US12086964B2
A processing device receives an image and calculates a sharpness metric for a region of interest of the image. The processing device determines whether the sharpness metric satisfies a sharpness criterion, and one or more additional operations are performed responsive to determining that the sharpness metric satisfies the sharpness criterion.
US12086958B2
A method and device with synthetic image generation is included. A method includes acquiring a first image captured by a first camera and second images captured by a second camera having a narrower field of view (FOV) when the second images are captured thereby than that of the first camera when the first image is captured thereby. The method also includes detecting respective blur statuses of each of the second images, selecting a region of the first image on the basis of the region corresponding to a second image, of the second images, selected based on a determination that the blur status of the second image satisfies a blur condition, and generating a synthetic image by synthesizing together the selected region of the first image and the second images not including the selected second image.
US12086956B2
An image processing device includes a convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture configured to perform at least one of denoising, deblurring, dehazing, and color correction on an input. The input comprises a plurality of low-quality input images having different exposure values captured for the same object at the same time by a camera under display (CUD) to render a high-quality output image. The CNN architecture is trained using a set of training images including a plurality of low-quality training images having different exposure values and a high-quality training image corresponding to the plurality of low-quality training images.
US12086948B2
A system for rendering and modifying three-dimensional models for interior design includes a modeling device configured to receive a current design of an interior space, generate a data structure representing the interior space, by populating a plurality of attributes of the data structure and generating a first three-dimensional model of a first portion of the interior space based on the current design, wherein the first three-dimensional model includes a first feature having a first attribute of the plurality of attributes, and wherein a second attribute of the plurality of the attributes is exterior to the first three-dimensional model, display the first three-dimensional model to a user, receive at least a command to modify the first attribute, modify the first three-dimensional model as a function of the at least a command to modify the first attribute, and modify the second attribute as a function of the modification to the first attribute.
US12086947B2
Described herein are systems and methods for maintaining color calibration using common objects. In an exemplary embodiment, an AR system includes a forward-facing camera, an AR display, a processor, and a user interface. The processor is configured to receive image data from the forward-facing camera and identify any known objects depicted in the image data. The processor then determines RGB information at least one test rendering of the identified known object and displays it via the AR display. Input from a user interface, indicating which of the at least one test renderings was a closest match to the real-world object, and a level of satisfaction with the match are received by the processor and used to update an AR display color calibration model. More test renderings may be iteratively provided to improve the accuracy of the calibration.
US12086940B2
An image processing method is provided. The method includes generating appearance information corresponding to a canonical space defined by a cube including a plurality of regular grids in a first input image by implementing a first neural network, generating geometric information corresponding to a standard space in a second input image by implementing a second neural network, deforming the plurality of regular grids based on the generated geometric information, generating standardized image information by applying the appearance information to the plurality of deformed regular grids, and generating an output image based on the standardized image information.
US12086937B2
The present application provides a virtual reality-based derailment accident passenger comfort degree monitoring system and method, wherein the system comprises a train dynamics calculation module, a train operation state virtual simulation module, a six-degree-of-freedom motion platform, a train seat, a head-mounted display, a human body monitoring sensor system and a monitoring data storage terminal. The system establishes a database of the injury degrees of passengers with different ages under the train derailment; the test cost is low, the safety coefficient is high, and the repeatability of the test conditions is good, wherein the comfort degree test data of the passengers under the same derailment inducement can be repeatedly obtained; the safety risk in the actual test is eliminated, so that the authenticity of the test result is ensured, and the test cost is low and the repeatability is high.
US12086928B2
The invention relates to a method for constructing a dental component (I) using a graphic representation of a dental condition. A 3D volume model of the dental condition is thus already correlated with a 3D surface model of the dental condition, wherein the graphic representation of the 3D volume model is restricted to relevant regions by delimitation using the 3D surface model or using a section thereof, wherein the remaining regions of the 3D volume model are hidden.
US12086922B2
Ray tracing systems and methods generate a hierarchical acceleration structure to be used for intersection testing in a ray tracing system. Nodes of the hierarchical acceleration structure are determined, each representing a region in a scene, and being linked to form the hierarchical acceleration structure. Data is stored representing the hierarchical acceleration structure, including data defining the regions represented by a plurality of the nodes. At least one node is an implicitly represented node, wherein data defining a region represented by an implicitly represented node is not explicitly included as part of the stored data but can be inferred from the stored data. Intersection testing in the ray tracing system is performed in which, based on conditions in the ray tracing system, a determination is made as to whether testing of one or more rays for intersection with a region represented by a particular node of a sub-tree is to be skipped. The one or more rays are tested for intersection in accordance with the determination.
US12086919B2
A mixed reality system that includes a device and a base station that communicate via a wireless connection The device may include sensors that collect information about the user's environment and about the user. The information collected by the sensors may be transmitted to the base station via the wireless connection. The base station renders frames or slices based at least in part on the sensor information received from the device, encodes the frames or slices, and transmits the compressed frames or slices to the device for decoding and display. The base station may provide more computing power than conventional stand-alone systems, and the wireless connection does not tether the device to the base station as in conventional tethered systems. The system may implement methods and apparatus to maintain a target frame rate through the wireless link and to minimize latency in frame rendering, transmittal, and display.
US12086913B2
A multimedia communication system and computer-implemented method for transmitting auxiliary display content to an end-user communication device to be rendered on a display device with a special effect to emphasize an image included in the auxiliary display content, comprising a processor and a transmitter. The processor can be arranged to analyze image data included in an auxiliary display content, detect an object image or a background image in the auxiliary display content based on the analysis of the image data, determine a special effect based on the analysis of the image data, and apply the special effect to the auxiliary display content to modify display properties for the auxiliary display content such that the object image is emphasized or pops-out. The transmitter can be arranged to send the auxiliary display content with modified display properties to an end-user communication device. The special effect can comprise a non-customization special effect, a simple foreground special effect or a selective foreground special effect.
US12086911B2
Techniques for nonlinear representations for vector objects are described that support construction of a nonlinear vector graph to represent a vector object. In an implementation, a user input is received including a plurality of points and at least one primitive. A content processing system then generates a vector object by constructing a nonlinear vector graph that specifies a nonlinear connection of the plurality of points with the at least one primitive. In some examples, the vector object is edited by applying an edit to the nonlinear vector graph. Once generated, the content processing system then outputs the vector object for display, e.g., in a user interface.
US12086902B2
A device generates a first top view of a motor vehicle depending on a first view-related information from at least one image of at least one camera whose optical axis is substantially parallel to a plane spanned by the vehicle longitudinal direction and the vehicle lateral direction.
US12086892B2
An activity management system is configured to allow users to access multimedia content where the multimedia content is divided into segments. While a user is viewing or interacting with the multimedia content, the user can submit one or more activities (e.g., comments, questions, replies, or reactions) using an interface. The system is operable to electronically link the activity provided by the user with the particular segment of multimedia content in which the activity was captured by the system. The system is also configured to throttle the number of activities that are displayed to a user for any given segment based on (1) viewers linked to the user (e.g., groups, social media groups, etc.), (2) viewers that influence the user, (3) viewers selected by the user, (4) viewers that cause the user to be engaged with the multimedia content, and (5) a threshold number of activities set by the viewer or the system.
US12086878B2
A web based finance system allows users to refinance past eligible purchasing transactions. The system can include a system server(s) which is in communication through a network with client computing devices associated with customers. The server can receive customer information and determine a refinancing value range based upon the user has a bank account and/or credit risk rating information. The server can identify prior eligible credit card purchases for refinancing and the customer can select one or more purchases for refinancing and the refinancing loan terms.
US12086877B1
Purchase assistance is provided to a user based on user device location and direction. Input to a user device, identifying a product or service of interest, can be received. Next, a location of the user device is determined, and one or more providers of the product or service are identified in proximity to the location of the user device. Direction information of the user device is determined by ascertaining a compass orientation of the user device or a direction vector of movement of the user device. Subsequently, providers are identified based on the direction information and presented to a user on a display of the user device. Further, an offer associated with the product or service, such as a finance offer, can be generated and presented with the providers on the display.
US12086874B2
An intelligent alert system triggers potential cases based on a set of scenarios and sends the potential cases to investigators. After the investigation, the intelligent alert system records in a database the investigation results for each potential case, the associated set of scenarios that triggered the potential case, and the date and the time of such investigation. As a result, the intelligent alert system can gradually learn from the investigators and will automatically make decisions for some future potential cases with little human involvement.
US12086870B2
An information processing method, and a terminal and a computer-readable storage medium for processing information are provided. The information processing method includes: acquiring measurement data obtained by measuring a product area contained in a captured image; and notifying, a user of the terminal, of second information of at least one first product that is selected, based on the measurement data, from first information of a plurality of products stored in a storage device.
US12086868B2
A greeting card is provided that includes, for example, two fold lines that define a first panel, a second panel, and a third panel, where each of those panels include front and back surfaces. The second panel includes a void. The back surface of the first panel includes an actionable unique identifier such that when the greeting card is folded along the fold lines the actionable unique identifier is visible through the void. The actionable unique identifier is usable to retrieve a digital presentation.
US12086867B2
In some examples, a system may be configured to, based on the data characterizing the shelf portion of a shelf-peg modular, the item data and the draw strategy data, implement a first set of modular placement optimization operations that generate a first modular dataset of the shelf portion of the shelf-peg modular. Furthermore, the system may be configured to, based at least on data characterizing the peg portion of the shelf-peg modular, and the modular data of the shelf portion, determine dimensional information of the peg portion. As such, the system may be configured to, based on the data characterizing the peg portion of the shelf-peg modular, the dimensional information of the peg portion, the item data, the first modular dataset, and the draw strategy data, implement a second set of modular placement optimization operations that generate a second modular dataset of the peg portion of the shelf-peg modular.
US12086865B2
A system includes a purchase portal configured to receive a purchase order from a customer, wherein the purchase order includes a service from each of a plurality of service providers. When receipt of the purchase order is detected, a processor determines first and second ones of the service providers associated with the purchase order; and establishes a trust relationship between the first service provider and the second service provider in a context of the customer. The processor also sends a first request for a first trust artifact to the first service provider and a second request for a second trust artifact to the second service provider; receives the first trust artifact from the first service provider, receives the second trust artifact from the second service provider, sends the first trust artifact to the second service provider, and sends the second trust artifact to the first service provider.
US12086862B2
A method for merchant-side tracking of customer selections includes receiving, via a user list script on a merchant webpage, a user selection of a product representation displayed on a UI of a user device. The method includes updating a user list with the user selection, the user list associated with a generic user representation. The method includes determining, based on a type of identifier associated with a user of the user device, to use a generic user representation with the user list. The method includes selecting, based on the generic user representation, an anonymous user flow type for tracking the user as an anonymous user of the merchant webpage. The anonymous user flow type associates the user device with the user list independently of associating the user with the merchant.
US12086861B1
The following relates generally to light detection and ranging (LIDAR) and artificial intelligence (AI). In some embodiments, a system: receives light detection and ranging (LIDAR) data generated from a LIDAR camera via wireless communication or data transmission over one or more radio frequency links, the LIDAR data associated with a store or a store layout; generates a LIDAR-based virtual map of the store from processor analysis of the LIDAR data; determines locations of individual goods in the store; overlays the locations of the individual goods onto the LIDAR-based virtual map; and generates an updated LIDAR-based virtual map of the store displaying aisles of the store and the overlaid locations of the individual goods within the store.
US12086859B2
In some embodiments, a computer-implemented system within an e-commerce platform may receive and analyse digital images of scenes in order to generate a recommendation for one or more products offered for sale by a merchant. For example, a user may use their device to capture an image of a room that the user wishes to furnish, and the system may use a trained machine learning algorithm to recommend a product to be placed in the room. The recommended product may be superimposed on the image of the room.
US12086845B2
The disclosed systems and methods integrate gaming functionality with viewing a video program. Systems and methods for generating an interactive multimedia game for a user during the viewing of a video program by the user includes a host computer that generates the game in a context of the video program viewed on a first graphical user interface and recommends the video game to the user. The user may opt to engage with the video game on a second graphical user interface, which may be overlaid on the first graphical user interface.
US12086843B2
Dynamic and Customized web pages provided by a search engine to link to a retailer's online site are redirected to an integration platform when activated within a browser from search results of a user search. The integration platform segments the web pages into a plurality of sub links that when detected from the activation, which resulted in the browser redirection to the integration platform, cause specific retailer services to be accessed by the integration platform and customized information and services provided to the user within the browser.
US12086836B2
A method and system for digital marketing and the provision of digital content allows a user to express, using an application executed on a computing device while a piece of content is being broadcast using an analog or digital signal by an analog or digital radio or television station system, an interest in the broadcast piece of content that is communicated to a backend system. The backend system selects an end point destination that is a pointer to further digital information associated with the broadcast piece of content and communicates the end point destination for the broadcast piece of content to the user who can access the digital information.
US12086819B2
A crowd management system includes at least one local controller associated with an attraction area of an individual attraction within a theme park. The crowd management system includes a transceiver of the at least one local controller, where the transceiver receives guests data via wireless signals from guest-associated devices within a detection range of the local controller. The crowd management system includes a remote central controller in communication with the at least one local controller and the guest-associated device. The remote central controller receives the guest data from the at least one local controller and determines one or more crowd metrics of the individual attraction based on the guest data. The remote central controller generates an activity command based on the one or more crowd metrics. The remote central controller transmits the activity command to at least one guest-associated device of the guest-associated devices.
US12086807B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for authenticating access to an account using questions which allow users to provide textual information about transactions conducted by an account. A machine learning model may be trained to predict the guessability of merchants. A request for access to an account may be received, and transaction data for that account may be received. An authentication question may be presented. For example, a user may be prompted to list places they have shopped recently. A user response comprising text data may be received. The text data may be processed to identify one or more merchants. If the one or more merchant(s) are represented in the transaction data, the machine learning model may be used to determine the guessability of the one or more merchants. An authentication score may be determined based on the guessability, and access to the account may be provided.
US12086804B2
One or more processors receive a request for a secure digital asset and execute a validation protocol defined for validating the request. The validation protocol may define conditions for fulfilling the request that include one or more conditions related to information about an identified user requesting the request or information indicative of a routing-aspect of the request. The one or more processors attempt to validate the request based on assessment of the conditions specified in the validation protocol. If validation is unsuccessful, the one or more processors instruct the user to undertake one or more multi-factor authentication actions, which may include choices from a plurality of possible multi-factor authentication options and/or certain required multi-factor authentication options, defined by the protocol. The one or more processors validate and fulfil the request responsive to confirming successful undertaking of the one or more multi-factor authentication actions by the user.
US12086801B2
Examples for enabling off-network transactions to be performed and securely managed are provided. An example system may include a data network, a digital ledger server, a blockchain platform, smart payment devices, and point of sale devices. Each respective point of sale device and each respective smart device may be operable to perform an off-network transaction, and store information related to the transaction in a digital ledger coupled to each respective device. When a transaction is executed between a POS device and a smart payment device, the POS device and smart payment device exchange a record of all off-network transactions that each respective device has executed since the last time a connection was made to the data network. When a network connection is established for each device, the respective information stored in the digital ledger is uploaded to the blockchain platform for storage and the digital ledger server for transaction resolution.
US12086797B2
Audio/speech-based and text-based interactions between a transaction terminal and a user conducting a transaction are provided. In an embodiment, the terminal may establish a direct wireless connection to a user-operated device or an indirection wireless connection to the user-operated device through a proxy device. In an embodiment, the wireless connection is automatically established through a different out-of-band wireless communication between the terminal and the user-operated device. In an embodiment, text-based data for the transaction are provided over a second simultaneous wireless connection that is different from the wireless connection associated with providing the audio/speech data. In an embodiment, audio/speech data provided from the user during the transaction are enhanced for security and are filtered for accuracy using audio-based processing and/or image-based processing. In an embodiment, a speech-to-text and text-to-speech interface for a transaction at the terminal is provided.
US12086789B2
Technologies for emulating payment transaction messaging for electronic payment transaction include a transaction management controller for receiving a transaction amount for a payment transaction from a business management engine and simulated payment card data for the payment transaction from a point of interaction emulator. The transaction management controller inserts the transaction amount and the payment card data into a test payment authorization request message, which is transmitted to a null host. A payment authorization response message is received from the null host and transmitted by the transaction management controller the business management engine. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12086782B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a method and a hardware and software system for collecting data from retail point of sale. The hardware connects to a wide variety of barcode scanners and receipt printers. Collected data is transmitted to a cloud-based infrastructure backend system using a wireless internet connection built into the hardware. The collected data can be processed to extract item-level transaction information, and estimate the price and in-stock status of items in particular shops. A search engine can be provided using this data, which allows a customer to discover which nearby shop has an item of interest in stock. A targeted advertising system that complements this search service is also presented. The data can be used by retailers and manufacturers for business analysis and optimization.
US12086775B2
A message including metadata is received on behalf of an application operator from a subscriber by a message management platform. Based on the metadata, the message is determined to be associated with a customer record received by the message management platform as an application programming interface (API) notification from an application builder platform. The API notification includes a payload that includes information describing a committed transaction event associated with a user of the application builder platform. An interaction history associated with the subscriber is presented in a messaging interface of the message management platform. The interaction history includes the message received from the subscriber and further including a user action item describing the committed transaction event associated with the user of the application builder platform.
US12086768B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to digital check processing. A computing platform may receive a check image from a user device. The computing platform may configure, based on the check image, a digital check for use in conducting transactions between the user device and point of sale devices, which may include generating a QR code for the check. The computing platform may send, to the user device, the digital check, which may enable the user device to execute a transaction with a first point of sale device. The computing platform may receive, from the first point of sale device, a request to execute the transaction. The computing platform may direct an event processing server to process the transaction, which may cause the event processing server to execute a transfer of funds from an account of the initial payor to an enterprise account of the first point of sale device.
US12086756B2
Systems, devices and methods for storage, delivery, receipt, and/or other handling of an item in an electronically controllable storage receptacle are disclosed. The disclosure provides features for keyless access to the storage receptacle by use of user access information, such as a PIN or bar code. Further, features are disclosed for receiving and/or transmitting data related to the recipient and the item to facilitate the various handling actions of the item.
US12086753B2
An AV receives a delivery request made by a user. The AV navigates to the user's location. The AV's onboard controller determines that the AV has arrived at the location. The onboard controller then commands the AV's motor to pause motion. The onboard controller provides the user an access to a delivery assembly in the AV. The onboard controller or the delivery assembly detects, by using sensors in the delivery assembly, whether an item has been removed from or placed into the container. Subsequent to detecting that the item has been removed from or placed into the container, the onboard controller commands the AV's motor to resume motion. The onboard controller or delivery assembly may also control a movable element in the container to allow the user to load or unload the item from a safe spot or control a divider in the container to protect the user's privacy.
US12086750B2
A system for scanning shipping containers, comprising an unmanned vehicle, the unmanned vehicle includes a sensor, a processor, and a memory. The memory includes instructions for execution. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the unmanned vehicle to move along faces of a shipping container, and record container data collected from the sensor while scanning the shipping container.
US12086742B2
A grounded operations facilities management system is disclosed that can facilitate communications in grounded operations facilities. Specifically, a method is provided for managing and supervising trucks as they park in truck spots to await freight deposits. Check-in instances reflecting, among other things, the actual truck spot a fleet vehicle is parked in can be retrieved by a client from a server or database in operable communication with the client, and upon instantiation and execution of several processes, the check-in instance can be updated and retrieved/served as needed throughout the system. The system can be managed and controlled via a geofence, such that fleet vehicle operators can only check-in to particular truck spots when located within the geofence.
US12086740B2
A management device obtains a first operational process, which is an operational process described in an operational procedure manual for an application, and a second operational process, which is an operational process performed by a user on the application. The management device further determines whether the first operational process is consistent with the second operational process or not. If the management device determines that the first operational process is not consistent with the second operational process, the management device displays a review screen to check inconsistency between the operational processes.
US12086735B2
An input sample SNP genotype is divided into a plurality of windows, each including a sequence of SNPs. For each window, a diploid hidden Markov Model (HMM) is built and from a haplotype Markov Model (MM). The diploid HMM for a window is used to determine the probability that the window corresponds to a pair of labels (e.g., ethnicity labels). An inter-window HMM, with a set of states for each window, is built based on the diploid HMMs for each window. Labels are assigned to the input sample genotype based on the inter-window HMM.
US12086727B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting modified media are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving an item of media content. The actions further include providing the item as an input to a model that is configured to determine whether the item likely includes audio of a user's voice that was not spoken by the user or likely includes video of the user that depicts actions of the user that were not performed by the user. The actions further include receiving, from the model, data indicating whether the item likely includes audio of the user's voice that was not spoken by the user or includes video of the user that depicts actions of the user that were not performed by the user. The actions further include determining whether the item likely includes deepfake content.
US12086697B2
A relationship analysis device includes a parameter sample data calculation unit that calculates sample data for parameters for a simulator that receives inputs of data of a first type and outputs data of a second type, calculating sample data; a second type sample data acquisition unit that inputs, to the simulator, observation data and sample data, and obtains sample data of the second type; and a parameter value determination unit that calculates a weight for sample data based on the difference between observation data of the second type and the sample data of the second type, and based on the relationship between a first distribution that the observation data of the first type followed and a second distribution being a distribution of the data of the first type, and calculates a value for the parameters using the calculated weight.
US12086691B2
Techniques for controlling small angle Mølmer-Sørensen gates and for handling asymmetric SPAM errors
The disclosure describes various techniques to control of small angle Mølmer-Sørensen (MS) gates and to handle asymmetric errors. A technique is described that implements a two-qubit calibration circuit with two MS gates, where a parameter θ represents an amount of entanglement of the MS gate. The calibration circuit is run for several values of θ to measure observed parity signals that are direct measurements of the values of θ. Calibration information is generated that describes the relationship between θ and the parity signals, and such calibration information is then provided to arbitrarily calibrate one or more MS gates in a quantum simulation. Another technique is described for using the calibration information in quantum simulations, including for quantum chemistry simulations. Yet another technique is described for handling system-based asymmetric errors in the measurements of different qubit states in different types of quantum circuits, including, for example, the calibration circuit mentioned above.
US12086687B2
A method, system and product comprising: obtaining a functional-level representation of a quantum circuit that comprises a functional block; obtaining an indication of one or more resources that are available to the functional block, the indication regarding a range of cycles and an indication regarding a number of qubits; dynamically generating a gate-level implementation of the functional block that adheres to the indication of the one or more resources; and synthesizing a gate-level implementation of the quantum circuit, wherein the gate-level implementation of the quantum circuit comprises the gate-level implementation of the functional block.
US12086686B2
A method, system and product comprising: obtaining a gate-level representation of a quantum circuit, wherein the gate-level representation comprises a set of quantum gates defining operations on a set of qubits, wherein the gate-level representation comprises a gate-level implementation of a functional block of a functional-level representation of the quantum circuit, wherein the functional block defines an operation of the quantum circuit over at least two cycles; obtaining metadata from a functional-level processing component, wherein the metadata comprise an artifact associated with the gate-level implementation of the functional block; and compiling the gate-level representation of the quantum circuit, wherein said compiling is performed based on the metadata.
US12086682B1
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and devices for automatically verifying the authenticity and integrity of documents such as but not limited to instant lottery tickets.
US12086681B2
A computer implemented method for detecting and reading a barcode in an image of a marked glass substrate, the method taking as input a raster image of at least one portion of the marked glass substrate and providing as output an abstract image of the barcode, the method including (a) computing a probability occurrence θ of the barcode in the raster image with a first trained convolutional artificial neural network; (b) computing coordinates of representative points of a boundary of the barcode in the raster image-according to a given threshold σ for the probability occurrence θ computed at (a); (c) cropping the raster image to the boundary of the barcode according to the coordinates computed at (b), and (d) computing with a second trained convolutional artificial neural network a tensor of probabilities for each pixel of the cropped raster image, the tensor being the abstract image of the barcode.
US12086680B2
The disclosure relates to a tool part for a cutting tool having an identification marker arranged at the tool part, wherein the identification marker is a unique machine readable code associated with individual dimension information data. The individual dimension information data includes at least one individually measured dimension of the tool part as measured when manufacturing the tool part that will change while wearing the tool part. The disclosure further relates to a system, a method and computer program product for utilizing an identification marker on a tool part for a cutting tool, for determining a tool wear of the tool part.
US12086672B2
A transaction card may monitor an amount of electric current induced in a first near-field communication (NFC) component of a transaction card. Electric current may be induced in the first NFC component when the first NFC component is within an electromagnetic field generated by a second NFC component of a transaction terminal. The transaction card may dynamically activate one or more output components associated with the transaction card based on the amount of electric current induced in the first NFC component. The one or more output components may indicate whether the transaction card can communicate with the transaction terminal. The transaction card may perform an action related to completing a transaction after determining that the amount of electric current induced in the NFC component satisfies a first threshold. The first threshold may indicate that the transaction card can communicate with the transaction terminal.
US12086669B2
A transaction card includes at least one metal layer having one or more apertures therein. A light guide is disposed beneath the metal layer. The light guide has a light output and a light input. The light output is positioned to transmit light through at least the one or more apertures of the metal layer. At least one LED is positioned to transmit light into the light guide light input.
US12086659B2
A computer-readable medium may store machine-readable instructions for execution by a processor. There may be a connection between the processor and a virtual computer. The processor may establish a first data channel between the processor and the virtual computer based on the connection between the processor and the virtual computer. The connection may comprise a second data channel to transfer input/output (I/O) data between the processor and the virtual computer. The processor may receive an output message from the virtual computer via the first data channel. The processor may identify an I/O device coupled to the processor based on the output message. The processor may provide an output signal to the I/O device, the output signal based on the output message.
US12086652B2
Techniques described herein relate to a method for managing a computer vision environment. The method includes identifying a CV alert; in response to identifying the CV alert: making a first determination that the CV node is not participating in a distributed workload associated with a higher priority CV alert; in response to the first determination, the CV node: selects candidate CV nodes of the plurality of CV nodes; initiates performance of the distributed CV workload by the candidate CV nodes to generate CV data associated with the CV alert; generates a CV alert case associated with the CV alert; obtains CV data from the candidate CV nodes that are performing the distributed CV workload; updates the CV alert case using the CV data generated during the performance of the distributed CV workload; and provides the updated CV alert case to a VMS.
US12086640B2
A uniform resource identifier (URI) shortening service, such as a URL shortening service, creates the shortened URI along with “synopsis” data relating to the human understandable content of the resource, such as the text and images in a typical web site. Later, when users use the shortened URI to retrieve the resource, if the synopsis data for the resource has changed too much relative to the synopsis data as created at the earlier time of the URI shortening, then the requesting users are given some type of notification or warning that the content of the resource has changed. This can save the end users from wasting time retrieving and reviewing a resource that is no longer of interest due to the changes in the content.
US12086639B2
Disclosed is an extended high-performance server integrated management system based on remote server management standard to efficiently manage existing high-performance servers and ultra-high-performance servers capable of supporting extended BMC functions. This system includes multiple modules responsible for each major function, considering a possibility of large-scale expansion, and each module can be run on an independent server depending on the size of the management system. In addition, this system utilizes the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) standard, which is widely used for efficient remote hardware management of ultra-high-performance servers, and supports function for collecting hardware monitoring information linked to BMC for various functions such as temperature, power, and fan speed and collectively controlling the hardware on the basis of the collected data. In this case, an out-of-band based agent communication method was used to extend the BMC functionality. In addition, it also supports group management of each server, boot option change, Serial Over Lan (SOL)-based remote console access function, and the function of delivering event-specific warnings and alarms based on collected hardware monitoring information. Furthermore, the collected hardware status information of each server is continuously stored in the database and managed to be used as basic data for future failure prediction and prevention.
US12086638B2
A topology of accelerators is provided, including a plurality of accelerators and a broadcast buffer. Each of the plurality of accelerators corresponds to a first memory and obtain input data from an external second memory respectively, wherein the accelerator can only directly access its corresponding first memory, and the broadcast buffer is coupled between one of the plurality of accelerators and the corresponding first memory. When receiving a write command and the input data from the accelerator to which it is coupled, the broadcast buffer is configured to write the input data into the corresponding first memory according to the write command, and when broadcast is enabled, the broadcast buffer is configured to broadcast the write command and the weight data in the input data. This application can improve the access performance of the accelerators and reduce the access delay.
US12086634B2
An example method of placing a virtual machine (VM) in a cluster of hosts is described. Each of the hosts having a hypervisor managed by a virtualization management server for the cluster, the hosts separated into a plurality of nonuniform memory access (NUMA) domains. The method including: comparing a virtual central processing unit (vCPU) and memory configuration of the VM with physical NUMA topologies of the hosts; selecting a set of the hosts spanning at least one of the NUMA domains, each host in the set of hosts having a physical NUMA topology that maximizes locality for vCPU and memory resources of the VM as specified in the vCPU and memory configuration; and providing the set of hosts to a distributed resource scheduler (DRS) executing in the virtualization management server, the DRS configured to place the VM in a host selected from the set of hosts.
US12086632B2
A task manager tightly coupled to a programmable real-time unit (PRU), the task manager configured to: detect a first event; assert, a request to the PRU during a first clock cycle that the PRU perform a second task; receive an acknowledgement of the request from the PRU during the first clock cycle; save a first address in a memory during the first clock cycle of the PRU, the first address corresponding to a first task of the PRU, the first address present in a current program counter of the PRU; load a second address of the memory into a second program counter during the first clock cycle, the second address corresponding to the second task; and load, during a second clock cycle, the second address into the current program counter, wherein the second clock cycle immediately follows the first clock cycle.
US12086631B2
A version control system implemented on at least one server computer is provided, including: a database that stores a plurality of tasks, each task having one or more versions, each version of a given task having files that are associated thereto; a server process that manages versioning of the tasks; wherein responsive to a request to check-out a first version of the given task, the server process retrieves and serves files associated to the first version of the given task; wherein responsive to a request to check-in the previously checked-out first version of the given task, the server process generates a second version of the given task, and receives and stores files in association with the second version of the given task.
US12086630B2
Methods of and systems for generating and managing a smart contract may include obtaining contents related to a contract at user request timing in a dialogue environment between users, generating at least one condition associated with the contract, generating a smart contract for the contents related to the contract and the generated condition, and storing the smart contract in a blockchain.
US12086628B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a memory which temporarily stores a program of a system; a first processor which executes the program to implement functions of the system; a second processor which detects a face area with a face captured therein from an image captured by an imaging unit; and a third processor which switches between and executes first processing in which, when the face area is detected by the second processor, first information is output, while when the face area is not detected, second information is output, and second processing to output the first information despite detection of the face area by the second processor. When there is no operation input by a user over a certain period of time, the first processor restricts use of at least some of the functions of the system.
