US12135068B2
A method includes, providing a tubular member (10) used for a hollow spring, and applying the compressive residual stress to at least a portion of an inner surface of the steel tube by applying the compressive force to at least a portion of an outer surface of the tubular member (10) from a circumferential direction, and a fatigue life of the tubular member (10) is prolonged by applying the compressive residual stress to the inner surface of the tubular member (10). Applying the force to the outer surface of the tubular member (10) includes pressing the tubular member (10) with a die (1). The die (1) has a pressing surface (1a) shaped such that the compressive force can be applied to at least the portion of the outer surface of the tubular member (10) from the circumferential direction.
US12135062B2
A shaft coupler having first and second spindles adapted to be secured to a first and second output shafts of first and second motors, respectively. A locker ring is assembled to the first spindle, and a locker carrier is assembled to the second spindle. A coil is carried by the locker carrier and switches between an energized state wherein the coil shifts the locker ring to slide into engagement with the second spindle to lock the first and second output shafts together, and a deenergized state wherein a spring biases the locker ring out of engagement with the second spindle to unlock the first and second output shafts from each other. A first set of locking teeth are disengaged from a second set of locking teeth when the coil is deenergized, and are engaged when the coil is energized.
US12135048B2
A liquid delivery system includes a source of hydraulic fluid and a hydraulic cylinder fluidically coupled to the source of hydraulic fluid and having a hydraulic piston movable between first and second limit positions. The liquid delivery system includes a rod connected to the piston and extending out of the hydraulic cylinder and a sensor device located outside the hydraulic cylinder and configured to sense a position of the rod and to generate a signal indicating the sensed position. The liquid delivery system includes a liquid cylinder comprising a liquid piston, operably driven by the rod, to pump a liquid along a flow path to a fluid applicator.
US12135043B2
Disclosed is a motor mount, in particular for a motor-driven fan unit of a fan for a vehicle heating, ventilating and/or air conditioning system, including two coaxial rings of which an inner ring is capable of receiving one or more elements of the motor and an outer ring is capable of being attached to a housing constituting a structural element, and an uncoupling element positioned between the coaxial rings. The uncoupling element forms at least one radial stop capable of limiting a radial relative movement, in a plane normal to the common axis of the two rings, of one of the two rings with respect to the other.
US12135039B2
A variable diffuser includes a backing plate, a shroud, a diffuser body between the backing plate and the shroud, a plurality of passages through the diffuser body, and a valve adjacent to the shroud and the diffuser body. The valve movably occludes a portion of the plurality of passages.
US12135036B2
A ram air fan inlet assembly for cabin air compressor (CAC) motor cooling flow enhancement includes a gas path defined by a ram air duct and a fan section, a CAC motor cooling return duct having an outlet provided through a wall of the ram air duct, and a centerbody body disposed in the ram air duct. The fan section is disposed immediately downstream and abutting the ram air duct. The ram air duct and fan section share a common axis. The centerbody is disposed about the common axis and configured to reduce of volume of the gas flow path in the ram air duct. The centerbody and the outlet axially overlap.
US12135035B2
A motor assembly has a motor having a rotor and a stator. An impeller is connected to a rotary shaft of the rotor and a housing is disposed between the impeller and the motor and surrounding an upper side of the motor. A diffuser discharges air, which is suctioned by the impeller, along an outer surface of the housing. A heat dissipation cover covers an outer surface of the motor. The heat dissipation cover includes an inner cover spaced apart from the outer surface of the motor and forming an inside-cover flow channel that air flows through and an outer cover having a diameter greater than that of the inner cover and forming an outside-cover flow channel through which air flows along the outer surface thereof.
US12135030B2
Provided is a sliding component capable of stably reducing the frictional resistance of a sliding surface entailing eccentric rotation. A sliding component has an annular shape with high-pressure and low-pressure fluids facing inside and outside of the sliding component and has a sliding surface relatively sliding with eccentric rotation. The sliding surface is provided with a plurality of high-pressure grooves open to a space in which the high-pressure fluid exists and a plurality of low-pressure grooves open to a space in which the low-pressure fluid exists. The high-pressure and low-pressure grooves are arranged in a circumferential direction.
US12135027B2
A spiral compressor having a stationary spiral element with a stationary spiral wall, a rotating spiral element with a rotating spiral wall arranged on a rotatable plate which is engaged with the stationary spiral wall wherein several compression working spaces are formed, and a guide means intended for guiding the rotating spiral element and with at least two guiding pins arranged in a stationary manner, at least two recesses formed on a back of the rotating spiral element with running sleeves which are inserted therein in a radially movable manner, in which the guiding pins are received such that the inner surface of the running sleeves, during rotation of the rotating spiral element, rotates about the circumference of the guiding pins, and wherein a lock is formed in every recess which prevents an axial protrusion of the running sleeves out of the recesses.
US12135024B2
A fluid end assembly having a plurality of fluid end sections positioned in a side-by-side relationship. Each fluid end section has a housing made of multiple-piece construction. One or more pieces of the housing are configured to have a plurality of stay rods attached thereto. The stay rods interconnect the fluid end assembly and a power end assembly.
US12135020B2
The present disclosure provides a pump body, a compressor, and a heat exchange apparatus. The pump body includes a cylinder assembly, a piston, a motion transmission structure, and a drive member. The cylinder assembly includes a cylinder. The piston is movably disposed in the cylinder. The drive member is connected to the piston through the motion transmission structure. An outer peripheral wall of the piston has a rail groove connected end to end in a circumferential direction, and the cylinder has a guide structure extending into the rail groove; or an inner surface of the cylinder has a rail groove connected end to end in the circumferential direction, and the piston has a guide structure extending into the rail groove. So that through driving of the piston by the drive member, the piston is capable of rotating relative to the cylinder while reciprocating along a rotating axis of the piston.
US12135015B2
Wind turbine ice protection systems and methods are provided. An ice protection system for heating a wind turbine blade includes: a heater disposed in an interior of the wind turbine blade, the heater for heating air; a blower disposed in the interior of the wind turbine blade and for moving the air across the heater to generate a heated airflow; a duct disposed in the interior of the wind turbine blade, the duct for receiving the heated airflow and releasing the heated airflow into the interior of the wind turbine blade; and an electrical control subsystem disposed in the wind turbine for controlling one or more components of the ice protection system.
US12135013B2
The invention provides a method of controlling operation of a wind turbine having a tower. The method includes determining an overall control output including lateral oscillation control for dampening lateral oscillation of the tower, and using the overall control output to control wind turbine operation. The method further includes receiving lateral oscillation sensor data indicative of a level of lateral oscillation of the tower, determining a rated lateral oscillation control output in dependence on the received lateral oscillation data, and receiving an indication of yaw error of the wind turbine. A lateral oscillation control output included in the overall control output is determined to be de-rated from the rated lateral oscillation control output when the indicated yaw error is above a predetermined lower threshold level.
US12135004B2
The application relates to a tubular turbine device for a fluid transport network, including at least one running equipment arranged on a turbine shaft, at least one guiding equipment arranged upstream of the running equipment, and at least one generator coupled to the turbine shaft and configured to convert a mechanical energy into electrical energy, at least one cross-section adjustment equipment configured to change a cross-sectional area of the tubular turbine device that can be flowed through depending on the volume flow of the fluid flowing through the tubular turbine device.
US12134999B2
Methods and systems for accurate and precise fuel supply control for continuous-flow of gaseous fuel to an internal combustion engine over a large dynamic power range, including a dual-stage valve that allows optimal control—a first stage in the form of a voice-coil driven electronic pressure regulator, and a second stage in the form of a voice-coil-driven choked-flow valve; monitoring the pressure of the fuel intermediate the two stages and making appropriate adjustments to the first stage via a pressure actuator loop; feeding the gaseous fuel mixture through a unitary block assembly into the second stage; monitoring the pressure of the air/fuel mixture and making appropriate adjustments to the second stage via a valve actuator control loop.
US12134993B2
A method for determining mass flow according to the differential pressure method on an internal combustion engine, includes calculating a mass flow signal by using sensors of a mass flow meter to measure a differential pressure, an absolute pressure and a temperature of the mass flow. The mass flow signal is filtered by an evaluation unit of the mass flow meter and the filtered mass flow signal is sent to an engine control. The filter parameters are matched to a measurement situation by the evaluation unit. In a first measurement situation, the filter parameters are set on the basis of an analysis of pulsations of the current measured values and in a second measurement situation, the filter parameters are set on the basis of status data of the internal combustion engine transmitted by the engine control unit. A mass flow meter and a probe are also provided.
US12134991B1
A gaseous fuel supply to an engine at a wellbore can be monitored using a monitoring system. The monitoring system can include a sensor apparatus having sensors configured to monitor the fuel supply of the engine. The fuel supply can be transported within a fuel supply line of a wellsite. The monitoring system can divert a portion of the fuel supply of the engine from the fuel supply line to a fuel sampling line. The monitoring system can analyze the portion of the fuel supply using the sensor apparatus to determine a fuel property measurement of the fuel supply. Additionally, the monitoring system can determine that the fuel property measurement is outside of a predefined range associated with a target performance level of the engine. In response, the monitoring system can perform a mitigation operation to cause the fuel supply to enable the target performance level of the engine.
US12134988B2
An accessory gearbox of an aircraft engine includes a cover mounted thereto. The cover defines a centrally extending axis and has an outer surface with accessory mounts disposed thereon. First and second accessory devices are mounted to the gearbox at first and second mounts spaced apart on the cover. A planar linking member dynamically couples the first accessory device to the second accessory device. The linking member extends transversally relative to the axis and has a first side opposite a second side with a first opening extending therethrough. The first opening is aligned and matingly receiving at least a portion of the first accessory device therethrough. The linking member has a second opening extending therethrough. The second opening is aligned and matingly receiving at least a portion of the second accessory device therethrough. The linking member mechanically interconnects the first and second accessory devices independently from the cover.
US12134978B2
Provided are an aftertreatment device capable of purifying exhaust gas with a compact configuration and an engine including the aftertreatment device. An aftertreatment device includes: a DPF case; an SCR case; an exhaust connection pipe that connects the DPF case and the SCR case; a mixer arranged at an upstream end of the exhaust connection pipe in a flow direction of exhaust gas; and a urea water injection portion that injects urea water into the mixer.
US12134972B1
Damper element with spring-suspended bearing member for vibration dampening system for turbine blade
A damper element for a vibration dampening system may be used in a body opening in a rotating blade in a turbine. The damper element includes a base member, and a spring-suspended bearing member having a disc spring fixedly coupled to the base member at a center of the disc spring, and a bearing member coupled to a first side of the disc spring at an outer portion thereof. The bearing member extends radially distal from the first side of the disc spring. With the disc spring in an elastically extended state under influence of a centrifugal force caused by rotation of the rotating blade at higher than a predefined rotational speed, the bearing member frictionally engages a first bearing surface to dampen vibration. The friction-based vibration dampening interface experiences a reduced impact of the centrifugal forces of the rotating blade by providing a counteracting force reduction using the spring.
US12134970B2
An electromagnetic turbine system includes a circulation system for recirculating fluid that drives turbine impellers for electromagnetic turbine modules. The circulation system includes a fluid separator module which separates gas from liquid and circulates the liquid back to a pressure chamber. The liquid in the pressure chamber is propel by compressed gas. Multiple pressure chambers may be controlled to release pressurized fluid to drive their respective shafts on a staggered timing sequence. The turbine modules may be levitated from a supporting surface to reduce friction.
US12134962B2
Methods for optimization of liquid oil production by huff-n-puff in shale reservoirs to achieve an improved (and optimal) oil recovery factor. The process determines and utilizes the optimum huff and puff times, number of cycles and soaking time under practical operation and reservoir conditions. The huff time in the process is a period so long that the pressure near the wellbore reaches the set maximum injection pressure during the huff period. The puff time in the process is the time required for the pressure near the wellbore to reach the set minimum production pressure during the puff period. Soaking is typically not necessary during the huff-n-puff gas injection in shale oil reservoirs. The number of huff-n-puff cycles is determinable by the time in which the economic rate cut-off is reached.
US12134961B2
A method and system for metering proppant discharged from a storage container is disclosed. In certain embodiments, a method may comprise loading a known amount of a first proppant type into a storage container, detecting proppant at or adjacent to a discharge outlet of the storage container via one or more sensors coupled to the storage container, operating a metering device at a predetermined speed, wherein the metering device may be coupled to the discharge outlet of the storage container, and wherein the metering device may comprise one or more pockets for receiving the first proppant type. In certain embodiments, the method may further comprise dispensing a known amount of the first proppant type from the storage container via the metering device, wherein an encoder coupled to the metering device may emit pulses during the dispensing. In certain embodiments, the method may further comprise determining an amount of the first proppant type dispensed by at least one pocket of the one or more pockets of the metering device based at least in part on the pulses and determining a relationship between the known amount of the first proppant type dispensed by each pocket and a speed of the metering device.
US12134957B2
A perforation and fracture tool including a perforating gun, a cone mandrel operatively connected to the gun, a slip operatively connected to the cone mandrel, and a seal element between the gun and the slip. A method for perforating and fracturing including initiating a perforation gun, driving a cone mandrel with evolved gas from the initiation, setting a seal, and pressuring against the seal to a fracture pressure. A borehole system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and a perforation and fracture tool disposed within or as a part of the string.
US12134950B2
A deployment system for deploying a polymer grout system includes a first conduit line for conveying an isocyanate component, a second conduit line for conveying an organic polyol component, and a mixer for mixing the isocyanate component and the organic polyol component to form an expandable polymer grout system that is deployed to a target location associated with a wellbore. The deployment system can include a tailpipe and/or bridge plug for directing the expandable polymer grout system to the target location. The disclosure also includes methods of using the foregoing deployment system.
US12134949B2
Processes for injection of fluids into a wellbore via drill pipe. In some embodiments, the process can include positioning a downhole apparatus on a drill pipe. The process can also include placing the downhole apparatus at a desired station depth within a wellbore. The process can also include attaching a cable to the downhole apparatus from an up-hole environment. The process can also include setting at least one packer to seal a space between at least a portion of the downhole apparatus and an inner surface of the wellbore. The process can also include introducing a fluid to the downhole apparatus through the drill pipe and using a pump to inject at least a portion of the fluid into a geological stratum.
US12134947B1
A system can be used to deploy a wet mate connector radially outward. The system can include a first sub-assembly and a second sub-assembly. The first sub-assembly can include a first wet mate connector and a deflection profile. The second sub-assembly can include (i) a wet mate carrier that can include a second wet mate connector and can be located on a second surface of the second sub-assembly, and (ii) a deflection actuator. The deflection actuator can be displaced by the deflection profile to cause the wet mate carrier to deflect outward to cause the second wet mate connector to couple with the first wet mate connector.
US12134944B2
A hydraulic landing nipple assembly includes a control line port located at an outer surface of a tubular member having a bore therethrough, an upper seal recess positioned above the control line port, and a lower seal recess positioned below the control line port. The upper seal recess and the lower seal recess each define locations within the bore to receive an upper locking mandrel and a lower locking mandrel of a subsurface safety valve.
US12134941B2
A method of transmitting an electrical signal between a downhole device and a surface location is provided, the method including unwinding a flexible hose from a reel at the surface location and deploying the hose down a wellbore, wherein the downhole device is attached at a downhole end of the flexible hose, providing a conductive fluid inside the flexible hose as an electrical path, and transmitting the electrical signal through the conductive fluid from one of the downhole device and the surface location to the other of the downhole device and the surface location.
US12134938B2
A cutting element for downhole drilling and related earth-boring tool for downhole drilling. The cutting element may include a substrate and a polycrystalline diamond material affixed to the substrate at an interface. The polycrystalline diamond material may include a raised cutting surface having at least two cutting edges, and first transition surfaces between the at least two cutting edges of the raised cutting surface and a side surface of the cutting element. The first transition surfaces may include multiple planar surfaces.
US12134931B2
A spacer frame assembly and method of manufacturing that includes a substantially linear channel comprising two lateral walls connected by a base wall, the channel having first and second ends that when assembled, includes at least three sides and corresponding corners between each of the sides; the linear channel further includes a nose portion of the first end and a receiving portion of the second end having a channel for receiving the nose portion; and the nose portion comprising a first undulation in the first end and the receiving portion comprising a second undulation in the second end. The first and second undulations nest when the ends are in an assembled position.
US12134926B2
The invention relates to a control arm for joining a flap holder to a flap, folding flap, door, or the like in an articulated manner, the control arm including at least one first and one second telescoping arm displaceably guided thereon for adjusting the length thereof, and the control arm including at least one fixing device for fixing the position of the two telescoping arms relative to each other. It is thereby provided that a detent connection acting between the telescoping arms in the direction of the change in length thereof is associated with the control arm and includes at least two detent settings disposed along the change in length of the control arm and spaced apart by a detent spacing. The invention further relates to a lifting device having such a control arm and a method for adjusting the length of such a control arm. The length of the control arm can be easily and quickly adjusted to the particular flap, folding flap, door, or the like.
US12134917B2
A securing device which includes a body and a cable is provided. The body includes a housing and a fixing unit. The housing includes a restricting hole, a first end portion and a second end portion disposed on opposite ends, and a first operating face, a display face, and a second operating face disposed between the first end portion and the second end portion. The restricting hole penetrates the housing from the display face having a display area. The fixing unit is disposed in the housing and includes a rotating disc. The outer rim of the rotating disc extends out of at least one of the first operating face and the second operating face. The display area displays a symbol on the rotating disc. The free end of the cable passes through the display face via the restricting hole. The fixing unit is capable of restricting the cable from moving.
US12134903B1
An external platform that translates such that planking and structural members of the platform remain level and maintain a constant working surface area at the beginning, during, and end of the translation movement.
US12134898B2
A modular platform for configuring gutter guard systems is disclosed and claimed herein. Such gutter guard systems are designed and arranged to be positioned across the opening of a rain gutter to prevent debris from entering the rain gutter. The modular platform includes a number of interchangeable components. Select interchangeable components can be assembled to form a gutter guard system for use with a specific rain gutter based on the rain gutter's style, size, color and the mechanism used to secure the rain gutter to a structure and/or roofline. In one embodiment, the components of a modular platform for configuring gutter guard systems include a number of main bodies, a front receiver, a number of rear receivers, a number of screens, and a clip.
US12134895B2
A structure, in particular, a wind turbine tower (1), which is pre-tensioned with at least one tensioning element (3), has a foundation (2), a concrete tower section (4), in particular, consisting of a plurality of precast concrete elements (5), as well as a head piece (6), wherein the tensioning element (3) at least at one of its ends has a tendon anchor (7, 7a, 7b). The tendon anchor (7, 7a, 7b) has an accommodation (8) in which a first end (10a) of an anchor rod (9) is fastened, in particular screwed in. A second end (10b) of the anchor rod (9) is anchored to the foundation (2) or to the head piece (6). In a corresponding method for manufacturing a structure, a first end (10a) of an anchor rod (9) is fastened, in particular screwed in an accommodation (8) of a tendon anchor (7, 7a, 7b), and a second end (10b) of the anchor rod (9) is anchored to the foundation (2) or to the head piece (6).
