US12093490B2
A touch screen sensor includes a visible light transparent substrate and an electrically conductive micropattern disposed on or in the visible light transparent substrate. The micropattern includes a first region micropattern within a touch sensing area and a second region micropattern. The first region micropattern has a first sheet resistance value in a first direction, is visible light transparent, and has at least 90% open area. The second region micropattern has a second sheet resistance value in the first direction. The first sheet resistance value is different from the second sheet resistance value.
US12093489B2
A sensor device includes: first sensors; second sensors generating a mutual capacitance with the first sensors; a sensor transmitter connected to the first sensors, the sensor transmitter supplying driving signals to the first sensors; and a sensor receiver connected to the second sensors. The sensor receiver receives sensing signals from the second sensors. The sensor receiver includes a band pass filter including a plurality of paths connected in parallel. A first path among the plurality of paths sequentially includes an input mixer, a filter, and an output mixer.
US12093488B2
Signal of inputs made by a finger on a touch-sensitive capacitive operating element are evaluated by calculating a finger position from sensor strokes of individual capacitive sensors. The calculated finger position is not output if a difference between the maximum and minimum sensor stroke of the sensors is smaller than a preset value or smaller than the error tolerance of the sensors. The finger position is output if the difference between the maximum and minimum sensor stroke of the sensors is greater than the first preset value and if the sensor stroke of a sensor closest to the detected finger position at the edge of the touch-sensitive capacitive operating element is smaller than a second preset value.
US12093486B2
An electronic device comprises a touch sensor, a movement sensor, and recalibration logic. The touch sensor provides input to the electronic device. The movement sensor has an output that varies in dependence on movement of the electronic device, and the recalibration logic is configured to vary a rate of successful recalibration of the touch sensor based at least partly on the output of the movement sensor. The successful recalibration comprises replacement of a stored calibration mapping of each of a plurality of (X, Y) coordinates of the touch sensor to a corresponding touch-free capacitance.
US12093476B2
The present invention provides a touch sensor and a method for making the same. The touch sensor includes a substrate, an electrode layer located in a window area, and a frame trace located in a frame trace area. The frame trace includes a plurality of metal wires. Each metal wire includes a metal wire body electrically connected to a corresponding electrode in the electrode layer and an insulation layer wrapped around an outer periphery of the metal wire body. In this way, the width of the frame trace area can be further reduced.
US12093465B2
Methods and systems for gesture-based control of a device are described. An input frame is processed to determine a location of a distinguishing anatomical feature in the input frame. A virtual gesture-space is defined based on the location of the distinguishing anatomical feature, the virtual gesture-space being a defined space for detecting a gesture input. The input frame is processed in only the virtual gesture-space, to detect and track a hand. Using information generated from detecting and tracking the at least one hand, a gesture class is determined for the at least one hand. The device may be a smart television, a smart phone, a tablet, etc.
US12093464B2
A method of interpreting a digit-to-digit gesture based on roll values for a wrist-wearable device is disclosed. The method includes, receiving an indication at a first point in time that a user donning the wrist-wearable device is providing a digit-to-digit gesture in which one of the user's digits touches another of the user's digits without contacting the display of the wearable device. The method further includes, in accordance with a determination that the digit-to-digit gesture is provided while data indicates that the wrist-wearable device has a first roll value, causing a target device in communication with the wearable device to perform a first input command and receiving another indication at a second point in time that is after the first point in time that the user is providing the digit-to-digit gesture again, causing the target device to perform a second input command that is distinct from the first input command.
US12093457B2
Some implementations disclosed herein present a computer-generated reality (CGR) environment in which a user participates in an activity, identify a cognitive state of the user (e.g., working, learning, resting, etc.) based on data regarding the user's body (e.g., facial expressions, hand movements, physiological data, etc.), and update the environment with a surrounding environment that promotes a cognitive state of the user for the activity.
US12093454B2
An electronic device that includes a display and an eye tracker configured to collect eye tracking data regarding a gaze of one or more of a user's eyes across the display is disclosed herein. The electronic device includes processing circuitry that is operatively coupled to the display and configured to foveate one or more areas of the display according to the eye tracking data. If the eye tracking data input is lost, the processing circuitry is configured to recover from the loss of eye tracking data by changing one or more aspects of the foveated areas (e.g., size, resolution, etc.) until a threshold is satisfied. As time elapses since loss of eye tracking, the foveated areas move toward a center or a salient region of the display.
US12093450B2
Image light is generated with a display light source. The image light is visible. An infrared light source emits infrared light. A scan directs the image light and the infrared light to an input coupler of a display waveguide and the display waveguide presents the image light to an eyebox region as a virtual image.
US12093447B2
In one embodiment, a method includes instructing sensors on an AR headset to capture data of a real-world environment, discovering a 3D location where a native application configured to run natively on an operating system is downloadable, generating and displaying a virtual object representing the native application at the 3D location, detecting a user of the AR system interacting with the virtual object, downloading a first executable portion of the native application, executing the first executable portion within a sandbox process having a predetermined set of access permissions, progressively downloading a remaining executable portion of the native application while the user is interacting with the executed first executable portion, and in response to a determination that the native application is completely downloaded, installing the native application on the operating system.
US12093446B1
A direct retinal projector may include a gaze tracking system that tracks position of a subject's pupil and automatically adjusts projection of a scanned light field so that the light field enters the pupil. A control loop adjusts a scanning mirror to substantially center an IR beam on a position sensing detector (PSD). In so doing, the scanning mirror is correctly positioned so that the scanned light field from the projector enters the subject's pupil. In addition, a direct retinal projector may include an adjustable focusing element that adjusts focus of a combined light beam generated by a projector as the light beam is scanned to an ellipsoid mirror that reflects the light beam to the subject's pupil. The focusing of the scanned beam may be adjusted as the beam is scanned across the azimuth angle of the curved ellipsoid mirror.
US12093442B2
A handheld controller is adapted to control an electronic device. The handheld controller includes a first body, a second body, and a connecting portion. The first body is adapted to be held by a user's hand. The second body is connected to the first body through the connecting portion. The connecting portion is adapted to be clamped between user's fingers. A distance between the first body and at least a portion of the second body is variable.
US12093441B1
A method includes initiating a session at a first device having a session identifier. The session being one-to many. The method further includes joining the session with a third device and a second device using a session identifier, generating a physical condition signal at a physical condition sensor, converting the physical condition signal to a first signal, communicating the first signal to the second device and third device through a network, and generating an indicator at the second device or the third device corresponding to the first signal.
US12093437B2
Method for automatically protecting an object, a person, or an item of visual information from a risk of unwanted viewing by a third party, an unauthorized person and/or an image-recording device. The method includes the steps of: automatically detecting, by analyzing images from at least one Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) or from a camera arranged so as to cover a predefined surveillance area, the presence of a third party or of an unauthorized person and/or of the device in this area or nearby, the predefined surveillance area corresponding at least to an area from which the person or the device is capable of viewing the object, the person or the information, and in the event of positive detection, triggering a predefined action.
US12093436B2
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for selecting methods of interfacing between a smart headset and a user based on privacy risk is provided. The present invention may include determining a privacy context of the smart headset based on the location, surrounding environment, and content associated with a smart headset, selecting at least one output method and at least one input method compatible with the smart headset based on the security of the output method and the input method within the privacy context, and operating the smart headset to interface with a user using the at least one output method and the at least one input method.
US12093433B2
The disclosed technology is generally directed to network security for processors. In one example of the technology, a computing device includes: a processor, a memory, and a network interface. The computing device executes a first binary within a first region of the memory, executes a separate second binary within a second region of the memory, and prevents the second binary from accessing the first region of the memory. The first binary implements a kernel configured to control the network interface, while the separate second binary implements a network stack that is restricted to communicate only with an identified set of trusted servers.
US12093431B2
Systems and techniques for a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) security plugin are described herein. A component message may be received at an interconnect endpoint from an SoC component. The interconnect endpoint may pass the component message to a security component via a security interlink. The security component may secure the component message, using a cryptographic engine, to create a secured message. The secured message is delivered back to the interconnect endpoint via the security interlink and transmitted across the interconnect by the interconnect endpoint.
US12093425B2
Various systems, mediums, and methods herein describe aspects of personal information platforms accessible with client devices over communication networks in data infrastructures. A system may determine data associated with a user. The system may determine a personal information platform (PIP) based on the data associated with the user, where the PIP is configured to identify a number of data types from the data associated with the user. The system may determine accesses for one or more entities to the number of data types based on one or more services provided by the one or more entities to the user. The system may cause a client device to display an indication of the PIP, where the indication provides the one or more accesses of the one or more entities.
US12093417B2
A cloud-based data governance system includes a processing unit, a network adapter, and memory for storing data and code. The network adapter establishes a connection with a remote data storage system associated with a remote file system over a wide-area network (WAN). The code includes an event collection interface, a data governance service, and an enforcement service. The event collection interface is configured to capture an event from the remote data storage system. The event is indicative of a file system operation executed on a data object of the remote file system. The data governance service is configured to receive the event from the event collection interface and to process the event to determine whether the file system operation conflicts with a governance policy of the data governance system. The enforcement service executes a set of remediation actions, if the file system operation does conflict with the governance policy.
US12093413B2
A method of providing information for display, from a portable electronic device, includes displaying information on a display of the portable electronic device, identifying a portion for redacting from the information displayed on the display of the portable electronic device, extracting the portion from the information to provide redacted information and an extracted portion, storing the redacted information, protecting and storing the extracted portion in association with a location identification in a file, and sending the redacted information and sending the file including extracted portions associated with the location identifiers.
US12093412B2
A secure data parser is provided that may be integrated into any suitable system for securely storing and communicating data. The secure data parser parses data and then splits the data into multiple portions that are stored or communicated distinctly. Encryption of the original data, the portions of data, or both may be employed for additional security. The secure data parser may be used to protect data in motion by splitting original data into portions of data, that may be communicated using multiple communications paths.
US12093409B2
Methods, systems, and devices for facilitating joint submissions. In an example embodiment, a system may facilitate a joint submission from multiple devices. For example, a primary device may receive data for a joint submission with a peripheral device, and the data may be segmented into sensitive and non-sensitive data.
US12093400B1
The present disclosure is for systems and methods for data and model security in AI-based modeling approaches. Security techniques are applied at the user device level on edge devices to evaluate data and/or locally trained models for malicious content. Malicious content is detected and can be prevented from influencing central model updates or retraining.
US12093386B2
This application relates to ransomware detection and data pruning management. Ransomware typically involves an I/O heavy process of encrypting data files and/or deleting or renaming the original files. Thus, ransomware attacks may be detected by analyzing the I/O activity in a given file system. In some embodiments, a software module running on a client machine manages copying, archiving, migrating, and/or replicating of primary data and restoring and/or pruning secondary data (e.g., backup copies of the primary data). When a potential ransomware attack is detected, the software module is immediately stopped so that the software module does not prune any data that may need to be restored. Upon receiving user input that indicates that the client machine is not under a ransomware attack, the software module is allowed to resume its operations, including pruning of the secondary data.
US12093383B2
An event graph associated with a root cause for a change in security state on an endpoint is used to facilitate malware detection on other endpoints.
US12093382B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. In one example, an apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions, and processor circuitry. The processor circuitry at least executes or instantiates the instructions to receive a group of indicators from a campaign attack, then query an indicator database with an indicator from the group of indicators, and then predict an identification of the campaign attack in response to the indicator having a current deterministic indicator and confidence scoring (DISC) score in the indicator database, wherein the DISC score represents at least one of a lethality component, a determinism component, or a confidence component of the indicator.
US12093376B2
A safety device for detecting manipulations on a bus system of a vehicle includes a receiver configured to connect to the bus system of the vehicle and to receive a signal from the bus system, an analyzer configured to analyze a transition between signal states of the signal, and an evaluator configured to evaluate the signal as a manipulated signal or an unmanipulated signal based on analysis performed by the analyzer.
US12093374B1
A system and method for providing cybersecurity incident response utilizing a large language model. The method includes: mapping a received incident input into a scenario of a plurality of scenarios, each scenario including a plurality of sub-scenarios; generating a query based on the received incident input and a selection of a sub-scenario of the plurality of sub-scenarios; executing the query on a security database, the security database including a representation of the computing environment; and initiating a mitigation action based on a result of the executed query.
US12093372B2
Provided is a method performed in an electronic control unit of a multi-core structure. The method comprises executing one or more first type security jobs on a first core, selecting one or more second type security jobs assigned for execution on a security dedicated core, and designating the selected second type security jobs for execution on the second core instead of the security dedicated core.
US12093366B2
A PCIe resource management system includes a PCIe resource registration subsystem and a PCIe resource monitoring subsystem. Assets register to use PCIe resources of other assets and to allow other assets to use their PCIe resources. Assets specify which types of PCIe resources it can borrow, when it can borrow those PCIe resources, and a logical group of other assets from which the asset can borrow the PCIe resources. Assets also specify which types of PCIe resources it will lend, when it will lend those PCIe resources, and a logical group of other assets to which the asset will lend the PCIe resources. The PCIe resource registration subsystem maintains a PCIe resource registration datastore maintaining PCIe borrow and lending rules associated with assets in logical groups of assets. PCIe resources are shared between assets in the logical groups as needed, as determined by the PCIe resource monitoring subsystem.
US12093362B2
Systems and methods to authenticate a vehicle operator for an autonomous vehicle on a vehicle service platform are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes obtaining authentication request data indicative of an authentication request, the authentication request data including at least an operator identifier associated with the vehicle operator and a vehicle identifier associated with the autonomous vehicle. The method includes providing a service code associated with the authentication request to the autonomous vehicle. The method includes obtaining from a user device in response to providing the service code to the autonomous vehicle, operator data associated with the authentication request, the operator data including the service code. The method includes determining an authentication result associated with the authentication request based at least in part on the service code and the operator data. The method includes providing the authentication result to the user device.
US12093354B2
A system for pre-authenticating a user using a web-based browser or dedicated application, the pre-authentication for fast interactive teleconference session access runs a web-based browser or dedicated application associated with an entity with which the user holds at least one account; performs basic authentication to grant a basic level of remote user access performs elevated authentication and grants (i) an elevated level of remote user access to the at least one account and (ii) access to a pre-authenticated teleconference session.
US12093349B2
A method of distributing a amount of issuance of digital content includes: determining the amount of issuance corresponding to a certificate of right to use digital content; generating blocks corresponding to the amount of issuance in accordance with the certificate of right to use the digital content and adding the blocks to a block chain system; generating an authentication certificate including a key value of the generated blocks in connection with the certificate of right to use the digital content; receiving a purchase request for the certificate of right to use of the digital content from a first user terminal; transmitting the digital content to the first user terminal such that the digital content is stored in a content folder of the first user terminal; transmitting a first authentication certificate corresponding to a remaining amount among the amount of issuance to the first user terminal, and storing the first authentication certificate in connection with the certificate of right to use the digital content; and transmitting a first authentication value included in the first authentication certificate and device information of the first user terminal to an ownership information database and updating owner information of the certificate of right to use of the digital content.
US12093342B2
A dynamic bias analog vector-matrix multiplication operation circuit comprises: positive value weight columns (101-10N), constant columns (201-20M) and subtractors (301-30N), wherein the number of the subtractors is equal to the number of the positive value weight columns, the subtractors are correspondingly connected to the positive value weight columns on a one-to-one basis, and the number of the constant columns is less than the number of the positive value weight columns; minuend input ends of the subtractors are correspondingly connected to output ends of the positive value weight columns, subtrahend input ends of a plurality of subtractors are connected to the same constant column, and output ends thereof output operation results. Before a weight is written in a programmable semiconductor device, a constant positive value is added to each element in a weight array, the weight array is written in a positive value weight column, and the constant positive value is written in a constant column. Therefore, a negative value weight column does not need to be set, such that the circuit structure can be simplified.
US12093336B2
A computerized system automatically ensures that data from a data partner has been ethnically sourced. The system reviews websites associated with URLs provided by the data provider, and privacy policy data is extracted and captured. A keyword set is used to analyze the privacy terms of websites associated with the URLs. URLs associated with websites that ethically collect data are stored in a URL database, or the URLs are given a flag or score, such that these URLs need not be checked each time a new data partner identifies these URLs as the source of its data. The system may periodically re-check the URLs to ensure that no changes have been made to the corresponding website's data collection practices.
US12093335B2
A server transmits data for displaying a website including a color chart, to a terminal that captures an image of a symbol in which a URL is encrypted displayed on a color sample book provided with a plurality of cards for displaying color samples, wherein on the color chart, positions of colors more than all listed colors in the color sample book are defined, all the listed colors are visually listed, and colors other than all the listed colors are not displayed or are masked and displayed.
US12093334B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods of a cloud server for providing content to a user. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises receiving data, from a user device, the data comprising at least one of: hash and type of intercepted search requests and site names, incrementing a value of a popularity counter of the received data, when the value of the popularity counter of the received data exceeds a predetermined threshold, sending an inquiry for the intercepted search requests and site names in plain form, and when the intercepted search requests and site names are received in plain form, performing categorization of the intercepted search requests and site names, and transmitting, to the user device, content associated with the intercepted search requests and rules for establishing a category of the content.
US12093328B2
The present disclosure generally relates to capturing multiple types of data during execution of an application, the multiple types of data including data associated with messages published by nodes and metadata corresponding to execution of nodes. The multiple types of data are then stored with associated message identifiers to efficiently capture all data needed for playback. In some examples, such techniques allow for deterministic playback, even when nodes are concurrently operating on different compute systems.
US12093325B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example, a population density metric and a geographic feature density metric are generated for a region. A morphology classification is generated for the region based on the population density metric and the geographic feature density metric. A communication site is controlled based on the morphology classification.
US12093324B2
A scoring device includes a classifying unit and an adding unit. The classifying unit classifies answer data into a plurality of subsets. The adding unit adds a scoring criterion to be used in scoring the answer data based on a result of classifying by the classifying unit.
US12093322B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media that utilize a graph neural network to generate data recommendations. The disclosed systems generate a digital graph representation comprising user nodes corresponding to users, data attribute nodes corresponding to data attributes, and edges reflecting historical interactions between the users and the data attributes; Moreover, the disclosed systems generate, utilizing a graph neural network, user embeddings for the user nodes and data attribute embeddings for the data attribute nodes from the digital graph representation. In addition, the disclosed systems generate, utilizing a graph neural network, user embeddings for the user nodes and data attribute embeddings for the data attribute nodes from the digital graph representation. Furthermore, the disclosed systems determine a data recommendation for a target user utilizing the data attribute embeddings and a target user embedding corresponding to the target user from the user embeddings.
US12093311B2
Generative AI systems and methods are provided to produce leading indicators of economic activity based on, for example, agricultural, fishing, mining, lumber harvesting, environmental, or ecological attributes and other factors determined from a range of available data sources. A consistent, semantic metadata structure is described as well as a hypothesis generating and testing system capable of generating predictive analytics models in a non-supervised or partially supervised mode. Users may then subscribe to the date for the use in economic forecasting.
US12093309B2
The present invention relates to a display device which directly executes searching related to text displayed on a screen, the display device comprising: a display unit for displaying content; a user input interface unit for receiving a control signal of a pointer being displayed on the content; and a control unit for, when a search command is received, controlling the display unit to display a search result of the text displayed on an area where the pointer is located.
US12093304B2
A method for sampling images includes receiving a first image set generated by automated imaging equipment during a first inspection period, and storing in a memory an image library that initially consists of the first image set. A plurality of new image sets is then sequentially received (302) during respective inspection periods. While the new image sets are received (302), the image library stored in the memory is updated. Updating the image library includes, for each new image set, adding to the image library a certain number of images distributed among the new image set and removing from the image library the same number of images distributed among a current instance of the image library (308). The number of overwritten images in the image library decreases from one inspection period to the next.
US12093300B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving a first document including structured data and unstructured data, providing a first sub-document and a second sub-document, the first sub-document including the structured data of the first document, the second sub-document including the unstructured data of the first document, generating a prompt using the second sub-document and a second document, inputting the prompt to a LLM, receiving a response from the LLM, providing a calibrated first document by merging the response into the first sub-document, and processing the calibrated first document and the second document using a ML model to provide a prediction, the prediction indicating a matching class between the first document and the second document.
US12093296B2
A method, system and computer program product for increasing automation of license plate reading accuracy, can involve searching by a correlation search process, ALPR (Automatic License Plate Recognition) results against an ALPR database of previous ALPR results, when an ALPR read by an ALPR search engine occurs with respect to a license plate, and constructing a confidence level for a correlation to a known previous license plate read based on a number of parameters and a number of times that the parameters match, when a match is found in the ALPR database for a parameter contained in the ALPR database as a result of the correlation search process.
US12093295B2
In accordance with some aspects of the present disclosure, an apparatus is disclosed. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a processor and a memory. In some embodiments, the memory includes programmed instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to receive, from a backend, content represented as unstructured data, parse the content into content groups, wherein each content group has common characteristics, map each content group to a defined field based on the common characteristics of the content group, generate structured data in which each content group complies with constraints of the corresponding defined field, and send the structured data to a frontend to be displayed on a website.
US12093286B2
This disclosure relates to, among other things, scalable data processing, storage, and/or management systems and methods. Certain embodiments disclosed herein provide for a multi-dimensional data storage structure that may facilitate parallel processing of data during both data ingestion and data retrieval and/or access processes involving one or more storage layers In various embodiments, sequence number schemes associated with ingested data records may allow for improved management of data stored in one or more layers (e.g., hot and/or cold data storage layers).
US12093284B2
A system for sub-table replication within a materialized view of a source data table. A materialized view of a source data table is generated based on a query, the source data table having a plurality of data table rows associated with a plurality of client identifiers and including an entitlements column and data content, the entitlements column including a plurality of provider account identifiers and a plurality of consumer account identifiers. An update to an entitlements table of the source data table is detected where the entitlements table includes a plurality of entitlements table rows and where the entitlements table rows are associated with the client identifiers, the consumer account identifiers, and the provider account identifiers. An update to the source data table based on the first update to the entitlements table is detected, and an incremental replication of the materialized view of the source data table is performed.
US12093277B2
A method comprises reading data of one or more files and identifying one or more data types corresponding to the one or more files. In the method, at least one destination database for the data is recommended based at least in part on the one or more data types. A data model to use in connection with writing the data to the at least one destination database is generated. The generation of the data model is based at least in part on the one or more data types corresponding to the one or more files. At least the generation of the data model is performed using one or more machine learning algorithms.
US12093265B2
The present disclosure involves computer-implemented method, medium, and system for automatically correlating semantically connected data and metadata. One example method includes identifying a document that is to be analyzed using a semantics based mapping (SBM) infrastructure. A matching process is performed for the identified document using the SBM infrastructure, where the matching process identifies a plurality of matching terms within the document, the plurality of matching terms are assigned to a plurality of semantics identifiers (IDs), and each semantics ID corresponds to one or more terms in the plurality of matching terms. Each of the plurality of matching terms is replaced with a respective term ID to generate an updated document. A request to search for a target term in the document is received. The target term is translated to a target term ID based on the SBM infrastructure. The updated document is searched for one or more matching terms.
US12093264B2
A database system is operable to receive a plurality of records of a dataset for storage. A plurality of segment row data is generated from the plurality of records and a plurality of parity data corresponding to the plurality of segment row data is generated. The plurality of segment row data is stored via a first storage mechanism. The plurality of parity data is stored via a second storage mechanism. Execution of a plurality of queries against the dataset is facilitated by accessing the plurality of segment row data via the first storage mechanism. A storage failure of one of the plurality of segment row data via the first storage mechanism is detected. The one of the plurality of segment row data is recovered for storage via the first storage mechanism based on accessing at least one parity data via the second storage mechanism.
US12093253B2
Systems, devices, and methods discussed herein provide improved autonomous agent applications that are configured to generate automated answers to a question using summarized logical forms (SLFs). A myriad of techniques may be utilized to generate one or more summarized logical forms for an answer, where the summarized logical form(s) identifies the main entities/informative portions of the answer. Instead of indexing the whole of the answer as in conventional methods, an answer can be indexed using the summarized logical forms. A subsequent query may be converted to logical form to generate a query representation which can be compared to one or more SLFs of a set of answers. If an SLF of an answer matches the query representation, the answer may be provided in response to the question. By indexing the answer with its informative portions, the speed and accuracy of identifying the answer is improved.
US12093248B1
The subject technology receives a statement to initiate an online index building process of an index. The subject technology determines that the index can be generated. The subject technology performs a write operation to store an index record indicating an initial status of the online index building process. The subject technology performs a statement fencing process. The subject technology performs a back-filling process of the index. The subject technology validates the index.
US12093247B2
A blockchain process executed by a proposer computing node, including the steps of generating proposed transaction data representing a set of proposed transactions from a group of transactions, where the proposed transactions are distinct from the proposed transactions of one or more other proposer nodes, transmitting the proposed transaction data to a predetermined number of associated verifier computing nodes to verify each of the proposed transactions, receiving, from at least one of the predetermined number of verifier computing nodes, verification data indicating a verification result of each proposed transaction, and generating block data to include one or more transactions of the group in a blockchain data structure, the included transactions being verified ones of: the proposed transaction set of the proposer computing node; and the respective other proposed transaction sets of the other proposer nodes.
US12093244B1
A method of evaluating system impact of wiring updates for a vehicle is provided. The method comprises receiving input of the wiring updates and retrieving operational and structural information about the vehicle from several databases. Disturbed system impact metrics from the updates are determined according to the operational and structural information about the vehicle. A first set of test procedures correlated with the disturbed system impact metrics are generated from a maintenance manual. An impact estimate of the first set of test procedures are generated in near real-time. A second set of test procedures is generated from non-maintenance manual sources for wires not referenced in the maintenance manual. The first and second sets of procedures are combined into a single optimized flow according to user-specified parameters, and a new test procedure is created for addition to the maintenance manual based on the single optimized flow.
US12093242B2
A system includes reception of a database query, determination of result set output columns associated with the database query, and determination, for each of the determined result set output columns, of one or more data sources associated with the result set output column. Sensitivity information is determined for each of the one or more data sources based on metadata, and result set sensitivity information is determined based on the determined sensitivity information. A result set is determined based on the database query, and the result set and the result set sensitivity information are transmitted.
US12093241B2
A method for replaying a log on a data node, a data node, and a database system are described. The method is used to improve a log replay speed, and includes: the data node obtaining a plurality of logs, wherein the plurality of logs includes at least one transaction commit log and at least one page operation log; and a first thread of a plurality of threads replaying the at least one page operation log, and a same second thread replaying all page operation logs including an operation on a same page. As such, log replay progress does not need to be synchronized between threads. A process in which the first thread replays the transaction commit log is independent of a process in which at least one second thread replays the at least one page operation log.
US12093239B2
Methods for negotiating parameters for maintaining, at an analytical database, a replica of a transactional table, stored at a transactional database, are disclosed. By establishing parameters of said maintenance prior to commencing, the transactional database and the analytical database may remain only loosely coupled after completing the negotiation. The parameters of the negotiation may be stored in a location that is accessible to both the transactional database and the analytical database, such that the results of the negotiation may be accessed during the process of maintaining the replica. The negotiation may include a procedure to provide portions of a change-data-capture log, associated to the transactional table, to the analytical database via a transport mechanism such that the replica may be updated, in addition to a list of agreed upon data definition language commands that may be used in the portions of the change-data-capture log.
US12093233B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for managing a database. In one or more examples, the system obtains input data comprising one or more data entries, where each data entry comprises one or more data items, and each data item comprises a field name and a field value. The system can generate a key-value set for each data item to obtain a plurality of key-value sets. Each key-value set includes at least a first key element comprising the field name of the respective data item and a second key element comprising the field value of the respective data item. The system can sort and store the plurality of key-value sets in the database. The system can further receive a query indicative of a field name or a field value, and generate, for display, an output based on retrieved key elements sets based on the query.
US12093231B1
A database system is operable to execute a query transaction to generate addendum part data updating a segment A target storage node receives a plurality of sets of buffered rows and a plurality of flush requests. The target storage nodes each of a plurality of addendum parts in response to receiving a corresponding one of a plurality of flush requests. The target node assigns a plurality of version numbers to the plurality of addendum parts. A coordinator operator execution module commits only a final addendum part having a most recent version number as the addendum part data for the segment.
US12093228B2
A method for uploading, validating, and visualizing data in an oilfield software platform includes obtaining oilfield data at least partially collected using one or more sensors at a wellsite, deployed into a well, or both. The oilfield data comprises a plurality of data files, the plurality of data files being of different types. The method also includes loading the plurality of data files into a landing area, and validating the oilfield data contained in the plurality of data files. Validating includes examining dependencies between at least two different types of data, and visualizing lineages between different entities represented by the plurality of data files.
US12093224B2
Context-based intelligent placement of files in aggregated cloud storage is provided. A virtual volume can be created to provide an aggregated interface for accessing aggregated cloud storage. When the user attempts to create a file on the virtual volume, the virtual volume can employ a placement algorithm to intelligently select one of the aggregated cloud storage providers to which the request to create the file will be directed. The placement algorithm can consider context of the aggregated cloud storage providers, network metrics, and other factors in its selection. In this way, the aggregated cloud storage can be efficiently used while maximizing the user experience.
US12093221B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating and providing a collaborative content management interface for a group of users. For example, the systems described herein can detect user input to add a header within the collaborative content management interface. The systems can cause a file management system to generate a subfolder that corresponds with the new header in the collaborative content management interface. Conversely, the systems can analyze a file database maintained by a file management system and, in response to user input to initiate a collaborative content management system, generate a collaborative content management interface with graphical elements to represent files and headers to represent subfolders.
US12093214B2
A processor may include a plurality of columns of vector processing units arranged in a two-dimensional column array with a plurality of column stacks placed side-by-side in a first direction and each column stack having two columns stacked in a second direction. The processor may further include a memory unit divided into two portions placed on two opposite sides of the column array in the second direction. Each portion may contain two memory blocks placed side-by-side in the first direction. Each memory block may contain two cache blocks placed along a first edge abutting an adjacent memory block and a plurality banks of memory cells placed to space from the first edge in the first direction by the two cache blocks and from a second edge abutting the column array in the second direction by routing channels.
US12093211B2
One embodiment provides a method, including: identifying, based on context data, a location of an information handling device; accessing a settings profile for the information handling device that is based on the identified location; determining, using a processor, whether at least one current setting on the information handling device is inconsistent with the settings profile; and adjusting, responsive to determining that the at least one current setting is inconsistent with the settings profile, the at least one current setting to match the settings profile for the location. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US12093206B1
Disclosed are a multi-mode virtual serial port chip, an implementation method, and a firmware downloading system and method thereof. The multi-mode virtual serial port chip comprises a normal operating mode and an enhanced operating mode, which are selected by a multiplexed auxiliary signal pin according to that whether there is a pull-down resistor connected thereto. The normal operating mode is compatible with the prior art and applications, and one-click automatic MCU firmware downloading can also be realized in the enhanced operating mode. In the present invention, no peripheral circuit is needed, the MCU also cannot unintentionally enter other modes, and the effects of automatically downloading firmware, improving downloading efficiency, reducing costs, reducing power consumption and decreasing product volume are achieved.
US12093205B2
The invention provides an interface conversion device including a USB connector, a DP connector, a first physical layer (PHY) circuit, a second PHY circuit, a digital buffer, a USB controller, and a path switching circuit. A first terminal of the first PHY circuit is coupled to the USB connector. The digital buffer and the USB controller are coupled to a second terminal of the first PHY circuit. A first terminal of the second PHY circuit is coupled to the DP connector. The path switching circuit selectively electrically connects a second terminal of the second PHY circuit to an output terminal of the digital buffer when the interface conversion device is operated in DP ALT mode. The path switching circuit selectively electrically connects the second terminal of the second PHY circuit to a DP output terminal of the USB controller when the interface conversion device is operated in tunneling mode.
US12093200B2
Methods for USB signal communication over an optical link are described. One aspect includes detecting connection of a device circuit to a USB device. The detecting may further include transmitting an electrical pulse through a reactive network, and detecting a change in a delay associated with the electrical pulse responsive to connecting the device circuit to the USB device. An optical signal associated with the detected connection may be transmitted to a host circuit via an optical communication channel.
