesticide spraying mechanism includes rotary drive mechanisms respectively connected to both sides of the rear end of the chassis, telescopic spray boom mechanisms correspondingly connected to the rotary drive mechanisms, rotary nozzle mechanisms correspondingly connected to the telescopic spray boom mechanisms, a liquid pesticide storage box fixed to the top of the chassis, a first water pump fixed in the liquid pesticide storage box, and first water pipes in communication with the first water pump and the rotary nozzle mechanisms. A control chip of a control identification mechanism is communicatively connected to the walking mechanisms, the rotary drive mechanisms, the telescopic spray boom mechanisms, the rotary nozzle mechanisms, the first water pump, a front-end camera, side-end cameras and ultrasonic sensors respectively.
US12052983B2
Intermittent Flashing Decoy Apparatus, Method and System generally comprising a housing unit, a power source, a motor, a cycler, a switch, and a flasher, wherein the motor, power source, and cycler are substantially housed within the housing unit, and wherein the power source is capable, when the apparatus is turned on via the switch, of powering the motor off and on at random as controlled by the cycler, which is an intermittent timer chip, to manipulate the flasher as to create intermittent “flashes” as flasher rotates and reflects light such as sunlight. A system of two or more intermittent flashing decoys wherein each decoy is controlled by an intermittent timer chip, the cycler, so that no pattern of flashing occurs between any two decoys.
US12052982B2
The invention relates to a device for treating a soil, comprising the following elements: a carrier vehicle having a chassis, a housing with electrical components such as in particular a high-voltage device for generating a high voltage, and high-voltage electrodes for introducing the high voltage into a first soil region. In accordance with the invention, it comprises a measuring device with evaluation electronics for measuring a fault current or a fault voltage between individual elements of the device with respect to one another or between individual elements and an earthing which serves to divert a fault current in a second floor region.
US12052981B1
A person may wish to use a submersible light to attract aquatic life, including fish. The submersible light described herein may include a mounting body around which outward facing lights are disposed. The lights may be powered with a connected power cord. To prevent water from contacting sensitive electronics within the submersible light, a water tight enclosure is created between the outside of the mounting body and an outer transparent covering. The submersible light may have ballast material inside the mounting body. The ballast material affects the buoyancy of the mounting body when it is placed in the water. The submersible lighting device may also emit a variety of light spectrums and light intensity levels which the user can control.
US12052970B2
The invention relates to novel tomato plants producing fruits displaying a modified sugar content, particularly displaying an increased sucrose content. The invention also relates to seeds and parts of said plants, for example fruits. The invention further relates to methods of making and using such seeds and plants. The invention also relates to a sucrose modifier SucMod allele, which, when combined with a sucrose accumulation TIV allele derived from a green-fruited wild tomato accession, significantly alters the proportion of sugar stored in the fruit, confers increased fruit sucrose content at the expense of hexose sugars and results in a fruit with a distinctive flavor.
US12052965B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV515661. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV515661, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV515661 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV515661 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV515661.
US12052953B1
A bio-enriched soil and method of production is presented. If water supply is scant, bio-enriched soil technologies (BEST) are able to attract, store, and transport water and nutrient molecules to a plant in a controlled way. If the water or nutrient resources are excessive, BEST can release the excess and supply only what is needed. Hence, bio-enriched soil can function in climates in which crops normally are under stress by increasing the bioavailability of nutrients and water.
US12052952B2
Fully rotating rotary actuator of a multi-purpose machine in which an axle supports the frame of a felling head by a bearing mount, there being a rotary mechanism driven by a rotary motor between the axle and the frame, and in which the connection of the axle includes rotatable joints, the axle includes conduits for electrical cables and a processing fluid line, and in which an additive fluid line tube is arranged in the conduit in the axle and connected to its lower end is a rotatable connector, which is connected to a second tube fastened in the frame for the application of the additive fluid.
US12052950B2
The invention relates to a lawn maintenance machine comprising a container (10) and a movable wall (40), the movable wall (40) dividing the container (10) to a first storage (20) having a first length in a longitudinal direction, and a second storage (30) having a second length in the longitudinal direction, wherein the second storage (30) is placed rearward from the first storage (20), the lawn maintenance machine further comprising an actuator arrangement configured to move the movable wall (40) forward and backward in the longitudinal direction in order to increase and decrease, respectively, the volume of the second storage (30). The invention further relates to a method for taking care of a lawn or a turf. This invention further relates to a lawn maintenance method and a lawn maintenance system.
US12052946B2
The invention relates to a metering device (5) for granular material, in particular seeds and/or fertilizer, where the metering device (5) comprises a metering housing (9) having at least one inlet (8) and at least one outlet (11) for the granular material and two side walls (10) that are arranged spaced from one another, where a metering wheel (13) with end faces (13a) each pointing toward the side walls (10) is arranged between, firstly, the inlet (8) and, secondly, the outlet (11), and between the side walls (10), that are arranged spaced from one another, on a shaft and is connectable in a force-fit manner to the latter and can be driven to rotate by the shaft in a metering direction (D), where the metering wheel (13) is associated with blocking means (14) which are configured to block the metering wheel (13) against the transport of granular material in a direction opposite to the metering direction (D) from the inlet (8) to the outlet (11) and/or in the metering direction (D) from the outlet (11) to the inlet (8), and a plain wheel (15) is arranged at each end face (13a) of the metering wheel (13) and extends between the end face (13a) and the side wall (10) in an unfastened manner on the shaft, where a sealing element (16) is arranged on both sides between the respective end face (13a) of the metering wheel (13) and a side surface (15a) of the respective plain wheel (15) pointing toward this end face (13a).
US12052945B2
An inductor apparatus includes an inductor assembly mounted under a seed container such that seeds flow into a reservoir. An air conduit carrying pressurized air extends along the reservoir. Seed channels extend from an inlet located above a pickup air opening in the air conduit to an outlet, and a bypass channel extends downward from each seed channel through an upper wall of the air conduit. A pickup air stream flowing out the pickup air opening forms a seed air stream entrained with seeds flowing into each seed channel inlet and a bypass air stream flows from the air conduit through each bypass channel into each seed channel and the combined seed and bypass air streams flow out the seed channel outlets. The seed channel outlets can be arranged along each side of the inductor assembly, and the rate of flow of the bypass air stream can be adjusted.
US12052939B2
A steering system for controlling an agricultural machine having a pair of front and rear wheels includes a controller and a steer input sensor for detecting a change in an operator steer input corresponding to a steer command. The system includes a displacement input for communicating a motor displacement associated with an operating mode. A primary differential steering system includes a drive motor for operably controlling the pair of front wheels and a secondary steering system controls the pair of rear wheels. The controller determines if the motor displacement is being controlled according to a first motor displacement or a second motor displacement, and outputs a control signal to actuate first and second actuators as a function of the steer command. The control signal includes a rear steering gain that is a function of machine speed and either the first motor displacement or the second motor displacement.