US12134894B2
A polyurethane foam block can include a base having a plurality of recesses and a top surface having a plurality of connective components protruding outward from the top surface where each connective component of the plurality of connective components can align with a recess of the plurality of recesses. The polyurethane foam block can include a plurality of sidewalls extending upward from the base and defining an interior and a plurality of partitions extending from the base to the top surface to divide the block into a plurality of cavities. A wall can include base blocks and header blocks. The header blocks can be shaped and constructed similarly to the base blocks with one exception being the header blocks can include an-upward facing channel cutout. The wall can include a beam extending through channels of header blocks.
US12134892B2
A modular structural system, comprising one or more building units consisting of two counter mold partitions, each of which is adapted with one or more anchoring means, into which one or more connecting locks are engaged to firmly lock and stabilize the two counter mold partitions, where each of the two counter mold partitions is peripherally adapted to receive one or more affixing coupling means; two or more coupling means for affixing two of the one or more building units; two or more coupling means for affixing the one or more building units to an adjacent building element.
US12134877B2
A working machine includes a machine body, a left traveling device located left on the machine body, a right traveling device located right on the machine body, and a controller configured or programmed to perform automatic deceleration to automatically reduce a first rotation speed of a left traveling motor and a second rotation speed of a right traveling motor by shifting a speed stage of each of the left and right traveling motors from a second speed stage to a first speed stage that is lower than the second speed stage. The controller is configured or programmed to: not perform the automatic deceleration when the first rotation speed or the second rotation speed is equal to or higher than a predetermined rotation speed; and perform the automatic deceleration when the first rotation speed and the second rotation speed are less than the predetermined rotation speed.
US12134876B2
An earth moving vehicle (EMV) autonomously performs an earth moving operation within a dig site. If the EMV determines that a state of the EMV or the dig site triggers a triggering condition associated with a pause in the autonomous behavior of the EMV, the EMV determines a risk associated with the state or triggering condition. If the risk is greater than a first threshold, the EMV continues the autonomous performance and notifies a remote operator that the triggering condition was triggered. If the risk is greater than the first threshold risk but less than a second threshold risk, the EMV is configured to operate in a default state before continuing and notifying the remote operator. If the risk is greater than the second threshold risk, the EMV notifies the remote operator of the state pauses the performance until feedback is received from the remote operator.
US12134869B1
An adaptable and removable winch mount is an adapter that connects to an existing snowplow mount on a pickup truck which in turn allows for the attachment of a winch mount. The mount provides a seamless transition between the snowplow mount and the winch mount. The invention consists of two parallel steel plates that each connect to the plow mount via a pin lot and locking hole each. The plates are then interconnected by two steel tubes with a receiver hitch in the middle. The overall width of the invention is approximately thirty-three inches. This allows a standard hitch mount winch to then be attached to the invention in a typical manner.
US12134865B2
The disclosure refers to a road construction machine, adapted in particular in the form of a road paver or a feeder vehicle for a road paver. According to the disclosure, the road construction machine comprises a first and/or a second air barrier device adapted to shield a driver and/or an operator of the road construction machine. Furthermore, the disclosure refers to a corresponding method for generating an air flow during operation of a road construction machine in order to shield a driver and/or an operator from vapors and/or aerosols rising during operation of the road construction machine.
US12134857B2
Disclosed is an elastic fiber treatment agent that contains a silicone oil as a smoothing agent (A), an unsaturated fatty acid metal salt (B), and a higher alcohol (D), and optionally an organic phosphate ester compound (C). An alcohol forming the higher alcohol (D) is a Guerbet alcohol.
US12134846B2
The present invention relates to a nonwoven fabric comprising continuous spunbonded bicomponent fibers which consist of: 0 to 95% by weight of an aromatic polyester (A) in a core; to 50% by weight of a polyester blend (B) containing a) 65 to 95% of an aromatic polyester (BA) and b) 5 to 35% by weight of an aliphatic-aromatic polyester (BB) with a glass temperature below 0° C. in a sheath surrounding the core; and 0 to 5% by weight of at least one additive (C); wherein the % by weight are based in each case on the total weight of the components (A) and (B) and optionally (C); and wherein the aromatic polyesters (A) and (BA) are selected from the group consisting of poly(ethylene terephthalate) and poly(butylene terephthalate).
US12134841B1
A composite material comprising braided composite yarns that can be embedded within or at the surface of the material. The braided composite yarns can incorporate one or more multicomponent fiber bundles. The braided composite yarns can be the axial yarns in a triaxial braided fabric that has structural yarns as the bias yarns. The composite material can comprise a carbon fiber prepreg. The thickness of each braided composite yarn can be approximately the thickness of a single composite ply. At least one conductive wire can be wrapped around an axial yarn of the braided composite yarn at a location desirable for electrical contact to be made to at least one conductor in the axial yarn. At least some of the conductive wire is preferably soldered to at least one of the conductors. The conductive wire can be twisted with a structural yarn and is stitched across the braided composite yarn. A conductive pad can be soldered to the one conductive wire.
US12134836B2
A method for producing at least one nitride layer includes providing a stack having a plurality of pillars extending from a substrate of the stack. Each pillar includes at least a crystalline section and a summit having a summit surface area The method also includes growing by epitaxy a crystallite from the summit of some the plurality of pillars and continuing the epitaxial growth of the crystallites until the crystallites supported by the pillars coalesce. The plurality of pillars includes at least one retention pillar and separation pillars. The pillars are configured so that once the nitride layer is formed, the at least one retention pillar retains the nitride layer and some of the separation pillars can fracture.
US12134834B2
Described herein is a composition including copper ions, an acid, and at least one polyaminoamide including, a group of formula L1 [A-B-A′-Z]n[Y—Z]m (L1) where B is a diacid fragment of formula L2 A, A′ are amine fragments independently selected from the group consisting of formula L3a and formula L3b Y is a co-monomer fragment; Z is a coupling fragment of formula L4 n is an integer of from 1 to 400; and m is 0 or an integer of from 1 to 400.
US12134825B1
The present invention is to provide a system for producing hydrogen gas, comprising: an electrolyte solution supply system, an electrolyzer, a hydrogen gas purification system, and a hydrogen gas compression and drying system. Wherein the electrolyte solution supply system operable to supply the electrolyte solution; the electrolyzer operable to perform the electrolysis creates hydrogen gas and oxygen gas; the hydrogen gas purification system operable to the purification of hydrogen gas; and the hydrogen gas compression and drying system operable to dry and compress hydrogen gas to a pressure of a predetermined value. In addition, the invention also mentions a method for producing hydrogen gas to produce hydrogen gas with a purity of more than 99.8%.
US12134805B2
An aluminum alloy member forms a fluoride film thereon, which does not form a black dot-shaped bulged portion and, therefore, has excellent smoothness and excellent corrosion resistance against a corrosive gas, plasma, and others. An aluminum alloy member for forming a fluoride film thereon, consists of: Si: 0.01 mass % to 0.3 mass %; Mg: 0.5 mass % to 5.0 mass %; Fe: 0.05 mass % to 0.5 mass %; Cu: 0.5 mass % or less; Mn: 0.30 mass % or less; Cr: 0.30 mass % or less, and the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein when an average major diameter of Fe-based crystallized products in the aluminum alloy member is “D” (μm), and an average crystalline particle diameter in the aluminum alloy member is “Y” (μm), a relational expression: Log10 Y<−0.320D+4.60 . . . (1) is satisfied. A fluoride film is formed on at least a part of a surface of the aluminum alloy.
US12134786B2
Methods are described for predicting ancestral sequences for viruses or portions thereof. Also described are predicted ancestral sequences for adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid polypeptides. The disclosure also provides methods of gene transfer and methods of vaccinating subjects by administering a target antigen operably linked to the AAV capsid polypeptides.
US12134782B2
Methods for producing therapeutic T cells from umbilical cord blood are provided. Methods for treating immune-related diseases or conditions (e.g. autoimmune diseases, transplant rejection, cancer) using umbilical cord blood derived therapeutic T cells are also provided. Compositions comprising umbilical cord blood derived therapeutic T cells are also provided.
US12134774B2
The present invention provides a transgenic corn event MON87460, and cells, seeds, and plants comprising DNA diagnostic for the corn event. The invention also provides compositions comprising nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for MON87460 in a sample, methods for detecting the presence of MON87460 event polynucleotides in a sample, and probes and primers for use in detecting nucleotide sequences that are diagnostic for the presence of MON87460 in a sample. The present invention also provides methods of breeding with MON87460 to produce water deficit tolerance corn plants.
US12134770B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to one or more compositions that upregulate the production of one or more sequences of micro-interfering ribonucleic acid (miRNA). The sequences of miRNA may be complimentary to a sequence of target messenger RNA (mRNA) that encodes for a target biomolecule and the miRNA can cause a decrease in bioavailability of the target biomolecule within a subject that is administered the one or more compositions. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the target biomolecule is a dopamine receptor. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the target biomolecule is a dopamine receptor such as the D1 dopamine receptor, such as the D2 dopamine receptor, such as the D3 dopamine receptor, or such as the D4 dopamine receptor.
US12134767B2
The present application provides materials and methods for treating hemoglobinopathies. More specifically, the application provides methods for producing progenitor cells that are genetically modified via genome editing to increase the production of fetal hemoglobin (HbF), as well as modified progenitor cells (including, for example, CD34+ human hematopoietic stem cells) producing increased levels of HbF, and methods of using such cells for treating hemoglobinopathies such as sickle cell anemia and β-thalassemia.
US12134764B2
Less-than-diploid I. orientalis cells are produced. The cells have at least one unpaired chromosome and may be haploid, i.e., are missing one member of each pair of chromosomes that are present in the wild-type strains. The less-than-diploid cells are useful fermentation strains, performing similarly to diploid strains that are otherwise similarly engineered. The less-than-diploid strains can be mated to produce diploids, which themselves are useful fermentation strains. The less-than-diploid strains are also useful as host strains for producing further genetically modified strains that can be less-than-diploid or mated to produce diploids.
US12134760B2
An object is to provide a channel device that can perform both optical measurement and electrical measurement. The object is achieved by having a first channel member having a first channel, a second channel member having a second channel, a porous membrane provided between the first channel member and the second channel member, and a pair of transparent electrodes provided so as to interpose the first channel and the second channel therebetween.
US12134758B2
Systems, methods and kits are described for culturing one or more biological cells in a microfluidic device, including provision of nutrients and gaseous components configured to enhance cell growth, viability, portability, or any combination thereof. In some embodiments, culturing a single cell may produce a clonal population in the microfluidic device.
US12134756B2
A modular kit for integration and installation of one or more bioreactors for microalgae cultivation includes: —at least one bioreactor for microalgae cultivation, in the form of a vertically arranged transparent tubular column; —a supporting structure adapted to integrate and support the base of the at least one bioreactor, and also adapted to internally house a first connection to a system for loading and unloading a cultivation vector fluid into/from the at least one bioreactor, and a second connection to a system for supplying CO2-supplemented air into the at least one bioreactor; —multiple modules forming respective frames with internal empty spaces and adapted to be connected to one another to house, in the empty spaces, the at least one bioreactor; the multiple modules being also so shaped as to convey filtered light into the at least one bioreactor.
US12134753B2
An alcohol aging assembly for rapidly aging distilled spirits includes an aging container for containing alcohol. A cylinder comprised of copper is provided which can be submerged in alcohol without imparting an unpleasant flavor to the alcohol. A plurality of dowels is each of the dowels is disposed within the cylinder and each of the dowels is comprised of oak to facilitate a chemical process to enhance the flavor and color of the alcohol. A light emitter is disposed inside of the cylinder to emit light into the alcohol when the cylinder is submerged into the alcohol. The light emitter emits light in the ultra-violet spectrum to increase the rate of chemical reaction between the alcohol and the dowels thereby speeding up the process of aging the alcohol.
US12134744B1
A process and system for producing an engineered fuel product that meets customer specifications for composition and combustion characteristics is provided. The engineered fuel product is preferably a high-BTU, alternative fuel that burns cleaner than coal or petroleum coke (petcoke) and has significantly reduced NOx, SO2 and GHG emissions.
US12134743B2
A treatment system for remediating some forms of sulfur, CO2, and other contaminants/impurities from a gas stream includes at least one of a process vessel and a treatment coil. Each of the vessel and treatment coil have internals, different in design from each other, which promote intimate mixing and extended contact time between a treatment composition and a gas being treated. The vessel, which additionally facilitates vapor/liquid separation, operates about one-half to two-thirds full of liquid treatment composition. In some embodiments, the treatment coil is a serpentine arrangement of piping, into which the atomized treatment composition is injected on a continuous basis.
US12134741B2
Systems and methods for processing a C4 and C5 stream are disclosed. A pygas stream can be separated in a depentanizer to produce a C4 and C5 stream and a C6 to C9+ stream. The C4 and C5 stream is further processed to recover C5 dienes including isoprene, pentadiene, cyclopentadiene, or combinations thereof. The C6 to C9+ stream is further processed to recover aromatics including benzene, toluene, xylene, ethylbenzene, or combinations thereof.
US12134739B2
A system for crude oil desalting and dehydration includes a separation vessel defining a cavity extending along a central axis having a substantially-vertical orientation. The separation vessel comprises a first distributor configured to distribute a mixture within the cavity of the separation vessel, and a second distributor configured to distribute a wash fluid within the cavity of the separation vessel. The mixture comprises crude oil, water, dissolved salts, free salts, or combinations thereof, and the wash fluid comprises an aqueous fluid. The first distributor is disposed within the cavity below the second distributor, and an interface level controller is configured to detect an interface between an oil phase and an aqueous phase and to maintain the interface within a predetermined range within the cavity.
US12134736B2
A method of producing a coal blend by blending plural brands of coal to produce a coal blend includes letting a surface tension of coal when inert material is assumed to be 100 vol % be γ100, and letting a surface tension of coal when reactive material is assumed to be 100 vol % be γ0, determining γ0 of coal; among brands of coal 1, 2, . . . i, . . . , and n to be blended in a coal blend, specifying coal i in which γ100 is outside of γ0; measuring TI of coal i; and determining a blending ratio of coal i such that w calculated by formula (1) is 20.4 mass % or less w=Σ(xi×TIi) (1).
US12134730B2
Provided are an asphalt-like material and a method and use thereof as a plugging agent, and a water-based drilling fluid. The asphalt-like material has a structure shown in formula I, wherein, in the formula I, R1 is selected from the group consisting of —H, —COOH, and —CH2—COOH; R2 is selected from the group consisting of —NH—CH2—CH2—OH, —NH—CH2—CH2—NH2, —N—(CH2—CH2—OH)2, and —NH—CH2—CH2—CH2—OH; R3 is selected from the group consisting of —OH, —NH—CH2—CH2—OH, —NH—CH2—CH2—NH2, —N—(CH2—CH2—OH)2, and —NH—CH2—CH2—CH2—OH; R4 is selected from the group consisting of —NH—CH2—CH2—OH, —NH—CH2—CH2—NH2, —N—(CH2—CH2—OH)2, and —NH—CH2—CH2—CH2—OH; and n is 370 to 400.
US12134716B2
A polyurethane adhesive composition, more specifically a two-component polyurethane adhesive, including (a) at least one isocyanate component, and (b) at least one polyol component, wherein the polyol component (b) includes (bi) at least one first polyol compound, (bii) at least one second polyol compound and (biii) at least one chain extender, and a process for making the above adhesive composition.
US12134714B2
Provided is a thermosetting adhesive including: a polyurethane; an isocyanate; an epoxy; and a phenoxy resin, in which dynamic viscoelasticity spectrum of a cured product has a peak indicating a softening temperature in an area of 200° C. or higher and has no peak in an area of 160° C. or lower.
US12134713B2
Various embodiments relate to classifying comparators based on comparator offsets. A method may include applying, via a strobe, a first voltage to each of a first input and a second input of a comparator to generate a number of output signals from the comparator, wherein each output signal has one of a first polarity and a second polarity. The method may further include in response to each of the number of output signals being the first polarity, applying, via a strobe, an external offset voltage having the second polarity to the comparator to generate a second number of output signals. Further, the method may include in response to each of the second number of output signals being the same polarity, identifying the comparator as a reliable comparator.
US12134704B2
An aerogel includes a three-dimensional printed structure having printed ligaments geometrically arranged, where an average diameter of the printed ligaments is in a range of greater than 0 microns and less than 50 microns. In addition, an average distance between a center of a first of the printed ligaments and a center of a second of the printed ligaments is at least equal to the average diameter of the printed ligaments, where the first and the second of the printed ligaments are adjacent. Each printed ligament includes of a plurality of random pores, where an average diameter of the random pores is less than 50 nanometers.
US12134699B2
Described herein is a polymerized biorenewable, previously modified, or functionalized oil, comprising a polymeric distribution having about 2 to about 80 wt % oligomer content, a polydispersity index ranging from about 1.30 to about 2.20, and sulfur content ranging from 0.001 wt % to about 8 wt %. Methods of manufacturing the polymerized oil as well as its incorporation into asphalt paving, roofing, and coating applications are also described.
US12134698B2
Nanocellulose dispersion compositions containing a partitioning agent and a nanocellulose, and methods of making the nanocellulose dispersion compositions, are disclosed. These compositions can promote improved dispersibility of the nanocellulose fibrils and nanocellulose crystals in polymer matrices, such as in elastomer formulations for use in tire production.
US12134691B2
The invention relates to a copolymer comprising units derived from monomers of vinylidene fluoride and/or trifluoroethylene, as well as fluorinated monomers X comprising a double bond and a leaving group selected from among chlorine, bromine and iodine atoms, the leaving groups being partially replaced by azide groups in the copolymer.
US12134677B2
The present invention relates to a hydrophilizing agent for producing a self-emulsifying polyisocyanate composition, the hydrophilizing agent comprising an anionic compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein X represents a sulfo group or a hydroxysulfonyloxy group, R1 represents a straight-chain or branched alkylene group, and R2 represents a straight-chain or branched alkyl group; the total number of carbon atoms included in R1 and R2 is 6 or more and less than 14, and one or two or more carbon atoms in the groups R1 and R2 are optionally replaced with an oxygen atom(s).
US12134672B2
Provided herein is a masterbatch including a grafted silicone polyether and a porous inorganic nanoparticle, bacteria repellant polymer composites including the same, and methods of preparation thereof.
US12134663B2
The present invention related to compositions and methods for activating Lck, including in vivo, in vitro and ex vivo uses.
US12134661B1
Disclosed herein are novel bispecific and tri-specific antibodies with increased stability and use thereof for therapy.
US12134660B2
A composition for treating inflammation or auto-immune disorders comprises (i) an antibody that hinds to an AGE-modified protein on a cell, and (ii) an anti-inflammation antibody. Furthermore, the antibody that binds to an AGE-modified protein on a cell is also effective to treat inflammation or auto-immune disorders alone.
US12134647B2
The present invention relates to binding molecules that comprise T cell receptor (TCR) variable domains and which can bind to a PRAME peptide-HLA complex. In particular, the present invention relates to binding molecules that bind to PYLGQMINL (SEQ ID NO: 1) in complex with HLA-A24. The invention also relates to the use of such molecules for the treatment of malignant diseases.
US12134646B2
The present invention relates to a novel anti-C-KIT antibody or an antibody fragment thereof. In addition, the present invention relates to a composition for preventing or treating angiogenesis-related diseases comprising the anti-C-KIT antibody or an antibody fragment thereof, or a kit for diagnosing angiogenesis-related diseases.