US12093198B2
A processor for a cryptosystem. The processor comprises a hybrid processor architecture including a hardware processor, a software processor and an interconnection interface arranged to exchange data between the hardware processor and the software processor; wherein the hardware processor comprises a plurality of hardware accelerator modules arranged to perform computational tasks including at least one of number theoretic transforms (NTT) computation, arithmetic operations which are more time-consuming when being performed instead by the software-processor.
US12093197B2
A method for searching for an interrupted device, a slave device, a master device, and a storage medium. The method includes: connecting slave devices to a master device through a connection device; receiving, by the slave devices, task process information sent by the master device, where the task process information includes: task process information recorded by the master device and the corresponding slave devices when executing tasks; and when the receiving of task process information sent by the master device is interrupted, finding an interrupted slave device according to the interrupted task process information.
US12093194B2
In some examples, a management system receives, from a first storage system, first port information of ports in the first storage system, and receives, from a second storage system, second port information of ports in a second storage system. The management system merges the first port information from the first storage system and the second port information from the second storage system into merged port information. The management system receives, from the first storage system, a request for port information of ports in the second storage system, and sends, to the first storage system, the second port information for use in path selection from hosts to the first and second storage systems.
US12093191B2
The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for evolving a root of trust and an electronic device using the method. Through the present disclosure, the root of trust can be evolved several times to strengthen the security verification capability for secure boot. Different from the conventional method of burning the root of trust in the read-only memory, the present disclosure uses a block protection storage device to write a verification firmware to be added to the root of trust into an unprotected block of the block protection storage device. Further, after the writing is completed, the unprotected block in which the verification firmware is written becomes a protected block, so as to make the evolvable root of trust secure and reliable, and can achieve credibility for evolving the root of trust.
US12093189B1
Methods and integrated circuit devices for recording memory-side page activity are provided. Memory systems typically have a combination of faster memory devices and slower memory devices. Frequently accessed memory pages (hot pages) should be maintained in the faster memory devices while less frequently accessed memory pages (cold pages) should be maintained in the slower memory devices. To determine the memory pages that should be moved between the faster memory devices and the slower memory devices, counters may be implemented to count transactions to the memory pages. The counter values may be periodically checked to identify memory pages that can be moved from faster memory devices to slower memory devices, and vice-versa.
US12093186B2
Process dedicated in-memory translation lookaside buffers (TLBs) (mTLBs) for augmenting a memory management unit (MMU) TLB for translating virtual addresses (VAs) to physical addresses (PA) in a processor-based system is disclosed. In disclosed examples, a dedicated in-memory TLB is supported in system memory for each process so that one process's cached page table entries do not displace another process's cached page table entries. When a process is scheduled to execute in a central processing unit (CPU), the in-memory TLB address stored for such process can be used by page table walker circuit in the CPU MMU to access the dedicated in-memory TLB for executing the process to perform VA to PA translations in the event of a TLB miss to the MMU TLB. If a TLB miss occurs to the in-memory TLB, the page table walker circuit can walk the page table in the MMU.
US12093178B2
Database objects are retrieved from a database and parsed into normalized cached data objects. The database objects are stored in the normalized cached data objects in a cache store, and tenant data requests are serviced from the normalized cached data objects. The normalized cached data objects include references to shared objects in a shared object pool that can be shared across different rows of the normalized cached data objects and across different tenant cache systems.
US12093160B1
System and methods for IoT event detector correctness verification. Detector models (e.g., state-based models including variables, states, transitions and actions) take IoT device data as input and detect, based on the data, events that triggers actions. To verify a correctness of the models prior to deploying the models at scale, an event detector model correctness checker obtains a representation of a definition of the model, verifies, based on analysis of the model definition, whether the model complies with correctness properties, and generates a report indicating whether the model complies. Example correctness properties include a reachability correctness property that indicates that respective states or actions are reachable according to the definition of the event detector model. The analysis may be accessed via an interface element and may result in generation of a report that identifies a location of non-compliance within the model definition.
US12093159B2
Systems and methods are provided for improved auditing of user actions associated with a software application. The system includes functionality to log user actions in a structured, standardized way. The system includes interactive user interfaces for analyzing the logs. The logging is based on a well-defined categorization of available actions. The log information includes (and distinguishes among) user details, context details, user inputs, and/or system outputs (including identification of data objects). The interactive user interfaces enable a user to view structured log data in an efficient manner, such as by presenting logs in a tabular format, executing queries on the log data, and/or presenting visualizations that summarize the log data. The interactive user interfaces provide functionality that allows a user to investigate and/or audit user interactions with a data object. A reviewer is permitted to drag and drop one or more data objects of interest from the software application directly into the interactive user interfaces. The interactive interfaces present log entries associated with the object(s) for further review by the reviewer.
US12093156B2
A computer implemented method manages connections. A number of processor units monitor connection requests to access a set of backend resources. The number of processor units identify request groups for the connection requests based on authentication data in the connection requests. The number of processor units analyze the connection requests to identify a usage trend for connections by the request groups. The number of processor units predict the usage trend of the connections for a period of time to form a predicted usage trend for connections in the period of time. The number of processor units manage a connection pool based on the predicted usage trend for the connections in the period of time.
US12093148B2
The technical solution involves a board card including a storage component, an interface apparatus, a control component, and an artificial intelligence chip. The artificial intelligence chip is connected to the storage component, the control component, and the interface apparatus, respectively; the storage component is used to store data; the interface apparatus is used to implement data transfer between the artificial intelligence chip and an external device; and the control component is used to monitor a state of the artificial intelligence chip. The board card is used to perform an artificial intelligence operation.
US12093146B2
A method and system includes generating event logs, storing in a database log data comprising the generated event logs, identifying a first set of log data by searching the log data for a first log data type, the first log data type having a data structure that includes a generic identifier and a specific data, identifying pairs of generic identifiers and associated specific data in the first set of log data, for each generic identifier of the identified pairs identifying a second set of log data that include the generic identifier but not the specific data, wherein identifying the second set of log data is performed by searching the log data for event logs that include the generic identifier, and updating log data stored in the database by adding, for each of the event logs of the identified second set of log data, the specific data associated with the generic identifier.
US12093139B2
A system and method for a database management system. The method comprises: receiving a database transaction for inserting a set of records in a database table of the database management system or for creating indexes. The database transaction may be executed using the database management system. The database management system may rollback the database transaction by truncating the database table or the created indexes.
US12093134B2
Techniques manage tracking records in an application system which includes an active dump file and an inactive dump file. A set of tracking records indicating a state of the application system is received. The set of tracking records is added to the active dump file. A storage signal for storing the active dump file into a backup device associated with the application system is generated according to a determination that a size of the active dump file meets a predetermined size threshold and according to a determination that a state of the inactive dump file is a ready state. The ready state indicates that the inactive dump file is available for storing another set of tracking records to be received in the future. Accordingly, two dump files may alternately store tracking records, and copies of the dump files may be continuously stored into a backup device to improve reliability.
US12093133B2
System and method for backing up management components of a software-defined data center (SDDC) managed by a cloud-based service uses backup rules for the SDDC, which are used to configure a backup manager agent in the SDDC. The backup rules are then used by the backup manager agent to determine whether at least one of system logs generated by the management components in the SDDC, which are monitored by the backup manager agent, satisfies the backup rules to initiate a backup operation for at least one of the management components of the SDDC.
US12093128B2
Systems and methods for efficient error mitigation in quantum circuit execution using parity checks and classical feedback are disclosed. A method may include a quantum computer: executing a quantum optimization algorithm comprising measurement points for measuring a quantum state parity, and termination instructions for stopping execution of the quantum optimization algorithm; preparing the quantum state; executing a first step of the quantum optimization algorithm; measuring a first parity of the quantum state; returning the first parity to a classical computer program; executing a second step of the quantum optimization algorithm; measuring a second parity of the quantum state; returning the second parity to the classical computer program that is configured to compare the first parity and the second parity; receiving an instruction to execute the termination instructions from the classical computer program in response to first parity and the second parity being different; and executing the termination instructions.
US12093123B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing dashboard for alert storage and history (“DASH”). In various embodiments, DASH provides for consolidated tracking and monitoring of two or more of current (or active) alerts, cleared alerts, and/or transactional information for alerts that are stored within corresponding alert live database that mirrors current alert instance data in a real-time fault management system, alert history database that contains a snapshot of an alert history of each alert or corresponding network device, and/or alert log database that contains a full transaction record of every copy of an alert either over a first duration or having a total data size within a first total data size. DASH also cleans received alert data and/or enriches the alert data, and provides a user interface (“UI”) that enables a user to view, absorb, filter, manage, and/or organize alert data to facilitate addressing of alerts in the network(s).
US12093122B2
Embodiments for an intelligent log analysis and retention for microservices applications. Such log analysis is helpful in troubleshooting failure conditions that may occur intermittently or repeatedly within a microservices environment. Executed operations by microservices, applications, or components generate logs, and these logs are classified based on certain parameters. A default log retention period defines how long the logs are stored in the system, and a log analytical engine determines and assigns weights constituting additional retention time to keep logs for failed operations. These logs can then be analyzed to determine causes of the failure, and build failure models to predict future failure conditions. Logs for successful operations can be timely deleted to save storage space.
US12093116B2
A video processing circuit has a bus interface circuit configured to communicatively couple the video processing circuit to an imaging device over a multidrop differential serial link; detector circuits configured to detect sequentially occurring signaling states of the multidrop differential serial link, the sequentially occurring signaling states preceding a transition of the bus interface circuit from a low-power mode to a high-speed mode; and a controller configured to: cause the bus interface circuit to receive data transmitted over the multidrop differential serial link in the high-speed mode when a duration of each signaling state in the sequentially occurring signaling states exceeds a minimum duration defined for the each signaling state; and cause the bus interface circuit to return to the low-power mode when one signaling state of the sequentially occurring signaling states does not exceed a corresponding minimum duration defined for the one signaling state.
US12093109B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system for controlling peak power consumption, which dynamically controls frequency by monitoring the load in real-time, thereby reducing the power consumption, and providing sufficient computing performance while controlling peak power consumption. The method and system for controlling peak power consumption of the present disclosure monitor the load in real-time, and reduce power consumption by dynamically and intelligently controlling the operating frequency, to achieve a balance between performance and power consumption, such that the chip works at the highest frequency when the peak power consumption does not exceed the load threshold, thereby effectively improving the work efficiency while achieving the power consumption control.
US12093108B2
Provided are a memory control method and an electronic device performing the method. A memory control method according to an embodiment may include measuring an internal temperature of a processor by a thermal manage unit, predicting a leakage current of a first memory based on the internal temperature and a voltage applied to the first memory, and controlling the operation of the first memory. The processor may access a second memory following accessing the first memory.
US12093106B2
A computer device trains a neural network to determine power recharging directions between sets of computing devices based on historical computing device data and historical user eye data. The computing device receives, from an augmented reality device, computing device data pertaining to a first computing device and a second computing device, and user eye data pertaining to a user associated with the first computing device and the second computing device. The computing device determines a power recharging direction between the first computing device and the second computing device based, at least in part, on providing the received computing device data and the received user eye data as input to the neural network, resulting in an identification of a source computing device and a target computing device. The computing devices triggers a power recharging cycle, wherein the source computing device transfers direct current power to the target computing device.
US12093104B1
Methods and apparatus to provide holistic global performance and power management are described. In an embodiment, logic (e.g., coupled to each compute node of a plurality of compute nodes) causes determination of a policy for power and performance management across the plurality of compute nodes. The policy is coordinated across the plurality of compute nodes to manage a job to one or more objective functions, where the job includes a plurality of tasks that are to run concurrently on the plurality of compute nodes. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US12093098B2
The present disclosure relates to an USB PD-type interface including a first node receiving a first potential, a second node delivering a second potential, and a third node at a reference potential; a resistor connected between a fourth node coupled to the first node, and a fifth node; a MOS transistor connected between the fifth node and the second node; a bipolar transistor having a collector connected to a gate of the MOS transistor and an emitter connected to the fourth node or to the fifth node; and a circuit configured to deliver a control potential to a base of the bipolar transistor determined from a current in the first resistor.
US12093096B2
Various dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) techniques can optimize the high voltage residency of a device containing multiple processing cores that share a voltage rail. The DVFS techniques described herein can reduce the high voltage residency (duration) of the voltage rail by aligning the high frequency duration of multiple cores sharing the same voltage rail.
US12093094B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include detecting an amount of energy being discharged from a battery of a computing device. The method may further include predicting, based on the amount of energy being discharged from the battery, a thermal response of the computing device. Furthermore, the method may include performing thermal management of the computing device based on the predicted thermal response. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US12093093B2
A temperature regulating mount for portable electronic devices is provided that includes a temperature control unit for preventing portable electronic devices from reaching critical temperatures during operation to avoid undesired shut down of the electronic device. The mount is further accompanied by a protective perimeter casing for protecting the electronic device and allowing the device to mate with a universal mount. The perimeter casing leaves the back of the device open or exposed (e.g., through webbing) for temperature control. The protective perimeter casing includes grooves and indents for mating with guide rails and a movable clamping mechanism for securing the electronic device to the mount in a particular orientation to maximize the mount's ability to regulate the temperature of the electronic device.
US12093089B2
A generic domain compute system that is customizable for at least one domain or zone compute in a vehicle having a gateway power and control (GAPAC). The GAPAC has a power supply, a scalable microcontroller, a power management integrated circuit, a set of standardized and scalable external connectors for external inter-connections for Ethernet and car connector, a standard and scalable internal connector for internal inter-connections for power, control and generic busses. At least a first compute extension (COMEX) has a standard and scalable connecter internally connected to the GAPAC. The COMEX has a scalable microcontroller, a power management integrated circuit and a set of standardized and scalable connectors for external inter-connections. The COMEX is supplied with a permanent voltage from the GAPAC power supply. The microcontrollers, external connectors and internal connectors are scaled according to the domain or zone compute application.
US12093086B2
The present application provides a display device. The display device includes a first body and a second body rotatably connected to a side of the rotating shaft respectively, a first slider connected to the first body, and a second slider connected to the second body. The first slider includes a first slide body, and a first elastic body for applying an elastic force to the first slide body in a direction away from the rotating shaft. The second slider includes a second slide body, and a second elastic body for applying an elastic force to the second slide body in a direction away from the rotating shaft.
US12093082B2
A substrate for display has one side or the other side thereof folded to face each other, has a first region defined as a folding region and a second area defined as an unfolding region, and has a plurality of first through-holes formed in the first region and a plurality of second through-holes formed in the second area, a second through-hole comprising a 2-1 opening area which opens to the one side, and a 2-2 opening area which opens to the other side, and the size of the 2-1 opening region Of at least one second through-hole being different from the size of the 2-2 opening area thereof.
US12093078B2
A docking station including a network interface controller to communicatively couple the docking station to a network, a controller to manage the docking station, and a hub communicatively coupled to both the network interface controller and the controller. In one example, the hub is communicatively coupled to a computing device. In another example, the controller causes the hub to use the computing device as a master based on the computing device being communicatively coupled to the hub and causes the hub to use the controller as the master based on the computing device not being communicatively coupled to the hub.
US12093077B1
A head mountable display device can include a frame defining an aperture, an optical assembly disposed in the aperture, and a curtain assembly extending between the frame and the optical assembly and occluding the aperture. The curtain assembly can include an elastic layer and an air-impermeable layer.
US12093068B2
A regulator circuit included in a computer system may include a control circuit and multiple pass circuits that source respective supply currents to a regulated power supply node by adjusting respective conductance values between an input power supply node and the regulated power supply node. The number of pass circuits can be adjusted on a design-by-design basis based on a threshold load current for the regulator circuit or on a threshold conductance between the input power supply node and the regulated power supply node. The control circuit adjusts the respective conductance values using a combination of respective sense currents generated by the multiple pass circuits along with a reference voltage and a voltage level of the regulated power supply node.
US12093067B1
The invention discloses a low power consumption and high precision resistance-free CMOS reference voltage source circuit, which includes a, a positive temperature coefficient voltage generation circuit and a starting circuit. The self-bias current source circuit uses two NMOS tubes with different threshold voltages in the subthreshold region to form a stack structure, which generates the bias current and negative temperature coefficient voltage on the order of nanoampere. The positive temperature coefficient voltage generation circuit uses PMOS differential to generate positive temperature coefficient voltage for the structure and performs first-order curvature compensation for negative temperature coefficient voltage.
US12093056B2
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, an industrial facility is provided comprising a tag layout and at least one ingress/egress zone. The tag layout comprises at least one double row of tags. The ingress/egress zone is located outside of an area of the vehicle travel plane occupied by the aisle path and is bounded in its entirety by the double row of tags, by two or more double rows of tags, by a combination of one or more double rows of tags and one more selected facility boundaries, or by combinations thereof. The double row of tags is arranged in an n×m matrix that is configured for successive detection of the inner and outer rows of tags that is dependent on the point-of-origin of a sensor transit path across the double row of tags. Additional embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US12093055B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for enabling a robot to follow an object by using distance measurement data and odometry data through ultra-wideband (UWB) to estimate a relative position of a target in a robot center coordinate system. The method comprises initializing a robot's own object following algorithm according to an object following request; transmitting a single-sided two-way ranging (SS-TWR) poll message; receiving a single response message in response to the SS-TWR poll message from the object, the single response message including second odometry information of a second odometry measurement device of the object; estimating a distance to the object based on a round trip delay calculated by an SS-TWR method; predicting a position of the object based on the second odometry information and first odometry information of the first odometry measurement device; and correcting the position of the object based on the estimated distance.
US12093052B2
A system and method include scanning a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device through a range of orientations corresponding to a scanning zone while emitting light pulses from the LIDAR device. The method also includes receiving returning light pulses corresponding to the light pulses emitted from the LIDAR device and determining initial point cloud data based on time delays between emitting the light pulses and receiving the corresponding returning light pulses and the orientations of the LIDAR device. The initial point cloud data has an initial angular resolution. The method includes identifying, based on the initial point cloud data, a reflective feature in the scanning zone and determining an enhancement region and an enhanced angular resolution for a subsequent scan to provide a higher spatial resolution in at least a portion of subsequent point cloud data from the subsequent scan corresponding to the reflective feature.
US12093051B2
A path determination method includes acquiring plural walking paths Rw of a first pedestrian M1 in a case where walking patterns of plural second pedestrians M2 are set to first to seventh walking patterns, creating plural sets of learning data of a relationship in which a mask image of a virtual robot is associated with a moving direction command for the virtual robot, the mask image and the moving direction command being obtained in a case where the virtual robot moves along each of the plural walking paths Rw in a virtual space, creating a learned model by learning model parameters of a CNN by a gradient method by using the plural sets of learning data, and determining a moving velocity command v for a robot (2) by using the learned model.
US12093026B2
A control device of a technical installation receives in normal operation cyclically measurement variables from sensors, and outputs control variables to actuators. In normal operation, the control device stores the history of at least some of the measurement variables at least for a limited time and monitors the measurement variables for the occurrence of a fault. If a fault occurs, the control device transmits a fault message identifying the fault and the history to a knowledge base. In response to the fault message and the histories, the control device receives a reply from the knowledge base and outputs the reply to an operator. Before the normal operation is performed, the control device receives from the operator specifications which allow the control device to defines the histories. In the event of a fault, the control device determines, in dependence on the specifications, which histories to transmit to the knowledge base.
US12093024B2
An evaluation value prediction unit predicts an evaluation value at a time point after a given time passes from a predetermined evaluation time based on input data related to an operation of a factory at the evaluation time using a learned prediction model. The prediction model is a learned model that is learned so that the evaluation value related to the operation of the factory at a time point after the given time passes from one time point is output by inputting a plurality of kinds of data related to the operation of the factory at one time point. An evaluation value output unit outputs information related to the evaluation value.
US12093021B2
There is provided a technique that includes a load port on which a plurality of storage containers, each storage container storing a plurality of substrates, are mounted, a plurality of process chambers configured to be capable of accommodating the substrates, a transfer part configured to transfer the substrates stored in each storage container to each of the process chambers; an operation part configured to, when performing the process in a state in which a substrate is not present in each process chamber, count first count data of data tables for corresponding process chambers; a memory configured to store the data tables; and a controller configured to assign first transfer flag data to a data table of a process chamber having largest first count data and configured to control the transfer part based on the first transfer flag data so as to transfer the substrates in the predetermined order.
US12093016B2
A numerical controller executes a system program. While executing the system program, the numerical controller executes a sub-program. On the basis of the execution of the sub-program, the numerical controller controls position-controlled shafts of a machine tool controlled by the numerical controller. The sub-program contains instruction sets which are retrieved sequentially one after the other by the numerical controller. The numerical controller only executes the retrieved instruction sets when the instruction sets comply with permitted boundary conditions. Otherwise, the instruction sets are not executed. Before executing the sub-program and while executing the system program, the numerical controller receives information defining the permitted boundary conditions via an interface protected from unauthorized access.
US12093013B2
A CNC machining center that includes a machine base and a machine tool positioned on the base for carrying out a machining operation on a workpiece. A work table is positioned on the base and is adapted for supporting the workpiece and moving the workpiece relative to the machine tool during a machining operation. A saw is positioned above the work table in a longitudinally-offset direction from the machine tool for carrying out a sawing operation on the workpiece. The saw may be a band saw.
US12093011B2
A method includes determining an artificial intelligence function in an engineering framework system. An inference path is defined for generation of an AI model by a computation graph. An AI function and the inference path are converted into a processing format. The converted AI function is sent and exported to an extraction and extension module of an AI workbench module. The extended computation graph of the inference path is transmitted from the extraction and extension module to an AI framework module. The method includes communicating of a communication adapter with the processing module continuously by using a supporting communication protocol for receiving training data as input for the AI function and forwarding the training data to the AI framework module. Learned parameters of the AI model are transferred from an API interface of the AI framework module to the communication adapter for updating the AI model.
US12093009B2
Implementations are described herein for provisioning a device such as a DCN with configuration data for operation on a process automation network using an “out-of-band” communication channel. In various implementations, a temporary out-of-band communication channel may be established between a first and second DCNs. The out-of-band communication channel may be distinct from a process automation network through which the first DCN is to be communicatively coupled with other process automation nodes of a process automation system. Provisioning data may be transmitted from the second DCN to the first DCN over the temporary out-of-band communication channel. The provisioning data may include: information technology (IT) configuration data and operational technology (OT) configuration data. Subsequent to the transmitting, the temporary out-of-band communication channel may be closed.
US12093005B2
Apparatus and method to facilitate automatic detection of a device state are disclosed herein. Selectively constraining a sensor based data set associated with one or more states of a device, wherein selectively constraining the sensor based data set includes analyzing a distribution of the sensor based data set to determine whether to constrain the sensor based data set, the sensor based data set including a first class and a second class of data values. Determining a threshold associated with the sensor based data set by selecting the threshold based on a variance between the first and second classes of the sensor based data set, wherein selecting the threshold includes using a constrained sensor based data set when the sensor based data set is determined to be constrained, and wherein the threshold indicates the data values associated with the first and second classes.
US12092995B2
A timepiece resonator including an inertial element moveable in relation to a fixed structure, and suspended to a flexible guide including flexible strips crossed in projection on a plane XY at a single crossing zone ZC, each one deformable in a plane parallel to the plane XY each one extending in a ribbon on either side of a neutral surface perpendicular to the plane XY and joining the first recess with the structure and the second recess with the inertial element, and including at least one rib asymmetrical in relation to its neutral surface, and, at the crossing zone ZC, either each flexible strip does not include any rib, or each rib is asymmetrical in relation to its neutral surface.
US12092983B2
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member, a charging member, a developing member, a contacting member contacting the developing member, and first to third power sources. The first power source generates a first voltage and applies it to the charging member. The second power source generates a second voltage, lower than the first voltage, from the first voltage and applies it to the contacting member. The third power source generates a third voltage, lower than the second voltage, from the second voltage and applies it to the developing member.
US12092980B2
A calculation system includes an obtaining unit and a calculation unit. The obtaining unit obtains information of a sheet. The calculation unit calculates an amount of change in length of the sheet in a conveyance direction of the sheet heated by a heating device to fix a toner image to the sheet based on the information of the sheet obtained by the obtaining unit and an elapsed time from a time when the sheet passes through the heating device.
US12092971B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a main body that forms an image on a sheet; and a removable unit that is attachable and removable to and from the main body, wherein the removable unit includes a first unit attachable to an outside of the main body, and is packable separately from the main body in a state removed from the main body.
US12092957B2
A radiation-sensitive resin composition includes a resin having a partial structure represented by formula (1). R1 and R2 each independently represent a substituted or unsubstituted chain aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or a substituted or unsubstituted alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, or R1 and R2 are bonded to each other to form a part of a 3- to 6-membered cyclic structure together with the carbon atom to which R1 and R2 are bonded; R3 represents a monovalent alicyclic hydrocarbon group having 4 to 20 carbon atoms and containing a fluorine atom. No fluorine atom is bonded to carbon atoms located at α-, β- and γ-positions of the carbon atom to which R1 and R2 are bonded; and No fluorine atom is bonded to carbon atoms located at α- and β-positions of the carbon atom to which R3 is bonded.
US12092952B2
An extreme ultraviolet mask includes a substrate, a reflective multilayer stack over the substrate, a capping layer over the reflective multilayer stack, a patterned absorber layer over a first portion of the capping layer, and a magnetic layer over a second portion of the capping layer around the first portion.
US12092947B2
A light source device includes a first light source configured to emit first color light, a wavelength conversion element configured to convert a wavelength of excitation light made incident thereon and emit converted light having a wavelength larger than the wavelength of the excitation light, and an emission-position changing mechanism configured to change an emission position of the incident excitation light to thereby change an incident position of the excitation light on the wavelength conversion element and change an emission position of the first color light and an emission position of the converted light in the same direction in synchronization with each other.
US12092942B2
A electronic method, includes receiving, by a graphene structure, a microwave signal. The microwave signal has a driving voltage level. The electronic method includes generating, by the graphene structure, optical photons based on the microvolts. The electronic method includes outputting, by the graphene structure, the optical photons.
US12092935B2
A display panel includes an array substrate, an opposite substrate facing the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the opposite substrate. The array substrate includes a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, and the non-display area includes a first non-display area disposed adjacent to a side portion of the display area and a second non-display area other than the first non-display area. The first non-display area overlaps the opposite substrate. The array substrate and the opposite substrate have the same or substantially the same area and a wire member is disposed under the array substrate to be connected to an external circuit module. Accordingly, the display panel does not need an extra space for the wire member, and thus the non-display area is reduced.
US12092921B1
A backlight module and a display device, including a diffuser plate and a back plate. The back plate includes a bottom plate and a side wall surrounding the bottom plate, the diffuser plate is connected with the side wall; a plurality of light-emitting bodies are provided on an inner wall of the back plate, the diffuser plate is positioned at an out-light side of the light-emitting bodies, an air source assembly and a plurality of nozzles are provided on an outer wall of the bottom plate; the air source assembly is in communication with each nozzle for conveying compressed air to each nozzle, air jet holes are cut on the bottom plate at positions corresponding to each air jet port of the nozzles, and the nozzles are used for spraying the compressed air through the air jet holes to form air supporting columns to support the diffuser plate.
US12092918B2
A reflective display panel is provided, wherein a color-generating layer of the reflective display panel includes optical grating patterns on reflective electrodes, and the optical grating patterns are configured to control a passage of light of different wavelengths. A nano-imprint technology is utilized to form the optical grating patterns with different shapes, heights, widths, period lengths, and space ratios to achieve control a passage of light of different wavelengths, so that the color-generating layer generates different monochromatic light, and light emitted by each sub-color-generating layer is brighter and has purer color.
US12092915B1
A touch display panel includes: an embedded touch liquid crystal display (LCD) module, a polarizer, and a cover plate. The embedded touch LCD module includes a non-filter window. The polarizer is disposed over the embedded touch LCD module. The polarizer includes a polarizing layer, and the polarizing layer includes a base layer and a dichroic absorption layer disposed in the base layer. The dichroic layer has a non-polarized window, and the first vertical projection of the non-polarized window overlaps with the second vertical projection of the non-filtering window. The cover plate covers the polarizer. The disclosure also provides a method for manufacturing the touch display panel and a display device including the touch display panel.
US12092914B2
Systems for the manufacturing of waveguide cells in accordance with various embodiments can be configured and implemented in many different ways. In many embodiments, various deposition mechanisms are used to deposit layer(s) of optical recording material onto a transparent substrate. A second transparent substrate can be provided, and the three layers can be laminated to form a waveguide cell. Suitable optical recording material can vary widely depending on the given application. In some embodiments, the optical recording material deposited has a similar composition throughout the layer. In a number of embodiments, the optical recording material spatially varies in composition, allowing for the formation of optical elements with varying characteristics. Regardless of the composition of the optical recording material, any method of placing or depositing the optical recording material onto a substrate can be utilized.
US12092905B2
Methods and devices for treating a human child having myopia are disclosed. For example, a human child having myopia can be treated by wearing spectacles having one or two myopia control spectacle lenses.
US12092892B2
A lens driving apparatus includes a base, a housing disposed on the base, a bobbin disposed inside the housing, a first coil disposed on the bobbin, a magnet disposed on the housing, a second coil disposed on the base, an upper elastic member connecting the housing and the bobbin, and a support member electrically connected with the upper elastic member. The housing includes an upper surface facing the upper elastic member. The upper surface of the housing includes a first surface, a second surface disposed lower than the first surface and a third surface disposed lower than the second surface. A portion of the upper elastic member is disposed on the first surface of the housing. The housing includes a hole formed on the third surface. The support member passes through the hole of the housing.
US12092888B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to a retrofit kit for a telecommunications cabinet that is configured to house copper electronic equipment. The kit includes a fiber optic apparatus configured to be mounted in an interior of the telecommunications cabinet and a retrofit door configured to be mounted to the telecommunications cabinet to cover the interior. The retrofit door includes a front surface, a plurality of sidewalls extending from the front surface, and a rear surface extending inward from the plurality of sidewalls. The rear surface is spaced apart from the front surface and defines an opening into a cavity of the retrofit door. The fiber optic apparatus and the retrofit door are configured such that when the fiber optic apparatus and the retrofit door are mounted, the at least one cavity of the retrofit door provides volume to accommodate the fiber optic apparatus.
US12092864B2
A compact micro electrical mechanical actuated ring-resonator includes a bus waveguide disposed on a platform; a ring resonator disposed on the platform, including at least a first optical coupler, wherein the ring resonator is optically coupled with the bus waveguide; and a selective waveguide disposed on a piezoelectric cantilever mounted in a trench defined in the platform, wherein the selective waveguide includes a second optical coupler and is controllable to selectively adjust a coupling ratio between the first optical coupler with the second optical coupler by physically changing a distance between the first optical coupler and the second optical coupler.
US12092858B2
Aspects include a pluggable optical device and related optical system. The pluggable optical device comprises a housing, a printed circuit board (PCB) within the housing, and one or more blind mate optical connectors attached to the PCB along a first end of the PCB. The pluggable optical device further comprises one or more electrical contacts of the PCB near the first end, one or more external optical connectors arranged near a second end of the PCB opposite the first end, and one or more optical components attached to the PCB and included in optical paths extending between the one or more external optical connectors and the one or more blind mate optical connectors.
US12092856B2
The present invention relates to a lighting device (10), comprising: a plurality of first light sources (24) adapted to emit visible light (24); a light guide panel (12), wherein visible light emitted by the plurality of first light sources in operation is coupled into the light guide panel via a light incoupling part (16a); at least one second light source (28) adapted to emit at least one of UV light (28′) and violet light to be coupled into the light guide panel via a light incoupling part (16a; 16b); and an optical element (30; 30′; 30″; 42) made of a first material which is different and more UV resistant than a second material that the light guide panel is made of, wherein the optical element is adapted to distribute light emitted by the at least one second light source over an area (34; 46) which is larger than a total light output surface area (35) of the at least one second light source before the light is coupled into the light guide plate.
US12092827B2
A lens of a head-mounted display including a see-through mirror/coating, a gradient-index lens element, and a polarizer which are disposed in sequence is provided. The lens also includes a first aspheric lens element disposed between the see-through mirror/coating and the polarizer. The gradient-index lens element has a planar surface, and the quarter-wave plate is disposed on the planar surface of the gradient-index lens element.