US12086621B2
Described herein is a system and method of connectivity migration of an executing virtual application and/or guest operating system. State associated with a first instance of an application and/or a guest operating system executing on a first virtual machine is captured. Information regarding connectivity state associated with a plurality of running connections between the first virtual machine and client device(s) is also captured (e.g., layers 2, 3 and 4). The captured state information can be provided to a second virtual machine which utilizes the captured station information to establish state for a second instance of the application, a second instance of the guest operating system, and/or connectivity of the plurality of running connections between the second virtual machine and client device(s). The state of the second instance of the application can be synchronized with the state of the second instance of the guest operating system.
US12086617B2
Methods, systems, graphical user interfaces (GUIs), and computer-readable media for presenting GUI elements generated based on information associated with an event are generally described. An event information presentation system may be configured to present GUI elements generated based on substantially real-time event information associated with a live event, such as a sporting event. Illustrative event information may include object movement and location information for objects such as event participants (for instance, players) and articles (for instance, a football for a football game event). The event information may be interpreted based on activity categories to automatically differentiate, organize, highlight, or the like the event information in order to generate relevant and meaningful GUI elements.
US12086616B1
Disclosed herein are embodiments for processing a user interface (UI) using one or more parameters to capture user feedback. Embodiments operate by identifying one or more UI element codes in an information screen based on a parameter data structure. The embodiments request a set of responses from a database based on the parameter data structure. The embodiments generate a set of UI elements that capture user feedback based on the set of responses. The embodiments then present the information screen with the generated set of UI elements to capture user feedback.
US12086613B2
A device receives a sensor payload at a sensor service. The sensor payload includes a data field that comprises a first value that corresponds to a reading by a sensor device. The device sends the sensor payload to a broker process that is separate from the sensor service and that hosts plug-in logic. The device receives a sensor payload update from the broker process. The sensor payload update includes a second value for the data field that is different from the first value. The second value was determined by the plug-in logic. The device creates a modified sensor payload from the sensor payload, including updating the data field to comprise the second value. The device initiates an operating system action based on the modified sensor payload.
US12086599B2
A method of operating an accelerator includes receiving, from a central processing unit (CPU), commands for the accelerator and a peripheral device of the accelerator, processing the received commands according to a subject of performance of each of the commands, and transmitting a completion message indicating that performance of the commands is completed to the CPU after the performance of the commands is completed.
US12086598B2
The present disclosure provides new and innovative systems and methods for processing out-of-order events. In an example, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining data, committing the obtained data to a fixed-size storage pool, the fixed-size storage pool including a plurality of slots and a pool index including a fixed-length array, by acquiring a slot in the plurality of slots, locking the acquired slot, storing the obtained data in the acquired slot, updating the pool index for the storage pool by updating an element in the array corresponding to the acquired slot, the element storing an indication of the obtained data, and unlocking the acquired slot, and transmitting an indication that the data is available.
US12086595B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to interleaving data values. An embodiment includes decoding circuitry to decode a single instruction, the instruction having one or more fields to specify an opcode, one or more fields to specify a location of a first source operand, one or more fields to specify a location of a second source operand, one or more fields to specify a location of a destination operand, and one or more fields to specify an index value to be used to index a row in the first source operand, wherein the opcode is to indicate execution circuitry is to downconvert data elements of the indexed row of the first source operand, interleave the downconverted elements with data elements of the second source operand, and store the interleaved elements in the destination operand; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction according to the opcode.
US12086591B2
Techniques and mechanisms for determining a relative order in which a load instruction and a store instruction are to be executed. In an embodiment, a processor detects an address collision event wherein two instructions, corresponding to different respective instruction pointer values, target the same memory address. Based on the address collision event, the processor identifies respective instruction types of the two instructions as an aliasing instruction type pair. The processor further determines a count of decisions each to forego a reversal of an order of execution of instructions. Each decision represented in the count is based on instructions which are each of a different respective instruction type of the aliasing instruction type pair. In another embodiment, the processor determines, based on the count of decisions, whether a later load instruction is to be advanced in an order of instruction execution.
US12086577B2
A method is provided for creating and executing a control program for controlling an automation system having a controller and a web server connected to the controller. The method includes creating a first version of a program code of a control program for the automation system in an input module of a web-based development environment executed in a web browser, in a code creating step; executing a translation module of the web-based development environment on the web server and translating the program code into a program code of a binary language, in a translating step; and executing the program code in the binary language with the aid of the controller of the automation system, in an executing step. An automation system is also provided.
US12086575B2
A system and method for a hybrid development platform for project development that integrates local and continuous integration (CI)-based building and testing. The system and method can make use of a build cluster, that executes individual commands within build targets; a build cache that stores partial results of previous executions; an artifact and image storage system, that stores and updates artifacts and container images; and a secrets repository that manages local and global project secrets. The system and method function as an automated build platform that enables an execution environment agnostic build platform for development over local development and extended network computing environments.
US12086569B2
A method and device for quantum division operation with precision. The method includes: obtaining dividend data and divisor data to be operated, transforming the dividend data into a first target quantum state, and transforming the divisor data into a second target quantum state; for the first target quantum state and the second target quantum state, iteratively executing quantum state evolution corresponding to a subtraction operation, counting the number of executions of the subtraction operation until the dividend data is reduced to a negative number, and outputting a finally obtained counting result as integer part of a quotient of dividing the dividend data by the divisor data; for a current first target quantum state and a current second target quantum state, iteratively executing quantum state evolution corresponding to fractional part operation of the quotient; and outputting a finally obtained quantum state on a qubit with preset precision bits.
US12086559B2
A computer system extracts clauses using machine translation. An input sentence in a source language is translated into a translated sentence in a target language using a trained machine translation model, wherein the trained machine translation model inserts a grammatical indicator into a position of the translated sentence that identifies a dependent clause. The input sentence and the translated sentence are aligned to determine a position in the input sentence that corresponds to the position of the grammatical indicator in the translated sentence. The dependent clause is extracted, in the source language, from the input sentence based on the determined position in the input sentence. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for clause extraction using machine translation in substantially the same manner described above.
US12086557B1
Disclosed implementations include systems, methods, and apparatus that process multiple, disparate streams of data, determine correlations and relationships between the data and provide natural language responses that provide insights for events or activities that have occurred and foresights for events or activities that are forecasted to occur. The disclosed implementations include a model that understands data statistics and provides both insights and foresights that are backed with statistical support that can be presented to and understood by operators. Still further, the disclosed implementations are capable of operating at edge locations that may be frequently or permanently disconnected from conventional or cloud based systems.
US12086552B2
A computer-implemented method for automatically generating a semantic vector representation of a relation between a specific set of entities in natural language text is provided. The method may include, in response to receiving a text segment comprising a set of entities, automatically parsing the text segment into an abstract meaning representation (AMR) graph comprising nodes representing the set of entities. The method may further include extracting a number of minimum Steiner trees from the AMR graph, and wherein each Steiner tree comprises a minimum amount of edges between the nodes corresponding to a first entity and at least one second entity. The method may further include using a trained graph neural network (GNN) to determine vector embeddings for the minimum Steiner trees. The method may further include aggregating the vector embeddings to generate the semantic vector representation of the relation between the specific set of entities.
US12086549B2
Examples of the disclosure are directed to systems and methods of using natural language processing techniques to automatically assign metadata to articles as they are published. The automatically-assigned metadata can then feed into the algorithms that calculate updated causation scores for agent-outcome hypotheses, powering live visualizations of the data that update automatically as new scientific articles become available.
US12086543B2
A system and method for creating a machine learning (ML) classifier for a database uses a weakly-supervised training data set created automatically from database items on the basis of a human-created keyword set. The automatically created training data set is used to construct one or more deep learning classifier checkpoints, which can then be compared with one another and with a classifier based on the original keyword set in order to select a classifier for use by other users viewing the database.
US12086542B2
A system for generating a contextualized text using a character-based convolutional neural network architecture (CNN) is disclosed. The system includes a memory, a character-based CNN engine having executable modules and a processor configured to execute the character-based CNN engine and the executable modules for generating contextualized text using a character-based convolutional neural network architecture (CNN). The executable modules includes a data processing module for pre-processing an input conversational text data, a corpus builder unit for developing a corpus of most frequent n-grams, a dataset generation module for performing logarithmic mapping of a frequency of a respective n-gram in the corpus for a dataset prepared for training, a training module for training an artificial intelligence (AI) based model with datasets for a predetermined range of epochs and a prediction module for executing the trained AI-based model for predicting characters contextually till an end-of-sentence (EOS) token is found.
US12086541B2
A morphing interface system updates, that is, morphs a display on a client device as a user provides portions of input and additionally provides suggested selections for a user based on the received user input. The system receives a first portion of user input and generates intent suggestions for the user based on the user input. The intent suggestions, which represent predicted likely intents of the user, are provided to the user for selection. The user may select an intent suggestion or may provide additional user input. Based on the user response, the system determines whether an intent is selected or if additional information is needed. When an intent is selected, the interface morphs into an interface to provide predicted entity suggestions for the user to select entity values as inputs to execution of the intent.
US12086540B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for perform predictive data analysis operations using natural language input data. For example, certain embodiments of the present invention utilize systems, methods, and computer program products that perform predictive data analysis operations by using sentence embedding machine learning models that are trained in coordination with similarity-based machine learning models.
US12086539B2
A method for using a neural network model for natural language processing (NLP) includes receiving training data associated with a source domain and a target domain; and generating one or more query batches. Each query batch includes one or more source tasks associated with the source domain and one or more target tasks associated with the target domain. For each query batch, class representations are generated for each class in the source domain and the target domain. A query batch loss for the query batch is generated based on the corresponding class representations. An optimization is performed on the neural network model by adjusting its network parameters based on the query batch loss. The optimized neural network model is used to perform one or more new NLP tasks.
US12086536B2
A method, apparatus, device, and storage medium for determining a page theme are provided. The method may include: acquiring a current operating environment of a target page; determining a target theme that matches the current operating environment; searching for a target style resource link matching the target theme from a database in which style resource links corresponding to different themes are pre-stored; loading a CSS variable value in the target style resource link onto the target page, wherein the CSS variable value in the target style resource link is used to indicate, among styles of the target page, a style that is changed at the time of switching the themes.
US12086533B1
Documents are often generated using a customer communication management (CCM) application that utilizes rules to select and/or modify certain fragments of a document. By analyzing the rules and content that produced a certain fragment, a second CCM application may be automatically provided with the rules, such as when the first set of rules are not available for porting to a second system. Accordingly, a server may access a rule comprising a condition, a document fragment, and a rule identifier. A server may generate a first document to comprise visible content and hidden content. Generating the first document may comprise evaluating the rule and, when the rule is true, including the document fragment as a portion of the visible content and including the rule identifier as a portion of hidden content. A server may provide the first document to a destination.
US12086528B2
The embodiments herein describe authenticating a photomask used to fabricate an IC or a wafer. Because the IC may have been fabricated at a third-party IC manufacturer, the customer may want to ensure the manufacturer did not mistakenly use an incorrect mask, or that the mask was not altered or replaced with a rogue mask by a nefarious actor. That is, the embodiments herein can be used to identify when an IC manufacture (whether trusted or not) mistakenly used the wrong photomask, or to verify that a third-party IC manufacturer did not tamper with or replace the authentic photomask with a rogue mask. Advantageously, the embodiments herein can create a secure IC fabrication process to catch mistakes as well as ensure that non-trusted third-parties did not introduce defects into the IC.
US12086524B2
A method (of forming a semiconductor device) including forming cell regions (in alternating first and second rows having first and second heights) including forming a majority of the cell regions in the first rows including: limiting a height of the majority of the cell regions to be single-row cell regions that span corresponding single one of the first rows but do not extend therebeyond; and forming a minority of the cell regions correspondingly in at least the first rows including reducing widths of the multi-row cell regions to be smaller than comparable single-row cell regions; and expanding heights of the minority of the cell regions to be multi-row cell regions, each of the multi-row cell regions spanning a corresponding single first row and at least a corresponding second row such that cell region densities of the second rows are at least about forty percent.
US12086496B2
A system may include electronic devices that communicate wirelessly. When positioned so that a pair of devices overlap or are near to one another, the devices may operate in a linked mode. During linked operations, devices may communicate wirelessly while input gathering and content displaying operations are shared among the devices. One or both of a pair of devices may have sensors. An orientation sensor, motion sensor, optical sensor, and/or other sensors may be used in identifying conditions in which to enter the linked mode and to identify a region where displays in the pair of devices overlap.
US12086493B2
An image forming system in which a plurality of image forming devices that each output image data are connected via a network includes an operation acceptor that accepts an operation, a network communicator that performs communication via the network, a terminal communicator that communicates with a mobile terminal, an information acquirer that acquires, as connection information, a communication status between the mobile terminal and the plurality of image forming devices, and an output-destination specifier that specifies an output destination of the image data on the basis of the connection information. The output-destination specifier specifies, as the output destination of the image data, of the plurality of image forming devices communicating with the mobile terminal, an image forming device accepted by the operation acceptor.
US12086492B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computer of an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with a printing apparatus, cause the computer to perform a method including acquiring print data on which print processing is to be performed by the printing apparatus, acquiring restriction information concerning printing about a server located outside the information processing apparatus and capable of communicating with the printing apparatus, and, in a case where information concerning the print data satisfies a predetermined condition that is based on the restriction information, performing processing for performing notification about an error in which print processing is not performed.
US12086491B2
An apparatus and method for a printing system is provided which determines whether image data input by execution of an input job is a blank and, in a case where the image data is determined to be a blank, the printing system records information indicating the determination of a blank as history information of the input job. Thus, in a case where image data input by execution of an input job is not output by execution of an output job, the user is able to easily confirm the cause of the output failure of the input image data.
US12086487B1
Systems and methods relating generally to restriction of printing are disclosed. In one such method, a print job is received by a printing device. The printing device initiates a check for locality of a user device with respect to the printing device in response to receipt of the print job. The printing device accesses a local interface thereof. The printing device attempts to establish communication with the user device via the local interface. The user device can be determined to not be found via the local interface. The printing by the user device on the printing device is restricted responsive to the user device being not found via the local interface.
US12086485B2
A display device includes a display capable of displaying a first display screen, a second display screen different from the first display screen, and a device setting item displayed together with the first display screen or the second display screen, and a controller that controls a screen display on the display, wherein the controller determines a display mode of the device setting item on the second display screen in accordance with a display setting of the device setting item on the first display screen.
US12086481B2
An example method of operating an image forming apparatus includes activating a burst mode function to provide a speed faster than a threshold speed of a general speed mode for a job having a specific condition, determining whether a requested job satisfies the specific condition, setting a speed mode of the requested job satisfying the specific condition as the burst mode, and controlling a device related to image formation to operate in the burst mode when a processing order of the requested job is reached.
US12086474B2
A control method for flash memory and a flash memory are provided. The control method for a flash memory, the flash memory including an external data bus to which flash memory dies are coupled. The control method includes: in a setup stage, under an operation mode of command input, issuing by a host controller a setup command, wherein the setup command includes mapping information that each port of the external data bus is mapped respectively to a status index of each flash memory die; and in a request stage, under the operation mode of command input, issuing by the host controller a request command to each flash memory die, and under the operation mode of data output, in response to the request command, transmitting status of the status index of each flash memory die to the host controller through each port of the external data bus respectively.
US12086472B2
A storage cluster is provided. The storage cluster includes a plurality of storage nodes coupled together as the storage cluster. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to assign data to two or more logical arrays and the plurality of storage nodes is configured to establish data striping across the plurality of storage nodes for user data of each of the two or more logical arrays.
US12086470B2
The present invention realizes a storage device that has a high data reduction effect without decreasing I/O performances. The storage device includes a processor, an accelerator, a memory, and a storage medium, the processor specifies data to be compressed that is data stored in the storage medium from data stored in the memory and transmits a compression instruction including information relating to the data to be compressed to the accelerator, and the accelerator reads the plurality of continuous items of data from the memory and compresses the plurality of items of data to be compressed obtained by excluding data that is not to be compressed from the plurality of items of data, based on the information relating to the data to be compressed received from the processor, to generate compressed data stored in the storage device.
US12086464B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to storage policy change usage estimation. In examples, a base storage utilization is generated for a storage object according to a current storage policy. The current storage policy may comprise a RAID (“redundant array of independent disks”) level and/or a fault tolerance level with which the storage object is stored. An estimated storage utilization may then be generated for the storage object based on the base storage utilization and a new storage policy accordingly. Thus, the base storage utilization may omit or otherwise account for overhead associated with the RAID level and/or fault tolerance level indicated by the current storage policy, while the resulting estimated storage utilization may indicate an estimated physical storage utilization for the storage object if the new storage policy is implemented in place of the current storage policy.
US12086461B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for performing compute in memory (CIM) computations. A device comprises a CIM module configured to apply analog weights to input data using multiply-accumulate operations to generate an output. The device further comprises a digital weight storage unit configured to store digital weight references, wherein a digital weight reference corresponds to an analog weight of the analog weights. The device also comprises a device controller configured to program the analog weights to the CIM module, cause the CIM module to process the input data, and reprogram one or more analog weights that are degraded. The digital weight references in the digital weight storage unit are populated with values from a host processing device. Degraded analog weights in the CIM module are reprogrammed based on the corresponding digital weight references from the digital weight storage unit without reference to the host processing device.
US12086459B2
A memory controller may calculate a sum of a first number of entries stored in a read buffer and a second number of entries stored in a write buffer. If the sum is less than a first threshold and the read/write buffer is not full of entries, then the memory controller can request read/write commands from a host computing device. If the sum is not less than the first threshold or the read/write buffer is full of entries, then the memory controller can assert backpressure to stop the incoming flow newly incoming read/write commands from the host computing device. Additionally, or alternatively, the memory controller may dequeue a write command entry only if a number of write command entries stored in a write command FIFO memory is greater than a second threshold. The memory controller may dequeue read command stored in a read FIFO memory if the number of write command entries stored in the write command FIFO memory is less than or equal to the second threshold and the read FIFO memory is not empty of the read command entries.
US12086454B2
A data processing system includes an external memory system, a processor and an internal memory system. The internal memory system includes an internal memory that stores data for use by the processor when performing data processing operations. The internal memory system also includes a data encoder associated with the internal memory. The data encoder reads data from the external memory system to the data encoder and returns the data to the external memory system from the data encoder, without storing the data in the internal memory.
US12086451B1
A process for facilitating downscaling of datastores (e.g., in a stateful system) is described herein. In embodiments, a set of metrics associated with a set of data stores of a stateful service is obtained. The set of metrics may indicate a utilization of each of the data stores of the set of data stores. Based on the set of metrics indicating underutilization associated with at least a portion of the set of data stores, a determination is made to initiate a downscaling of the set of data stores. Thereafter, a downscaler is deployed to perform downscaling operations to downscale the set of data stores. The downscaler communicates with a first data store to replicate data of the first data store onto a second data store. Based on identifying that the downscaler has completed the downscaling operations to downscale the set of data stores, the downscaler is terminated.
US12086450B1
A system receives a request to retrieve a data object from a data storage device associated with an asynchronous-access data storage service. For data object retrieval, the system identifies the data storage device and creates a job corresponding to the data object retrieval. Once the job is executed, the data object is retrieved to satisfy the request without having to restore the data object and further provided to a data storage device associated with a synchronous-access data storage service to satisfy subsequent requests synchronously.
US12086449B1
Methods, systems, and devices for repair operation techniques are described. A memory device may detect a failure of a read operation associated with a physical row address of a memory die. The memory device may store information associated with the physical row address before performing a media management operation and after detecting the failure. Additionally or alternatively, the memory device may initiate a counter based on detecting the failure and may increment a value of the counter for each media management operation performed after detecting the failure. The memory device may send a command or other information to perform a repair operation for the physical row address. The memory device may determine the physical row address for the repair operation (e.g., despite media management operations) based on the stored information or the value of the counter, and may perform the repair operation on the physical row address.
US12086443B2
Apparatuses and methods can be related to supplementing AI processing in memory. An accelerator and/or a host can perform AI processing. Some of the operations comprising the AI processing can be performed by a memory device instead of by an accelerator and/or a host. The memory device can perform AI processing in conjunction with the host and/or accelerator.
US12086441B2
An interconnected stack of one or more Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) die also has one or more custom logic, controller, or processor die. The custom die(s) of the stack include direct channel interfaces that allow direct access to memory regions on one or more DRAMs in the stack. The direct channels are time-division multiplexed such that each DRAM die is associated with a time slot on a direct channel. The custom die configures a first DRAM die to read a block of data and transmit it via the direct channel using a time slot that is assigned to a second DRAM die. The custom die also configures the second memory device to receive the first block of data in its assigned time slot and write the block of data.
US12086433B2
An electronic system includes a host including a host memory; and a storage device storing data from the host, wherein the host allocates first and second host memory buffer (HMB) regions having different attributes in the host memory, and provides a host memory descriptor list (HMDL) including address information and attribute information of each of the first and second HMB regions to the storage device, the storage device buffers data in the first and second HMB regions with reference to the HMDL, and the host releases the first and second HMB regions, and provides data buffered in the first HMB region to the storage device and maintains data buffered in the second HMB region in the host memory, according to an attribute of each of the first and second HMB regions.
US12086428B2
An operating method for a memory system including a host and a memory system. The operating method may include; communicating maximum power information from the memory system to the host, communicating power table information and battery information from the host to the memory system in response to the maximum power information, and controlling power consumption by a component of the memory system in response to a maximum consumption power value, wherein each of the power table information and the battery information is related to a battery associated with the memory system and operating in accordance with battery steps, the power table information includes a number of entries including a first entry and a second entry, the first entry is related to a first battery step among the battery steps and associated with a first maximum consumption power value, the second entry is related to a second battery step among the battery steps and associated with a second maximum consumption power value, and the maximum consumption power value controlling power consumption by the component of the memory system is one of the first maximum consumption power value and the second maximum consumption power value.
US12086419B2
A partial erasing management method, a memory storage device, and a memory control circuit unit are provided. The method includes: performing a first partial erasing operation on a first physical region among multiple physical regions in a first physical erasing unit to erase first data in the first physical region; after performing the first partial erasing operation on the first physical region, performing a first programming operation on the first physical region to store second data into the first physical region; and in response to at least one of the first partial erasing operation and the first programming operation, updating first status information related to the first physical region.
US12086409B2
An example method for optimizing data deletion in a storage system comprises: detecting a command to delete data from a storage volume using a file system, the data stored on one or more blocks within a storage device associated with the storage volume; monitoring a load metric associated with the storage volume, the load metric indicative of a dynamically changing operational load of the storage volume; and initiating, based on the detecting the command and on the monitored load metric, a discard request for the storage device, the discard request commanding the storage device to indicate that the one or more blocks are free for use by the file system to store additional data.
US12086405B1
Methods and systems for input tracing on a mobile computing device, and specifically, input tracing of user provided touch input at a touchscreen display of a mobile computing device. The user input can be tracked to determine an actual path between a user interactable element and a graphical element. The actual path can be compared to a target path, and based on the deviation between the two, store data indicating a correlation between the user and an appropriate response associated with a graphical element (e.g., a degree of conviction/affinity between the user and the appropriate response associated with the graphical element).
US12086401B2
Devices, systems and processes facilitate adaptive user progressions through content. A process includes receiving a detected first user input motion and determining, based thereon, a first progression type. The process may include executing: a slow scrub progression when input motion occurs within a first area defined by a first velocity threshold VT1 upper limit and a first array sector range AS1; executing a fast scrub progression when input motion occurs within a second area defined by a second velocity threshold VT2 upper limit and a second array sector range AS2; executing a slow swipe scrub progression when input motion occurs within a third area defined by a third velocity threshold VT3 upper limit and a third array sector range AS3; and executing a fast swipe progression when input motion occurs within a fourth area defined by a fourth velocity threshold VT4 upper limit and a fourth array sector range AS4.
US12086394B2
An image processing component includes: a display control configured to display a to-be-edited image on a first area in a display area or display a target image after performing an adjustment operation on the to-be-edited image; an image scale adjustment control configured to display, in response to a first control instruction, an image scale adjustment interface on an area in the display area other than the first area, and display a scale touch area and a first overlay function touch area in the image scale adjustment interface; and an image rotation control configured to display, in response to a second control instruction, an image rotation adjustment interface on an area in the display area other than the first area, and display a rotation touch area and a second overlay function touch area in the image rotation adjustment interface.
US12086392B2
A content management system and method work as a companion to other applications that control the system. The system and method draw information from the operations or structure of the controlling application to display and manage the content objects relevant to a record displayed by a user of the controlling application and stored in the content management system. The system and method operate in conjunction with the controlling application so that this management and display of content objects is dynamic, real-time, and context-sensitive for the user.
US12086381B2
A social media platform provides a map-based graphical user interface (GUI) with multiple geographically anchored icons that are selectable to trigger playback of respective galleries of ephemeral messages. Each of the plurality of location-based ephemeral galleries comprises media content contributed by multiple different users. The ephemeral galleries are compiled based on geotag data associated with respective ephemeral messages submitted by multiple users to be publicly viewable via the map-based GUI. Two or more different types of galleries are represented in the map-based GUI by different, visually distinct types of gallery icon.
US12086375B2
In some embodiments, a layer-partitioned virtual world system includes at least one server computing device, a plurality of third-party software engines, and one or more client devices. The server computing device includes at least one processor and memory storing a base layer including a persistent virtual world system that includes a plurality of virtual objects, the base layer supporting a plurality of virtual world layers providing further functionality to the persistent virtual world system through a plurality of applications. The plurality of third-party software engines are hosted on corresponding third-party server computing devices communicatively coupled to the at least one server computing device via a network and providing services to the plurality of applications. The one or more client devices receive and display composited virtual frames corresponding to the base layer and further functionalities of one or more of the virtual world layers.
US12086370B2
A touch input device is disclosed that may comprise a display panel and/or a touch sensor. The touch sensor may include a driving electrode and/or a receiving electrode that may be disposed on the display panel and/or inside the display panel. The touch input device may comprise an electrode pattern that may be disposed on a bottom surface of the display panel. The touch input device may comprise a controller that may be configured to provide a first driving signal to the driving electrode of the touch sensor. The controller may be configured to receive a touch detection signal from the receiving electrode of the touch sensor. The controller may be configured to detect a touch position, perhaps for example based on the touch detection signal. The controller may be configured to provide a second driving signal different from the first driving signal to the electrode pattern.
US12086369B2
The present application provides a touch display panel. A shortest distance on a display plane from any point on outer contours of any two of sub-pixel units to a corresponding grid unit of a mesh electrode is very close or even equal. Therefore, brightness displayed by sub-pixels is more uniform at side viewing angles. Especially, brightness displayed by the sub-pixels of different colors at the side viewing angles is more uniform. Accordingly, the present application can solve a problem that the display panel has a large color shift at the side viewing angles.
US12086364B2
An operation detection device includes a detection unit to detect a touch operation in an operation surface by a detected object and to output a detection value based on a capacitance to increase from before the touch operation, and a determination unit to hold a determination threshold value to determine a start of the touch operation, to output a touch start determination to determine the start of the touch operation when the detection value becomes not less than the determination threshold value, and to output a first deemed determination to determine an end of the touch operation when a first condition, which is based on a maximum detection value after the touch start determination, is satisfied.
US12086356B2
A display device with a touch panel is provided with a transmission touch electrode, a reception touch electrode, a transmission reference electrode formed from the same material as the transmission touch electrode, a reception reference electrode formed from the same material as the reception touch electrode, a reference electrode that faces the transmission reference electrode and to which a predetermined potential is applied, and a touch control circuit that detects a touch by a pointer on the basis of a comparison between a touch detection signal from the reception touch electrode and a detection threshold value. The reception reference electrode outputs a reference signal based on a capacitance formed between the reception reference electrode and the transmission reference electrode, and the touch control circuit changes the detection threshold value in accordance with a change in the reference signal.
US12086334B2
A topside control panel is described for controlling water features in a bathing unit system. The topside control panel comprises a housing having a generally circular housing portion including a display screen and a manually operable actuator positioned about a periphery of the housing portion. A circuit board assembly is positioned in the housing and includes one or more processors programmed for rendering a multi-layer menu driven interface on the display for controlling at least some water features of the bathing unit system, wherein at least one specific menu layer of the multi-layer menu driven interface presents options for controlling the one or more pumps. Navigation through the multi-layer menu driven interface is permitted by using signals triggered at least in part by a combination of displacements of the manually operable actuator to select specific user-selectable options to arrive at the specific menu layer presenting options for controlling the one or more pumps.
US12086333B2
A touchpad device includes a substrate and a touch panel. The substrate includes a main plate, a first limiting plate, and a first flexible member. The main plate has a long side and a short side. The first limiting plate has a first stopping portion, the first flexible member is integrally connected between the long side and the first limiting plate, and the first limiting plate is adjacent to the short side. The touch panel is disposed above the substrate. The touch panel has a bottom surface, a pivot side of the bottom surface is disposed on the main plate, the first limiting plate of the substrate is fixed on the bottom surface and adjacent to a first side of the bottom surface, and the first stopping portion of the first limiting plate protrudes from an edge portion of the first side.
US12086332B2
A position input device includes: a communication circuit receiving slope angle information of a display panel; a code detector detecting a pattern shape image of position code patterns of the display panel by emitting infrared light to the display panel and receiving infrared light reflected from the display panel; a light emitting driver controlling an infrared light emitting operation of the code detector; a slope detector detecting slope angle information of the position input device; and a code processor modulating infrared light emitting characteristics of the code detector or modulating pattern shape image data in response to an arrangement angle information between the display panel and the position input device.
US12086325B2
A screen wake-up method, which is applied to a wearable device. The method includes: when a screen of a wearable device is in a turned-off state, performing an illuminance monitoring operation on a set position of the wearable device to obtain illuminance data (S10); identifying a contact operation corresponding to the set position according to the illuminance data (S20); and when the contact operation satisfies the set contact condition corresponding to screen wake-up, controlling the screen to be switched to a turned-on state (S30). Further disclosed are a wearable device and a readable storage medium, which may improve the endurance capabilities of the wearable device.
US12086324B2
Example systems, devices, media, and methods are described for controlling virtual elements or graphical elements on a display in response to hand gestures detected by an eyewear device that is capturing frames of video data with its camera system. An image processing system detects a series of hand shapes in the video data and determines whether it matches a predefined series of hand gestures. Each predefined series of hand gestures is associated with an action. The system controls movement of the virtual element, relative to the display, in accordance with the associated action. In an example hand shape that includes a thumb sliding along an extended finger, the system establishes a finger scale along the extended finger, calibrates a graphical scale with the finger scale, and controls movement of an interactive graphical element, such as a slider, according to the current thumb position relative to the calibrated graphical scale.
US12086323B2
A method and system for controlling an electronic device using gesture and/or a device is provided. The method includes capturing, in a 3D sensor space, an image including a user manipulable hand-held input device and a body part of a user, finding an entry in a database of multiple user manipulable hand-held input devices that matches the image of the user manipulable hand-held input device, wherein each user manipulable hand-held input device, having an entry in the database, respectively generates signals in response to performing one or more specific control manipulations, determining a primary control mode of primarily controlling the electronic device using 3D gestures or using control manipulations directly from the user manipulable hand-held input device, the primary control mode being determined based on a predetermined priority level associated with the user manipulable hand-held input device and controlling the electronic device using the determined primary control mode.