US12052937B2
While the described shovel can include any suitable component, in some cases, it includes a blade, a shaft, a handle, a handgrip, and/or a coupling component. In some cases, the handgrip is located at a center of weight of the shovel, with substantially half of the shovel's weight distributed on each side of the handgrip. In some cases, the shaft is oriented at an angle relative to the blade and the handle is oriented at an angle relative to the shaft. In some cases, the coupling component is located along the shaft and is configured to selectively and removably connect at least a first modular section of the shaft to a second modular section of the shaft. In some cases, the coupling component is configured to only fully engage when the first and second modular sections are in a single orientation with respect to each other. Other implementations are described.
US12058935B2
According to an embodiment, disclosed is a thermoelectric device comprising: a thermoelectric element comprising a first substrate, a plurality of first electrodes disposed on the first substrate, a plurality of P-type thermoelectric legs and a plurality of N-type thermoelectric legs disposed on the plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes disposed on the plurality of P-type thermoelectric legs and the plurality of N-type thermoelectric legs, and a second substrate disposed on the plurality of second electrodes; and a heat sink comprising a plurality of fins disposed to be spaced apart on the second substrate, wherein the second substrate comprises a first region overlapping the second electrodes in a vertical direction and a second region not overlapping the second electrodes in the vertical direction, and wherein separation distances between adjacent fins of the plurality of fins are different from each other in the first region and the second region.
US12058934B2
An energy harvesting system including an energy harvesting device configured to draw electrical energy from a welding process without direct electrical contact with a weld cable. The energy harvesting system also includes energy harvesting circuitry coupled to the energy harvesting device and configured to process the electrical energy for use by a welding-related device.
US12058924B2
A test substrate has at least one test region and includes a base substrate, a plurality of thin film transistors disposed on the base substrate, at least one test hole located in the test region, and at least one test pin. At least one of the thin film transistors is a target thin film transistor to be tested, each target thin film transistor is located in one test region. Each test hole exposes a source region, a drain region or a gate of a corresponding target thin film transistor at a bottom thereof. Each test pin is located in one test hole. One end of the test pin passes through the test hole to be coupled to the source region, the drain region or the gate of the corresponding target thin film transistor, and another end of the test pin is exposed at a surface of the test substrate.
US12058919B2
A display apparatus manufacturing method includes preparing a substrate, forming, on the substrate, a display preliminary structure including at least one first electrode, arranging, in a processing chamber, the substrate on which the display preliminary structure is formed, and irradiating ultraviolet rays onto the substrate while maintaining a pressure atmosphere in the processing chamber lower than an atmospheric pressure, forming an intermediate layer on the display preliminary structure, the intermediate layer including an emission layer, and forming a second electrode on the intermediate layer.
US12058916B1
An electronic device may include a display and an optical sensor formed underneath the display. The electronic device may include a plurality of transparent windows that overlap the sensor. The resolution of the display panel may be reduced in some areas due to the presence of the transparent windows. To increase the apparent resolution of the display in portions of the display panel with the transparent windows, the display may include a light spreading layer that includes a plurality of diffractive elements. The light spreading layer may spread visible light from the array of pixels such that the display resolution at the outer surface of the display is greater than at the display panel. The light spreading layer may selectively spread visible light but not infrared light. The display may also include a lens layer that focuses light onto the transparent windows.
US12058914B2
A display device includes light emitting elements in an active area and each light emitting element includes an anode, a light emitting layer, and a cathode; signal lines in a non-active area outside the active area; an encapsulation unit on the light emitting elements and the signal lines; touch electrodes on the encapsulation unit in the active area; first lines on the encapsulation unit in the non-active area and electrically connected to the touch electrodes; a second line outside the first lines; first auxiliary lines under the first lines and respectively electrically connected to a part of the first lines through first electrodes; and a second auxiliary line under the second line and electrically connected to the second line through a second electrode. The cathode is on an entire surface of the active area and extends to a shielding area of the non-active area.
US12058910B2
A display substrate including a first display area including a plurality of first sub-pixels, a plurality of second sub-pixels and a plurality of third sub-pixels, wherein the display substrate includes a plurality of first pixel groups each of which includes two third sub-pixels, one first sub-pixel and one second sub-pixel, the two third sub-pixels are arranged adjacent to each other along a first direction, the one first sub-pixel and the one second sub-pixel are adjacent to at least one of the two third sub-pixels, located on both sides of a straight line passing centers of the two third sub-pixels, and arranged along a second direction different from the first direction; a size of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel in the second direction is smaller than a size of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel in the first direction, respectively.
US12058904B2
Provided is a display device which comprises a substrate, a plurality of pixels disposed on the substrate, a first initialization voltage line disposed on the substrate along a first direction, and a second initialization voltage line disposed on a different layer from the first initialization voltage line, wherein the second initialization voltage line may include a horizontal portion disposed along the first direction and a vertical portion disposed along a second direction crossing the first direction, and the vertical portion may be disposed between a plurality of pixels adjacent to each other in the first direction.
US12058901B2
A display device and a vehicle are disclosed. The display device has a display area including a plurality of display sub areas and a plurality of transparent sub areas. The display device includes a display panel and an electrochromic layer disposed on one side of the display panel. The electrochromic layer includes at least one electrochromic device, the at least one electrochromic device corresponds to at least one of the transparent sub areas, and the at least one electrochromic device transitions between transparent and opaque states.
US12058900B2
An organic light-emitting display device includes a substrate having a display region and a peripheral region, a plurality of pixels on the substrate in the display region, a first wiring and a second wiring on the substrate in the peripheral region, An insulation layer on the first and second wirings, the insulation layer covering a top surface and a sidewall of each of the first and second wirings, and an encapsulation layer on the plurality of pixels and on the insulation layer.
US12058896B2
A display panel includes a display area composed of a light-emitting area and a light-transmissive area in which a dark spot defect in the light-transmissive area does not occur. Further, in the display panel, a decrease in transmittance due to light leakage can be prevented, and color mixing between adjacent pixels can be prevented. To this end, a metal layer is disposed at a boundary between the light-emitting area and the light-transmissive area, a metal layer is disposed at a boundary between sub-pixels rendering different colors and adjacent to each other, and a metal layer is disposed at a boundary between two adjacent light-transmissive areas.
US12058894B2
A display device includes a via layer disposed on a substrate and including a via groove having a shape recessed from a first surface to a second surface of the via layer. A first electrode is disposed on the first surface. A pixel-defining film is disposed on the via layer and the first electrode. A first pixel-defining film through-hole passes through the pixel-defining film in a thickness direction and exposes the first electrode. A second pixel-defining film through-hole passes through the pixel-defining film in the thickness direction. The second pixel-defining film through-hole is spaced apart from the first pixel-defining film through-hole and overlaps the via groove. An emission layer is disposed on an exposed portion of the first electrode. A protrusion is disposed on the pixel-defining film and includes a protrusion through-hole which passes through the protrusion in the thickness direction and overlaps the second pixel-defining film through-hole.