US12092823B2
A laser projection system utilizes a waveguide having a narrow incoupler for double-bounce mitigation and form factor reduction. An optical scanner includes an optical relay positioned in between two scan mirrors. The first scan mirror scans laser light into the optical relay in a first dimension, and the optical relay and converges the scanned laser light towards a second scan mirror. The second scan mirror scans laser light along a second dimension substantially perpendicular to a path over which the laser light is scanned across the second scan mirror, and the convergence introduced by the optical relay causes the laser light to be scanned as a line or arc path of an exit pupil plane that is coincident with the incoupler. The optical relay may include one or more lenses or may be a monolithic molded structure, which may be an Offner-style relay or a molded reflective relay.
US12092822B2
Systems and methods for switching between data connections establishing between an augmented reality display unit and a peripheral device. The systems and methods can automatically switch between communication modules, antennas, or frequencies based on sensor data to reduce or eliminate the effects of proximity to or submersion beneath water. In some examples, switching between communication modules, antennas, or frequencies is based on motion of the user's head or the electrical resistance, salinity, or chemical composition of a body of water the augmented reality display unit is placed within.
US12092821B2
An optical component according to the present disclosure includes a substrate containing sapphire. The substrate is provided with a functional portion and a heat dissipating portion. An inclination of a main face of the substrate is 75° or greater with respect to a c-plane of the sapphire. The functional portion and the heat dissipating portion are provided so that an angle formed by a c-axis of the sapphire and a line segment connecting the functional portion and the heat dissipating portion is 15° or less.
US12092820B2
Virtual reality (VR) displays are computer displays that present images or video in a manner that simulates a real experience for the viewer. In many cases, VR displays are implemented as head-mounted displays (HMDs) which provide a display in the line of sight of the user. Because current HMDs are composed of a display panel and magnifying lens with a gap therebetween, proper functioning of the HMDs limits their design to a box-like form factor, thereby negatively impacting both comfort and aesthetics. The present disclosure provides a different configuration for a virtual reality display which allows for improved comfort and aesthetics, including specifically at least one coherent light source, at least one holographic waveguide coupled to the at least one coherent light source to receive light therefrom, and at least one spatial light modulator coupled to the at least one holographic waveguide to modulate the light.
US12092812B2
A device for two-dimensionally scanning beam deflection of a light beam has spectrally tunable light source that emits a light beam having a time-varying wavelength. The device further comprises a first optical component that produces a first beam deflection. The first beam deflection causes the light beam to be deflected wavelength-dependently in a first direction. A second optical component produces a second beam deflection which causes the light beam to be deflected in a second direction different to the first direction. The second optical component comprises a prism pair comprising two prisms that are rotatably arranged successively in a beam path of the light beam. The two prisms are configured to perform continuous counter-rotational movements.
US12092807B2
An optical system includes an illumination device, an erecting optical unit and a scanning device. The illumination device is configured to generate illumination light. The scanning device is configured to generate a temporal sequence of at least two tilted illumination planes for illuminating a stationary sample volume. The at least two tilted illumination planes are arranged at a distance from one another and parallel to one another.
US12092797B2
An optical imaging system, along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, sequentially includes: a stop; a first lens having a refractive power; a second lens having a positive refractive power; a third lens having a positive refractive power, an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the third lens being convex surfaces; a fourth lens having a refractive power, and an image-side surface of the fourth lens being a convex surface; a fifth lens having a refractive power, and an image-side surface of the fifth lens being a concave surface; a sixth lens having a refractive power; and a seventh lens having a refractive power. A half of a maximum field-of-view Semi-FOV of the optical imaging system satisfies: Semi-FOV≤6°; and a total effective focal length f of the optical imaging system satisfies: f≥25 mm.
US12092787B2
A method for measuring subterranean formation porosity includes the steps of: deploying a nuclear logging tool having one or more neutron sources and two or more dual-function detectors disposed in into a subterranean formation; causing the one or more neutron sources to emit neutrons in a plurality of neutron pulses into the subterranean formation and generating neutrons and gamma rays in the subterranean formation; obtaining one or more neutron count rates for each of the two or more detectors; determining a formation type of the subterranean formation based on gamma rays received at the one or more detectors; calculating one or more neutron count rate ratios between the neutron count rates of two detectors selected from the two or more detectors; and obtaining one or more formation porosities based on the formation type and the one or more neutron count rate ratios.
US12092785B2
Obscured feature detectors are disclosed that have both the capability to sense the location of obscured structural features and the ability to warn a user of obscured live electrical wires in the vicinity. An interleaving component, such as a MUX, can interleave the sensing of obscured features and the sensing of live wires. The interleaving component is configured to alternately couple the electrical wire sensing element to the electrical wire sensing circuitry or to the common plate separately. Coupling the live wire sensing element to the electrical wire sensing circuitry can allow sensing of a live electrical wire and coupling the live wire sensing element to a known reference signal can allow sensing of obscured features.
US12092780B2
An apparatus, a method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for event detection of passive seismic data are disclosed. The apparatus includes processing circuitry extracts features from the passive seismic data based on a backbone subnetwork of a residual deep neural network. The processing circuitry generates bounding box proposals for a region of interest (ROI) in the passive seismic data based on the extracted features being input to a region proposal network of the residual deep neural network. The processing circuitry classifies the bounding box proposals into two groups. Each bounding box proposal in a first group indicates that a corresponding seismic signal presents in the ROI. Each bounding box proposal in a second group indicates that no seismic signal presents in the ROI. The processing circuitry determines at least one seismic signal in the ROI from the first group of bounding box proposals.
US12092779B2
A method for distributed acoustic sensing includes sending a first optical pulse down an optical fiber, wherein light from the first optical pulse is backscattered from positions along a length of the optical fiber according to coherent Rayleigh scattering; splitting backscattered light from the first optical pulse into a first portion for a first interferometer and a second portion for a second interferometer, the first interferometer having a first gauge length and the second interferometer having a second gauge length, wherein the first gauge length is different from the second gauge length; detecting a first interferometric signal from the first interferometer responsive to the first portion of backscattered light; detecting a second interferometric signal from the first interferometer responsive to the second portion of backscattered light; and processing the first and second interferometric signals for two different sensing applications adapted for the first and second gauge lengths, respectively.
US12092773B2
A radiation detection device includes a sensor having a first electrode and a second electrode. The first and second electrode each defines a plurality of fingers comprising a nanotube material, and the fingers of each electrode are interdigitated with one another. A voltage source may be configured to apply a voltage across the first and second electrodes. A chamber contains the sensor with a gas, one or more walls of the chamber enabling passage of radiation external to the chamber. A detection circuit detects radiation within the chamber based on a change in current across the first and second electrodes resulting from ionization of the gas by the radiation.
US12092769B2
With a ranging device and a ranging method according to the present embodiment, occurrence of a first event in which the intensity of a detection signal corresponding to reflected light output from a detection unit exceeds a first threshold and occurrence of a second event in which the intensity falls below a second threshold smaller or larger than the first threshold are counted for each predetermined elapsed time after the measuring beam emission from a projector. Based on integration results (i.e., histograms) obtained by integrating the counts for a plurality of times of light emission, a target signal derived from the reflected light can be extracted from the detection signal including random noise derived from external light, a detection time from the light emission to the detection by the detection unit can be determined, and a distance to an object can be precisely determined.
US12092768B2
In some implementations, an electrical drive circuit may generate a rectangular optical pulse using cathode pre-charge and cathode-pull compensation. The electrical drive circuit may include an anode and a cathode to connect an optical load, a switch, a first source connected between the anode and a ground, a rectifier connected between the cathode and the switch, a capacitor connected in parallel with the rectifier, a second source connected to the ground, and an inductor connected between the switch and the second source. In some implementations, when the switch is closed and the optical load is connected, a first current is provided to the optical load through the first source, the rectifier, and the switch, and a second current is provided to the optical load through the first source, the capacitor, and the switch, where a rise time of the first current complements a fall time of the second current.
US12092764B2
In one example, a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) module is provided. The LiDAR module includes a microelectromechanical system (MEMS), a substrate on which the MEMS is formed, and one or more measurement circuits. The MEMS includes an array of micro-mirror assemblies. One or more micro-mirror assemblies of the array of micro-mirror assemblies further includes a measurement structure connected to the micro-mirror, an electrical resistance of the measurement structure being variable based on a rotation angle of the micro-mirror. The one or more measurement circuits are configured to: determine the electrical resistance of the measurement structure of the one or more micro-mirror assemblies; and provide the determined electrical resistance to enable measurement of a rotation angle of the micro-mirror of the one or more micro-mirror assemblies.
US12092753B2
A method for geolocating a mobile computing device within an indoor environment. One embodiment may comprise generating a geolocation request audio signal by a speaker of a first device starting at a first point in time, receiving, by a microphone of the first device, a reply audio signal from a second device, and extracting, by one or more processors of the first device, information encoded in the reply audio signal. The method may further comprise estimating, by the one or more processors, a receipt time by the first device for the reply audio signal and calculating a first time of flight (TOF) using the first point in time and the estimated receipt time for a second audio signal. The first device may comprise a smartphone and the second device may comprise a beacon located at a known location in an indoor environment.
US12092751B2
Systems and methods for tracking a subject using radio-frequency identification (RFID). In an embodiment, an antenna array comprising a plurality of articulating brackets and a plurality of antennas is provided. Each of the articulating brackets is configured to move one of the plurality of antennas into a plurality of positions, and each of the antennas is configured to receive a RFID signal. In addition, a processor receives RFID data based on RFID signals received by the antennas of the antenna array, and determines a trajectory of a subject based on the RFID data. Based on the determined trajectory of the subject, the processor controls one or more of the articulating brackets to move one or more of the antennas into a position to track the subject.
US12092745B2
A method for GNSS-based localization of a vehicle includes receiving a first set of satellite orbit data, using the first set of satellite orbit data when determining a first localization result, receiving a second set of satellite orbit data, checking a plausibility of the first set of satellite orbit data using the second set of satellite orbit data, and manipulating the first set of satellite orbit data and/or the first localization result and/or a localization filter when the plausibility check was not successful.
US12092740B2
A positioning method and device based on multi-sensor fusion are provided and relates to object positioning field. The method includes obtaining sensor data collected by various sensors on a movable object in real time; temporally and spatially synchronizing sensor data collected by the sensors to form various temporally and spatially synchronized sensor data; performing data preprocessing and correlation on the temporally and spatially synchronized sensor data to form to-be-jointly-optimized sensor data; obtaining state information at each time point before a current time point in a preset sliding window; and determining a current pose state of the movable object by performing a joint optimization according to the to-be-jointly-optimized sensor data and the state information at each time point before the current time point in the sliding window. The movable object can be accurately positioned in scenarios where GPS signals are lost, jumping exists, or LiDAR observation is degraded seriously.
US12092739B2
A sensor device for measuring a motion of a vehicle includes a light source for radiating light on a region on a ground below the vehicle in temporal intervals and to produce a spot of increased temperature; a heat detection unit, which is mountable at an underside of the vehicle for detecting a position of the spot on the ground at the temporal intervals; and a control unit for receiving data about a measured time of the spot and the position of the spot from the heat detection unit and to estimate a change of the position of the spot in vehicle coordinates.
US12092737B2
This application discloses distance detection apparatuses. The distance detection apparatus includes a light source, a transmitting and receiving lens, a detector, and an optical path change element. The light source is to emit a beam. The transmitting and receiving lens is to collimate the beam emitted by the light source, and converge at least a part of return light of the beam reflected by a to-be-detected object. The detector is placed with the light source on a same side of the transmitting and receiving lens, to convert at least a part of return light that passes through the transmitting and receiving lens into an electrical signal. The optical path change element is to change an optical path of the beam emitted by the light source or the return light that passes through the transmitting and receiving lens.
US12092736B2
The present application discloses an optical signal processing circuit for a Lidar. The optical signal processing circuit includes an optical processing circuit, a gain control circuit connected to the optical processing circuit, and a controller connected to the gain control circuit. The optical processing circuit includes an optical sensor and an amplification circuit. The optical sensor is configured to convert an optical signal to a photocurrent signal, and the amplification circuit is configured to convert and amplify the photocurrent signal to a voltage signal. The controller adjusts a gain of the optical processing circuit via the gain control circuit and based on an amplitude of the voltage signal.
US12092735B2
Ultrasound image devices, systems, and methods are provided. An ultrasound imaging system, comprising an array of acoustic elements configured to transmit ultrasound energy into an anatomy in accordance with a first preset acquisition setting, and to receive ultrasound echoes associated with the anatomy; and a processor circuit in communication with the array of acoustic elements and configured to receive, from the array, ultrasound channel data corresponding to the received ultrasound echoes; generate a first set of beamformed data by applying a predictive network to the ultrasound channel data, wherein the first set of beamformed data is associated with a second preset acquisition setting different than the first preset acquisition setting; generate an image of the anatomy from the first set of beamformed data; and output, to a display in communication with the processor circuit, the image of the anatomy.
US12092732B2
A computing system including a processor configured to train a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) classifier neural network. The SAR classifier neural network is trained at least in part by, at a SAR encoder, receiving training SAR range profiles that are tagged with respective first training labels, and, at an image encoder, receiving training two-dimensional images that are tagged with respective second training labels. Training the SAR classifier neural network further includes, at a shared encoder, computing shared latent representations based on the SAR encoder outputs and the image encoder outputs, and, at a classifier, computing respective classification labels based on the shared latent representations. Training the SAR classifier neural network further includes computing a value of a loss function based on the plurality of first training labels, the plurality of second training labels, and the plurality of classification labels and performing backpropagation based on the value of the loss function.
US12092696B2
Parameters P(n0,n1,n2) of a rechargeable battery model at each of different temperatures T(n1) at each of different degradation degrees D(n2) are determined. The values of the parameters P(n0,n1,n2) of the rechargeable battery model are identified based on a measurement result of a complex impedance Z of a rechargeable battery 220. The rechargeable battery model expresses an impedance of an internal resistance of the rechargeable battery 220 with transfer functions representing the IIR and FIR systems, respectively. Further, a voltage command value Vcmd(t) in the case where a current command value Icmd(t) is input to a rechargeable battery model corresponding to the identifier id(m0), temperature T(m1), and degradation degree D(m2) of the virtual rechargeable battery to be simulated by a simulation battery 20 is calculated, and a voltage V(t) according thereto is applied to the designated apparatus 200 or its load by the simulation battery 20.
US12092691B2
Scan forest can effectively compress test data volume, however, CPU time and memory consumption must be well-controlled to handle industrial designs. The present disclosure provides a method to establish a scan forest, which reduces memory consumption and CPU time significantly. A new low-power test application scheme is proposed, which does not need to increase the test application cost but can be of help to compress test data volume. Another new test application algorithm is proposed to reduce capture cycle power and shift cycle power by just doubling the test application time, which does not sacrifice the test data compression performance.
US12092684B2
An integrated circuit (IC) comprising: a margin measurement circuit configured to monitor multiple data paths of the IC and to output, at different times, different ranges of remaining margins of the multiple data paths; a workload sensor configured to output a value representing aggregate operational stress experienced by the IC over a period of time ending at each of the different times; and a processor configured to: (i) compute, based on the value output by said workload sensor, an upper bound and a lower bound of change of the remaining margin of the IC, and (ii) compute upper and lower bounds of a current remaining margin of the IC, based on (a) the upper and lower bounds of change, and (b) a remaining margin indicated by a border between two adjacent ranges outputted by the margin measurement circuit.
US12092682B2
A method and a system for diagnosing an open circuit (OC) fault of an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) of a T-type three-level (T23L) inverter under multiple power factors based on instantaneous current distortion are provided. Similar characteristics of current distortion may be caused by an OC fault of a T23L inverter, making it is difficult to locate the fault. The method for diagnosing an OC fault of a grid-connected T23L inverter, can diagnose the OC fault hierarchically; four switch transistors in a phase can be divided into two groups according to the similarity analysis of current distortion under different power factors; group-based fault diagnosis is realized by half cycles in which a zero domain occurs; and then, a specific switching signal is injected to realize equipment-based OC fault diagnosis. The OC fault diagnosis of a T23L inverter is realized without additional hardware circuits.
US12092681B2
A battery management apparatus includes an EIS unit configured to output an AC current to a battery at a plurality of times and generate an EIS profile representing a resistance of the battery as a corresponding relationship between a real part and an imaginary part at each of the plurality of times, and a control unit configured to obtain the plurality of EIS profiles for the battery generated by the EIS unit, determine a plurality of arcs in each of the plurality of EIS profiles, calculate an arc resistance value for each of the plurality of determined arcs, calculate a resistance change rate for the arc resistance value between corresponding arcs among the plurality of arcs, and determine each of the plurality of arcs as a negative electrode-originated arc or a positive electrode-originated arc based on the plurality of calculated resistance change rates and a preset criterion change rate.
US12092680B2
A method for detecting a random transition in a conducting line, includes the steps of: making a first reference reflectometry measurement on the conducting line in order to deduce a reference time-domain reflectogram therefrom, identifying at least one characteristic of the reference time-domain reflectogram, making a second reflectometry measurement on the conducting line to obtain a second time-domain reflectogram, identifying the same at least one characteristic in the second time-domain reflectogram, and for each amplitude peak identified, determining a difference between the at least one characteristic measured on the reference time-domain reflectogram and the same characteristic measured on the second time-domain reflectogram, evaluating, from a plurality of successive measurements, whether the difference increases in absolute value, and, if this is the case, triggering a warning corresponding to the appearance of a random transition.
US12092679B1
A portable system for the validation of a semi-anechoic chamber includes an antenna including a radiative element having a measurement point. Also included is a transmit mast having a deployed configuration and a stowed configuration, the transmit mast including a base, a vertical support, and an antenna mount configured to hold the antenna in a vertical arrangement and a horizontal arrangement while the transmit mast is in the deployed configuration, with the vertical arrangement of the antenna including the radiative element being oriented to have a vertical polarity, and with the horizontal arrangement of the antenna including the radiative element being oriented to have a horizontal polarity. The portable system has a deployed configuration and a stowed configuration. The portable system may be sized such that when the transmit mast is in the stowed configuration, the portable system fits inside a carry-on luggage.
US12092678B2
A sensor device for a vehicle, including: at least two magnetic field sensors for detecting a sensing magnetic field from a sensing magnet; in which the magnetic field sensors are configured so that the resultant magnetic field from the sensing magnetic field and an external magnetic interference field from an interference source develops a different strength of effect in different magnetic field sensors. Also described are a related method, control apparatus/unit, sensor system, and computer readable medium.
US12092677B2
An RF signal detection device, including: a first threshold crossing detection circuit comprising an input coupled to an input of the RF signal detection device; a first energy detection circuit comprising an input coupled to the input of the RF signal detection device; a second threshold crossing detection circuit comprising an input coupled to an output of the first energy detection circuit; and further including a control circuit configured to: carry out, by the first threshold crossing detection circuit, detection of at least a first threshold crossing frequency in a predetermined RF frequency band; and carry out, by the first energy detection circuit, energy detection in the predetermined RF frequency band; and carry out, by the second threshold crossing detection circuit, detection of at least a second threshold crossing frequency of a first energy signal delivered as an output from the first energy detection circuit; and determine, at least from the first and second threshold crossing frequencies and the first energy signal, whether a single RF signal is present in the RF frequency band.
US12092675B2
An evaluation device includes a radio communication module that contains a temperature regulator that adjusts a temperature of a radio communication module to be evaluated, a housing case that houses the radio communication module and the temperature regulator, a gas supplier that supplies dry gas inside the housing case, and a measurement antenna that is disposed so as to face the radio communication module, and that transmits and receives radio waves for measurement. The housing case includes a case main body and a shutter plate that closes an opening of the case main body. The shutter plate is formed of a dielectric foam material, and the shutter plate is capable of contacting and separating from an open edge of the case main body. At least a part of the shutter plate separates from the open edge of the case main body to release gas from inside the housing case when an inner pressure of the housing case is greater than or equal to a predetermined value.
US12092674B2
A method for evaluating an apparatus having at least one antenna array, the apparatus configured for forming a plurality of communication beam patterns using the antenna array, includes positioning of the apparatus in a measurement environment or moving/switching the probe/link antenna(s) of the measurement environment around the apparatus adapted to measure beam patterns and controlling the apparatus so as to form a predefined beam pattern of the plurality of communication beam patterns. The method includes measuring the predefined beam pattern using the measurement environment and/or the apparatus.
US12092672B2
A capacitance measure circuit includes a charge to voltage converter (CVC), and the CVC includes an excitation signal generation circuit that is arranged to generate and connect an excitation signal to a first terminal of a capacitance sensor, a differential amplifier, a first switch circuit, and at least one first variable capacitor. The inverting input terminal of the differential amplifier is arranged to receive a sensing capacitance value from a second terminal of the capacitance sensor. The first switch circuit is coupled between the inverting input terminal and the non-inverting output terminal of the differential amplifier, and is connected in parallel with the at least one first variable capacitor at the inverting input terminal and the non-inverting output terminal of the differential amplifier.
US12092671B2
Provided is a capacitance measurement apparatus (200), including: a channel capacitor (101) configured to generate different capacitance values according to a sensing signal; a measurement circuit (220) connected to the channel capacitor (101) and configured to access a pulse signal and measure a capacitance value of the channel capacitor (101); and an adjustment circuit (210) connected between the channel capacitor (101) and the measurement circuit (220), and configured to cancel a basic capacitance value of the channel capacitor (101) and generate a varying capacitance value of the channel capacitor (101). The measurement circuit (220) is further configured to convert the varying capacitance value of the channel capacitor (101) into an output signal. A reference capacitance of the channel capacitor (101) is canceled by means of the adjustment circuit (210), thereby increasing the valid range of an output signal of the measurement circuit (220).
US12092660B2
A probe card includes: a plurality of conductive contact probes; a probe head configured to accommodate ends of the plurality of contact probes; a laminated member laminated on the probe head on a side opposite to a side of the probe head; and a fastening member including a screw and a nut configured to fasten the probe head and the laminated member to each other, the screw including a head provided on the side of the probe head in which the contact probes extend outwardly, and a shaft inserted through the probe head and the laminated member, the shaft extending and having a diameter smaller than a diameter of the head. The shaft is fixed to the probe head, is threadedly connected to the nut on an end side opposite to the head side, and is configured to fasten the probe head and the laminated member to each other.
US12092658B2
An optical detection system and an alignment method for a predetermined target object are provided. The optical detection system includes a chuck stage, an optical detection module, a vision inspection module and a control module. The chuck stage includes a chuck configured for carrying a plurality of predetermined objects to be tested. The optical detection module includes an optical probe device, and the optical probe device is configured to be disposed above the chuck for optically detecting the predetermined object. The vision inspection module includes an image capturing device and an image display device. The image capturing device is configured for capturing a real-time image of the predetermined object in real time, and the image display device is configured for displaying the real-time image of the predetermined object in real time. The control module is configured to execute the alignment method for the predetermined target object.
US12092657B2
A radio frequency (RF) test probe adapter comprises a cable adapter operable for use with a RF test probe and a housing. The cable adapter comprises a cable connector configured to physically couple to a connector of a coaxial cable, a first pin operable to electrically couple a center conductor of the coaxial cable to a first lead of the RF test probe, and a second pin operable to electrically couple an outer conductor of the coaxial cable to a second lead of the test probe. The housing is sized and shaped to secure the RF test probe and the cable adapter in a physically coupled configuration.
US12092647B2
Disclosed herein are methods that aid in the determination of whether to perform imaging, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computerized tomography (CT) scan, on a human subject that has sustained or may have sustained an injury to the head using an early biomarker, such as ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), or a combination thereof. These methods involve detecting levels and changes in levels of UCH-L1 in samples taken from a human subject at time points within 24 hours after the subject has sustained or may have sustained an injury to the head.
US12092638B2
A biosensor includes a reaction part including a magnetic nanoparticle complex, a first electrode, and a second electrode; and a sample introduction part forming a passage so that a sample can be introduced into the reaction part from an outside of the biosensor. The magnetic nanoparticle complex includes a first capturing substance for capturing a first target substance, a magnetic nanoparticle, and a reaction substance that performs at least one of an oxidation reaction and a reduction reaction.
US12092637B2
A method for measuring fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF-23) in a sample, which comprise the following steps: (1) reacting, in an aqueous medium, FGF-23 in a sample with magnetic particles, a first antibody or a fragment thereof which binds to FGF-23, and a second antibody or a fragment thereof which binds to FGF-23, to form on the magnetic particles an immunocomplex comprising the first antibody or a fragment thereof which binds to FGF-23. FGF-23, and the second antibody or a fragment thereof which binds to FGF-23; (2) collecting the magnetic particles in the reaction mixture after step (1) by magnetic force, and separating the magnetic particles collected by magnetic force from the other components; and (3) measuring the immunocomplex on the magnetic particles separated in step (2). The present invention provides a method for measuring FGF-23 in a sample, which have a high sensitivity and have a wide measurement range.
US12092635B2
The present disclosure provides methods of processing or analyzing a sample. A method for processing a sample may comprise hybridizing a probe molecule to a target region of a nucleic acid molecule (e.g., a ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecule), barcoding the probe-nucleic acid molecule complex, and performing extension, denaturation, and amplification processes. A method for processing a sample may comprise hybridizing first and second probes to adjacent or non-adjacent target regions of a nucleic acid molecule (e.g., an RNA molecule), linking the first and second probes to provide a probe-linked nucleic acid molecule, and barcoding the probe-linked nucleic acid molecule. One or more processes of the methods described herein may be performed within a partition, such as a droplet or well. One or more processes of the methods described herein may be performed on a cell, such as a permeabilized cell.
US12092629B2
The embodiments disclose a process for manufacturing a sensor including depositing a first conductive layer on a substrate followed by curing the first conductive layer and, depositing a temperature controlling conductive ink on top of a portion of the first conductive layer followed by curing the temperature controlling conductive ink and, depositing an insulating layer on top of the temperature controlling conductive ink layer and a portion of the first conductive layer followed by curing the insulating layer and, depositing a second conductive layer on top of a portion of first conductive layer followed by curing the second conductive layer and, depositing an adhesive layer on top of a portion of the first conductive layer for adhering a memory chip to the first conductive layer followed by curing the adhesive layer and, depositing at least one biomolecule layer on top of the second conductive layer followed by drying the at least one biomolecule layer.
US12092627B2
A signal processing system and method for inductive oil abrasive particle sensor, comprising a sensor, an excitation signal generator, an analog signal processing circuit, a MCU signal acquisition module and a computer signal processing module is disclosed. The sensor is provided with two groups of induction coils, the excitation signal generator generates excitation signals and drives the excitation coils of the sensor to output induction signals containing abrasive particle information, and the analog signal processing circuit receives the induction signals output by the sensor and demodulates and amplifies the induction signals. The signal processing system of the sensor applied to online monitoring of oil abrasive particles is simple in structure and convenient to apply, has a complete signal statistics and monitoring interface, and can be used to effectively monitor the size, concentration and other information of the metal abrasive particles in oil in real time.
US12092626B2
A workflow and fluid analysis system to determine polar concentration and type of a reservoir fluid sample that is collected and analyzed in a downhole environment. Once collected this data can be fed into an advisory tool which can predict the probability of different types of issues that might be encountered in production of reservoir fluids from the reservoir. The workflow and fluid analysis system can also be employed in a surface-located laboratory tool for analysis of reservoir fluids.
US12092616B2
A real-time measurement system for mechanical parameters of rock slag during excavation includes a rock slag conveyor belt configured to convey rock slag; cleaning device, located on both sides of the rock slag conveyor belt, configured to clean the rock slag; an image acquisition device, located behind the cleaning device and on both sides and above the rock slag conveyor belt, configured to collect images of rock slag; an on-site loading device, for conducting on-site mechanical loading procedure on the rock slag to obtain on-site mechanical parameters. The on-site loading device includes a loading bottom plate, a push plate and a pressure head. The loading bottom plate is provided with a loading area. The push plate is located on the loading bottom plate and pushed by a pushing mechanism to push the rock slag.
US12092615B2
A method for non-destructive inspection of at least one test object on a workpiece includes the steps of: obtaining a theoretical position of each test object in relation to a testing robot; capturing an image of each test object to obtain image data; determining a real position of each test object in relation to the testing robot on the basis of the image data; and bringing a sensor carried by the testing robot in contact with each test object to obtain a respective test measurement. Where the test instrument needs to be brought in physical contact with the test object, it is crucial to know the exact position of the test object. As soon as an approximate position of the test object is known an image of the test object can be captured, and the exact position of the test object can be extracted from the respective image data.
US12092611B2
Systems and methods are provided for monitoring the structural integrity of a vehicle. In particular, systems and methods are provided for using transducers positioned at various location in and on a vehicle to measure parameters related vehicle structural health. In various implementations, the integrity of the vehicle frame and the integrity of the vehicle body are monitored using a multi-axis accelerometer and/or microphone. The use of transducers for monitoring can replace time-consuming and expensive manual inspections.
US12092601B2
The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of biosensors and particularly provides a construction method for a photocathode indirect competition sensor and an evaluation method. The construction method includes: using Z-type Bi2O3/CuBi2O4 as a sensing platform; calculating a photoinduced electron Z-type transfer path and an energy band structure of Bi2O3 and CuBi2O4 using a density functional theory (DFT); and constructing a Bi2O3/CuBi2O4-based biosensor. A photoelectrochemical (PEC) photocathode biosensor based on a Bi2O3/CuBi2O4 heterojunction prepared through the solution has good repeatability, reproducibility, stability, and specificity for detecting a target. The PEC biosensor constructed in the solution of the present disclosure has a broad application prospect in the fields of healthcare, environment, and food.
US12092600B2
A system for imaging material, typically in an underground scenario, comprising of a plurality of conductive electrodes supported on a conductive substrate positionable in an environment to be imaged, a signal generator connected to at least two of the electrodes, and a signal detector connected to at least two of the electrodes, and wherein an impedance compensator is arranged between each electrode and its substrate to counter parasitic impedance between the two. Typically the impedance compensator may be arranged to act as a negative capacitance, which may be approximately equal to any capacitance between the electrode and the substrate. An electrode may be a drive electrode coupled to a signal generator, or a detector electrode coupled to a detector, or may be reconfigurable to act as either one.
US12092590B2
An industrial tomography apparatus (1) comprising a tomography scan device (7) configured to perform tomography scans of the products (2) placed in a scanning zone (4), and an electronic processing unit operatively connected to the tomography scan device (7) for receiving from it digital data about the tomography scans performed by the tomography scan device (7), and programmed to generate, using that digital data, a virtual three-dimensional tomography model (8) of a product (2) scanned by the tomography scan device (7), the virtual three-dimensional tomography model (8) being constituted of a plurality of voxels each of which has its own constant density. In accordance with the method for checking the composition of the products (2), the following are performed: a tomography scan step by means of the tomography apparatus (1) inserted in a production line (15), and a step of computerised analysis of the virtual three-dimensional tomography model (8), wherein there is assessment of predetermined properties of the primary parts of the product (2) to which the virtual three-dimensional tomography model (8) corresponds.
US12092587B2
The present disclosure provides a method for processing defect information of a product, which includes the following steps of: acquiring defect information on a current film layer and defect information on historical film layers; determining whether defect information exists at a target location of the historical film layer if defect information exists at a target location of the current film layer; if defect information exists for a corresponding location to the target location in at least one of the historical film layers, deleting the defect information detected at the target location in the current film layer; and if no defect information exists for the target location in any of the historical film layers, retaining the defect information detected at the target location in the current film layer. According to this, for the defect information on the current film layer, only the defect information caused by factors of the current film layer may be retained, and the defect information caused by the historical film layers will not be retained, and thus, on the one hand, the stored data volume may be reduced, and on the other hand, the complexity of subsequent analysis of defect information may be simplified.
US12092577B2
Disclosed is a method for analysing FluoroSpot assays. The method comprises illuminating a well of an assay plate with at least one excitation light, capturing at least one image of the well, in raw image format, for each excitation light, generating a model of analyte release distribution in the well for each excitation light, and clustering a plurality of co-positioned fluorospots as a multiple secretion fluorospot, wherein the clustering is performed for all generated models, and wherein the clustering determines at least one multiple secretion fluorospot. The generation of the model of analyte release distribution for a given excitation light comprises deconvolving the captured at least one image of the well to estimate a pre-diffusion analyte distribution, and detecting potential analyte release sites based on local maxima therein.
US12092572B2
An optical sensor system may include a light source. The optical sensor system may include a concentrator component proximate to the light source and configured to concentrate light from the light source with respect to a measurement target. The optical sensor system may include a collection component that includes an array of at least two components configured to receive light reflected or transmitted from the measurement target. The optical sensor system may include may a sensor. The optical sensor system may include a filter provided between the collection component and the sensor.