US12086320B2
A method for haptic feedback, a device for haptic feedback, and a storage device are provided. The method includes the following. In response to a session information editing operation from a first user, session information is generated, where the session information includes Morse code character information. In response to a sending operation from the first user, the session information is sent to a data platform for a second electronic device to obtain the session information from the data platform and to generate haptic feedback according to the session information. In the technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the disclosure, information is sent through the Morse code by utilizing the characteristics of the Morse code, thus simplifying the communication process, improving the interest in the communication process, and improving the user experience.
US12086318B2
An operating device includes a touchpad having an operating surface for detecting touch inputs, which operating surface has multiple regions which are delimited from each other at least in part by one or more structural elements, each structural element being designed to have a first haptic effect on a finger when the finger swipes over the structural element; and a haptic actuator which is designed to have a second haptic effect which enhances the first haptic effect on the finger when the finger touches or swipes over a structural element. The operating device has a first operating mode in which the actuator is activated to produce the second haptic effect on the finger when the finger touches or swipes over a structural element, and a second operating mode in which the actuator is deactivated when the finger touches or swipes over a structural element.
US12086312B2
A device and method of controlling a light source in eye tracking using a glint are provided. The method includes transmitting, from a processor to a first camera and a second camera, an activation signal to instruct the first and second cameras to operate according to a pattern, transmitting, to a first light driver and a second light driver, a control command to instruct the first and second light drivers to operate according to a control signal (a first control signal or a second control signal) corresponding to each of the first and second light drivers, and preventing the processor from intervening in a process of turning on and off odd-numbered light sources and even-numbered light sources.
US12086305B2
The present disclosure provides a display method. The display method includes obtaining a selection operation of a user's face; obtaining image data of a local area of the user's face corresponding to the selection operation; determining a target position at a display area for displaying the image data of the local area; and displaying the image data of the local area at the target position. When the user looks at the target position relative to other positions at the display area, the local area of the user's face is close to a main optical axis of a photographing unit.
US12086298B2
Blurring and unblur videos and photos in chats of communication applications by using a payment link
A method for managing privacy of videos and photos recorded through a communication application by displaying a recording button on the screen of the user's mobile device, recording the video or photo and displaying it in the chat of the user and the contact, displaying on the user's mobile device a blur button that is associated with the video or photo, applying on the video or photo a blur mode for blurring the video or photo, displaying on the user's mobile device an unblur button that is associated with the blurred video or photo, applying an unblur mode on the blurred video or photo by using the unblur button on the user's mobile device or displaying on the screen of the contact's mobile device a payment link and applying the unblur mode upon making the payment.
US12086295B2
A lock node for storing data and a protected storage unit. The lock node includes an input section which provides a plurality of key maps, each corresponding to one of a plurality of primary keys, respectively, applied to the input section, each key map including at least one main key, a variable lock section producing a derived key from a logical operation on the main keys corresponding to the primary keys applied to the input section, and an output section producing the data in response to the derived key.
US12086292B2
A peripheral device package for use in a host computing device has a plurality of compute elements and a plurality of resources shared by the plurality of compute elements. A datastructure is stored in a hidden memory of the peripheral device package. The data structure holds metadata about ownership of resources of the peripheral device package by a plurality of user runtime processes of the host computing device which use the compute elements. At least one of the user runtime processes is a secure user runtime process. The peripheral device package has a command processor configured to use the datastructure to enforce isolation of the resources used by the secure user runtime process.
US12086281B2
A method for protecting individual data elements within an unstructured dataset includes identifying a data element within the unstructured dataset requiring access control, encrypting the data element within the unstructured dataset, storing a decryption key and access control information corresponding to the dataset at an access controller, and cryptographically binding the encrypted data element to metadata that identifies the access controller. The method may additionally include detecting an access attempt to the dataset, and determining whether the access attempt is acceptable according to the access control information. If the access attempt is acceptable, the method may further include allowing the access attempt. If the access attempt is not acceptable, the method may further include denying the access attempt.
US12086271B2
A system or a method for analyzing a software project for vulnerabilities. The system extracts scopes of source code, each of which is a source code block that contains a definition of an entity. The system also receives a vulnerability report relating to the source code. The vulnerability report identifies a vulnerability at a line of the source code. The system identifies a subset of the scopes of source code that contains the line of source code where the vulnerability is identified. The system identifies, based on smatch values, a minimum scope among the subset of the scopes that contains the line of source code where the vulnerability is identified, and generates a scoped vulnerability report recording the minimum scope and the vulnerability.
US12086269B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for deployable software vulnerability testing platform. The present invention is configured to receive, from a user input device, an initial request from a user to generate a deployable software vulnerability testing (SVT) engine; prompt an SVT dashboard for display on the user input device to receive one or more input parameters associated with the first vulnerability in response to receiving the initial request; receive, via the SVT dashboard, the one or more input parameters; generate the SVT engine based on at least the one or more input parameters; receive, from the user input device, one or more deployment parameters associated with a deployment of the SVT engine; and deploy the SVT engine within the distributed technology infrastructure to identify the one or more instances of the first vulnerability based on at least the one or more deployment parameters.
US12086267B2
A system is provided for simulating a cyberattack as a simulated cyberattack on a real industrial control facility that includes reals sensor devices. The system generates simulated sensor signals that are representative of sensor signals generated by a sensor of a real sensor device that is the target of the simulated cyberattack. The system injects the simulated sensor signals into the real sensor device so that the real sensor device generates an output based on the simulated sensor signals. The system monitors the response of a personnel of the industrial control facility. The system then generates an assessment of the response based on a target response. The system may rerun the simulated cyberattack based on the assessment.
US12086261B2
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for displaying cyber threat data in a narrative format. The mechanism receives a cyber threat information file that comprises cyber threat data in a serialized format. The mechanism generates a user interface presenting the cyber threat data in a narrative format. The user interface presents objects in the cyber threat data in a hierarchical format indicative of relationships between parent objects and child objects and presents context information for each object. The mechanism presents the user interface to an analyst.
US12086260B1
Systems and methods are provided to perform BIOS recovery for a first information handling system that is in a no-boot state, i.e., in which the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) boot block (OBB) on the first information handling system is corrupted or damaged and thus does not properly execute. OBB BIOS recovery may be achieved using logic executing on a second and different information handling system that is wirelessly communicating with initial boot block (IBB) BIOS firmware that is executing on the first information handling system. The logic executing on the second information handling system may select and download (e.g., from a remote server) a correct uncorrupted and undamaged copy of the BIOS recovery firmware version for the first information handling system, and then wirelessly transfer the downloaded new copy of the OBB BIOS firmware version to the first information handling system via an established secure wireless connection.
US12086253B2
There is provided a data processing apparatus that includes an input policy filter that receives input data and an input provenance that relates to the input data. The filter forwards some or all of the input data and the input provenance according to at least one input policy. A processing environment receives the input data forwarded by the input policy filter and processes the input data to generate output data. A management environment produces an attestation of the processing environment and produces an output provenance based on the input provenance and the attestation. An output policy filter receives the output data and the output provenance and forwards the output data and the output provenance according to at least one output policy.
US12086252B2
A system and method preserve forensic computer data to remediate data attacks on a computer system. The method includes receiving evidentiary data from a data source, wherein the evidentiary data is related to the processing of information by a computer system, storing the evidentiary data as forensic data in a protected hardware-based forensic data reserve, and detecting a data attack on the computer system. In the event of the data attack having occurred, the method retrieves the stored forensic data from the forensic data reserve, and remediates the data attack including restoring deleted data using the retrieved forensic data, wherein the deleted data were removed from the computer system during the data attack. The system implements the method.
US12086248B2
An exemplary system and method are disclosed for detecting malware via an antimalware application employing adversarial machine learning such as generative adversarial machine learning and the training and/or configuring of such systems. The exemplary system and method are configured with two or more generative adversarial networks (GANs), including (i) a first generative adversarial network (GAN) that can be configured using a library of malware code or non-malware code and (ii) a second generative adversarial network (GAN) that operates in conjunction with the first generative adversarial network (GAN) in which the second generative adversarial network is configured using a library of non-malware code.
US12086244B2
A processor is configured to determine whether or not target data, this being data that a first application is attempting to access, is permitted data based on a correspondence relationship list, and to permit the first application to access the target data in cases in which the processor has determined the target data to be the permitted data, and not to permit the first application to access the target data in cases in which the processor has determined the target data not to be the permitted data.
US12086242B2
Disclosed is an operating method of a storage device, which includes detecting virus/malware, performing an authentication operation with a host device when the virus/malware is detected, and entering a recovery mode when the authentication operation indicates that authentication is successful.
US12086238B2
A method for controlling access to at least one computer program which is accessible and executable on an embedded system is disclosed. The embedded system is provided and comprises two different runtime modes, a first runtime mode and a second runtime mode. In the first runtime mode, a predefined set of IT-security constraints is associated with the at least one computer program. In the second runtime mode at least a part of the predefined set of the IT-security constraints associated with the at least one computer program is void and the at least one computer program is accessible and executable with elevated rights for performing software development operations on the at least one computer program. The embedded system is set into the second runtime mode for a predefined time period. After the predefined time period is expired, the embedded system is set into the first runtime mode.
US12086231B2
A method and apparatus of a device that converts an account associated with an application to use a single sign-on service is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives an indication of a weak password associated with the account. The device further sends a request to verify an account credential for a user associated with the device. In addition, the device receives the verification of the account credential. The device additionally requests a single sign-on credential for the account and receives the single sign-on credential. Furthermore, the device sends a message to a server associated with a service for the application that the application is registered for the single sign-on service.
US12086216B2
Provided is an information processing device that includes a license management unit that sets at least one of a first use start date and time or a first use end date and time of a license to be provided to a first electronic device on the basis of a date and time of a hardware clock, and responds to return of the license from the first electronic device and provision of a second electronic device with the license returned from the first electronic device until the date and time of the hardware clock pass a first valid period with reference to the first use start date and time or pass the first use end date and time.
US12086206B2
A matrix multiplier and an operation method thereof are provided. The matrix multiplier includes a plurality of first input lines, a plurality of second input lines and a computing array. The computing array includes a plurality of multiplication accumulation (MAC) cells. A first MAC cell of the plurality of MAC cells is coupled to a first corresponding input line of the plurality of first input lines and a second corresponding input line of the plurality of second input lines to receive a first input value and a second input value to perform a multiplication accumulation operation. When at least one of the first input value and the second input value is a specified value, the multiplication accumulation operation of the first MAC cell is disabled.
US12086201B2
A method and apparatus of processing a user initiated request for information is disclosed. The method may provide receiving a user initiated request including a uniform resource locator (URL) submitted to a web browser application and receiving a response that the URL is an invalid URL that cannot be resolved to a corresponding webpage. The method may also include blocking a subsequent attempt to transmit the user initiated request as a browser modified search request that includes modifications to the user initiated request.
US12086199B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for providing electronic navigation assistance based on data patterns via process tracking graphing. The method includes receiving one or more network navigation inputs completed by a user device associated with a user. The one or more network navigation inputs are indications of navigation between two or more pages on a network. The method also includes comparing the one or more network navigation inputs with one or more previous network navigation indicators. The method further includes determining a user location status based on the comparison of the one or more network navigation inputs with the one or more previous network navigation indicators. The user location status indicates whether the user needs assistance. The method still further includes causing a transmission of an assistance notification to the user device associated with the user based on determining that the user needs assistance.
US12086182B2
A method of building a knowledge graph, performed by a processing device, includes: classifying news articles to a main event associated with sub events, using the main event as a first node of the knowledge graph, using the sub events as second nodes of the knowledge graph respectively, connecting the second nodes to the first node, extracting event summaries from the news articles respectively according to a template, using the event summaries as third nodes of the knowledge graph respectively, and connecting each of the third nodes to one of the second nodes according to association between the event summaries and the sub events, extracting commenter identities from the event summaries, and using the commenter identities as fourth nodes of the knowledge graph, and connecting each of the fourth nodes to one of the third nodes.
US12086181B2
A document retrieval system retrieving a document with the concept of the document taken into account is provided. The system includes a processing portion and the processing portion creates a retrieval graph from a retrieval composition. The retrieval graph includes first to m-th retrieval local graphs (m is an integer of greater than or equal to 1), and the retrieval local graphs are each constituted by two nodes and one edge. The processing portion performs retrieval of first to m-th sentences on a reference document. The i-th sentence (i is an integer of greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to m) includes one of the two nodes in the i-th retrieval local graph or a related term or a hyponym of the one of the two nodes; the other of the two nodes in the i-th retrieval local graph or a related term or a hyponym of the other of the two nodes; and the edge in the i-th retrieval local graph or a related term or a hyponym of the edge. A mark is assigned to the score of the reference document in accordance with the number of sentences included in the reference document among the first to m-th sentences.
US12086180B2
A method for searching a digital video recording is disclosed. The method includes receiving a video portion count associated with the digital video recording. The method further includes displaying in a graphical user interface (GUI) a number of sequential digital video images from the digital video recording in response to the video portion count to obtain displayed digital video images. The number of sequential digital video images is associated with a number of sequential portions of the digital video recording.
US12086174B2
A text data analysis information generation device includes: a dependence relationship tree information generation unit configured to generate dependence relationship tree information that indicates, in a tree structure, a dependence relationship between words in text data to be analyzed; a graph information generation unit configured to extract a subject, a predicate, and an object from the text data based on the generated dependence relationship tree information, and generate graph information that indicates, in a graph structure, triple information of ontology that consists of them; and a hierarchical concept information adding unit configured to extract two suitable components from the text data, acquire broader concept information that is common between the two components, and add the acquired broader concept information to the graph information as a parent node that is common between the two components so as to generate text data analysis information.
US12086171B2
A word mining method and apparatus, an electronic device and a readable storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring search data; taking first identification information, a search sentence and second identification information in the search data as nodes, and taking a relationship between the first identification information and the search sentence, a relationship between the first identification information and the second identification information and a relationship between the search sentence and the second identification information as sides to construct a behavior graph; obtaining a label vector of each search sentence in the behavior graph according to a search sentence with a preset label in the behavior graph; determining a target search sentence in the behavior graph according to the label vector; and extracting a target word from the target search sentence, and taking the target word as a word mining result of the search data.
US12086165B2
A cloud-based vehicle fault diagnosis method includes receiving monitoring data uploaded by a vehicle; extracting eigenvectors of the monitoring data from the monitoring data; storing the eigenvectors of the monitoring data based on classification using, as a label, a part or a functional system of the vehicle from which the monitoring data comes; and performing, based on a support vector machine algorithm, fault diagnosis in parallel on the eigenvectors stored based on the classification.
US12086160B2
Techniques for managing dataset resource instance performance via a data-centric approach are disclosed. A system determines an aggregated level of service demands placed on individual dataset resource instances that may be in a distributed computing system. The system may identify portions of a dataset that are associated with high levels of service demands. Once identified, the system may provide an administrator with the service demand information. The administrator may relocate these high demand dataset portions to other dataset resource instances that are better able to respond to the high levels of demand without impaired performance.
US12086152B2
The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented methods, software, and systems for importing metadata between applications. One example method includes obtaining, at a data warehouse application, metadata for relevant entities in response to a query defined for querying metadata from a metadata source associated with a source application. A service at the source application is queried to identify a set of programming interfaces associated with the relevant entities for acquiring data objects corresponding to the obtained metadata from the source application. Instructions are generated that can be used to configure the database associated with the data warehouse application to acquire a data object based on executing a call to a corresponding programming interface. The generated instructions are provided to the database to configure the database to automatically execute the call to acquire the data object from the source application.
US12086148B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example, an internet resource identification item associated with one or more internet resources may be identified. User activity information associated with a plurality of events may be analyzed to determine a plurality of sets of text associated with the internet resource identification item, wherein each set of text of the plurality of sets of text is associated with an event, of the plurality of events, associated with an internet resource of the one or more internet resources. A plurality of term representations may be determined based upon the plurality of sets of text. A user intention-based representation associated with the internet resource identification item may be generated based upon the plurality of term representations. A content item may be selected for presentation via a client device based upon the user intention-based representation.
US12086146B2
A method includes processing a set of query texts to identify a set of expressions, where each expression references a set of columns of datetime data in a datastore. The method also includes training a statistical model to determine a distribution of the datetime data for each column that was identified. The method further includes processing the set of expressions to generate a directed graph including more than one nodes and a plurality of edges, where each node represents one of the columns or a transformation applied by one of the expressions to one of the columns. The method additionally includes generating a weight for edges of the directed graph according to a distribution of the datetime data in the columns and a usage index of a corresponding expression.
US12086141B1
Systems and methods are described for service coordination using a PartiQL query. For instance, a method may include selecting a recipe from a plurality of recipes in response to a request from a user device, wherein the recipe includes a plurality of operations to provide a complex function, each of the plurality of operations corresponding to a service of a plurality of services; determining a PartiQL query for an operation of the plurality of operations; executing the PartiQL query to obtain a result; transmitting a call to a service of the plurality of services that corresponds to the operation based on the result; receiving a response from the service; and after all operations of the plurality of operations are called, transmitting a response to the request to the user device.
US12086136B2
A database engine uses bitmap slice indices (BSIs) to combine result bitmaps derived from parent and child tables related via one or more foreign key relationships. To execute a query that involves a parent table and a child table, the database engine parses the query into a parent predicate corresponding to the parent table and a child predicate corresponding to the child table. The database engine executes the parent predicate using a parent bitmap index to generate a parent result bitmap and executes the child predicate using a child bitmap index to generate a child result bitmap. The database engine transforms the child result bitmap, based on the BSI, to generate a transformed child result bitmap having columns that correspond to the primary key of the parent table. The database engine can then combine the parent result bitmap directly with the transformed child result bitmap to generate query results.
US12086123B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to an approach for building a generic framework to allow protocol buffer data to be fully text searchable and matched fields to be quickly identified. The approach includes converting protocol buffer data from a tree structure into a field-value pair structure. The field-value pair structure can represent any protocol buffer and any new protocol buffer definition change can be adopted automatically. The approach further includes building a reverse index at a record level, which can immediately indicate the fields for each token.
US12086122B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system are provided. A processor receives message data from a natural language conversation among participants in a project. A processor identifies at least two tasks mentioned in the message data. A processor determines a dependency between the at least two tasks based on the output of a sequential language model, where the messages associated with the at least two tasks are inputs to the sequential language model. A processor generates a directed graph depicting the at least two tasks and the determined dependency of the at least two tasks. A processor shares a directed graph across participants. A processor notifies participants who are blocked when dependent tasks are complete.
US12086120B2
Embodiments are generally directed to compression for compression for sparse data structures utilizing mode search approximation. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processors including a graphics processor to process data; and a memory for storage of data, including compressed data. The one or more processors are to provide for compression of a data structure, including identification of a mode in the data structure, the data structure including a plurality of values and the mode being a most repeated value in a data structure, wherein identification of the mode includes application of a mode approximation operation, and encoding of an output vector to include the identified mode, a significance map to indicate locations at which the mode is present in the data structure, and remaining uncompressed data from the data structure.
US12086084B2
Techniques for implementing IOMMU-based DMA tracking for enabling live migration of VMs that use passthrough physical devices are provided. In one set of embodiments, these techniques leverage an IOMMU feature known as dirty bit tracking which is available in most, if not all, modern IOMMU implementations. The use of this feature allows for the tracking of passthrough DMA in a manner that is device/vendor/driver agnostic, resulting in a solution that is universally applicable to all passthrough physical devices.
US12086080B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to a configurable accelerator having dataflow execution circuits are described. In one embodiment, a hardware accelerator includes a plurality of dataflow execution circuits that each comprise a register file, a plurality of execution circuits, and a graph station circuit comprising a plurality of dataflow operation entries that each include a respective ready field that indicates when an input operand for a dataflow operation is available in the register file, and the graph station circuit is to select for execution a first dataflow operation entry when its input operands are available, and clear ready fields of the input operands in the first dataflow operation entry when a result of the execution is stored in the register file; a cross dependence network coupled between the plurality of dataflow execution circuits to send data between the plurality of dataflow execution circuits according to a second dataflow operation entry; and a memory execution interface coupled between the plurality of dataflow execution circuits and a cache bank to send data between the plurality of dataflow execution circuits and the cache bank according to a third dataflow operation entry.
US12086078B2
A memory chip having a first set of pins configured to allow the memory chip to be coupled to a first microchip or device via first wiring. The memory chip also having a second set of pins configured to allow the memory chip to be coupled to a second microchip or device via second wiring that is separate from the first wiring. The memory chip also having a data mover configured to facilitate access to the second microchip or device, via the second set of pins, to read data from the second microchip or device and write data to the second microchip or device. Also, a system having the memory chip, the first microchip or device, and the second microchip or device.
US12086063B2
Each load/store queue entry holds a load/store physical address proxy (PAP) for use as a proxy for a load/store physical memory line address (PMLA). The load/store PAP comprises a set index and a way that uniquely identifies an L2 cache entry holding a memory line at the load/store PMLA when an L1 cache provides the load/store PAP during the load/store instruction execution. The microprocessor removes a line at a removal PMLA from an L2 entry, forms a removal PAP as a proxy for the removal PMLA that comprises a set index and a way, snoops the load/store queue with the removal PAP to determine whether the removal PAP is being used as a proxy for the removal PMLA, fills the removed entry with a line at a fill PMLA, and prevents the removal PAP from being used as a proxy for the removal PMLA and the fill PMLA concurrently.
US12086057B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for managing a distributed environment are disclosed. A method for testing nodes in a distributed system includes configuring a plurality of virtual nodes to emulate a distributed system that is used to process and manage distributed immutable data objects, initiating a test of the emulated distributed system, the test including performing one or more transactions on a first distributed immutable data object to obtain a modified first distributed immutable data object; and verifying the emulated distributed system by comparing the modified first distributed immutable data object with a second distributed immutable data object that has been processed in a validated system.
US12086056B2
In an example, a plurality of images of an interface of an application may be identified. An image of the plurality of images may be compared with a second image of the plurality of images to determine a first set of regions, of the interface, in which the second image is different than the first image. Based upon the first set of regions, a set of dynamic regions of the interface may be determined. A fourth image of the interface may be identified. Based upon the set of dynamic regions, a first portion of the fourth image may be compared with a first portion of the first image to determine user interface testing information associated with the interface of the application.
US12086054B1
This disclosure describes techniques that include validation or other assessments of digital systems, such as machine learning models and other statistical models. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes receiving, by a validation computing system and from a development system, a request to perform a test on a model configured to execute on the development system; outputting, by the validation computing system to the development system and in response to the request, an instruction; enabling the development system to process the instruction; receiving, by the validation computing system, test response data; evaluating, by the validation system, the test response data.
US12086052B2
Systems and methods are described herein for generating compliance indicators on a user interface corresponding to maturity levels of a continuous integration/continuous deployment system. A server captures compliance data corresponding to development status associated with a software application comprising newly-added source code. The server determines whether a plurality of maturity levels of a continuous integration system are completed for the software application based upon the captured compliance data. The server generates a plurality of compliance indicators, each of the compliance indicators corresponding to one of the maturity levels that is completed. The server generates for display the generated compliance indicators on a user interface of a user device communicatively coupled to the server.
US12086051B2
Methods and apparatus are described by which a rich, time-correlated information set is captured during automated testing of an application in a way that allows the application developer to understand the state of the application under test (AUT), the browser interacting with the AUT, and/or the device interacting with the AUT, as it/they changed over time. Mechanisms or features associated with browsers and/or device operating systems are exploited to capture such information, not only for the purpose of better understanding individual test runs, but also to enable the use of analytics over data sets.
US12086048B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for generating an architecture weighted scoring model are disclosed. A receiver receives a request from a user computing device to develop an application. A GUI displays a set of questions that are designed to gather meaningful information about the application to be developed by the user. A processor receives user input data on each answer to the set of questions; selects an architecture type by utilizing a first decision tree running on backend of a GUI; generates a second decision tree to select architecture layers; and generates a third decision tree to select product offerings; calculates a score for the selected architecture type based on analyzing aggregated information collected from data generated in response to user's answers and corresponding user's selection of each decision tree; checks that the architecture works; and generates an architecture weighted scoring model (AWSM) based on the calculated score.
US12086040B2
Systems and methods related to prediction-based resource orchestration in a service fabric are described. An example method for reducing an interruption rate associated with a customer application offered as a collection of services includes predicting one or more quiet time periods associated with each of the service replicas associated with a service fabric, where each of the one or more quiet time periods corresponds to a low value of a predicted load specifying a consumption of a metric by a respective service replica on a given node. The method further includes during the one or more quiet time periods predicted by a trained machine learning model, performing an impact-less failover for one or more of the service replicas by scheduling a move for the one or more service replicas from a first node associated with the service fabric to a second node associated with the service fabric.
US12086034B2
In general, one or more embodiments of the invention relates to systems and methods for performing a backup and later determining a level or percentage of corruption of the resulting backup set. By having a cyber-security module analyze the backup data periodically, corruption of backup data both caused by cyber-attacks or by hardware failures may be detected and characterized. By knowing how corrupted a particular corrupted backup data set is, an informed decision may be made with regards to purging the backup data set and/or using the backup data set or portion thereof in any further restorations. By making these determinations, a quick identification of possible ransomware attacks may be made, and additional degradation of a user's data may be avoided.
US12086029B2
Multiple allocation units are selected from a set of solid state storage devices for storage of data. An erasure code and intra-device recovery data associated with the data are generated. The intra-device recovery data is written in each of the plurality of allocation units of the set of solid-state storage devices. The erasure code is written in a subset of the plurality of allocation units.
US12086027B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed, including using a memory controller to monitor at least one parameter related to power level of a host processor of a host device, and dynamically adjusting at least one of a clock frequency and a voltage level of an error-correcting code (ECC) subsystem of the memory controller based on the at least one parameter to control power usage of the host device.
US12086026B2
Described apparatuses and methods provide configurable error correction code (ECC) circuitry and schemes that can utilize a shared ECC engine between multiple memory banks of a memory, including a low-power double data rate (LPDDR) memory. A memory device may include one or more dies with multiple memory banks. The configurable ECC circuitry can use an ECC engine that services a memory bank by producing ECC values based on data stored in the memory bank when data-masking functionality is enabled. When data-masking functionality is disabled, the configurable ECC circuitry can use the shared ECC engine that services at least two memory banks by producing ECC values with a larger quantity of bits based on respective data stored in the at least two memory banks. By using the shared ECC engine responsive to the data-masking functionality being disabled, the ECC functionality can provide higher data reliability with lower die area utilization.
US12086022B2
A bus monitoring device and method, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and an electronic device are disclosed. The bus monitoring method may include: arranging monitoring nodes in a bus, with each monitoring node arranged in one of subsystems to be tested of the bus, where the monitoring nodes are connected in series in a ring topology (202); acquiring a test vector and sending a test message according to the test vector to one of the monitoring nodes to transmit the test message across the monitoring nodes, the test vector being configured to instruct each monitoring node to execute the test message and acquire test information of the respective subsystem to be tested, where the test information is configured to indicate information of the bus of the respective subsystem to be tested when the monitoring node executes the test message (204).
US12086020B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to maintaining a high availability (HA) database. In some embodiments, a computer system receives, from a plurality of host computers, a plurality of requests to access data stored in a database implemented using a plurality of clusters. In some embodiments, the computer system responds to the plurality of requests by accessing data stored in an active cluster. The computer system may then determine, based on the responding, health information for ones of the plurality of clusters, wherein the health information is generated based on real-time traffic for the database. In some embodiments, the computer system determines, based on the health information, whether to switch from accessing the active cluster to accessing a backup cluster. In some embodiments, the computer system stores, in respective clusters of the database, a changeover decision generated based on the determining.
US12086009B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for transitioning, by a hardware-based controller, a system on a chip (SoC) into different power states. Techniques disclosed include tracking, by the controller, metrics associated with the SoC and transitioning, by the controller, the SoC from a first power state to a second power state based on the tracked metrics. Were the total amount of power that is used by at least a portion of the transition between the first power state to the second power state and a time spent in the second power state is less than the total amount of power that would have been used by remaining in the first power state.
US12085991B2
The present application proposes a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a panel body and a composite bending support layer, and the composite bending support layer includes a first metal layer and a second metal layer; wherein, the first metal layer, at least located in the bending area of the display panel, includes a damascene area located in the non-bending area; the second metal layer, located in the non-bending area of the display panel, fills the damascene area; the material hardness of the first metal layer is greater than the material hardness of the second metal layer.
US12085981B2
Disclosed is a display device including a motor, a driving gear rotated by the motor, a rotating gear engaged with the driving gear to rotate around a rotation axis and including a plurality of holes, a display connected to the rotating gear to rotate around the rotation axis, a rotation sensor configured to output a signal indicating whether a hole included in the rotating gear is detected, and a processor configured to control the motor to change a rotation speed of the display based on the signal output by the rotation sensor.
US12085971B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic circuit having one reference current terminal arranged to connect to a reference current generator, an MOS current mirror stage, an MOS push-pull amplifier stage operatively coupled to the current mirror stage and the current mode amplifier stage.
US12085970B1
A voltage driver for supplying a supply voltage includes multiple PMOS transistors, multiple NMOS transistors, a pad, impedance divider circuits, NMOS clampers, and PMOS clampers. A maximum of the supply voltage is N times a maximum of the drain-source voltage of each transistor. The pad is configured to receive a voltage signal for dynamically controlling gates of a subset of the NMOS transistors and a subset of the PMOS transistors. The impedance divider circuits are configured to generate limited voltage signals, each of which is a fraction of voltage between the pad and supply voltage or between the pad and ground. The NMOS clampers and PMOS clampers configured to receive reference voltages and limited voltage signals to generate output, which is in turn input into gate terminals of the subset of NMOS or PMOS transistors.
US12085963B2
In some embodiments, a tube portion can be configured to be fluidically coupled to a patient access component. A source of pressurized fluid can be coupled to the tube portion and can be configured to deliver fluid to the tube portion at a source pressure. A fluid pressure regulating device can include an expandable reservoir and can be coupled to the tube portion such that the expandable reservoir is in fluidic communication with the tube portion. The fluid pressure regulating device can be configured such that, when fluid is delivered from the source of pressurized fluid to the lumen of the tube portion at the source pressure, the expandable reservoir of the fluid pressure regulating device can receive fluid such that the expandable reservoir of the fluid pressure regulating device expands and fluid is delivered from the lumen of the tube portion to the patient via the patient access component.
US12085952B2
A system includes a memory device, and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device, to receive a set of input data including a representation of a drivable space for an autonomous vehicle (AV), generate, based on the representation of the drivable space, a motion planning blueprint from a flow field modeling the drivable space, and identify, using the motion planning blueprint, a driving path of the AV within the drivable space.