US12058886B2
A display module and a display device are provided. The display module includes a display panel, and an anti-reflection film disposed on a light-emitting side of the display panel. The anti-reflection film includes a buffer layer and a function layer disposed on a side of the buffer layer away from the display panel, and a refractive index of the buffer layer is greater than a refractive index of the function layer.
US12058880B2
A display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display panel. The display substrate includes a base, a first electrode, a first auxiliary cathode, a second electrode and a second auxiliary cathode, a pixel definition layer and a cathode. The first and second electrodes are located in the display area and the first and second auxiliary cathodes are located in the non-emitting area. The orthogonal projections of the first auxiliary cathode and the second auxiliary cathode on the base are in a mesh structure. The pixel definition layer is at least located in the non-emitting area. The cathode at least covers the display area and the cathode is arranged on one side of the pixel definition layer far away from the base; wherein the cathode, the first auxiliary cathode and the second auxiliary cathode are electrically connected.
US12058878B2
A display apparatus having a function of emitting visible light and infrared light and a light detection function is provided. The display apparatus includes a first light-emitting device, a second light-emitting device, and a light-receiving device in a display portion. The first light-emitting device emits both visible light and infrared light and the second light-emitting device emits visible light. The light-receiving device has a function of absorbing at least part of visible light and infrared light. The first light-emitting device includes a first pixel electrode, a first light-emitting layer, a second light-emitting layer, and a common electrode. The second light-emitting device includes a second pixel electrode, a third light-emitting layer, and the common electrode. The light-receiving device includes a third pixel electrode, an active layer, and the common electrode. The first light-emitting layer includes a light-emitting material emitting infrared light. The second light-emitting layer and the third light-emitting layer include light-emitting materials emitting visible light with different wavelengths. The active layer includes an organic compound.
US12058873B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconducting metal oxide fin located over a lower-level dielectric material layer, a gate dielectric layer located on a top surface and sidewalls of the semiconducting metal oxide fin, a gate electrode located on the gate dielectric layer and straddling the semiconducting metal oxide fin, an access-level dielectric material layer embedding the gate electrode and the semiconducting metal oxide fin, a memory cell embedded in a memory-level dielectric material layer and including a first electrode, a memory element, and a second electrode, and a bit line overlying the memory cell. The first electrode may be electrically connected to a drain region within the semiconducting metal oxide fin through a first electrically conductive path, and the second electrode is electrically connected to the bit line.
US12058870B2
A method includes forming a stack of multi-layers, each multi-layer including a first isolation layer, a semiconductor layer, and a first metal layer; etching the stack of multi-layers to form gate trenches in a channel region; removing the first isolation layers and the first metal layers from the channel region, resulting in channel portions of the semiconductor layers exposed in the gate trenches; laterally recessing the first metal layers from the gate trenches, resulting in gaps between adjacent layers of the first isolation layers and the semiconductor layers; forming an inner spacer layer in the gaps; forming a ferroelectric (FE) layer surrounding each of the channel portions and over sidewalls of the gate trenches, wherein the inner spacer layer is disposed laterally between the FE layer and the first metal layers; and depositing a metal gate layer over the FE layer and filling the gate trenches.
US12058866B2
A semiconductor device includes a lower structure including a peripheral circuit, a lower insulating structure covering the peripheral circuit, and a pattern structure on the lower insulating structure; a stack structure including interlayer insulating layers and horizontal layers alternately stacked on the lower structure, wherein the horizontal layers include gate horizontal layers in a gate region of the stack structure and first insulating horizontal layers in a first insulating region of the stack structure; a memory vertical structure including a portion penetrating the gate horizontal layers; dummy vertical structures including a portion penetrating the gate horizontal layers; a first peripheral contact plug including a portion penetrating the first insulating region; and gate contact plugs on gate pads of the gate horizontal layers, wherein upper surface of the gate contact plugs and the first peripheral contact plugs are coplanar with each other, wherein the memory vertical structure and the dummy vertical structure are contacting the pattern structure, and wherein at least one of the dummy vertical structures extend further into the pattern structure than the memory vertical structure in a downward direction.
US12058861B2
A memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises laterally-spaced memory blocks individually comprising a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers above a conductor tier. Strings of memory cells comprise channel-material-string constructions that extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers into the conductor tier. The channel material of the channel-material-string constructions directly electrically couples to conductor material of the conductor tier. The conductor tier comprises islands comprising material of different composition from that of the conductor material of the conductor tier that surrounds individual of the islands. The islands are directly against bottoms of the channel-material-string constructions. Intervening material is laterally-between and longitudinally-along immediately-laterally-adjacent of the memory blocks. Other aspects, including method, are disclosed.
US12058858B2
A 3D memory device includes a memory stack including interleaved stack conductive layers and stack dielectric layers, a semiconductor layer, and a channel structure extending vertically through the memory stack into the semiconductor layer. A first lateral dimension of a first portion of the channel structure facing the semiconductor layer is greater than a second lateral dimension of a second portion of the channel structure facing the memory stack. The channel structure includes a memory film and a semiconductor channel A first doping concentration of part of the semiconductor channel in the first portion of the channel structure is greater than a second doping concentration of part of the semiconductor channel in the second portion of the channel structure.
US12058842B2
Embodiments relate to a thermally protective structure that is a case or enclosure for a media communication device (e.g., a set-top box). The thermally protective structure has a plurality of structural feature formations with facets constructed in or on its outer surface to increase the surface area through which heat is dissipated.
US12058841B2
A cooling device that can reduce heat resistance by improving a heat exchange action of a condensation tube, and can exhibit excellent cooling characteristics, and a cooling system using the cooling device are provided. The cooling device includes a container to which at least one heating element is thermally connected, a primary refrigerant sealed inside the container, a condensation tube through which a secondary refrigerant flows and which penetrates through a gaseous phase portion inside the container, and a porous member provided at an outer surface of the condensation tube.
US12058836B2
Fan controller (1) for a modular power supply having a fan (13). An output (8) is provided for transmitting control signals to the fan (13) for controlling fan speed. A plurality of sensor modules (20) are associated with a respective module (11, 6, 7) of the modular power supply. Each sensor module (20) includes a temperature detecting circuit comprising a sensor for sensing temperature variations in the respective module (11, 6, 7), a fan control circuit (30) galvanically isolated from the temperature detecting circuit for outputting a control signal to the output (8) for controlling the fan (13), and an optocoupler (10,9) for transferring an output signal from the temperature detecting circuit (20) to the fan control circuit (30) for generating the control signal.
US12058831B2
A power module for an electric axle drive may include a plurality of semiconductor switching elements, where the semiconductor switching elements are attached to a substrate. The power module may also include a control unit electrically connected to the plurality of semiconductor switching elements, where the plurality of semiconductor switching elements includes a first set of semiconductor switching elements dedicated to the electric axle drive. The plurality of semiconductor switching elements may also include a second set of second set of semiconductor switching elements dedicated to a transmission connected to the electric axle drive.