US12092564B2
A loading frame for fiber reinforced polymer (FRP)-concrete bond tests includes a standing guide tower, a base section, and a loading beam. The standing guide tower is perpendicularly mounted to the base section. A testing load is applied to the loading beam when performing a series of FRP-concrete bond tests. A sliding end of the loading beam is positioned into a channel within the standing guide tower allowing the loading beam to be positioned at a preferred height. The engagement between the loading beam and the standing guide tower reduces secondary forces. The loading frame is mobile and may also be used with existing testing devices and systems used to perform the series of FRP-concrete bond tests.
US12092562B2
A testing device includes a scaffold for supporting conductive wires. The scaffold is placed in housing in which liquid and vapor phases of a fluid are provided, such that a first of the conductive wires extends into the liquid and a second of the conductive wires remains in the vapor throughout a test. The scaffold may include a plurality of lower support members and a plurality of upper wire support members, each of the support members including a plurality of routing supports to wrap a respective one of the test wires around. The device allows measurements to be made contemporaneously for the test wires.
US12092555B2
A system, apparatus configured to dynamically vary an extraction distance between an extraction volume and a sample surface through a probe assembly height adjustment apparatus operably coupled to a motor in which a processor can move the probe assembly height adjustment apparatus to maintain the extraction distance, or tune the extraction distance to optimize sampling performance. Methods for calibrating, tuning an extraction distance between an extraction volume and a sample surface.
US12092551B2
An apparatus includes: a deflection acquiring unit that acquires a deflection amount caused in a measurement target region on a structure by a vehicle traveling on the structure; a vehicle position acquiring unit that acquires a position of the vehicle on the structure at time when the deflection amount is acquired; and a rigidity coefficient calculating unit that calculates a rigidity coefficient specifying a relation between a magnitude of a force applied to the structure due to a weight of the vehicle and flexural rigidity of the structure, from a relation equation, the acquired deflection amount, and the detected position of the vehicle. The relation equation is established among a position of the vehicle on the structure, the magnitude of the force, a position of the measurement target region on the structure, a length of the structure, the flexural rigidity, and a deflection amount caused in the measurement target region.
US12092550B2
A vehicle includes an internal cabin. One or more areas are within the internal cabin. The one or more areas include one or more water-drawing components. A water supply system is within the internal cabin. The water supply system is configured to provide water to the one or more water-drawing components. A water leak detection system includes one or more sensing devices configured to detect water flow from the water supply system to the one or more water-drawing components. One or more shut-off valves are disposed on or within the water supply system. A control unit is in communication with the one or more sensing devices, the one or more shut-off valves, and the one or more water-drawing components. The control unit is configured to operate the one or more shut-off valves to stop the supply of water to the one or more water-drawing components in response to the one or more sensing devices detecting the water flow when the one or more water-drawing components are not in use.
US12092541B2
A torque testing device includes a body defining an interior volume that is defined by an interior wall having a non-circular cross-section. A moveable portion is within the interior volume and is selectively movable from a first orientation within the interior volume to a second orientation within the interior volume. The moveable portion includes a core defining an aperture and a piston. A portion of the piston cooperates with the aperture of the core. When the moveable portion is in the first orientation, the piston is located at a first distance from the core. When the moveable portion is in the second orientation, the piston is located at a second distance from the core, the second distance being less than the first distance.
US12092533B2
A sensor includes a film portion deformable by external force, a support body supporting the film portion, and a magnetoresistive element portion on the film portion and including a unit element that includes a first magnetic layer whose magnetization direction changes in accordance with deformation of the film portion, a second magnetic layer whose magnetization direction is fixed, and an intermediate layer between the first and second magnetic layers. The film portion includes a first side portion in a portion of an outer edge of the film portion. A slit portion is provided in the film portion and includes at least a portion along the first side portion, so that the film portion includes a connection portion in which the first side portion is partially connected to the support body. A magnetoresistive element portion is provided in the connection portion.
US12092526B2
An apparatus for monitoring a switchgear includes: an input unit; a processing unit; and an output unit. The input unit is provides the processing unit with a monitor infra-red image of the switchgear. The processing unit implements a machine learning classifier algorithm to analyse the monitor infra-red image and determine if there is one or more anomalous hot spots in the switchgear. The machine learning classifier algorithm has been trained based on a plurality of different training infra-red images. The plurality of training infra-red images include a plurality of modified infra-red images generated from a corresponding plurality of infra-red images, each of the modified infra-red images having been modified to remove an effect of obscuration in the image. The output unit outputs information relating to the one or more anomalous hot spots.
US12092524B2
An optical sensor includes a light receiver and a circuit portion electrically connected to the light receiver, and the circuit portion includes a substrate, an electronic component on the substrate, a resin covering the electronic component, and a metal pillar electrically connected to the electronic component and including a portion covered with the resin and a portion exposed from the resin, and the light receiver is located on the circuit.
US12092521B2
A method of determining the identity and concentration of a target analyte present in a biological sample includes: introducing a first target analyte into a hollow core of an optical fiber; introducing a first reference calibrant into the hollow core of the optical fiber; transmitting light from a laser light source through the hollow core of the optical fiber and the first target analyte to generate a first Raman anti-Stokes analyte emission corresponding to the first target analyte; receiving the first Raman anti-Stokes analyte emission at a spectral analysis system optically coupled to the optical fiber; and deriving Raman anti-Stokes spectral peaks or spectra of the first target analyte at the spectral analysis system based on the first Raman anti-Stokes analyte emission.
US12092519B2
System and method configured for real-time, direct, all-optical methodology of measurement of a temporal profile of optical field. In one case, such measurement is carried out by recording electronic delay response of a target material system triggered by a strong driving optical field (in particular—by pulsed light with sub-femtosecond pulses containing a few cycles of optical field each). A corresponding all-optical metrological tool configured to operate with (sub-)femtosecond resolution. Demonstration of the on-demand sub-femtosecond electron motion control in solid-state with the use of synthesized waveforms of optical field.
US12092517B2
Various implementations relate generally to multi-sensor devices. Some implementations more particularly relate to a multi-sensor device including a ring of radially-oriented photosensors. Some implementations more particularly relate to a multi-sensor device that is orientation-independent with respect to a central axis of the ring. Some implementations of the multi-sensor devices described herein further include one or more additional sensors. For example, some implementations include an axially-directed photosensor. Some implementations also can include one or more temperature sensors configured to sense an exterior temperature, for example, an ambient temperature of an outdoors environment around the multi-sensor. Additionally or alternatively, some implementations include one or more of an infrared sensor or infrared sensors, a cellular communication circuit, and a GPS module.
US12092513B2
Sensor devices, systems, and methods for measuring different components of a flow are provided. A sensing arrangement includes a substrate and first and second sensor arrays on the substrate. The first sensor array sensing elements are distributed to obtain measurement data indicative of a first property of an operating environment, such as a turbulent component of a fluid flow. The second sensor array sensing elements are interspersed amongst the first sensor array and distributed to obtain measurement data indicative of a second property of the operating environment, such as an acoustic component of the fluid flow.
US12092508B2
A dosing valve is provided for ejecting a liquid from a nozzle outlet channel. The dosing valve has a main body, a valve actuating element movable within the main body, and a valve closure element connected to or actuatable by the valve actuating element. The valve closure element is movable within a dosing chamber between an open position, in which it is lifted off from a nozzle sealing seat, and a closed position, in which it lies against the nozzle sealing seat. For the pneumatic activation of the dosing valve, a switching valve is provided by means of which a working chamber of the dosing valve can be selectively ventilated or charged with a pressurized fluid.
US12092507B2
A method for monitoring condition of a vibronic sensor for determining and/or monitoring at least one process variable of a medium in a containment and having at least one sensor unit having a mechanically oscillatable unit includes: exciting the mechanically oscillatable unit by means of an excitation signal such that mechanical oscillations are executed, and receiving the mechanical oscillations in the form of a received signal, determining a measured value for amplitude and a measured value for frequency of the received signal, comparing the measured values for amplitude and frequency with reference values for amplitude and frequency, and ascertaining a condition indicator from the comparison.
US12092506B2
The present invention provides a sump pump system, including a sump pump monitor and application. The sump pump system includes a sump pump. Components of the sump pump system are installed in and/or near a sump. The sump collects liquid, such as water, from an inlet pipe. The sump pump is operable to remove water from the sump. The sump pump is fluidly connected to a discharge pipe. The discharge pipe is operable to carry water from the sump pump to a storm sewer or other discharge point.
US12092505B2
A liquid level measurement circuit includes: a probe, a reference electrical signal module and a potential conversion module, where the probe extends into a liquid level accommodation body, and the liquid level accommodation body accommodates a measurement liquid module. If the liquid level of said liquid is lower than a preset liquid level, a positive electrode conductor and/or a negative electrode conductor are/is not immersed in the measurement liquid, and an output end of the potential conversion module outputs a first electrical signal; and if the liquid level of the measurement liquid is not lower than the preset liquid level, the positive electrode conductor and the negative electrode conductor are immersed in the measurement liquid, and the output end of the potential conversion module outputs a second electrical signal. The accuracy of liquid level measurement can be improved.
US12092501B2
Flow meters may include a body defining a fluid channel therein. At least one structure may be positioned within the fluid channel, and fixed relative to the body, that is shaped and positioned to produce a flow-induced vibration that varies according to a rate of fluid flow through the fluid channel. A method of measuring a fluid flow rate may include directing a fluid over a first structure located in a first channel, and producing a first flow-induced vibration that varies according to a rate of fluid flow in a first channel with the first structure. The method may further include measuring the vibration of a remote structure coupled to the first channel, and determining the rate of fluid flow in the first channel from the measured vibration.
US12092499B2
Provided is a data management system including an environment data acquisition unit configured to acquire, from an environment sensor, environment data obtained by measuring a production environment where a product is produced from a raw material, a sensor selection unit configured to select a specific sensor from among measurement sensors, each of which is configured to measure a production target serving as a target of the production, according to a relevance with respect to the environment sensor, and a parameter setting unit configured to set a measurement parameter in the specific sensor based on the environment data.
US12092497B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for updating a capacitance reference, which includes: determining, based on an n-th frame of raw capacitance data and an (n−M)-th frame of raw capacitance data outputted from the capacitance detection apparatus, a feature value corresponding to the n-th frame of raw capacitance data; computing a difference value between the n-th frame of raw capacitance data and a reference value corresponding to an (n−1)-th frame of raw capacitance data outputted from the capacitance detection apparatus, to obtain a capacitance variation; and determining, when the feature value corresponding to the n-th frame of raw capacitance data is less than a first threshold Thr1, and the capacitance variation is less than a proximity threshold Thron, the n-th frame of raw capacitance data or the (n−1)-th frame of raw capacitance data as a reference value corresponding to the n-th frame of raw capacitance data.
US12092492B2
The disclosure relates to an inductive linear displacement sensor that includes a primary coil and two secondary coils inductively coupled to the primary coil. The linear displacement sensor has a calibration coil inductively coupled to the primary coil. The calibration coil is arranged such that a signal produced by the calibration coil has only one zero crossing at the center of the linear displacement sensor.
US12092487B2
Described are systems and methods to provide agnostic sensor data obtained from a sensor and transmitted to a central database by a transmitter device. In one aspect, a value sensed by a sensor component is converted at the transmitter device to an agnostic value defined by a dimensionless universal scale and offset. The agnostic value is then sent to a data acquisition database where it is converted back to the original value. This is accomplished by first providing the data acquisition database with a sensor definition of a scale and offset used to convert the sensor values in addition to any sensor indicia and other parameters to display the data acquired at the data acquisition database. The wireless sensors database and user interface are also automatically updated when a new sensor type is attached to the network utilizing configuration data that resides in the new sensor that is sent to the database on its first connection.
US12092486B2
A flow gauge scale assembly includes a first scale and a second scale. The first scale is configured to be disposed in a first radial position on a generally cylindrical flow tube through which a ball can move to indicate a flow rate of a flow of gas. The second scale is configured to be disposed in a second radial position that will be at least partially optically misaligned from the first scale when the flow gauge scale assembly is installed in the generally cylindrical flow tube.
US12092481B2
A distance measurement method based on moving coordinate positioning includes generating a calibration track adaptive to a predetermined route in a detection terminal; obtaining a real-time movement track of the detection terminal according to a moving coordinate positioning; and correcting a distance recorded by the detection terminal in real time according to a comparison result between the movement track and the calibration track. In such a way, the distance error recorded in the detection terminal can be corrected, thereby improving the accuracy.
US12092477B2
A display device includes a display that displays a map based on map data and Hypertext Markup Language data, a communicator that obtains the map data through Hypertext Transfer Protocol communication, and a display controller that updates, based on the map data obtained by the communicator and corresponding to location data obtained at predetermined time intervals, the map displayed on the display.
US12092475B2
A mobile apparatus performing an augmented reality function and a navigation function includes an input device, a location receiver for obtaining a current location, an image obtaining device, a display device provided to display surrounding image obtained from the image obtaining device in response to execution of an augmented reality mode, and a controller provided to search for a route from the current location to a destination, destination information and map information obtained by the location receiver, identify a moving situation according to route information corresponding to the searched route, obtain location information of an inflection point at which the moving situation is changed according to information on the identified moving situation, and control the display device to display an object image of the inflection point on the surrounding image displayed on the display device based on the location information of the inflection point and the current location information.
US12092471B2
A server device includes a communication unit and a control unit that sends and receives information to and from another device via the communication unit. The control unit sends, to a terminal device, information on a comfort level in a vehicle cabin of a shared vehicle that is determined based on a detection result of detecting an effect of a passenger on a vehicle body or equipment of the shared vehicle to present the information to another passenger before boarding the shared vehicle.
US12092465B2
A computer system, computer program product, and computer-implemented method are provided for facility evacuation. The method includes determining one or more environmental conditions adverse to one or more occupants within a structure at least partially enclosing a ventilation system and one or more passageways therein. The method also includes predicting movement patterns of the one or more adverse environmental conditions within the at least a portion of the structure. The method further includes creating, through the ventilation system, at least partially subject to the predicting, one or more evacuation routes including at least a first portion of the one or more passageways comprising reducing, at least partially, the one or more adverse environmental conditions within the one or more evacuation routes.
US12092460B2
Methods for fabricating MEMS tuning fork gyroscope sensor system using silicon wafers. This provides the possibly to avoid glass. The sense plates can be formed in a device layer of a silicon on insulator (SOI) wafer or in a deposited polysilicon layer in a few examples.
US12092458B2
A system of a motor vehicle includes a radar unit for generating a radar signal associated with a target positioned about the vehicle. The system further includes a tracker generating a tracker signal associated with a radar heading and a doppler based on the radar signal. The system further includes a wheel speed sensor for generating a wheel speed signal associated with a velocity of the vehicle. The system further includes a gyroscope for generating a gyro signal associated with a measured yaw rate. The system further includes a computer having a processor and a computer readable medium. The processor is programmed to determine a gyro drift and a corrected yaw rate while the vehicle is in motion, with the gyro drift and the corrected yaw rate being based on at least the radar heading, the doppler effect, and the velocity of the vehicle, and the measured yaw rate.
US12092455B2
The influence of a leakage magnetic flux from a magnet on a magnetic sensor configured to detect a magnetic flux from the permanent magnet is reduced. An absolute encoder includes a first magnet provided at a leading end side of a first worm gear part, a first angle sensor configured to detect a rotation angle of the first worm gear part corresponding to a change in a magnetic flux generated from the first magnet, a second magnet provided at a leading end side of a second worm wheel part, a second angle sensor configured to detect a rotation angle of the second worm wheel part corresponding to a change in a magnetic flux generated from the second magnet, and a gear base part configured to surround at least a part of a periphery of the first angle sensor and the second angle sensor.
US12092438B2
An ignition device assembly includes an ignition device including an igniter body and an igniter collar member, and a housing including a tubular fixing portion to which the igniter collar member is fixed. The tubular fixing portion includes a crimping fixing portion. The igniter collar member includes a tubular wall portion having a tubular shape, made of metal, and including a connector connection space formed inside, the tubular wall portion being crimped by a crimping fixing portion, an opening end forming portion including a resin region portion and a metal region portion, extending from a tip side of the tubular wall portion and forming an opening end of the connector connection space, and a crimping tip surface opposing region portion. At least a part of the crimping tip surface opposing region portion is formed by the metal region portion.
US12092434B1
An asymmetric ERA box improves the disruption of a shape-charge jet for a high-explosive projectile for a given mass requirement and stand-off distance. Mass is asymmetrically redistributed from the outer plate to the rear plate in the form of increased thickness of the rear plate. This is offset by forming the outer plate of a low-density material that provides an impedance mismatch sufficient to attenuate the shockwave of low velocity projectiles (e.g., 50 caliber bullets) so that they embed in but do not detonate the explosive. The outer plate provides negligible disruption of the shape-charge jet with substantially all the disruption being provided by the thicker high density rear plate. Placement of substantially all the mass toward the front of the shape-charge jet improves overall performance of the ERA. This asymmetric configuration provides the same performance as known symmetric ERA configurations against kinetic-energy projectiles as the total mass in the outer and rear plates remains essentially the same.
US12092429B2
A base station server of a combat simulation system includes, a communications interface, a processor and a memory. The memory has instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive an indication of a trigger pull from a weapon device and receive a data packet from the weapon device. The data packet may include an orientation of the weapon device and a position of the weapon device. The instructions further cause the processor to determine a position and an orientation of a target and identify a ballistic path of a simulated projectile fired from the weapon device. The ballistic path may be based at least in part on the orientation and the position of the weapon device. The instructions further cause the processor to determine a ballistic outcome by identifying whether the ballistic path intersects with the position of the target.
US12092411B2
The trigger may comprise a trigger shoe, a trigger bar, and a sear pack. The trigger bar may comprise an elongate body. The elongate body may comprise a shoe connector. The elongate body may comprise a sear arm. The sear arm may be disposed perpendicularly to the elongate body. The sear pack may be engageable by the trigger bar. The modular seal pack may also be operable by the sear arm. The sear pack may comprise a housing, a pin, and a sear. The sear pack may be installable in the connector. The sear pack may be configured to control or actuate the firing pin system in response to a user actuating the trigger (e.g., firing the striker fired firearm).
US12092402B2
A heat exchanger includes a first-row heat exchange module through which a refrigerant is introduced from the outside, a second-row heat exchange module through which the refrigerant is discharged to the outside, a third-row heat exchange module through which the refrigerant is discharged to the outside, and a flow-splitting module that splits the refrigerant from the first-row heat exchange module into the second-row heat exchange module and the third-row heat exchange module, wherein the refrigerant reciprocates one time in a flow path, the first-row heat exchange module constitutes a forward path of the flow path, and both the second-row heat exchange module and the third-row heat exchange module constitute backward paths of the flow path.
US12092392B2
A main heat exchanger receives and partially condenses an effluent fluid stream so that a mixed phase effluent stream is formed. A primary separation device receives and separates the mixed phase effluent stream into a primary vapor stream including hydrogen and a primary liquid stream including an olefinic hydrocarbon. The main heat exchanger receives and warms at least a portion of the primary vapor stream to provide refrigeration for partially condensing the effluent fluid stream. The main heat exchanger also receives, warms and partially vaporizes the primary liquid stream. A mixed refrigerant compression system also provides refrigeration in the main heat exchanger.
US12092387B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet defining a storage space and a door configured to open and close the storage space. The door includes comprises: a panel assembly comprising a front panel, a door frame connected to the panel assembly, a door liner defining, with the door frame, an insulating space that accommodates an insulator, and a basket installed on the door liner. The door liner includes: an outer body, a liner extension portion extending from the outer body in a direction crossing the outer body, and a plurality of ribs that are disposed at the outer body and that are spaced apart from the liner extension portion. The door frame comprises a frame extension portion that is disposed between the plurality of ribs and the liner extension portion.
US12092381B2
Some embodiments of the present invention provide an electronic expansion valve and assembling method of electronic expansion valve, the electronic expansion valve includes: a housing; a guide sleeve; a screw; a rotor being drivingly connected with the screw; and a valve needle assembly movably disposed in the housing, one end of the screw being connected with the valve needle assembly so as to drive the valve needle assembly to move axially by means of the screw. A guide segment and a press-fit segment which are in communication with each other are disposed between an inner wall of the housing and an outer wall of the guide sleeve, a spacing between the guide sleeve and the housing located on the guide segment is greater than a spacing between the guide sleeve and the housing located on the press-fit segment.
US12092379B2
A refrigeration cycle device includes a compressor. The compressor includes a casing, a driving unit disposed in the casing, a compression unit coupled to the driving unit and configured to compress a refrigerant, and a valve configured to control a flow of the refrigerant in the casing. The valve includes a valve chamber including a main flow path in which the refrigerant is to flow, the main flow path including a refrigerant inlet and a refrigerant outlet. The valve also includes a floating body disposed in the valve chamber to open or close the main flow path, and a bypass flow path formed in the valve chamber and which is to be opened or closed by the floating body. When the driving unit is stopped and the bypass flow path is opened by the floating body, the refrigerant is to be detoured to the bypass flow path.
US12092375B2
A central air conditioning and heat pump system includes a main heat exchange system and a cooling arrangement. The main heat exchange system includes a compressor, a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger. The cooling arrangement includes a cooling tower and a condensing unit. When the central air conditioning and heat pump system is selectively operated in an air conditioning mode, refrigerant is cooled both by water and ambient air in the condensing unit and the second heat exchanger respectively.
US12092372B2
An installation including a pipe supplying or discharging a cooling fluid, at least one hybrid solar panel, the panel including: a photovoltaic module, a heat exchanger in which a cooling fluid flows, and a connector connecting the heat exchanger to the pipe. The connector includes a tubular body around the pipe, a tube on an external wall of the tubular body, which provides fluid communication between the pipe and the heat exchanger, the tube and external wall form a single piece, the heat exchanger has a wall in which a hole is made, wherein the tube fits freely into the hole, the tube has a seal that makes the connection between the tube and hole sealed to fluids, the tubular body is assembled by elastic fitting on the heat exchanger which fitting is carried out by means of members which are separate from the hole and fit the tube.
US12092370B2
Disclosed in an embodiment is a fluid heater including a main body including a partitioning part having a plate shape and a flow passage forming part forming a flow passage on the other surface of the partitioning part, a heating plate disposed on the flow passage forming part and having a plate shape and including a heating pattern having a shape corresponding to the flow passage, a circuit board disposed on one surface of the partitioning part and configured to control the heating pattern to generate heat, and a bus bar electrically connecting the heating pattern and the circuit board, wherein the flow passage forming part includes a turning vane disposed in a curved flow passage of the flow passage.
US12092356B2
An air-conditioning apparatus includes an indoor unit and an outdoor unit including a compressor that compresses a refrigerant and a motor drive system that drives the compressor. The motor drive system includes an inverter that converts a DC voltage into an AC voltage, and an electric motor including three stator windings with both ends open. The electric motor operates based on the AC voltage obtained by the inverter. The motor drive system further includes a connection state switching unit that has a function to change the connection state of the three stator windings included in the electric motor, and sets the connection state to a star connection at the start of operation of the air-conditioning apparatus.
US12092354B1
Methods and related systems for operating a climate control system for an indoor space are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes increasing a speed of a fan of the climate control system, and determining a first fitted external static pressure (ESP) function from a first plurality of airflow values and a first plurality of ESP values. Additionally, the method includes obtaining a baseline ESP from the first fitted ESP function, and determining a second fitted ESP function from a second plurality of airflow values and a second plurality of ESP values collected at least one week after the first plurality of airflow values and the first plurality of ESP values are collected. Further, the method includes comparing the first calculated ESP obtained from the second fitted ESP function to the baseline ESP to determine a condition of an air filter of the climate control system.
US12092352B2
The disclosed technology includes systems and methods for detecting an obstructed air filter in a furnace. The disclosed technology can include a method and system that includes an air inlet, an air filter for filtering particles from air passing through the air inlet, an air moving device, a fuel valve, a burner, a pressure sensor, and a controller in communication with the pressure sensor and configured to output an alarm signal when the controller receives differential pressure data from the pressure sensor that indicates that the air filter is obstructed.
US12092351B2
Methods and devices for detecting inefficiencies in environmental control systems and for building a model for detecting the same. The model building method may comprise: receiving training data sets for one or more environmental control systems, identifying a category for each training data set indicative of the efficiency of the environmental control system over the training time period, computing one or more numerical features for each training data set based on setpoint data and sensor data, determining a measure of dependence between the identified category and the computed one or more numerical features, and creating a model based on the determined measure of dependence. The detection method may involve receiving a monitored data set, computing numerical features for the monitored data, and assigning a category indicative of the efficiency of a monitored environmental control system based on the model and the numerical features.
US12092348B2
Systems, apparatus and methods for efficiently operating a chiller plant while minimizing or eliminating the occurrence of centrifugal compressor surge. Taking into account chiller design specifications and current operating conditions, a compressor lift point at which surge is predicted to occur is established. Minima and maxima for various chiller setpoints that avoid or eliminate the occurrence of compressor surge are imposed on setpoints provided by a conventional optimizing chiller controller. The chiller system is operated in accordance with the resultant anti-surge setpoints. Energy savings is realized by modulating coolant tower flow to enable the compressor to operate at near-surge conditions while preventing the onset of actual surge.
US12092339B2
A household cooking appliance includes a cooking chamber, a steam generator located outside the cooking chamber, and a steam feed line which connects the steam generator to the cooking chamber. A fresh air line leads to the cooking chamber, with a shut off element being configured to shut off the fresh air line. The steam feed line and the fresh air line have a common end portion, which opens into the cooking chamber.
US12092330B2
A gas turbine combustor includes a vane, a plurality of supports, and a pressure dynamics damping hole. The vane is disposed at the outer circumferential side of the combustion liner. The plurality of supports are disposed at an inner side of the combustion casing for fixing the vane. The pressure dynamics damping hole is formed in the combustion liner at a position corresponding to the vane for communication with the combustion chamber.
US12092325B2
A system for offshore, direct carbon dioxide sequestration includes an offshore marine platform fixed to the ocean floor above an offshore, subsea storage reservoir. A carbon dioxide floating storage unit moored adjacent the marine platform gathers and stores carbon dioxide delivered in discreet amounts from carbon dioxide sources. Carbon dioxide sources may include carbon dioxide delivery vessels and a carbon dioxide capture system mounted on the marine platform. Once a desired volume of carbon dioxide has been gathered in the carbon dioxide floating storage unit, compressors in fluid communication with the carbon dioxide floating storage unit may be utilized to increase the pressure of the gathered carbon dioxide to a desired injection pressure, after which the pressurized carbon dioxide is pumped directly from the fixed marine platform into the subsea storage reservoir.
US12092323B2
A system and method uses a combustor and gasifier to burn a primary dirty fuel, such as waste materials or high-polluting fossil fuels, and a secondary low-polluting fuel, such as biomass fuels, for co-generation of electricity while reducing harmful emissions. The primary fuel is burned at least partially through the use of an improved burner tube. Dirty exhaust from a combustor is scrubbed by a gasifier by reforming the combustors exhaust gases into a clean-burning producer gas (syn-gas). The secondary fuel and oxygen are added to the dirty exhaust in the gasifier to create gas, char and ash. The gas powers an engine or turbine that turns a generator, or a boiler, Stirling engine, or Organic Rankine Cycle power plant, and releases a cleaner exhaust.
US12092318B1
The disclosure discloses a light emitting module, including: a linear light-guiding unit, including a light incident surface located on a side end thereof and a protrusive reflection structure disposed on a bottom side thereof; and a light emitting unit, disposed on the light incident surface. The light emitting unit is configured to emit a light to enter the linear light-guiding unit through the light incident surface, and the light is reflected by the protrusive reflection structure. On a side view, a first included angle is defined between the protrusive reflection structure and the bottom side, and the first included angle is greater than or equal to 15.0 degrees and equal to or less than 35.0 degrees.
US12092315B2
A light and speaker apparatus comprising a light, one or more audio speakers, and various channels which permit sound to project in multiple directions including both upwards and downwards. In some embodiments, the light and the one or more speakers are positioned within a chamber inside the apparatus.
US12092302B2
A light fixture includes a lower housing, a lower LED light source disposed in the lower housing and configured to project downlight, an upper housing, an upper LED light source mounted in the upper housing and configured to project rear or sidelight, a switch, a power supply, and a light control circuit including dimming means. The power supply and control circuit are configured to connect to a power source, with the switch operative to selectively energize both the lower and upper LED light sources.
US12092300B2
The present disclosure discloses a neck hanging Light-Emitting Diode (LED) lamp with a timer. The present disclosure takes a neck hanging main body as a carrier in design, and a light source configured to light and an electronic timer configured for a user to time in seconds are respectively arranged at both ends of the neck hanging main body, so that this product can have both effects of lighting and timing, which meets conventional lighting work, and can also meet a requirement of the user for a timing function. Moreover, a sleeve that can be pushed and is provided with a lens is arranged at the light source. Under an operation of manually pushing the sleeve, a focus point of far and near light can be further changed, so as to present different lighting effects.
US12092295B2
A connection assembly includes an electrical cord providing electrical communication between a first light fixture and a second light fixture, and a cover removably coupled to the first light fixture and the second light fixture. The electrical cord includes a first electrical connector coupled to the first light fixture, and a second electrical connector coupled to the second light fixture. The cover extends over the electrical cord, and includes a first end adjacent the first light fixture, a second end adjacent the second light fixture, and a surface extending between the first end and the second end. The cover provides a continuous surface between the first light fixture and the second light fixture.
US12092293B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of lamps, and discloses an outdoor decorative lamp, including a lamp holder and a lampshade connected to the lamp holder, and further including a lampwick component and a decorative shell, an annular connecting port is arranged at a top of the accommodating cavity; and the lamp holder extends out of the accommodating cavity through the annular connecting port. In the present invention, a traditional integrated barn lantern lamp is transformed into a replaceable barn lantern lamp bulb by assembling and combining a lamp bulb with the decorative shell. Lamps on a barn lantern string can be replaced at any time, which significantly reduces the usage cost.
US12092291B1
A streetlight includes a support erected vertically on the ground and a lighting unit provided on an upper part of the support and having a lower body and an upper body and emitting light using electrical energy produced by a solar panel. A lamp that receives electrical energy and emits light is installed in the lower body. The upper body includes a plurality of side panels and one upper panel, the upper panel having a solar panel mounted thereon, and being operably coupled to any one of the side panels by a hinge. The following components are accommodated in the upper body: an electric cylinder whose end is connected to the upper panel at the opposite side of the hinge to rotate the upper panel around the hinge to change the tilt angle of the upper panel, a rechargeable battery, a rainwater barrel, a pump.
US12092283B2
A vehicular headlamp includes a first light source for emitting a first light forward; a second light source disposed above the first light source and for emitting a second light forward; a first reflecting surface disposed in front of the first light source for reflecting the first light upward; a second reflecting surface disposed above the second light source for reflecting forward the first light reflected by the first reflecting surface; a third reflecting surface disposed above the second light source and below the second reflecting surface, is connected to the second reflecting surface, for reflecting the second light forward; and a projection lens disposed in front of the first, second, and third reflecting surfaces. The first and second light sources disposed on the same plane.
US12092276B2
Disclosed is a lamp having a dynamic starry sky effect. The lamp includes a lamp frame, and a first light source, optical integrating lenses, a roller beam splitter, a starry sky laser assembly and a starry sky mirror disc, where the optical integrating lenses are configured to focus light emitted by the first light source into strip-shaped light spots and transmit the strip-shaped light spots formed through focusing to the roller beam splitter at a front part in a shining direction; the roller beam splitter is configured to form the light into nonlinear dynamic strip-shaped light spots during rotation; the starry sky laser assembly includes a second light source; the starry sky mirror disc is configured to reflect light generated by the second light source; and the light dots and the strip-shaped light spots are superposed and combined together to form the dynamic starry sky effect.