US12085951B2
Disclosed herein are a method of updating a map in fusion SLAM and a robot implementing the same, the robot, which updates a map in fusion SLAM using two types of sensors, configured to update a first map with first type information acquired by a first sensor and to estimate a current position of the robot using second type information acquired by a second sensor.
US12085950B2
A device may determine, based on image data of an environment that includes a ground surface, depth information indicating distances from a vehicle to different areas of the ground surface. The device may generate, based on the depth information, an overlay to indicate a range of distances from the vehicle. The range of distances may be associated with an area. The device may provide, for display, a video feed including the image data with the overlay on the ground surface. The overlay may provide the perception of depth, with respect to the area, during an operation of the vehicle.
US12085940B2
An autonomous truck loading system can have a database that stores a plurality of elementary behaviors for various phases of a process of loading the autonomous truck by the one or more loaders. The stored elementary behaviors can include predetermined maneuvers for the autonomous truck, sensing behaviors; and logic behaviors. An operator can select multiple ones of the stored behaviors via user interface. A controller can assemble the selected behaviors together into an operation script for loading of the autonomous truck by a loader. The controller can control the autonomous truck to perform the operation script.
US12085923B2
Embodiments are directed to apparatuses and methods for managing and producing equipment within an operational environment. In one scenario, a method is performed that includes generating an organizational database structure that maintains information associated with equipment that is part of an operational environment. The organizational database structure includes information indicating which packable items are associated with the piece of equipment. The method further includes accessing the generated organizational database structure to identify physical operational environment factors that affect which pieces of equipment are to be currently produced within the operational environment. The method then evaluates the identified physical operational environment factors to determine whether the specified piece of equipment is to be currently produced within the operational environment and, upon determining that the specified piece of equipment is to be currently processed within the operational environment, the specified piece of equipment is produced and provided to the operational environment.
US12085921B2
A method may include receiving, via a secure deployment management (SDM) system, a notification indicative of a change in configuration data associated with an industrial device from a secure deployment management (SDM) node associated with the industrial device. The notification is received via a secure communication channel established by the SDM system with the SDM node and one or more security protocols. The method also includes retrieving, via the SDM system, the configuration data associated with the industrial device from a data source in response to receiving the notification and sending, via the SDM system, the configuration data to the SDM node via the secure communication channel. The industrial device may receive the configuration data from the SDM node without performing one or more security operations on the configuration data.
US12085919B2
The present disclosure is intended to accurately simulate a flow of articles in an environment similar to an actual worksite. A conveyance simulation device includes: a virtual conveyance unit that operates virtually; a first virtual article feeding unit that feeds virtual articles to the virtual conveyance unit under a predetermined condition; and a virtual article management unit that sequentially updates positions of the virtual articles in accordance with a virtual movement of the virtual conveyance unit.
US12085909B2
A remotely controlled power assembly includes a power box that is mountable to an appliance. A female outlet is attachable to the power box thereby facilitating the female outlet to be electrically coupled to a power cord for the appliance. A master power cord is attachable to the power box and the master power cord is electrically coupled to an appliance power source. A switching relay is in electrical communication with each of the female electrical outlet and the master power cord. The switching relay is actuatable into an engaged condition to turn on the appliance and a disengaged condition to turn off the appliance. A receiver is in electrical communication with the switching relay. A remote control is in remote communication with the receiver for remotely turning the appliance on and off.
US12085906B2
Motorized window treatments may each adjust a position of a covering material to allow light into a space in a building. The control information for controlling the motorized window treatments may be stored and/or accessed to understand how the motorized window treatments are operating. The control information may indicate a control state and/or a position of the covering material when an identified daylight intensity is being received at the space. The control information may inform a user of the operation of the motorized window treatments and allow the user to adjust various control parameters by which the motorized window treatments may be controlled. Recommended adjustments may also be provided to the user based on a user-identified problem with the operation of the motorized window treatments. The recommended adjustments to the control parameters may be accepted by the user and may be stored for being accessed and/or edited.
US12085903B2
A method, device, and system for configuring a coating machine for coating a surface of a product using a coating substance are provided. The method includes determining a value associated with one or more parameters from a plurality of parameters associated with the coating operation. The method also includes predicting a value associated with at least one attribute associable with the coating substance based on the determined value associated with the one or more parameters using a trained machine learning model. The method includes configuring the coating machine for coating the surface using the coating substance based on the predicted value associated with the at least one attribute associable with the coating substance. The method also includes initiating a coating operation at the configured coating machine for coating the surface of the product using the coating substance.
US12085894B2
A flexible guide for a rotating resonator mechanism, in particular of a horological movement, the guide including a fixed support, an element that is capable of moving relative to the fixed support, at least two main flexible blades allowing the movable element to move relative to the fixed support by bending the main flexible blades via a rotary motion about a centre of rotation, the flexible guide being arranged substantially in one plane, the flexible guide including at least two translation tables, each joined to one end of a main flexible blade, such that each translation table is configured to move in translation at least in part under the effect of the bending of the corresponding main flexible blade, the flexible guide including at least one tertiary flexible blade connecting the two translation tables.
US12085886B2
An example connection structure includes a connector and a connector support body. The connector is to engage with a coupler of a toner cartridge at a driving position when the toner cartridge is located at an operable position. The connector support body is rotatable about a rotation axis. The connector is also to support the connector to allow the connector to be inclined toward one side or another side with respect to the rotation axis while moving along the rotation axis with respect to the driving position.
US12085884B2
A toner cartridge includes: a housing to accommodate toner and including a fastening boss at a front end; a front cover including a fastening hole aligned with the fastening boss; a fastening member including a fastening portion and a head portion, the fastening portion configured to pass through the fastening hole and be fastened to the fastening boss to couple the front cover to the housing; and a separating portion to allow the fastening hole to be separated from the head portion of the fastening member by an external force acting on the front cover.
US12085883B2
An image forming apparatus includes a casing, an image forming unit, an outer cover, a first inner cover arranged to face an inner side of the outer cover in a closed state, the first inner cover being made of resin, a second inner cover arranged to face the inner side of the outer cover in the closed state, the second inner cover being made of resin, a first fan, and a second fan. The first inner cover includes a first duct configured to guide air taken in from an exterior of the image forming apparatus by rotation of the first fan to the image forming unit. The second inner cover includes a second duct configured to guide air taken in from the exterior of the image forming apparatus by rotation of the second fan to the image forming unit.
US12085877B2
A conveyance device to convey a recording medium includes a heater, a first temperature detector, a second temperature detector, and a recording medium detector. The heater heats the recording medium. The first temperature detector and the second temperature detector detect a temperature of the heater. The recording medium detector detects the recording medium. The first temperature detector is disposed at a position farther from a center position of a heating region of the heater than the second temperature detector in a conveyance orthogonal direction. The conveyance orthogonal direction is along a surface of the recording medium and orthogonal to a direction in which the recording medium is conveyed. The recording medium detector is disposed on a side opposite to the first temperature detector with respect to the second temperature detector in the conveyance orthogonal direction.
US12085873B2
A developing device includes a housing in which a circulation path is formed by a first path through which a developer passed to a developing roll flows, a second path disposed offset from the first path in a direction of gravity, a pair of connecting ports connecting the first path and the second path, and a transport member that operates in the housing. The transport member transports the developer in a determined direction, or a reverse direction to the determined direction, in the circulation path according to a load applied for driving the transport member.
US12085872B2
An image forming apparatus, including: a photoconductor; a developing device; a developer storage; a supplier configured to supply developer; an optical sensor; and a controller configured to execute: a developing process of developing an electrostatic latent image on the photoconductor; a usage-amount obtaining process of obtaining a usage amount of the developer; a supplying process of supplying the developer to the developing device every time when the obtained usage amount becomes equal to or greater than a first threshold; and a detecting process of detecting, by the optical sensor, an amount of the developer in the developing device every time when the obtained usage amount becomes equal to or greater than a second threshold larger than the first threshold, and wherein the controller is configured to execute the detecting process in a period different from a period in which the developing process is being executed.
US12085867B2
A method of performing a lithography process includes providing a test pattern. The test pattern includes a first set of lines arranged at a first pitch, a second set of lines arranged at the first pitch, and further includes at least one reference line between the first set of lines and the second set of lines. The test pattern is exposed with a radiation source providing an asymmetric, monopole illumination profile to form a test pattern structure on a substrate. The test pattern structure is then measured and a measured distance correlated to an offset of a lithography parameter. A lithography process is adjusted based on the offset of the lithography parameter.
US12085866B2
A photolithographic apparatus includes a particle removing cassette, a pump and a compressor. The particle removing cassette includes a first slit that includes an array of parallel wind blade nozzles arranged along a length of the first slit, protruding from the first slit, and configured to eject and direct pressurized cleaning material to a patterning surface of a mask to remove debris particles on the patterning surface. The pump and the compressor are controlled by a controller to adjust a flow rate and a pressure of the pressurized cleaning material based on an amount of debris particles on the patterning surface of the mask.
US12085865B2
An extreme ultraviolet (EUV) photolithography system detects debris travelling from an EUV generation chamber to a scanner. The photolithography system includes a detection light source and a sensor. The detection light source outputs a detection light across a path of travel of debris particles from the EUV generation chamber. The sensor senses debris particles by detecting interaction of the debris particles with the detection light.
US12085860B2
A photolithography system utilizes tin droplets to generate extreme ultraviolet radiation for photolithography. The photolithography system irradiates the droplets with a laser. The droplets become a plasma and emit extreme ultraviolet radiation. An array of sensors sense the extreme ultraviolet radiation and charged particles emitted by the droplets. A control system analyses sensor signals from the sensors and adjusts plasma generation parameters responsive to the sensor signals.
US12085857B2
A composition for forming a silicon-containing resist underlayer film includes: a thermosetting silicon-containing material containing any one or more of a partial structure shown by the general formula (Sx-1), (Sx-2), and (Sx-3); and a compound shown by the general formula (P-0), where R1 represents an organic group that has or generates a silanol group, a hydroxy group, or a carboxy group; R2 and R3 are each independently the same as R1 or each represent a hydrogen atom or a monovalent substituent having 1 to 30 carbon atoms; R100 represents a divalent organic group substituted with a fluorine atom; R101 and R102 each independently represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; R103 represents a divalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms; and L104 represents a single bond or a divalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms.
US12085856B2
A positive photosensitive resin composition including: (A) an alkali-soluble resin containing at least one or more structures selected from a polyimide structure, a polybenzoxazole structure, a polyamide-imide structure, and a precursor structure thereof; (B) a crosslinkable polymer compound containing a structural unit represented by the following general formula (1) and having a group crosslinked with the component (A); and (C) a compound having a quinonediazide structure for serving as a photosensitizer to generate an acid by light and increase a dissolution speed to an alkaline aqueous solution, the resin composition and a positive photosensitive dry film derived therefrom that enable formation of a fine pattern and high resolution, have excellent mechanical characteristics even when cured at low temperatures, and have no degradation in adhesive force between before and after a high temperature and high humidity test.
US12085855B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a photoresist layer including a photoresist composition over a substrate. The photoresist layer is selectively exposed to actinic radiation to form a latent pattern and the latent pattern is developed by applying a developer to the selectively exposed photoresist layer to form a patterned photoresist. The photoresist composition includes a photoactive compound and a resin comprising a radical-active functional group and an acid labile group.
US12085849B2
Embodiments of baking chambers are provided herein. In some embodiments, a baking chamber for baking a substrate includes: a chamber body enclosing an interior volume; a heater disposed in the interior volume, wherein the heater is configured to have a surface temperature of about 100 to about 400 degrees Celsius during use; a shroud disposed in the interior volume opposite the heater, wherein the shroud includes a central opening fluidly coupled to a gas inlet; a plurality of substrate lift pins configured to support a substrate in the interior volume between the heater and the shroud, wherein the shroud includes a plurality of first openings to facilitate the plurality of substrate lift pins; and a gas outlet disposed in the chamber body opposite the shroud such that a gas flow path through the interior volume extends from the gas inlet, around the heater, and to the gas outlet.
US12085848B2
A photomask cleaning tool includes various components to automatically remove a particle from a pellicle, such as a multi-jet nozzle to standardize and control the use of a gas to remove the particle, an ultrasonic probe to loosen the particle from the surface of the pellicle, a plurality of multi-jet nozzles to direct gas toward the particle from different directions, a control system to control the automated blower for various sizes and shapes of photomasks and for optimized particle removal techniques, and/or the like. In this way, the photomask cleaning tool is capable of removing a particle from a pellicle of a photomask in a manner that increases the effectiveness of removing the particle and reduces the likelihood of damage to the pellicle, which would otherwise result in expensive and time-consuming photomask rework.
US12085843B2
In a method of manufacturing a photo mask, an etching mask layer having circuit patterns is formed over a target layer of the photo mask to be etched. The photo mask includes a backside conductive layer. The target layer is etched by plasma etching, while preventing active species of plasma from attacking the backside conductive layer.
US12085836B2
An optical amplifier of the present disclosure includes a Raman amplification unit and a parametric amplification unit that is configured of a second-order nonlinear element including a PPLN waveguide. In the optical amplifier, second harmonic lights are generated from a fundamental wave light having a wavelength that is slightly detuned to a shorter wavelength side with respect to a phase matching wavelength of the second-order nonlinear element, and is utilized as excitation light for the parametric amplification unit. By utilizing the excitation light based on the fundamental wave light of the wavelength detuned from the phase matching wavelength, a phase matching curve can be obtained in a wide band in a difference frequency generation (DFG) process of the second-order nonlinear element. The reduction in conversion efficiency of the wavelength near the excitation light in the parametric amplification unit is compensated by the Raman amplification unit.
US12085835B2
A light source including: a pulse generator for providing a first sequence of light pulses, the first sequence of light pulses including a first number of light pulses within a predetermined time period, a manipulator configured to generate a second sequence of light pulses from the first sequence of light pulses, the second sequence of light pulses having a second number of light pulses within the predetermined time period, the second number being different from the first number, and a nonlinear optical element arranged to receive the second sequence of light pulses.
US12085833B2
An apparatus includes: an optical phased array (e.g., on a photonic integrated circuit), a focusing element, which can be at a fixed position relative to the optical phased array and configured to receive an optical beam from the optical phased array, and a steering element, which can be at a fixed position relative to the focusing element and configured to transmit the optical beam received from the focusing element. In some implementations, at least one of the focusing element or the steering element is externally coupled to the photonic integrated circuit.
US12085832B2
In an embodiment, an optical deflection device includes: an electro-optic crystal comprising KTa1-xNbxO3, the electro-optic crystal having a first surface and a second surface, the first surface and the second surface facing each other; a first electrode on the first surface of the electro-optic crystal; a second electrode on the second surface of the electro-optic crystal; a power source configured to output a control voltage for forming an electric field inside the electro-optic crystal via the first electrode and the second electrode; and a light source configured to emit a pulse laser to be incident on the electro-optic crystal along an optical axis, the optical axis substantially perpendicular to a direction of the electric field formed by the control voltage, wherein a peak power density of the pulse laser output from the light source at a light incidence surface of the electro-optic crystal is less than 800000 W/cm2.
US12085831B2
An electro-optical modulator. The electro-optical modulator comprising: an input waveguide, configured to guide light into a modulation region of the electro-optical modulator; a plurality of sub-modulators, within the modulation region, each sub-modulator having a transfer function between an applied voltage and an optical phase shift; and an output waveguide, configured to guide light out of the modulation region. The combination of the transfer functions of each sub-modulator is such that a total transfer function between an applied voltage and an optical phase shift of the modulation region is substantially linear over a range of operating voltages.
US12085828B2
Described herein are liquid crystal (LC) assemblies that are dimmable and techniques for manufacturing LC assemblies. In one example, an LC assembly comprises: a first curved glass panel, a second curved glass panel, and a liquid crystal panel having a first outer surface and a second outer surface, a layer of a liquid adhesive attaching the first curved glass panel and the first outer surface of the liquid crystal panel, and a film adhesive attaching the second curved glass panel and the second outer surface of the liquid crystal panel.
US12085824B2
An array substrate includes a first electrode, scanning lines extending along a first direction, data lines, and common signal lines. The data lines and the common signal lines extend along a second direction. The first electrode includes a first and a second sub-electrode. Each data line is disposed between two common signal lines. Two scanning lines, two common signal lines, and a data line define a first and a second sub-pixel area. The first and the second sub-electrode are disposed within the first and the second sub-pixel area respectively. The first sub-electrode includes a first main portion disposed close to a common signal line and first branch portions spaced along the second direction. A first space is defined between two adjacent first branch portions. Ends of the first branch portions are connected to the first main portion. Another ends of the first branch portions are spaced with a first space.
US12085822B2
A display panel, a display device, and a driving method therefor, the display panel comprising: a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array, and the display panel comprising: a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite each other, wherein the first substrate comprises a first base and a plurality of pixel electrodes disposed on the first base, and each sub-pixel comprises at least two pixel electrodes.
US12085819B1
A display module, a driving method and a display device are disclosed. The display module includes a light valve regulator, which includes a first regulating electrode layer, a light regulating layer, a second regulating electrode layer, and a light converting layer. The first regulating electrode layer is arranged on a side of the second polarizer facing away from the display panel. The light regulating layer is arranged on a side of the first regulating electrode layer facing away from the second polarizer. The light regulating layer includes a first liquid crystal layer and a second liquid crystal layer alternately arranged. The second regulating electrode layer is arranged on a side of the light regulating layer facing away from the first regulating electrode layer. The light converting layer is arranged on a side of the second regulating electrode layer facing away from the light regulating layer.
US12085813B2
An array substrate, a liquid crystal display panel, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a first electrode. The first electrode includes a first waist and a second waist. A shortest distance from the first waist to the second waist is defined as d1, and a distance from an end of the first side wall away from the second side wall to an end of the third side wall away from the fourth side wall is defined as d2, a distance from an end of the second side wall away from the first side wall to an end of the fourth side wall away from the third side wall is defined as d3, and d1
US12085810B2
The following structure mitigates problems caused by heat generated by the LED and the driver IC. A liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal display panel in which liquid crystal is sandwiched between a TFT substrate, having a pixel, and a counter substrate including: a display area being formed in an area in which the TFT substrate and the counter substrate overlap each other, a terminal area being formed on the TFT substrate, in which the counter substrate does not overlap, the terminal area being formed along a first side of the counter substrate which extends in a first direction, a second cover glass being disposed on the counter substrate, and a first cover glass being disposed under the TFT substrate, in which a width of the first cover glass in the first direction is larger than a width of the second cover glass in the first direction.
US12085809B2
A backlight module includes: a first optical element and a fixing frame arranged around the first optical element. The fixing frame includes a first edge frame and a second edge frame that are oppositely arranged, and a third edge frame and a fourth edge frame that are oppositely arranged. The side of each edge frame of the fixing frame facing the first optical element is provided with a plurality of adhesive tapes that are independent of each other and extend in an extension direction of the each edge frame. The first optical element is fixed to the fixing frame through the adhesive tapes.
US12085804B2
A backlight module and a display device are provided. The backlight module includes a light-emitting substrate and a reflective film layer disposed on a light-exiting surface of the light-emitting substrate. The light-emitting substrate includes a base substrate and light-emitting elements and light-scattering members disposed on one same surface of the base substrate. The reflective film layer includes a plurality of light-exiting holes for light passing through. A part of the light emitted by the light-emitting elements is reflected to the light-scattering members by the reflective film layer and is scattered by the light-scattering members. Therefore, light intensity of regions between the light-emitting elements is enhanced.
US12085791B2
An optical waveguide element includes: an optical waveguide having a ridge part and a slab part having a thickness less than the ridge part. The optical waveguide includes: a first waveguide having a first ridge with and a first slab film thickness; a second waveguide having a second ridge width and a second slab film thickness; a first intermediate waveguide connected to the first waveguide and having a third ridge width and the first slab film thickness; and a second intermediate waveguide connected to the second waveguide and having a fourth ridge width and the second slab film thickness. The first waveguide, the first intermediate waveguide, the second intermediate waveguide, and the second waveguide are arranged in this order; the second slab film thickness is larger than the first slab film thickness; and the third ridge width is larger than the fourth ridge width.
US12085785B2
An eyeglass managing system determines process parameters for manufacturing at least part of an eyeglass including a lens and a frame. In this eyeglass managing system, an electronic system includes: —a receiving unit adapted to acquire lens data describing an initial lens and frame data describing an initial frame; —a processing unit adapted to identify, based on the lens data and on the frame data, modification parameters deriving from the interaction between the initial lens and the initial frame; and—a transmitting unit adapted to transmit a list of proposed modifications based on the identified modification parameters. The receiving unit is further adapted to acquire a response to at least one proposed modification; the processing unit is further adapted to determine, based on the acquired response, process parameters of an additive manufacturing process for manufacturing the lens or the frame.
US12085784B2
A lens element intended to be worn in front of an eye of a person including a refraction area having a first refractive power based on a prescription for correcting an abnormal refraction of said eye of the person and a second refractive power different from the first refractive power, and a plurality of at least three optical elements, at least one optical element having an optical function of not focusing an image on the retina of the eye so as to slow down the progression of the abnormal refraction of the eye.
US12085782B2
An optical system includes, successively in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens, an object side surface thereof being concave at a paraxial area, and an image side surface thereof being convex at the paraxial area thereof; a second lens having a positive refractive power, an object side surface thereof being convex at a paraxial area, and an image side surface thereof being concave at the paraxial area; a third lens having a positive refractive power, and an image side surface thereof being convex at a paraxial area; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; a seventh lens; and an eighth lens having a negative refractive power, an object side surface thereof being convex at a paraxial area, and an image side surface thereof being concave at the paraxial area.
US12085761B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for optical coupling. In one example, a method for forming an optical coupler, includes: forming an insulation layer on a semiconductor substrate; epitaxially growing a semiconductor material on the insulation layer to form a semiconductor layer; etching, according to a predetermined pattern, the semiconductor layer to form: an array of etched holes in the semiconductor layer to form a grating region, a first taper structure extending from a first side of the grating region, wherein a shape of the first taper structure in the semiconductor layer is a first triangle that is asymmetric about any line perpendicular to the first side of the grating region, and a second taper structure extending from a second side of the grating region, wherein a shape of the second taper structure in the semiconductor layer is a second triangle that is asymmetric about any line perpendicular to the second side of the grating region, wherein the first side and the second side are substantially perpendicular to each other; and depositing a dielectric material into the array of etched regions to form an array of scattering elements in the semiconductor layer, wherein the scattering elements are arranged to form a two-dimensional (2D) grating.
US12085756B2
A fusion splicer management system for managing progress of a fusion splicing work performed by each splicing technician by using a fusion splicer. This management system includes an acquisition unit, a determination unit, and a notification unit. The acquisition unit acquires fusion splicing data regarding the fusion splicing work performed by each splicing technician who uses each fusion splicer whenever each fusion splicing work is performed. The determination unit determines a progress status of each fusion splicing work by comparing the fusion splicing data with work plan data indicating a work plan. The notification unit notifies of the progress status of each fusion splicing work determined by the determination unit.
US12085755B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical fiber having a core and a cladding, where the cladding is doped with a dopant. The cladding has a dopant concentration gradient in the radial direction such that a concentration of the dopant changes with respect to radial distance from a core-cladding interface. Doping the cladding of the optical fiber enables ablation of the fiber surface with a line source to provide an ablated wedge or crack such that cleaving can be achieved by applying a stress force to the fiber after ablation or by applying a pull force during ablation.
US12085754B2
A method for manufacturing an optical fiber, the method including: a stripping step of partially stripping a coating layer 12, 13 of the optical fiber 10; a splicing step of fusion-splicing an exposed end surface of a glass fiber 11; and a recoating step of recoating a protective resin 15 covering a stripped portion of the coating layer 12, 13 and an exposed portion of the glass fiber 11, in which the stripping step irradiates the coating layer 12, 13 with a laser light to strip the coating layer 12, 13. A pulse width of the laser light is 50 fs or more and 500 ps or less.
US12085753B2
An optical module includes a circuit board and a silicon optical chip. The circuit board includes a plurality of circuit board bonding pads. The silicon optical chip includes a plurality of chip bonding pads corresponding to the plurality of circuit board bonding pads. The plurality of chip bonding pads are electrically connected to the corresponding circuit board bonding pads, so that the silicon optical chip is electrically connected to the circuit board. A chip bonding pad is electrically connected to at least one corresponding circuit board bonding pad through a plurality of bonding wires, or a circuit board bonding pad is electrically connected to at least one corresponding chip bonding pad through a plurality of bonding wires. A connecting line of two or more of bonding positions of the plurality of bonding wires on the circuit board bonding pads is inclined with respect to a connecting line of centers of the circuit board bonding pads.
US12085748B2
A display apparatus includes: a first substrate having a first front surface and a first back surface that is an opposite surface of the first front surface; a liquid crystal layer arranged on the first front surface of the first substrate; a light guide plate having a first main surface facing the first front surface, a second main surface that is an opposite surface of the first main surface and a side surface crossing the first main surface and the second main surface; and a light source unit including a plurality of light emitting elements arranged along a first direction at a position facing the side surface of the light guide plate, and a light emitting surface of the light source unit is arranged to have a different direction from a direction of the side surface of the light guide plate in a thickness direction of the light guide plate.
US12085744B1
Various systems and methods relating to a feature fill sol-gel material are provided herein. The feature fill sol-gel material may form a superconformal sol-gel coating. The feature fill sol-gel material may include a first titanium precursor composed of Titanium(IV) and an inorganic ligand. The feature fill sol-gel material may be formed by dissolving or suspending the first titanium precursor in a solvent. The feature fill sol-gel material may be annealed to form the superconformal sol-gel coating. The superconformal sol-gel coating may be an optically transparent coating having an absorbance at a wavelength of 450 nm of less than 0.2% per 150 nm and a refractive index ranging from 1.65 to 2.20.
US12085743B2
The present invention relates to a polarizing plate, a liquid crystal panel and a display device, and more specifically to a polarizing plate including a polarizer, and a hard coating layer having a thickness of 10 μm or less and a light-transmitting substrate which are positioned so as to face each other on the basis of the polarizer, and to a liquid crystal panel and a display device including the same.
US12085741B2
A method for preparing a metal-dielectric strip array based super-resolution lens includes: performing lithography on a first material layer on a first substrate to obtain a grating structure; alternately depositing second and third material layers until the grating structure is filled up, to obtain a first transition structure, one of the second and third material layers being of metal, and the other one being of dielectric; performing planarization on the first transition structure at least reach the top of the grating structure, to obtain a second transition structure; adhering an upper surface of the second transition structure to a second substrate; removing the first substrate, and performing overturning to make the second transition structure be on the second substrate to obtain a third transition structure; and performing planarization again to at least reach the top of finally deposited second or third material layer, to obtain the super-resolution lens.
US12085740B2
An optical component includes a substrate and a piezoelectric film formed on the substrate and configured to deform in response to an actuation voltage applied thereto into a pattern of peaks and troughs configured to deflect optical radiation that is incident thereon. The pattern has an amplitude determined by the actuation voltage.
US12085738B2
An electronic device that includes a display assembly comprising a display, a texture layer, a transmissive and reflective layer, and a cover layer. The display includes an upper surface on which visual data is displayed and from which light is emitted. The texture layer includes a lower surface having a first texture with structural components and a second texture with structural components that are different from structural components of the first texture. The transmissive and reflective layer is positioned between the display and the texture layer and includes a first texture with structural components that are complementary to the structural components of the first texture of the texture layer and a second texture with structural components that are complementary to the structural components of the second texture of the texture layer. The cover layer is positioned above the texture layer and forms an upper surface of the display assembly.
US12085730B2
A camera module is provided. A camera module according to an aspect of the present invention comprises: a stator; a mover arranged in the stator; a first driver arranged on the stator; a second driver arranged on the mover and facing the first driver; a stiffener including an external portion coupled to the stator, an internal portion coupled to the mover, and a connector for connecting the external portion to the internal portion; a substrate coupled to the stator and the mover, and arranged on the stiffener; and a lens module coupled to the substrate.
US12085724B1
A head-mounted device may have projector, a first waveguide, a second waveguide, and an optical bridge sensor coupled between the first and second waveguides. An input coupler may couple light with a calibration pattern into the first waveguide. The calibration pattern may be included in visible or infrared light produced by the projector or may be included in infrared light produced by infrared emitters mounted to the first waveguide. An output coupler may couple the light having the calibration pattern out of the first waveguide. An additional output coupler may be used to couple visible light from the projector out of the waveguide and towards an eye box. An image sensor may generate image sensor data based on the light having the calibration pattern. Control circuitry may process the calibration pattern in the image sensor data to detect deformation or warping of the first waveguide.
US12085712B2
A display with a plurality of display elements each composed of an uneven layer having an uneven structure and a multilayer film layer provided on the uneven structure. A pattern formed by convexities can be divided into shape elements each arranged in each of a plurality of virtual rectangles, when viewed from a direction facing the uneven layer, and each of the shape elements arranged in each of the virtual rectangles is inscribed in the rectangle in which the shape element is arranged. The plurality of virtual rectangles each have sides along a first direction and sides along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a length of the side along the first direction is less than or equal to a sub wavelength.
US12085703B2
Physical calibration slide comprising a plurality of etched features. The etched features may comprise two or more of a slanted Ronchi ruling feature comprising at least one set of parallel lines that are slanted with respect to a long and short axis of the slide, a straight Ronchi ruling feature comprising at least one set of parallel lines that are parallel to either the long or short axis, a star target feature comprising a circle with a plurality of wedge pairs, a crosshair feature comprising at least one crosshair, a clear area, a letter-O feature comprising a circle, a resolution target feature comprising one or more resolution targets, a bullseye feature comprising a two-dimensional array of bullseyes, a triangle feature comprising at least one isosceles triangle, or a symmetric corers feature comprising two symmetric sets of geometric shapes arranged in an L-shape.
US12085683B2
A method for determining a spatial-sensitivity function of a gamma camera, the gamma camera observing a field of observation (Ω) liable to contain radiation sources, the gamma camera including a detector material; pixels, distributed over a detecting area, each pixel being configured to form a detection signal under the effect of detection of an interaction of an ionising photon in the detector material; a unit for achieving sub-pixel resolution, the unit being programmed to assign a position (x,y) to each detected interaction on the basis of detection signals formed by a plurality of pixels, the position being determined on a mesh dividing each pixel into a plurality of virtual pixels. The method includes steps allowing weights assigned to each virtual pixel to be determined, each weight corresponding to a sensitivity of each virtual pixel.
US12085681B2
Described is a directional gamma detector including a detection probe and a handgrip, wherein the detection probe includes: a supporting rod and a detection head coupled or integrated with a first end of the supporting rod. The detection head includes a plurality of detection elements distinct from each other for simultaneously detecting gamma rays directed in different directions and including at least one scintillation crystal and a corresponding first electronic conversion circuitry. Each detection element is associated with a respective collimator. The handgrip is equipped internally with a second electronic circuitry for converting the signals. The detection probe, and in particular a second end of the supporting rod, is reversibly connectable to the handgrip by a mechanical connector equipped with electrical contacts for transferring the signals from the first electronic conversion circuitry to the second electronic conversion circuitry.