US12134627B2
The present invention relates to a boron hydroxyl-containing organic compound having a structural formula shown in formula I. The present invention also relates to a method for preparing the boron hydroxyl-containing organic compound and use thereof in an organic electronic device, particularly an organic light-emitting diode. The present invention further relates to an organic electronic device, particularly an organic light-emitting diode, including the boron hydroxyl-containing organic compound according to the present invention and use thereof in display and lighting technology. By optimizing the structure of the device and altering the concentration of the boron hydroxyl-containing organic compound in the substrate, the optimal device performance can be achieved so as to produce an OLED device with high efficiency, high brightness and high stability, which provides a better material option for use in full-color display and lighting.
US12134624B2
The present disclosure provides compositions comprising artemisinin-derived trimers and tetramers; methods of preparing these compositions; and methods for their use as medicaments.
US12134617B1
Novel pyrimido[1′,6′:1,5]pyrazolo[4,3-c][1,7]naphthyridine compounds, a method of synthesizing said compounds, a pharmaceutical composition comprising said compounds and a suitable carrier, and a method of using the compounds. The pyrimido[1′,6′:1,5]pyrazolo[4,3-c][1,7]naphthyridine compounds, identified as CK2 inhibitors, are useful as anticancer and/or antitumor agents, and as agents for treating other kinase-associated conditions including inflammation, pain, and certain immunological disorders, and other types of diseases such as diabetes, viral infection, neurodegenerative diseases.
US12134615B2
The present disclosure provides a compound having a structure represented by Formula 1, where X1-X4 are each independently selected from a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom, and at least two of X1-X4 are each a nitrogen atom; R1-R4 are independently absent or selected from hydrogen, C1-C20 alkyl, C1-C20 alkoxy, C1-C20 alkylthio, C1-C20 alkylamino, C6-C30 aryl, or C2-C30 heteroaryl; m is 1 or 2; n and q are each independently selected from 0, 1, or 2, n+q≥1, and m+n+q=3; Ar is C6-C30 aryl. The molecular structure of the compound has a nitrogen-containing multidentate ligand suitable to form complexes with metal Yb or LiQ to form a metal organic complex having multidentate bondings. When applied to an OLED device, it can effectively lower the turn-on voltage and operating voltage, improve the efficiency, and prolong lifetime of the OLED device.
US12134614B2
The present invention relates to solid forms of the insecticide of formula I: compositions comprising the solid forms and methods of their use as insecticides.
US12134609B2
The present disclosure provides compounds that are cGAS antagonists, methods of preparation of the compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and their use in medical therapy.
US12134606B2
The invention relates to certain 1,5-benzothiazepine and 1,2,5-benzothiadiazepine derivatives as defined herein. These compounds are bile acid modulators having apical sodium-dependent bile acid transporter (ASBT) and/or liver bile acid transport (LBAT) inhibitory activity. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and to the use of these compounds in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, fatty acid metabolism and glucose utilization disorders, gastrointestinal diseases and liver diseases.
US12134603B2
The present application relates to a synthesis method for N-methyl-3-substituted methyl-4-pyrazolamide derivative and N-methyl-3-substituted methyl-4-pyrazolic acid, including the following steps: step S1: synthesis of intermediate E; step S2: synthesis of intermediate D; step S3: synthesis of intermediate C; step S4: synthesis of N-methyl-3-substituted methyl-4-pyrazolamide derivative; and synthesis of N-methyl-3-substituted methyl-4-pyrazolic acid by decomposition of N-methyl-3-substituted methyl-4-pyrazolamide derivative.
US12134595B2
The invention relates to a method for producing styrene monomers by the depolymerisation of polystyrene in the presence of foreign polymers, such as polyolefins. Said method comprises the following steps: a) introducing a polymer composition (A) containing: I) 10 to 99.5% by weight, based on the polymer composition (A), of polystyrene (I); and II) 0.1 to 89.9% by weight of polyolefin (II); and/or III) 0.1 to 4.9% by weight of acrylonitrile-based polymer (III); and/or IV) 0.1 to 4.9% by weight of polyester (IV), into the reaction zone (R) of a pyrolysis reactor (P); b) thermal cracking the polystyrene contained in the polymer composition (A) in the reaction zone (R) of the pyrolysis reactor (P) at a temperature of between 400-1000° C., c) removing the product mixture (G) obtained from the reaction zone (R), d) cooling of the product mixture (G), and e) separating the styrene monomers from the further components.
US12134588B2
Described herein are epinephrine salts, specifically the epinephrine malonate salt; the epinephrine malonate salt in crystalline form; a pharmaceutical composition comprising epinephrine malonate; a sublingual or buccal pharmaceutical composition comprising epinephrine malonate in crystalline form; and a method for treating a patient comprising administering a pharmaceutical composition of epinephrine malonate in crystalline form.
US12134579B2
Disclosed herein are coated articles which may include a substrate and an optical coating that includes one or more layers of deposited material. At least a portion of the optical coating may include a residual compressive stress of more than 100 MPa. The coated article may include a strain-to-failure of 0.4% or more as measured by a Ring-on-Ring Tensile Testing Procedure. The optical coating may include a maximum hardness of 8 GPa or more and an average photopic transmission of 50% or greater.
US12134575B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for continuously or semi-continuously treating/dehydrating organic sludge (1, 41, 69}, wherein a three-phase emulsion of air, solid matter and water is produced by injecting air (6, 47, 68) into the sludge, introducing a flocculant (13, 50, F) into said emulsion in order to create a floc (14, 51) and then degassing said floc at atmospheric pressure. The floc is degassed by soft impact of the floc on itself or on an energy absorbing shutter (39, C), braking the floc, and the floc matured in this way is recovered in a filtration and/or decanting device (56, 74).
US12134570B2
A system and method for evaporative treatment or wastewater which minimizes scaling and system maintenance is disclosed. The apparatus can include an evaporation vessel with a heating source to evaporate water from a solution under treatment and a drain valve for draining the solution after treatment. The apparatus can also include one or more sensors configured to measure parameters of a solution under treatment and a user programmable controller to control the treatment process based on such measurements. A user can configure the controller to define the detection of a solution's critical state where contaminant concentrations are maximized yet scaling is minimized. When a critical state of the solution is reached a portion of the treated solution can be removed and the vessel refill with new wastewater thereby lowering the concentration of the remaining solution the repealing the evaporation and drain cycle until all wastewater has been treated.
US12134564B2
A precipitated silica having large particle size for use in tire applications. In particular, a precipitated silica characterised by a CTAB surface area SCTAB equal to or greater than 160 m2/g; a median particle size d50, measured by centrifugal sedimentation, such that |d50|>25000/|SCTAB| (I) wherein |d50| represents the numerical value of the median particle size d50 measured by centrifugal sedimentation and expressed in nm and |SCTAB| represents the numerical value of the CTAB surface area SCTAB expressed in m2/g; and an aluminium content not exceeding 4500 ppm.
US12134561B2
The present disclosure relates to surface-functionalized carbonaceous particles, optionally in agglomerated form, methods for making such surface-functionalized carbonaceous particles and their use, for example as conductive additives in battery electrodes. The surface-functionalized carbonaceous particles are for example obtainable by milling a non-graphitic carbon material, followed by subsequent functionalization through controlled oxidation. The surface-functionalized carbonaceous particles can be used as additive in battery electrodes. The disclosure also pertains to dispersions of such carbonaceous materials in a liquid medium and their use as, among others, conductive coatings. Polymer compounds filled with the surface-functionalized carbonaceous particles are also disclosed.
US12134555B2
Representative methods for sealing MEMS devices include depositing insulating material over a substrate, forming conductive vias in a first set of layers of the insulating material, and forming metal structures in a second set of layers of the insulating material. The first and second sets of layers are interleaved in alternation. A dummy insulating layer is provided as an upper-most layer of the first set of layers. Portions of the first and second set of layers are etched to form void regions in the insulating material. A conductive pad is formed on and in a top surface of the insulating material. The void regions are sealed with an encapsulating structure. At least a portion of the encapsulating structure is laterally adjacent the dummy insulating layer, and above a top surface of the conductive pad. An etch is performed to remove at least a portion of the dummy insulating layer.
US12134545B2
There is provided a crane inspection system including a mobile unit including an imaging unit and moving around a crane, and a processing unit that performs predetermined processing on captured image data captured by the imaging unit. The mobile unit images a plurality of locations including an inspection location of the crane.
US12134544B2
A rotating suspension point assembly permits rotation and other movement of the assembly relative to the axis of an anchor to which it is attached. Such a rotating suspension point assembly comprises a base, a flanged bushing and a mating convex washer. The base has a plate and a tubular structure projecting from the plate. The flanged bushing has an internal clearance to allow misalignment of an anchor and has a flange with a concave surface. The mating convex washer is aligned with the concave surface of the flanged bushing.
US12134542B2
A hall destination floor input device for elevators includes an information input receiver provided on a hall of an elevator on a floor set as an evacuation floor in case of an emergency in a building including the elevator. The information input receiver receives information from outside. The device also includes a signal transmitter that transmits a signal to a control system of the elevator, and a controller configured to cause the signal transmitter to transmit a signal indicating a destination floor of the elevator when the information receiver receives input of information on the destination floor if an operation mode is not an emergency mode based on emergency information of the building, and cause the signal transmitter to transmit a signal to open a door of the elevator on the hall when the information input receiver starts receiving input of information if the operation mode is the emergency mode.
US12134541B2
A cable reel for retaining a continuous length of cable is preferably constructed using an inexpensive plastic material, such as corrugated plastic. In one embodiment, the cable reel includes a hollow tubular core with a set of outward radial tabs integrally formed at each of its ends. A single, disc-shaped, interior support flange is mounted within the interior of the core in circumferential contact therewith to provide structural rigidity. Additionally, on each end of the core, an annular inner flange and a disc-shaped outer flange are disposed in coaxial alignment with one another against opposing surfaces of its corresponding set of radial tabs and are fixedly secured together as part of the assembly process. The multi-flange construction enables the thickness, diameter and/or material properties of the ends of the cable reel to be adjusted, as needed, to accommodate the strength and dimensional requirements of the intended application.
US12134538B2
The sheet discharge device includes: a sheet discharge part; a sheet discharge tray having a tray upper surface and a rear wall portion; a fullness detection sensor for detecting that a height of a stack surface of folded sheets; and a first sheet presser member and a second sheet presser member for pressing a rear end side and a fore end side in a discharge direction, of the folded sheet. In a first pressing position in which the first sheet presser member extends from above the detection sensor to below the detection region, and is brought into contact with the folded sheet of a minimum size stacked on the tray upper surface. When a stack number of the folded sheets has exceeded a specified number, the first sheet presser member is retracted upward from the first pressing position by the rise of the stack surface.
US12134521B2
An automated in-rack picking solution enables improved efficiency by permitting automatic reconfiguration of automated picking system (APS) deployments within an automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS). The storage volume of an ASRS can be more thoroughly utilized, even with a smaller number of APSs, when at least one APS is operable to autonomously relocate within the ASRS based at least on a stored item's location and/or property (e.g., suitability for handling by a particular end effector). An exemplary solution includes an APS positioned to reach stored items within a first subset of storage locations when affixed to a first attachment point; a transport component operable to relocate the APS to a second attachment point, wherein the APS is positioned to reach stored items within a second subset of the storage locations when affixed to the second attachment point; and a controller operable to instruct relocation of the APS.
US12134512B2
Manual and automated racking systems and associated methods for loading/unloading glass panels (e.g., insulating glass units (IGU), laminated glass units, glass composites, monolithic glass, and the like) onto/from a transportable rack, and a rack for use with the manual and automated racking systems.
US12134506B1
A stackable corrugated was box is a specialized box to be used to store food products in cold storage. The box is supplied with a built in “slat” or spacer at the bottom of the box. The spacer is generally rectangular shaped and is approximately thirteen by nineteen inches (13×19″) and one inch (1″) thick. The bottom surface is provided with approximately eight (8) pedestals to produce an “egg-crate” like bottom with open areas all of the way across the bottom. This open area allows for air flow across the entire bottom area of the box, thus allowing for rapid freezing times when compared to conventional boxes that are stacked upon one another.
US12134499B1
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for a skid system including a skid apparatus. The skid apparatus may include a skid frame including at least one lateral member coupled to at least one side member at a coupling location, a skid plate coupleable to at least one of the at least one lateral member or to the at least one side member, at least one skid slot extending through the skid plate, and a pipe support configured to couple to the at least one skid slot.
US12134495B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a random case sealer. The case sealer includes a top-head-actuating assembly configured to vary the speed of the top-head assembly when ascending (to make room for the case beneath the top-head assembly) and when descending onto the case (to engage the top surface of the case during sealing). This maximizes the speed of the top-head assembly while limiting overshoot (when ascending) and preventing damage to the case (when descending). In certain embodiments the case sealer includes a tape cartridge configured to limit the forces imparted onto the leading and top surfaces of the case during sealing. These features result in increased throughput as compared to prior art random case sealers without requiring stronger cases or more protective dunnage.
US12134490B2
Devices, systems, and methods for blister packaging are disclosed. An assembly utilizing interchangeable inserts allows for a variety of blister packaging to be sealed with corresponding labels that are anchored into proper orientation through the use of locator pins. Blisters are nested into inserts and held in a fixed position while label sheets having holes for receiving locator pins are inserted onto the assembly. Visual indicators on labels identify pull flaps, and tear slits provide evidence of tampering with packaged blisters.
US12134488B2
Vertical take off and landing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) comprising a multi-propeller propulsion system (“the system”), an outer protective cage surrounding the system, an autonomous power source, a sensing system, and a control system. The sensing system has an orientation sensor and a displacement sensor. The system has at least two propellers spaced apart in a non-coaxial manner. The control system controls the flight or hovering of the UAV. The control system reverses thrust on at least one propeller distal from a point of contact with an obstacle while controlling a motor of a proximal propeller from the contact point to generate lift, the thrust of the distal and proximal propellers being controlled to exert lift on the UAV to counteract gravitational force thereon and apply a moment of rotation about the point of contact to stabilize the position of the UAV or to counteract torque resulting from inertia.
US12134487B2
A drone is disclosed having a low acoustic signature. The drone includes a fuselage, a main inboard wing attached to the fuselage, a pylon located towards an aft end of the fuselage and having an end that is higher than the main inboard wing, and a propulsor connected to the pylon and situated above the fuselage. The drone includes a plurality of booms connected to the main inboard wing and a plurality of horizontal tails attached to the plurality of booms. The horizontal tails have an outboard tail arrangement and are tiltable.
US12134483B2
A system for automated surface anomaly detection includes at least one processor which is configured to retrieve from non-volatile memory a 3D control image; capture a 3D target image depicting at least the portion of the exterior of a target object; generate 2D target planar images of the target object based on the 3D target image, using a first plurality of virtual cameras; generate 2D control planar images of the control object based on the 3D control image using a second plurality of virtual cameras, the 2D control planar images corresponding to the 2D target planar images of the target object; detect at least one difference between the 2D target planar images and the 2D control planar images; and generate and cause to be displayed an output image comprising a depiction of the target object with the at least one difference indicated.
US12134482B1
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for towing an aircraft mid-flight are disclosed. The apparatuses include a tow line receiver that is configured for releasably mechanically joining to an aircraft connector on an aircraft to be towed. The aerial vehicle towing system includes an aircraft connector on the aircraft to be towed, a tow line receiver, a tow line, and a winch. Several methods are also provided. These include: a method of towing or retrieving an aircraft in flight; a method of recharging an electrically-powered aircraft in flight; methods of towing and refueling aircraft in flight; a method of communicating between a tow aircraft and an aircraft being towed; and combinations of these methods.
US12134476B1
A flight controller ingress and egress system is implemented using an assembly. The assembly pivots an outboard flight controller. The pivoting of the outboard flight controller creates a space for the pilot to ingress and egress through the aircraft door more easily. The assembly improves pilot safety and convenience when during ingress and egress from the aircraft. The assembly includes a seat bracket, a pivot bracket, a carriage, and a link.
US12134475B2
Described are passenger door assemblies including emergency passage feature assemblies. For example, a door assembly may include a latching block configurable to retain a latching spigot of a carriage assembly responsive to a first opening force. The door assembly may also be configurable to release the latching spigot to enable sliding movement of the latching block independent of the carriage assembly responsive to a second opening force.
US12134471B2
A technique is directed to methods and systems for providing drone-based assistance to a user. Drones may be utilized to aid users in performing tasks, such as assisting a user during an activity. The assistance can include providing a cooling flow of air, spraying a cooling mist of liquid, playing music, providing guidance, providing instructions, communicating with a device(s) to seek medical aid, retrieving sporting equipment, collecting performance metrics, collecting health metrics, or any assistance action. A user can connect to the drone via a device or using a set of built-in algorithms that employ biometric recognition to identify the user. Once activated and linked to the user, the drone can take flight. The drone can fly above, in front, or behind the user at a predetermined or adjustable height and provide airflow or mist from the drone blades to cool the user.
US12134470B2
An aircraft capable of VTOL and forward flight is fitted with a side body articulating propulsion system on the port and starboard sides of the fuselage. The side body articulating propulsion system has plural sets of port and starboard propulsor units controlled for synchronized rotation. The propulsor sets are supported in a triangular airframe designed to support the propulsor units equally spaced apart from one another along a propulsor slope that is angled about 30-60 degrees from horizontal. Synchronized rotation of the propulsor sets is accomplished by an articulation controller, which may be a parallelogram linkage and linear actuator. A port nacelle surrounds the port propulsor units and a starboard nacelle surrounds the starboard propulsor units. A cargo cavity is accessed through the aft end of the airframe. The airframe can be lengthened in the fore direction by attaching an ante-module and/or in the aft direction by an expansion module.
US12134463B2
An aircraft including a main landing gear compartment which comprises a rear transverse wall, and a base wall forming a sealed barrier between a first, pressurized area and a second, non-pressurized area. The main landing gear compartment includes a body, produced in a single piece from composite material, separating the first, pressurized area and the second, non-pressurized area. The body includes a first part corresponding to the base wall, as well as a second part corresponding to the rear transverse wall. At least two longitudinal beams made of composite material, are connected to the body. This single body makes it possible to eliminate a large number of parts, to simplify the assembly process, and to reduce the duration thereof.
US12134461B2
Apparatus for controlling multi-rotor vehicle vibrations and related methods are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a vibration level detector to determine a vibration level of a frame of a vehicle based on data received from a sensor of the vehicle, the vehicle including a rotor. The apparatus includes a rotor operation analyzer to determine an operational parameter of the rotor based on the vibration level. The apparatus includes a communicator to transmit an instruction including the operational parameter to a controller of the rotor.
US12134458B2
One embodiment includes a rib structure to be used, for example, in any number of aerospace applications, the rib structure, comprising a first piece having a first curvature in a first plane; and a second piece having a second curvature in a second plane that is different from the first plane. The first piece and the second piece are bonded together to form the rib structure. In certain embodiments, the first piece further comprises a plurality of discontinuous flanges to interface with a plurality of skin surfaces. In other examples, the first piece includes an aft spar interface for bonding to a surface. In some implementations, the first piece includes a forward spar interface for bonding to a surface. Manufacturing of the airframe/aircraft parts, panels, and rib components can include any suitable composites, alloys, titanium, aluminum, artificial materials, sheet metal, etc.
US12134456B1
According to one aspect, a system for launching an aerostat may include a reactor defining a chamber, an inflatable structure including a balloon and a neck, the balloon and the neck collectively defining a volume, a coupling defining a passage in fluid communication between the chamber of the reactor and the volume of the inflatable structure, the passage defining a longitudinal axis, and a collar supported on the reactor, the collar defining an orifice in fluid communication between the chamber of the reactor and the passage of the coupling, and the collar releasably restricting displacement of the passage of the coupling, the volume of the inflatable structure, and the chamber of the reactor relative to one another along the longitudinal axis.