US12092272B2
An LED tube lamp comprises: a glass lamp tube; an LED light strip disposed inside the glass lamp tube and comprised a mounting region and a connecting region; an LED module comprised a plurality of LED light sources mounted on the mounting region; two first connecting pads arranged on the connecting region, each of the first connecting pads comprising a through hole therein; a fixing structure disposed inside the glass lamp tube and extending along the longitudinal direction of the glass lamp tube, the fixing structure comprising a first end fixedly connected to the inner circumferential surface of the glass lamp tube and a second end fixedly connected to the LED light strip; a circuit board separate from the light strip and soldered to the LED light strip via the two first connecting pads, and a solder be disposed on each of the first connecting pads and in the through hole of each first connecting pad and a power supply module. The power supply module comprises a first rectifying circuit; a filtering circuit coupled to the first rectifying circuit and a driving circuit coupled to the filtering circuit.
US12092268B2
In one example, a portable fuel gas system includes: a portable enclosure; a fuel gas supply manifold; a throttle in fluid communication with the fuel gas supply manifold. The fuel gas supply manifold includes a first pressure zone and a second pressure zone separated from one another by the throttle; and a fuel gas shutoff valve in fluid communication with the fuel gas supply manifold and operative to control a flow of a fuel gas in the fuel gas supply manifold, wherein the fuel gas supply manifold, the throttle, and the fuel gas shutoff valve are disposed within the portable enclosure.
US12092263B1
Disclosed is a double-layer oil film lubrication analysis method and system based on a floating bushing. The method includes: determining a roller motion track and a floating bushing motion track according to a roller displacement and a floating bushing displacement; determining, when the motion tracks are closed end to end, minimum values of inner-layer and outer-layer oil film thickness of the floating bushing according to an oil film thickness at each moment; and determining that an abnormality exists in double-layer oil film lubrication when either of the minimum values of the inner-layer and outer-layer oil film thickness of the floating bushing is less than a preset oil film thickness threshold value. According to the present disclosure, more accurate abnormality analysis of double-layer oil film lubrication can be realized.
US12092253B2
An air supply duct for fan is used to guide air to an air intake port of a fan, and includes a duct main body portion in which an air passage extending in a predetermined x direction with one end side set as an air inlet port is formed inside, and an air supply port for supplying air travelling through the air passage to the air intake port of the fan is arranged. A peripheral region of the air supply port of the inside of the duct main body portion is surrounded by wall portions in the periphery except for a communication portion with the air passage, and is configured as a space portion for generating air column vibration and having a width in a y direction intersecting the x direction larger than a width of the air passage. A combustion device including the air supply duct is provided.
US12092241B2
A refrigerant pipe constituting a refrigerant circuit of a refrigeration apparatus, includes: a pipe body made of stainless steel; and a first connecting tube made of copper or a copper alloy and that is configured to connect a first different refrigerant pipe to the refrigerant pipe. The first connecting tube is connected to an outer circumferential surface of a first end of the pipe body in a pipe axis direction of the pipe body. The first connecting tube overlaps with the pipe body in a pipe diameter direction in an entirety of the first connecting tube in the pipe axis direction.
US12092237B1
A chuck for inflating a tire having a valve includes a valve engagement device having a longitudinal axis, a first portion and a second portion that move laterally with respect to the longitudinal axis and in parallel with each other to define a chamber for receiving the valve stem. An actuator that moves longitudinally with respect to the valve engagement device causes the first portion and the second portion to move laterally and in parallel. The first portion and the second portion of the valve engagement device include protrusions, and the actuator contacts the protrusions as the actuator is moved longitudinally.
US12092236B2
A valving system has an actuator member connected to move with an actuator piston and change the position of a valve member. There is a smaller face fluid chamber acting on a small area piston face, and a larger face fluid chamber acting on a larger face of the actuator piston. The torque motor has an armature and a flapper caused to move by current received at the armature. The flapper moves between two fluid ports to control the pressure in the larger face chamber. The flapper further has a positioning extension engaging a first feedback spring operable between it and a forward face of the actuator piston and providing a spring force in combination with a spring force from the positioning extension. A control is operable to provide current to the armature to control the fluid received in the larger face chamber. The controller is programmed to associate the current supplied to the armature to an actual position of the valve member. A method is also disclosed.
US12092231B2
A valve assembly for controlling inflation and deflation is provided. The valve assembly includes a rapid-inflate valve having an annular body configured to couple to a valve stem port of a wheel and selectively permit gas flow into a tire. The valve has a sealing surface in a chamber with a slidable sealing member biased toward the sealing surface. In a closed position, the sealing member can be positioned in contact with the sealing surface to prohibit gas flow through the valve, and in an open position, the sealing member can be positioned away from the sealing surface to permit gas flow through the valve. Wheel can include dual valve stem ports. In this configuration, the first port has the rapid-inflate valve assembly and the second port can have a rapid-deflate valve stem, a rapid-deflate valve stem cap, a rapid-deflate to pressure set valve stem, or a standard valve stem.
US12092229B2
An exemplary valve bank and/or modular control valve having a valve body, a valve member movable in a fluid flow of the valve body to control flow of fluid, and an onboard electronic controller that is operably mounted to the valve bank or valve body. The onboard controller is operably connected to at least one actuator of the valve, which is configured to control movement of the valve member in response to commands from the onboard controller. The onboard controller may provide diagnostics, feedback and/or control of the control valve, such as via inputs from one or more sensors that may be included in the valve. The modular control valve may be used with conventional non-intelligent valve banks to thereby impart smart diagnostics and/or feedback into the valve bank in a plug-and-play manner. A communications interface may be provided in the control valve to interface and communicate with an upper-level PLC controller.
US12092223B2
A coil spring of a throttle valve device around a shaft between a valve and a valve gear has one end rotated together with a first guide, and another end rotated together with a second guide. The both ends of the coil spring contact a holding portion and a driving portion at a valve intermediate position of the shaft. The driving portion pushes the one end of the coil spring while the holding portion holds the other end of the coil spring during movement of the shaft from the valve intermediate position toward a valve fully-open position or a valve fully-closed position. The first guide and the second guide have insertion holes that face each other in an axial direction when the both ends of the coil spring are positioned near the valve intermediate position of the shaft and are not in contact with the holding portion.
US12092222B2
A combination of piston rings assembled to a piston of an internal combustion engine includes four compression rings. An outer peripheral surface of a first compression ring includes a barrel surface, an outer peripheral surface of a second compression ring includes an outer peripheral end portion and a taper surface, an outer peripheral surface of a third compression ring includes an outer peripheral end portion and a taper surface, and an outer peripheral surface of a fourth compression ring includes an outer peripheral end portion and a taper surface.
US12092221B2
A strain wave gearing is provided with a lubricant sealing structure that prevents a lubricant from leaking to the outside through a gap between a hollow input shaft and an end plate. The lubricant sealing structure is provided with a labyrinth seal that seals the gap. The labyrinth seal is configured by a plurality of gap portions defined by an oil-repellent surface in which fine grooves are formed in a prescribed groove array pattern. The oil-repellent surface is also formed at an outer peripheral surface portion on an upstream side of the labyrinth seal. Leakage of a lubricant oil to outside of the device can be reliably prevented through the oil-repellent effect of the oil-repellent surface at the upstream side, the sealing effect of the labyrinth seal, and the oil-repellent effect from the oil-repellent surface of the labyrinth seal.
US12092220B2
A sealing system including a first end and a second end with flexible bellows extending therebetween. The first end includes a base plate with an inner ring having an inner diameter. The inner ring is configured to receive a pipe therethrough. The pipe has an outer diameter, which is smaller than the inner diameter of the inner ring. The bellows of the sealing system has a first length in a first position and second length in a second position. Upon axial expansion of the pipe, the bellows is configured to move from the first position to the second position. The sealing system may also comprise a mechanical protective element, such as a shroud which extends around the bellows. Movement of the bellows can be further limited with rods extending from the shroud to a surrounding substrate or a cable fixing a maximum distance between the pipe and the shroud.
US12092217B2
A sealing element for a rotating control device includes an elastomeric body having a central bore for sealing against a pipe passing therethrough. The elastomeric body has an upper portion which is internally reinforced with a frame and a lower portion formed with a plurality of protrusions. The radial protrusions provide columnar support to the lower portion permitting the lower portion to resist centrifugal and frictional forces against the lower portion during drilling and other operations. The sealing element may be used to form an assembly with reusable parts for connecting the sealing element to a mandrel of a rotating control device.
US12092216B2
Described herein is a packing box for mounting on a machinery shaft. In accordance with one aspect, the packing box housing defines a central opening for insertion of a movable machinery shaft with a hollow passageway surrounding the central opening to form a path for the flow of a fluid coolant. The passageway is provided with a fluid inlet port and a fluid outlet port opening onto the outer surface of the packing box housing, and it is formed by a single conduit or by a plurality of conduits obtained through additive manufacturing process and connected in series or in parallel to wound around the central opening.
US12092213B2
Power systems having reduced operating noise and associated methods are disclosed. An example power system includes an engine, a generator, a driveshaft, and a pulley system. The driveshaft may include at least one coupler configured to dampen vibration transferred by the driveshaft. The pulley system may include a first pulley and a second pulley that are drivingly coupled to one another via one or more belts. The generator may be configured to generate electric power using a rotational force received form the engine via the driveshaft and pulley system.
US12092212B2
Parking brake assembly for a transmission in a vehicle with an electric actuation of the parking brake via a mechanism and with an emergency actuator with a lift magnet on a spring accumulator for application of the parking brake. The spring accumulator has a pawl rotatable about a pivot point connected to the lift magnet and a mass element connected to the pawl and rotatable about a second pivot point.
US12092208B2
An actuating device (10) for an automated manual transmission (12) includes a pressure-medium-operated actuator (54) having a piston (58) and a piston rod (64) connectable to the selector element or shift element of the manual transmission. The piston is arranged in a cylindrical receiving chamber (50) of the housing (18) of the actuator and is coaxially movable therein. A sensor system (30)includes a magnet (38) arranged on a holding device (44) and a magnetic-field-sensitive sensor (32) is arranged on the housing radially with respect to the magnet (44).The holding device has a hollow cylindrical geometry, an anti-rotation element (80)is form-lockingly accommodated in an associated recess in the housing (18), and that the anti-rotation element extends across the holding device in the manner of a secant such that rotational movement of the holding device is blocked, although axial and rotational movement of the piston are possible.
US12092207B2
An apparatus for controlling a vehicle includes an engine including at least one combustion chamber configured to generate power for driving the vehicle by combustion of fuel, a torque converter including an impeller, a turbine, and a damper clutch and configured to convert torque output from the engine through an operation fluid, a continuously variable transmission including a driving pulley, a driven pulley, and a belt, a forward clutch configured to selectively block power delivery between the torque converter and the continuously variable transmission, and a controller configured to perform a slip control of the forward clutch while the vehicle is coasting, re-inject fuel into the combustion chamber of the engine when a fuel re-injection condition is satisfied, release engagement of the damper clutch after performing a slip control of the damper clutch of the torque converter, and fully engage the forward clutch.
US12092201B2
A gerotor pump arrangement for extracting hydraulic fluid from a transmission housing of a transmission. A first gerotor set has a first inner rotor and a first outer rotor, and a second gerotor set has a second inner rotor and a second outer rotor. The first gerotor set forms a hydraulically drivable drive side of the gerotor pump arrangement, and the second gerotor set forms a pump side, driven by the first gerotor set, wherein the first and second inner rotors are rotationally fixedly mounted on a common shaft which is rotatable about a rotational axis. A transmission with such a gerotor pump arrangement is also disclosed.
US12092173B2
A clutch assembly includes a pocket plate, and a teeter-totter strut retained in a pocket plate pocket and pivotable to engaged and disengaged positions. A strut center of mass is configured so that when a shock load force acts on the strut, the strut is prevented from moving into the engaged position. A torque locking mechanism includes a strut housing having a strut pocket, a strut having ears, and a cover. The strut has a center of mass between the ears and a portion of the pocket. A clutch strut includes ears extending transversely from a body. A first portion of the body between the ears and an abutment surface has a first length and width, and a second portion of the body between the ears and a load bearing surface has a second length longer than the first length and a second width narrower than the first width.
US12092172B2
A clutch assembly or module that includes multiple components and one-way clutches. The clutch assembly or module functions as a releasable torque transmitting mechanism that provides a mechanical engagement between mating parts wherein the multiple components and one-way clutches cooperate to control the torque flow path between a drive or input member and a driven or output member.
US12092163B2
A method for mounting a sensor bearing unit providing a bearing and an impulse ring provided with a target holder and with a target mounted on an axial portion of the target holder. The method including measuring an eccentricity E1 between the target and the axial portion of the target holder, measuring an eccentricity E2 between a groove made in the bore of an inner ring of the bearing and the bore, introducing the target holder inside the groove, turning the target holder inside the groove to an angular position in which the eccentricity Etotal between the target and the bore of the inner ring is less than or equal to a predetermined value which is lower than the sum of the eccentricities E1 and E2, and securing the target holder inside the groove of the inner ring at the angular position.
US12092161B2
A bearing assembly includes a shaft, a first bearing, and a nut. The nut has a thread, which is screwed onto a threaded region formed on the shaft, and a bearing seat formed on the shaft adjoins the threaded region. The inner ring of the first bearing contacts the bearing seat, and the nut contacts the inner ring of the first bearing. The inner ring of the first bearing is arranged spaced apart from the threaded region of the shaft. A runout region of a thread cut into the threaded region of the shaft is arranged in a subsection of the bearing seat adjoining the threaded region.
US12092158B2
A two-part bearing cage for a rolling bearing includes a first cage part and a second cage part. Each cage part includes an annular base body with a plurality of bars extending axially from the annular base body and/or a plurality of complementarily designed bar receptacles. The bars of one cage part engage in the bar receptacles of the other cage part to form cage bars for defining cage pockets configured to receive the rolling elements of the rolling bearing. Each bar includes a claw and each bar receptacle includes a connection portion such that each connection portion and its corresponding claw form a snap joint.
US12092148B2
A system, comprising a panel comprising a tetrahedral-octahedral honeycomb lattice, a skin layer formed on a first side of the lattice, having an aperture formed therein configured to receive a fastener, and a fastening assembly comprising a fastener configured to be mounted to the panel when the panel is fixed to an adjacent component, and a hardening material. Corresponding systems and methods also are disclosed.
US12092145B2
A push-on fastener for engagement on a cylindrical stud includes a body having oppositely facing first and second exterior surfaces and an outer marginal periphery. A central opening extends axially through the body between the oppositely facing exterior surfaces defining an inner periphery. A first resilient tab includes a first engagement edge and a second resilient tab includes a second engagement edge. The first engagement edge defining an inner periphery of the central opening and the second engagement edge defining a periphery that is outwardly of the inner periphery of the central opening.
US12092138B2
A coupling assembly for coupling a first component to a second component, the coupling assembly includes a pin and a housing. The pin includes a shaft and a pin frangible portion formed in the shaft. The housing includes a hollow body and a housing frangible portion formed in the hollow body. The housing is configured to receive the pin such that the shaft of the pin is received within the hollow body. When the pin is received in the hollow body the pin frangible portion aligns with the housing frangible portion.
US12092136B2
Devices, systems, and methods for detecting properties of motion of at least one component of fluid exchange devices, such as, for example, a pressure exchange device or system.
US12092135B2
A constant value method for detecting and evaluating internal leakage in a hydraulic cylinder and a detection device. The method comprises: step (1) measuring an accurate pressure drop value Δp of the internal leakage in the hydraulic cylinder; step (2), determining whether the detected hydraulic cylinder meets a standard: if the product of the accurate pressure drop value Δp of the internal leakage in the hydraulic cylinder and a corresponding hydraulic stroke L, is less than a standard parameter C for evaluating the internal leakage in the hydraulic cylinder, C = 4 QtK π D 2 , the internal leakage in me hydraulic cylinder meets the standard. Otherwise, the internal leakage in the hydraulic cylinder does not meet the standard. The detection device comprises a motor, a hydraulic pump, a directional valve, a detected part, a pipeline disassembly joint and a pressure sensor.
US12092134B2
An inflatable includes an inflation chamber. The inflation chamber has an outer surface, a first end, and a second end substantially opposite the first end. The inflation chamber is configured to be inflated from a deflated state to an inflated state. The inflation chamber is loadable and bendable in the inflated state. The inflatable also includes a reinforcement. The reinforcement has reinforcement sections corresponding to high-stress regions of the outer surface when the inflation chamber is in the inflated state. The reinforcement is attached to the outer surface and is configured to improve at least one of a loading strength and a bending capability of the inflation chamber when the reinforcement sections are placed on the high-stress regions of the outer surface. The reinforcement is shaped according to a Turing pattern that is based on the high-stress regions of the outer surface.
US12092131B2
A motor module and a water-cooling pump having motor module are provided. The motor module has a combined first shell and second shell, a driving shaft mounted on the first shell and second shell, the stator assembly is mounted in the first shell, and the rotor assembly is mounted on the driving shaft. An opening of the first shell forms a first mounting portion, which can be mounted on or detached from a second mounting portion of the second shell via easy means. The modularized motor module can be mounted into a water machine via an opening of a shell and then a motor cover is mounted on the opening of the shell, and a drawing mechanism and pressured housing can be mounted at another end, so the assembling process is easy.
US12092126B2
An oil feed assembly for a vacuum pump comprises: an oil feeder located for feeding oil to one side of a bearing of the vacuum pump; an oil sump located on the one side of the bearing and configured to receive excess oil from the oil feeder; and a venting bypass conduit fluidly coupled with the oil sump and with another side of the bearing, the venting bypass conduit having an inlet located at an elevated position above a floor of the oil sump and configured to convey gas from the oil sump to the another side of the bearing. In this way, the venting bypass conduit provides an alternative path which allows gas within the oil sump to escape during pump-down while preventing oil within the oil sump from escaping with the gas travelling through the venting bypass conduit.
US12092122B2
A fan includes a first blower and a second blower each having an impeller. The first blower includes a first motor and a first motor drive controller to control driving of the first motor and communicate with the second blower. The second blower includes a second motor and a second motor drive controller to control driving of the second motor and communicate with the first blower. The first motor drive controller controls the driving of the first motor based on a result of communication with the second blower.
US12092107B2
A pump assembly, comprising a pump and housing having an inlet passage and an outlet passage. The pump includes inlet and outlet ports and opposing first and second drive inputs configured to be rotated together in a pumping direction to operate the pump. The pump can be installed in the housing in a first orientation, in which the first drive input is configured for being rotated by a drive source in a first external direction to operate the pump, and a second orientation, in which the second drive input is configured for being rotated by the drive source in a second external direction opposite of the first external direction to operate the pump. In both the first orientation and the second orientation, the inlet port is in fluid communication with the inlet passage and the outlet port is in fluid communication with the outlet passage.
US12092103B2
A fuel pump includes a cam arrangement surrounding a rotor and disposed within a spacer ring. The cam arrangement is configured to deterministically translate relative to the spacer ring and the rotor during stroking of the pump. An involute gear set provides an interface between the cam arrangement and the spacer ring. In some cases, the involute gear set is configured to provide a linear translation of the cam arrangement along a timing line. In other cases, the involute gear set is configured to provide a linear translation of the cam arrangement at an angle relative to the timing line.
US12092099B2
A liquid feeding device includes a primary plunger pump; a secondary plunger pump connected downstream; a check valve provided between the primary plunger pump and the secondary plunger pump; a primary pressure sensor that detects a pressure in the pump chamber of the primary plunger pump; a liquid feeding control part configured to control operations of the primary plunger pump and the secondary plunger pump; and a liquid leakage detector configured to detect liquid leakage in the check valve based on a change in an output value of the primary pressure sensor during the waiting time. The liquid feeding control part is configured to control the operation of the primary plunger pump so that a waiting time, where the primary plunger pump stops without operating, is present while a discharge operation by the secondary plunger pump is performed after a suction by the primary plunger pump is completed.
US12092096B2
Provided for may be a motor speed control apparatus for use with a piston pump. The piston may be adapted to create a plurality of compressions and the piston may have a compression path and a decompression path. Further, the piston cylinder may include a proximal end, a distal end, and a piston length. The piston cylinder may have a proximal threshold position and a distal threshold position. In an embodiment, the apparatus includes a proximal and a distal hall effect sensor. The apparatus may comprise a computer, wherein instructions instruct the piston to decelerate at the distal threshold position during the compression path and the proximal threshold position during the decompression path, and/or wherein the computer executable instructions instruct the piston to accelerate at the distal threshold position during the decompression path and the proximal threshold position during the compression path.
US12092085B2
A method for detecting an accretion of ice on a rotor blade of a rotor of a wind turbine is provided. The can be operated at a variable rotational speed. The method includes recording a wind speed of a wind acting upon the rotor, recording an operating variable that is dependent on the wind speed and comparing the recorded operating variable or the recorded wind speed with a reference variable of a characteristic wind-speed-dependent operating-variable curve of the wind turbine. The characteristic operating-variable curve indicates an operating variable assumed to be optimal in dependence on the wind speed. The method includes detecting an accretion of ice on the rotor blade if the recorded operating variable or the recorded wind speed, deviates from the reference variable by at least a predetermined minimum deviation specified in dependence on the wind speed.
US12092074B2
A system for assembling a tower for a wind generator having a succession of subsections (Si). The system including: a plurality of lifting legs, a lifting structure vertically movable on the lifting legs, the lifting structure including a rigid lifting frame for holding the tower under assembly, the lifting frame including load transfer members and the lifting structure including self-climbing mechanisms interacting between the load transfer members and the lifting legs for elevating or lowering the lifting structure, and at least a first set of gripping arms movable relative to the lifting frame between a retracted configuration and a gripping configuration.
US12092069B2
The power plant disclosed is an engine that derives its usefulness in the pursuit of energy generation by utilizing hydrostatic pressure differentials found or created in various liquids, gases or solutions, such as but not limited to water and air. It is generally provided as a configuration designed to create a pressure differential, and to use the pressure differential to increase the effective head seen via a penstock and turbine system. Pump systems that are employed include venturi systems, jet pump systems and other comparable mixed-pressure vacuum pumps. Multiple power generating systems are interconnected to provide continuous and constant power generation through a penstock and turbine system.
US12092052B2
A method for early detection of a stochastic preignition (SPI) in an internal combustion engine includes monitoring sensor data from a sensor that is coupled to the internal combustion engine of a vehicle, determining whether a SPI event will occur using the sensor data and a Hankel Alternative View of Koopman (HAVOK) model, and commanding the vehicle to take a corrective action before the SPI event occurs to prevent the SPI event from happening in response to determining that the SPI event will occur.
US12092051B2
An air-fuel ratio control apparatus includes an air-fuel ratio control unit controlling an air-fuel ratio of exhaust gas flowing into an exhaust gas control catalyst of the internal combustion engine includes an air-fuel ratio control unit controlling the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas flowing into the exhaust gas control catalyst. The air-fuel ratio control unit alternately repeats a rich process for controlling the air-fuel ratio that is richer than a stoichiometric air-fuel ratio and a lean process for controlling the air-fuel ratio hat is leaner than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio. The air-fuel ratio control unit, during the rich process, executes a lean pulse process for controlling, over a period shorter than a period of one execution of the lean process, the air-fuel ratio of the exhaust gas to reach a lean air-fuel ratio having a higher lean level than the air-fuel ratio during the lean process.
US12092047B2
Methods and systems for operating a vehicle that includes a manual transmission are presented. In one example, a method for a vehicle having a manual transmission comprises, during an initial launch with traction control enabled, overriding driver throttle commands to maintain a setpoint speed of an engine and limiting wheel slip until wheel slip decreases below a non-zero threshold.
US12092046B2
An engine system includes an engine including first and second cylinders, a catalyst provided in an exhaust passage of the engine, and a control device for the engine. The control device includes a fuel cut control unit configured to execute a specific cylinder fuel cut process of stopping supply of fuel to the first cylinder and supplying fuel to the second cylinder when there is a request to warm up the catalyst, an injection amount control unit configured to increase a fuel injection amount in the second cylinder at a predetermined increase rate during execution of the specific cylinder fuel cut process, as compared to a case where the specific cylinder fuel cut process is stopped, and an injection timing control unit configured to advance a fuel injection timing in a compression stroke of the second cylinder during execution of the specific cylinder fuel cut process is stopped.
US12092037B2
A gas turbine engine for an aircraft includes, in axial flow sequence, a compressor module, a combustor module, and a turbine module, with a first electric machine being rotationally connected to the turbine module. The first electrical machine is configured to generate a total electrical power PEM1 (W), and the gas turbine engine is configured to generate a total shaft power PSHAFT (W); and a ratio R of: R = ( Total Shaft Power = P SHAFT ) ( Total Electrical Power Generated = P EM 1 ) is in a range of between 0.005 and 0.020.
US12092032B1
A system and method for supplying hydrogen to a combustor of a gas turbine engine includes supplying liquid hydrogen from a liquid hydrogen supply source to a hydrogen supply line that is adapted to be coupled to the combustor of the gas turbine engine. The liquid hydrogen is converted to gaseous hydrogen at a first pressure and is to a pump, which increases the pressure of the gaseous hydrogen to a second pressure. A flowrate of the gaseous hydrogen discharged from the pump is controlled using a fuel metering valve. A portion of the gaseous hydrogen discharged from the pump is received and stored in a high-pressure gaseous hydrogen tank, and a pressure-regulating valve maintains the second pressure at a substantially constant pressure magnitude.
US12092026B2
An air intake for a nacelle for an aircraft engine includes a front lip connecting a substantially cylindrical internal wall and a substantially cylindrical external wall, and at least one acoustic structure including acoustic cells. The acoustic structure is situated in the space delimited by the internal wall, the external wall and the front lip. The acoustic structure is an added part secured to the air intake. The acoustic cells of the acoustic structure are arranged facing a region of the internal wall or of the lip at a predetermined distance so that the acoustic cells of the acoustic structure are not in contact with the internal wall or the lip while providing an acoustic attenuation function.
US12092022B2
A propulsion system for an aircraft includes a core engine that generates a core gas flow, a propulsor section that is driven by the core engine and disposed aft of the core engine, a nacelle that surrounds the core engine and the propulsor section, a water recovery system that is disposed in the nacelle, an exhaust duct where the core gas flow is directed radially outward from the core engine to the nacelle, an evaporator assembly that is in thermal communication with the exhaust duct where water is recovered by the water recovery system and is heated to generate a steam flow that is subsequently communicated to the core engine.
US12092021B2
A hydrogen hybrid cycle system configured to convert heat into mechanical work by burning a H2 and an O2. The hydrogen hybrid cycle system comprises a H2 source, an O2 source, a combustion chamber, a first steam injected gas turbine, a load, a heat recovery steam generator and a water pump. The H2 source provides the H2 to the combustion chamber. The O2 source provides the O2 to the combustion chamber. The combustion chamber burns portions of the H2 and the O2. The hydrogen hybrid cycle system burns the H2 and the O2 at or near stoichiometry in the combustion chamber. The hydrogen hybrid cycle system cools the combustion chamber with at least one of a cooling steam and a water.
US12092016B2
Methods and systems are provided for a pre-chamber. In one example, a system includes a pre-chamber and a piston arranged in a combustion chamber. The piston and/or combustion chamber comprise one or more features configured to force squish flow into the pre-chamber.
US12092012B2
A portable efficient heater management system includes an external heat source, a circulation pump that provides the circulation of the water taken from the external heat source, a heat sensor measuring the temperature of the water coming from the heat source, water transfer pipes, a two-section heat exchanger in which the waters in them do not mix with each other, but heat transfer can be made, a pressure gauge, a processor, a heat sensor placed on a generator, a generator circulation pump, a three-way valve. It also provides the engine blocks of diesel-powered generators to be heated with the heat obtained from an external heat source, as long as the heat in the external source is sufficient.
US12092008B2
Provided is an exhaust purification filter that is able to reduce pressure loss and that has high exhaust purification performance and particulate matter trapping performance. This exhaust purification filter comprises a filter substrate having a wall flow structure, and an exhaust purification catalyst supported on a partition wall of the filter substrate. The volume-based median pore diameter (D50) of the filter substrate is 18 μm or greater, the full width at half maximum of the pore distribution of the filter substrate is 7 μm to 15 μm, and the exhaust purification catalyst is supported in an unevenly distributed manner in a high-density layer in which the density of the exhaust purification catalyst is relatively high and a low-density layer in which the density of the exhaust purification catalyst is relatively low.
US12092004B2
A device for the aftertreatment of exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, with an exhaust gas line, which is configured to feed the exhaust gas expelled from the internal combustion engine to at least one component for exhaust gas aftertreatment. The at least one adsorber for the temporary storage of hydrocarbons contained in the exhaust gas, a catalytic converter for the catalytic aftertreatment of the exhaust gas, an electrically heatable catalytic converter and a cracking catalytic converter for cracking long-chain hydrocarbons into shorter-chain hydrocarbons are arranged in the exhaust gas line.
US12091997B1
A remote oil drain system and method, which includes a drain fitting with a hose end that can be coupled to a hose, a drain plug end, and a flange at the intersection of the hose end and the drain plug end. The flange having a key that prevents rotation when interfacing with a corresponding keyway. The drain plug configured to engage with internal threads of the drain fitting. A mounting member configured to be coupled to the chassis, its profile allowing the drain plug end of the drain fitting to pass through to the flange. The mounting member having a keyway to interlock with the key of the drain fitting flange. A locking member engaged with the externally threaded surface of the drain fitting and the proximate the mounting member.
US12091996B2
A mobile vehicle lubrication unit for serving power transmission equipment elevated above ground level such as conveyors whereby the lubricant containing gear reducer unit is disposed in an enclosed body mounted on an upper portion of an elevated conveyor. The system includes a manifold system connectable to trailer mounted storage tanks for lubricants, pumps, filters, air supplies and supply lines, and transfer means mounted on a truck or trailer including side access to the control panel and transfer hoses enabling the user to transfer lubricants to elevated equipment such as conveyors by pulling along side of same. The device changes, filters, and replaces the oil in a reducer gearbox or other lubricant containing equipment which is not easily accessed from the ground level. Air presssure is used to evaculate used oil from the conveyor gear motor and/or reducer units and replaces the used oil with filtered or new oil through oil lines and hoses with quick disconnects which may be positioned on a manifold at ground level having oil lines in fluid communication with the gear motor/reducer unit.
US12091985B2
An engine component for a turbine engine, the engine component comprising a wall bounding an interior; a panel portion defining a portion of the wall, the panel portion comprising: an outer wall; an inner wall spaced from the outer wall to define a wall gap; and a structural segment formed within the wall gap comprising at least one structural element. The apparatus formed from a method including calculating a factor and adjusting a variable until the factor is between a given range.
US12091983B2
A stator blade segment includes a circumferentially extending outer blade ring, a stator blade extending radially inward from the outer blade ring, and a sealing member. The stator blade has a cavity that is formed in the interior of the blade and that communicates with the surface of the blade. The outer blade ring has a blade ring body and two blade ring protrusions. The two blade ring protrusions protrude radially outward from an anti-gas path surface of the blade ring body and face each other across a gap in an axial direction, and together with a casing, a drain recovery space is formed between the two blade ring protrusions. The blade ring body has a blade surface drain recovery passage that allows communication between the cavity and the drain recovery space. One of the two blade ring protrusions has a sealing surface.
US12091981B2
An insertion tool is provided for an engine defining an access opening and including a component defining at least in part a cavity. The insertion tool includes: an insertion tool arm having a plurality of segments, the insertion tool arm configured for insertion through the access opening into the cavity and the plurality of segments configured to be in a fixed position relative to one another within the cavity; and a base coupled to the insertion tool arm and configured to be positioned outside the cavity and to move the insertion tool arm along at least two degrees of freedom.
US12091979B2
A rotor blade system includes a blade root, a blade neck adjoining the blade root, an airfoil adjoining the blade neck, a radially outer partition wall, an axially forward partition wall and an axially rearward partition wall, connected to the radially outer partition wall such that the partition walls surround the blade neck on three sides, the partition walls projecting beyond the blade neck in the circumferential direction, and further including a blade root protection plate designed to be arranged on the blade root. It is provided that the blade root protection plate have at least one sealing portion that extends in the axial direction from the forward partition wall to the rearward partition wall and whose radially outer side is disposed opposite the radially outer partition wall when the blade root protection plate is arranged on the blade root.