US12085680B2
Provided are a system and a method for drive control of front ultrasonic sensors, which may automatically control a waveform output from the front ultrasonic sensor detecting the presence or absence of an obstacle in front of a vehicle to prevent the sensor from acting as an interference source for another vehicle even when the sensor is constantly driven.
US12085674B2
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device includes a first wafer layer, a laser assembly disposed on the first wafer layer, a capping layer, a second wafer layer, and a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). The capping layer is coupled to the first wafer layer and configured to seal the laser assembly. The second wafer layer is at least partially coupled to the first wafer layer. The PIC is formed on the second wafer layer. The second wafer includes an exit feature configured to outcouple laser light from the laser assembly.
US12085649B2
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) imaging system may include a semiconductor device based on single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). The LIDAR imaging system may also include a light source configured to emit light such that the semiconductor device is exposed to both ambient light and a reflected version of the laser light. Ambient light level detection circuitry may be included to determine a brightness of the ambient light based on an output signal from the semiconductor device. The ambient light level detection circuitry may include a plurality of comparators that receive different reference signals and are coupled to respective counters. The results from the counters may be used to determine the brightness of the ambient light in the scene. The determined brightness may then be used to discriminate between the ambient light and the reflected version of the light.
US12085645B2
An ultrasonic sensor includes an ultrasonic transducer; a first voltage output circuit to output a transmission voltage signal that oscillates between a first high voltage and a first low voltage, supplied to a first terminal of the ultrasonic transducer; a reception circuit to detect a voltage signal generated at a second terminal of the ultrasonic transducer; and the second voltage output circuit to output a second high voltage smaller than the first high voltage. The first voltage output circuit includes a first switching unit to perform switching between supplying the transmission voltage signal in ultrasonic transmission; and fixing a potential of the first terminal in ultrasonic reception. The second voltage output circuit includes a second switching unit that performs switching between supplying the second high voltage to the second terminal in ultrasonic transmission; and electrically separating the second voltage output circuit from the second terminal in ultrasonic reception.
US12085641B2
A foreshortening calculating unit of an image processing device calculates the degree of foreshortening in an imaging range at the time of synthetic aperture radar imaging using a flying object on the basis of an orbit at the time of the synthetic aperture radar imaging and elevation data of the earth's surface. A polygon calculating unit calculates a polygon representing an actual outer boundary of the imaging range by calculating an outer boundary of an actual imaging range of the imaging range using the degree of foreshortening. An area determining unit determines, by using the polygon, which of two or more areas determined in an area imaged by the synthetic aperture radar the imaging range belongs to. An added value adding unit performs a process which is performed according to the determined area on an image of the imaging range on the basis of a determination result of the area to which the imaging range belongs from the area determining unit.
US12085637B2
A method and an apparatus for positioning a terminal device. The method includes: generating, by a terminal device, a first message, where the first message includes one or more pieces of first time difference information, and the first time difference information includes a first time difference and information about a first positioning reference signal pair corresponding to the first time difference, where the first positioning reference signal pair includes a first uplink positioning reference signal and a first downlink positioning reference signal that have an association relationship, and the first time difference is a time difference between a sending time point of the first uplink positioning reference signal and a receiving time point of the first downlink positioning reference signal; and sending, by the terminal device, the first message to a network device.
US12085632B2
A method for producing a streak-suppressed magnetic resonance (MR) image of a subject includes generating an interference covariance matrix {circumflex over ( )}R front N coil images Ij (x,y), j={1, 2, . . . , N}, each of the N coil images Ij (x,y) corresponding to MR signals detected by a respective one of a phased array of N coils of an MRI scanner. The MR signals originate in voxels of the subject corresponding to an artifact-corrupted region of a coil image. Coordinates (x,y) correspond to a location within a cross-sectional plane of the subject. The method also includes, for subject-regions of cross-sectional plane centered at a respective location (x,y), determining a coil weight vector W (x,y) from {circumflex over ( )}R. The method also includes generating the streak-suppressed MR image as a weighted sum of the coil images Ij (x,y), each weight of the weighted sum being Wj* (x,y), a jth element of a complex conjugate of coil weight vector W (x,y).
US12085627B2
A test apparatus for testing a cable assembly includes a first air tightness tester, a second air tightness tester and an electrical tester. A first test device is operably connected to the first air tightness tester and the electrical tester, and a second test device is operably connected to the second air tightness tester and the electrical tester. With a first cable connector and a second cable connector of a cable installed on a respective one of the first test device and the second test device, an air tightness test and an electrical test are performed on the first cable connector and the second cable connector simultaneously.
US12085623B2
A battery diagnosing technology capable of effectively diagnosing a state of a secondary battery using a charge and discharge signal extracted from the secondary battery, including memory to store a positive electrode reference profile and a negative electrode reference profile for charge or discharge of a reference battery, a voltage sensor to measure a voltage of a target battery during a charge or discharge process, and a processor to generate a plurality of charge and discharge measurement profiles based on voltages measured at a plurality of different time points, compare each of the generated charge and discharge measurement profiles with a simulation profile obtained from the positive and negative electrode reference profiles, and determine positive and negative electrode adjustment profiles for each of the generated charge and discharge measurement profiles so that an error between each charge and discharge measurement profile and the simulation profile is within a predetermined level.
US12085622B2
A battery cell resistance measurement device including: a carrier signal generation module configured to generate a carrier signal of a first frequency and a second frequency different from the first frequency; a resistance unit including a first resistor and a second resistor having a different resistance value from the first resistor; an impedance measurement unit configured to measure an impedance of both ends of a corresponding application target in a state where the carrier signal is applied to any one of the first resistor, the second resistor, and a battery cell; a switching unit configured to selectively connect any one of the first resistor, the second resistor, and the battery cell to the impedance measurement unit; and a control unit configured to calculate an internal resistance of the battery cell based on the impedance value measured by the impedance measurement unit.
US12085620B2
The present application discloses a battery inspection device. The battery inspection device includes a power supply device, at least one charging port disposed on a surface of the power supply device, at least one display light bar disposed on the surface of the power supply device, and at least one first battery connection line, wherein the first battery connection line is electrically connected to the charging port.
US12085608B2
The present invention relates to a picker device. The pickers are arranged in a line on a picker support, and each of the pickers comprises: a main nozzle in which vacuum pressure is applied or released at the lower end; and a lift actuator supported by the picker support to lift and lower the main nozzle. A sub-nozzle docking module is docked or undocked with the main nozzles, and comprises: at least one sub-nozzle which adsorbs or desorbs an object to be transferred as vacuum pressure is applied or released at the lower end thereof; a docking mount which receives vacuum pressure from the main nozzles in a docked state with the main nozzles by supporting the sub-nozzle at the lower end thereof and delivers the vacuum pressure to the sub-nozzle through a vacuum passage; and an attachment/detachment mechanism for attaching and detaching the docking mount to and from the picker support.
US12085603B2
A noise monitoring apparatus includes a row selection circuit, a direct current (DC) cancellation circuit and an amplifier circuit. The row selection circuit selects a row of a DUT array to be a selected row during a readout period, wherein the selected row comprises a plurality of selected DUTs. The DC cancellation circuit is coupled to unselected DUTs of the DUT array during the readout period, generates a DC current signal based on bias current signals from a group of unselected DUTs and subtract the DC current signal from a first noise signal of the selected DUT to generate a second noise signal. The amplifier circuit is coupled to the plurality of selected DUTs of the selected row during the readout period, and amplifies the second noise signal from each of the selected DUTs to generate an output signal.
US12085597B2
This application discloses a flexible sensing system and an associated proximity sensing method. The flexible sensing system includes: a first thin film encapsulation layer and a first electrode layer attached to the first thin film encapsulation layer; the first electrode layer includes a bipolar electrode configured for forming an arc-shaped electric field for determining whether a distance between a target object and the sensing system is within the first distance range; the first electrode layer further includes a unipolar electrode configured for forming a vertical electric field for determining whether a distance between the target object and the sensing system is within the second distance range; and the first distance range is less than the second distance range. By using different sensing solutions for the object at different distance positions, the sensing system avoids the issue that a single sensing solution has a relatively low sensing accuracy.
US12085583B2
Systems and methods are provided for sample processing. A device may be provided, capable of receiving the sample, and performing one or more of a sample preparation, sample assay, and detection step. The device may be capable of performing multiple assays. The device may comprise one or more modules that may be capable of performing one or more of a sample preparation, sample assay, and detection step. The device may be capable of performing the steps using a small volume of sample.
US12085574B2
Disclosed is a method for diagnosing allergy in a human or animal patient, wherein the level of species-specific lipocalin, especially lipocalin 2 in a human patient, is measured in a sample of said patient and wherein a lowered level of said lipocalin compared to the level of said lipocalin in the corresponding sample of a human or animal that has no allergy, is indicative of an allergy, as well as a kit for performing this method, and a kit for quality control of allergen molecules or extracts used for immunotherapy of allergy by determining its siderophore-iron ligand load and thus immunomodulatory potency. Further, lipocalin proteins for use in treatment or prevention of allergies are provided, preferably complexed with siderophore-iron ligands.
US12085572B2
In one aspect, the invention provides a protein capture membrane comprising a first side and a second side and a plurality of interstices extending contiguously from the first side to the second side, wherein the interstices are coated with a protein-reactive coating; and the porous substrate comprises nanoporous alumina or porous glass. In another aspect the invention provides a method of detecting a protein of interest in a plurality of proteins.
US12085569B2
Cancer patients make antibodies to tumor-derived proteins that are potential biomarkers for early detection. Twenty-eight antigens have been identified as potential biomarkers for the early detection of basal-like breast cancer (Tables 1, 2). Also, a 13-AAb classifier has been developed that differentiate patients with BLBC from healthy controls with 33% sensitivity at 98% specificity (Table 3).
US12085559B2
A plenum assembly configured for electrophysiology assays, such as patch clamp techniques, includes one or more ground electrode assemblies. The ground electrode assemblies are individually removable from a plenum base of the plenum assembly in a non-destructive manner, and may be reinstalled in the plenum base in a manner that reestablishes electrical contact with ground circuitry without requiring soldering or other additional steps. A rejuvenating apparatus is provided for rejuvenating one or more ground electrode assemblies removed from the plenum base.
US12085557B2
Disclosed herein is a microelectrode platform that may be used for multiple biosystem applications including cell culturing techniques and biosensing. Also disclosed are microfabrication techniques for inexpensively producing microelectrode platforms.
US12085555B2
A deterioration estimation device includes a storage device and an execution device. The storage device is configured to store mapping data defining a mapping that outputs an output variable indicating the degree of deterioration of oil when an input variable is input. The mapping includes, as the input variable, a color variable that is a variable indicating a color of the oil and a hydrogen ion variable that is a variable indicating a hydrogen ion concentration of the oil. The execution device is configured to execute an acquisition process that is a process of acquiring the input variable and a calculation process of inputting the input variable acquired through the acquisition process to the mapping to output a value of the output variable.
US12085552B2
A device that includes a polymeric layer, wherein the polymeric layer comprises (A) a polymer and, incorporated within the polymeric layer, (B) a compound, or a protonate or salt thereof, wherein the compound, or a protonate or salt thereof, has a structure that includes at least one moiety configured for reversible, non-covalent binding of the anionic sulfide species.
US12085545B2
A process of determining a modified separation method for a sample separation apparatus based on an initial separation method, including carrying out the initial separation method on a sample separation apparatus, detecting sensor data at the sample separation apparatus during carrying out the initial separation method, and carrying out a numerical analysis for determining the modified separation method by modifying at least one operation parameter of the initial separation method and by using the detected sensor data.
US12085539B1
A gas diaphragm driven rapid supercharging device based on a diamond anvil cell is provided which includes a gas diaphragm, a diamond anvil cell press, a hard steel shell and a gas release component. The gas diaphragm and the diamond anvil cell press are positioned inside the hard steel shell, the gas diaphragm is positioned below the diamond anvil cell press, a first opening is formed in a top of the hard steel shell, and a second opening is formed in a bottom of the hard steel shell. The gas release component passes through the second opening of the hard steel shell to be connected with the gas diaphragm through a gas path, and the gas release component is configured for releasing gas at a first inflation speed in a standard pressure experiment, and inflating the gas diaphragm at different driving pressures to obtain a pressure calibration curve.
US12085538B2
An ultrasonic phased array detection device sequentially performing flaw detection testing on a welded joint of tubes arranged in a row. The ultrasonic phased array detection device includes: a flaw detection testing unit inserted into a target tube targeted for flaw detection testing among the tubes, and performing flaw detection testing on the welded joint of the target tube; a drive mechanism rotating the flaw detection testing unit around an axis of the target tube; and a jig to be inserted and fixed in a tube different from the target tube. The flaw detection testing unit has a flaw detection part incorporating a phased array probe performing ultrasonic phased array method, and has a pressing mechanism pressing the flaw detection part against an inner surface of the target tube.
US12085537B2
The present invention relates in a first aspect to an energy efficient simplified analogue phased array transducer for ultrasound beam steering, in a second aspect to a product, such as a small wearable ultrasound device for signalling changes in a human or animal body, such as a liquid volume in a body cavity of a human or an animal, in a third aspect to a use of said device, and in a fourth aspect to a method of operating an ultrasound device.
US12085533B2
Methods for nanopore-based protein analysis are provided. The methods address the characterization of a target protein analyte, which has a dimension greater than an internal diameter of the nanopore tunnel, and which is also physically associated with a polymer. The methods further comprise applying an electrical potential to the nanopore system to cause the polymer to interact with the nanopore tunnel. The ion current through the nanopore is measured to provide a current pattern reflective of the structure of the portion of the polymer interacting with the nanopore tunnel. This is used as a metric for characterizing the associated protein that does not pass through the nanopore.
US12085530B2
An electromechanical system for detecting cancerous state of a single cell. The electromechanical system includes an aspirating mechanism, an electrical measurement mechanism, and a processing mechanism. The aspirating mechanism is configured to extract a single cell from a suspension of a plurality of suspended biological cells, hold the extracted single cell, and apply a mechanical aspiration to the held single cell by applying a suction force to the held single cell. The electrical measurement mechanism is configured to apply a set of electrical signals to the single cell before and after applying the mechanical aspiration and measure two sets of electrical responses from the held single cell corresponding to the applied set of electrical signals before and after applying the mechanical aspiration The processing mechanism, including a data processor, configured to detect cancerous state of the single cell based on a difference between the two sets of electrical responses.
US12085529B2
Provided is a glycated protein sensor provided with: immobilized protease; immobilized ketoamine oxidase; and a hydrogen peroxide detection section.
US12085526B2
A sensor device and an electronic assembly are disclosed. In an embodiment a sensor device includes a first pellistor element, a second pellistor element, a heater element, a first temperature sensor element and a second temperature sensor element, wherein the heater element and the first temperature sensor element are part of the first pellistor element and the heater element and the second temperature sensor element are part of the second pellistor element.
US12085521B2
A method for evaluating a sample that includes an array of structural elements. The method includes obtaining a first small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) pattern for a first angular relationship between the sample and an x-ray beam that exhibits a first collimation value and has a given cross-sectional area on a first side of the sample. A second SAXS pattern is obtained for a second angular relationship between the sample and the x-ray beam, while the x-ray beam exhibits a second collimation value that differs from the first collimation value while maintaining the given cross-sectional area of the x-ray beam on the first side of the sample, wherein the second angular relationship differs from the first angular relationship.
US12085519B2
A looseness detection structure includes: a structure (transducer) T which is formed on a surface of a cable; a screw which tightens and fixes the cable in contact with the structure T; and a terminal (detection unit) which transmits a transmission signal to the structure T, receives a reception signal returning after propagating through the structure T, and detects the loosening of the screw based on a change in the reception signal.
US12085512B2
A processing method includes obtaining a processing image of a apparatus and performing a second processing on the processing image to generate a target image to analyze the target image according to a target defect detection method to realize defect detection of the apparatus. The processing image is obtained by performing a first processing on an initial image of the apparatus. The first processing includes performing scale processing on the initial image according to defect parameters corresponding to the initial image.
US12085510B2
A device for analysing a wavefront may be connected to a fluorescence microscopy imaging system with optical sectioning, equipped with a microscope objective including a pupil in a pupil plane, the analysis device including a two-dimensional detector including a detection plane; a two-dimensional arrangement of microlenses, arranged in an analysis plane, each microlens forming, on the detection plane, when the analysis device is connected to the microscopic imaging system, an image of an object situated in a focal plane of the microscope objective, with a given analysis field; an optical relay system optically conjugating the analysis plane and the pupil plane; a field diaphragm positioned in a plane optically conjugated with the plane of detection, and defining said analysis field; a processing unit that determines, based on the set of images formed by the microlenses, a two-dimensional map of a characteristic parameter of the wavefront in said analysis plane.
US12085508B2
Provided are a synchronous fluorescence detector for observing the interface concentration of fluorescent pollutants and application method. The detector comprises a first electric displacement platform, a quartz cuvette, an excitation light path, a collection light path and a second electric displacement platform. The application method comprises the following steps: first exciting fluorescent pollutants by utilizing UV light with specific wavelengths to emit fluorescent light; then collecting fluorescence signals emitted by the excited fluorescent pollutants to the greatest extent by utilizing an UV anti-reflection convex lens combination; and finally, processing the fluorescent signals acquired by a photomultiplier by utilizing a difference method to determine a precise light intensity of a thin layer which is moved at a specific spacing by utilizing the electric displacement platforms so as to determine fugacity distribution of the fluorescent pollutants in the microlayer near an interface.
US12085496B2
The present invention relates to particle measuring apparatus and a particle measuring method, whereby particle counts per size range can be measured with a high accuracy using a laser power scanning in which lasers of several powers are sequentially irradiated. First, minimum powered lasers capable of measuring particles having more than relevant size are irradiated to a particle measurement space for a predetermined time in response to plural counts of each mutually different particle size, and the counts of particles per size are measured by detecting a scattered light. Furthermore, the counts of particles belonging to each size range can be accurately calculated through an algorithm using the actually measured value.
US12085484B2
A vibration-centrifugation composite test apparatus and a control method thereof, the apparatus comprises: a centrifuge, an air-cooled electric vibration table and a control electrical cabinet the air-cooled electric vibration table comprises a vibration table main machine and a fan; a central axis of the moving coil in the vibration table main machine is on the same straight line as a horizontal center line of the rotation arm in the centrifuge; the fan is a horizontal fan and disposed above the center of the rotation arm, and a fan cover cabinet is mounted outside the horizontal fan; the control electrical cabinet is mounted above the fan cover cabinet, a power supply line of the control electrical cabinet is connected to a power supply through the conductive slip ring, and a vibration feedback signal line of the vibration table main machine is directly connected to the control electrical cabinet.
US12085483B2
A method of leak detection for oil and gas pipeline based on excitation response and system thereof includes: applying an active excitation signal (a pressure pulse directly input by human) or a passive excitation signal (a pressure fluctuation caused by opening and closing valves, etc.) to an oil and gas pipeline with existing leakage points, the excitation signal is reflected at the pipeline boundary and the leakage, and the reflected pressure wave continues to propagate to upstream and downstream, and finally is collected by the dynamic pressure transducer, then the existing leakage of the pipeline is detected and positioned by analyzing the transient response signal and the reflected pressure wave of leakage signal.
US12085479B2
The disclosure relates to a leak detector (1), a probe head (10) for a leak detector, a method (100) of leak detection using the leak detector and use of the leak detector. The probe head (10) comprises a clamp (14), which forms a chamber (16) in closed position (22). The probe head comprises activation means (18) for shifting the clamp between an open position (20) and the closed position (22) by interaction with a pipe section (2). The leak detector (1) comprises a common conduit (60) configured for detecting purpose and for purging the sample area.
US12085475B2
A method and apparatus for determining a line angle and a line angle rotation of a grating or line feature is disclosed. An aspect of the present disclosure involves, measuring coordinate points of a first line feature using a measurement tool, determining a first slope of the first line feature from the coordinate points, and determining a first line angle from the slope of the first line feature. This process can be repeated to find a second slope of a second line feature that is adjacent to the first line feature. The slope of the first and second line features can be compared to find a line angle rotation. The line angle rotation is compared to a design specification and a stitch quality is determined.
US12085461B2
The present disclosure concerns a pressure sensor, comprising at least two adjacent electrically conductive leads disposed in a pattern on a face of a first elastomeric carrier; and an electrically resistive layer formed of a electrically resistive composite material for shunting the at least two adjacent electrically conductive leads, said electrically conducting layer disposed on a face of a second elastomeric carrier. The first and second carriers are stacked across a spacer such that the at least two adjacent electrically conductive leads faces the electrically resistive layer across a gap defined by the spacer. The gap is formed by a pocket between the carriers. The first carrier including the at least two adjacent electrically conductive leads and/or the second carrier including the electrically resistive layer are stretchable such as to upon receiving a force, exerted in a direction across the gap, reduce the gap between the electrically resistive layer and the at least two adjacent electrically conductive leads. Upon closing the gap the adjacent electrically conductive leads are shunted over a force dependent contact area and contact resistance. A gas in a gas confining structure between the carriers at least partly counteracts the exerted force.
US12085451B2
An infrared thermopile sensor includes a silicon cover having an infrared lens, an infrared sensing chip having duo-thermopile sensing elements, and a microcontroller chip calculating a temperature of an object. The components are in a stacked 3D package to decrease the size of the infrared thermopile sensor. The infrared sensing chip and the microcontroller chip have metal layers to shield the thermal radiation. To measure object temperature accurately under acute change in environmental temperature, this disclosure uses the duo-thermopile sensing elements, that one is the active unit for measuring the object temperature and another one is the dummy unit for compensating the effect from the package structure.
US12085426B2
A ramp assembly is provided comprising a ramp that is pivotally movable between a fold-in position and a fold-out position through a neutral position, a drive shaft spaced from an axis of pivot of the ramp in a direction perpendicular to the axis, a drive element transmitting rotational force from the drive shaft to the ramp such that rotation of the drive shaft causes movement of the ramp between the fold-in and fold-out positions, and a spring generating a biasing force by being rotationally tensioned, the spring biasing the drive shaft such that the ramp is biased toward the neutral position when the ramp is in the fold-out position and biased toward the neutral position when the ramp is in the fold-in position. A vehicle incorporating such ramp assembly is also contemplated.
US12085413B2
A measurement apparatus for mounting within an enclosure of a machine is described. The apparatus includes a measurement device and a protection means for protecting the measurement device from contaminants present within the machine enclosure. The protection means is switchable between at least a first mode that protects the measurement device from contaminants and a second mode that provides less protection of the measurement device from contaminants than the first mode. A contaminant sensor is used for sensing contamination within the machine enclosure and thereby determining when the protection means can adopt the second mode. A corresponding method is also described.
US12085407B2
A 3D map comprising sensor data items depicting the environment is updated, each sensor data item having one or more associated variables such as a pose of a capture device or a position of a landmark. A graph is calculated from sensor data items. The graph comprises nodes and edges, a node representing at least one variable in the received sensor data items and an edge representing relationships between variables. The graph is partitioned into a plurality of subgraphs so as to reduce a number of variables that are shared between subgraphs. Each of the plurality of subgraphs is allocated to a respective worker node. At each worker node, updated values of the variables are computed. The process updates values of variables which are shared between subgraphs to a common value using a consensus process. The 3D map of the environment is updated according to the updated values of the variables.
US12085388B1
A moving device includes a first camera, a second camera, and a controller. The first and second cameras capture first and second images at a first time and includes first and second object images of an object, respectively. The controller: receives the first and second images from the first and second cameras; retrieves the first and second object images in the first and second images, respectively; determines first and second object image sizes of the object in the first and second object images, respectively; calculates an object distance between the first camera and the object using the camera distance between the first and second camera and the first and second object image sizes; determines whether the object distance satisfies criteria of a detection policy; and (f) if so, apply an action associated with the detection policy.
US12085384B2
Disclosed is a system and method for evaluating a status of a refractory material in metallurgical vessels, including furnaces and ladles, wherein a slag buildup is formed on the surface of such material as a result of scrap accumulation and chemical reactions occurring during the melting of metals in such vessels. The system and method are operative to determine both a rate of degradation of the material under evaluation, including the thickness of such material, and a measure of the slag buildup to predict and extend the operational life and improve the maintenance plan of the vessel. The system is capable of determining the thickness of and the slag buildup on the entire material under evaluation by sampling a number of regions of such material with different types of sensors, characterizing the surface profile of such material, and using appropriate signal processing techniques and artificial intelligence algorithms.
US12085382B2
A rotary position encoder includes a detection unit and a scale co-configured and co-operative to detect a relative rotational position and to generate a position output accordingly. The scale has a scale pattern according to a linear-feedback shift register (LFSR) pseudo-random code, which is a non-maximal length code having a seed value, tap positions, and modified least-significant bit position(s) of code words that satisfy rotary constraint by which each code word follows in sequence from the adjacent code word.
US12085381B2
The invention relates to a calibration tool and a method for calibrating a laser-triangulation measuring system, wherein the calibration tool comprises a tool body that defines a reference plane and that is rotatable relative to the measuring system about a rotation axis perpendicular to said reference plane, wherein the tool body is provided with one or more calibration surfaces that define a pattern of calibration positions, wherein the pattern comprises at least three columns extending in a radial direction away from the rotation axis and at least three rows extending in a circumferential direction about the rotation axis, wherein for each column the calibration positions within said respective column vary in height relative to the reference plane in a height direction perpendicular to said reference plane and wherein for each row the calibration positions within the respective row vary in height in the height direction relative to the reference plane.
US12085380B2
A method measures an object using a CMM having a CMM accuracy. To that end, the method provides a jogbox with a 3D scanner having a scanner accuracy, positions the object on the CMM, and scans, using the 3D scanner, the object to produce scan data of the object. The method also measures a first portion of the object using the scan data, and a second portion of the object using the CMM. The CMM accuracy is more accurate than the scanner accuracy.
US12085377B2
A method (200) for determining a position and an orientation of a portion of a handheld personal care device relative to a user's body (50), comprising: providing (210) a handheld personal care device comprising at least one energy source (20) and at least one detector (22), both the at least one energy source and the at least one detector located within the handheld personal care device, the at least one energy source arranged at a first position and having a first orientation within the handheld personal care device; emitting (220) energy in a three dimensional space surrounding the handheld personal care device; detecting (230) a portion of the energy emitted; generating (240) sensor data; extracting (250) one or more features from the generated sensor data; and estimating (260) a position and an orientation of a portion of the handheld personal care device relative to the user's body based on the extracted one or more features.
US12085374B2
An ammunition container can include a bottom wall, a first side wall and an opposing second side wall, and a front wall and an opposing rear wall. An interior volume can be formed from the five walls. A top lid can be removably engaged to one of the first side wall, the second side wall, the front wall, and the rear wall, opposite the bottom wall. The lid encloses the interior volume. A first interlocking stacking element can have a first raised protrusion forming a first shape and disposed on the top lid or the bottom wall. A second interlocking stacking element of second raised protrusions forming a second shape on the opposite wall. It can be sized or shaped to interlock with the first interlocking stacking element. The first and second interlocking elements can prevent movement along at least one axis or two axes (i.e. sliding or disengagement).
US12085368B2
A laser irradiation apparatus that efficiently carries out processes such as target detection. The laser irradiation apparatus (1) is provided with a laser array (10), a detector (20) and a controller (30). The laser array is provided with a plurality of laser oscillators including a first laser oscillator (11) that irradiates first detection laser light and a second laser oscillator (11) that irradiates second dealing laser light. The detector obtains detection information based on reflected light (503) that is the first detection laser light reflected by a target (2). The controller estimates a position of the target based on the detection information and generates a second dealing signal that instructs to irradiate the second dealing laser light to the estimated position of the target. The second laser oscillator irradiates dealing laser light to the estimated position of the target based on the second dealing signal.
US12085362B2
The disclosure relates to a viewing optic. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a display system for a viewing optic. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a viewing optic having a display system with multiple active displays for generating images that are projected into a first focal plane of an optical system. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a viewing optic with an active display and a round counter system.
US12085361B2
A dual focal plane optical sighting device, such as a riflescope, having two focal planes, with a first reticle at the first focal plane, and a second reticle at the second focal plane. The reticle at the first focal plane is a glass etched reticle; the reticle at the second focal plane is a wire reticle. The two reticles have different patterns or markings providing the appearance of a single reticle or complementary markings when viewed through the optical sighting device.
US12085357B2
An anti-rotation thumb rest providing advantages that allow for non-destructive and unobtrusive installation on firearms that would otherwise not be able to accommodate a thumb rests. The thumb rest may be constructed by attaching or manufacturing a long cylindrical pin onto the back side of a thumb rest, as to serve as a trigger pin, locking block pin, or other pin used for securing pistol components internally together, while also providing a typically rectangular, square, circular, or irregular shaped protrusion that serves as an anti-rotation stop for installation in a typically unused recess in the firearm's receiver, that was not expressly designed for installing components.
US12085356B2
An archery release can include a release body, one or more calipers or jaws defining a bowstring notch, the jaws pivotally joined with a release body, and a trigger moveable between a hold mode to hold a bowstring and a release mode to release the bowstring. The release can include first and second magnets that exert a magnetic repelling force on one another, thereby causing the trigger to automatically reset to the hold mode, whereby the calipers or jaws reset to a closed position, optionally without the aid of any mechanical spring or other biasing element. The first and second magnets can be offset from one another to urge the trigger to move laterally relative to a longitudinal axis of the release, and thereby open the jaws or calipers. A related method of use is provided.
US12085351B2
A locking firearm silencer mount or firearm muzzle accessory mount improvement system and method. The coupling device provides an internal thread and sealing taper, as well as an actively sprung locking collar with one or more locking positions. The muzzle device provides a thread and sealing taper operatively associated to the mount socket. The threads on the mount and muzzle accessory effectuate mating between the locking mount and the firearm muzzle accessory in a single axial orientation.
US12085347B2
A tube sheet for a thermal transfer device can include a body having a plurality of apertures that traverse therethrough, where the plurality of apertures are configured to receive a plurality of tubes of the thermal transfer device. The tube sheet can also include an outer perimeter defining the body, where the outer perimeter has at least one first recess feature disposed therein. The at least one first recess feature can have a first shape and a first size, where the first shape is any shape aside from a semi-circle.
US12085343B2
A profile for a header of a cooler which also includes numerous parallel tubes. The parallel tubes have a cross-sectional shape between slots for the tubes which further include at least two wave troughs Further, the header is also included having such a profile. A cooler may also be provided, wherein the cooler has such a header.
US12085342B2
A magnetic field device of a molten metal driving device includes iron cores, yokes coupling the iron cores, coils wound around the iron cores so as to sandwich the yoke, coils wound around the iron cores so as to sandwich the yoke, and coils wound around the iron cores so as to sandwich the yoke, the coils being wound so as to generate a magnetic field toward the yoke when a first-phase current flows, the coils being wound so as to generate a magnetic field toward the yoke when a second-phase current flows, the coils being wound so as to generate a magnetic field toward the yoke when a third-phase current flows.