US12134453B2
A pod propulsion device includes: a pod configured to be disposed in water; a rotation shaft supported by the pod to be rotatable about a predetermined axis and having an end portion projecting out from the pod; a screw fixed to the end portion of the rotation shaft; an electric motor installed in the pod to rotationally drive the rotation shaft; multiple guide blades integrally formed on the pod to be arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction of the pod, each guide blade extending out radially from an outer surface of the pod; and a cooling circuit for cooling the electric motor, wherein the cooling circuit includes a cooling liquid passage formed to pass through an interior of at least one of the guide blades.
US12134440B2
An operating device is provided to a human-powered vehicle. The operating device is basically provided with a first base member, a first operating member, a second base member and a first shift operating member. The first base member includes a cylinder housing. The first operating member is movably coupled to the first base member. The second base member is coupled to the first base member by a first coupling member. The first shift operating member is movably coupled to the second base member on a first pivot axle. The first coupling member couples the second base member to the cylinder housing.
US12134439B2
A tiltable vehicle (100) is described comprising a vehicle frame (102, 108), one front wheel (124), two rear wheels (112A, 112B) and two swing arms. The swing arms are pivotably coupled to a pivot point (121) on the vehicle frame at a first end, and to one of the rear wheels at an opposing end. A swing arm (41) is rotatable around a rotational axis (42) lying in a plane of symmetry of the vehicle frame (102, 108). Each of two linkages (63, 64) is coupled at a first end to one of the swing arms at the pivot point. The vehicle comprises two connection arms (53, 56) arranged between the linkages (63, 64) and one outer end of the rocker arm (40). The connection arms comprise resilient members (61, 62) comprising a number of Belleville springs arranged in at least two groups of rings so as to create a non-linear spring characteristic.
US12134428B2
A steering system includes a first wheel and a second wheel laterally spaced apart from the first wheel, and a third wheel and a fourth wheel laterally spaced apart from the third wheel. The first wheel is rotatably coupled to a first knuckle and the second wheel is rotatably coupled to a second knuckle. The third wheel and the fourth wheel are both pivotally fixed in a forward-aligned orientation. The steering system includes a first tie rod having a first end pivotally coupled to the first knuckle and a second end pivotally coupled to a mechanical linkage, a second tie rod having a first end pivotally coupled to the second knuckle and a second end pivotally coupled to the mechanical linkage, and an electrical actuator coupled to the mechanical linkage. The mechanical linkage is arranged in front of the electrical actuator relative to a travel direction.
US12134425B2
A rocker component for a vehicle having a reinforcement beam including a metal sheet that is shaped with a plurality of elongated bends extending in parallel along a length of the reinforcement beam that together form a cross-sectional shape extending continuously along the length of the reinforcement beam. The cross-sectional shape of the reinforcement beam includes a beam portion and a flange portion integrally extending from the beam portion and includes an edge of the metal sheet. The rocker component also includes a sill panel having flanges extending longitudinally along upper and lower edges of the sill panel relative to the vehicle, the flange portion of the reinforcement beam joined to one of the flanges of the sill panel to secure the reinforcement beam to the sill panel in replacement of a separate second sill panel.
US12134422B2
A vehicle front body structure includes a front side frame extending forward from a dashboard separating a cabin and an engine compartment, an apron reinforcement extending in a front-rear direction, a suspension housing, a braking force booster between this suspension housing and the dashboard, and a coupling member coupled to the front side frame and the apron reinforcement. The coupling member is formed of a material with higher tensile strength than the suspension housing. The coupling member includes a body section fixed to a rear surface of the suspension housing, and a wall section bent from a lower end of this body section and extending rearward.
US12134420B2
A working vehicle includes a steering handle, a vehicle body to travel with either manual steering by the steering handle or automatic steering of the steering handle based on a traveling reference line, and a display including a line orientation display portion to indicate an orientation of the traveling reference line, and a vehicle orientation display portion to indicate an orientation of the vehicle body.
US12134405B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for responding to unsupported or degraded conditions for autonomous vehicles (AVs). In some aspects, a method includes aggregating one or more trigger events generated across a software stack of an autonomous vehicle (AV) as aggregated trigger events, the one or more trigger events indicating at least one of unsupported or degraded conditions that bring the AV outside of allowable driving conditions of the AV, ranking the aggregated trigger events in accordance with priority levels corresponding to the aggregated trigger events, determining an AV maneuver to respond to a selected trigger event, wherein the selected trigger event is a highest ranked trigger event of the aggregated trigger events, causing the AV maneuver to be performed by the AV, and determining whether to at least one of fail the AV or recover the AV to a normal driving state in response to the selected trigger event.
US12134400B2
Systems and methods of using a common control scheme to autonomously controlling a vehicle during semi-autonomous and fully autonomous driving modes are provided. In particular, embodiments of the presently disclosed technology incorporate reference tracking for driving input and vehicle state into this common control scheme. In some embodiments, this common control scheme may be implemented using Model Predictive Control (MPC).
US12134398B2
An on-vehicle device includes: a driving support device to receive driving support information from a driving support server and execute a predetermined process for driving support; a sub driving support server including a driving support server function subset and receives sensor data from an external sensor and output a subset of the driving support information; a first switching device giving the subset of the driving support information to the driving support device in response to interruption of reception of the driving support information from the driving support server; and a second switching device configured to give the driving support information from the driving support server, instead of the subset of the driving support information from the sub driving support server, to the driving support device in response to recovery of the reception of the driving support information from the driving support server.
US12134394B2
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to emulating vehicle dynamics. In one embodiment, a method for emulating vehicle dynamics in a vehicle having a plurality of wheels and equipped with all-wheel steering, includes receiving emulation settings that indicate one or more environment parameters and/or vehicle parameters, detecting driver inputs including at least steering input and throttle input, executing a simulation model that receives the driver inputs and emulation settings, simulates the vehicle operating based on the driver inputs and the emulation settings, and outputs one or more simulated states of the vehicle based on the simulated operation of the vehicle, determining one or more actuation commands for each wheel of the vehicle to cause the vehicle to emulate the one or more simulated states, and executing the one or more actuation commands, wherein the actuation commands include at least wheel angle commands and torque commands.
US12134375B2
A parking brake control device is configured to, when releasing a hold on a braking force, energize an electric motor, and change a drive time of the electric motor based on a current change amount in a predetermined interval after a predetermined time has elapsed since a current value of the electric motor starts to decrease after increasing and a current value at which the current change amount of the electric motor converges to a predetermined value or less.
US12134364B2
A safety belt connecting structure includes first and second shoulder belts, and an adjusting belt. The first and second shoulder belts have corresponding first and second shoulder belt coupling ends and first and second shoulder belt connecting end, and the first shoulder belt engaging end is coupled to a facility where the safety belt connecting structure is installed. The second shoulder belt coupling end is coupled to the facility. The adjusting belt has an adjusting belt connecting end and an adjusting belt adjusting end. The adjusting belt connecting end is connected with the first and second shoulder belt connecting ends, and the adjusting belt adjusting end is adjustably fixed with a positioning portion on the facility, so that an acting length of the safety belt connecting structure with respect to the facility is adjustable by adjusting a position of the adjusting belt with respect to the positioning portion.
US12134358B2
A vehicular driver monitoring system includes an interior rearview mirror assembly having a mirror head accommodating a mirror reflective element and adjustable about a mounting structure. The mirror head is adjustable relative to the mounting structure to adjust a rearward view provided by the mirror reflective element. A driver monitoring camera is accommodated by the mirror head behind the mirror reflective element. With the mirror head adjusted to provide the rearward view, a normal vector extending perpendicular to the mirror reflective element is directed toward a driver side of the cabin of the vehicle and, responsive to determination that a passenger is present at a passenger side of the cabin of the vehicle, a principal viewing axis of the driver monitoring camera is angled more toward a centerline axis of the vehicle than the normal vector of the mirror reflective element.
US12134349B2
A rear view mirror system for motor vehicles comprising a rear view mirror device that comprises a rear view mirror base to be attached to a vehicle, a rear view mirror head attached to the rear view mirror base, and a mirror element arranged in the rear view mirror head and being transparent or translucent from inside of the rear view mirror head. An actuator enables an orientation of the mirror element to be adjusted by rotating and/or tilting the mirror element and/or the rear view mirror head. A camera is arranged inside the rear view mirror head behind the mirror element for recording a camera view (CV) with a first viewing angle of the surroundings of the vehicle at least through the mirror element, wherein a control unit processes the camera view (CV) received form the camera to provide a monitor view (MV) with a second viewing angle being smaller than the first viewing angle being displayed on a monitor to provide the monitor view (MV) to a driver of the vehicle.
US12134345B2
An embodiment vehicle includes an emergency light, a plurality of detectors, a communication device, and a processor configured to determine whether the vehicle is in a normal state based on detection information of the plurality of detectors when the emergency light is in a turned-on state, determine a turning-on cause of the emergency light based on current location information received by the communication device when it is determined that the vehicle is in the normal state, and control the communication device to transmit guide information corresponding to the determined turning-on cause of the emergency light to an external device.
US12134335B2
A power control system includes: an ECU configured to control (i) charging from a power facility to a vehicle and (ii) discharging from the vehicle to the power facility; and a user terminal configured to allow a user to separately set a charging power setting value and a discharging power setting value. When the charging from the power facility to the vehicle is performed, the ECU is configured to control power charged to the vehicle per unit time to correspond to the charging power setting value set by the user using the user terminal. When the discharging from the vehicle to the power facility is performed, the ECU is configured to control power discharged from the vehicle per unit time to correspond to the discharging power setting value set by the user using the user terminal.
US12134334B2
Disclosed is a battery swapping control system and a control method therefor. The battery swapping system comprises a control unit and a battery swapping device, wherein the control unit is used for determining a battery model applicable to an electric vehicle, and selecting a first battery placing rack and a second battery placing rack from at least one battery placing rack; and the battery swapping device serves to move to a preset battery swapping position, removes a battery with a power shortage from the electric vehicle, transports the battery with the power shortage to the second placing rack and places it in an unoccupied battery placing compartment, then moves to the first battery placing rack and removes a battery of that battery model, and transports the battery of that battery model to the preset battery swapping position and installs the battery in the electric vehicle.
US12134332B2
A method for coordinating a discharge session in which direct current power is offloaded from a power supply, e.g., of an electric vehicle (EV), to a bidirectional offboard charging station includes, in response to connection of the power supply to the charging station via a charging cord set, exchanging charging data between the EV and charging station. This occurs over a low-voltage communication line, with charging data including power and current limits of the EV and charging station. In response to the limits being indicative of negative limits, with the negative limits representing a request for the discharge session, the method includes transmitting the EV power and current limits to the charging station to confirm the request. The discharge session is initiated in response to confirming the request through an exchange of a unique identifier indicating support for the discharge session.
US12134324B2
An electric vehicle includes a rotating electrical machine; a motor case that accommodates the rotating electrical machine; a cooling mechanism that supplies oil to the rotating electrical machine and cools the rotating electrical machine; an inverter that drives the rotating electrical machine; and a connecting member that electrically connects the inverter and the rotating electrical machine, wherein the electric vehicle is of a structure in which the inverter is integrated with the motor case, the cooling mechanism includes a supply port provided inside the motor case at a position upward from the rotating electrical machine to discharge the oil to the connecting member, and the connecting member includes a portion provided inwardly in a radial direction from an outer periphery of the rotating electrical machine inside the motor case, at a position upward from a rotation center of the rotating electrical machine and downward from the supply port.
US12134320B2
A method for heating a motor vehicle having a three-phase electric motor as a traction motor includes providing a pulse-controlled inverter for supplying power to the electric motor and providing a coolant circuit for cooling the electric motor and the pulse-controlled inverter using coolant, the coolant circuit using the coolant to supply heat to a heat exchanger for heating a passenger compartment and/or a vehicle battery, wherein when the electric motor is stationary, a positive d current and/or negative d current is controlled in a d-axis, with the result that heat loss is generated, the heat loss being introduced into the coolant.
US12134319B1
A power control system is disclosed for a utility vehicle having position sensors configured to collect vehicle position data. The system includes a propulsion system having electric drive motors powered by a battery, and the drive motors are configured to recharge the battery via regenerative braking. The battery has a maximum charge capacity and a regenerative capacity, wherein the regenerative capacity is a portion of the maximum charge capacity reserved for regenerative braking. Memory is configured to store terrain data indicative of terrain types for a plurality of locations. A processor is configured to determine a location of the utility vehicle based on the position data, identify a current terrain type based on vehicle location and stored terrain data, and generate a command signal to adjust the regenerative capacity of the battery based on the current terrain type.
US12134315B2
A fuel lid opener has: a case that is mounted to an outer peripheral surface of a side wall of a lid box at which a fuel lid is pivotally supported so as to be able to open and close; a lifter that is supported at the case so as to be able to rotate around an axis that runs along a plate surface direction of the fuel lid that is in a closed state, and that has an arm portion that extends in a rotation radial direction within the lid box, and a distal end portion of the arm portion engages with the fuel lid that is in the closed state from a reverse surface side; and a heart cam mechanism that is provided within the case, and that, each time the arm portion of the lifter is push-operated in one direction around the axis via the fuel lid, causes the lifter to alternately repeat rotation in one direction and in another direction around the axis, and that pushes the fuel lid open due to rotation of the lifter in the another direction.
US12134302B2
A device and a method for manufacturing the device for driving a compressor, in particular an electric motor, with a rotor and a stator with a stator core, which are arranged along a longitudinal axis. The stator exhibits connecting cables produced as sections of conducting wires of coils, and connection lines, that are arranged on a first end face of the stator, one insulation element whose wall that is produced essentially with a hollow-cylinder shape projects beyond the stator core on the first end face of the stator in the axial direction, as well as one cover element with mounting elements with connection passages for mounting plug-in connectors, which each are fully enclosed by a wall. A volume enclosed by the stator core, the cover element and the wall of the insulation element which projects beyond the stator core is filled at least zonally with potting compound.
US12134300B2
A heat control device is provided in a vehicle including a first thermal circuit that circulates a coolant and a second thermal circuit that circulates a refrigerant while changing the state of the refrigerant and is able to exchange heat with the first thermal circuit. When there is a heat discharge request from the second thermal circuit, the heat control device includes a determination unit configured to determine an amount of operation of each of a plurality of units which are used to discharge heat such that the heat discharge request is satisfied and the sum of power consumption values of the plurality of units is minimized.
US12134299B2
A method for mounting a sealing device between a housing of an air-conditioning installation and a partition wall present in the motor vehicle, includes the following measures (a) arranging the housing and the partition wall relative to one another so that a housing aperture present in the housing and a wall aperture present in the partition wall are positioned adjacently to one another, (b) arranging a sealing device having a frame-shaped sealing body formed as profile part, which in profile is formed substantially V-shaped with a first and second leg, between the two apertures, (c) reducing a distance between the two apertures by moving the housing towards the partition wall until a transition connecting the legs with one another folds over towards the wall aperture or away from the same.
US12134274B2
An example device may comprise a molded structure and a dependent device coupled to the molded structure. The molded structure comprises thermo-electric traces and channels. The channels are between ten μm and two hundred μm, or less in one dimension. The dependent device comprises apertures corresponding to the channels and through which fluids, electromagnetic radiation, or a combination thereof is to travel. The dependent device also comprises contacts corresponding to the thermo-electric traces of the molded structure.
US12134271B2
Provided is a pressure control device for stably controlling the internal air pressure of a reservoir. The pressure control device includes: an input terminal receiving source air pressure; an intake valve connected between the input terminal and an output terminal; an exhaust valve connected to the output terminal; a pressure sensor connected to the output terminal and generating a sensed value by sensing pressure at the output terminal; and a controller simultaneously operating the intake valve and the exhaust valve by simultaneously operating a first control loop for adjusting the degree of opening of the intake valve by comparing the sensed value with a first target value and a second control loop for adjusting the degree of opening of the exhaust valve by comparing the sensed value with a second target value.
US12134268B2
The inventive concept provides an inkjet printing method. The inkjet printing method for discharging an ink on a substrate using a head having a plurality of nozzles formed thereon includes determining a grade of nozzles by measuring a discharge performance of the nozzles, which is a grading step; selecting a use nozzle that can participate in printing the substrate among the nozzles based on the grade determined at the grading step, which is a nozzle selecting step; and discharging the ink on the substrate using at least one nozzle among use nozzles, which is a printing step.
US12134267B2
A determination is made on whether or not a recording medium is held in a state where calibration is executable, and the execution is pending in a case where the recording medium is not held. When the execution is pending, the determination is made again after a predetermined period elapses, and the calibration is executed in a case where the recording medium is held.
US12134263B2
A direct to mesh (DtM) screen printer for creating a screen stencil is provided. The DtM screen printer includes a fixture to hold a frame, which holds a pre-stretched mesh in place during application of a jettable emulsion, a platen having a cavity and an array of holes in a top surface of the platen and is located against one side of the pre-stretched mesh, and a printer carriage supporting a print head for printing the jettable emulsion on a side of the pre-stretched mesh opposite the platen.
US12134259B2
Disclosed herein are novel or improved microporous battery separator membranes, separators, batteries including such separators, methods of making such membranes, separators, and/or batteries, and/or methods of using such membranes, separators and/or batteries. Further disclosed are laminated multilayer polyolefin membranes with exterior layers comprising one or more polyethylenes, which exterior layers are designed to provide an exterior surface that has a low pin removal force. Further disclosed are battery separator membranes having increased electrolyte absorption capacity at the separator/electrode interface region, which may improve cycling. Further disclosed are battery separator membranes having improved adhesion to any number of coatings. Also described are battery separator membranes having a tunable thermal shutdown where the onset temperature of thermal shutdown may be raised or lowered and the rate of thermal shutdown may be changed or increased. Also disclosed are multilayer battery separator membranes having enhanced web handling performance during manufacturing processes and coating operations.
US12134246B2
An integrated air barrier assembly is provided as an integral product in which a fastener-sealing layer is secured between opposed surfaces of a board and an anti-blocking facing layer. The assembly exhibits good fastener sealability, including for larger self-drilling screws. The anti-blocking facing layer maintains the fastener-sealing layer inward of the environment and prevents blocking or sticking of the assembly when stacked. In some embodiments, the anti-blocking facing layer can be a metal film or foil, which can reflect heat away from the fastener-sealing layer, thereby maintaining a lower temperature on the fastener-sealing layer. In some embodiments, the board can be an insulating layer or wood layer. The assembly can be readily installed in a single step during construction.
US12134243B2
An arrangement for pressing materials containing liquid has mobile press container with an container interior that is divided by a press membrane into a pressure medium chamber and a pressing medium chamber. A filling and emptying opening, which can be closed in a pressure-tight manner, allows material to be pressed to be added to the pressing medium chamber. At least one drainage element is arranged in the pressing medium chamber. An interior of the drainage element communicates with a juice discharge of the press container. A turning device, in which the mobile press container is temporarily received can be rotated during a pressing operation from a filling position, about an angle of less than 360°, more particularly of less than 270°, in mutually opposing directions of rotation about an axis of rotation. There is also described a method for pressing liquid-containing materials.