US12058828B2
A housing cover structure for a security device includes: a base member made of an optically non-transparent resin; and a window member made of an optically transparent resin. The window member is positioned adjacent to one side of the base member. The window member has: a window body exposed to outside; a first flange extending from the window body on the one side; and a second flange extending from the window body on the other side. The first flange and the second flange are combined within the base member. Each of the first flange and the second flange has a bent shape.
US12058825B2
A flexible display apparatus includes a support frame, a housing, a roller, a flexible display screen, and a limit mechanism; wherein the support frame includes a scissor rack; the housing includes a first portion and a second portion that are detachable; the roller is disposed in the first portion, one end of the flexible display screen is connected to the roller, and the other end of the flexible display screen is connected to the second portion; and the limit mechanism is connected to the scissor rack, and the limit mechanism is disposed on at least one of the first portion and the second portion to limit relative movement between a symmetry axis of the scissor rack and a portion where the limit mechanism is disposed.
US12058824B2
A display device includes a display panel comprising a first area and a second area located on a side of the first area in a first direction, a panel storage that accommodates the display panel therein, and a support module that supports a bottom of the display panel and assists a sliding operation of the display panel in the first direction. The support module comprises a first support member overlapping the first area, and a second support member overlapping the second area, the second support member comprising joints spaced apart from each other and spacers having an elastic modulus and disposed between the joints.
US12058823B2
An electronic device is disclosed herein, including a first housing, a second housing configured to accommodate at least a portion of the first housing, and to guide a sliding movement of the first housing, a display including a first display region disposed on the first housing, and a second display region extending from the first display region, a speaker module disposed within the second housing, and at least one roller structure configured to seal a space between the first housing and the second housing, and to guide the sliding movement of the first housing relative to the second housing.
US12058819B2
There is provided a laminate in which a decrease in the release function of a release layer can be suppressed even when the laminate is heat-treated under either temperature condition of low temperature and high temperature. This laminate includes a carrier; an adhesion layer on the carrier and containing a metal M1 having a negative standard electrode potential; a release-assisting layer on a surface of the adhesion layer opposite to the carrier and containing a metal M2 (M2 is a metal other than an alkali metal and an alkaline earth metal); a release layer on a surface of the release-assisting layer opposite to the adhesion layer; and a metal layer on a surface of the release layer opposite to the release-assisting layer, and T2/T1, a ratio of a thickness of the release-assisting layer, T2, to a thickness of the adhesion layer, T1, is more than 1 and 20 or less.
US12058814B2
A power module and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The power module includes a first board, a magnetic component, a second board and a power device. The first board includes a conductive component disposed between a first side and a second side opposite to each other. The magnetic component is disposed between the first side and the second side and includes a magnetic core and a winding. A first conductive terminal and a second conductive terminal are led out on the first side and the second side, respectively. The second board is disposed on the first board and includes a third side and a fourth side opposite to each other. The fourth side faces the first side. The power device is disposed on the third side of the second board and electrically connected to the first board.
US12058812B2
A substrate for a printed wiring board, the substrate includes a base film containing polyimide as a main component and a sinter layer disposed on at least a portion of a surface of the base film and containing copper nanoparticles. The base film contains a nitrogen atom bonded to a copper atom of the copper nanoparticles, an average number of the nitrogen atom bonded to the copper atom per unit area of the surface of the base film on which the sinter layer is disposed is 2.6×1018 atoms/m2 to 7.7×1018 atoms/m2, and the average number is an average number calculated for a measurement region estimated to have a thickness of 3 nm from a measurement value of the surface of the base film measured by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
US12058808B2
A printed circuit board includes a connector insertion area including many rows of crimping holes, each row of crimping holes includes at least two pairs of signal crimping holes (SCHs), and each pair of SCHs includes two SCHs. In a row arrangement direction of the crimping holes, at least one ground crimping hole (GCH) is arranged on either side of each pair of SCHs. A depth of the GCH is greater than or equal to a depth of the SCH, the GCH includes a main hole and a shielding component on at least one side of the main hole, a part of a side wall of the main hole is a part of a side wall of the shielding component, and a sum of lengths of the main hole and the shielding component in a first direction is greater than a length of the SCHs in the first direction.
US12058799B2
A continuous asphalt mix system for using a microwave heating vessel at the point of production that includes a microwave energy suppression tunnel with one or more mesh flaps for substantially reducing or preventing the leakage of microwave energy from a microwave system, while having a continuous flow of product through the vessel and suppression tunnels. The suppression tunnels are installed on the inlet and/or the outlet side of the system and are sized to suppress leakage.
US12058792B2
A semiconductor light source and a constant current circuit are arranged in series between an input terminal and a ground terminal. When an input voltage at the input terminal exceeds a predetermined threshold voltage, a load dump circuit cuts off or reduces a current that flows through the constant current circuit.
US12058776B2
The disclosure provides a method performed by a wireless device for providing capability information. The method comprises: receiving a first message from a base station, the first message comprising an indication of a capability filter; utilizing the capability filter to generate a filtered set of capabilities of the wireless device; applying a hash function to the filtered set of capabilities to generate a hash value; and transmitting a second message to the base station, the second message comprising the hash value.
US12058768B2
A method of performing communication, by a terminal, in a wireless communication system, the method including receiving a radio resource control (RRC) release message; identifying configuration information for suspending based on the received RRC release message; suspending bearers including a data radio bearer (DRB) and a signaling radio bearer (SRB), except an SRB0; and indicating a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) suspend of the DRB.
US12058766B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in wireless communications for Discontinuous Reception (DRX). A first node receives first information, the first information used for determining an Active Time in a first time resource pool; and senses a target signaling in a first time resource sub-pool; and transmits a first radio signal in a first time-frequency resource block, the first time-frequency resource block belonging to a first resource pool, the first resource pool being either one of a first candidate resource pool and a second candidate resource pool; the first time resource sub-pool belongs to the Active Time in the first time resource pool. The present disclosure takes into account the influence of DRX over the time-frequency resource selection in sidelink transmissions, thereby improving success rate of transmission.
US12058755B1
In a system comprising a plurality of wireless multi-modal portable communication devices (MMPCDs) communicable with one another via a cloud-based communication platform server (CPS), techniques are disclosed for configuring a proxy scheme to permit a disconnected multi-modal portable communication device (MMPCD) to connect to a cloud-based communication platform server (CPS) via a proxy device having a connection to the CPS. Once connected, additional techniques for sending and receiving messages via the proxy scheme are disclosed.
US12058753B2
In a wireless local area network system, a multi-link device (MLD) may transmit a multi-link element including a number-of-links field and a link present field indicating whether the number-of-links field exists. The multi-link element further includes a multi-link control field, a common information field, and a link information field. The number-of-links field may be included in the multi-link control field.
US12058750B2
Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communications and, more particularly, to techniques for managing multi-link communications. Some aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for configuring data unit and control response transmissions on multiple links. The data unit and control responses may be configured such that a control response transmission does not overlap with a data unit reception at a station that is without simultaneous transmission and reception capability.