US12091977B2
A roadway/tunnel excavation robot and an automatic cutting control method are provided. The robot includes a rack, a walking platform, a supporting and stabilizing mechanism, a milling mechanism, a telescoping mechanism, an inclined cutting feed adjusting mechanism, a horizontal swinging mechanism, a lifting mechanism and a controller. The milling mechanism includes a drive unit, a milling shaft, an eccentric rotary casing, a high-pressure jet nozzle unit, a tension and compression sensor and a direction sensor. Through the deflection of a center line of an inner hole of the eccentric rotary casing, the milling mechanism drives a milling cutter head to carry out a rotational oscillation motion for rock breaking. The telescoping mechanism, the inclined cutting feed adjusting mechanism, the lifting mechanism and the horizontal swinging mechanism are controlled such that the milling mechanism performs coal rocks milling.
US12091975B2
The invention relates to a control fitting having a two-way cross-fitting, which has an inlet connecting piece, an outlet connecting piece and a passage connecting piece, and having a control element which is arranged in a guide connecting piece of the control fitting so as to be movable between an open position and a closed position, wherein the outlet connecting piece, in the open position of the control element, communicates with the inlet connecting piece and, in the closed position of the control element, is blocked relative to the inlet connecting piece and the passage connecting piece communicates with the inlet connecting piece both in the open position and in the closed position of the control element, and wherein the guide connecting piece has, on an end remote from the outlet connecting piece, an opening for receiving the control element.
US12091967B2
Introduced herein are system and method for precisely determining the actual location of a standing wave created within a wellbore as well as other key properties about the created wave. The introduced system and method utilize a fiber optic sensing system, such as fiber optic Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) system, that actively interrogates and monitors fiber optic sensors along the length of a wellbore. The introduced system and method generate one or more pressure pulses that combine with one another to create a standing wave within a wellbore and process the acoustic response of the standing wave using the fiber optic DAS system over a wide range of frequencies. Based on the measurements, the introduced system and method determine the actual location of the created standing wave and move it to a desired location within the wellbore by adjusting one or more properties of the pressure pulses.
US12091959B2
A system and method for controlling multiple drilling tools inside wellbores makes use of Bayesian optimization with range constraints. A computing device samples observed values for controllable drilling parameters such as weight-on-bit, mud flow rate and drill bit rotational speed in RPM and evaluates a selected drilling parameter such a rate-of-penetration and hydraulic mechanical specific energy for the observed values using an objective function. Range constraints including the physical drilling environment and the total power available to all drilling tools within the drilling environment can be continuously learned by the computing device as the range constraints change. A Bayesian optimization, subject to the range constraints and the observed values, can produce an optimized value for the controllable drilling parameters to achieve a predicted value for the drilling parameters. The system can then control the drilling tool using the optimized value to achieve the predicted value for the selected drilling parameter.
US12091953B2
The present invention discloses a hydraulic fracturing system for driving a plunger pump with a turbine engine, including a fracturing equipment comprising a turbine engine fueled by natural gas or diesel as a power source, an exhaust system, and a plunger pump; a high-low pressure manifold; a blending equipment adapted to blend a fracturing base fluid; and a sand-mixing equipment adapted to provide the fracturing base fluid and a fracturing proppant to the high-low pressure manifold. A first end of the high-low pressure manifold is connected to the fracturing equipment through a connection pipeline. A second end of the high-low pressure manifold is connected to a wellhead. An exhaust end of the turbine engine is connected to the exhaust system whereas an output driving end of the turbine engine is connected to the plunger pump via a connection device. The connection device comprises at least a reduction gearbox. An input speed of the reduction gearbox matches an output driving speed of the turbine engine, and an input torque of the reduction gearbox matches an output driving torque of the turbine engine.
US12091951B2
A subsea installation for heating a two-phase liquid/gas effluent circulating within a subsea casing, includes a plurality of heated pipe sections which are successively connected to one another by curved pipe sections to form a heating coil, each heated pipe section being inclined with respect to the horizontal at an angle comprised between 2 and 10° in order to promote a distributed flow regime of the two-phase effluent and being provided with an induction heating system.
US12091949B2
A method and apparatus for providing a universal plug in cartridge detonator capability in box-by-box perforating guns by providing a tandem sub, having a cartridge detonator assembly, that is capable of connecting to a box end of a perforating gun on one side and connecting to a pinned end of a second perforating gun.
US12091943B2
A system is disclosed to enable compliance of a well insert sleeve using a guide sleeve that is associated with a wash-out hole, where the guide sleeve includes a pivot shoulder. The system includes providing the well insert sleeve with a top portion, a bottom portion, and a pivot surface, so that the pivot surface is in contact with a pivot shoulder. The top portion is at a top clearance from the guide sleeve and the bottom portion is at a bottom clearance from the guide sleeve. The features altogether enable the compliance, in an angular manner, for the well insert sleeve during assembly of well components thereon.
US12091941B2
A downhole wellbore treatment system for and a method of treating an inner surface (FT) of a wellbore (W) is provided. The system comprises an elongate conduit (50) such as a flexible hose (50) for conveying treatment fluid from the surface (P; C) to a treatment head (80) adapted to be inserted into the wellbore (W). The treatment head (80) has a nozzle (83) providing an outlet from the conduit (50) for creating a jet of treatment fluid directed at the inner surface (FT) of the wellbore (W). The treatment head (50) is rotationally disconnected from the conduit (50) by a swivel device (70), allowing rotation of the head (50) relative to the conduit (50) during jetting of the treatment fluid. The elongate conduit (50) is reelable (10) and is inserted into the downhole wellbore (W) from a reel (10) at the surface, through a pressure control device (40) containing wellbore pressure within the downhole wellbore (W) during insertion of the elongate conduit (50) from the reel (10).
US12091935B2
An apparatus, system and related methods for controlling a pressurized flow from a high or low pressure system. An actuated sand dump system and related methods include a first valve positioned downstream of a high or low pressure system, a second valve positioned downstream of the first valve, a choke positioned between in the first and second valves, a plurality of pressure gauges, and a control unit operable to automatically open and close the first and second valves and the choke in a predetermined sequence, upon initiating the predetermined sequence, and in response to pressure measurements from the plurality of pressure gauges.
US12091933B2
Described herein are embodiments of apparatuses and methods that include an annular flow lubricator. In an exemplary embodiment, the annular flow lubricator includes a body housing an internal flow tube such that well flow enters a lower portion of the internal flow tube, travels up the internal flow tube, and exits an upper portion of the internal flow tube. Upon exiting the upper portion of the internal flow tube, well flow then travels in an annulus between the body of the lubricator and a wall of the internal flow tube before exiting an outlet port of the lubricator.
US12091927B2
A wellhead impression tool includes an elongate central body having opposing upper and lower ends, and defining an inner chamber, an impression sleeve arranged concentric with the central body and made of a malleable material, and a hydraulic assembly extending between the impression sleeve and the central body and in fluid communication with the inner chamber to receive a hydraulic fluid from the inner chamber. The hydraulic assembly is operable to force the impression sleeve radially outward and into engagement with a bowl of a wellhead spool of a wellhead assembly, and forcing the impression sleeve against the bowl results in a physical impression of the bowl on an outer surface of the impression sleeve.
US12091924B2
A slip includes a slip body made up of a slip tail, a slip mid-section, and a slip head. A wicker segment is receivable in a recess of the slip head, the segment having a first condition where the segment is immovable relative to the head and a second condition where the segment is movable relative to the head. A method for retrieving a tool having slips, includes loading the slip in tension, releasing a wicker segment of the slip, allowing the segment to move from a first condition to a second condition and disengaging the segment from a radially outward structure. A borehole system includes a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and a slip having a releasable wicker segment disposed within or as a part of the string.
US12091915B2
A lock device has a pair of locking elements with internal locking teeth, a pair of shafts with external locking teeth configured for meshing engagement with the internal locking teeth, a pair of housing portions configured to receive and retain the respective shafts, and a case configured to receive the locking elements. The locking elements are permitted to undergo sliding movement within the case between first and second states of the lock device. In the first state, the internal locking teeth of the locking elements are disposed in respective meshing engagement with the external locking teeth of the shafts so that the case cannot undergo rotational movement relative to the shafts. In the second state, the internal locking teeth of the locking elements are not disposed in meshing engagement with the external locking teeth of the shafts so that the case can undergo rotational movement relative to the shafts.
US12091912B2
A protective barrier and a door frame protection system include a bar having an upper section having an outer dimension; a lower section having an inner dimension greater than the outer dimension of the upper section, the lower section configured to receive the upper section; and a shock absorber configured to be positioned within the lower section and around the upper section, the shock absorber having an outer dimension less than the inner dimension of the lower section and an inner dimension greater than the outer dimension of the upper section.
US12091911B2
An electromechanical actuator includes a housing, an electronic control unit and a switching device. The switching device includes a first member which is attached to a wall of the housing by removable attachment elements and arranged opposite an opening of the wall, and a second member which is movable relative to the first member. The electronic control unit includes a switch and a printed circuit board. The switch is actuated by the second member through the opening provided in the wall and is assembled on the printed circuit board. The printed circuit board includes an electrical connection device arranged opposite the opening of the wall. Moreover, the electrical connection device is accessible through the opening, after the first and second members are withdrawn from the wall, by removing the removable attachment elements.
US12091908B2
A door includes a rectangular panel having a first face, a second face, and two pairs of opposing edges, in which the edges of each pair of edges are parallel and in which a first pair of edges is longer than a second pair of edges. The rectangular panel includes a layered composite material, in which a first layer of the composite material has a positive Poisson's ratio (PPR) and a second layer of the composite material is disposed in contact with the first layer and that includes a material having a negative Poisson's ratio (NPR). The door includes a hinge including plates joined together by a joint, in which a first one of the plates is attached to a first one of the edges of the first pair of edges and in which a second one of the plates extends beyond the first one of the edges. The door also includes a handle opening defined through a thickness of the rectangular panel.
US12091899B2
A method for controlling an opening device and to an opening device for a motor vehicle door element, having a control unit, an electric drive, and an actuating element, wherein the actuating element can be actuated by means of the drive, and the door element can be opened by means of the actuating element. The opening device can be controlled on the basis of a position, in particular the inclination of the motor vehicle.
US12091898B2
A guide system for guiding at least one movably-supported door wing, in particular a folding-sliding-door, relative to a stationary furniture part. The guide system includes a carrier for movably supporting the at least one door wing, a guide rail configured to be fixed to the stationary furniture part for guiding the at least one carrier, a guiding device for displaceably supporting the at least one carrier along the guide rail, a running carriage configured to be coupled to the at least one door wing, and a receiving device for receiving the at least one running carriage. The receiving device adjoins the carrier in a longitudinal direction of the carrier, and the receiving device is movably supported relative the carrier in the longitudinal direction of the carrier.
US12091896B2
A method of arranging an overhead sectional door (SD) in a doorframe (10; 20) that defines a door opening, the overhead sectional door (SD) comprising a plurality of door panel sections (100; 200; 300; 400; 500). The method disclosed herein involves: a) fitting a first door panel section (100) in the doorframe (10; 20), b) fitting a second door panel section (200) in the doorframe (10; 20), and c) actuating an electric motor (M) to cause the first door panel section (100) to push the section door panel section (200) a distance in an upward direction. The method further involves: d) securing the second door panel section (200) with respect to the doorframe (10; 20), e) causing said at least one electric motor (M) to move the first door panel section (100) a distance in a downward direction, thereby leaving a space (60) between the secured door panel section and the first door panel section (100), f) fitting a next door panel section (300; 400; 500) in the space (60), and g) causing said at least one electric motor (M) to move the first door panel section (100) a distance in an upward direction. Further, the method involves: h) unsecuring the secured door panel section (200; 300; 400; 500) with respect to the doorframe (10; 20), causing said at least one electric motor (M) to move the first door panel section (100) a further distance in an upward direction, engaging the top edge of the next door panel section (300; 400; 500) with the bottom edge of the previously secured door panel section (200; 300; 400; 500), and securing the next door panel section (300; 400; 500) with respect to the doorframe (10; 20). The method also involves repeating steps e) to h) for each next door panel section (300; 400; 500) until at least all but a last door panel section of the overhead sectional door (SD) have been arranged.
US12091893B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a selectively operated safety latch having an active mode and a stowed mode. In an illustrative example, a retractable safety latch may include a tongue element extending in a first plane and a base element extending in a second plane. The tongue element, for example, may include multiple mode selection slots. The base element may include a brace slot. For example, one of the multiple mode selection slots and the brace slot may receive a security pin long a longitudinal axis so that a predetermined mode is selected. In the active mode, the tongue element extends away from the base element to releasably engage a striker element. In the inactive mode, the first plane and the second plane are substantially parallel such that the tongue element is prevented from engaging the striker element. Various embodiments may advantageously provide quick switching security latch operations.
US12091876B2
A wire mesh fence panel includes a top longitudinal portion of a wire mesh disposed inside of a top rail that is connected to a first post and a second post, a bottom longitudinal portion of the wire mesh that is disposed inside of a bottom rail that is connected to the first and second post, a first vertical portion of the wire mesh disposed inside of the first post, a second vertical portion of the wire mesh disposed inside of the second post, top rail links connecting the top rail to the first and second posts, and bottom rail links connecting the bottom rail to the first and second posts.
US12091870B2
A device for leveling and aligning tiles and method for leveling and aligning tiles are disclosed. In one embodiment, the leveling device includes a body and two spaced and parallel strip members extending transversely from the body. Each of the spaced and parallel strip members extend to the front and rear of the body. Two opposing lateral open windows are formed in the body. A breakaway section is defined along the body. A wedge device is provided for penetrating one or more of the two opposing lateral open windows and exerting a force on the tiles for leveling them relative to each other.
US12091868B2
A tile spacing device and accompanying system and method are disclosed for spacing a plurality of tiles having a contour. In one embodiment of the tile spacing device, the tile spacing device includes a U-shaped band having a body with two branches extending parallel therefrom and an opening therebetween. An arm having a lateral end extends proximally from one of the branches into the opening. Two interlocking connectors are respectively positioned on the body at the opening and on the arm. In one embodiment of the system, two tile spacing devices complimentarily releasably mate when the tile spacing devices are opposing and perpendicularly displaced to interlock the interlocking connectors.
US12091862B2
A system for adhering a roof board onto a corrugated roof by positioning an adhesive strip dispensing machine over a plurality of parallel top flutes of a corrugated roof and then simultaneously dispensing a plurality of adhesive strips on top of each of the plurality of parallel top flutes of the corrugated roof. The dispensing machine has a plurality of wheels or rollers mounted to a frame and a plurality of adhesive roll dispensers, and the adhesive is dispensed onto the top of top flutes by moving the dispensing machine in a direction parallel to the top flutes.
US12091858B2
Roofing materials are provided. A roofing material comprises a substrate. The roofing material comprises a coating on the substrate. The coating comprises a polymer blend. The coating comprises at least one filler. The polymer blend comprises at least one of at least one hydrocarbon oil, at least one resin, at least one polymer, or any combination thereof. At least one of the at least one hydrocarbon oil, the at least one resin, the at least one polymer, or any combination thereof, is present in an amount or in amounts sufficient to result in the polymer blend or the coating having at least one of a select softening point, a select viscosity, or any combination thereof.
US12091857B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a printable cementitious composition comprising a cement binder, an aggregate, at least one pozzolanic additive, an accelerator, water, and nanoclay.
US12091855B1
A tilt-up wall panel formed on a horizontal support surface within a form comprises an outer foam layer having a top surface, and an outer surface with an outer finish layer applied thereto. An intermediate concrete layer having a bottom surface and a top surface is applied, at the bottom surface thereof, to the top surface of the outer foam layer. An intermediate foam layer having a bottom surface and a top surface is applied, at the bottom surface thereof, to the top surface of the intermediate concrete layer. A concrete inner layer having a bottom surface and a top surface is applied, at the bottom surface thereof, to the top surface of the intermediate foam layer. The tilt-up wall panel is then raised to a vertical position to form part of a wall of a building. Methods of forming the tilt-up wall panel are disclosed.
US12091852B2
The construction of buildings can be time consuming and error prone. Building modules constructed off-site and pre-furnished can be made more efficiently than building everything on-site. Building modules are disclosed with a reinforced, precast concrete floor with thickened edges, and a structural frame that defines the shape of the module. The frame is made from hollow structural section bars that are attached to the thickened edges of the floor. The module is made with a roof to protect the furnishings and fittings inside the module during storage, transportation and installation.
US12091851B2
A one-piece stud has a central longitudinal side; a first longitudinal side joined at a 90° angle to the first end of the central longitudinal side; and a second longitudinal side joined at a 90° angle to the second end of the central longitudinal side. The central side has a first and a second planar surface joined by an acute isosceles triangular channel midway between. The first longitudinal side is formed of a third and a fourth planar surface joined by an acute isosceles triangular channel midway between. The second longitudinal side has a fifth and a sixth planar surface joined by an acute isosceles triangular channel midway between. At an end opposite the 90° joint, the first longitudinal side and the second longitudinal side have free ends each forming a gapped right isosceles triangle. The longitudinal channels increase the axial capacity and the moment capacity of the stud.
US12091848B2
A freestanding booth comprising upstanding peripheral walls, a roof and a base upon which the booth stands in use, one of the walls defining an opening that is closed by a door, wherein the base extends along a basal edge of a first of the walls, the first wall being fixed to the base via a first levelling assembly, the first levelling assembly comprising a first height adjustment mechanism and a second height adjustment mechanism that are spaced apart from one another in a longitudinal direction of the basal edge of the first wall and are independently adjustable for altering an angle of the basal edge of the first wall relative to the ground.
US12091838B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a working machine, including an illumination system adapted for illuminating an area externally of the working machine based on a dynamically determined safety light beam pattern. The present disclosure also relates to a corresponding illumination arrangement, a computer implemented method and a computer program product.
US12091837B2
Provided is a work machine capable of eliminating the inconvenience from the operator of the work machine as much as possible while deterring a contact between the work machine and workers, and suppressing a decrease in productivity of the work machine. A work machine 5 includes: an identification information recognition device 41 configured to recognize identification information on a person who enters a predetermined region R around the work machine 5; and a controller 7 configured to control the work machine in accordance with the identification information. When a person enters the predetermined region R under the condition that the work machine 5 is ready for operation, the controller 7 counts the number of times the person enters the predetermined region R as the number of approaches for each person distinguished with the identification information, and controls the work machine 5 based on the counted number of approaches in accordance with the identification information of the person who is in the predetermined region R.
US12091831B2
A pile upending and holding system includes a support assembly configured to be mounted on the vessel and to provide compensation for wave-induced motion of the vessel to maintain a predetermined X-Y location of the pile holder independent of said motion, and a pile holder mounted on the support assembly to be tillable about a substantially horizontal tilt axis. The pile holder includes a lower ring and an upper ring, and a pile holder frame supporting the lower ring and upper ring, the upper ring longitudinally spaced from the lower ring. Each of the rings include pile engaging devices distributed about the circumference thereof, each pile engaging device being adapted to engage an exterior of the pile extending through the lower and upper ring. Each of the lower ring and upper ring includes a ring base fixed to the pile holder frame and one or more movable jaws, movable between a closed position for holding and guiding the pile and an opened position for entry of the pile. The pile holder is provided, below the lower ring thereof, with a pile foot end support for engaging a longitudinal end of the pile to limit longitudinal movement thereof.
US12091817B2
The invention relates to a discharge screw arrangement (12) for discharging lignocellulosic material (7) from a lignocellulosic treatment reactor (1) and comprises a discharge screw (10), a feeder pipe (11) and a blow pipe (5), the discharge screw being accommodated in and rotatably arranged inside the feeder pipe and being configured to mechanically transport the lignocellulosic material in a longitudinal direction along a rotational axis of the discharge screw through the feeder pipe towards a downstream end (14) of the feeder pipe, which discharge screw arrangement is configured to allow steam to flow through the feeder pipe to help transporting the lignocellulosic material in the longitudinal direction along through the feeder pipe and out of the feeder pipe through an outlet nozzle (24) arranged in a side wall of the feeder pipe (11) at the downstream end of the feeder pipe and into the blow pipe, wherein the discharge screw arrangement further comprises a material spreader (20), which is rotatably arranged at the downstream end of the feeder pipe and is configured to transport the lignocellulosic material in a radial direction, perpendicular to a rotational axis of the material spreader, towards the outlet nozzle, which is arranged peripherally of the material spreader, and out of the feeder pipe through the outlet nozzle and into the blow pipe.
US12091816B2
The present disclosure provides an artificial leather structure, comprising a woven layer, a porous elastomer layer disposed on the woven layer and a nonwoven layer disposed on the porous elastomer layer. The porous elastomer layer is adhered to the woven layer and the nonwoven layer.
US12091808B2
The present invention relates to a laundry treating apparatus which can facilitate clothes drying, deodorizing, crumple-removing and sterilizing, thereby preventing the clothes from damage and providing them with improved thermal insulation.
US12091807B2
An appliance includes at least one chamber accessible via an opening and a cover member for providing selective access to the opening. The cover member includes a flexible portion and a rigid portion. The flexible portion includes a plurality of elongated rib members and a flexible skin covering surrounding the plurality of elongated rib members. The plurality of elongated rib members aligned in a side-by-side configuration and secured together in a spatially consecutive arrangement. Thus, the flexible portion is movable with respect to the rigid portion between a flat, closed position that covers a portion of the opening and a curved, open position that exposes the portion of the opening.
US12091795B2
Systems and methods relate generally to textile patch attachment to a textile material. In an example, a method relating generally to textile patch attachment to a textile material is disclosed. In such a method, design and coloring of a textile patch and the textile material is detected. This detection includes: capturing images of the textile patch and the textile material with a camera; sending the images to a programmed computer system in communication with the camera for image processing; determining thickness and colors of the textile patch and the textile material from the image processing of the images; and determining position of the textile patch relative to a pattern of the textile material from the image processing of the images. After the detecting, data obtained from the detecting is displayed on a display screen of the programmed computer system.
US12091788B2
The invention relates to a prosthetic porous knit based on a monofilament of a biocompatible polymer material, the pattern followed for the knitting of said monofilament on a warp knitting machine having two guide bars B1, B2 being the following, according to the ISO 11676 standard:—Bar B1: 1.2/4.5/4.3/4.5/4.3/1.0/1.2/1.0//—Bar B2: 1.3/1.0/1.2/1.0/1.2/4.5/4.3/4.5// The invention further relates to a method for producing such a knit and to a hernia prosthesis comprising such a knit.
US12091784B2
A shedding assembly with a shedding machine includes an eccentric system which defines an eccentric center distance, a first connecting rod, actuated by the eccentric system to actuate a first lever and defining a connecting rod center distance, and a second connecting rod, making the first lever pivot in conjunction with that of a second lever to actuate a heald frame. To facilitate adjustment, the shedding machine includes an adjustment system, which allows at least one adjustment configuration where one of the center-to-center distances is adjustable, as well as a follower member equipping the second connecting rod. The shedding assembly comprises a flap for moving the second connecting rod by driving the follower member for adjusting the center distance when the adjustment system is in the adjustment configuration.
US12091769B2
Methods for producing single crystal silicon ingots by Continuous Czochralski (CCz) are disclosed. A batch of buffer members (e.g., quartz cullets) is added to an outer melt zone of the crucible assembly before the main body of the ingot is grown. In some embodiments, the ratio of the mass M of the batch of buffer members added to the melt to the time between adding the batch of buffer members to the melt and when the ingot main body begins to grow is controlled such that the ratio of M/T is greater than a threshold M/T.
US12091768B2
A method for depositing a metal layer on a component includes applying an electrically conductive coating composition comprising a resin and metal particles on a coating region of the component and partially curing the resin to a gel state to form an electrically conductive coating. The method also includes applying additional metal particles to the partially cured resin in the gel state and depositing, via an electrodeposition process, a metal layer on the electrically conductive coating.
US12091761B2
A CoVOx composite electrode and method of making is described. The composite electrode comprises a substrate with an average 0.5-5 μm thick layer of CoVOx having pores with average diameters of 2-200 nm. The method of making the composite electrode involves contacting the substrate with an aerosol comprising a solvent, a cobalt complex, and a vanadium complex. The CoVOx composite electrode is capable of being used in an electrochemical cell for water oxidation.
US12091758B2
Herein discussed is a method of producing hydrogen comprising introducing a metal smelter effluent gas or a basic oxygen furnace (BOF) effluent gas or a mixture thereof into an electrochemical (EC) reactor, wherein the EC reactor comprises a mixed-conducting membrane. In an embodiment, the method comprises introducing steam into the EC reactor on one side of the membrane, wherein the effluent gas is on the opposite side of the membrane, wherein the effluent gas and the steam are separated by the membrane and do not come in contact with each other.
US12091754B2
An embodiment is a nozzle for use in additive manufacturing and other applications. The nozzle defines a flow path and is configured to generate a supersonic flow of particles or fluid during operation. The embodiment provides at least one auxiliary flow path port that is configured to introduce an auxiliary flow into the nozzle relative to the flow path that protects an internal surface of the nozzle from wear and corrosion, thereby extending the life of the nozzle for extended periods of continuous operation. An embodiment centralizes particle location along its continuous flow path to achieve small footprint material deposition, thereby increasing 3D print resolution for building more intricate components.
US12091753B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a processing module including a first sidewall and a second sidewall that are spaced apart in a first horizontal direction, and a transferring module that is configured to transfer a substrate to the processing module and that is disposed adjacent to the first sidewall. The processing module includes a first processing container and a second processing container that are adjacent to each other in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction. A maintenance opening common for performing maintenance on the first processing container and the second processing container is provided in the second sidewall. The maintenance opening is provided to include an intermediate position between the first processing container and the second processing container in the second horizontal direction.
US12091752B2
An apparatus for manufacturing a semiconductor device may include a chamber, a chuck provided in the chamber, and a biased power supply physically connected with the chuck. The apparatus may include a target component provided over the chuck and the biased power supply, and a magnetron assembly provided over the target component. The magnetron assembly may include a plurality of outer magnetrons and a plurality of inner magnetrons, and a spacing between each adjacent magnetrons of the plurality of outer magnetrons may be different from a spacing between each adjacent magnetrons of the plurality of inner magnetrons.
US12091749B2
Embodiments described herein include processes and apparatuses relate to epitaxial deposition. A method for epitaxially depositing a material is provided and includes positioning a substrate on a substrate support surface of a susceptor within a process volume of a chamber body, where the process volume contains upper and lower chamber regions. The method includes flowing a process gas containing one or more chemical precursors from an upper gas inlet on a first side of the chamber body, across the substrate, and to an upper gas outlet on a second side of the chamber body, flowing a purge gas from a lower gas inlet on the first side of the chamber body, across the lower surface of the susceptor, and to a lower gas outlet on the second side of the chamber body, and maintaining a pressure of the lower chamber region greater than a pressure of the upper chamber region.
US12091739B2
A method for continuously depositing, on a running substrate, coatings formed from at least one metal inside a vacuum deposition facility including a vacuum chamber, a coated substrate coated with at least one metal and a vacuum deposition facility for the method for continuously depositing on a running substrate.
US12091737B2
When welding with a consumable wire electrode, current contacting occurs when the electrode wire passes by a readily electrically conductive contact element. In order to improve the current contacting and reduce the wear of the contact element in particular, the invention proposes subjecting contact elements to a cold treatment prior to using same. The cold treatment has a cooling phase during which the temperature of the contact element is reduced to a lower target temperature, a subsequent holding phase in which the contact element is substantially held at the target temperature, and a final heating phase, in which the contact element is brought to an upper target temperature. The use of contact elements treated using the method according to the invention leads to a substantial increase of the wear resistance compared to untreated contact elements.
US12091731B2
Disclosed is a biomedical β titanium alloy and a preparation method thereof. Its composition includes: Mo: 9.20-13.50%; Fe: 1.00-3.20%; Zr: 3.50-8.20%; Ta: 0-1.00%; the balance is Ti. The β titanium alloy is suitable for the laser additive manufacturing technology, and the prepared parts have a dense equiaxed grain structure with ultra-low grain size and a small number of columnar grain structures, which produces a fine-grain strengthening effect, and greatly improve the hardness and tribocorrosion performance of the alloy material. Also provided is a method for preparing a non-toxic, low-elasticity, and tribocorrosion resistant biomedical β titanium alloy material. A powder prepared from the above alloy components is subjected to a laser additive manufacturing technology to prepare a corresponding β titanium alloy with high-hardness, good tribocorrosion resistance and extremely low cytotoxicity. Moreover, the prepared material has good weldability and is a special metal alloy powder suitable for laser additive manufacturing.
US12091717B1
A method for detection and prevention of leukemia and lymphoma is disclosed. When mononuclear blood cells from an individual are exposed to a supernatant of a mycovirus-containing Aspergillus flavus, the degree and pattern of activation and upregulation or downregulation transcription factors are indicative of an individual's susceptibility to leukemia or lymphoma. Upon detection of observed transcription factors, preventive measures are provided to the individual. Preventive measures may include, for example, a vaccine, or may be provided upon detection of observed transcription factors with those individuals that are genetically susceptible to leukemia and lymphoma.
US12091714B2
Described herein are variants of alpha-hemolysin having at least one amino acid substitution at H35G, E111N, M113A, and/or K147N in the mature, wild-type alpha-hemolysin amino acid sequence. In certain examples, the variant may have a substitution at E111S, M113S, T145S, K147S, or L135I in the mature alpha-hemolysin amino acid sequence. The α-hemolysin variants may also include a substitution at H144A and/or a series of glycine residues spanning residues 127 to 131 of the mature, wild-type alpha hemolysin. Also provided are nanopore assemblies including the alpha-hemolysin variants, the assembly having an increased nanopore lifetime. Further, provided are variants that, in addition to providing increased lifetime, provide a decreased time-to-thread. Hence, the variants provided herein both increase nanopore lifetime and improve efficiency and accuracy of DNA sequencing reactions using nanopores comprising the variants.
US12091710B2
The invention generally relates to assemblies for displacing droplets from a vessel that facilitate the collection and transfer of the droplets while minimizing sample loss. In certain aspects, the assembly includes at least one droplet formation module, in which the module is configured to form droplets surrounded by an immiscible fluid. The assembly also includes at least one chamber including an outlet, in which the chamber is configured to receive droplets and an immiscible fluid, and in which the outlet is configured to receive substantially only droplets. The assembly further includes a channel, configured such that the droplet formation module and the chamber are in fluid communication with each other via the channel. In other aspects, the assembly includes a plurality of hollow members, in which the hollow members are channels and in which the members are configured to interact with a vessel. The plurality of hollow members includes a first member configured to expel a fluid immiscible with droplets in the vessel and a second member configured to substantially only droplets from the vessel. The assembly also includes a main channel, in which the second member is in fluid communication with the main channel. The assembly also includes at least one analysis module connected to the main channel.
US12091704B2
Individuals consuming a prebiotic and who displayed improvements in blood glucose and/or insulin levels also displayed a decrease in the levels of the non-butyrate-producing Firmicutes genus of bacteria Sporacetigenium. Increasing levels of butyrate-producing Firmicutes genera were not consistently correlated with improvements in metabolism in response to prebiotic consumption. In the general population, Sporacetigenium levels are positively correlated with insulin levels.
US12091703B2
The invention features devices and kits for capturing and culturing microorganisms (e.g., bacteria, fungi, or protists) and methods of using the devices and kits to detect microorganisms in environmental and other samples. The device includes a nutrient media having a flat growth area on which microorganisms can grow. Samples are collected by contacting the device with any environmental sample, e.g., rolling device on a work surface or exposing device to air, or by filtering a sample through a membrane. Microorganisms deposited on the membrane derive nutrients from the underlying media and grow into colonies that can then be detected using methods known in the art. The detected colonies can be imaged digitally or with film.
US12091698B2
Provided herein are compositions, methods, devices, and systems for highly accurate and pure RNA synthesis. Also provided herein are nucleic acid libraries comprising RNAs generated by using devices, compositions and methods disclosed herein.
US12091677B2
The present invention provides a carboxylated nanodiamond-mediated CRISPR-Cas9 delivery system for gene editing comprising nanodiamond (ND) particles as the carriers of CRISPR-Cas9 components designed to introduce the mutation in a given gene for repairing a tissue damage.
US12091666B2
The present invention relates to RNAi agents, e.g., double stranded RNAi agents, targeting a xanthine dehydrogenase (XDH) gene, and methods of using such double stranded RNAi agents to inhibit expression of an XDH gene and methods of treating subjects having an XDH-associated disease.