US12134235B2
An example method of joining a first structure and a second structure is described that includes forming a bond cavity between a first structure and a second structure, placing a semi-permeable breather material at one or more exits of the bond cavity, placing a vacuum bag around the bond cavity and the semi-permeable breather material, evacuating the bond cavity via a vacuum port and forcing adhesive into the bond cavity via an adhesive port while the bond cavity is evacuated, and curing the adhesive via one or more heaters to bond the first structure to the second structure.
US12134234B2
The invention relates to the use of a low Tg compatible resin as an adhesive layer for the welding of a thermoplastic composite structure to a thermoplastic or thermoset structure. The invention is especially good for the welding of large parts, such as wind turbine halves and spar caps. A useful thermoplastic composite is one formed by the infusion and curing of long fibers by a reactive acrylic liquid resin system, such as ELIUM® resin systems from Arkema.
US12134232B2
A system for 3D printing can include a printing device configured to create an object by depositing successive layers of uncured material and at least one mitigating device. At least one of the printing device and the at least one mitigating device can be configured to perform a method to mitigate a deformation of at least one of the successive layers of uncured material.
US12134231B2
A plasticizing device includes: a material storage unit having a charging port and configured to store pellet-shaped resin pellets; a plasticizing unit having a supply port in communication with the charging port and configured to plasticize at least a part of the resin pellets to generate a shaping material; a coupling pipe having a coupling path coupling the charging port and the supply port; a first material sensor configured to detect a remaining quantity of the resin pellets in the coupling path; and a control unit. The material storage unit includes a material supply mechanism configured to supply the resin pellets to the coupling path, and when the remaining quantity of the resin pellets detected by the first material sensor is less than a first reference value, the control unit controls the material supply mechanism to supply a predetermined quantity of the resin pellets to the coupling path.
US12134229B2
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for producing three-dimensional models by layering technology, and a recoater with a vacuum closure.
US12134223B2
A molding device is includes a mandrel that has an arc-shaped cross section; a roller that has a round-shaped cross section, is movable along a surface of the mandrel, and applies a pressing force to a material to be molded placed on the mandrel; a gripping unit that grips the material to be molded on an outside of the roller with respect to the mandrel and applies a tensile force to the material to be molded; a roller driving unit that moves the roller along the surface of the mandrel; a gripping-unit driving unit that moves the gripping unit. A control unit synchronizes a position of the roller and a position of the gripping unit with each other to control the roller driving unit and the gripping-unit driving unit so that the material to be molded is arranged in a direction perpendicular to a vertical direction of the mandrel.
US12134217B2
A method for producing an injection-molded body from a molding material containing a poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) resin includes: melting the molding material by heating the molding material to a temperature between a melting point peak temperature and a melting point peak end temperature in differential scanning calorimetry analysis of the molding material, wherein the difference between the melting point peak temperature and the melting point peak end temperature of the molding material is from 10 to 70° C.; injecting the molten molding material into a mold having a temperature of 30 to 80° C.; and cooling the molding material in the mold to crystallize and solidify the molding material.
US12134208B2
In a device for producing concrete slabs, a mold lower part is inserted into a frame secured via retaining braces to receiving areas of guiding columns oriented along an insertion direction and having, above the mold lower part, a structural loading device movable along the guiding columns and having, on the side facing the mold lower part, a mold upper part with one or more pressure plates inserted or insertable into one or more recesses of the mold lower part, the structural loading device being connected to the pressure plates via pressure rams. An upper guide element arranged between the structural loading device and the pressure rams interacts with a lower guide element arranged on the retaining brace such that, during the production of concrete slabs, the structural loading device is constantly guided relative to the mold lower part on a plane perpendicular to the insertion direction.
US12134207B2
A machine for dry decoration of ceramic slabs or tiles, comprising: a support element (10), provided with a plurality of cavities (11) with a pre-established shape; a dispensing device (20), configured to deposit a pre-fixed amount of powder material inside one or more pre-established cavities (11); an unloading device (30), configured to move the cavities (11) from a loading position, in which they can receive the powder material from the dispensing device (20), to an unloading position, in which they can unload the powder material.
US12134197B2
A method of controlling a movement of a robot based on determination of a risk level includes: a risk level determining operation of determining a risk level related to a motion of the robot; and a robot control operation of controlling the movement of the robot based on the risk level, wherein the robot transfers an object. The determination of the risk level related to the motion of the robot includes: an internal risk level determining operation of determining an internal risk level based on an attribute of the object; and an external risk level determining operation of determining an external risk level related to an environmental state around the robot.
US12134194B2
A robot balance control method, a controller, and a computer readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining a desired motion trajectory matching a current motion status by performing a parameter adaptation adjustment on a current planned motion trajectory; determining, according to the motion status, a desired state parameter of each of soles, a centroid, and a waist of a humanoid robot for conforming to the desired motion trajectory; calculating, based on the motion status and the desired state parameter of each of the soles, the centroid, and the waist of the humanoid robot, a desired driving parameter of the humanoid robot for simultaneously meeting a robot dynamics requirement, a sole control requirement, a centroid control requirement, a waist control requirement, and force control parameter distribution constraint(s) at the current moment; and controlling, based on the desired driving parameter, a movement of the humanoid robot.
US12134193B2
Systems and methods for automated manufacture are provided. User input is received by way of user systems indicating nominal data measurements for an article. Automated material handling machines move parts within view of a machine vision system which performs an initial scan to identify features of said parts. Locations of areas for joining are determined by comparing the identified features to the nominal data measurements and the automated material handling machines move the parts into positions in accordance with the nominal data measurements to form the article. The automated material joining machines join the parts at said areas specified in said user input to form the article.
US12134192B2
A mobile robot is configured for operation in a commercial or industrial setting, such as an office building or retail store. The mobile robot can have a motorized base and a robot body on the motorized base, the robot body including a rotatable ring that rotates horizontally around the robot body. A mechanical arm that can contract and extend relative to the robot body is coupled to the rotatable ring and performs a plurality of actions. A controller of the mobile robot provides instructions to the rotatable ring and the mechanical arm and can cause the mechanical arm to open a door, take an elevator to move to a different floor, test whether a door is locked properly, and test whether an access control system of the door is working properly.
US12134191B2
Provided is a robot system capable of appropriately removing an object that may deform depending on a placement state. A robot system according to the present disclosure is provided with: an imaging apparatus that captures an image of an object; a robot that picks up the object; an image processing apparatus that identifies the position of the object on the basis of the image captured by the imaging apparatus; and a robot controller that causes the robot to pick up the object, the position of which has been identified by the image processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus comprises: a teaching unit that sets a search range in which a feature amount for a pattern on the object in the image captured by the imaging apparatus may be obtained; a recognition unit that extracts the pattern having the feature amount within the search range in the image captured by the imaging apparatus; and a correction unit that corrects the search range on the basis of the feature amount of the pattern extracted by the recognition unit.
US12134190B2
The rotation center is calculated (step S11). A gripping pattern is determined (step S12). The rotation axis is set to X-axis (step S13) of a tool coordinate system in response to the gripping pattern being a fan-shaped pattern, to Y-axis (step S14) in response to being a cylinder pattern, and to Z-axis (step S15) in response to being a circle pattern. A start angle θ_start is set as a rotation angle θ (step S16). The pose of a tool is calculated (step S17). The current pose is registered (step S18). The angle θ is changed by a predetermined angle of Δθ (step S19). Steps S17 to S19 are repeated until the angle θ reaches an end angle θ_end (step S20).
US12134189B2
A programmable motion system is disclosed that includes a dynamic end effector system. The dynamic end effector system includes an end effector that is coupled via a dynamic coupling to the programmable motion system, wherein the dynamic coupling provides that at least a portion of the end effector may spin with respect to an other portion of the end effector.
US12134183B2
Provided is a device, comprising: a barrier configured to impeded or prevent particles shed by a robot in a first volume of space from entering a second volume of space in which the robot manipulates a workpiece; and a robot having three or more degrees of freedom, the robot comprising: a first portion disposed on a first side of the barrier in the first volume, the first portion comprising an actuator of the robot, the actuator being configured to drive movement of the robot to manipulate the workpiece; and a second portion disposed on a second side of the barrier in the second volume, the second portion comprising an end-effector of the robot by which the robot makes contact with the workpiece.
US12134173B2
A gas spring-powered fastener driver includes a first chamber, and a movable piston positioned within the first chamber. The fastener driver also includes a driver blade attached to the piston and movable therewith between a ready position and a driven position. The fastener driver further includes a second chamber containing pressurized gas. The second chamber is in fluid communication with the first chamber via a flow passage. The fastener driver also includes a throttle mechanism configured to throttle flow of the pressurized gas through the flow passage.
US12134167B2
A method of cleaning a conditioner head includes bringing two clamps of a cleaning tool inward toward a disk-shaped pad conditioner head to press a sponge against an outer surface of the disk-shaped pad conditioner head, and creating relative motion between the cleaning tool and the pad conditioner head to wipe the sponge against the pad conditioner head.
US12134165B2
A grinding method for grinding a workpiece includes a first grinding step of grinding the workpiece in such a manner that an outer circumferential part of the workpiece becomes thinner than a central part of the workpiece, a measurement step of measuring the thickness of the workpiece at the outer circumferential part, and a second grinding step of grinding the workpiece. In the second grinding step, the grinding is started from the central part of the workpiece and the grinding is ended when the workpiece reaches a finished thickness decided based on the thickness of the workpiece at the outer circumferential part measured in the measurement step.
US12134153B2
A gas-shielded arc welding method includes welding a steel plate having a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more while feeding a consumable electrode via a welding torch and flowing a shielding gas. The consumable electrode includes, in mass %, C: 0 to 0.20%, Si: 0 to 0.50%, Mn: 0 to 0.50%, Cr: 1.00% to 9.00%, S: 0.0020% to 0.0600%, and Ni: 0 to 0.50%. The shielding gas includes, in vol. %, at least one of CO2 and O2: 1% to 15% in total, with the remainder being Ar and unavoidable impurities. Welding is performed under the condition satisfying the relationship of 1≤{−0.05×[CO2+O2]}+[Cr]≤8.3, and [Cr] represents the content of Cr in the consumable electrode, and [CO2+O2] represents a total content of at least one of CO2 and O2 in the shielding gas.
US12134144B2
A welding mark inspection method includes acquiring a picture including a welding mark, and obtaining a classification type of the welding mark based on the picture and a welding mark classification model. The welding mark classification model is configured to classify the welding mark based on characteristics of the welding mark.
US12134139B2
A device for a laser working system includes at least one optical element, which is arranged in a beam path of the device, and one temperature detector assembly having a matrix of detector elements. The temperature detector assembly is design to measure a two-dimensional temperature distribution of the optical element.
US12134136B2
A sawing tool, in particular a saw blade, includes: at least one connection region, in particular a shaft, for forming a connection to a tool holder of a hand-held power tool; at least one main body, in particular a carrier, which is connected to the connection region and is designed in one piece; at least one set of saw teeth which is located on the main body; and a plurality of reduction grooves which are located on the main body, in particular introduced into the main body by removing material, and which have a main extension running transversely to a cutting edge of the saw teeth. The reduction grooves extend at least over more than 50% of a total transverse extent of at least one flank of the main body from the cutting edge towards a rear side of the main body, the rear side facing away from the saw teeth.
US12134135B2
A cutting tool having a cutting blade, a cutting insert and a tool holder. The cutting blade has converging peripheral blade abutment sub-surfaces exhibiting mirror symmetry about a second symmetry plane. The tool holder has a blade pocket with converging pocket abutment walls exhibiting mirror symmetry about a holder symmetry plane. The cutting tool can be assembled and utilized in four different configurations in a turret.
US12134132B2
A method to form a metal matrix composite reinforced with eggshell (ES). The method includes preparing an ES powder, blending and milling the ES powder with at least one metal powder selected from the group consisting of magnesium (Mg), zirconium (Zr) to form a powder mixture, compacting and sintering the powder mixture to form the metal matrix composite. In addition, a Mg—Zr-ES metal matrix composite with improved corrosion resistance, having an amount of magnesium from 95 to 97 wt. %, an amount of zirconium from 1 to 2 wt. %, and an amount of ES from 1 to 4 wt. %, may be used for biomedical applications.
US12134129B2
A surface treatment method for a hydrogen absorbing alloy powder of the present disclosure is used for a surface treatment on a hydrogen absorbing alloy powder containing rare earth elements and nickel as constituent elements, including an immersion process in which the hydrogen absorbing alloy powder is immersed in an aqueous alkaline solution; and a removal process in which a liquid containing the hydrogen absorbing alloy powder immersed in the aqueous alkaline solution is introduced into a liquid cyclone, and undesired substances having a smaller specific gravity than the hydrogen absorbing alloy powder adhered to the surface of the hydrogen absorbing alloy powder are removed.
US12134125B2
Methods for manufacturing rotary target materials that allow a material to be cast in a melting zone of a casting vessel while the vessel is rotated such that a melting zone is below a casting zone. The vessel is sealed and the pressure inside the vessel is reduced and the exterior of the vessel is heated. The melting zone of the vessel is heated to a temperature that melts the material and releases any trapped gasses which can be pumped out using the vacuum pump. Once the melting zone and molten material have reached a specified temperature, outgassed, and the casting zone has reached a temperature to maximize adhesion and reduce voids and defects, the vessel is rotated until the melting zone is directly above the casting zone to transfer the material from the melting zone to the casting zone.
US12134123B2
A description is given of the use of a refractory coating composition having a solids fraction of more than 69 wt %, based on the total mass of the coating composition, and also having a loss on ignition of less than 0.6 wt %, based on the total mass of the solids fraction of the coating composition, for producing a refractory coating on the inner walls of a centrifugal casting mold by means of a spray application. Further described is a method for producing a centrifugal casting mold provided on its inner walls with a refractory coating, for use in the centrifugal casting process, and also a method for producing a casting in the centrifugal casting process, preferably having a structured surface. Also described is a centrifugal casting mold for use in the centrifugal casting process, having a refractory coating on the inner walls of the centrifugal casting mold.
US12134120B2
A method and tool for obtaining face teeth having a plurality of radial teeth on an annular collar of an inner ring of a wheel hub; in which annular roughed-out face teeth are first formed on the collar coaxial with an axis of symmetry (A) of the collar and having a plurality of radial first teeth arranged in a crown and alternating at constant pitch with a plurality of radial first concavities; then a shaping tool comprising a pressing head provided with annular calibration face teeth is axially pressed onto the collar to engage with the annular roughed-out face teeth, second radial concavities of the annular calibration teeth each being delimited by a bottom wall having a rounded circumferential profile exactly reproducing in negative the rounded circumferential profile of the tips or ridges of the radial teeth of the required face teeth.
US12134115B2
A drain cleaning machine includes a snake inlet tube, a clamping mechanism having a first support member and a second support member. The second support member is movable between a first position in which a first distance is defined between the first support member and the second support member, and a second position in which a second distance is defined between the first support member and the second support member. The clamping mechanism also includes a plurality of collets supported by the first and second support members. The drain cleaning machine also includes a motor switchable between a deactivated state and an activated state in which the motor is configured to rotate the clamping mechanism and an actuating lever moveable between a deactivated position, in which the second support member is in the first position, and an activated position, in which the second support member is in the second position.
US12134105B2
A coating device, comprising a supply roller having a first contact surface, and a counter-roller placed opposite the supply roller and a second contact surface substantially parallel to the first contact surface. The contact surfaces are at least a substrate width in width and maintain a mutual gap for receiving the substrate therein in contact with both contact surfaces. The supply roller and counter-roller are each rotatable about their central axis. A liquid is supplied to the supply roller. At least the contact surface of the supply roller or the counter-roller is axially adjustable along the central axis thereof. Adjusting means align an edge of the contact surface of the supply roller and the counter-roller with a side of the substrate. An opposite edge of the other of the supply roller and the counter-roller is aligned with an opposite side of the substrate.
US12134103B2
A cap that is attachable to a shower head that includes a face portion and an opposite rear portion. The cap includes a plurality of holes extending from the face portion to the rear portion. Each hole is configured to receive a nozzle. The cap includes ornamental indicia positioned at the rear portion. The cap is at least semi-translucent, thereby allowing the ornamental indicia to be visible from the face portion of the cap.
US12134099B2
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a vial cap is configured for sealing attachment to a tube set and to a vial having a hollow interior configured for receiving and storing a liquid sample. The vial cap may comprise an axially extending cylindrical wall and a radially extending cap top disposed within the cylindrical wall, wherein the cap top has an upper surface and a lower surface. The vial cap may include at least two exterior tubes extending upwardly from the upper surface of the cap top, wherein each exterior tube defines a passageway configured to communicate with the tube set. The vial cap may further include at least two interior tubular structures extending downwardly from the lower surface of the cap top, wherein the at least two interior tubular structures each define a passageway configured to communicate with one of the exterior tubes and the hollow interior.
US12134094B2
An interface for a microfluidic device such as a microfluidic cassette has a seal portion moveable from a first position to a second position within a reservoir in response to an applied force. Movement of the seal portion within the reservoir causes the volume of the reservoir to increase. The interface also has a hollow needle with a first end and a second end, the first end locatable in fluid communication with the reservoir and the second end located outside of the reservoir and arranged for piercing. The seal portion and the needle are arranged such that when the seal portion moves from the first position to the second position, a predetermined volume of fluid is drawn through the needle into the reservoir.
US12134090B2
A method of conducting oxidation in an inflatable bag bioreactor or a batch reactor is provided. The inflatable bag bioreactor or the batch reactor is used as an efficient, economical, and convenient reaction vessel. The inflatable bag bioreactor or batch reactor is rotated or rocked during the reaction to ensure continued exposure of the reaction mixture to the headspace gas in the vessel. The ability of the inflatable bag to expand or contract as the volume of the contents changes helps maintain consistent pressure and avoids the need to replenish the headspace gas.
US12134076B2
Disclosed herein is a water purification apparatus capable of being cleaned at a point of care, and methods for cleaning the water purification apparatus at the point of care. The water purification apparatus and the methods provide an efficient use of a heater for heat disinfection the water purification apparatus, e.g. by recirculating heated fluid to further heat the fluid. Several different cleaning programs are provided that may be utilized for cleaning different parts of the water purification apparatus.
US12134071B2
At least one embodiment relates to an air purifying machine comprising at least one housing and a plurality of cores wherein each core is disposed in the housing. There is also at least one fan disposed in the housing. In addition, there is at least one pump disposed in the housing, wherein the pump is configured to circulate a fluid inside of the housing. The cores comprise at least two cores disposed inside of the housing comprising a first core and a second core, wherein the second core is disposed inside of said first core and wherein the second core is not concentric with the first core. The non-concentric nature of the cores creates a compression location at a point where the two cores are disposed closest to each other. This compression location creates a higher-pressure location for air flow around the cores. The different size of the openings for air to circulate between the cores creates air turbulence which results in greater interaction between the incoming air and the bioreactive fluid solution inside of the air purification system.
US12134070B2
Systems and methods for providing regeneration heat to a sorbent material and subsequently recovering a significant portion of the heat are provided. The systems and methods are useful, for example, for energy-efficient direct capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere or flue gases. The systems and methods include introducing steam generated by an evaporator into a reactor of the system to directly heat sorbent material in the reactor and to purge desorbed CO2 from the reactor using the steam. Water condensing within the reactor is drained and returned to the evaporator. The purged steam and CO2 from the reactor are directed to a vapor re-compressor to lift their temperature and then to a condenser or re-boiler where the water is condensed and separated from the CO2 and latent heat transferred to the cooling water is recovered, optionally via use of a jet ejector.