US12085339B2
An apparatus for calcining a secondary battery cathode material includes: a calcination furnace including an inner space that includes a temperature rising space, a temperature maintaining space, and a cooling space, which sequentially communicate; a plurality of rollers for transferring a sagger, in which a cathode material is accommodated, from the temperature rising space to the cooling space via the temperature maintaining space; a plurality of heaters arranged along the inner space; a plurality of gas feeding parts for feeding gas to the inner space; and a plurality of exhaust parts for exhausting gas from the inner space, wherein the cross-sectional area of the temperature maintaining space is smaller than the cross-sectional area of the temperature rising space and the cross-sectional area of the cooling space.
US12085337B2
Devices, systems, and methods used to freeze dry a substance are disclosed. The devices and systems include a freeze dryer including a freeze-drying chamber, heating members, a refrigeration system, a vacuum pump, and a plurality of sensors disposed within the freeze-drying chamber. The freeze-drying methods include four main phases of freeze drying a substance: Phase 1—Freezing; Phase 2—Vacuum Freezing; Phase 3—Sublimation; Phase 3A—Sublimation Verification and Phase 4—Final Drying. Phase 3 can include cycling the heating members on and off between upper and lower humidity thresholds to increase the temperature of the freeze-drying chamber.
US12085326B2
A refrigerator according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a main body; a first storage chamber and a second storage chamber provided in the main body so that the front surfaces thereof are opened; an evaporator which is disposed inside the main body and which generates cold air; a first duct for supplying the cold air to the first storage chamber; a second duct for supplying the cold air to the second storage chamber; and a connecting duct for connecting the first duct and the second duct so as to allow the cold air generated by the evaporator to flow to the second duct, wherein the second duct includes a connecting port connected to the connecting duct, a discharge port through which the cold air is discharged, a discharge path for connecting the connecting port and the discharge port, and a connecting path for connecting the inside of the second storage chamber and the discharge path, the discharge path includes a minimum region in which the cross sectional area thereof in a vertical direction or a longitudinal direction is minimized, and the connecting path is provided to connect the inside of the second storage chamber and the minimum region.
US12085324B2
A system includes a pressure exchanger (PX) configured to receive a first fluid at a first pressure and a second fluid at a second pressure and exchange pressure between the first fluid and the second fluid. The system further includes a condenser configured to provide corresponding thermal energy from the first fluid to a corresponding environment. The system further includes a first ejector to receive a first gas and increase pressure of the first gas to form the second fluid at the second pressure. The first ejector is further to provide the second fluid at the second pressure to the PX.
US12085322B2
Method for optimizing the energy consumption of a refrigeration unit, comprising: a step A: activating a driving device (14) of the compressor (13) by modulating the operating voltage Vout of the compressor (13) to an optimized value designed to activate the compressor (13) at an optimized speed determined by a thermodynamic optimization algorithm; a step B: regulating the driving device (14) which drives the AC/DC converter (17) so that the bus voltage is equal to the greater between a first threshold and a second threshold; wherein the first threshold is equal to the product of √2 by the value of the supply voltage and the second threshold is equal to the product of √2 by the value of the driving voltage; a step C: modifying the speed of each fan in order to minimize the value of an overall electrical consumption.
US12085309B2
A tapered flexible conduit and a ventilation system incorporating the same. The conduit is arranged to extend between a register and a fan assembly, such as in a whole house fan (WHF) system. The conduit includes a flexible inner liner surrounded by a flexible outer liner. The flexible inner liner has a length of helically formed wire coupled to a flexible membrane. The flexible outer liner includes an insulative layer to provide acoustic baffling for an airflow established by the fan assembly passing through the conduit. The tapered conduit has a frusto-conical shape along an overall length of the conduit to sealingly engage differently sized inlet and exhaust ports of the register and the fan assembly, respectively. The collapsible nature of the respective inner and outer liners reduces bulk during shipment and accommodates a variety of different configurations during installation.
US12085303B2
The present disclosure relates to an outdoor unit of an air conditioner. The outdoor unit of the air conditioner according to the present disclosure includes: a cabinet including perimeter surfaces disposed vertically in four directions, respectively, and an upper surface disposed on an upper side thereof that is perpendicular to each of the perimeter surfaces, with suction ports and a discharge port, the suction ports being formed in two surfaces that are formed in a first direction and a second direction opposite to each other and one surface that is formed in a third direction perpendicular to the first direction and the second direction, respectively, among the perimeter surfaces, and the discharge port being formed in the upper surface; a heat exchanger disposed inside the cabinet where the suction ports are formed to exchange heat between air introduced into the cabinet and a refrigerant; an air blowing fan disposed inside the cabinet where the discharge port is formed to allow the air that is heat-exchanged by the heat exchanger to flow toward the discharge port; and an orifice disposed along an outer circumference of the air blowing fan, while being spaced apart from the air blowing fan, to form a flow path of the air flowing by the air blowing fan, wherein the orifice includes: a narrowing portion into which the air flowing inside the cabinet is introduced, with the flow path therein having a cross-sectional area that decreases in an air flow direction; a maintaining portion disposed downstream of the narrowing portion, with the flow path therein having a cross-sectional area that is maintained in the air flow direction; and an expanding portion disposed downstream of the maintaining portion, with the flow path therein having a cross-sectional area that increases in the air flow direction, and the maintaining portion has a height that decreases from a fourth direction opposite to the third direction toward the third direction along a circumferential surface of the orifice.
US12085293B2
A system comprises a liquid desiccant regeneration system, a first air contactor stage, and a second air contactor stage. The regeneration system has a first stage with a first concentration output and first diluted output, and a second stage with a second concentration output, different from the first concentration output, and a second diluted output. The first air contactor stage is coupled to the first concentrated output to form a first output air stream having a reduced water content and a first diluted air contactor output. The second air contactor stage is coupled to the second concentrated output to form a second output air stream having a reduced water content and a second diluted air contactor output. Both diluted air contactor outputs are recirculated into the regeneration system, and the output air streams are combined.
US12085289B2
A method for installing a universal air handler for a building air conditioning system includes installing a compact outdoor cabinet having a blower and separate intake and outlet chambers separated by an evaporator core. Cool and return air ducts from the building couple to each chamber. Return air drawn by the blower into the return air chamber passes across the evaporator, then through the blower and out through the cool air duct. Coolant lines couple the evaporator to a nearby stand-alone condenser/compressor unit. In one embodiment, an adapter enables stacking the condenser/compressor unit atop the cabinet to reduce the footprint of the combination. In another embodiment, a manifold couples permanently to the building air ducts and releasably couples to the cabinet. The universal air handler easily decouples from the manifold for transportation and maintenance. The manifold may be installed in various locations around the building, including on the roof.
US12085267B2
A luminaire includes an enclosure, an air valve, and a chamber. The enclosure includes a sealed cover and light beam emitting components. The air valve is air coupled between the enclosure and the chamber. The chamber includes a drying agent and has an opening with a membrane completely covering the opening. The membrane passes air while reducing the passage of water droplets in the air. The air valve blocks air passage between the enclosure and the chamber when closed. A method for testing to determine adequate sealing of an enclosure of a luminaire includes closing an air valve to seal the enclosure from outside air, activating a heat-generating component, determining whether an air pressure in the enclosure increases by more than a threshold value, and sending a signal indicating a result of the determination. The method includes deactivating the heat-generating component and opening the air valve.
US12085266B1
A lamp with algae-infused microbial fuel cell includes a housing having light emitting diode (LED) bulbs along a surface of the housing and microbial fuel cell inside the housing. The microbial fuel cell can include a cathode chamber having a cathode and algae, an anode chamber having an anode and electroactive bacteria, and a separator separating the cathode chamber and the anode chamber. In an embodiment, the LED bulbs are connected to the cathode.
US12085264B1
The present disclosure discloses a portable magnetic lighting fixture having a housing, a light source component configured for emitting light, accommodated within the housing, a supporting base configured for supporting the housing, and a magnetic adjustment component having a first magnetic member and a second magnetic member for magnetically coupling with the first magnetic member on the housing for controlling the angular adjustment of the housing. The coordination of the first and second magnetic members enables relative rotation as the housing and supporting base rotate. The magnetic force between the first and second magnetic members allows for stable adjustment to any angle without the need for toothed engagement. The absence of collisions during the relative movement of the first and second magnetic members reduces noise generated during rotation.
US12085260B2
A backlight module and a display device are provided. The backlight module includes a light source structure and at least one optical film. The optical film is disposed above the light source structure. The optical film includes a main body and plural optical structures. The optical structures are disposed on the main body. Each of the optical structures is a tapered structure. Each of the optical structures has plural side surfaces, and a portion of light emitted from the light source structure is guided toward plural primary directions when passing through the side surfaces of the optical structures, and therefore the light emitted from the light source is no longer concentrated on the top of each of the optical structures.
US12085259B2
An insert device for receiving an artistic medium thereon for use with a lampshade. The device may include an insert configured to be used in association with a lampshade. The insert may include a first side and a second side. A design may be located on the first side of the insert, where the insert with the design is configured to be drawn on using an artistic implement. The insert may be made from a translucent material that is capable of receiving and retaining an artistic medium thereon. The artistic medium can be erased or otherwise removed from the translucent material. The design on the insert may be used in association with a lampshade such that it is exposed for viewing in association with the lampshade when the insert is in a three-dimensional shape.
US12085256B2
A method for creating a curving recessed lighting system having a plurality of housing sections, an LED strip (or two), and a flexible diffuser. Each housing section includes a base portion having an opening, a first flange having a first width and extending outward from the base portion, and a second flange having a second width and extending outward from the base portion in a direction opposite and coplanar to the first flange. Further, when the housing sections are arranged sequentially, the first and second flanges form two curved surfaces and the base portions in consecutive housing sections align to form a curved channel between the two curved surfaces. Preferably, the base portion of each of the plurality of housing sections has a depth not greater than ⅝ inches (0.625 inches). This allows flush placement in standard drywall without the need for notching studs.
US12085252B2
The disclosure relates, inter alia, to a vehicle headlight (10), for example for a motor vehicle (1), wherein the vehicle headlight (10) comprises an illumination matrix (534) with a plurality of independently controllable illumination pixels for generating a (for example time-variant) illumination pattern, wherein the vehicle headlight (10) comprises an objective for imaging the illumination pattern, and wherein the objective comprises at least one objective lens.
US12085250B2
A lighting apparatus for vehicles which may provide a unique and beautiful image of an electrified vehicle and aesthetic sensibility, and a method of manufacturing the same, include a light source configured to emit light, a light guide plate configured to diffuse the light emitted by the light source, and a lens cover configured to transmit the light diffused by the light guide plate and to emit the light forwards of the light cover, and irregularities configured to form thickness differences of the lens cover depending on a position on the lens cover or a portion of the lens cover are formed on an internal surface of the lens cover configured so that light having passed through the light guide plate is incident thereupon.
US12085249B2
A vehicle lamp is configured in such a manner as to project light from light-emitting elements (22 and 42) of a first and a second lamp unit (20 and 40) forward through lenses (30 and 50) in the lamp and accordingly form a low-beam light distribution pattern having a Z-shaped cut-off line. In addition, a part of a plurality of lens elements formed on a front surface (30a, 50a) of each of the lenses (30 and 50) is formed as a specific lens element (30aA3, 50sB3) having a freeform surface shape. It is configured in such a manner as to form an inclined portion of the Z-shaped cut-off line with light emitted from the specific lens elements (30sA3 and 50sB3). Consequently, the degree of flexibility in forming the Z-shaped cut-off line is increased.
US12085244B1
A light string includes a housing, a light cap, and a light assembly. The light cap has a cap body, an upper tip at an upper end of the cap body, and a peripheral visibility ring extending outwardly from the cap body opposite the upper tip. The light cap is coupled to and extends from the housing such that the peripheral visibility ring seats adjacent to an end of the housing proximate the light aperture. The light assembly includes a light emitting source that is positioned such that when energized, light is emitted that is visible from outside the light cap. Moreover, the peripheral visibility ring reflects light in a direction different from the light emitted by the light emitting source such that the light emitted by the light emitting source is visible when an observer is looking at a side view of the cap body.
US12085243B2
Methods, systems and devices associated with an electronic candle are disclosed. One example includes an electronic candle includes an outer shell including a through-hole, a light-emitting assembly including a flame sheet configured to protrude through the through-hole, an inner shell positioned within the outer shell, and a self-locking device positioned within a cavity of the inner shell. The self-locking device is configured to operate in (1) a locked state when a switch locks a spring in a compressed state and (2) an unlocked state when the switch releases the spring to be in a relaxed state. The electronic candle also includes a bottom case such that the bottom case is enclosed within the outer shell when the self-locking device is in the locked state and the bottom case is exposed to an external environment beneath the outer shell when the self-locking device is in the unlocked state.
US12085236B2
Techniques for determining a thermal condition of a pipeline include identifying a pipeline that carries a first fluid at a first temperature that includes a tubular conduit that includes a bore that carries the first fluid, and a layer of insulation installed over the tubular conduit; circulating a second fluid at a second temperature from a bypass conduit that is fluidly coupled to the tubular conduit through the layer of insulation into the bore; based on circulating the second fluid into the bore, detecting a thermal gradient between the first fluid carried in the bore and the tubular conduit or the layer of insulation at a particular location of the pipeline; and based on the detected thermal gradient, determining a presence of at least one of water or water vapor between the tubular conduit and the layer of insulation at the particular location of the pipeline.
US12085228B2
A tank includes a liner including an inner shell; and a reinforcing layer covering an outer surface of the liner; wherein the reinforcing layer is formed by continuously winding resin-impregnated fiber bundles around the liner, the reinforcing layer includes a hoop layer placed in a side of the liner, and a helical layer, gaps are formed between adjacent bundles of the resin-impregnated fiber bundles wound in the hoop layer, there is at least one site where the resin-impregnated fiber bundles are wound without forming a gap between adjacent bundles in the helical layer, and resin in the resin-impregnated fiber bundles has a resin toughness value of not less than 1.0 MPa·m0.5.
US12085225B2
Systems, methods, and devices are disclosed for holding devices for securing a surgical robotic device and a patient anatomy positioner to a support (e.g., in an operating room). A holding device comprises a carriage, an anchor component fixed to the carriage for attaching to the support, a patient stabilization connector extending from the anchor component for attaching to the patient positioner, and an elongate holder slidably mounted on the carriage for attaching to the robotic device, wherein, when the anchor component is attached to the support, the carriage and the patient stabilization connector are immobilized. The holding devices may also include a hydraulic cylinder interposed between the elongate holder and carriage and/or a horizontal linkage interposed between the elongate holder and the robotic device.
US12085217B2
A holder secured to a vertical column by a cross support holds an object in a fixed position. The holder includes a tube that can be secured to the cross support. A movable clip at a first end of the tube is configured to hold the object, e.g., a probe held in a calibration bath. The movable clip includes an aperture. When the movable clip is in an extended position, an object can be inserted into the aperture. When the movable clip moves toward a retracted position, the object is held within the aperture. A cap at the second end of the tube is coupled to the movable clip by a spring inside the tube. The movable clip exerts an adjustable holding force on the object by adjusting a number of turns of the spring between the cap and the movable clip. A central holding device may support multiple holders.
US12085211B2
The present invention relates to a coupling assembly for branching a pipe, and more specifically to a coupling assembly for branching a pipe, which can reduce assembly man-hours, has a simplified configuration, thus enabling a reduction in construction costs, and can effectively prevent the leakage of branched fluid even when the diameter of a branch hole formed in an inlet pipe is increased in order to increase a flow rate inside a branch pipe for supplying fluid to a sprinkler.
US12085203B2
The invention relates to a side plate (10; 30A, 30B) for an energy chain, comprising a single-piece plate body that is made of plastic and has two overlapping regions (11A, 11B; 31A . . . 31D), each for pivotable connection to a corresponding overlapping region of an adjoining plate, the plate body also having a center region (12; 32A, 32B) between the overlapping regions. The overlapping regions and the center region have a number of cross-section transitions, each of which is located between two outer partial surfaces and at least one of which is rounded or broken (Q1 . . . Q5) between a first partial surface (F11, F21, F31) of the plate body and a second partial surface (F12, F22, F32) extending at an angle, particularly an angle of 90°, to the first partial surface.
US12085201B2
The invention relates to a pipe connection (10, 52, 66) with a first pipe part (12) and a second pipe part (14), with at least one multi-part sealing ring (24; 44, 46) or at least one single-part sealing ring (68) which is surrounded by a clamping device (16). The pipe parts (12, 14) each comprise a first obliquely or vertically extending end face (20, 72) or a second obliquely or vertically extending end face (22, 74). These are overlapped by a clamping device (16). This applies an outwardly acting radial force (34) to the at least one single-part sealing ring (68) or the at least one multi-part sealing ring (24; 44, 46). These are secured in their respective sealing position by means of an enclosing geometric triangle, by means of an enclosing geometric non-rectangular quadrilateral (104) or by means of an enclosing geometric rectangular quadrilateral (106).
US12085200B2
A clamp has a structure including a band portion wrapping a circular member, such as a hose, a washer portion, a nut portion, and a connection portion and support portions that prevent the band portion from being deformed when a bolt is tightened, these portions being integrally formed with each other into a single portion. Therefore, reduction in the separate portions causes cost reduction, weight reduction, and reduction in risk of loss of the separate portions, and the performance problem in that the clamp rotates when the tightening work is performed by rotation of the bolt is improved.
US12085199B2
A sealing gasket is shown which is used to seal the belled end opening of a female ductile iron pipe to a mating male pipe having an interior surface and an exterior surface. The sealing gasket has an annular gasket body made of a resilient elastomeric material which is bonded to a hard plastic reinforcing band. The annular gasket body is installed within a raceway provided in the mouth region of the female ductile iron pipe so that an outer circumferential region forms a seal with the female pipe mouth region and an inner circumferential region forms a sealing surface for the exterior surface of the mating male pipe. The reinforcing band has a circumferential body which is made of a synthetic polymer which has a greater hardness than the elastomeric material of the remainder of the gasket body.
US12085197B2
Provided is a hydrogen-filling hose including an inner layer, a reinforcing layer, and an outer layer, the hydrogen-filling hose being characterized in that the inner layer includes a thermoplastic resin composition including a matrix that includes a polyamide resin and a domain that includes a modified styrene elastomer, the modified styrene elastomer content of the thermoplastic resin composition is 5-50 mass % of all polymer components in the thermoplastic resin composition, the reinforcing layer includes at least one layer that includes steel wire, and the outer layer includes a thermoplastic elastomer.
US12085196B2
A flexible pipe includes one or more outer layers, a primary liner disposed internal to the one or more outer layers, and a removable liner disposed internal to the primary liner. Additionally, a flexible piping system includes the flexible pipe with a first end and a second end. Further, an annulus is disposed between the primary liner and the removable liner. Furthermore, a pressure port is provided and extends from the annulus to an outer surface of the flexible piping system. An end fitting is disposed at the first end of the flexible pipe.
US12085194B2
The present invention relates to a utility support framing system for structurally suspended concrete slab over void form foundation systems. The inventive utility support framing system avoids problems created by expansive soils which damage utility lines under foundation systems. The inventive utility support framing system permits suspending utility pipes within an interior space of the foundation system while avoiding the problems of the prior art.
US12085188B2
A handle lockout device can be placed around a handle of a valve to prevent operation of the handle by rotation of the handle about a stem. The handle lockout device includes a housing and one or more adjustable slides. The housing has an internal cavity, in which the housing is bifurcated into two halves at a parting line with a stem opening positioned on the housing along the parting line. The two halves are movable relative to one another between an opened position in which the two halves are separated at the parting line to provide access to the internal cavity and a closed position in which the two halves are bought together at the parting line. The adjustable slide(s) are positioned adjacent to the stem opening, are slidable relative to the housing, and have an edge that can alter a size of the stem opening of the housing.
US12085185B2
Various examples relate to electrically actuated valves. Various examples relate to actuators to be used for valves, e.g., shape—memory alloy actuators or solenoid actuators (151) or piezoelectric actuators. Various examples relate to a modular concept in which a valve can be formed by attaching an actuator component (601) to a housing. Various examples relate to a further modular concept in which multiple valve blocks, each valve block including one or more valves, can be fluidly coupled with each other.
US12085182B2
An pressure regulating valve assembly for a pneumatic spray gun is disclosed. The pressure regulating vale component is configured inside the pressure regulating passage of the gun body, comprising a pressure regulating screw seat, a pressure regulating rod going through the pressure regulating screw seat and in threaded connection with the pressure regulating screw seat. A pressure regulating seal ring is configured between the pressure regulating rod and the pressure regulating screw seat. A clamping check ring is configured in the middle portion of the pressure regulating rod. The clamping check ring is used to limit the position of the pressure regulating rod. The inner end of the pressure regulating rod is provided with a pressure regulating valve. The position of the pressure regulating valve is limited by the split damping ring configured on the end portion of the pressure regulating rod.
US12085180B2
The invention suppresses hysteresis. A relief valve switching between whether to discharge oil through movement of a valve body includes: a first spacing part, in which the valve body moves; a second space part, connected with the first space part and having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the first space part; an elastic body, connected with the valve body; a seal part, disposed in a circumferential direction of the valve body; and a third space part, formed in the first space part.
US12085173B2
The present invention relates to the field of push rods, in particular to a waterproof and dustproof electric push rod, where a waterproof and dustproof module includes a single-lip oil seal, a first anti-swing ring, a piston oil seal and a second anti-swing ring, which are arranged in sequence in a retraction direction of an inner tube. When the inner tube retracts, since inner rings of the single-lip oil seal, the first anti-swing ring, the piston oil seal and the second anti-swing ring are tightly attached to an outer sidewall of the inner tube, the single-lip oil seal plays a role in scraping off dirt (dust, silts, etc.) on the surface of the inner tube, and the internal piston oil seal can be waterproof and dustproof.
US12085168B2
A locking arrangement for an electric vehicle, that includes a locking unit, an electric motor, and an axle which is driveable by the electric motor. The locking unit can have a piston and serve for locking the movement of the piston which can be acted on with pressure of a fluid. The locking unit has an electromagnet and at least one detent element, and the detent element interacts with the armature or the armature rod of the electromagnet, and the piston has at least one detent receptacle, and the piston can be secured by the retaining interaction of the detent element with the detent receptacle. The piston can be adjustable between a retracted position and an extended position. The piston can act in at least one of the two positions on the axle in such a manner that the rotation of the axle is mechanically blocked.
US12085161B2
A weldment includes a first component, a second component, and a weld joint coupling the first and second components together. The weld joint forms a heat affected zone in the first component and creates residual tensile stress in the first component. The first and second components cooperate to define a pocket configured to position a highest magnitude of the residual tensile stress in the first component in a location that is outside of the heat affected zone of the first component.
US12085153B2
The present invention provides a spinal plate which is used to perform fixation surgery on a spine in orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery. According to the present invention, a rotation device and a locking device may be installed so as to be used by fixing any one or more of longitudinal ends of the plate with being rotated at any angle, thereby allowing a doctor to modify a shape of the spinal plate to the shape desired by the doctor, and to perform the surgery by coping with various spin shapes of patients. In addition, according to the present invention, since the shape of the spinal plate may be rotated at any angle, it is possible to cope with various spin shapes of the patients.
US12085150B2
A toroidal continuously variable transmission including a power roller; a support supporting the power roller rotatably; a thrust bearing receiving a load of the power roller in a direction along a rotating axis; and an oil passage supplying lubricating oil to the thrust bearing. A surface of the power roller opposing the support includes a first bearing grooved and the support opposing the power roller includes a second bearing groove. A virtual axis of a discharge port in the oil passage reaches a bearing groove that is one of the first bearing groove and the second bearing groove. Viewed from a direction perpendicular to the rotation axis, a portion of a retainer located at a radially inner side of a retaining hole of the retainer and a portion located at a radially inner side of the bearing groove are located at sides opposite to each other across the virtual axis.
US12085149B2
In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, a fastener is provided for securing to an end of a conveyor belt having cables. The fastener comprises a crimp configured to be fixed to a conveyor belt cable and a connector. The connector has a unitary, one-piece fastener body with an upper portion for being disposed adjacent an upper surface of the conveyor belt end and a lower portion for being disposed adjacent a lower surface of the conveyor belt end. The upper and lower portions are spaced apart to receive the crimp therebetween and permit the conveyor belt cable to extend in an outboard direction between the upper and lower portions. The connector includes a stop arranged to block inboard movement of the crimp and the conveyor belt cable fixed thereto.
US12085134B2
A brake disc (1) including at least one friction ring (2) and a brake hub (3) connected to the friction ring (2) for conjoint rotation. A side wall section (17) of the brake hub (3) has a plurality of radially oriented deformations (5). A contact surface (7) extending in the radial direction is formed by these deformations (5), and a rotationally fixed connection (8) is established by the contact surface (7) between the friction ring (2) and the brake hub (3). A ratio Da/Di formed from the outer diameter Da of a side wall section (17) of the brake hub (3) and an inner diameter Di of the friction ring (2) is at most 1.01.
US12085119B2
A directional drill and associated methods are disclosed. In one example, the directional drill includes two accessory connection sockets spaced apart on a rear end of the drill frame. In selected examples, the accessory connection sockets including a tool-less connection mechanism for optional securing of an accessory.
US12085118B2
A fixture includes two mounted portions and an interposing portion. At least the one mounted portion includes a strut portion, a check portion, and an abutment portion. The strut portion is insertable into a mounting hole provided in a mounting target. The check portion is caught on the mounting target on an outlet side of the mounting hole. The abutment portion abuts on the mounting target on an inlet side of the mounting hole. When any one of the mounting target or the fixture vibrates, the check portion and the abutment portion deform to suppress a vibration in a direction parallel to an insertion direction. When any one of the mounting target or the fixture vibrates, the interposing portion deforms to suppress a vibration in a direction parallel to a plane orthogonal to the insertion direction.
US12085116B2
A threaded fastener pair, including: a first threaded fastener with a male threaded portion; and a second threaded fastener with a female threaded portion, the female portion being configured to receive the male threaded portion, wherein the first threaded fastener is formed with a shank having an outer diameter approximately equal to an outer diameter of the second threaded portion, the second threaded fastener has a length equal to or greater than that of the first threaded fastener and the length of the first threaded fastener is at least 45 mm.
US12085114B2
The present invention extends to a carabiner intended for use as an adjustable anchor or a belay device. In general, implementations include a carabiner that includes a frame defining a hole and a gate. More specifically, implementations include a carabiner having a spine with an elongated slot portion having a first slot wall and a second slot wall that define a hole through the spine of the frame. Additionally, some implementations include a carabiner kit with a first carabiner having an elongated slot portion on the spine, a second carabiner, a pinching mechanism formed by linking the first and second carabiners together, and a rope that goes through the elongated slot portion, around the second carabiner, and back out the elongated slot portion of the first carabiner to enable the pinching mechanism to selectively pinch the rope for use as an adjustable anchor or a belay device.
US12085113B2
Wall anchors and assemblies of the present disclosure include a plate, one more prongs, and a load bearing structure. The prongs are typically integral with a side edge of the plate and are typically curved in an upward towards the top edge of the plate.
US12085108B2
An anchor for wallboard installation includes an elongated anchor body including a driving end and a wall boring end. The anchor body has a main body portion running from the driving end toward the wall boring end. The wall boring end includes a plurality of axially cutting extending teeth. The anchor body includes an internal bore and diametrically opposed slots to facilitate split of an end portion of the anchor body when the anchor is installed in a wall and a fastener is inserted for mounting an object.
US12085106B2
A universal hardware nut that may be adaptable for use with various mating fasteners (e.g., bolts and screws). In one embodiment, the universal hardware nut comprises a nut body, wherein the nut body is manufactured from a pliable material; and one or more slots, wherein the one or more slots allow the nut body to accept fasteners of different sizes and shapes. In alternate embodiments, the universal hardware nut may comprise a sized hole instead of the one or more slots, or may comprise a combination of a sized hole and one or more slots.
US12085103B2
A fastener is provided herein. The fastener includes, in one example, a block fixedly coupled to an interior spindle and mated with a slot in a threaded retaining spindle as well as a drive nut is threadingly engaged with the threaded retaining spindle and an unthreaded collet is coupled to the threaded retaining spindle. The fastener further includes a body that circumferentially surrounds the block and the threaded retaining spindle and the block, body, and threaded retaining spindle of the fastener are configured to axially translate in relation to one another and are substantially prevented from rotation in relation to one another, during different stages of fastener operation.
US12085101B2
A cylinder device for a hydraulic lifting device has a housing and a piston rod axially movable relative to the housing. A rotary element is mounted on the housing in such a way that a rotary movement of the rotary element relative to the housing is possible and an axial movement of the rotary element relative to the housing is prevented. The piston rod has a movement transmission element, wherein the movement transmission element translates an axial movement of the piston rod into a rotary movement of the rotary element. A sensor unit is attached to the housing, which detects the rotary movement of the rotary element. Furthermore, a hydraulic lifting device with such a cylinder device, a chassis of a mobile device with a lifting device and a mobile device with a chassis are provided.
US12085090B2
An air blower, including a volute, a centrifugal wind wheel, and a motor. The volute includes an end plate, a side plate extending from an edge of the end plate, and a cavity formed by the end plate and the side plate; the centrifugal wind wheel is disposed in the cavity; the end plate includes an air inlet, and two ends of the side plate are disposed side by side to form an air outlet; the end plate further includes a support beam opposite to the air inlet, and the motor is disposed on the support beam.
US12085085B2
To properly set a predetermined threshold for the number of times of occurrence of an abnormality for issuing an alarm. A vacuum pump system includes a storage, a pump controller, and a setter. The storage stores a first threshold for the number of times of occurrence of the abnormality for outputting the alarm. The pump controller counts the number of times of occurrence of the abnormality caused in a vacuum pump, determines whether or not the number of times of occurrence of the abnormality is the first threshold or more, and outputs the alarm in a case where the number of times of occurrence of the abnormality is the first threshold or more. The setter sets or changes the first threshold on the basis of an operation state of the vacuum pump.
US12085064B2
The present invention is inherent to an actuator subassembly (100) controlled by shape memory alloy wires (130, 130′), to a system comprising a plurality of such subassemblies and to a control method for such system, wherein the shape memory alloy wires (130, 130′) are in the so-called antagonistic configuration.
US12085051B2
The present invention belongs to the technical field of ocean energy utilization, and provides a test system for turbine comprehensive performance of a pneumatic wave energy converter. The test system for turbine comprehensive performance of the pneumatic wave energy converter comprises a wave surface simulation system, an airflow rectifier system, a turbine device, a tabletop support structure, an instrument support frame and a sensor analysis system. A programmable linear motor is used to drive a bellows to simulate the complex oscillating airflow of the pneumatic wave energy converter; a complete sensor and measurement system is configured for various performance indexes of a turbine system; and finally, an effective technical evaluation means for the power generation efficiency and comprehensive performance evaluation of the pneumatic wave energy converter is provided. The present invention has simple assembly and disassembly technologies and high flexibility.