US12091659B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to barcoded chimeric adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid libraries, chimeric capsids and related recombinant AAVs (rAAVs) identified using the libraries. Specifically, the chimeric AAV capsid libraries comprise a plurality of nucleic adds encoding AAV capsid proteins, wherein each nucleic acid (i) encodes a unique AAV capsid protein having distinct polypeptide regions of greater than six amino acids in length that are derived from at least two different AAV serotypes, and (ii) comprises a unique barcode sequence. Further disclosed are methods of preparing an AAV library and identifying AAV capsids tropic for a target tissue.
US12091638B2
A one-piece combination detergent tablet is provided and includes: a detergent composition body A, a color-care and anti-stain composition body B, and an antibacterial and softening composition body C. The detergent composition body A includes: an anionic surfactant A, a non-ionic surfactant A, a polymeric water-soluble film A, an additive A, and water. The color-care and anti-stain composition body B includes: an anionic surfactant B; a non-ionic surfactant B; a polymeric water-soluble film B; an additive B; and water. The antibacterial and softening composition body C includes: a non-ionic surfactant C, a quaternary ammonium cationic surfactant, a polymeric water-soluble film C an additive C, and water. The one-piece combination detergent tablet can be stably stored and has an extended shelf life and a reduced transportation costs.
US12091637B2
The need for a hand-dishwashing composition which is highly effective at emulsifying grease is met by formulating the liquid hand dishwashing cleaning composition to comprise a surfactant system having a combination of alkyl sulphate anionic surfactant and a co-surfactant comprising at least 70% by weight of the co-surfactant of a betaine, in combination with a polypropyleneglycol having a weight average molecular weight from 500 g/mol to 1800 g/mol.
US12091636B2
A composition for dissolving abrasive particles, and a cleaning method using the composition are provided. The composition includes a sulfur-containing organic acid, a fluorine ion-containing compound, and a solvent, and a turbidity change rate (%) measured at 60° C. for 15 minutes may be in a range of −80 to −99.
US12091634B2
A wooden wick comprising a strip of wood. Such wick further includes a wood booster member connected to the strip of wood. At least the strip of wood or the booster member comprises a grain, wherein the grain is figured.
US12091619B2
A method for upgrading mixed pyrolysis oil may include contacting the mixed pyrolysis oil with hydrogen in the presence of a mixed metal oxide catalyst at reaction conditions to produce a reaction effluent including light aromatic compounds. The mixed pyrolysis oil includes multi-ring aromatic compounds and is formed from light pyrolysis oil and heavy pyrolysis oil at a ratio of 10:90 to 40:60 with light pyrolysis oil representing a bottom stream of a gas steam cracker and heavy pyrolysis oil representing a bottom stream of a naphtha steam cracker. The mixed metal oxide catalyst includes a plurality of catalyst particles with each catalyst particles including a plurality of metal oxides. An associated system for upgrading mixed pyrolysis oil may include a pyrolysis upgrading unit housing the mixed metal oxide catalyst and a separation unit operable to separate used mixed metal oxide catalyst from the reaction effluent.
US12091617B2
A method may include: providing bio waste stream wherein the bio waste stream comprises at least one bio waste selected from the group consisting of palm oil mill effluent, soapstock, and combinations thereof; introducing the bio waste effluent stream into a fluidized catalytic cracking unit; contacting the bio waste with a catalyst in the fluidized catalytic cacking unit; and cracking at least a portion of the bio waste stream to form cracked products that comprise a cracked product stream.
US12091611B2
Enhanced oil recovery (EOR) including with a lamellar phase having Janus nanoparticles, petroleum surfactant, crude oil, and water and with additional water to give the flooding fluid that may be pumped through a wellbore into a subterranean formation to affect a property of hydrocarbon in the subterranean formation via contact of the flooding fluid with the hydrocarbon.
US12091610B2
Described herein is a multi-phase aqueous composition containing a surfactant; a first phase comprising water, an acid, and a water-soluble acid retarding agent; and a second phase selected from the group consisting of an immiscible organic phase, a gas, and combinations thereof. Further described are methods of making and using such compositions.
US12091605B2
Some methods for making a granular material comprise crushing demetallized slag particles with one or more crushers and screening the crushed demetallized slag particles with one or more screens to separate the demetallized slag particles into two or more fractions, the granular material comprising at least one of the fractions of the demetallized slag particles. Prior to the crushing, ones of the demetallized slag particles having a size that is less than or equal to 2 inches can account for at least 90% of the demetallized slag particles. An iron-compound content of the demetallized slag particles, by weight, can be less than or equal to 10%. Crushing and screening can be performed such that ones of the demetallized slag particles of the granular material having a size that is less than or equal to 1.25 mm account for at least 90% of the demetallized slag particles of the granular material.
US12091602B2
A heteroaryl-thio-substituted pyrone compound that is a heteroaryl-thio-substituted pyrone or a heteroaryl-thio-substituted coumarin. In various embodiments, the heteroaryl-thio-substituted pyrone compound or a reaction product thereof is a metal corrosion inhibitor.
US12091601B2
A process for controlling the heat generated during the manufacture an inhibited hydrofluoric acid aqueous composition comprising: hydrofluoric acid in solution; a weak base; and an alkanolamine; said process comprising the steps of: providing a pre-determined amount of weak base; adding a pre-determined amount of said hydrofluoric acid to said weak base and obtaining a solution; adding said alkanolamine to the resulting solution of hydrofluoric acid and weak base; mixing until all components are dissolved; wherein said alkanolamine and hydrofluoric acid are present in a molar ratio of at least 1:1.
US12091594B2
The invention relates to a strip for covering elongated articles, comprising a carrier in the form of a strip, characterized in that at least one side of the carrier in the form of a strip is provided with a plastic material that thermally softens at a temperature of preferably 100° C. to 135° C. and that comprises a thermoplastic material.
US12091593B2
A tape having an elongated shape includes a strength-reducing portion, a strength-maintaining portion, a and an opening prevention portion. The strength-reducing portion includes a first slit row and a second slit row parallel to the first slit row. Each slit row includes a plurality of slits and a plurality of non-slit portions that are portions in which the slits are not formed. The plurality of non-slit portions belonging to the first slit row and the plurality of non-slit portions belonging to the second slit row do not overlap each other in a transverse direction of the tape. The opening prevention portion closes ends of the plurality of slits. The strength-reducing portion and the strength-maintaining portion are aligned in the transverse direction of the tape.
US12091592B2
The system may include a sheet of tape comprised of one-piece with a second side including an adhesive surface; a backing surface removably adhered to the second side of the sheet of tape; a first edge of the sheet of tape being a straight edge; the second edge being a length from a heel area to a toe area of a blade of a hockey stick; the second edge including a concave portion shaped similar to a curve of a top of the blade; the third edge being a length from the heel area to the toe area of the blade; the third edge including a concave portion shaped similar to the curve of the top of the blade; and the fourth edge including two convex portions shaped similar to a toe of the blade.
US12091589B2
This addition reaction curing-type self-adhesive silicone gel composition has a predetermined amount of a specific non-functional organopolysiloxane added thereto, has predetermined amounts of a specific carboxylic acid metal salt and a partial hydrolysis-condensation product of a specific hydrolysable silane added thereto, and can be used to provide a silicone gel cured product that has sufficient adhesiveness to a metal substrate made of copper, aluminum, or the like, that can prevent generation of voids or detachment after adhesion even under high temperature conditions, and that has a high dielectric strength.
US12091588B2
The present invention is to provide a curable composition for adhesive agents that cures at a low temperature and that can form a cured article having excellent heat resistance, crack resistance, and adhesive properties and tight bonding properties for adhereds. The present invention provides a curable composition for adhesive agents containing a polyorganosilsesquioxane (A) having a constituent unit represented by Formula (1) below; a mole ratio of a constituent unit represented by Formula (I) below to a constituent unit represented by Formula (II) below (constituent unit represented by Formula (I)/constituent unit represented by Formula (II)) being from 20 to 500; a proportion of the constituent unit represented by Formula (1) below and a constituent unit represented by Formula (4) below being from 55 to 100 mol % relative to a total amount (100 mol %) of siloxane constituent units; a number average molecular weight being from 2500 to 50000; and a molecular weight dispersity (weight average molecular weight/number average molecular weight) being from 1.0 to 4.0.
US12091586B2
The two-part curable adhesive composition contains a main agent (A) containing a urethane prepolymer (a1) and a residual polyisocyanate (a2), and a curing agent (B) containing a polyol compound (b1) and a polyamine compound (b2). The urethane prepolymer (a1) is made by reacting in an equivalent ratio of an isocyanate group in a raw material polyisocyanate to a hydroxy group in a polytetramethylene ether glycol being 2.05 or greater. The equivalent ratio of an isocyanate group in the main agent (A) to an active hydrogen group in the curing agent (B) is from 0.5 to 4.
US12091584B2
The present invention aims to provide a packaging material having excellent printed image quality as well as excellent laminate strength and heat sealability. Provided is a packaging material including at least: a base film, a primer layer, a printed layer, an adhesive layer, and a sealant film in a stated order, the primer layer being formed of a primer composition containing a water-soluble polyvalent metal salt, a chlorinated polyolefin emulsion, and at least one selected from the group consisting of an acrylic emulsion, a vinyl acetate emulsion, and a urethane-modified polyester resin, the printed layer being formed of a printing ink containing a polyester polyurethane resin, the adhesive layer being formed of an aliphatic ester adhesive.
US12091572B2
A system for applying a first, a second, and a third coating composition. The system includes a first high transfer efficiency applicator defining a first nozzle orifice. The system further includes a second high transfer efficiency applicator defining a second nozzle orifice. The system further includes a third high transfer efficiency applicator defining a third nozzle orifice. The system further includes a substrate defining a target area. The first, the second, and the third high transfer efficiency applicators are configured to expel the first coating composition through the first nozzle orifice to the target area of the substrate, through the second nozzle orifice to the target area of the substrate, and through the third nozzle orifice to the target area of the substrate.
US12091568B2
The invention relates to a composition for a pasty fill and finishing material, a pasty fill and finishing material, and a method for producing a pasty fill and finishing material. The composition comprises at least one filler, at least one binding agent, and additives, wherein the at least one filler has a density dependent flowability (ffρ) value of from 3 to 20.
US12091552B2
Disclosed are reactive dyes and preparation methods thereof. The reactive dye may be prepared using heterocyclic primary amine as a diazo component, 4,4′-diamino-2,2′-stilbenedisulfonic acid, s-triazine, or ethylenediamine as a bridging group, and a dimonochlortriazine group as an active group. The color-changing compound is covalently bonded into the fiber chemical structure by nucleophilic substitution reaction between monochlorotriazine and the hydroxyl group in a textile structure, and the size of the conjugated system and the range of electron delocalization of the dye are changed by a reversible isomerization reaction of the hydroxyl group adjacent to the diazo group and the diazo group under different pH regulations. Moreover, the dye has a double color changing structure, which improves the capability of the dye combined with —H/—OH. The pH value range that can cause color changes in the dye is effectively expanded to include weak alkali, weak acid or even neutral conditions.
US12091545B2
A resin composition includes a core-shell rubber, a vinyl-containing benzoxazine resin and a maleimide resin, wherein the core-shell rubber has a core-shell ratio of 6.0:4.0 to 9.5:0.5. The resin composition may be used to make various articles, such as a prepreg, a resin film, a laminate or a printed circuit board, and achieves improvements in at least one, more or all of the properties including dissipation factor, copper foil peeling strength (3 μm copper foil), ten-layer board T300 thermal resistance, ten-layer board glass transition temperature, ten-layer board delamination temperature, inner resin flow, and resin filling property of open area.
US12091544B1
Some variations provide a polyoxalamide polymer comprising: one or more first segments containing at least one repeat unit that includes (i) a branched, aliphatic hydrocarbon species and (ii) first amide groups at internal ends of the repeat unit, wherein the first amide groups are part of oxalamide groups; one or more polymer end groups containing second amide groups that are each covalently bonded directly to one of the first amide groups, wherein the second amide groups are also part of the oxalamide groups, and wherein the oxalamide groups contain —N—C(═O)—C(—O)—N-sequences; and a reacted form of one or more multifunctional amine chain extenders or crosslinkers with an amine functionality of 3 or greater. The polyoxalamide polymer may be present in a lens, a window, a coating, or a film, for example. The polyoxalamide polymer may have UV transparency, visual transparency, NIR transparency, MWIR transparency, and/or LWIR transparency.
US12091541B2
A solid organic material comprising at least one amphiphilic block copolymer of the methacrylic type, the block copolymer being dispersed in a polymer matrix, the block copolymer having a number-average molar mass (Mn) greater than or equal to 20 000 g/mol; a method for preparing said solid organic material; use of said solid organic material for antibacterial, antimicrobial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory and/or antifungal applications; a medical device comprising said solid organic material.
US12091539B2
The invention relates to an aqueous binder composition comprising three different dispersed polymers: an acrylic polymer a. with a Tg between 80 and 120° C.; an acrylic polymer b. with a Tg between 40 and 60° C.; and a polyurethane modified acrylic polymer c. The binder composition can be used in a coating composition, especially in a primer composition.
US12091538B2
A dielectric material, to a device comprising the dielectric material and to use of the dielectric material in the fabrication of a device. One dielectric material may comprise a halogen-based elastomer mixed with a halogen based surfactant and exhibiting electro-mechanical self-healing properties and/or an increased dielectric constant compared to the halogen-based elastomer. Another dielectric material may comprise a halogen-based polymer mixed with a halogen based surfactant and exhibiting an increased dielectric constant compared to the halogen-based polymer.
US12091535B2
The invention relates to a composition comprising: (A) a random copolymer of propylene and a comonomer, wherein the comonomer is ethylene and/or an α-olefin having 4 to 8 carbon atoms, wherein the amount of propylene-derived units is 90 to 99 wt % and the amount of comonomer-derived units is 1.0 to 10 wt % based on the random copolymer, (B) a C10-C30 aliphatic carboxylic acid amide and (C) a nucleating agent comprising a metal salt of hexahydrophthalic acid represented by formula (I) wherein M1 and M2 are the same or different, and may be combined into one cation, and are selected from at least one metal cation of calcium, strontium, lithium, and monobasic aluminum; and wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, and R10 are either the same or different and are individually selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, C1-C9 alkyl, hydroxy, C1-C9 alkoxy, C1-C9 alkyleneoxy, amine, and C1-C9 alkylamine, halogens, and phenyl, wherein the amount of (B) in the composition is 1000 to 5000 ppm based on the total weight of the composition and the amount of (C) in the composition is 100 to 1000 ppm based on the total weight of the composition.
US12091534B2
An extrusion composition containing at least one resin selected from the group consisting of polypropylene homopolymers, polypropylene random copolymers, and polypropylene impact copolymers. The extrusion composition also contains at least one phosphate ester-based nucleating agent provided in the composition at a use level of between about 0.01 and 0.15 parts by weight, in relation to 100 parts by weight of the resin. The extrusion composition also contains at least one co-additive selected from the group of poly(ethylene glycol) and copolymers containing segments of ethylene oxide, where the co-additive has a number average molecular weight of about 300 or more, and where the use level of the co-additive is about 0.005 parts by weight or more. The extrusion composition further contains a metal salt of a fatty acid at a use level of between about 0.01 and 0.15 parts by weight.
US12091533B2
The present disclosure provides polypropylene compositions that have a high gloss and minimum or no haze while also having a high melt strength (e.g., high temperature resistance) and a relative high stiffness. Polypropylene compositions contain one or more base polypropylenes (e.g., trimmed polypropylenes (tPPs)) and one or more clarifying agents. The base or trimmed polypropylene contains at least 50 mol % of propylene and has a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) in a range from 7 to 22, a z-average molecular weight of less than 2,500,000 g/mol, a branching index (g′vis) of at least 0.95, and a melt strength of less than 20 cN determined using an extensional rheometer at 190° C. The base or trimmed polypropylene can be produced from one or more high melt strength polypropylenes (HMS PPs).
US12091530B2
A dual reactor solution polymerization process gives high density polyethylene compositions containing a first ethylene copolymer and a second ethylene copolymer. The polyethylene compositions can be used in the manufacture of injection molded closures or cast film having good barrier properties.
US12091525B2
The present disclosure is directed to a polyacetal, or polyoxymethylene (POM), base composition which contains an additive package containing additives suitable for food processing applications. Polyacetal or polyoxymethylene polymers are of the class of polymers containing —CH2O-repeat units, useful for molding all different types of products and articles. Of particular advantage, POM produced according to the present disclosure may demonstrate low formaldehyde emissions, extractables, or both, when measured by standard methods without containing any formaldehyde scavenger packages.
US12091518B2
The present disclosure provides composite ion exchange membranes and methods of making the same. The composite ion exchange membranes of the present disclosure include a first layer comprising a first ion-conducting membrane; a second layer comprising a gas-blocking membrane; and a third layer comprising a second ion-conducting membrane.
US12091511B2
The present invention relates to sulfur based polymers and a process of making sulfur based polymers. The invention also relates to sorbents comprising the sulfur-based polymers. The invention also relates to the use of such polymers and sorbents in metal remediation or extraction. The invention also relates to methods of removing heavy metals from fluids.
US12091508B2
Methods may include coating a substrate with a polyimide precursor composition prepared from a reaction of a diamine component and a dianhydride component, wherein the reaction includes: a diamine component containing one or more diamines having the formula: wherein R3 is selected from hydrogen, methyl, and halogen; a dianhydride component containing one or more dianhydrides, wherein the one or more dianhydrides include 4,4′-bisphenol A dianhydride (BPADA); and at least one comonomer selected from: one or more additional diamine comonomers, wherein the one or more additional diamine comonomers are present at 1 to 40 mol % of the diamine component; and/or one or more additional dianhydride comonomers, wherein the one or more additional dianhydride comonomers are present at 1 to 40 mol % of the dianhydride component; and curing the polyimide precursor composition to generate a polyimide adhesive on the substrate.
US12091506B2
There is provided an epoxy composition which has difficulty in precipitating a crystal during storage, is homogeneous and can be stored for a long period; and a cured product of the composition having excellent transparency, heat resistance, and light resistance can be obtained on curing. An α-type tris-(2,3-epoxypropyl)-isocyanurate crystal including β-type tris-(2,3-epoxypropyl)-isocyanurate in the crystal in a ratio of 2% by mass to 15% by mass. A method for producing the α-type tris-(2,3-epoxypropyl)-isocyanurate crystal including step (i) separating β-type tris-(2,3-epoxypropyl)-isocyanurate contained in a tris-(2,3-epoxypropyl)-isocyanurate solution from the solution as a solid to obtain a crystal with an increased content ratio of α-type tris-(2,3-epoxypropyl)-isocyanurate.
US12091489B1
A multiply-crosslinked polyisobutylene-based polyurethane includes a plurality of multi-telechelic polyisobutylene-based segments and a plurality of urethane segments having a plurality of chain extender-based segments therein. Each end of one of the plurality of urethane segments is linked either to an end of one of the plurality of multi-telechelic polyisobutylene-based segments, or to an end of one of the plurality of chain extender-based segments. Also, one or more of the plurality of urethane segments are physically crosslinked to one or more other of the plurality of urethane segments. Notably, the plurality of multi-telechelic polyisobutylene-based segments constitute at least 70 weight percent of the polyisobutylene-based polyurethane and the plurality of urethane segments, including the plurality of chain extender-based segments therein, constitute up to 30 weight percent of the polyisobutylene-based polyurethane.
US12091477B2
Provided is an ethylene/1-hexene copolymer which has excellent long-term physical properties and processability, and thus may be usefully applied to manufacturing high-pressure resistant heating pipes, PE-RT pipes, large-diameter pipes, or the like.
US12091472B2
The invention relates to a solid catalyst system comprising a chromium compound, an aluminium alkoxide compound, a nitrogen containing compound and a silicon oxide support, wherein the aluminium alkoxidc compound has the formula (R1)2—Al—OR2 wherein R1 is selected from C1-C8 alkyl groups and OR2 is selected from C1-C8 alkoxyl groups and wherein the nitrogen containing compound is a cycloalkylamine compound having the general formula: R3—NH2, wherein R3 is selected from C3-C8 cycloalkyl groups.
US12091466B2
The present invention relates to methods of treatment of light chain amyloidosis and other CD38-positive hematological malignancies with anti-CD38 antibodies.
US12091463B2
The present invention relates, in part, to agents that bind Clec9A and their use as diagnostic and therapeutic agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the Clec9A binding agents and their use in the treatment of various diseases.
US12091459B2
The invention is directed to a bispecific chimeric antigen receptor, comprising: (a) at least two antigen-specific targeting regions; (b) an extracellular spacer domain; (c) a transmembrane domain; (d) at least one co-stimulatory domain; and (e) an intracellular signaling domain, wherein each antigen-specific targeting region comprises an antigen-specific single chain Fv (scFv) fragment, and binds a different antigen, and wherein the bispecific chimeric antigen receptor is co-expressed with a therapeutic control. The invention also provides methods and uses of the bispecific chimeric antigen receptors.
US12091456B2
In the methods of the invention, an agent that increases phagocytosis and/or efferocytosis of cellular components of coronary plaque is administered to the subject in a dose and for a period of time effective to stabilize, prevent or reduce aneurysm disease in the individual.
US12091450B2
The present invention provides an antibody of the class IgG4 comprising at least one heavy chain which comprises a CH1 domain and a hinge region, wherein in each heavy chain: a. the inter-chain cysteine at position 127, numbered according to the Kabat numbering system, in the CH1 domain is substituted with another amino acid; and b. one or more of the amino acids positioned in the upper hinge region is substituted with cysteine.
US12091438B2
The present application relates to anti-mesothelin constructs (such as antimesothelin antibodies, cytokine fusion proteins that comprise the anti-mesothelin constructs), methods of preparing the anti-mesothelin constructs and methods of using the constructs (e.g., methods of treating a disease or condition). The present application also relates to a combination therapy for treating cancer that comprises administering anti-mesothelin agent and a cytokine (such as IL-21 or IL-15). Combination therapy may further comprises administration of an anti-Her2 agent.
US12091419B2
A method for preparing dihydroartemisinin bulk drug in single process comprises: S1. dissolving artemisinin in aprotic solvent; S2. adding phase transfer catalyst and reducing agent in sequence to cause a reduction reaction with artemisinin; S3. adjusting the pH of the reaction system obtained in step S2 to 5-7 with acid solution, adding water and stirring, separating the liquids, extracting the aqueous phase obtained by the separation with the same aprotic solvent as in step S1, combining the organic phase obtained by extraction and separation, washing with water, and drying, obtaining dried organic phase; S4. placing the dried organic phase obtained in step S3 in a crystallization device that has the functions of crystallization-press filtration-drying, and then the crystals are precipitated, concentrated, press-filtered, and dried to obtain the refined dihydroartemisinin.
US12091411B2
The present invention provides compounds, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
US12091404B2
The present disclosure provides GLP-1R agonists, and compositions, methods, and kits thereof. Such compounds are generally useful for treating a GLP-1R mediated disease or condition in a human.
US12091395B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a compound having an anti-inflammatory activity or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof. The solution of the present invention is a compound of general formula (1) or a pharmacologically acceptable salt thereof. wherein the symbols in the formula are defined below: R1: e.g., a C1-C6 alkyl group; R2: a C1-C6 alkyl group; A: e.g., an oxygen atom; and R3: e.g., a C1-C6 alkyl group.
US12091392B2
The present disclosure relates generally to eukaryotic initiation factor 2B modulators, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, stereoisomer, mixture of stereoisomers, or prodrug thereof, and methods of making and using thereof.
US12091388B2
The present disclosure relates to solid state forms of Reproxalap salts, processes for the preparation thereof, pharmaceutical formulations/compositions thereof, and methods of use thereof.
US12091384B2
Described is a salt of Formula IIb:
US12091378B2
The invention provides novel compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods of preparation and use thereof for treating disease affecting the central nervous system such as multiple sclerosis.
US12091374B2
Mono-substituted cyclopentadienes and metal cyclopentadienyl complexes and synthesis methods thereof
A metal cyclopentadienyl complex has the formula: wherein m≥0; M is a Group I, II or III main group metal, alkali or transition metal; C5H4 represents a Cp ring where two hydrogens are substituted by M and R(F)m; R(F)m is connected to any one of the carbon atoms of the Cp and selected from a hydrocarbyl, fluorohydrocarbyl, silyl group [SiR′3], or amino group [—NR1R2]. The metal cyclopentadienyl complexes include Li(C5H4-2-C5H11) (CAS No: 2413046-23-6), K(C5H4-2-C5H11), Na(C5H4-2-C5H11), K(C5H4-1-F—C4H10), K(C5H4-1,1,1-3F—C4H6), Li(C5H4-2-C4H9), or In(C5H4-2-C5H11) (CAS No.: 2364634-67-1). A mono-substituted cyclopentadiene has the formula: wherein m≥0; C5H5 represents the Cp ring where one hydrogen is substituted R(F)m; R(F)m is connected to any one of the carbon atoms of the Cp and selected from a hydrocarbyl, fluorohydrocarbyl, silyl group [SiR′3], or amino group [—NR1R2]. The mono-substituted cyclopentadienes include C5H5-1-F—C4H10, C5H5-2-C5H11, C5H5-2-C4H9, or C5H5-1,1,1-3F—C4H6.
US12091372B1
A method for chemically reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) with a red mud catalyst composition is provided includes introducing a gaseous mixture of CO2 and H2 into a reactor containing particles of the red mud catalyst composition. The method further includes reacting at least a portion of the CO2 and H2 in the gaseous mixture in the presence of the red mud catalyst composition at a temperature of 200 to 800° ° C., and under a pressure ranging from 5 to 100 bar to form a gaseous product including a chemical reduction product of the CO2. A volume ratio of the CO2 to the H2 in the gaseous mixture is in a range of 1:10 to 10:1.
US12091370B2
A growth medium for fungus is obtained by: (a) treating a mixture of lignocellulosic biomass and water with at least one oxidizing agent and steam at a temperature in a range of from about 130° C. to about 220° C. for a period from about 5 seconds to about 10 hours; (b) periodically measuring a pH of the mixture for substantially an entire duration of the treating step; and (c) as necessary, based on the pH of the mixture measured in step (b), adjusting the pH of the mixture into a range of from about pH 4.5 to about pH 7.5 by adding a base to the mixture. A method for producing the growth medium for fungi and a method for cultivating fungi are also provided.
US12091365B2
A method of making a refractory article is provided. The method includes: a) mixing a binder system, a refractory charge, and a second colloidal binder to form an aqueous slurry; b) casting the aqueous slurry into a mold; c) subjecting the mold containing the aqueous slurry to a temperature that is lower than a slurry casting temperature for a time sufficient to form a green strength article; and d) firing the green strength article at a temperature of at least 450° C. for a time sufficient to achieve thermal homogeneity, thereby forming a refractory article. Refractory articles made in accordance with the method have a unique combination of pore structure and mechanical properties.
US12091360B2
Provided are a concrete structure repaired and reinforced using a textile grid reinforcement and a highly durable inorganic binder and a method of repairing and reinforcing the same, capable of easily repairing and reinforcing an old concrete structure by adhering a textile grid reinforcement, which is coated with a coating material to improve adhesiveness, to the old concrete structure and by adhering a textile grid reinforcement selectively using a highly durable inorganic binder having chloride penetration resistance performance or chemical resistance performance according to a use environment and a reinforcement purpose, that is, by adhering a textile grid reinforcement using an inorganic binder such as cement in place of an organic adhesive. Further, the concrete structure has excellent refractory performance because both the textile grid reinforcement such as a carbon fiber and the highly durable inorganic binder are incombustible materials, and can be effectively applied to reinforcing facilities exposed to the danger of fire.
US12091356B2
A method for producing an automotive glazing with an optical sensor device, with the glazing having superior optical qualities, including the steps of applying an enamel obscuration mask on at least one face of at least one glass sheet, where the obscuration mask extends to an area where the at least one optical sensor device will be fixed and includes at least one opening on the automotive interior side so as to be capable of acquiring information through the opening from the optical sensor device intended to be fixed at the at least one opening; drying or firing the enamel obscuration mask; applying a washable cover layer resisting at a temperature of at least 620° C. on the surface of the at least one opening; submitting the glass sheet to a heat treatment above 450° C. during a bending or tempering process; and removing by washing the washable cover layer.
US12091344B2
The invention relates to environment protection, in particular, to a technology for neutralization of filtrates, which are formed in a layer of solid domestic and industrial wastes landfills (dumps) under the action of atmospheric precipitates, and more particularly, to purification, collection and destroy of the filtrates. The invention mitigates toxicity of said filtrates, which in the course of percolating through a wastes layer, excrete toxic substance(s) therefrom and/or are saturated by their decomposition products, which are subsequently be released to cause contamination of subsoil water and/or the environmental soil.
US12091337B2
A method of removing a metal ion from water is disclosed. The method includes treating the water with a nanocomposite to absorb the metal ion with the nanocomposite, forming a polymer-metal ion composite and removing the polymer-metal ion composite from the water. The nanocomposite includes aluminum oxide dispersed in a matrix of an uncrosslinked graft copolymer that includes a chitosan backbone and side chains of poly(itaconic acid) grafted to the chitosan backbone. The chitosan backbone has a plurality of amino groups that are acetylated by itaconic acid.
US12091336B2
The invention corresponds to a composition for the treatment of polluted water and the method for the corresponding water treatment, wherein the composition comprises a flocculant, a stabilizer, an algaecide and further comprising chelator, disinfectant and oxygenator, wherein after diluting the composition in polluted water under certain stirring conditions, a water with properties of total hardness, total chlorine, total bromine, free chlorine, pH, alkalinity and cyanuric acid of a potable water is obtained.
US12091332B2
An apparatus that can be connected to a conventional sprayer bottle that permits the sprayer bottle to generate ozonated water to be used as a cleaning fluid. The apparatus includes an ozonator element coupled at one end of an electrical cable and an electrical connector coupled at the other end of the electrical cable. An aperture is formed in the sidewall of the bottle and the ozonator element, electrical cable and connector are passed through a top opening in the bottle portion. The electrical connector is then releasably secured within the aperture with the ozonator element being submerged in the water contained within the bottle. The dip tube of the spray head is then passed through the top opening and into the water in the bottle and the spray head is secured onto the bottle. Electrical energy is provided through the connector to the ozonator element to ozonate the water in the bottle for predetermined period of time after which the sprayer bottle contains ozonated water for cleaning. After another predetermined period of time, the ozonator element is energized again to ensure ozonated water is always available. A related apparatus can be connected between a feedpipe and a water reservoir for making the reservoir an ozonating water source.
US12091331B2
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are destroyed by oxidation in supercritical conditions. PFAS in water can be concentrated and prepared for destruction in a pretreatment phase. Following annihilation of the PFAS in supercritical conditions to levels below 5 parts per trillion (ppt), the water effluent can be used to recover heat, returned to sub-critical conditions, and then released back into the environment.
US12091324B2
A production method for producing a halide includes heat-treating, in an inert gas atmosphere, a mixed material in which LiCl and YCl3 are mixed. In the heat-treatment, the mixed material is heat-treated at higher than or equal to 200° C. and lower than or equal to 650° C.
US12091323B2
To provide an amorphous silicon forming composition, which has high affinity with a substrate, is excellent in filling properties, and is capable of forming a thick film. [Means for Solution] An amorphous silicon forming composition comprising: (a) a block copolymer comprising a linear and/or cyclic block A having a polysilane skeleton comprising 5 or more silicon and a block B having a polysilazane skeleton comprising 20 or more silicon, wherein at least one silicon in the block A and at least one silicon in the block B are connected by a single bond and/or a crosslinking group comprising silicon, and (b) a solvent.
US12091318B2
A method for processing methane includes processing methane in presence of a carbon dioxide stream, whereby a synthesis gas including carbon monoxide and hydrogen is produced. The synthesis gas is contacted with a carbon monoxide-absorbing solution, thereby removing at least a portion of the carbon monoxide and producing a final synthesis gas having an increased ratio of hydrogen to carbon monoxide.
US12091315B2
The present application provides a method of preparing sulfuryl fluoride, including the following steps of: S1) reacting sulfur trioxide steam with barium fluoride to acquire a mixed gas of barium sulphate and sulfuryl fluoride; S2) pickling the mixed gas acquired in step S1 with a concentrated sulfuric acid solution with a concentration of 70-98.3 wt. % to acquire a primary purified sulfuryl fluoride gas; S3) passing the primary purified sulfuryl fluoride gas acquired in step S2 through an aqueous solution with a concentration of 2-10 wt. % selected from at least one of the following: sodium sulfite, sodium bisulfite, sodium pyrosulfite, and sodium thiosulfate, to acquire a sulfuryl fluoride gas.