US12134069B2
Systems and methods for providing regeneration heat to a sorbent material and subsequently recovering a significant portion of the heat are provided. The systems and methods are useful, for example, for energy-efficient direct capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere or flue gases. The systems and methods include introducing steam generated by an evaporator into a reactor of the system to directly heat sorbent material in the reactor and to purge desorbed CO2 from the reactor using the steam. Water condensing within the reactor is drained and returned to the evaporator. The purged steam and CO2 from the reactor are directed to a vapor re-compressor to lift their temperature and then to a condenser or re-boiler where the water is condensed and separated from the CO2 and latent heat transferred to the cooling water is recovered, optionally via use of a jet ejector.
US12134065B2
An air filtration apparatus includes an airflow powerhead assembly including a fan assembly and a vane assembly, a filter assembly, and a separator chamber housing inside of which the filter assembly is disposed. The separator chamber housing has a chamber inlet at a first axial side and a clean air outlet at a second axial side of the separator chamber housing opposite the first axial side. The filter assembly has a first axial end adjacent the chamber inlet and a second axial end adjacent the clean air outlet. The separator chamber housing includes at least one debris ejection slot extension configured to eject debris from an inner space of the separator chamber housing. The filter assembly includes a debris catch tray disposed at the second axial end, the debris catch tray having a debris ejection slot aligned with the at least one debris ejection slot extension.
US12134063B2
The present invention discloses a dust removal device using expansion pressure. A dust removal device using expansion pressure according to one embodiment may comprise an inlet chamber allowing mixed air including dust to flow inside and including an outlet for discharging the dust downward; a dust collecting chamber disposed at a bottom of the inlet chamber and sealed in a state of communicating with the inlet chamber and the outlet to collect the dust discharged through the outlet; a supplying pipe entering into an inside of the inlet chamber and extending toward the outlet to supply the mixed air into the inlet chamber; a first blower providing a blowing force for sucking in the mixed air and supplying the mixed air through the supplying pipe; an air exhaust duct connected to communicate with the inlet chamber to guide air separated from the dust to be discharged to outside, wherein a communication part of the air exhaust duct, which communicates with the inlet chamber, has a certain size allowing the inlet chamber to generate an expansion pressure inside, and a second blower providing a blowing force to discharge the air inside the inlet chamber to the outside through the air exhaust duct, wherein the supplying pipe and the outlet are spaced apart from each other, and a separation distance between the supplying pipe and the outlet is longer than a range that the mixed air propelled from the supplying pipe can reach to, so that the expansion pressure of the mixed air supplied to the inlet chamber accelerates separation action caused by specific gravity difference between the air and the dust.
US12134059B2
A honeycomb filter body comprises: a clean filter pressure drop of (P1) and a clean filtration efficiency of (FE1); a porous ceramic honeycomb body comprising a first end, a second end, and a plurality of walls having wall surfaces defining a plurality of inner channels, the porous ceramic honeycomb body comprising a base clean filter pressure drop (P0) and a base clean filtration efficiency (FE0); and a porous inorganic layer disposed on one or more of the wall surfaces of the porous ceramic honeycomb body.
US12134057B2
A flame trap filter including a grid structure, wherein the grid structure determines grid openings which are bordered by intersecting strip sections, and/or wherein the grid structure is formed by a laid scrim. A method for producing a grid structure of a flame trap filter includes the step of allowing a substance to solidify on a substrate, in order to form at least one strip section of the grid structure. Alternatively or in addition, the method includes the step of compressing a material for the flame trap filter or a semi-finished product of the flame trap filter at points, e.g. by mechanically deforming the material or the semi-finished product, in order to form at least one strip section of the grid structure.
US12134052B2
A filter assembly for an engine, has: a housing having a longitudinal axis and defining an internal volume, the housing having an open end and defining an oil inlet and an oil outlet, the internal volume having a first zone and a second zone, the first zone in fluid communication with the oil inlet, the second zone in fluid communication with the oil outlet; a cartridge assembly having a filter cartridge, and a cover sealingly engageable to the housing to close the open end of the housing, the filter cartridge axially locked in the housing by the cover, the cover removably securable to the housing; and a sealing member between the housing and the cartridge assembly, the sealing member separating the first zone from the second zone such that the first zone communicates with the second zone through the filter cartridge.
US12134044B2
Disclosed herein is a mini-figure that may be used with existing and standard toy block systems and also have the appearance of a sports figure. Improvements over traditional mini-figures include additional separate components in the arms and feet, an optional variation in torso shape, accessories which create visual impression of sports figures in natural use, unique markings identifiable by specific player or production, and a unique method of marketing and distribution.
US12134041B2
An image processing method comprises receiving content; displaying the content on a display; detecting a capture trigger for capturing a screenshot of the content displayed on the display; acquiring additional information relating to the content displayed on the display at a capture timing corresponding to a timing at which the capture trigger is detected; and capturing the screenshot of the content displayed on the display at the capture timing and adding the additional information to the screenshot to generate an additional-information-added image.
US12134035B2
A cloud native 3D scene game and method thereof, including: initiating a game request by one or more users to a cloud server through a game client, creating and starting one corresponding game process according to the game request of the one or more users by the cloud server, and processing the game data of the one or more users at the same time by the game process. The invention has the advantages that: game data of multiple users are processed through one game process, and multiple virtual cameras are controlled to generate corresponding game screens for different users at the same time in one game process which can obviously reduce consumption of server resources and reduce the number of the servers, meanwhile, the fluency of game screens can be guaranteed, the user experience can be improved, and the interaction fluency among different users can be improved.
US12134033B2
Methods and systems for provisioning resources for games executed by a cloud gaming system includes accessing online interactions of a plurality of users in relation to a game. The online interactions are processed to classify discussion features obtained from online social communications. A model is generated to predict game use, using the classified discussion features. The model is updated with online interactions received over time. Resources for the game are provisioned at a data center. The provisioning is done by accessing the model and identifying adjustments in the provisioning for an anticipated usage spike that is to occur by a plurality of users, based on current online interactions.
US12134030B2
The first operation portion is configured to be pressed by one hand of a user holding a grip portion. The first button depression portion is configured to move toward a first button of a game controller secured in a compartment, thereby pressing the first button of the game controller secured in the compartment, in response to the pressing operation on the first operation portion. The second operation portion is configured to be pressed by the other hand of the user holding the grip portion. The second button depression portion is configured to move toward a second button of the game controller secured in the compartment, thereby pressing the second button of the game controller secured in the compartment, in response to the pressing operation on the second operation portion.
US12134013B2
A method for retrieving a ball on and about a sports court and for controllably releasing the ball includes a retriever having a vertical ball ejector, and upon ball collection, returning the ball to a desired location in the air or along the sports court surface. The sports court may be a tennis court or a pickleball court, with the method for retrieving and returning a ball being conducted with tennis balls or pickleballs on the respective court type.
US12134010B2
In a multi-piece solid golf ball having a core, an envelope layer, an intermediate layer and a cover, the core is formed of one or more layer of a rubber composition; the envelope layer, intermediate layer and cover are each formed of a single layer of resin material; the hardness relationship among the layers satisfies the following two conditions: material hardness of cover>material hardness of intermediate layer, and material hardness of envelope layer≥surface hardness of core; the ball additionally satisfies the condition: envelope layer thickness (mm)×envelope layer material hardness (Shore D hardness) cover thickness (mm)×cover material hardness (Shore D hardness); and the core and ball have optimized deflections when subjected to a specific loading. This ball serves as a distance ball which enables a superior distance to be achieved on full shots with a driver and with irons.
US12134007B1
A finger strengthening device (FSD) includes a plurality of finger strengthening elements formed therewith. The FSD is attachable to a structure in a plurality of different orientations to permit a variation in finger exercise techniques.
US12134005B2
An exercise bar assembly includes a pair of rotating grip assemblies, each including a generally planar frame and a hand grip mounted within the frame for rotation within in the plane of the frame. The rotating grip assemblies are attachable to opposite ends of a center bar assembly along the longitudinal axis of the bar assembly. A plate bar assembly is attachable to each of the rotating grip assemblies opposite the center rod, with the plate bar assembly aligned with the longitudinal axis to form a weight lifting bar. A user-selectable elastic band is engageable between the pair of rotating grip assemblies along the longitudinal axis so that the elastic band resists rotation of each hand grip in each of the rotating grip assemblies. The rotating grip assemblies of the exercise bar assembly allow for the full range of motion of the bicep, and the elastic band creates a resistance exercise through the bicep's full range of motion.
US12133989B2
A medical device housing having a reduced footprint is described. The medical device housing includes a flange coupled to a first portion of the housing and a second portion of the housing that is configured to be coupled to the flange to substantially enclose an electronic component(s) within an interior of the medical device housing. The first portion of the housing includes a support(s) that supports the flange within the first portion. In some examples, a trench is formed between an interior wall of the first portion of the housing and the flange. An adhesive is deposited within the trench to bond the flange to the first portion of the housing. The second portion of the housing is configured to decouple from the flange to allow access to the interior of the medical device housing, such as for maintenance or repairs.
US12133983B2
The present invention relies on a controller-transmitter device to deliver ultrasound energy into cardiac tissue in order to directly improve cardiac function and/or to energize one or more implanted receiver-stimulator devices that transduce the ultrasound energy to electrical energy to perform excitatory and/or non-excitatory treatments for heart failure. The acoustic energy can be applied as a single burst or as multiple bursts.
US12133981B2
The present technology provides systems and methods for directly suppressing nerve cells by delivering electrical stimulation having relatively long pulse widths and at amplitudes below an activation threshold of the nerve cells. For example, some embodiments include delivering a therapy signal having individual pulses with pulse widths of between about 5 ms and 100 ms. Directly suppressing the nerve cells is expected to reduce the transmission of pain signals.
US12133980B2
Embodiments of the invention provide apparatus, systems and methods for stimulating tissue in the urinary tract to initiate or facilitate urination. One embodiment provides an external urinary sphincter stimulation (EUSS) catheter for stimulating the external urinary sphincter (EUS), where the EUSS catheter includes nerve stimulation electrodes (NSES) for delivering current to nerves within or around the EUS in order to relax the EUS prior to urination. Other embodiments provide a system for stimulating the EUS including the EUSS catheter and a controller operatively coupled to the EUSS catheter, where the controller includes a pulse generator for delivering current to the NSES. Other embodiments provide methods for positioning the EUSS catheter in the patient's body including in the EUS using a urethral approach. Embodiments of the invention are particularly useful for initiating and/or controlling urination for patients who have lost the ability to voluntarily urinate due to neurogenic bladder dysfunction.
US12133979B2
Apparatus for transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation in a user, the apparatus comprising: a stimulation unit for electrically stimulating at least one nerve using electrical pulses; an electrode assembly connectable to the stimulation unit, the electrode assembly comprising a sensing unit, a storage unit, and a communications unit; and a control unit connected to the stimulation unit and the communications unit, the control unit being configured for controlling operation of the stimulation unit based on information from the electrode assembly.
US12133978B2
Apparatus and methods are described including a catheter, and first and second impellers configured to be inserted into a subject's body via the catheter, the first and second impellers being disposed in series with each other. A first impeller cage is disposed around the first impeller, and a second impeller cage is disposed around the second impeller. A sleeve extends longitudinally along more than 50 percent of a distance between the first and second impellers. Other applications are also described.
US12133969B2
Systems, storage media and computer-readable media are provided for translating one or more therapy parameters of a first insulin therapy system to one or more translated therapy parameters for use at a second insulin therapy system that is different than the first insulin therapy system. A therapy profile generated at the first insulin therapy system can be send to a translation service. The therapy profile includes one or more therapy parameters. At least one therapy parameter from the therapy profile can be translated into at least one translated therapy parameter that is mapped to and adapted for use by the second insulin therapy system. The at least one translated therapy parameter can then be sent to the second insulin therapy system for use at the second insulin therapy system.
US12133964B2
A packaging assembly includes a case configured to at least partially contain injection devices for delivering a medicament; a light sensor configured to detect light incident on the packaging assembly; and a status indicator configured to generate an output which indicates a status of the packaging assembly conditional on an intensity of light detected by the light sensor exceeding a threshold light intensity.
US12133957B2
The Foley Catheter Cap molded from medical grade silicone to provide a stable base for the insertion of an indwelling “Foley” catheter so that tearing of the urethra does not occur. Since the head of a penis contains no sweat glands of any kind, there is no buildup of fluids beneath the Foley Catheter Cap to occur which thereby precludes an environment under the Foley Catheter Cap which could be conducive for infections to grow. Because of this the benefits of a Foley Catheter Cap for male patients required to have an indwelling catheter for extended periods of time greatly outweigh any latent risk while the omission of the proposed Foley Catheter Cap exposes male patients to the potential of the well-documented serious injury and follow-on reconstructive surgery caused by Ventral Erosion of the penis.
US12133947B2
An example catheter assembly includes a first catheter body portion defining a first lumen and a plurality of sidewall openings open to the lumen and configured to at least one of introduce fluid into a patient or remove fluid from the patient. The catheter assembly further includes a second catheter body portion defining a second lumen, a first cuff proximal to a distal end of the first catheter body portion, a second cuff distal to a proximal end of the second catheter body portion, and a connector configured to mechanically connect the first and second catheter body portions between the first and second cuffs and to fluidically connect the first and second lumens. A distance between the first and second cuffs is modifiable by at least modifying one of a length of the first catheter body portion or a length of the second catheter body portion.
US12133941B2
An air purifying light system using unsafe UV-C emitters mounted on an upward facing portion of the frame of the system and at least visible light LEDs mounted on a lower facing portion of the frame, wherein the UV-C emitters are configured to kill viruses and pathogens in a sanitization zone formed between the frame and the ceiling.
US12133940B2
An example luminaire includes a white light source (e.g. LEDs emitting white light in a region of the CIE color chart within three Macadam ellipses below the black body curve) and a violet light source emitting light in a wavelength range of approximately 380 nm to 450 nm (e.g. 405 nm LEDs) for deactivating bacteria, such as Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on a surface exposed to illumination from the luminaire. A controller coupled to the sources pulses the violet light source at an irregular rate and interval over a time period to apply a deactivation dosage of the violet light to bacteria within range of the emissions. When ON, the violet source emits light for deactivating bacteria at an intensity higher than the concurrent intensity of the white light.
US12133932B2
A method includes covering or contacting a portion of a parathyroid of a subject with a shield including biologic tissue. The covering or contacting occurs during a neck or reconstructive surgery of the subject.
US12133927B2
A sanitization apparatus includes an excimer lamp and a power converter. The power converter comprises a wide band gap device and a planar inductor. The wide band gap device is selectively switchable between a first mode wherein the inductor is electrically charged and a second mode wherein the inductor is electrically discharged. The wide band gap may be repeatedly switched between the first and second modes to generate a nano second pulse output voltage waveform.
US12133922B2
The present invention is directed to an immediate release and extended release capsule or capsule fill which mitigates the abuse of abuse-susceptible active pharmaceutical ingredients by direct intravenous injection. The fill comprises a parenteral abuse resistant liquid formulation which when mixed with water and heated, results in a turbid, viscous or bubbling mixture that is not injectable with a standard insulin syringe. The abuse-susceptible active pharmaceutical ingredient is selected from the group consisting of opiates, opioids, tranquillizers, stimulants and narcotics.
US12133921B2
The objective of the present invention is to provide a capsule filling composition which can stably produce a capsule formulation by suppressing the flow of components out of the capsule body during capsule filling, regardless of the compressibility of an active ingredient such as drugs and health foods, so that a favorable capsule filling can be achieved; and a method of producing a capsule formulation with the use of such a capsule filling composition, as well as a capsule formulation. The objective is achieved by a method of producing a capsule formulation, comprising subjecting a capsule filling composition containing an active ingredient and a cellulose ether powder to a funnel system powder filling or a die-compression system powder filling to obtain the capsule formulation, and the like.
US12133909B2
Use as a cooling agent of a compound of general formula (I) in which: R1 and R2 are chosen independently of each other as a hydrogen atom or a C1-C6-alkyl group; and X represents ═O, —OAc, —O—C1-C6-alkyl, —N—OH or —OH.
US12133901B2
Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) targeted compounds having formula (I), nanoclusters formed thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising a plurality of these compounds, and methods for treating and detecting cancers in a subject are described herein.
US12133900B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds that are useful as near-infrared fluorescence probes, wherein the compounds include i) a ligand that binds to a target receptor protein, ii) a dye molecule, and iii) a linker molecule that comprises an amino acid or derivative thereof. The disclosure further describes methods and compositions for making and using the compounds, methods incorporating the compounds, and kits incorporating the compounds. The disclosure also relates to compositions for incorporating the compounds as used for the targeted imaging of tumors. Conjugation of the amino acid linking groups increase specificity and detection of the compound. Methods and compositions for use thereof in diagnostic imaging are contemplated.
US12133895B2
Techniques regarding the transportation of molecular cargo across the BBB are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a chemical compound to facilitate molecular encapsulation of the molecular cargo. The chemical compound can comprise a diblock copolymer having a molecular backbone comprising a polycarbonate structure and a polyethylene glycol structure. Also, the polycarbonate structure can be functionalized with boronic acid.
US12133893B2
A stable injectable collagen-based hydrogel delivery platform and method is provided to obtain the viscosity, post-injection stability and mechanical properties needed of an injectable collagen matrix via incorporating alginate and calcium sulfate (CaSO4) into the matrix. The hydrogel (Alg/Col hydrogel) is shear-thinning, injectable through commercially available needles and stable right after injection.
US12133892B2
Disclosed is a method for increasing susceptibility of cancer cells to ionizing radiation by delivering to the cells a radiosensitizing agent that has one of the following properties: (a) it perturbs the process of chromosome segregation thereby increasing chromosome missegregation; or (b) it is an inhibitor of an agent that promotes faithful chromosome segregation induces numeric chromosome instability in said cells and this instability is induced substantially simultaneously with or closely prior to or closely after irradiating the cells. Examples of such radiosensitizing agent include inhibitors of one or more of the following: Kif2b, MCAK, MPS1, Eg5/Kinesin-5 5, Polo-like kinase 4, MCAK, Bub1 and Hec1. Such agents specifically target proteins involved in maintaining or promoting faithful chromosome segregation.
US12133890B2
The present application relates to an antigen-binding polypeptide that specifically binds to B7H3, comprising at least one complementarity-determining region (CDR) of an antibody heavy chain variable region (VH), wherein the VH comprises an amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 25. The present application further relates to a chimeric antigen receptor comprising the antigen-binding polypeptide and a universal CAR-T cell comprising the chimeric antigen receptor. The CAR-T cell recognizes a surface antigen of a tumor cell and knocks out TCR and HLA-A genes expressed by the cell at the same time, so that the immune rejection caused by an allogeneic CAR-T therapy is reduced, the survival time of the cell is prolonged, and the anti-tumor effect is improved.