US12058749B2
A method at a first device for enabling a device-to-device wireless link, the method detecting whether a presence signal of a second device is received over a first time period, the presence signal of the second device having a time-slot boundary; and if the presence signal of the second device is not detected, initiating a time-slot boundary by the first device including: transmitting a first presence signal of the first device in a selected time-slot; and checking for an acknowledgment to the first presence signal.
US12058745B2
An RRC connection method, including generating, by a first terminal, a first RRC message, and sending, by the first terminal, a first indication and first data to a second terminal through a first path, where the first path is a wireless communications interface between the first terminal and the second terminal, the first data includes the first RRC message, and the first indication is used to indicate the second terminal to send the first RRC message to a radio access network device.
US12058742B2
A method performed by a user equipment for wireless communication and a user equipment are provided. The method includes: receiving a timing advance command in uplink slot n; and determining, according to a time when the timing advance command is received, a time for applying an uplink transmission timing adjustment starting from a start of uplink slot n+k+1, wherein: k is determined according to a duration of N1 symbols; n, k, and N1 are all integers; and a value of N1 corresponds to at least one of the following: a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) decoding time defined by PDSCH processing capability 1 when a reference processing capability assumption is true; a PDSCH decoding time defined by the PDSCH processing capability 1 when a PDSCH demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) is configured.
US12058736B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication including an apparatus, e.g., a UE and/or a base station. In one aspect, the apparatus may determine an energy detection threshold of a reference bandwidth, the energy detection threshold being based on at least one of a transmit power or a power class. The apparatus may also measure an interference level of at least one signal. Additionally, the apparatus may adjust the energy detection threshold of the reference bandwidth based on a sensing bandwidth. The apparatus may also determine whether a transmission medium is available based on at least one of the adjusted energy detection threshold or the measured interference level of the at least one signal.
US12058729B2
A channel quality measurement method and apparatus are described. The method can include a network device sending configuration information to a terminal device. The configuration information configures a downlink carrier set. The terminal device determines a first downlink carrier from the downlink carrier set. The terminal device sends a random access process message 3 (Msg3) to the network device. The random access process message 3 includes first information. The first information includes information indicating channel quality of the first downlink carrier. The channel quality provides information about a first repetition level to the network device. The first repetition level is a minimum repetition level required when transmission performed on a downlink channel based on a preset transmission parameter meets a preset block error rate.
US12058727B2
Systems and methods are provided for controlling behavior for overriding grants for channel state information (CSI) feedback. A user equipment (UE) may control override of a first grant of a first radio resource by a second grant of a second radio resource. The UE determines that the second radio resource at least partially overlaps with the first radio resource. The UE also determines a physical layer priority of the first grant of the first radio resource and the second grant of the second radio resource. The physical layer priority is based on at least one of the first grant of the first radio resource and the second grant of the second radio resource being configured for transmitting CSI feedback over a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) to a base station. The UE then generates a transmission according to the physical layer priority.
US12058719B2
Systems and methods for SAS interference calculation management are provided. In one embodiment, a system comprises: a processor coupled to a memory; a network interface configured to couple the SAS to a network, the processor coupled to the interface; and a grant request processing function executed by the processor, the grant request processing function processes grant requests received from radios located in a neighborhood defined around a protection area, wherein the requests comprises a request to transmit on a protected frequency channel of the protected area; wherein the grant request processing function manages a timing of when to processes interference calculations associated with the grant requests based on or both of: determining whether to steer a requesting radio to a non-protected frequency channel; and at least one Q/N estimate power calculation, wherein Q comprises a value of an allowed interference power limit, and N is a number of authorized radios.
US12058716B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a group identifier of the UE. The UE may receive, from the base station, an indication of one or more group identifiers associated with scheduled communications with the base station during a time period. The UE may contend, based at least in part on the group identifier of the UE and the one or more group identifiers received from the base station, for access to a set of autonomous uplink (AUL) resources during the time period. The UE may perform, based at least in part on the contending, an AUL transmission to the base station using the set of autonomous uplink resources.
US12058708B2
A first wireless device receives, from a base station, configuration parameters of a resource pool of a sidelink. The configuration parameters indicate a primary zone configuration, a secondary zone configuration, and a first primary zone identifier of a first primary zone. a second primary zone identifier of a second primary zone in which the first wireless device is positioned, is determined based on a geographic location of the first wireless device using the primary zone configuration. A secondary zone identifier of a secondary zone in which the first wireless device is positioned, is determined based on the geographic location using the secondary zone configuration. The first wireless device transmits control information indicating the secondary zone identifier to second wireless device(s). The control information is transmitted via the resource pool, in response to the second primary zone identifier being the same as the first primary zone identifier.
US12058705B2
In an example, a device receives a configuration of a sidelink resource pool for sidelink data transmission and sidelink reference signal transmission. The device determines to perform a sidelink reference signal transmission in a first Transmission Time Interval (TTI) of the sidelink resource pool, wherein the sidelink reference signal transmission is associated with a destination identity (ID) and a source ID, and the sidelink reference signal transmission has a highest priority among one or more pending sidelink reference signals and one or more sidelink logical channels with pending sidelink data. The device generates a first sidelink data packet based on a first sidelink logical channel with first pending sidelink data, wherein the first sidelink data packet is associated with the destination ID and the source ID. The device performs, in the first TTI, the sidelink reference signal transmission and a sidelink data transmission for transmitting the first sidelink data packet.
US12058703B2
A parent node in a wireless communication network is arranged to communicate backhaul traffic wirelessly with an Integrated Access Backhaul (IAB) node. The parent node may determine time resources for a distributed unit (DU) of the IAB node to communicate backhaul traffic with a child node or a mobile terminal, and transmit an indication of the determined time resources to the IAB node. The parent node may also determine time resources for a mobile termination (MT) of the IAB node to communicate backhaul traffic with the parent node, and transmit an indication of the determined time resources to the IAB node. The IAB may receive, from the parent node, at least one indication of time resources for communicating backhaul data with the parent node, and communicate backhaul data with the parent node based on the time resources. The IAB node may also receive, from the parent node, at least one indication of time resources for communicating backhaul data with the child node or the mobile terminal, and communicate backhaul data with the child node or the mobile terminal based on the time resources.
US12058699B2
A network node, such as a base station, identifies radio resources within an overall bandwidth using a first resource referencing scheme, while a wireless communication device identifies radio resources within an allocated portion of the overall bandwidth using a second resource referencing scheme. Advantageously, the device correctly identifies given radio resources pointed to by a resource identifier expressed according to the first resource referencing scheme, by translating the resource identifier into the second resource referencing scheme according to mapping information that relates the two schemes. Correspondingly, the network node enables the wireless communication device to perform such translations by providing the mapping information either implicitly or explicitly.
US12058686B2
Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. In specific, the method for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving first downlink control information (DCI) from a first base station and receiving second downlink control information (DCI) from a second base station; and, in a first resource region and a second resource region that are allocated on the basis of the first DCI, receiving first data from the first base station and, in the first resource region that is allocated on the basis of the second DCI, receiving second data from the second base station, wherein a rate matching of resources related to a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) may be set differently in each of the first resource region and the second resource region.