US12085042B2
A position sensor for an aircraft nacelle thrust reverser door for an aircraft turbojet engine includes a target to be detected, a detector having a detection range and including a detection head configured to detect the target when it enters its detection range, and a target guide configured to guide the target in order to position it in the detection range of the detector. The detector is stationary relative to the target guide. In one form, the target is intended to be positioned on the door, and the detector and the target guide are intended to be positioned on a stationary structure of the thrust reverser. In another form, the target is intended to be positioned on a stationary structure of the thrust reverser, and the detector and the target guide are intended to be positioned on the door.
US12085038B2
An internal combustion engine includes: a cylinder including a thrust region and an anti-thrust region; and a plurality of concave portions formed in a belt-like central region including a central portion in the axial direction of the cylinder and extending along the circumferential direction on an inner wall surface. In the central region, the number of concave portions formed in a first partial region having a first predetermined width along the circumferential direction of the thrust region and the number of concave portions formed in a second partial region having a second predetermined width that is smaller than the first predetermined width along the circumferential direction of the anti-thrust region is smaller than the number of concave portions formed in other regions of the central region.
US12085036B2
An engine control apparatus includes a control system including one or more memories and one or more processors communicably coupled to one another, and controlling ignition timing of a spark plug. The one or more memories hold first and second ignition timing maps that provide setting of the ignition timing for each engine operation point. The one or more processors determine the number of injection stages of an injector. When the number of injection stages of the injector is the first number of injection stages, the one or more processors control the ignition timing of the spark plug based on the first ignition timing map. When the number of injection stages of the injector is the second number of injection stages greater than the first number of injection stages, the one or more processors control the ignition timing of the spark plug based on the second ignition timing map.
US12085032B2
A controller for an engine includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry executes an obtaining process that obtains a catalyst temperature, which is a temperature of a catalyst. The processing circuitry executes a setting process that sets a target air-fuel ratio that is a target value of an air-fuel ratio in the cylinder. The temperature of the catalyst at which an efficiency of nitrogen oxide reduction by the catalyst is the highest is referred to as a prescribed temperature. In the setting process, the processing circuitry sets the target air-fuel ratio to be higher when the catalyst temperature is a first value that is lower than the prescribed temperature, than when the catalyst temperature is a second value that is lower than or equal to the prescribed temperature and higher than the first value.
US12085029B2
A method of operating an aircraft that includes a propulsion system. The propulsion system includes a gas turbine engine and a fuel tank arranged to provide fuel to the gas turbine engine. The method includes: determining at least one fuel characteristic of the fuel arranged to be provided to the gas turbine engine; and controlling the propulsion system based on the at least one fuel characteristic.
US12085022B2
A fluid system of an aircraft engine includes a first and second fluid conduits. The first conduit fluid conduit fluidly connects to the aircraft engine. A pump fluidly connects to the first fluid conduit and moves therethrough a fluid imparting an excitation frequency to the fluid. The second fluid conduit fluidly connects to the first fluid conduit and to a pressure sensor. A weight is disposed in the second fluid conduit and movable between a first and second positions. A mass of the weight and a liquid capacitance of the second fluid conduit between the second position and a second end of the second fluid conduit define a resonance frequency that is less than the excitation frequency. Fluid pressure monitoring and pressure noise filter construction methods are also disclosed.
US12085020B1
An apparatus and process can be configured for filtering and cooling air to be fed to a gas turbine while also vaporizing at least a portion of fuel to be fed to the gas turbine. Intake air can be passed through a filter house for filtration. While passing through the filtration house, a liquid fuel can be passed through the filter house to be vaporized or partially vaporized therein via heat exchange with the air passing through the filter house, which can also cool the air as it is passing through the filter house. Filtered, cooled air can be output from the filter house for feeding to a gas turbine as an oxidant while the at least partially vaporized fuel can also be output from the filter house for feeding to the gas turbine for being combusted therein.
US12085014B2
A counter-rotating turbine for a turbine engine comprising an inner rotor having an inner drum to which is attached a plurality of inner impellers rotatably supported by a first shaft, an outer rotor comprising an outer drum to which is fastened a plurality of outer impellers rotatably supported by a second shaft coaxial with the first shaft, the outer rotor comprising a downstream impeller having a plurality of downstream moving blades extending between an outer shroud and an inner shroud, one upstream end of the outer shroud being attached downstream of said outer drum, the inner shroud being attached to the second shaft, at least one of the inner shroud and of the outer shroud comprising at least one flexible transition part configured to allow elastic deformation of said shroud in the radial direction.
US12085013B2
An internal combustion engine including a cylinder crankcase and a cylinder head with an integrated height-adjustable fan attachment for elastic V-ribbed belts. 2. An internal combustion engine including a crankcase (1), at least one device for driving a fan, in particular of a vehicle, in particular a commercial vehicle, is described. The internal combustion engine includes a fan bracket (3) and a bearing device (5) via which the fan is displaceably situated relative to the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine of the drive unit; and a belt drive via which the fan is drivable, including a first belt pulley and a second belt pulley which are in drive connection via a belt (8), the first belt pulley being situated on the bearing device (5).
US12085010B2
Provided is an electronic fuel injection type diesel engine capable of performing precise electronic fuel injection control. A fuel injector includes a main body portion having a large diameter, a nozzle portion having a small diameter, and a pressing surface formed at a step portion between the main body portion and the nozzle portion, in which the nozzle portion of the fuel injector is inserted from an inside of a sleeve into an inside of an insertion hole, the fuel injector is pressed toward a vortex chamber by a pressing force, and the pressing force applied to the fuel injector is received by a pressure receiving surface of the sleeve from the pressing surface of the fuel injector via the washer.
US12085000B2
The invention relates to a housing for a selective catalyst reactor for processing exhaust gas from a combustion engine of a combined heat and power system. The housing comprises an annular shaped plate structure forming an elongate accommodation wall defining an inner accommodation volume for containing a catalyst to be flown through by the exhaust gas. The annular shaped plate structure includes a set of plate elements having the same or similar geometry and dimensions.
US12084993B1
A thermal accumulator assembly (TAA) for a vehicle waste heat recovery system (WHRS) utilizing a two-phase coolant includes a hermetically sealed housing having a separator plate dividing an interior of the housing into a higher pressure first chamber and a lower pressure second chamber, and an expander generator disposed between the first and second chambers and including an expander operably coupled to a motor generator. The first chamber is configured as a reservoir for the two-phase coolant, and the expander is configured to receive a flow of vapor coolant from the first chamber to generate power via the motor generator.
US12084991B2
A plant for producing mechanical energy from a carrier fluid under cryogenic conditions, includes a cryogenic tank for storing the fluid under cryogenic conditions and a capacitive tank. The plant includes a supply circuit, connecting the cryogenic tank and the capacitive tank. A pump increases the pressure of the fluid, and a main heat exchanger, arranged downstream of the pump promotes a thermal exchange between a thermal source and the fluid to increase the temperature of the fluid and evaporate the fluid. The plant provides an engine body for producing mechanical energy and including a work chamber having an inlet port, arranged in fluid communication with the capacitive tank, and an outlet port connected to a discharge circuit for the spent fluid, and a recirculation circuit to convey a portion of the spent fluid into the capacitive tank.
US12084988B2
A blade for fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) flue hot gas expander with a layer of hard abrasive material localized on the blade tip that contributes to reducing the accumulation of FCC catalyst residuals in the expander.
US12084984B2
An alignment tool includes a mounting flange, a support leg fixedly coupled to the mounting flange and cooperating with the mounting flange to define a partial annular ring that extends in an arc between 190 degrees and 350 degrees, and a second quantity of jack bolt pairs movably coupled to the support leg, each jack bolt pair arranged to engage one of the first quantity of seal segments. A third quantity of mounting fasteners is positioned to fixedly attach the mounting flange to the inner casing.
US12084973B1
Disclosed is a blockage-proof water diversion and drainage device for highway tunnel construction. The device may include an inlet cleaning component, a diversion component connected to a bottom of the inlet cleaning component, a debris collection component connected to an end of the diversion component close to the inlet cleaning component, and a pre-storage component connected to a bottom of the diversion component. An outlet end of the pre-storage component may be connected to the debris collection component. An openable baffle component and a screen plate may be provided inside a main pipe of the diversion component which can transfer filtered sludge and other debris to the debris collection component, keeping the main pipe clean, maintaining the drainage speed of accumulated water, and reducing the frequency of manual cleaning. Additionally, the device can scrape and clean a surface of the screen plate to prevent blocked, thus extending device maintenance time.
US12084970B2
In preparation for directional drilling, a wedge supported distally ahead of a tubular drill string is advanced along a parent hole. The wedge is connected to the drill string by a rigid link that extends along a central longitudinal axis through an annular cutting head. The wedge may be connected to the drill string via an inner dropper mechanism that can be engaged by a wireline lifting system. After locking the wedge at a kick-off point in the hole at a desired azimuth, the connection of the link is broken. The dropper mechanism can then be retrieved and replaced by an inner core tube, without moving the drill string. The drill string is then advanced to drill a daughter hole that branches from the parent hole on the azimuth determined by the wedge. Advantageously, there is no need to withdraw the drill string before drilling the daughter hole can commence.
US12084964B2
A system includes a tubing positionable within a wellbore and a first downhole communication device positionable to receive acoustic signals from the tubing and to transmit acoustic signals to the tubing. The system also includes a computing device in communication with the first downhole communication device and including a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium that includes instructions that are executable by the processor to perform operations. The operations include receiving a test message including a spectral waveform from a second downhole communication device. The operations further include determining a desired reception frequency for receiving communications from the second downhole communication device using spectral data generated from the spectral waveform. Additionally, the operations include controlling the first downhole communication device to transmit a response message to the second downhole communication device identifying the desired reception frequency.
US12084960B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device for synchronizing azimuth detection data while drilling. The method includes: starting, by a control module, according to a command that measurement has been started sent by a tool face angle measurement module, a timer to record a first time, and sending, by the control module, a detection signal acquisition starting command to a detection signal acquisition module; performing, by the detection signal acquisition module, a parameter configuration according to the detection signal acquisition starting command, and sending, by the detection signal acquisition module, a command that work has been started to the control module based on a configuration completion state; stopping the timer and recording a second time by the control module according to the command that work has been started.
US12084948B2
A method for recovering rare-earth mud including steps of: (A) penetrating a mud gathering pipe into a layer containing rare-earth mud under the seafloor, (B) preparing a slurry containing a rare earth by loosening rare-earth mud in the mud gathering pipe, and (C) transferring the slurry through a mud raising pipe. A rare-earth mud recovery system including: a mud gathering pipe configured to penetrate into a layer containing rare-earth mud under a seafloor; a stirring device configured to loosen rare-earth mud in the mud gathering pipe; and a mud raising pipe connected to the mud gathering pipe.
US12084926B1
A solid lost circulation material is flowed into a wellbore formed in a subterranean formation to a loss zone. After flowing the solid lost circulation material into the wellbore, a plasticizer is flowed into the wellbore to the loss zone. The plasticizer is allowed to come in contact with the solid lost circulation material at the loss zone. The plasticizer causes the solid lost circulation material to become deformable and adhesive in response to contacting the solid lost circulation material. The solid lost circulation material contacted by the plasticizer forms a malleable plug that seals the loss zone. After malleable plug seals the loss zone, a fluid is circulated through the wellbore to further seal the plug against the loss zone to block fluid flow from the wellbore into the loss zone.
US12084921B2
A resilient electrical conductor for an inductive coupler assembly comprising a loop comprising first and second ends. The first and second ends being harder than the loop. The loop is located within an annular recess in the top wall of a cylindrical housing. A magnetically conductive electrically insulating, MCEI, channel surrounding the loop provides a transmission element for the electromagnetic field produced by the loop when energized. The first end is configured for connection to a transmission line and the second end is configured for attachment to ground. The wire loop comprises one or more helical segments between the first end and the second end, each segment comprising a plurality of turns. The annular recess may comprise a step in the side wall of the cylinder joining the side wall with the top wall. The segments may comprise vertical coils attached in series or in parallel to the loop.
US12084918B2
A ladder having a first rail having a bottom. The ladder having a second rail. The ladder having rungs attached to the first rail and second rail upon which a user climbs the ladder. The ladder comprises a ladder foot rotatably attached adjacent to the bottom of the first rail. The ladder foot having three distinct and different surfaces, with the first rail resting on one of the three surfaces at any one time the first rail is up right. The first rail changing to any of the three surfaces for the first rail to be upright upon by rotating the ladder foot. A method for placing a ladder. A ladder foot rotatably attached adjacent to a bottom of a first rail of a ladder. A method for making a ladder.
US12084912B2
An assembly type ventilation device for windows and doors is disclosed. The assembly type ventilation device for windows and doors comprises: a filter frame provided with an insertion part into which an air filter module is detachably inserted and fixed; a first fixing part installed on one side of the filter frame and fixed to a window; and a second fixing part installed on the other side of the filter frame and fixed to a window frame.
US12084909B2
A slim double-skin structure according to one aspect of the present invention may comprise: a window frame, an outer window sash frame provided on an outdoor side and coupled to the window frame, an outer glass provided on the outer window sash frame, an inner window sash frame provided on an indoor side and coupled to the window frame, an inner glass provided on the inner window sash frame, an awning film provided in a hollow layer formed between the outer glass and the inner glass to serve as a shading, and a case-type glass fixing frame which is provided in the outer window sash frame so as to be located in the hollow layer and fixes the outer glass to the outer window sash frame concurrently with building-in and guiding the awning film.
US12084908B2
Systems and methods are described herein to provide a frame assembly adjustable to fit different sized walls. The frame assembly can comprise one or more portions for receiving wall coverings when the frame assembly is coupled to an end of a wall. In various embodiments, the frame assembly can be a door frame assembly or a window frame assembly. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US12084905B2
An open roof construction for a vehicle comprises a panel for opening and closing an opening in the fixed roof of the vehicle by means of at least one lever assembly connected to the panel. A stationary frame is fitted in the opening of the fixed roof. A drive motor is placed in the vicinity of the rear edge of the opening and in the vicinity of a longitudinal center line of the opening. The drive motor comprises an output shaft having a center axis which is perpendicular to a center axis of a rotor shaft of the drive motor. The drive motor is connected to a motor support which is attached to the frame by means of vibration dampers. The motor support supports a separate gearbox which is capable of transferring the driving torque from the drive motor to the at least one lever assembly connected to the panel.
US12084903B1
The current invention is vehicle door alignment pin bolts with a bolt thread on the top and the bottom. The current invention will have two components, a door bolt with a thread on the top and a thread on the bottom with an angled bolt cap in the middle and a bolt nut with an opening on the bottom that fits over the angled bolt cap. The allows for the reconnecting the door to the frame of the vehicle in a quicker and more efficient manner.
US12084881B1
A control system guides and supports the deployment of a folded, collapsed bleacher system. The control system includes a hydraulic device implemented as a piston-cylinder combination anchored at one end to the trailer frame carrying the stowed bleacher and anchored at another end to an undercarriage support member of the bleacher. The movement of the piston exerts a tandem pivoting action on the front and rear bleacher sections, which deploys and opens the bleacher system to a level, seating-ready configuration. A weight detection module senses the approach of a free-fall condition of the bleacher system during deployment and increases the applied resistance of the piston-cylinder combination, controlling the rate of descent of the bleacher system to avoid free-fall.
US12084877B2
A burial system is disclosed herein including at least one container, wherein the at least one container has a container body, a container body top, a container body bottom, and a cap assembly, at least one stake connected to the at least one container, wherein the at least one stake has a stake shaft, a stake head, and a stake tip, wherein the stake head is connected to the container body bottom, at least one side stabilizer, wherein the at least one side stabilizer is connected to the outside of the container body, and a location identifier.
US12084873B2
A vibrating screed comprising a screed member, a motor, and an exciter assembly configured to vibrate the screed member in response to receiving torque from the motor via a driveshaft. The exciter assembly includes a first eccentric mass fixed on the driveshaft and a second eccentric mass axially and rotationally moveable along the driveshaft between a first position and a second position in which the second eccentric mass is axially closer to the first eccentric mass than in the first position. The vibrating screed further comprises a mode selection member to switch the exciter assembly between a first, low vibration mode, in which the second eccentric mass is in the first position, and a second, high vibration mode, in which the second eccentric mass is in the second position.
US12084871B2
An underlay element configured to be provided between a floor covering and a subfloor. The underlay element includes a base matrix and a plurality of restriction members at least partly embedded in the base matrix. The base matrix includes a first material which is compressible and, preferably, foamed. The restriction members include a second material, wherein a size of each of the restriction members exceeds 0.25 mm in at least one direction. A compression of the underlay element is configured to be restricted by the restriction members. Also, a corresponding floor assembly including a floor covering and an underlay element.
US12084868B2
The invention is related to a method of manufacturing a wall panel and a wall panel system. The method includes forming a glass-fiber reinforced cementitious layer including the steps of: pouring or injecting a slurry of uncured cementitious product into a mold, embedding glass fiber reinforcing material therein, and curing the cementitious product to obtain a cured cementitious product having a first side and a second side; and applying, to the second side of the cured cementitious product, an insulation layer, the insulation layer comprising a foam.
US12084864B2
This invention relates to coated roofing granules, roofing materials made therefrom, and methods of preparing such coated roofing granules. By coating roofing granules with an aqueous coating that includes water, a silicon-containing oligomer or polymer, and an acrylic resin, coated roofing granules can be prepared that exhibit reduced staining as compared to traditional roofing granules that are treated with petroleum oil.
US12084863B1
A single-piece construction coupler for securing reinforcing bars in a parallel relationship includes a sleeve having a center portion, a first end portion extending from one end of the center portion, a second end portion extending from the opposing end of the center portion, and a channel. The center portion includes opposing sidewalls connected by an upper wall, and each of the end portions comprise opposing sidewalls connected by lower walls. Securing tabs extend into the channel from the bottom of the upper wall. Ridges extend into the channel from each of the lower walls and the upper wall. The center portion and the end portions each include fillets connecting the sidewalls and the ridges to upper and lower walls to form rounded surfaces for receiving the reinforcing bars. The sleeve also includes grip protrusions on its outer surfaces.
US12084861B2
The present invention provides a truss system a horizontal chord, and a connector retained inside the channel of the horizontal chord. The connector has a base that has two parallel vertical walls, and a connecting base wall that together define a U-shaped cross-section, with a receiving space defined by the two parallel walls and the base wall. First and second dividers are positioned in the receiving space and define separate first, second and third spaces, respectively, with the second space positioned between the first and third spaces. Each of the first and second dividers has a vertical wall section that is connected to the two parallel walls and the base wall, with an angled surface associated with the upper end of each vertical wall section. A vertical web member has one end that is inserted into the second space, and a diagonal web member has one end inserted into either the first space or the third space.
US12084854B2
A top-down construction method for a multi-storey basement with a full steel structure is provided, including: S1, constructing a diaphragm wall permanent structure; S2. conducting an open excavation, then constructing a first layer structural beam and slab; S3. conducting an underground excavation on an underground second layer earthwork, then constructing structural beam and slab and vertical shear wall on underground first layer; S4. excavating earthworks from an underground third layer to an underground N−1 layer, and constructing structural beams and slabs and vertical shear walls; S5. conducting the underground excavation on an underground N layer earthwork, and constructing a two-span structural steel beam; S6. conducting the underground excavation on earthworks of bottom plate layer, constructing remaining structural beams and slabs and vertical shear wall; S7. conducting the underground excavation on earthworks of bearing platform and water collection well; S8. constructing earth intakes of the podium and the basement.
US12084850B2
A method, system, and apparatus directed to an innovative approach for the treatment of stormwater utilizing hydrodynamic separator assembly designed to maximize flow movement for more efficient sediment removal and maximize clearance space within assembly to facilitate cleaning and increase storage capacity of trash, debris, and sediment. In particular, the described hydrodynamic separator is an improvement over other hydrodynamic separators known in the art with the inclusion of one or more down pipes which siphon water from the lower portion of the sump chamber. The inclusion of down pipes allows for an improved control of the velocity of the water flow through the device by distributing flow into more than one path.
US12084848B2
A central position of a water storage tank is provided with a drain opening; a water return bowl is in a short box shape, and is made of silicone; the bottom end of a skirt of the water return bowl is in direct contact with a bottom plane of the water storage tank to form a closed surface; a top plane of the water return bowl can attach to a grate, and the skirt of the water return bowl can be folded inwardly to form a curved flaky structure under drainage pressure; drain holes of the grate are provided on the edge of the water storage tank. Supports for supporting the grate are provided in the water storage tank. A gas buffer device is provided on the top surface of the flat-top water return bowl.
US12084832B2
A work vehicle includes a start-up switch, a first electric device, and a second electric device. Electric power is supplied to the first electric device based on an operating state of the start-up switch and an electric power supply command. Electric power is supplied to the second electric device based on the operating state of the start-up switch.
US12084831B2
A powertrain arrangement of a working machine, including a first and second electric motor, frame component, and transmission, the first and second electric motor being connected to the transmission for transmitting torque. The frame component forms a receiving space, in which the first and second electric motor and the transmission are accommodated. The frame component has a rear axle casing section configured to rotatably bear a universal-joint shaft connecting the transmission to a rear axle. The frame component has a top-side frame section, which is arranged adjacent to a cab floor in a vertical direction. The first and second electric motor are arranged next to each other in a transverse direction and at least partially at a same level in the vertical direction. The first and second electric motor are arranged above the rear axle casing section and below the top-side frame section in the vertical direction.
US12084827B2
Sediment-control fences designed to withstand hydrostatic forces associated with elevated backwater against the fence are disclosed. The fences are made of anisotropic fabric having different mechanical properties such as strength and stiffness in the machine direction versus the transverse direction. The anisotropic fabric may include fibrillated yarns in one direction and monofilaments in another direction. The sediment-control fences may be used without the necessity of wire or chain-link backed supports that are conventionally used to resist structural failure due to hydraulic overtopping of the fences.
US12084821B2
A foldable windproof unit, a large-span windproof net structure thereof, and a windproof method. The foldable windproof unit comprises a flexible windproof net, towers arranged at intervals, and a load-bearing rope erected on the two towers. The tower on one side is provided with a horizontal pulley assembly, and the tower on the other side is provided with two vertical pulleys. The top edge of the flexible windproof net is slidably connected to the load-bearing rope by means of a plurality of hanging structures. The foldable windproof unit further comprises a traction rope, the traction rope is arranged on the horizontal pulley assembly in a sleeving manner, and the two free ends of the traction rope extend to respectively bypass the two vertical pulleys and are connected to winding mechanism. The hanging structure close to the tower on one side is fixedly connected to the traction rope.
US12084809B2
Methods are directed to the use of a supercritical fluid for performing a dyeing of a material such that dye from a first material is used to dye a second material. A supercritical fluid is passed through a first material in a pressurized vessel. The supercritical fluid transports the dye from the first material to at least a second material causing a dye profile of the second material to change as a result of dye from the first material perfusing the second material.
US12084804B2
A clothing drying device including: a rope having a rope main body and a grip portion provided at the tip of the rope main body; a main body storing the rope so that the rope can be polled out to the outside; and a receiving member provided independently of the main body and having a receiving member main body and a hook portion protruding from the receiving member main body, wherein the hook portion has an inner surface having an arc cross section and a pair of first flat surfaces provided on both sides sandwiching the inner surface, and the rope main body can be hooked so as to straddle at least one of the pair of first flat surfaces, and the inner surface.
US12084784B2
A wire comprising a silver-based wire core having a double-layer coating comprised of an inner layer of palladium or nickel and an adjacent outer layer of gold, wherein the wire exhibits at least one of the intrinsic properties A1) to A3): A1) the average grain size of the crystal grains in the wire core, measured in longitudinal direction, is in the range of from 0.7 to 1.1 μm; A2) the fraction of twin boundaries, measured in longitudinal direction of the wire, is in the range of from 5 to 40%; and, A3) 20 to 70% of the crystal grains of the wire core are oriented in <100> direction, and 3 to 40% of the crystal grains of the wire core are oriented in <111> direction, each % with respect to the total number of crystal grains with orientation parallel to the drawing direction of the wire.
US12084781B2
A hydrogen mixed gas generation method using a device that includes a heating pipe housing therein a reduction acceleration member and a heating part including a heating device that heats the heating pipe includes a first process and a second process. The first process includes: causing raw water to flow into the heating pipe and heating the flowing raw water to generate water vapor; heating the generated water vapor to between 500° C. to 800° C.; causing the heated water vapor to be in contact with the reduction acceleration member that is heated along with the raw water to reduce the water vapor and generate hydrogen gas. The second process includes: diluting the hydrogen gas generated in the first process to obtain hydrogen mixed gas whose concentration of hydrogen gas is between 500 ppm to 20000 ppm.
US12084779B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a metal bladed element for a turbomachine of an aircraft, said bladed element comprising at least one blade having a lower surface and an upper surface extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge of the blade, the trailing edge having to have a thickness X1, said method comprising the steps of: a) producing the bladed element by lost-wax casting, and b) finishing the bladed element, characterised in that step b) comprises the chemical milling at least of the trailing edge of the or each blade so as to obtain said thickness X1 which cannot be directly obtained by step a).
US12084773B2
Articles prepared by additive manufacturing of preforms that are coated by electrodeposition of nanolaminate materials, and methods of their production are described.
US12084770B2
A system for depositing a layer on a substrate includes a processing chamber defining a gas inlet for introducing gas into the processing chamber and a gas outlet to allow the gas to exit the processing chamber. A substrate support is positioned within the processing chamber and is configured to receive a substrate. A transparent upper window includes a convex first face spaced from the substrate support to define an air gap therebetween. The upper window is positioned within the processing chamber to direct the gas from the gas inlet, through the air gap, and to the gas outlet. The first face includes a radially outer surface and a radially inner surface circumscribed within the outer surface. The outer surface has a first radius of curvature and the inner surface has a second radius of curvature that is different from the first radius of curvature.
US12084763B2
Exemplary deposition methods may include introducing hydrogen into a processing chamber, a powder disposed within a processing region of the processing chamber. The method may include striking a first plasma in the processing region, the first plasma including energetic hydrogen species. The method may include exposing the powder to the energetic hydrogen species in the processing region. The method may include chemically reducing the powder through a reaction of the powder with the energetic hydrogen species. The method may include removing process effluents including unreacted hydrogen from the processing region. The method may also include forming a layer of material on grains of the powder within the processing region.
US12084762B2
Some implementations described herein provide techniques and apparatuses for determining a performance of a dry-clean operation within a deposition tool. A cleaning-control subsystem of the deposition tool may include a gas concentration sensor and a temperature sensor mounted in an exhaust system of the deposition tool to monitor the dry-clean operation. The gas concentration sensor may provide data related to a concentration of a chemical compound in a cleaning gas, where the chemical compound is a bi-product of the dry-clean operation. The temperature sensor may provide temperature data related to an exothermic reaction of the dry-clean operation. Such data may be used to determine an efficiency and/or an effectiveness of the dry-clean operation within the deposition tool.
US12084757B2
There are included (a) supplying a gas containing an organic ligand to a substrate; (b) supplying a metal-containing gas to the substrate; and (c) supplying a first reducing gas to the substrate, wherein after (a), a metal-containing film is formed on the substrate by performing (b) and (c) one or more times, respectively.
US12084751B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a cold-rolled or zinc-plated dual-phase steel plate over 980 MPa. After being subjected to hot rolling, coiling, bundling, and online heat preservation, a slab is directly sent to a cold rolling and continuous annealing process, or a cold rolling, continuous annealing, and zinc plating process, so as to obtain a cold-rolled or zinc-plated dual-phase steel plate, wherein the coiling temperature is controlled to be over 450° C. The online thermal preservation means that after uncoiling of each hot-rolled coil, an independent and airtight thermal preservation cover is closed, and the hot-rolled coil with the closed thermal preservation cover is transferred to coil rolling by means of a steel coil conveying chain or a traveling car; the thermal preservation temperature for the hot-rolled coil in the thermal preservation cover is over 450° C., and the thermal preservation duration is less than 20 hours. According to the present disclosure, by means of the design of a thermal preservation process with or without a heat source after hot rolling and coiling, the manufacturing problems such as edge cracks and sharp fluctuation in thickness after cold rolling are solved, and good cold rolling manufacturability is achieved.
US12084749B2
Process for the manufacture of a steel material, wherein the grains of which it is composed comprise a matrix into which precipitates are incorporated, the precipitates comprising at least one metallic element selected from a metallic element M, a metallic element M′, a metallic element M″ or mixtures thereof; the microstructure of the steel being such that the grains are equiaxial and the average size of the grains being such that the average of their largest dimension “Dmax” and/or the average of their smallest dimension “Dmin” is in the range 10 μm to 50 μm. The steel material has optimised, stable and isotropic mechanical properties, in particular so that the steel material is more resistant to mechanical and/or thermal stresses.
US12084748B2
The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of alloy preparation and provides a nickel-based superalloy and a preparation method thereof. In the present disclosure, the nickel-based superalloy includes the following components by mass percentage: C: 0.07% to 0.10%, 0
US12084741B2
Support device for a radiant pipe (TR), usable in thermal treatment furnaces, for lines for continuous galvanising and annealing of metal strips or sheets and/or other products made of steel and/or other metals or for revamping pre-existing furnaces, including a support for radiant pipe or shank and a furnace-side support or socket, wherein the support for the radiant pipe or shank includes at least one outer surface, facing—during use—towards the furnace-side support or socket and a thickness, wherein the furnace-side support or socket includes at least one first surface and one second surface, the latter facing—during use—towards the support for radiant pipe or shank, and a thickness, including at least one rotary means and at least one seat for housing the at least one rotary means.
US12084735B2
A metal strip contains a metal magnetic material as a main component, and is formed such that a surface roughness of one main surface is higher than a surface roughness of an other main surface. The other main surface is formed in a smooth surface having a high surface smoothness, and the one main surface is subjected to surface treatment such that a striped pattern composed of a recessed portion and a protruding portion is continuously formed. After a continuous strip is made by a single-roll liquid quenching method, the striped pattern is formed by subjecting one main surface of the continuous strip to surface treatment. A magnetic core is obtained by winding the metal strip in an annular shape, and a coil component, such as a common mode choke coil, is obtained by using the magnetic core. Thus, the metal strip has sufficient toughness and good mechanical strength.
US12084733B1
A mechanical surface treatment method for a workpiece includes using a multi-axis powered machine to actuate a deep rolling tool having a roller relative to the workpiece. The actuating includes applying the roller against a workpiece surface with a normal force sufficient to plastically deform the workpiece and translating the roller relative to the workpiece surface. The method includes concurrently applying an electrical current to the workpiece surface in a manner that produces an electroplastic effect at the workpiece surface and a near surface region. The electroplastic effect and the plastic deformation produce a refinement in a grain structure at the workpiece surface and near surface region and an increase in dislocation sources and tangles within the grain structure.