US12133887B2
The disclosure discloses a chemical synthesis method of oligosaccharides of a Pseudomonas aeruginosa serotype O11 O-antigen, and belongs to the field of chemistry. The disclosure includes constructing an O-antigen trisaccharide by using a D-glucose building block, an L-fucosamine building block and a D-fucosamine building block; wherein the D-glucose building block or the L-fucosamine building block is linked with the D-fucosamine building block through a 1,2-α-cis-glycosidic bond, the D-glucose building block is linked with the L-fucosamine building block through a 1,2-β-trans-glycosidic bond, and the construction of the 1,2-α-cis-glycosidic bond is conducted in a mixed solvent; and the mixed solvent includes two or more of dichloromethane, diethyl ether and thiophene. According to the method of the disclosure, D-mannose is taken as a raw material, D-fucose is obtained simply, conveniently and efficiently, depending on suitable mixed solvents, the uniform construction of a cis-glycosidic bond of the D-fucose is achieved, the stereoselectivity can be up to 100%, and a very good application prospect in the aspects of the development of novel medicines and vaccines against Pseudomonas aeruginosa and the like is achieved.
US12133884B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods of using base editors comprising a polynucleotide programmable nucleotide binding domain and a nucleobase editing domain in conjunction with a guide polynucleotide. Also provided herein are base editor systems for editing nucleobases of target nucleotide sequences.
US12133883B2
The present invention relates to a polymeric human growth hormone prodrug and dry, liquid and reconstituted pharmaceutical formulation comprising said prodrug. It furthermore relates to their use as medicaments for the treatment of diseases which can be treated with growth hormone and to methods of treatment. It also relates to methods of application of such polymeric human growth hormone prodrug or pharmaceutical formulation.
US12133881B2
Disclosed herein is a method of treating a subject for a disease, disorder, or condition that involves administering to the subject a composition comprising a secretome derived from electrically stimulated cells. Also disclosed herein is an enhanced secretome produced by a process comprising collecting cells from a subject, culturing the cells in a serum free medium for at least 1 day while stimulating the cells with electric pulses, and collecting the secretome produced by the electrically-stimulated cells. Also disclosed herein is a pharmaceutical composition comprising an enhanced secretome derived from electrically stimulated cells contained within a biocompatible hydrogel in an amount effective to treat a disease or disorder.
US12133880B2
Disclosed are compositions and methods of treating a neurodegenerative disease in an individual. The methods disclose administration of an Integrin α4β1, Very Late Antigen-4 positive neural precursor cell (“VLA4+NPC”) transfected with a lentivirus overexpressing wild type GCase to an individual having a neurodegenerative disorder. The neurodegenerative disease may include lipid storage diseases, for example Gaucher disease, Parkinson's disease (PD), Dementia with Lewy bodies.
US12133879B2
The present invention provides a method for producing an exosome that transfers an active substance specifically to a target and the exosome produced by the same; a method for delivering the active substance to the target tissue using the exosome; a pharmaceutical composition for delivery of the active substance comprising the exosome as an active ingredient; and a composition for preparing the exosome comprising an expression vector wherein the target peptide is inserted into an extracellular portion of a transmembrane protein.
US12133877B1
A medical treatment composition, methods for preparation and treatment method are provided. The liquid composition comprises equal parts Sansevieria and ground/blended Cloves. The composition is capable of use in treating and curing cancer. A preparation method may comprise preparing a liquid Sansevieria component, preparing a liquid Clove component, adding the Sansevieria component to the Clove component, and permitting a resulting Sansevieria and ground Clove mixture to sit at room temperature for 24 hours, to provide a liquid medical treatment composition comprising by volume 50% of a Sansevieria component and 50% of a Clove component. Methods of treating cancer may include administering the composition. The present invention also provides liquid pest control compositions comprising equal parts Sansevieria and ground/blended Cloves, and methods for preparation and pest control methods. The pest control compositions and methods may control termites, most particularly drywood termites.
US12133872B2
Mosquito species cause severe and debilitating illnesses. Despite significant advances in clinical medicine, no specific drugs or vaccines are available for diagnosis, treatment, and management of majority of mosquito-borne illnesses. A method and system for evaluating and reducing the degree of mosquito attractiveness of an individual is provided. The methodology involves computation of a metric based on analysis of the host's skin microbial profile and is thus expected to estimate individualized attractiveness profiles. A specific set of bacterial species contributing to skin attractiveness for mosquitoes have been identified and relative abundances of the bacterial species in the identified set have been custom engineered to generate novel features. These features have been utilized for computing an index referred to as a ‘Mosquito Attractiveness Quotient (MAQ)’ that quantifies or measures the degree of mosquito-attractiveness of individual. The disclosure also proposes formulations that can aid/promote the maintenance of healthy skin microbiota.
US12133868B2
The invention relates to a viral inactivated biological liquid or dry mixture and to its preparation. Principally, the invention relates, but is not limited, to a mixture derived from a platelet source.
US12133857B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for prolonging half-life of theanine in vivo. According to the present disclosure, a specific theanine glycoside compound formed by modification with a specific monosaccharide is used for prolonging the half-life of the theanine in vivo, which can be used for preparing sustained release drugs, prolonging action time of drugs, reducing administration frequency and improving compliance of patients. With the method of the present disclosure, the theanine glycoside compound obtained after modification can have a broad application prospect and a high commercial value in scientific research and clinical application.
US12133856B2
Disclosed are novel multi-substituent psilocybin derivative compounds and pharmaceutical and recreational drug formulations containing the same. The compounds may be produced by reacting a reactant psilocybin derivative with a substituent containing compound.
US12133835B2
The present application relates to a plant-soaked solution including a saccharide containing allulose and a method of preparing the same.
US12133826B1
Exemplary embodiments of massaging devices are disclosed herein. One exemplary embodiment includes a piston having a longitudinal axis, a massaging head connected to the piston, a motor located on a first side of the longitudinal axis and a handle located on a second side of the longitudinal axis. A drive mechanism for moving the piston and massage head is also included.
US12133817B2
The present invention relates to a treatment device comprising: —an ultrasound generation unit (3) comprising an ultrasound module (32) including at least a transducer (321), —a hand-held part (2) comprising a gripping body (21), and a head (23) mounted on the body, the hand-held part and the ultrasound generation unit being designed to be joined together by contactless coupling means such that, when the hand-held part and the ultrasound generation unit are joined, the rotational movement of the upstream base between first and second positions causes the rotational movement of the ultrasound module between the first and second positions.
US12133812B2
The invention is a viscoelastic protuberance anchored through the back of a pad and projecting from the absorbing side of the top third of the pad. The shape and length of the protuberance is ideal for interlabial positioning with crucial clitoral contact. This contact is secured by a taut under garment. Lower pelvic or upper thigh movements of the user introduce a mild friction between the protuberance and the users clitoris which serves to trigger mild sexual arousal. A reflexive neurological pathway is then activated which diminishes the urge to urinate—a female physiological law.
US12133811B2
An assistive ankle foot orthosis is described. The AFO has a tubular vertical member arranged laterally to a user's limb. The member carries a rotational bearing and a rotational element such as a pulley. The pulley is connected to a footplate. The footplate provides joint movement assistance or resistance to the user upon rotation of the pulley. The pulley is coupled to one or more springs that provide counter-rotational resistance to pulley movement, thereby storing, and then returning, rotational force during certain foot movements. The spring can include a leaf spring arranged inside the member, the stiffness of which can be manually, automatically or dynamically adjusted by movement of the device.
US12133810B2
An implant delivery system comprises an elongate tubular member having a lumen, a tubular implant coaxially disposed within the lumen of the elongate tubular member, and a delivery assembly having a distal portion coaxially disposed within tubular implant. The delivery assembly comprises a delivery wire, an engaging bumper fixedly coupled to the delivery wire, a stopper bumper fixedly coupled to the delivery wire, and a floating element slidably coupled around the delivery wire and disposed between the bumpers, thereby limiting linear translation of the floating element therebetween. The floating element has an engaging portion configured to engage the engaging bumper when the delivery wire is axially translated relative to the elongate member in a first direction. The floating element is configured to radially expand outward to frictionally engage the implant when the engaging portion of the floating element engages the engaging bumper.
US12133808B2
Proposed is a biliary stent unit having a pulling string that is fixed to the skin of a human body to prevent a stent from separating from a diseased part of the biliary tract, and having a soft tube that reduces stimulus in the human body after a surgery because it has flexibility.
US12133806B2
Disclosed herein is a spinal implant with a solid frame and a porous inner layer. The implant may have a cavity defined by the porous inner layer. The solid frame may have one or more ribs extending from a medial wall to a lateral wall. The thickness of the porous layer may vary relative the thickness of the solid frame at various locations. An inserter to place a spinal implant and a method to perform same are also disclosed.
US12133797B2
Systems, devices and methods for attaching an operator-manipulatable tether(s) to the stent for: loading and/or collapsing the expandable stent into a delivery catheter or sheath, translating the collapsed stent along the delivery catheter or sheath, delivering the expandable stent into the subject heart chamber, repositioning the expandable stent as necessary within the subject heart chamber, recapturing or resheathing the expandable stent within the delivery catheter or sheath if needed, and deploying the expandable stent to, and within, the subject heart chamber.
US12133794B2
A method for non-surgically treating an internal nasal valve of a patient comprising, injecting a working device into the internal nasal valve of the patient, wherein the injected working device in the nasal tissue causes an alteration of an internal or external nasal valve. A device introduced by injection into the nose, allowing for structural support or filling of defects in the nose, and causing a change in external shape of the nose. The device and inserts and implants described also have use in cosmetic applications relating to the facial tissue.
US12133793B2
A branched and fenestrated prosthesis may include a main tubular graft body including a proximal end opening, a distal end opening, a lumen, and a sidewall. A branch may extend from the sidewall and may include a first end opening, a second end opening, and a lumen. A fenestration may be disposed in the sidewall and positioned distal of the second end opening of the branch. The branched and fenestrated prosthesis may include a plurality of branches and a plurality of fenestrations.
US12133787B2
An endosteal horizontally placed non-crestal dental implant system including at least one dental implant having a proximal end, a distal end, an internal architecture, and a helical thread extending along the outside region between the proximal end and the distal end. The one or more implants are configured to be implanted horizontally or near horizontally by way of a non-crestal approach, into a mandible or maxilla and to engage with bone tissue. The system also includes at least one dental implant abutment having a proximal end for attaching to the said dental implant and a distal end configured for the attachment of a dental prosthesis. A method of diagnosis and treatment of edentulism using the endosteal horizontally placed non-crestal dental implant system is also recited.
US12133782B2
A method and a system for determining an orthodontic treatment for a subject are provided. The method comprises: acquiring a 3D representation of the crown portion of a given tooth; generating a 3D representation of the root portion of the given tooth by: obtaining a location of a root apex of the 3D representation of the root portion; dissecting horizontally the 3D representation of the crown portion to generate a closed curve around the 3D representation of the crown portion, segmenting the closed curve into a plurality of sub-curves; for each one of the plurality of sub-curves, generating a segment of the 3D representation of the root portion; merging the 3D representation of the crown portion with the 3D representation of the root portion, thereby generating the 3D representation of the given tooth; and determining, based on the 3D representation of the given tooth, the orthodontic treatment for the subject.
US12133780B2
An endodontic file for dental nerve treatment according to the present invention comprises: a helical shaped blade that is to be inserted into a root canal, remove dental nerve, and enlarge the root canal; a head that is detachably inserted into a rotary power tool, and a connection part extending by a predetermined length between the head and the blade and having a diameter smaller than that of each of a contact end of the blade and the head. According to the endodontic file for dental nerve treatment, by forming the connection part of the endodontic file with an adjusted thickness or shape such as a thin thickness so that stress generated during rotation of the endodontic file is concentrated on the connection part rather than the blade, the endodontic file is induced to be fractured outside the tooth rather than inside the tooth root, thereby allowing fractured pieces to be easily found and removed.
US12133774B2
The invention relates to a support arm articulation device (50) for movably holding a medical device, comprising a first and a second fastening element (52, 54), which are connected to each other in a pivotable way by means of a spring arm (56), wherein the spring arm (56) comprises a supporting arm (58) and a lever arm (60), which are mounted in a pivotable way on the first fastening element (52) with an associated supporting arm pivot axis (64) and lever arm pivot axis (66), wherein the two pivot axes (64, 66) are spaced apart from one another, wherein the supporting arm (58) is mounted on the second fastening element (44) in a pivotable way, and the lever arm (60) is mounted on the supporting arm (58) by means of a spring device (78) such that a weight of the held medical device is supported in different pivot positions, wherein the spring device (78) comprises an adjustment device, by means of which a position of the mounting (68, 70) of the lever arm (60) on the supporting arm (58) is adjustable along a longitudinal extension of the supporting arm (58). Further, the invention relates to a support arm system and a method for operating a support arm articulation device.
US12133766B2
An ultrasonic coupling device. The ultrasonic coupling device includes a foam having an aperture; a hydrogel wherein the hydrogel has a water content of at least 10 wt %, wherein at least part of the hydrogel locates in the aperture of the foam; and a near field communication device.
US12133765B2
Described herein are systems and methods for tracking a target tissue during therapy delivery. A system for identifying an anatomical structure and tracking the motion of the anatomical structure using imaging before and during delivery of a therapy to a patient includes an imaging module and a therapy module. In some cases, the imaging module is configured to identify a region of the anatomical structure in an image, and the therapy module is configured to deliver the therapy to a target tissue. A method for imaging during delivery of a therapy includes acquiring an image, identifying a region of an anatomical structure, tracking the region of the anatomical structure, integrating the tracking, generating a unique template library, determining if a pre-existing template matches the results or if the results should be updated as a new template, and delivering the therapy to the target tissue.
US12133763B2
The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for evaluating tissue structure in damaged or healing tissue. The present disclosure also provides methods of identifying a patient at the onset of risk of pressure ulcer or at risk of the onset of pressure ulcer, and treating the patient with anatomy-specific clinical intervention selected based on a number of sonographic characteristics. The present disclosure also provides methods of stratifying groups of patients based on risk of wound development and methods of reducing incidence of tissue damage in a care facility. The present disclosure also provides methods to analyze trends of sonographic characteristics to detect tissue damage before it is visible, and methods to compare bisymmetric sonographic characteristics to identify damaged tissue.
US12133745B2
A graphical representation may be displayed including at least a plurality of transducer graphical elements, each transducer graphical element of the plurality of transducer graphical elements representative of a respective transducer of a plurality of transducers of a transducer-based device. A set of user input may be received including an instruction set to reposition a first transducer graphical element in a state in which the first transducer graphical element is located at a first location in the graphical representation and a second transducer graphical element is located at a second location in the graphical representation, the second location closer to a predetermined location in the graphical representation than the first location. In response to conclusion of receipt of the set of user input, the first transducer graphical element may be repositioned from the first location in the graphical representation to the predetermined location in the graphical representation.
US12133739B2
A method of predicting a brain atrophy condition for an individual using the individual's predicted age difference (PAD). The method comprises acquiring at least one brain image of the individual; processing the brain image to obtain at least one feature of the brain image; generating a PAD value of the individual based on the at least one feature of the image; and determining a brain atrophy condition of the individual based on the PAD value.
US12133736B2
This disclosure provides one or more computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions for performing a method. The method includes storing geometry data representing a primary geometry of a cardiac envelope that includes nodes distributed across the cardiac envelope and geometry of a body surface that includes locations where electrical signals are measured. The body surface is spaced apart from the cardiac envelope. The method also includes perturbing the primary geometry of the cardiac envelope a given distance and direction to define the perturbed geometry of the cardiac envelope including nodes spaced from the nodes of the primary geometry. The method also includes computing reconstructed bipolar electrical signals on the nodes of the primary cardiac envelope based on the electrical signals measured from the body surface and the geometry data, including the primary and perturbed geometries of the cardiac envelope.
US12133728B2
The present disclosure is directed to relates to systems and methods for evaluating tissue using high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) energy. In one embodiment, for example, a system for treating a patient comprises an ultrasound source configured to deliver HIFU energy to a target tissue mass of the patient and a function generator operably coupled to the ultrasound source for initiating a pulsing protocol for delivering the HIFU energy. The system further comprises a controller configured to perform operations comprising applying HIFU energy to induce cavitation in the target tissue mass and cause a biomarker to be released, comparing a baseline concentration of the biomarker from a first fluid sample to a concentration of the biomarker in a second fluid sample within 2 hours after applying HIFU, and repeating the applying and comparing until the concentration of the biomarker in the fluid sample falls below a threshold value.
US12133711B2
Methods, systems, and devices for generating resolution-enhanced space-domain image of a target sample based on optical coherent tomography (OCT) imaging technologies are disclosed. In an aspect, a system includes a processing platform comprising one or more processing devices operatively coupled to one or more memory devices. The processing platform is configured to acquire a plurality of related sets of optical coherence tomography (OCT) image data for a target object volume, reconstruct space-domain OCT images for each of the plurality of sets of OCT image data, coherently average the reconstructed space-domain OCT images to suppress noise or enhance a signal-to-noise ratio, and computationally expand a spatial bandwidth of the coherent-averaged OCT image data via deconvolution.
US12133707B2
The disclosure relate to systems and methods for a surgical tool or a surgical robotic system. An example computer-implemented method for evaluating calibrations of a surgical tool includes fixating a joint of the surgical tool at a first angle, the joint being driven by an actuator, measuring an actuator position corresponding to the first angle, accessing a calibrated offset corresponding to the first angle, determining an expected joint angle based on the measured actuator position and the calibrated offset, and reporting a first difference between the expected joint angle and the first angle.
US12133701B2
The method includes obtaining a distance value of a guide wire from an inner wall of cavity and a resistance value of the inner wall of cavity to the guide wire when the guide wire moves in the cavity and controlling the guide wire for corresponding movement according to a relationship between the distance value and a predetermined distance threshold value, and/or the relationship between the predetermined resistance threshold value. The alarm strategy through image and resistance detection multi-dimensionally, lead to low false alarm rate. Automatic error correction by automatic reverse motion avoids the risk of untimely correction in case of danger due to the user's stress during the movement, thus improving the overall automation of movement control of the intervention robot.
US12133698B2
A surgical system includes a drive unit on a support. The drive unit includes motors or other actuators and a plurality of output elements arranged such that operation of each drive unit linearly translates a corresponding one of the output elements. A surgical device has actuation elements extending through an elongate shaft to a distal articulation section, and an input subsystem carried at the proximal end of the shaft. Linear translatable input elements or pistons of the input subsystem are each associated with a corresponding one of the actuation elements. The input and output elements are positioned such that operation of an actuator linearly translates an output element, causing linear translation of a corresponding input element and engagement of an actuation element. A sterile drape is positionable between the input elements and the output elements.
US12133694B2
Disclosed is a computer-implemented method of determining a consensus plane for imaging an elongate medical device such as an electrode or a catheter. When positioning an analytical device such that its imaging plane is parallel to or coincides with the consensus plane, an optimal image of the elongate medical device can be generated. The consensus plane is determined by analyzing patient image data used for planning an imaging procedure, planned trajectory data defining a planned position of the elongate medical device relative to the position of an anatomical body part, imaging device constraint data describing machine constraints governing operation of the medical imaging device, avoidance region position data defining the position of anatomical regions of the patient's body, and orientation condition data defining a boundary condition for an angle between the orientation of the consensus plane and the orientation of the characteristic geometric quantity of the elongate medical device.
US12133691B2
Methods, systems and devices for pre-operatively planned shoulder surgery guides and implants. Pre-operative planning methods for designing a shoulder surgery guide based on considerations of multiple factors affecting the outcome of shoulder surgery. Methods of using surgery guides and implants in patients undergoing shoulder surgery.