US12058660B2
A terminal having reduced capability so as to support a bandwidth smaller than a specific bandwidth, according to one embodiment of the present invention, can detect a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) signal through a synchronization signal block (SSB) on a first downlink (DL) bandwidth part (BWP), obtain a part of system information including a master information block (MIB) carried by the PBCH signal from among pieces of first system information provided on the first DL BWP, and obtain second system information provided on a second DL BWP that is different from the first DL BWP.
US12058659B2
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. The UE transmits K pieces of first-type information through an air interface, wherein the K pieces of first-type information indicate multi-antenna related capabilities of the UE under K transmission configurations respectively; the K transmission configurations all correspond to a first frequency band combination, and the first frequency band combination comprises one or more frequency bands; numbers of parallel carriers corresponding to the K transmission configurations belong to K first-type integer sets respectively, any one of the K first-type integer sets is composed of one or more positive integers, and any two of the K first-type integer sets are different. The above method can improve the peak rate of the UE and improve the efficiency of transmission.
US12058658B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a downlink control information (DCI) transmission that includes a guard band indication that indicates a guard band between an uplink frequency resource allocation and a downlink frequency resource allocation. The UE may communicate using the uplink frequency resource allocation and the downlink frequency resource allocation and based at least in part on the guard band. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12058655B2
A wireless device may receive, from a base station, a first configuration message comprising a first cell specific time division duplex (TDD) uplink and downlink configuration of a cell. The wireless device may receive, from the base station, a second configuration message comprising a second cell specific TDD uplink and downlink configuration of the cell. The wireless device may determine the second cell specific TDD uplink and downlink configuration of the cell is different from the first cell specific TDD uplink and downlink configuration of the cell. Based on the determining, the wireless device may trigger sidelink resource reselection of one or more reserved resources of a resource pool for one or more transport blocks. The wireless device may transmit the one or more transport blocks.
US12058654B2
A resource configuration method and an apparatus are applied to the field of communications technologies. The method includes: a user equipment (UE) receives a first message sent by a base station. The first message carries configuration information of a preconfigured resource, and the preconfigured resource is used for data transmission by the UE in an idle state. The UE obtains first indication information, and releases the preconfigured resource based on the first indication information.
US12058652B2
A wireless device may receive radio resource control messages indicating, among other things, a bandwidth part (BWP) of a cell, having at least first resource blocks (RBs) and second RBs; common frequency resources, including at least the first RBs of the BWP, associated with a multicast and broadcast service (MBS) configured for wireless devices comprising the wireless device; and a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) associated with the MBS. The wireless device may also receive a group common downlink control information (DCI) addressed to the RNTI via the common frequency resources of the BWP. In an embodiment, the group common DCI may indicate a multicast transmission of a transport block to the wireless device. The wireless device may also start a BWP inactivity timer of the cell in response to receiving the group common DCI.
US12058640B2
A positioning estimate for a user equipment (UE) is determined based on a combination of uplink-based positioning and downlink-based positioning. Positioning measurements based on downlink signals and uplink signals can be utilized to determine the positioning estimate. The positioning estimate may be computed by the UE or a node of a wireless communications network. This positioning scheme can include two parts, where a first part and second part are either uplink-based or downlink-based, but the two parts are different from each other. Positioning measurements performed in the first part may be sent along with reference signals in the second part.
US12058635B2
A system and method enabling precise range estimation and time synchronization between a first object such as a vehicle having a primary communications mechanism and an interconnected first controller, and a second object having a secondary communications mechanism and an interconnected second controller. The primary sends communications into the environment and the secondary receives them; the secondary then sends replies to the primary. The communications have information for determining range between the two objects and for comparing the second object's internal clock with a more accurate clock of the first object. Repeated exchanges of communications between the two objects enables additional precision of range as well as time synchronization information.
US12058634B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an communications method. For example, the apparatus receives first information that indicates a first offset from a first set of offsets, wherein the first offset is an offset from a first carrier frequency that is multiple of 100 KHz, and then obtains a carrier frequency of a cell according to the first offset indicated by the first information.
US12058632B2
A method of receiving a downlink (DL) signal by a user equipment (UE) operating on a frequency band above 6 GHz in a wireless communication system is discussed. The method includes receiving system information including first information related to one or more synchronization signal (SS) and PBCH (SS/PBCH) block groups and second information related to one or more SS/PBCH blocks within each of the one or more of SS/PBCH block groups; and receiving the DL signal in resources other than resources used for the one or more SS/PBCH blocks within each of the one or more of SS/PBCH block groups indicated by the first and second information.
US12058625B2
A method by a base station for receiving power headroom reporting from a user equipment (UE) in a Multi-Radio Access Technology (RAT)-Dual Connectivity (MR-DC) scenario, the method includes receiving a DC Power Headroom Report (PHR) Medium Access Control (MAC) Control Element (CE) from the UE, the DC PHR MAC CE having a fixed number of octets with cell index fields for indicating whether a power headroom (PH) for a serving cell with a corresponding cell index is reported, wherein the fixed number of octets is independent of a highest secondary Cell Index (SCellIndex) for serving cells with configured uplinks.
US12058624B2
A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that determines a power control parameter for a sounding reference signal (SRS) based on a medium access control—control element (MAC CE), and a transmitting section that uses a transmission power based on the power control parameters to transmit the SRS. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, the parameter for the transmission power control can be appropriately controlled.
US12058614B2
An electronic device (such as an access point) may provide a management frame, intended for at least a recipient electronic device, that includes slotted-operation information corresponding to a power-save mode of the electronic device for communication with at least the recipient electronic device. The slotted-operation information may include a sequence of temporal slots and associated channel information for the temporal slots. When a channel for a temporal slot comprises a null value, the power-save mode may include transitioning the electronic device into a lower-power-consumption mode during the temporal slot. Alternatively, when a channel for a temporal slot is different than a null value, the power-save mode may include performing another activity than communicating with the recipient electronic device during the temporal slot.
US12058611B2
A 5G network includes an access network (AN), a 5G Core (5GC), one or more campus network components each configured to run 5GC software associated to a campus network, and one or more public network components each configured to run 5GC software associated to a public network. The 5GC comprises a central cloud having functionally separated instances, including: a public 5GC instance configured to host the public network realized as a network slice; a private 5GC instance configured to host one or more campus networks, wherein the one or more campus networks are realized as Network Slices; and a data layer instance configured to host Unified Data Repository (UDR) functionality. Unified Data Management (UDM) functions of both 5GC instances are connected to the data layer instance. A Network Slice Selection Function (NSSF) contains the information about network slices present in both 5GC instances.
US12058610B2
A vehicular electronic device and method thereof are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes memory, a network access device and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: monitoring, via at least one processor, whether a network access device of the electronic device enters a preset operation mode in which the network access device remains activated while a processor of the electronic device is in a sleep mode, based on detecting that the network access device enters the preset operation mode, identifying a network state of the network access device, based at least on the network state of the network access device, changing a search cycle of a network search as executed by the network access device, and executing the network search based on the changed search cycle.