US12091310B2
Expansion compensating structures are formed in redistribution layers of a wafer-level chip-scale integrated circuit package (WLCSP) or other IC package having a low-expansion substrate. The structures include micromechanical actuators designed and oriented to move solder bumps attached to them in the same direction and distance as a function of temperature as do pads to which they may be connected on a higher-expansion substrate such as a printed circuit board. Expansion compensated IC packages incorporating these expansion compensating structures are provided, as well as expansion compensated assemblies containing one or more of these IC packages. Methods of fabricating expansion compensated IC packages requiring minimal changes to existing commercial WLCSP fabrication processes are also provided. These devices and methods will result in assemblies having improved board-level reliability during thermal cycling, and allow the use of larger IC die sizes in WLCSP technology.
US12091305B2
The invention relates to a device for dispensing a small quantity of a liquid product, comprising a dispensing head (9) comprising an injection nozzle (7) to dispense a desired quantity of liquid product. The dispensing head (9) comprises an inlet (2) connected to a source of the liquid product (12) and an outlet (3) provided with the injection nozzle (7). It comprises a first valve (10) and a second valve (11) installed in series. The device comprises a control system (17) to command an opening sequence of the first valve (10) and of the second valve (11), resulting in a time of concomitant opening of the valves. The invention also relates to a method for introducing a liquid product into a container using this device. The invention makes it possible to obtain a dispensing head, which allows the dispensing of a liquid product for a period less than the minimum opening period of the valves that it comprises.
US12091304B2
A machine includes a chassis, a turntable coupled to the chassis, a boom coupled to the turntable, an axle, a first actuator, and a second actuator. The chassis has a first end and an opposing second end, and defines a longitudinal center axis. The turntable is selectively rotatable about a rotation axis. The axle is pivotally coupled to the first end of the chassis and configured to pivot about the longitudinal center axis. The first actuator is coupled to the first end of the chassis and positioned on a first side of the longitudinal center axis. The first actuator is extendable to selectively engage a first contact point on the axle. The second actuator is coupled to the first end of the chassis and positioned on an opposing second side of the longitudinal center axis. The second actuator is extendable to selectively engage a second contact point on the axle.
US12091300B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for fixing a pressure vessel, the apparatus including: a frame part disposed separably from a subject and configured to support a pressure vessel; and a lifting device configured to selectively raise or lower the frame part relative to the subject, thereby facilitating a process of replacing the pressure vessel.
US12091299B2
The present disclosure relates to a forklift and a self-charging apparatus therefor. A forklift includes a guide disposed in a forklift body, a feeder that moves together with a forklift fork along the guide, a power generator coupled to one of the guide or the feeder to make contact with a remaining of the guide or the feeder, and that produces electricity through rotation thereof due to the contact during relative movement between the guide and the feeder, and a battery that stores the electricity produced by the power generator.
US12091290B2
A material management method comprises receiving, via a processor, data relating to work activities and material flows from one or more sensors; generating, via the processor, safety and productivity information based on the data relating to work activities and material flows; comparing, via the processor, the generated safety and productivity information with existing project plans and schedules of the work activities and material flows; determining, via the processor, a present state and relative progress of the project plans and schedules of work; and generating, via the processor, updated project plans and schedules of work. The material can be a load and the method can comprise controlling a rotation of a suspended load by attaching two or more gyroscopic modules in communication with the processor directly or indirectly to the suspended load and independently controlling the two or more gyroscopic modules via the processor to control the rotation of the suspended load.
US12091286B2
According to an aspect, there is provided a method for remote operation of a plurality of elevators, each of the plurality of elevators being coupled with a communication computer. The method comprises receiving, by a remote service system from the communication computer, a rescue request associated with an elevator; providing, by the remote service system, a verification to distinguish the elevator associated with the rescue request among the plurality of elevators; enabling, by the remote service system, a data connection with the communication computer to control the verified elevator; and performing, by the remote service system, a remote operation associated with the verified elevator via the enabled data connection.
US12091283B2
An illustrative example embodiment of an elevator door assembly includes a door panel having at least one edge. A base is configured to be received adjacent the edge of the door panel. An astragal is configured to be at least partially received over the base such that the base holds the astragal in a selected position aligned with the edge of the door panel. The astragal is at least partially compressible for closing off an interface between the edge of the door panel and an adjacent surface.
US12091279B2
A suction device (100) for a textile machine comprising a mouthpiece (2) for introducing at least one yarn, a suction pipe (3) for guiding the yarn and a suction element (5) for generating a suction pressure. The suction element (5) comprises at least two cyclone elements (1a, 1b) for generating a vortex flow of compressed air. The cyclone elements (1a, 1b) are arranged one behind the other in the suction direction (A), so that a yarn can be passed first through a first cyclone element (1a) and then through a second cyclone element (1b). Each cyclone element (1a, 1b) comprises a cyclone axis, the cyclone axes being aligned in particular coaxially. Each cyclone element (1a, 1b) comprises at least one opening (31a, 31b) at the periphery, which is connected to a preferably common air delivery system (12), in particular in such a way that vortexes in both cyclone elements (1a, 1b) have the same direction of rotation. The suction device (100) comprises in particular a Laval nozzle (13).
US12091268B1
A robotic system configured for performing a task of loading and unloading goods. The robotic system comprises a mobile base assembly, an actuation assembly coupled to the mobile base assembly and configured to move with respect to the base assembly, and a head assembly mounted atop the actuation assembly or the mobile base assembly. The head assembly comprises one or more sensors configured to collect data related to an operation environment and the task to be performed. The robotic system further comprises a dynamic conveyor coupled to the mobile base assembly. The dynamic conveyor comprises a platform. The robotic system furthermore comprises a control unit configured to move the platform to align the platform with respect to the goods to be loaded or unloaded. Further, the robotic system comprises a manipulation arm coupled to the actuation assembly or the dynamic conveyor and configured to move to perform the task.
US12091257B2
A travel path of an article transport facility provided with a plurality of article transport vehicles that travel along the travel path and transport articles, and a control device that controls operation of the article transport vehicles includes a path set in an inspection area for causing a target transport vehicle designated as an inspection target from among the plurality of article transport vehicles to travel along. The target transport vehicle includes a sensor that detects behavior of the target transport vehicle during travel. The control device controls the plurality of article transport vehicles such that only the one target transport vehicle is present in the inspection area, and causes the target transport vehicle to travel in the inspection area in an inspection travel pattern prescribed in advance.
US12091256B2
A sprocket configured for use with a conveyor belt and capable of resisting material buildup up is disclosed. The sprocket includes a sprocket body including a hub, a webbing, and a plurality of teeth. In one form, at least one tooth of the plurality of teeth defines a thickness in an axial direction that varies between an inner portion and an outer portion of the tooth. In another form, at least one tooth extends radially from a sprocket root near the webbing, the sprocket root including a curved base that extends axially away from the webbing to a lateral surface of the at least one sprocket tooth. In yet another form, a hub height is greater than a tooth thickness and the tooth thickness is greater than a web thickness.
US12091255B2
A conveyor system includes a conveyor belt having a plurality of article-diverting conveyor belt rollers. An underlying drive roller assembly includes a plurality of pivotable rollers carriers, each having a freely rotatable drive roller that contacts the conveyor belt rollers from below. An actuator engages an orientation device to pivot the carriers and change the orientation of the drive rollers. The drive rollers may also move into and out of engagement with the conveyor belt rollers as their orientation changes. The orientation device is sandwiched between three-dimensional support plates to adjust the orientation of the drive rollers relative to the belt rollers. A top support plate includes corrugated vertical walls forming wearstrip holders. The orientation device may raise or lower the drive rollers during pivoting of the roller carriers. The drive roller assembly may be a modular assembly that can be customized for varying sizes, shapes and configurations.
US12091254B2
Apparatus and methods for fulfilling orders by a picker utilizing multiple different levels of container-storage devices (tote-storage devices in some embodiments), all interconnected by at least one different type of conveyance device. The use of more than one level of tote-storage device is referred to as multi-level tote storage. The storage is utilized to hold containers and to sequence the containers in a preferred order that enhances the pick rate/performance. The performance and location of the container storage on the conveyance device(s) relative to the picker is determined by the required pick rate/performance of the system. The conveyance devices recirculate the containers between different levels of container storage at specific times based on a multi-level tote storage simulation control algorithm that provides the optimum pick rate/performance until such time the picker completes all the pick requests assigned to the picker.
US12091247B2
A product order fulfillment system of mixed product units, the system includes a storage array, an automated transport system, with at least one asynchronous transport system, for level transport, and a lift for between level transport, communicably connected to the storage array so as to automatically retrieve and output, from an output of the storage array, product units distributed in cases in a common part of the storage array. The at least one asynchronous transport system, and the lift are configured so as to form more than one transport echelon, each echelon being communicably connected with the common part and the output, and each effecting orthogonal sortation, corresponding to the transport echelon, of the product units distributed in the common part, so that sorted mixed output product units of the corresponding transport echelon are in predetermined sequence.
US12091245B2
A traveling platform includes a side arm, a first guide, and two or more travel auxiliary rollers. The side arm expands and retracts in a Y direction. The first guide extends in an X direction and includes a third inside surface to guide the side arm in the X direction. The two or more travel auxiliary rollers are provided to the first guide and restrict movement of the traveling platform in the Y direction.
US12091238B2
A photovoltaic power generation module installation support system according to the present invention comprises: a conveyor device, which assembles a plurality of photovoltaic power generation modules into one string and moves same in one direction; and a loading cart including an accommodation space in which the string moved from the conveyor device is loaded in the direction that is horizontal to the ground, wherein the conveyor device includes one or more end stoppers for providing a vertical alignment line of the photovoltaic power generation module first arranged at one end of the conveyor device.
US12091237B2
An adjustable deck positioner includes a vertical member having means for attaching to a deck rim and having a pivot arm bracket; a pivot arm assembly having a pivot arm attached to the pivot arm bracket, wherein the pivot arm may pivot between a substantially vertical position within the pivot arm bracket and an extended position angled away from the vertical member; and a lock pin installed across the pivot arm bracket, for constraining movement of the pivot arm towards the vertical member, thereby setting the angle at which the pivot arm extends from the vertical member.
US12091235B2
The technology relates to a beverage cartridge. The beverage cartridge may comprise a filter, an enclosure, a coating, and a supplement. The filter may have a predetermined permeability to permit a fluid to flow therethrough. The enclosure may at least substantially surrounding said filter. The coating may be arranged on at least one predetermined portion of the filter, wherein the coating decreases the permeability of the filter to control the flow of the fluid therethrough. The supplement may be arranged on the filter, the supplement adapted to be dissolved or dispersed in the fluid.
US12091231B1
Embodiments are directed toward a product package filter assembly that prevents ambient contaminates from entering into the sealable product container. In some embodiments, the product package filter assembly includes an optional support element, a filter element, and a surface film element that are layered together with the filter element between the support element and the surface film element. The perimeters of the support element, the filter element, and the surface film element are sealably joined together. The product package filter assembly is then sealably joined over an opening of a product container. During heating of a product residing in the product container, gases generated in the product container vent out through the product package filter assembly, while the filter element prevents entry of contamination particles into the product container.
US12091230B2
A storage and display assembly for a shaving razor system. The assembly comprising has a case with a top portion and a bottom portion. The top and bottom portions being coupled together so as to be movable relative to one another between a closed position and an open position. The top and bottom portions, when in the closed position, define an inner cavity sized to receive the shaving razor system. A securement cover associated with the top and bottom portions to maintain the top and bottom portions in the to be moved to the open position. The securement cover comprises at least one of product indicia closed position. The securement cover being removable from the case to allow the top and bottom portions or product imagery.
US12091229B2
A modular aerial cargo aerodynamic encasement and a method for modular aviation cargo transport is provided. The aviation cargo aerodynamic encasement comprises a platform having a planar upper surface configured to accept cargo and a lower surface. The lower surface includes two or more ground supports displacing a portion of the platform from contact with a supporting surface. The platform includes two or more load transfer structures. The aviation cargo aerodynamic encasement further comprises a fairing configured to detachably couple to the platform, wherein the fairing, when coupled to the platform, forms an aerodynamic encasement, and wherein the aerodynamic encasement is detachably mountable to an aircraft by the two or more load transfer structures.
US12091223B2
A perforation pattern for multivarible adjustable height box is provided with improved folding, bending, and separation of adjacent panels. The multivariable perforated adjustable height box may include a box, columns, rows, glue tabs, column scores, row scores, perforations, cuts, skips, and bundle breakers. Perforation patterns may be irregular, angled, shifted, or otherwise configured to increase usability, strength, and/or other aspects of the packaging. A method to produce a packaging device with improved folding, bending, and separation of adjacent panels using the multivariable perforated adjustable height box is also provided.
US12091219B2
The present invention relates to a closure for a container with a base element and a flip-top lid attached to said base element by a hinge. The flip-top lid can be moved between an opened and a closed position. The base element has a skirt with attachment means for attaching the closure to the container, and said flip-top lid has a top cover and a sidewall. The closure comprises an actuating region with a latching element, wherein said actuating region is tiltable and/or deformable relative to the remaining regions of the sidewall between a latching position and a released position. The present invention also relates to a container with such a closure.
US12091205B2
A system for opening a box having a body part and a lid, and for removing one or more food items from the box, includes a first tool for attaching to the body part, and a second tool for attaching to a surface of the lid at one or more points of contact and applying at each of the one or more points of contact a force to the lid having a component in a direction normal to the surface at the point of contact. Each of the first tool and the second tool is powered. The first tool and the second tool are arranged for orienting and/or displacing the lid concerning the body part to open the box with the lid, and moving and/or orienting the body part to remove the one or more food items from the box.
US12091202B2
The present invention involves both an apparatus and an associated method for confirming the presence or absence of closures in a closure nest inside an aseptic chamber. The apparatus comprises a topographical profiler disposed to monitor the closure nests. Vertical displacements in topographical maps obtained by the profiler are compared with information from a database about the nest and closure combinations. Vertical displacements falling outside predetermined upper and lower bounds are deemed absences of closures. The topographical profiler may be disposed outside the aseptic chamber. The system may be automated via a controller and suitable software. In some embodiments the nests and disposed in the monitored area by robotic articulated arms. In other embodiments the closure nests are moved by vacuum pickup systems. The system and method may also be employed to assess the suitability of a closure nest for closing in an aseptic chamber containers in a container nest.
US12091195B2
An assembly method includes a succession of assembly steps of assembling fuselage components of the fuselage portion of the aircraft, for example the nose of the aircraft, to form a fuselage body, a mounting step of introducing, into the fuselage body thus formed, a floor module having at least a predetermined width, and which can be provided with items of equipment, and a fastening step of fastening the fuselage body to the floor module such that the floor module shapes the final shape of the fuselage body and the assembled fuselage portion is obtained, the floor module, which has at least a suitable predetermined width, making it possible, when it is incorporated into the fuselage body, to provide the fuselage body, which is slightly flexible, with its desired and definitive shape corresponding to the desired and definitive shape of the assembled fuselage portion.
US12091184B2
A fuel tank inerting system includes a cabin air source, a conduit, a heat exchanger, and a pressurized air source. In embodiments, the pressurized air source is configured to provide pressurized air to the heat exchanger, and the conduit is configured to provide cabin air from the cabin air source to the heat exchanger.
US12091182B1
A hybrid electric propulsion (HEP) system included in an aircraft includes a generator configured to output a first power, an energy storage system configured to output a second power, a propulsion system configured to generate thrust based on at least one of the first power and the second power, and an HEP controller in signal communication with the generator, the battery, and the HEP system. The HEP controller is configured to detect loss of the first power output from the generator, to determine an altitude of the aircraft and to actively control delivery of the second power to the propulsion system based on the altitude during the loss of the first power.
US12091180B2
Device and method for operating a hybrid-electric propulsion system by control of equipment dynamics
A computer-implemented method for optimally operating a hybrid-electric propulsion system by control of equipment dynamics. Prior to start of a mission, an original energy management plan is generated which is calculated to minimize estimated life-cycle operating costs for the vehicle during the mission. During an initial portion of the mission, operations of first and second power sources, a power distribution system, and a propulsion system are controlled such that a power mixture is supplied to the propulsion system from the first and second power sources in accordance with the original energy management plan. During the initial portion of the mission, a modified energy management plan is generated which is calculated to minimize estimated life-cycle operating costs for the vehicle. During a subsequent portion of the mission, operations of the first and second power sources, power distribution system, and propulsion system are controlled such that a power mixture is supplied to the propulsion system from the first and second power sources in accordance with the modified energy management plan.
US12091174B2
An apparatus for biological control of agricultural pests and for reducing damage to crops. The apparatus includes a container for holding biological organisms or material. The container also includes first and second ends and an opening formed at the first end for receiving the biological organisms. The apparatus has a dispensing port disposed at the second end for dispensing the biological organisms over a target location. The apparatus further includes an auger, driven by a motor and having a plurality of spiral like wire brushes, said auger mounted to and driven by a first motor; a spreader motor mount having a motor mount holding area for holding a second motor, the spreader motor mount having a motor mount connection area for connecting to the second end; and a spreader agitating device used for spreading the biological organisms or material over the target location.
US12091170B2
Various arrangements for autonomous servicing of a network device are presented. A backend server system may receive status data from various devices. The backend server system may determine, based at least in part on the received status data, a triggering event associated with a first device. In response to the determined triggering event, location information associated with the first device may be sent to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The UAV may send security information directly to the first device. The first device may be required to validate the security device, then the UAV may modify a physical component of the first device.
US12091169B2
Examples are disclosed herein that relate to vehicles, composite parts, and three-dimensional (3D) textile preforms for composite parts. In one example, a 3D textile preform for a composite part comprises a flange portion and a stiffener portion extending upwardly from the flange portion. The stiffener portion comprises a first wall portion that extends from the flange portion and a second wall portion that extends from the flange portion at a location spaced from the first wall portion. A connecting portion connects the first wall portion and the second wall portion at a location spaced from the flange portion.
US12091167B1
Embodiments provide scissoring mechanisms for a vertical lift fan of an electric aircraft (e.g., a vertical take-off-landing eVTOL aircraft) where the blades of the vertical lift fan can be opened at almost zero speed. Exemplary scissoring mechanisms have position locking features that keep the collapsed blades in the low drag orientation once closed (e.g., in the stowed position). As a result, the scissoring mechanisms do not cause large impulses during opening and closing that cause large stresses and noise. In addition, the scissoring mechanisms provide an opportunity to check that the fans are opened properly prior to spinning them to the full operating speed. The scissoring mechanisms may not require an extra actuator, and rely on the propulsion motor.
US12091166B1
Example embodiments provide a propeller apparatus comprising at least one blade able to twist along a blade twist axis, a hub, a shaft connected to the hub and configured to rotate such that the at least one blade rotates about a shaft axis, and at least one offset propeller unit located in at least one of an upper surface and/or a lower surface of the at least one blade, the at least one offset propeller unit configured to provide thrust. In the propeller apparatus the thrust of the at least one offset propeller unit generates a force to cause the at least one blade to rotate about the shaft axis, and a moment about the blade twist axis of the at least one blade to cause the blade to have a blade pitch angle.
US12091155B2
An aircraft has a fuselage, a wing assembly, and a pair of struts. The wing assembly has a center wing structure and a pair of outer wing structures. The center wing structure is coupled to the fuselage at a wing-fuselage joint, and has a pair of engine mounting locations respectively on opposite sides of a wing centerline. Each of the struts is coupled to the fuselage at a strut-fuselage joint, and to one of the outer wing structures at a strut-wing joint. Each strut-fuselage joint is located below and aft of the wing-fuselage joint. Each outer wing structure is coupled to the center wing structure at a mid-wing joint located no further inboard than the engine mounting location, and no further outboard than the strut-wing joint.
US12091153B2
A window installation includes a phase-change filler material sealing an outer edge of the window, and coupling the window to a frame around the window. The filler material in a solid state rigidly holds the window in place. When the filler material is in a liquid state it allows the window to float in its coupling to the frame. There may be supports within the rigid material that contact the window, but allow the window to expand or contract by sliding along the supports. The installation may be useful in situations where the window is subjected to thermal shocks, or other sorts of heating. The installation may be used for a sensor window, and may be part of a hypersonic vehicle.
US12091151B2
An aircraft door including a retaining device for a deployable evacuation device, the retaining device having at least: a beam; a first retention member fixed on a second end of the beam by a detachable clip, the first retention member being connected to the deployable evacuation device; a second retention member, which can be coupled to the first retention member, mounted on the door frame; retraction devices that moves between: an activated position, in which the second retention member is on the trajectory of the first retention member, and a deactivated position, in which the second retention member is outside the trajectory of the first retention member.
US12091147B1
A ship hydrogen hybrid power propulsion system and a method thereof are provided. The ship hydrogen hybrid power propulsion system includes a motor, a propeller, a power battery, an external motor controller, an internal motor controller, a hydrogen fuel cell, a hydrogen internal combustion engine, and a hydrogen storage tank. It combine the hydrogen fuel cell with the hydrogen internal combustion engine, and the hydrogen fuel cell is combined with the power battery and dynamically coupled with the internal motor and the external motor. Only a single hydrogen energy is needed, which is conducive to the layout and integration of the power system and achieves zero carbon emissions. Compared to the current dual motor power system, it has high integration, simpler power coupling, and a wider range of power output, making it particularly suitable for the high load and high-power output requirements of heavy-duty ships.
US12091137B1
An intelligent assistance system and a method for berthing and unberthing based on multi-tugboat collaboration are provided. The system includes an upper-level controller, a lower-level controller and a physical layer hardware module, the upper-level controller is used to process obtained ship data based on MPC algorithm, to obtain expected ship position, expected ship velocity, and environmental resistance information, and to process them based on the cost function to obtain expected trajectory and power of the tugboat; the lower-level controller communicates and connects with the upper-level controller to receive the upper-level controller, processes the expected trajectory, power, and environmental resistance information of the sent tugboat based on MPC algorithm to obtain working mode selection information, and receives control instructions sent by the upper-level controller and obtains propeller data information; the physical layer hardware module communicates with the lower-level controller to receive propeller data information and perform berthing and unberthing operations.
US12091135B2
A human-powered vehicle control device includes an electronic controller that controls a transmission device to shift a ratio of a rotational speed of a wheel to a rotational speed of a crank axle in stages. The controller controls the transmission device so that the transmission device performs a first shifting action that shifts the ratio by only one stage in a case where a shifting condition is satisfied. The transmission device is controlled by the electronic controller so that the transmission device performs a second shifting action that shifts the ratio by two or more stages in a case where the shifting condition is satisfied and a vehicle state of the human-powered vehicle is a predetermined state. The predetermined state includes a state in which a change amount of a parameter related to the vehicle state is a predetermined amount or greater.
US12091129B2
A hydraulic one-finger two-way acting gear shift operator for a handlebar includes a housing with first and second cylinder chambers, a first and a second piston with first and second piston rods arranged in the first and second cylinder chambers, a first and a second lever arranged to independently push the first and second piston rods and corresponding pistons longitudinally inside the first and second cylinder chambers, wherein the first and second levers are connected to the housing in first and second pivot points, respectively.
US12091128B2
A lever-operated actuation device for a brake or clutch may have a pump body housing a hydraulic pump provided with a float and a hub rotatably associated with the pump body around a lever pin defining a rotation axis, the hub being associated with a tip operatively connected to the float for its actuation. The pump body may have a pair of fixing ears provided with fixing holes for the lever pin, the lever pin rotatably supporting an associable lever assembly. The lever assembly may have a manual actuation lever and a lever guide suitable to actuate the tip via the hub. The actuation device may have a retention device that keep the hub joined to the pump body, following the removal of the lever pin and the lever assembly for its disassembly/replacement.
US12091123B2
A method for classifying an accident event of a two-wheeled vehicle, in particular a bicycle. The method can be run in the form of an algorithm in a device comprising an analysis unit in order to indicate to the rider or a third party that the two-wheeled vehicle has been involved in a collision or has fallen over using a corresponding generated and/or transmitted item of information. The device can be used in a two-wheeled vehicle, such as a bicycle or in particular in an electric bicycle. However, it can of course also be used in a motorcycle or another single-track vehicle.
US12091122B2
A system for controlling vehicle motion is described. The system includes: a first set of sensors coupled with a vehicle, the first set of sensors configured for sensing the vehicle motion; and a vehicle suspension damper coupled with the first set of sensors, the vehicle suspension damper configured for adjusting a damping force therein, the vehicle suspension damper comprising: a primary valve; a pilot valve assembly coupled with the primary valve, the pilot valve assembly configured for metering a flow of fluid to the primary valve, in response to at least the sensing; and an orifice block coupled with the primary valve and comprising a control orifice there through, the control orifice configured for operating cooperatively with the pilot valve assembly in the metering the flow of fluid to the primary valve.
US12091113B1
Trailering systems are presenting including: a semi-truck trailer; a base positioned along a top surface the semi-truck trailer, where the top surface receives lower cargo, the base including, a pair of forward posts; a forward post mounting rail; a pair of aft posts, a pair of aft posts; an aft post mounting; and an upper deck slidingly engaged with the base, the upper deck including, a pair of forward slides; a pair of aft slides; a pair of side rails; an aft slide mounting rail; a decking; and an airbag system including; a number of forward airbags; a number of aft; and at least one control valve for inflating and deflating the number of forward airbags and the number of aft airbags.
US12091106B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed herein to center a steering wheel. An example vehicle includes a steering assistance system, an axle including a wheel, memory, and a processor to execute instructions to identify a first position of the wheel, detect a request to move the wheel to a second position, adjust the wheel from the first position to the second position via the steering assistance system, disengage the steering assistance system, the disengagement of the steering assistance system to cause the wheel to move to a third position, the third position offset from the second position by an angular offset in a first direction, adjust the wheel to a fourth position, the fourth position offset from the second position by the angular offset in a second direction different than the first direction, and disengage the steering assistance system, the disengagement of the steering assistance system to cause the wheel to move to the second position.
US12091105B2
A method for operating a steering system includes the steps of: (1) acquiring a variable at least during the partially automated driving; (2) determining whether or not the driver wishes to control the vehicle manually using a variable; (3) ending the partially automated driving and converting steering movements applied by the driver into steering movements of the motor vehicle via a front-axle actuator unit irrespective of the current rotational angle of the steering wheel, if the driver wishes to control the vehicle manually. The variable acquired during partially automated driving may be any of the following: a driver gripping force applied to the steering wheel, a driver torque applied to the steering wheel, deflection of the steering wheel, a gradient of the driver gripping force to the steering wheel, a gradient of the driver torque applied to the steering wheel, and deflection gradient of the steering wheel.
US12091101B2
A steering input device for steer-by-wire, according to the present invention, includes a steering shaft that is mechanically separated from a steered wheel, a reaction force motor that applies a steering load to the steering shaft, a lock mechanism that regulates rotation of the steering shaft, a steering amount sensor that detects an operation amount of the steering shaft and outputs an operation amount signal, and a controller. The controller increases the reaction torque generated by the reaction force motor after the starting switch of the vehicle is switched to an OFF state, and after the reaction torque is increased, switches the lock mechanism to a locked state. Thereby, it is possible to suppress an uncomfortable sensation of the driver in steering, while suppressing occurrence of a phase shift between the steering wheel and the steered wheel when the starting switch of the vehicle is switched to the OFF state.
US12091089B2
An electric work vehicle includes a driver section that an operator is able to enter, a battery positioned forward of the driver section, a motor drivable on electric power supplied by the battery, a travel device drivable by the motor, a cover including an accommodation space inside and capable of being opened and closed, wherein the battery includes an electricity storage to store electric power and a battery cover hermetically accommodating the electricity storage, and the battery cover includes an outer wall surface defining a portion of an exterior of the electric work vehicle.
US12091085B2
In some implementations, a monitoring system may include a steering system of a machine, a sensor configured to detect movements of the steering system that are indicative of a steering angle of the machine, and a controller. The controller may be configured to monitor, via the sensor, the steering angle of the machine. The controller may be configured to determine, based on monitoring the steering angle, that the steering angle satisfies a threshold that is indicative of the steering angle being excessive for an operation of the machine. The controller may be configured to cause, based on the steering angle satisfying the threshold, the machine to provide an indication that the steering angle is excessive.
US12091084B2
A method of providing evasive steering assist (ESA) includes storing yaw rate data related to a host vehicle, wherein yaw rate data includes a yaw rate stored at each time step from an initial time step [0] to a current time step [n]. The method further includes determining whether to initiate ESA, wherein in response to a determination to initiate ESA, the method includes calculating a current position, a current heading angle, a destination position, and a destination heading angle, wherein the stored yaw rate data is utilized to determine the current heading angle and the destination heading angle. The method further includes generating an evasive steering assist (ESA) output based on the current position, the current heading angle, the destination position, and the destination heading angle.
US12091071B2
A railroad switch device for moving railroad switch points. The device includes a hydraulic unit having a hydraulic manifold coupled to a hydraulic pump integrated with an electric motor via a pressure pipe, where the hydraulic manifold is also coupled to the hydraulic pump via a hydraulic oil reservoir and a return pipe, and the hydraulic manifold is coupled to a hydraulic double-rod cylinder to provide forward movement and reverse movement of a point rod. Also included is a mechanical target to automatically indicate the position of a point rod, and a plurality of spring units to produce a continuous thrust force for holding the railroad switch points closed in forward position and reverse position, wherein the plurality of spring units control the target rotation to 90 degrees.
US12091070B2
The system can include a dispatcher and a plurality of cars. However, the system 100 can additionally or alternatively include any other suitable set of components. The system 100 functions to enable platooning of the plurality of cars (e.g., by way of the method S100).
US12091069B2
A system and method for performing braking operations on a hyperloop pod are disclosed herein. The hyperloop pod may have a secondary braking system, wherein the secondary braking system may be operable to provide a first braking force. The hyperloop pod may have a transponder communication system and a line-of-sight system, wherein the line-of-sight system may be operable to detect a second hyperloop pod at a line-of-sight distance. The hyperloop pod may have a memory and a processor operable to detect a second hyperloop pod and determine a collision margin between the hyperloop pod and the second hyperloop pod. The hyperloop pod may engage the secondary braking system if a safety margin is equal to or greater than the collision margin.
US12091065B2
A disposable lubrication tank liner for a rail lubricating system, including an upper sidewall portion, a lower outlet portion, and an intermediate edge surface. The upper sidewall portion has a plurality of generally vertically disposed walls extending downwardly from an upper flange surface. The vertically disposed walls partially define a reservoir space for holding rail lubricant. The lower outlet portion includes a plurality of angled wall portions converging inwardly to a lower flange surface to further define the reservoir space. Further, the intermediate edge surface connects the upper sidewall portion and the lower outlet portion.
US12091064B2
A car coupling system for a rail vehicle includes a first crash energy management system disposed within a draft sill. The first crash energy management system includes a first end plate, a second end plate, and a first central tube disposed between the first end plate and the second end plate. A second crash energy management system is also disposed within the draft sill. The second crash energy management system includes a third end plate, a fourth end plate, and a second central tube disposed between the third end plate and the fourth end plate.
US12091053B2
A method of mitigating jamming of a reflected energy ranging system for an autonomous vehicle is presented. The system comprises at least one transmission antenna, at least two receiving antennas, and a controller comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium. The method comprises emitting an energy signal with the transmitter antenna, contacting a target with the energy signal, and reflecting the energy signal off the target and back towards the receiving antennas as a reflected energy signal. The method further comprises receiving a composite energy signal comprising at least the reflected energy signal and a jamming energy signal with the at least two receiving antennas, analyzing the composite energy signal with the processor to blindly extract at least the reflected energy signal and the jamming energy signal, and identifying which of at least the reflected energy signal and the jamming energy signal corresponds to the target with the processor.
US12091052B2
A system for addressing failure in an autonomous agent includes a driving subsystem, a control subsystem, a central computing subsystem, and an autonomous vehicle (AV) sensor subsystem. The system can optionally additionally include a power subsystem, a vehicle chassis subsystem, a communication subsystem, a distributed computing and/or processing subsystem, a supplementary sensor subsystem, and/or any other components. A method for addressing failure can include any or all of: detecting and responding to a failure; and operating the vehicle. Additionally or alternatively, the method 200 can include any other processes.