US12084731B2
A device for manufacturing molten iron is provided. The device for manufacturing the molten iron includes a multi-stage fluidized reduction furnace for reducing a powdered iron ore including hematite and limonite, a melting gas furnace connected to the fluidized reduction furnace through an ore conduit and a gas conduit, a fluidized bed oxidation furnace for oxidizing magnetite to be converted into hematite through steam provided from the fluidized reduction furnace, and a hydrogen processing unit for processing hydrogen generated by the oxidation reaction of magnetite in the fluidized bed oxidation furnace.
US12084728B2
Described are compositions and methods relating to the measurement of glucose derivable from the cellulosic components of a feedstock. The compositions and methods are particularly useful for ensuring that biofuel producers comply with the Renewable Fuel Standard while maximizing the value of the biofuel they produce.
US12084725B2
Provided are compositions and methods for identifying a specific strain of Lactobacillus plantarum, e.g., Lactobacillus plantarum subsp. plantarum PS128 deposited under DSMZ Accession No. DSM 28632.
US12084723B2
The invention features diagnostic and therapeutic methods and compositions featuring androgen receptor variant proteins and nucleic acid molecules whose expression is increased in androgen related diseases or disorders.
US12084716B2
The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing and analyte characterization. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including analyte characterization by polynucleotide sequencing. The compositions, methods, systems, and devices disclosed herein generally describe barcoded oligonucleotides, which can be bound to a bead, such as a gel bead, useful for characterizing one or more analytes including, for example, protein (e.g., cell surface or intracellular proteins), genomic DNA, and RNA (e.g., mRNA or CRISPR guide RNAs). Also described herein, are barcoded labelling agents and oligonucleotide molecules useful for “tagging” analytes for characterization.
US12084712B2
Disclosed herein include systems, methods, compositions, and kits for sample identification. A sample indexing composition can comprise, for example, a protein binding reagent associated with a sample indexing oligonucleotide. Different sample indexing compositions can include sample indexing oligonucleotides with different sequences. Sample origin of cells can be identified based on the sequences of the sample indexing oligonucleotides. Sample indexing oligonucleotides can be barcoded using barcoded and lengthened using daisy-chaining primers.
US12084711B2
The present invention provides, among other things, methods of quantitating mRNA capping efficiency, particularly for mRNA synthesized in vitro. In some embodiments, the methods comprise chromatographic methods of quantifying capping efficiency and methylation status of the caps.
US12084686B2
This invention relates to recombinantly-expressed denosumab molecules and methods for modulating glycan profiles of denosumab molecules.
US12084683B2
A method for producing a cell culture containing desired cells is provided. The desired cells are induced to be differentiated from pluripotent stem cells. The method includes seeding a cell population by dispersing embryoid bodies obtained by inducing differentiation from the pluripotent stem cells to the desired cells. The embryoid bodies are dispersed at a density reaching confluence or higher.
US12084681B2
The present invention provides means and methods for producing improved ex vivo B cell cultures with a short doubling time.
US12084678B2
This disclosure relates to methods for sorting sperm cells in a microfluidic chip. In particular, various steps are incorporated to align and orienting sperm in flow channels, as well as, to determining sperm orientation and measure relative DNA content for analysis and/or sorting.
US12084677B2
Described herein are methods of recellularizing an organ or tissue matrix.
US12084676B2
Compositions and methods are provided for novel Cas9 orthologs, including, but not limiting to, novel guide polynucleotide/Cas9 endonucleases complexes, single or dual guide RNAs, guide RNA elements, and Cas9 endonucleases. The present disclosure also describes methods for creating a double strand break in a target polynucleotide, methods for genome modification of a target sequence under various in vivo and in vitro conditions, in the genome of a cell, for gene editing, and for inserting a polynucleotide of interest into the genome of a cell. Also provided are nucleic acid constructs and cells having a modified target site or altered polynucleotide of interest produced by the methods described herein.
US12084675B2
Compositions and methods for using programmable DNA binding proteins to increase the efficiency and/or specificity of targeted genome modification or to facilitate the detection of specific genomic loci in eukaryotic cells.
US12084673B2
The present invention provides gene therapies for the treatment of Friedreich's ataxia. Specifically, the present invention provides a nucleic acid, cloning vector and transfer vector for the production of an adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector. The nucleic acid comprises (i) a nucleic acid sequence encoding frataxin, (ii) a phospho-glycerate-kinase (PGK) promoter, and (iii) a woodchuck hepatitis virus posttranscriptional regulatory element (WPRE). The present invention also provides a pharmaceutical composition which comprises the AAV vector or nucleic acid. Also, the AAV vector, nucleic acid or pharmaceutical composition can be used as a medicament, specifically as a medicament for the treatment of Friedreich's ataxia.
US12084670B2
MPO1 and MPO2 can be regulated for either decreasing or increasing alkaloid levels in plants, in particular in Nicotiana plants. In particular, suppressing or overexpressing one or more of MPO1 and MPO2 may be used to decrease or increase nicotine and nicotinic alkaloid levels in tobacco plants. Suppression or overexpression of one or more of MPO1 and MPO2 may be used in combination with modification of expression of other genes encoding enzymes on the nicotinic alkaloid biosynthetic pathway such as A622, NBB1, PMT, and QPT.
US12084666B2
The present disclosure provides, inter alia, meiotic drive genes derived from chromosome 3 of the fission yeasts Schizosaccharomyces kambucha and S. pombe and orthologs thereof. In certain embodiments, compositions, methods, and kits are provided for biasing organisms to express such genes and, optionally, to co-express one or more genes of interest in such organisms.
US12084665B2
The present invention relates to: acid-resistant yeast to which lactic acid productivity is imparted, and in which the conversion of pyruvate into acetaldehyde is inhibited and, consequently, the ethanol production pathway is inhibited; and a method for producing lactic acid by using same.
US12084661B2
Provided are an siRNA for inhibiting expression of a Hepatitis B virus gene, and a pharmaceutical composition and conjugate containing the siRNA. Each nucleotide in the siRNA is an independently modified or unmodified nucleotide; the siRNA comprises a sense strand and an antisense strand; the sense strand comprises a nucleotide sequence A; the length of the nucleotide sequence A is the same as that of a nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, and the number of the nucleotide differences is not more than three; the antisense strand comprises a nucleotide sequence B; and the length of the nucleotide sequence B is the same as that of a nucleotide sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2, and number of nucleotide differences is not more than three.
US12084660B2
The present invention, at least in part, relates to the discovery of efficacious delivery of an RNAi agent (in preferred aspects of the invention, an siRNA) to a transplantable tissue. Organ rejection, transplantation-mediated transmission of viral infection, and triggering of apoptosis in transplanted tissues can each be minimized by the methods and compositions of the instant invention. The RNAi agent(s) of the instant invention can be delivered as “naked” molecules, or using liposomal and other modes of delivery, to transplantable tissues. Such delivery can occur via perfusion of the RNAi agent in solution through the vasculature of a whole or partial organ; or tissues including transplantable cells and cell lines may be bathed, injected or otherwise treated with RNAi agents. Preferred transplantable tissues include, for example, pancreas, liver, kidney, heart, lung, and all cells and cell lines derived from such tissues (e.g., pancreatic islet cells that may, e.g., be transplanted as a treated population).
US12084659B2
The invention relates to compositions and methods for the preparation, manufacture and therapeutic use of modulatory polynucleotides.
US12084643B2
An apparatus for measuring an electrophysiological signal of a three-dimensional (3D) cell and a method of fabricating the apparatus. The apparatus includes a flexible substrate including a plurality of protrusions, and a conductor formed on the plurality of protrusions, and regions other than the plurality of protrusions are partially removed from the flexible substrate.
US12084634B1
A composition for use in scent booster beads comprises a dispersant, a first solubility agent, a fragrance, and a second solubility agent, all of these ingredients being present in varied amounts by weight of the composition.
US12084632B2
A method of treating a drainage system includes puncturing, by a controller, a pod retained by a pod housing, wherein the pod contains a drain treatment compound, and introducing, by the controller, water from a water supply to the pod retained by the pod housing to deliver the drain treatment compound dispersed in the water to a drain.
US12084625B2
Aspects described herein generally relate to methods of making a phosphono paraffin comprising forming a reaction mixture by mixing a haloparaffin, a phosphite, and sodium iodide. Methods comprise heating the reaction mixture to form the phosphono paraffin. Aspects described herein further relate to a phosphono paraffin represented by formula (I): wherein each instance of R1 is independently —H or wherein each instance of R2 and R3 is independently linear or branched C1-20 alkyl, C1-20 cycloalkyl, or aryl; the number of instances where R1 is of formula (I) is between about 2 and about 8; and n is an integer between 4 and 22.
US12084615B2
A treatment method for remediating various contaminants including H2S, CO2, NH3 and other contaminants contained in fluids being extracted from the earth comprises steps of: preparing an aqueous based treatment composition containing water and collectively 35-55 weight percent of one or more hydroxide compounds; injecting a dosage amount of the treatment composition into contaminated fluids located in a subterranean deposit under the earth's surface such that the treatment composition mixes with the fluids deep under the earth's surface; and extracting a mixture of the contaminated fluids and the treatment composition through a well such that the treatment compositions remediates contaminants in the fluids as the mixture passes through the well to the earth's surface, wherein a dosage amount of the treatment composition may be 0.010 to 10.0 ml of the aqueous based treatment composition/liter of the contaminated fluids being extracted from the subterranean deposit.
US12084613B2
A method of removing a sulfate scale from a surface is provided. The method includes contacting the sulfate-comprising scale with a conversion solution including 1 to 10 wt. % of an alkali metal carbonate, 0.5 to 10 wt. % of a borate salt or hydrate thereof, and 0.5 to 2.5 wt. % of a base to produce a carbonate-comprising scale. The method further includes exposing the carbonate-comprising scale with an acid solution including 2.5 to 25 wt. % of an acid.
US12084606B2
A tape assembly for masking an object to be painted and method of use is provided. The tape assembly is defined by a tape body having an anterior side, a posterior side, a body first edge, and an opposing body second edge. The tape body includes a first portion including a first substrate having a first adhesive layer on a posterior side of the first substrate, a second portion including a second substrate having a second adhesive layer on an anterior side of the second substrate, and a third portion including a third substrate having a third adhesive layer on a posterior side of the third substrate. The first and third portions partially overlap with the second portion in opposing first and second overlapping regions, respectively.
US12084604B2
A dry shape memory adhesive material for adhering a target surface in the presence of fluid and for providing tunable mechanical contraction of an adhered surface. The dry shape memory adhesive material is pre-stretched and dried to provide an adhesive structure that implements a hydration-based shape memory mechanism to achieve both uniaxial and biaxial contractions of the adhered surface. According to preferred embodiments, the shape memory adhesive material includes a combination of one or more hydrophilic polymers or copolymers, one or more amine coupling group, and one or more cross linkers.
US12084598B2
A resin composition including at least one of a monofunctional (meth)acrylate having an imide ring structure or a monomer having a 2-pyrrolidone skeleton and a radical curable group in an amount of about 0.1 weight percent to about 5 weight percent based on the total weight of the resin composition, wherein the resin composition has a viscosity of about 5 millipascal seconds to less than about 50 millipascal seconds at 25° C., and wherein a glass transition temperature of the resin composition after being cured satisfies a value of about −50° C. to less than about 0°C.
US12084591B2
Methods for manufacturing three-dimensional articles having reduced surface haze, by applying a coating to the surface of a three-dimensional article made by additive manufacturing are described.
US12084590B2
A water-based dual-cure coating comprising the following raw material components: 15-25 parts by weight of a water-based polycarbonate dispersion, 30-60 parts by weight of a water-based aliphatic polyurethane acrylate dispersion, 5-15 parts by weight of a UV reactive diluent, 1-4 parts by weight of a photoinitiator, 0.2-1 part by weight of an auxiliary agent, 3-8 parts by weight of a film coalescing aid, and 5-15 parts by weight of water. The coating is sprayed onto an automotive interior part and subsequently cured by baking at a temperature of 50-65° C. to form a film, proceeding UV curing; and proceeding thermal curing at temperature of 70-80° C.
US12084587B2
An ink set includes four types of inks that are a yellow ink, a magenta ink, a cyan ink, and a black ink. Each of the four types of inks contains water and a colorant, and at least one of the four types of inks contains an ultraviolet absorber. When Abs (Y) represents the absorbance of the yellow ink, Abs (M) represents the absorbance of the magenta ink, Abs (C) represents the absorbance of the cyan ink, and Abs (K) represents the absorbance of the black ink with respect to light with a wavelength of 385 nm, the ratios of Abs (Y), Abs (M), and Abs (C) to Abs (K) satisfy predetermined conditions.
US12084580B2
A method for forming a nickel oxide layer is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method includes depositing a nickel oxide precursor ink on a substrate, wherein the nickel oxide precursor ink comprises a solvent comprising diols, alcohol amines, and water, Ni(NO3)2·6H2O, and at least one metal acetate selected from the group consisting of Ni(CH3CO2)2·4H2O and Cu(CH3CO2)2·1H2O, annealing the nickel oxide precursor ink at a temperature between 250° to 400° Celsius for between 10 minutes and 6 hours to form a nickel oxide layer, and cooling the nickel oxide layer.
US12084576B2
Asphalt product made from or containing Z1) from 90 wt % to 98 wt % of mineral aggregate; and Z2) from 2 wt % to 10 wt % of a bitumen composition made from or containing T1) from 99 wt % to 75 wt % of bitumen, and T2) from 1 wt % to 25 wt % of a polymer composition made from or containing A) 5-35% by weight of a propylene homopolymer; B) 20-50% by weight of an ethylene homopolymer; and C) 30-60% by weight of a terpolymer of ethylene, propylene and 1-butene derived units.
US12084572B2
The present invention provides an impeller formed from a resin composition having high tensile strength and specific strength in a high-temperature environment, and having high dimensional accuracy and excellent fire resistance. The impeller according to the present invention is formed from a resin composition containing (A) an aromatic polycarbonate-based resin (component A) and (B) a liquid crystal polyester resin (component B), and containing, on the basis of a total of 100 parts by weight of component A and component B, (C) 3-40 parts by weight of a halogenated carbonate compound (component C), (D) 0.1-3 parts by weight of a drip inhibitor (component D), (E) 25-150 parts by weight of glass fibers and/or carbon fibers (component E), (F) 0.1-8 parts by weight of an epoxy resin (component F), and (G) 0.01-3 parts by weight of a phosphorus-based stabilizer (component G), wherein the weight ratio of component A and component B [(A)/(B)] is 98/2 to 60/40.
US12084570B2
A flame retardant composition comprising chitosan or a modified chitosan, as well as a method for preparing a flame retardant comprising chitosan or a modified chitosan, is provided. Also provided are methods for making a flame retardant article using the described flame retardant composition. In various embodiments, the flame retardant composition is prepared by dissolution of chitosan or a modified chitosan by an aqueous acid, followed by evaporation of the water. In various embodiments, the flame retardant composition can further include at least one additional component selected from the group consisting of a polyol, flame retardant, nitrogen containing compound, carbonate containing compound, crosslinking agent, and combinations thereof.
US12084568B2
A thermoplastic elastomer composition for overmolding a predominantly polyamide substrate, a method for the preparation of an overmolded article, and an overmolded article having a layer of thermoplastic elastomer is provided. The thermoplastic elastomer composition comprises a thermoplastic vulcanizate, an olefinic block copolymer, and a maleated functionalized polyolefin copolymer. The method for the preparation of the overmolded article comprises heating the thermoplastic elastomer composition followed by applying the heated composition to at least a portion of the predominantly polyamide substrate.
US12084567B2
The present invention relates to a polypropylene based composition comprising: (A) from 40.0 to 85.0 wt % of a heterophasic propylene copolymer having a content of xylene cold soluble (XCS) fraction in the range of 15 wt % to 35 wt %, based on the total weight of the heterophasic propylene copolymer; (B) from 5.0 to 15.0 wt % of a random copolymer of propylene with comonomer units selected from ethylene and alpha-olefins having from 4 to 12 carbon atoms which has been polymerized in the presence of a single-site catalyst system and has a melting temperature Tm as measured in differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) of less than 140° C.; (C) from 5.0 to 25.0 wt % of an ethylene copolymer with alpha-olefin comonomer units having from 4 to 12 carbon atoms with a density of from 850 kg/m3 to 900 kg/m3; and (D) from 5.0 to 25.0 wt % of an inorganic filler, wherein the amounts of components (A), (B), (C), and (D) are all based on the total weight amount of the polypropylene based composition, said polypropylene based composition having a melt flow rate (MFR2) as measured at 230° C. and 2.16 kg load in accordance with ISO 1133 in the range of 2.0 g/10 min to 20.0 g/10 min, an article comprising said polypropylene based composition and the use of said copolymer (B) for reducing the paint adhesion failure of an article comprising said polypropylene based composition.
US12084565B2
Composition comprising a heterophasic propylene copolymer with low melt flow rate and rather low amount of xylene cold solubles and a recycled polymer composition being rich in polypropylene.
US12084560B2
The present invention relates to a method of producing a shaped body, wherein, in step i), a layer of a sinter powder (SP) comprising at least one polyhydric alcohol inter alia is provided and, in step ii), the layer provided in step i) is exposed. The present invention further relates to a method of producing a sinter powder (SP) and to a sinter powder (SP) obtainable by this method. The present invention also relates to use of the sinter powder (SP) in a sintering method, and shaped bodies obtainable by the method of the invention.
US12084553B2
The present invention provides a polyimide film comprising an inorganic filler, which comprises a first filler group having a diameter (D50) of 2-2.7 μm and a second filler group having an average diameter (D50) of 1-1.7 μm, wherein the polyimide film satisfies relation 1: 0.7≤(D90−D10)/(D50)≤1.2, which is about the respective diameters of the first filler group and the second filler group.
US12084551B2
The invention provides a tea fiber/PHBV/PBAT ternary composite and its preparation method and application. Comprising the components in parts by weight, the composite contains 30-80 parts of a blending polymer of poly(butyleneadipate-co-terephthalate) (PBAT) and poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV), 20-70 parts of tea powder, 1-19 parts of a plasticizer, 0.6-6 parts of an interface modifier, 3.3-10 parts of an auxiliary packing and 0.7-2 parts of a nucleating agent. The composite is environmental-friendly and cost-effective, exhibiting excellent mechanical properties such as hardness, compressive strength, and ductility. It can be used to manufacture environmental-friendly cups, tableware, compost bags, trash bags, shopping bags, electronic packaging bags, mulch films, 3D printing materials, foaming materials, and other plastic products.
US12084545B2
The present invention discloses a novel diamine that has a structure bearing an intramolecular imide group and additionally an amide-substituted aromatic ring group at opposite sides of the imide group. The use of the novel diamine as a polymerization ingredient in polyimide production can provide a polyimide film which has remarkably improved mechanical and thermal properties while maintaining optical properties.
US12084540B2
Esterified arylhydroxy compounds for the production of polyurethane or polyisocyanurate. In order to provide aromatic polyols for the production of polyurethanes or polyisocyanurates which are process-technically suitable in terms of their viscosity and at the same time give the end product good physical properties and a good reaction to fire, esterified arylhydroxy compounds are proposed as polyols.
US12084539B2
Described herein is an isocyanate composition, a polyurethane foam obtained therefrom and a method of using the polyurethane foam in an article.
US12084526B2
A vinyl alcohol-based polymer according to one embodiment of the present invention has an integral value (e) of 0.8 to 20 in the case when a sum of the following integral value (a) to (e) is 100 in a 1H-NMR spectrum (a) integral value of peak confirmed at 5.70 to 5.96 ppm (b) integral value of peak confirmed at 5.97 to 6.63 ppm (c) integral value of peak confirmed at 6.64 to 7.55 ppm (d) integral value of peak confirmed at 7.56 to 7.81 ppm (e) integral value of peak confirmed at 7.82 to 8.04 ppm.
US12084525B2
Sulfate ester modified cellulose nanofibers having an average fiber diameter in the range of 1 nm to 500 nm, and having sulfate ester modified hydroxyl groups on surfaces of the cellulose nanofibers. A method of producing cellulose nanofibers that are nanosized, that have a high crystallinity degree, and that have large aspect ratios, the method being a chemical method that does not require any physical pulverization, that is energy-saving, and that can be performed under mild reaction conditions. A method of producing modified cellulose nanofibers including modifying the surfaces of the cellulose nanofibers through esterification or urethanization. A method of producing cellulose nanofibers includes impregnating cellulose with a fibrillation solution containing dimethylsulfoxide, at least one carboxylic acid anhydride selected from acetic anhydride and propionic anhydride, and sulfuric acid to fibrillate the cellulose.
US12084520B2
Disclosed is a monoclonal antibody that specifically binds BCMA, or an antigen binding fragment thereof, and its use in treating cancers such as multiple myeloma. Also disclosed is a monoclonal antibody that specifically binds CD3, or an antigen binding fragment thereof, and its use in treating or alleviating an inflammatory disease, an autoimmune disease, or transplantation rejection. Further disclosed is an anti-BCMA/CD3 bispecific antibody, and its use in treating diseases such as cancers.
US12084510B2
Herein described are antibodies to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGER) having an EGER binding affinity that is sufficient to kill disease cells presenting EGFR at high density, but is insufficient for binding to normal cells. A therapeutic effect is thus achieved while avoiding adverse events that result from unintended binding to normal cells.
US12084505B2
The present invention relates to antibodies against the endothelin receptor subtype A, in particular monoclonal antibodies, fragments or derivatives thereof. The present invention also relates to the therapeutic or diagnostic use of this antibody or as a research tool in the field of cancers, in particular glioblastoma.
US12084504B2
The invention relates to agonistic anti-MET antibodies and uses thereof in the therapeutic treatment of disease. The antibodies bind with high affinity to the human and mouse hepatocyte growth factor (HGF) receptor, also known as MET, and are agonists of MET in both humans and mice, producing molecular and cellular effects resembling the effects of HGF binding.
US12084502B2
Provided herein are VHH-containing polypeptides that bind CD33. Uses of the VHH-containing polypeptides are also provided.
US12084500B2
Disclosed herein are antibodies specific to a delta-1 chain of a γδ T cell receptor and methods of using such for modulating γδ T cell bioactivity. Such anti-Delta 1 antibodies may also be used to treat diseases associated with γδ T cell activation, such as solid tumors, or for detecting presence of γδ1 T cells.
US12084498B2
The present invention relates to methods for the treatment, prevention and diagnosis of peripheral T cell lymphoma using compounds that specifically bind KIR3DL2. The invention also relates to use of antibodies that specifically bind KIR3DL2 in diagnostic and theranostic assays in the detection and treatment of peripheral T cell lymphoma.
US12084493B2
The present disclosure provides methods of treating a pathogen-induced lung inflammation in a subject are provided in which an anti-S100A9 antibody is administered to a subject. Methods of treating a respiratory virus infection by administering an anti-S100A9 antibody are also provided.
US12084488B2
The present invention concerns a block copolymer having at least one oligo- or polysaccharide block and at least one elastin-like polypeptide block, wherein said block copolymer comprises at least one repetitive unit having the following formula (I): wherein R′ is the side chain of a natural or synthetic amino acid other than proline and derivatives thereof.
US12084484B2
IL-2 agents that comprise IL-2 variants are disclosed as well as methods, compositions, and uses thereof. The IL-2 agents described herein can be used to treat and/or prevent various disorders and conditions.
US12084468B2
Amine substituted morpholino oligonucleotides, other than the classical N,N-dimethylamino PMO analogue, and methods of efficiently synthesizing these oligonucleotides with high yield are provided. Morpholino oligonucleotides having thiophosphoramidate, phosphoramidate, and alkyl phosphoramidate linkers. Chimeras containing unmodified DNA/RNA and other analogs of DNA/RNA can be prepared. These oligonucleotides form duplexes with complementary DNA or RNA that are more stable than natural DNA or DNA/RNA complexes, are active with RNAse H1, and may be transfected into cells using standard lipid reagents. These analogues are therefore useful for numerous applications.
US12084461B2
The invention provides new bicyclic heteroaryl compounds having the general formula (I) wherein R1, Ar, n and m are as described herein, compositions including the compounds, processes of manufacturing the compounds and methods of using the compounds.
US12084456B2
Enantioselective total syntheses of the anticancer isocarbostyril alkaloids (+)-7-deoxypancratistatin, (+)-pancratistatin, (+)-lycoricidine, and (+)-narciclasine are described. Our strategy for accessing this unique class of natural products is based on the development of a Ni-catalyzed dearomative trans-1,2-carboamination of benzene. The effectiveness of this dearomatization approach is notable, as only two additional olefin functionalizations are needed to construct the fully decorated aminocyclitol cores of these alkaloids. Installation of the lactam ring has been achieved through several pathways and a direct interconversion between natural products was established via a late-stage C-7 cupration. Using this synthetic blueprint, we were able to produce natural products on a gram scale and provide tailored analogs with improved activity, solubility, and metabolic stability.
US12084454B2
Methods for preparing the Bruton's Tyrosine Kinase (“BTK”) inhibitor compound 2-{3′-hydroxymethyl-1-methyl-5-[5-((S)-2-methyl-4-oxetan-3-yl-piperazin-1-yl)-pyridin-2-ylamino]-6-oxo-1,6-dihydro-[3,4′]bipyridinyl-2′-yl}-7,7-dimethyl-3,4,7,8-tetrahydro-2H,6H-cyclopenta[4,5]pyrrolo[1,2-a]pyrazin-1-one are provided.
US12084451B2
The present invention features novel peripherally-restricted non-benzodiazipene analogs with reduced blood brain barrier permeability and methods of use thereof for reducing tactile dysfunction, social impairment, and anxiety in a subject diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Rett syndrome, Phelan McDermid syndrome, or Fragile X syndrome, or for treating touch over-reactivity, pain, or mechanical allodynia.
US12084450B2
Provided is a mesylate salt of methanesulfonic acid and a triazolopyrazine derivative of formula (1), pharmaceutical compositions thereof, methods of making the salt, and therapeutic use thereof:
US12084449B2
The present invention is directed to imidazo[1,2-b][1,2,4]triazines and imidazo[1,2-a]pyrimidines, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, which are inhibitors of kinases such as c-Met and are useful in the treatment of cancer and other diseases related to the dysregulation of kinase pathways.
US12084437B2
The present application relates to certain halo-substituted piperidine compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of using them, including methods for treating substance addiction, panic disorder, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, pain, depression, seasonal affective disorder, an eating disorder, or hypertension.
US12084423B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for selectively killing senescent cells, wherein the composition comprises piperlongumine derivative thereof. The selective killing of senescent cells may delay aging and/or treat age-related disorders.
US12084420B2
The present disclosure relates generally to inhibitors of KIF18A, compositions thereof, and methods of using the compounds and compositions thereof. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to indoline inhibitors of KIF18A and methods of their use for treating disease mediated by KIF18A, such as cancer.
US12084419B2
A novel class of compounds according to Formula I, II, or III, wherein W1-W4, Z1-Z4, Z1-Z5, X, Y, n, and R1-R8 are as defined in the claims and description of embodiments that bind to fatty acid binding protein FABP4 and modulate adipocyte metabolism to drive enhanced glucose utilization, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising the class of compounds, in combination with a pharmaceutically acceptable diluent or carrier, and optionally, further in combination with a therapeutically active agent, and the use of these compounds in medicine and for the preparation of a medicament in the treatment of disorders acting on the FABP4. In examples, the ring Z contains Z1-Z4. In other examples, the ring Z contains Z1-Z5.
US12084417B2
Syntheses of compounds of Formula III from compounds of Formula I via compounds of Formula II are described, as well as particular compounds of Formula III, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, compositions comprising such compounds, and uses thereof. For example, certain of these compounds and compositions of Formula III have uses in the treatment of psychiatric or neurological disorders.
US12084413B2
The present disclosure relates to a continuous production method of a diester-based material in a continuous production process comprising a reaction part in which a total of N reaction units from a first reaction unit to an N-th reaction unit are connected in series. The method comprising the step of feeding dicarboxylic acid and a primary alcohol, wherein the feed of the primary alcohol is divided into front-end feed of being fed into a first reaction unit and rear-end feed of being fed into one or more reaction units selected among from a second reaction unit to an N-th reaction unit, wherein the amount of the rear-end feed is 5 to 80 wt % based on the total feed amount of the primary alcohol into a reaction part, and the N is an integer of 3 to 6. According to the present invention, it is possible to ensure the ease of process operation through reducing the amount of reflux compared to a typical batch process and reducing the volume of steam for heating a reactor, and to ensure the economic feasibility of a product through saving energy.
US12084411B2
Disclosed are analogues of hinokitiol, methods for preparing them, and pharmaceutical compositions thereof. Also disclosed are methods for their use in treating iron-related diseases.
US12084408B2
Provided is a method of decomposing phenol-based by-product, and more particularly, a method of decomposing phenol-based by-product including: introducing a phenol-based by-product stream, a first stream of a side discharge stream from a decomposition device, and a process water stream to a mixing device and mixing the streams; introducing a discharge stream from the mixing device to a layer separation device to phase-separate the discharge stream into an oil phase and an aqueous phase; passing an oil stream discharged from the layer separation device through any one or more of a first heat exchanger and a second heat exchanger and introducing the oil stream to the decomposition device to carry out decomposition; and supplying the first stream of the side discharge stream from the decomposition device to the mixing device, forming a mixed stream of a second stream of the side discharge stream with a lower discharge stream and discharging the mixed stream, and recovering effective components from an upper discharge stream.
US12084403B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure provides compounds of the formula: wherein the variables are as defined herein. In another aspect, the present disclosure provides compounds of the formula: wherein the variables are as defined herein. In another aspect, the present disclosure also provides methods of preparing the compounds disclosed herein. In another aspect, the present disclosure provides antibody drug conjugates comprising compounds of the present disclosure. In another aspect, the present disclosure also provides pharmaceutical compositions and methods of use of the compounds and anti-body drug conjugates disclosed herein.
US12084402B2
Provided is a preparation process of diazomethane. The preparation process includes: step S1, taking N-methylurea as a raw material to continuously prepare, in a continuous reactor, a first product system containing N-methyl-N-nitrosourea: step S2, performing continuous extraction and continuous back-extraction on the first product system to obtain an N-methyl-N-nitrosourea solution; step S3, enabling the N-methyl-N-nitrosourea solution to continuously react with an alkaline solution in a continuous reactor to obtain a second product system containing the diazomethane; and step S4, performing continuously liquid separation, water freezing and removal on the second product system, to obtain the diazomethane.
US12084398B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a surfactant composition based on glycine betaine ester salt, and to the composition thus obtained. The invention also relates to the uses of said composition. A subject of the invention is also a product comprising the abovementioned composition.