US12058607B2
A Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) resource selection method includes a terminal device receiving N synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) from an access device, determining a target PRACH resource selection manner based on at least one of a service type, a type of a trigger event that triggers random access, a signal strength change status of a reference signal received by the terminal device, mobility of the terminal device, and historical information, and selecting, in the determined selection manner, a target PRACH resource from N PRACH resources corresponding to the N SSBs.
US12058603B2
A method for avoiding undesired message transmissions from a user device to a RAN is implemented in a user device. The method includes receiving (202 or 302), from the RAN, a first value of the barring factor, and determining (206 and 210 or 306 and 310), based on a first probability corresponding to the first value, that access barring applies to a message transmission. The method also includes suspending (214 or 314) the message transmission while running a first timer (216 or 316) and, after the first timer expires or stops, either (1) if the first value does not correspond to a maximum probability of the different probabilities, determining (222 or 322) that the access barring is alleviated, or (2) if the first value corresponds to the maximum probability, continuing to suspend (224 or 326) the message transmission.
US12058600B1
In a system comprising a plurality of wireless multi-modal portable communication devices (MMPCDs) communicable with one another via a cloud-based communication platform server (CPS), techniques are disclosed for configuring a proxy scheme to permit a disconnected multi-modal portable communication device (MMPCD) to connect to a cloud-based communication platform server (CPS) via a proxy device having a connection to the CPS. Once connected, additional techniques for sending and receiving messages via the proxy scheme are disclosed.
US12058599B1
Systems and methods for locating server nodes in close proximity to edge devices using georouting. Microservers automatically form a global peer-to-peer network to serve edge functions and content to edge devices. Edge devices use HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to execute serverless functions or otherwise retrieve data from edge nodes located in close proximity to the HTTP client. Serverless functions are implemented in secure, isolated environment utilizing a blockchain.
US12058598B2
A base station receives an alert indicating a geofenced area, and determines whether its coverage area is completely within the area. If so, the base station generates/sends a wireless emergency alert (WEA) to user equipment in the coverage area that does not indicate the area. Otherwise, the base station generates/sends a WEA that indicates the area. The base station sends action messages that indicate a periodicity and end time for the user equipment to determine whether its location is within the geofenced area, a lack of service time limit and lack of service action for the user equipment to perform after it has been without cellular service for the lack of service time limit, a lack of location time limit and lack of location action for the user equipment to perform if its location cannot be determined for the lack of location time limit, and/or that the WEA has ended.
US12058597B2
The described embodiments transfer an activity from a source electronic device to a companion electronic device. The source electronic device receives activity information describing an activity performed in a first application at the source electronic device, determines an activity identifier for the activity information, and broadcasts an activity advertisement comprising the activity identifier. Upon receiving the activity advertisement, the companion electronic device determines whether a second application that is associated with the first application is available at the companion electronic device. If the second application is available, the companion electronic device requests extended activity data from the source electronic device. The source electronic device responds by sending extended activity data from the first application to the companion electronic device. Then, the companion electronic device uses the extended activity data to configure the second application and commences performing the activity with the second application at the companion electronic device.
US12058587B2
Automatically initiating electronic communication including location sharing on a device in response to detecting a risk situation by initiating an emergency protocol on a mobile device in response to detecting by the mobile device a high risk situation. A setting is changed on the mobile device, as part of the emergency protocol, wherein the detection of the high risk situation is based on data received at the mobile device regarding a person using the mobile device. The setting including enabling location sharing for the device.
US12058586B2
In an aspect, a UE obtains information (e.g., UE-specific information, etc.) associated with a set of triggering criteria for a set of neural network functions, the set of neural network functions configured to facilitate positioning measurement feature processing at the UE, the set of neural network functions being generated dynamically based on machine-learning associated with one or more historical measurement procedure, obtains positioning measurement data associated with a location of the UE, and determines a positioning estimate for the UE based at least in part upon the positioning measurement data and at least one neural network function from the set of neural network functions that is triggered by at least one triggering criterion from the set of triggering criteria.
US12058581B2
Various aspects include methods for supporting handover of a Voice over Internet Protocol (IP) (VoIP) call, such as a Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) call, with a user equipment (UE). Various aspects may enable VoWi-Fi call handover from support via an evolved Packet Data Gateway (ePDG) to support via Long Term Evolution (LTE) when Voice over New Radio (NR) (VoNR) is not supported by a User Equipment (UE) computing device and/or a fifth generation (5G) standalone (SA) (5G SA) network in which the UE is located.
US12058578B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method of a first base station for supporting a handover procedure, the method comprising determining to perform a handover of a user equipment, UE, to a second base station; determining whether Hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, is to be used after the handover is completed; and based on determining that HARQ is to be used, notifying the UE that HARQ is to be used after the handover is completed and notifying the second base station that HARQ is to be used after the handover is completed.
US12058577B2
Lightweight inter-satellite handover device and method for a mega LEO satellite network are provided. An attribute extraction sub-module extracts attributes of handover users in a user information storage unit. Based on the attributes of the handover users, a cluster sub-module clusters the handover users into user clusters. A decision set generator sub-module generates target satellite sets of the user clusters, determines each target satellite of the target satellite sets of the user clusters of each LEO satellite whether belongs to LEO satellites in a management domain of a handover decision point of managing the LEO satellite based on management domain information in a LEO satellite information storage unit, and if YES, performing inter-satellite handover by a centralized decision unit, otherwise performing inter-satellite handover by a distributed decision unit. Therefore, lightweight inter-satellite handover is achieved, cost of handover decision is reduced, and resource utilization of LEO satellite is increased.
US12058558B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for activating or deactivating packet duplication in a wireless communication system. A central unit (CU) of a first base station transmits, to a distributed unit (DU) of the first base station, via an F1 interface, information to activate or deactivate a dual connectivity (DC) based packet duplication for a data radio bearer (DRB). The information is transmitted to a second base station. A medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) indicating whether to activate or deactivate packet duplication for the DRB, based on the information, is transmitted to a user equipment (UE).
US12058554B2
A non-AP/PCP communication apparatus comprises: a receiver which receives a measurement request which is transmitted from an AP/PCP communication apparatus and which requests measurement used in SPSH executability determination; and a transmitter which transmits to the AP/PCP communication apparatus the result of carrying out the measurement on the basis of the measurement request. Using a first period, which is a period in which communication is to be carried out with a first non-AP/PCP communication apparatus, the transmitter and the receiver carry out communication with the first device using a first protocol, and in a second period which is included in the measurement request and in which communication is not carried out with the first device, the receiver carries out measurement of a received signal using the first protocol. The result includes information relating to the measurement of the received signal and information relating to the first protocol.
US12058552B2
A system for validating automated vehicle data transmission capabilities of a vehicle is provided. The system includes a vehicle data transmission diagnostics (VDTD) server in communication with the vehicle and a plurality of roadside evaluation units. The VDTD server includes at least one processor and at least one memory device, and is programmed to: (i) determine that a data latency risk evaluation (DLRE) should be performed for the vehicle, (ii) transmit a DLRE request to the vehicle, (iii) receive, from the vehicle, a response to the transmitted DLRE request including trip data, the trip data including a selected route to be taken by the vehicle, (iv) interrogate the plurality of roadside evaluation units based upon the received trip data, and (v) select, based upon the interrogation, one of the plurality of roadside evaluation units to be a data latency evaluation checkpoint for the vehicle during the upcoming trip.
US12058548B2
Systems and methods for performing measurements of one or more cells during an small data transmission (SDT) procedure between a user equipment (UE) and a network when the UE is in a radio resource control (RRC) INACTIVE state are described herein. Beam and/or cell measurements taken during an SDT measurement period of the SDT procedure may be used to determine one or more respective cell qualities, among other possibilities. Beginnings and endings of the SDT measurement period, and the manner (timing) for taking measurements within the SDT measurement period, are also described. The cell qualities so determined can then be used to monitor, during the SDT measurement period, for a measurement event, which causes the UE to send a measurement report to the network having data determined using those cell qualities, and/or to send messaging intended to induce the network to change the RRC state of the UE.
US12058546B2
According to some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device comprises: determining a characteristic of data for transmission between the wireless device and a network node; determining the wireless device is configured to send measurement information to the network node; and transmitting an indication of the determined characteristic of data for transmission to the network node with the measurement information. In particular embodiments, the measurement information comprises an indication that measurements are available or a measurement report.
US12058545B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are disclosed for receiving downlink control information (DCI) that may include an indication of a reference measurement resource (RMR), receiving an indication of a measurement configuration, and receiving an indication of a feedback resource configuration. A measurement report based on the indication of an RMR, an indication of a measurement configuration, and an indication of a feedback resource configuration may be generated and may be transmitted to a network device.
US12058539B2
A method for dynamic recovery from an unplanned network outage includes aggregating cell site data of multiple cell sites prior to the unplanned outage. The cell site data include subscriber activity data in site coverage areas of the multiple cell sites and data independent of the subscriber activity data. The method includes obtaining resource information of multiple resources available for recovering from the unplanned network outage and generating a predictive model for recovery from the unplanned network outage based on the cell site data and the resource information. The predictive model includes a priority ranking for recovering the multiple cell sites. The method further includes adjusting the predictive model based on live data indicative of a status of the multiple cell sites during the unplanned network outage. The method includes determining a priority ranking for the multiple cell sites and allocating the available resources for the multiple cell sites accordingly.
US12058531B2
A user terminal includes a receiving section that receives a first synchronization signal block in a first carrier to which listening is applied and monitors a first downlink control channel for scheduling first system information based on the first synchronization signal block, and a control section that determines resources of the first downlink control channel using a determination method different from a determination method of resources of a second downlink control channel for scheduling second system information in a second carrier to which the listening is not applied. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, appropriate communication can be performed in a band to which listening is applied.
US12058524B2
This application relates to a tamper-resistant datalink communications system. The system may include a ground-based communications module configured to be coupled to a radio controller configured to remotely control a drone comprising one or more actuators and a remote-mounted communications module configured to communicate data with the ground-based communications module. The ground-based communications module may include a ground processor configured to: receive a plurality of first signals modulated with a first modulation scheme from the radio controller, convert the plurality of first signals to a second signal modulated with a second modulation scheme different from the first modulation scheme, and generate a plurality of second duplicated signals comprising two or more duplicate signals of the second signal. The ground-based communications module may also include a plurality of ground transmitters configured to operate in different frequencies and respectively transmit the plurality of second duplicated signals to the remote-mounted communications module.
US12058514B2
An apparatus and method provide personal networks to a plurality of tenant entities on a property network, which has a captive portal and a property identification (ID). Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) are assigned to each of the plurality of tenant entities to define a plurality of personal networks on the property network using dynamic VLAN assignment. Onboarding requests are received from one or more user devices on a specific personal network of the plurality of personal networks. The onboarding requests are processed in a manner permitting intercommunication among the one or more user devices within the specific personal network, to take place across the property network.
US12058502B2
A speaker device includes: a diaphragm that radiates sound; an edge arranged in an outer periphery of the diaphragm; an attachment part facing an outer peripheral region of the edge; and a connecting member held between the outer peripheral region of the edge and the attachment part, wherein the edge has a curved portion convexly curved on a sound radiation side.
US12058501B2
An apparatus for generating a description of a combined audio scene, includes: an input interface for receiving a first description of a first scene in a first format and a second description of a second scene in a second format, wherein the second format is different from the first format; a format converter for converting the first description into a common format and for converting the second description into the common format, when the second format is different from the common format; and a format combiner for combining the first description in the common format and the second description in the common format to obtain the combined audio scene.
US12058486B2
An electronic device is connected to a master headset and a slave headset. The master headset performs talk right arbitration. A voice automatically picked up by a headset having a talk right may be uploaded to the electronic device. The electronic device translates the uploaded voice, and then returns a translation result.
US12058477B2
A transmission terminal transmits video data and display data of a screen shared with another transmission terminal to the other transmission terminal via a predetermined relay apparatus. The transmission terminal includes a storage unit that stores relay apparatus information of the relay apparatus to which the transmission terminal transmits the video data; a receive unit that receives the display data from an external input apparatus connected to the transmission terminal; and a transmitting unit that transmits the display data received by the receive unit to the relay apparatus indicated by the relay apparatus information stored in the storage unit.
US12058475B2
The video display system includes a plurality of display devices having mutually different display delay times and a video conversion device that divides an input integrated video signal into a plurality of video signals and respectively outputs the plurality of video signals to the plurality of display devices. At least one of the plurality of video signals is output in a delayed state to make a difference between display timings of the plurality of videos respectively displayed on the plurality of display devices substantially zero, based on the display delay times.
US12058473B2
Various techniques are provided for improved detection of scene changes using a thermal imager. In one example, a method includes capturing a plurality of thermal images of a scene using a thermal imager. The method also includes detecting motion associated with the thermal imager during the capturing. The method also includes determining a temporal delay in response to the detected motion. The method also includes selecting first and second ones of the thermal images captured at corresponding first and second times separated by the temporal delay. The method also includes processing the first and second thermal images to generate a comparison thermal image identifying changes in the scene between the first and second times. Additional methods and systems are also provided.
US12058471B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provided herein generally relate to methods and video system components that have integrated background differentiation capabilities that allow for background replacement and/or background modification. In some embodiments, undesired portions of video data generated in a video environment are separated from desired portions of the video data by taking advantage of the illumination and decay of the intensity of electromagnetic radiation, provided from an illuminator, over a distance. Due to the decay of intensity with distance, the electromagnetic radiation reflected from the undesired background has a lower intensity when received by the sensor than the electromagnetic radiation reflected from the desired foreground. The difference in the detected intensity at the one or more wavelengths can then be used to separate and/or modify the undesired background from the desired foreground for use in a video feed.