US12133685B2
Disclosed is a coaxial non-mydriatic multispectral fundus camera, including: an illumination unit configured to emit light; a diffusion lens configured to diffuse the light incident from the illumination unit; an illumination lens configured to irradiate the light incident from the diffusion lens at a predetermined emission angle; a mirror configured to reflect the light incident from the illumination lens; a polarizing beam splitter configured to transmit P-polarized light of the light incident from the mirror and reflect S-polarized light thereof; an objective lens configured to image a fundus using the light incident from the polarizing beam splitter and then enlarge a returning image of the fundus; a short-range eyepiece lens configured to reduce or enlarge the image of the fundus enlarged by the objective lens; and an imaging device configured to acquire a fundus photograph from the image of the fundus received from the short-range eyepiece lens.
US12133679B2
An electrosurgical device (10) operable to deliver microwave energy to cause targeted tissue ablation is provided. The electrosurgical device (10) comprises an antenna (26), a reflector (30), and a dielectric material (34) disposed therebetween. The selection of the dielectric material (30) and the relative positioning of the antenna (26) and the reflector (30) provide impedance matching between the antenna (26) and a transmission line (12) so as to minimize heating along the length of the device (10) during use.
US12133678B2
Apparatus and methods are provided to concentrate energy delivery in non-superficial target tissue within a trigone region of a human bladder wall to modulate bladder function.
US12133670B2
A method for treating emphysema with a condensable vapor includes creating a plurality of collateral channels through the airway walls, and delivering the condensable vapor to the airways. The condensable vapor flows to the diseased parenchymal tissue through the airways and the collateral channels. Condensable vapor to contact the tissue heats the tissue, reducing it in volume. Apparatuses are described to create the openings and ablate the lung tissue.
US12133668B2
An endosteal guide pin for preparing a guide path for the implantation of a pedicle or orthopaedic screw into a patient's bone. The pin has a head intended to be provisionally implanted in a bone and a guide rod, coaxial with and rigidly secured to the head, ending in a free end intended to be at least level with the skin surface of the patient when the pin is in the implanted position in the bone. The pin has a first coupling part intended at least to secure the pin to and release the pin from at least one portion of a positioning trocar and a second coupling part intended at least to secure the pin to a removal trocar. Also, a trocar for positioning a guide pin, which trocar incorporates the guide pin, and to a trocar for removing the pin.
US12133663B1
A transperineal biopsy guide for use with a tubular structure and a transrectal probe. The tubular structure is sized to receive a biopsy instrument therethrough. The transrectal probe including a longitudinal axis and configured to provide imaging in a sagittal plane of the transrectal probe. The transperineal biopsy guide includes a mount attachable to the transrectal probe, and an opening above the mount and pivotable relative to the mount about an axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the transrectal probe when the mount is attached to the transrectal probe. When the tubular structure is received by the opening and the mount is attached to the transrectal probe, the tubular structure can be pivoted in the sagittal plane of the transrectal probe via pivoting of the opening relative to the mount.
US12133658B2
Devices and methods for articulating a distal end of a surgical device are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, the device includes an articulation joint that includes both an inner guide and an outer sleeve. The inner guide includes one channel extending therethrough that receives both a cutting mechanism and a closure band. Further, an outer surface of the inner guide, in conjunction with the outer sleeve, can define two additional channels that each receive an articulation band for articulating an end effector coupled to the articulation joint. The outer surface of the inner guide can include a plurality of ribs that also help define the two additional channels. Further, the outer sleeve can include a plurality of slots formed in it to improve flexibility and stability. Additional configurations of articulation joints, and configurations of components of a surgical device, are also provided, as are methods for using the same.
US12133653B2
The present disclosure is a femoral preparation guide and a kit of surgical components related to the femoral preparation guide. The femoral preparation guide is for use on a condyle of a femur during a surgical procedure in which the condyle receives a femoral condylar implant. The femoral preparation guide includes a posterior portion for fitting over a posterior region of the condyle and a distal portion for fitting over a distal region of the condyle. The distal portion is at an angle relative to the posterior portion. The distal portion includes first and second resections slots for receiving cutting tools that provide two resections of the condyle. The first and second resections slots being at angles relative to each other.
US12133652B2
An embolic device for placement in a body lumen, includes: an elongated member having a linear configuration when in room temperature, the elongated member being configured to form a first three-dimensional structure in response to body temperature; wherein the elongated member comprises a first segment, a second segment, and a third segment, the second segment being located between the first segment and the third segment; wherein the first segment and the third segment are configured to change their respective shapes in response to the body temperature; and wherein the second segment that is located between the first segment and the third segment has a shape that is independent of the body temperature.
US12133651B2
A circular stapling device includes a handle assembly including a processor, an adapter assembly including a trocar assembly and a strain gauge assembly, a reload assembly operably secured to the adapter assembly, the reload assembly including a staple cartridge, and an anvil assembly releasably secured to the trocar assembly and moveably positioned relative to the staple cartridge between a spaced position and a clamped position. The processor includes software for determining when tissue clamped between the staple cartridge and the anvil assembly has achieved a predetermined tissue relaxation percent. A method of optimizing tissue relaxation during a stapling procedure includes clamping tissue between an anvil assembly and a reload assembly, calculating a tissue relaxation percent of the clamped tissue, and initiating a stapling sequence when the tissue relaxation percent equals or is less than a predetermined tissue relaxation percent.
US12133650B2
A surgical stapling device includes an anvil assembly, a staple cartridge, and an outer tube having a proximal body portion and a distal channel portion. A distal end of the proximal body portion defines a pair of cutouts. The anvil assembly includes an anvil body having a pair of pivot members which are supported within the cutouts. The cutouts are dimensioned to allow movement of the pivot members within the cutouts to allow the tissue contact surface of the anvil body to move in relation to the tissue contact surface of the staple cartridge from a “parked position” in which the tissue contact surfaces are in juxtaposed engagement to a “clamped position” in which the tissue contact surfaces defining a tissue gap.
US12133648B2
An end effector for use with a surgical stapling instrument. The end effector comprises a first jaw and a second jaw. The first jaw comprises an anvil comprising a proximal camming member. At least one jaw is movable relative to the other to close the end effector. The second jaw comprises an elongated channel comprising a proximal channel aperture and a staple cartridge insertable into the elongated channel. The staple cartridge comprises a cartridge body and a cartridge pan. The cartridge pan comprises a proximal pan aperture configured to be positioned partially distal to the proximal channel aperture when the staple cartridge is assembled with the elongated channel in an unlocked configuration. The camming member is configured to proximally translate the cartridge pan relative to the cartridge body from the unlocked configuration to a locked configuration during a transition of the end effector to a closed configuration.
US12133645B2
Surgical constructs and methods of use for tissue repair, in which the surgical constructs include a soft fixation device formed of flexible material, the soft fixation device having a head portion formed of a bunching material for anchoring the soft fixation device in a bone tunnel, and a tail portion for pulling the soft fixation device into the bone tunnel. The surgical constructs include one ore repair flexible strands coupled to the head portion of the soft fixation device for engaging tissue to be repaired.
US12133639B1
A handle assembly includes an elongate body having a proximal end, a distal end, and a central longitudinal axis extending between the proximal end and the distal end. A side passage extends through the body transverse to the longitudinal axis and intersects the through-passage. A locking mechanism is located in the side passage and is configured to releasably retain a medical tool onto the assembly.
US12133637B2
A medical observation system according to the present invention includes: an observation optical system configured to guide an observation light from a subject; an imaging unit configured to receive an observation light from the observation optical system and generate an image signal; and an image processing unit configured to apply signal processing to the image signal generated by the imaging unit, wherein the image processing unit includes a filter detection unit configured to detect, based on a signal value of a color which includes a wavelength band of a specific light in a preset wavelength band of the image signal, whether or not an observation-side filter for cutting the specific light is disposed on an optical path of the observation light.
US12133635B2
A processor for an endoscope or the like that assists an endoscopic examination using an appropriate reference image is provided. A processor for an endoscope includes an image acquisition unit that acquires an endoscope image; a region acquisition unit that inputs the endoscope image acquired by the image acquisition unit to a first learning model that outputs a target region corresponding to a predetermined region to be photographed when the endoscope image is input to acquire the target region; and an image output unit that outputs the endoscope image acquired by the image acquisition unit and an index indicating the target region acquired by the region acquisition unit with the endoscope image and the index superimposed.
US12133632B2
A method of assessing Fallopian tubal patency includes introducing a distension medium into a patient's uterus, introducing a contrasting medium into the uterus, and observing the contrasting medium, for example, via a hysteroscope, to determine whether the contrasting medium flows into one or both Fallopian tubes. A device for assessing Fallopian tubal patency includes a chamber for receiving contrast media, a flow path through the chamber for delivering distension media to a patient's uterus, and a flow controller for regulating the flow of distension media to the patient's uterus. The flow path is configured to permit flow of contrast media from the chamber into the flow path.
US12133631B2
A system for visualizing a tissue region of interest includes an imaging element, a sheath, and a dilator. The imaging element is configured to visualize tissue. The sheath includes a channel configured to receive the imaging element. The imaging element is positionable along a central longitudinal axis of the sheath and positionable in an off-axis position relative to the central longitudinal axis. The sheath comprises a flexible section defining at least a portion of the channel. The dilator is configured to advance through the channel to force the imaging element into the off-axis position. The dilator is configured to cause the imaging element to bulge the flexible section as the dilator is advanced through the channel.
US12133630B2
A surgical sheath system having a sheath with a hollow shaft; and a head coupled to and in fluid communication with the hollow shaft, the head having a first mounting feature for coupling a first surgical device; and a second mounting feature for coupling a second surgical device, the second surgical device being a different type of surgical device than the first surgical device.
US12133626B2
A captured image including a specific region formed by auxiliary measurement light is acquired, a marker direction candidate position is detected on the basis of region-of-interest edge information extracted from the captured image and specified distance position information, a candidate distance from the position of the specific region to the marker direction candidate position is calculated, and a length measurement image in which a display marker, which passes through a part of an extension line passing through the marker direction candidate position, which forms a candidate distance equal to or larger than a specified distance from the position of the specific region, is superimposed on the captured image with the position of the specific region as a base point, is created and displayed.
US12133623B2
A surface cleaning apparatus includes a housing having a base adapted for movement across a surface to be cleaned, a fluid delivery system, and a recovery system. Various motor cooling arrangements are disclosed. The surface cleaning apparatus can be configured to clean multiple surfaces, including hard and soft floor surfaces.
US12133620B2
A dishwasher and method for treating dishes according to a cycle of operation, wherein the dishwasher can include a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber, a dish rack movably received within the treating chamber and a spray system fluidly connected to the water supply. The dish rack is configured for receiving dishes or utensils for treatment during the cycle of operation. The spray system can include a set of sprayers located within the treating chamber that are configured to selectively emit spray from the water supply onto dishes or utensils on the dish rack.
US12133614B2
A bowl assembly 110 for a kitchen appliance 1 arranged to process ingredients contained within the bowl assembly 110, comprising: a bowl 112 having an aperture 115 in its base; a drivable tool mount 200 for a food processing tool arranged to fit within the aperture 115; and a blanking plug 300 arranged to fit within the aperture 115; wherein the drivable tool mount 200 and blanking plug 300 are interchangeable with one another.
US12133607B2
Disclosed is a device for distributing capsules, including a container apt to receive in bulk a plurality of capsules and an ordering assembly placed inside the container, apt to arrange the capsules vertically for subsequent distribution; wherein the ordering assembly includes a rotating helical screw for mixing capsules, mounted on a basket rotating together with it, the basket having an inclined upper wall or slide, such that its height varies gradually from a minimum to a maximum along its periphery, and an open vertical seat apt to accommodate a capsule placed vertically and to distribute it through an opening formed on the bottom wall of the container.
US12133606B2
A food processing device includes a base portion with a motor housing upwardly extending from a first end of the base portion. A motor is disposed within the motor housing. A processing assembly extends upwardly from a second end of the base portion and is spaced-apart from the motor housing to define a processing area therebetween. An auger assembly includes an auger shaft that is operably coupled to the motor for driving rotational movement of the auger shaft. A clutch assembly is disposed within the motor housing and is operable between engaged and disengaged positions with the auger assembly. A disconnect feature is disposed on the motor housing and configured to selectively actuate movement of the clutch assembly between engaged and disengaged positions with the auger assembly. In use, a food substrate is mounted to the processing accessory and the auger shaft to process the food substrate.
US12133604B2
A system and method for receiving and securing a package that is delivered to a location. A bag receptacle is provided at the door. A locking assembly engages the bag receptacle. The locking assembly can hold the bag receptacle in an open configuration and can retain and lock the bag receptacle in a closed configuration. Strapping is used to connect the locking assembly to the outside surface of a door. The strapping encircles the door. A power module is supported by the strapping on the inside surface of the door, where it can be accessed with the door closed.
US12133598B2
The device is a hair extension holder capable of separating and holding individual hair pieces on a display board. The display board comprises a plurality of retainers shaped in the form of a “V” and a “Λ”, positioned within rows of cutouts. Each V and Λ shape traverse across each row in a staggered pattern, positioned one after another, in a VΛVΛV pattern. In this arrangement, each V and Λ shape function as a retainer, allowing the user to bend the retainer outward and hang each hair piece on the display board. Furthermore, the unique pattern of retainers allows the user to flip the display board around and use the same retainers on the front side to hold separate hair pieces on the back side. When starting the braiding process, the user simply pulls a hair piece out of the retainer, one at a time, and begins braiding.
US12133585B2
A dropper dispenser is provided and comprises a body and a dispensing tube. The body includes two or more parts. One or more of the parts is movable to create a vacuum to draw fluid into the dispensing tube.
US12133581B2
A small and handheld tool for opening small clasps and other closures. More specifically, the tool features an elongated handle, having a slider mechanism and a push button. The slider mechanism operates a slider or positioning arm and the spring-loaded push button operates a pair of clamps to hold the clasp in position. The slider arm and the pair of clamps extend from one end of the elongated handle. The pair of clamps secure the clasp between their rubber-tipped ends and the slider arm opens the clasp by moving a tab of the clasp radially along the surface of the clasp.
US12133565B2
An insect-proof, form-fitting undergarment is provided having top and bottom parts formed of selected breathable materials and having omnidirectional stretch properties, and which top and bottom parts may be securely joined at the waist to prevent insect entry. A superfine knitted fabric is utilized to prevent insect bites.
US12133562B2
Designing garments that include brassiere cups can be challenging due to the natural fluctuation of a woman's breast size, as well as a possible disconnect between the size of her breasts and the size of the rest of her body. The high range of size variability places pressure on stores to stock inventories that include great ranges of sizes. This places an inventory risk to the store, since rarer sizes may never sell. The disclosed garment addresses these issues by including a fit-adjustable brassiere portion. The cups of the fit-adjustable brassiere portion include fit-modifying panels that increase their flexibility and elasticity. The rear side of the fit-adjustable brassiere portion includes a back adjuster with highly elastic regions that enables the brassiere portion to fit a broader range of chest sizes. Each of these features give the garment a more universal fit and enable stores to carry fewer sizes.
US12133557B2
Disclosed is an aerosol-generating device which includes a power converter for supplying an alternating power to an induction coil, and controls switching elements in the power converter to change an operation mode of a power converter based on a temperature profile such that the power converter operates in a full bridge mode in a preheating section and operates in a half bridge mode in a smoking section.
US12133556B2
An aerosol-generating device is provided, including: an aerosol generator configured to generate an aerosol from an aerosol-forming substrate; a power supply; a first circuit board including a control circuit configured to control a supply of power from the power supply to the aerosol generator; a heat conductive assembly including a first end in thermal contact with the first circuit board and a second end spaced apart from the first circuit board; and a second circuit board, the first end of the heat conductive assembly being in thermal contact with the second circuit board, the second circuit board at least partially overlies the first circuit board, the second circuit board being spaced apart from the first circuit board, and the first end of the heat conductive assembly being positioned between the first circuit board and the second circuit board.
US12133547B2
A cigar tobacco strips and a method for rolling and packaging the same is provided. The cigar tobacco strip is rolled into cylindrical shape and placed within an enveloping means. The tobacco strip is wrapped into cylindrical form causing the cigar tobacco paper to form a plurality of layers, wherein said layer comprises a double strip section. The rolled tobacco strip is then placed inside an enveloping means. The encased tobacco strip within the enveloping means allows for the tobacco strip to keep a cylindrical shape until delivered and used by a consumer. The enveloping means may maintain the moisture for longer time due to the rolling method prior to delivery to a consumer.
US12133545B2
The present application relates to a plant-soaked solution comprising sugars containing tagatose and to a method for producing same.
US12133544B2
Flavour modifying composition comprising one or more specific flavour modifying compounds, product comprising said flavour modifying composition, use of said flavour modifying composition for modifying taste perception in foodstuffs and beverages and method of improving taste perception in a foodstuff or beverage comprising adding said flavour modifying composition to said foodstuff or beverage.
US12133540B2
A method provides for removing oil content from a source material and extracting protein from the source material prior to generating a protein concentrate, including decorticating the source material, the source material having a protein and an oil content therein, the decorticating to remove a cortex from the source material. The method includes creating a flour from the source material having the cortex removed therefrom, removing at least a portion of the oil content from the flour by generating a solvent mixture by mixing the flour with a solvent and extracting a de-oiled flour from the solvent mixture, including oil and sugars extracted from the flour. The solvent may include supercritical CO2, subcritical CO2, ethanol, or a combination thereof. The method includes drying the de-oiled flour using at least one dryer and extracting a protein concentrate from the de-oiled flour.
US12133538B2
The method for processing fermented or incubated cocoa beans comprises the steps of: adding water to fermented or incubated cocoa beans or nibs to form a suspension; wet grinding said suspension; subjecting said suspension to a heat treatment at a temperature of 70° C. or less; separating the suspension into a water phase (heavy phase), a fat phase (light phase) and a solid phase, said fat phase comprising cocoa butter as a major component and solids and/or water as minor components and said solid phase comprising cocoa powder and water; and separately processing the three phases, which comprises: neutralizing and/or removing acetic acid formed during fermentation or formed or added prior to or during an incubation of the cocoa beans via the water phase, and optionally separating cocoa butter from the fat phase, separating cocoa powder from the solid phase, and separating cocoa aroma and a polyphenolic powder from at least the water phase.
US12133534B2
A system that includes: a production device, a cleaning apparatus, and conveyor means. The production device includes: a mould drum with cavities; a mass feed means for feeding food mass to the cavities; and a gas pressure source to force the products from the cavities. The cleaning apparatus connects to a cleaning fluid source and includes: a control system that controls cleaning of the mould drum; means to clean an outer circumference of the mould drum; means to move the mould drum and/or means to move the means to clean the outer circumference of the mould drum during the cleaning; a collection trough to collect the cleaning fluid, and a cover. The control device automatically controls the cleaning such that the cleaning of the outer circumference of the mould drum takes place while and/or after the cavities are rinsed.
US12133524B1
The present invention provides a cryopreservation device with an integrated tracking device chamber. The tracking device can be an RFID tag which can be placed in the cryopreservation device as part of the procedure for vitrification of a biological specimen. The cryopreservation device maintains its integrity and keeps the RFID tag securely in the chamber at both ambient conditions when the specimen is collected and under liquid nitrogen where the specimen is stored. The cryopreservation device with an integrated tracking device chamber allows for each individual biological sample to have its own tracking device for monitoring during cryogenic storage.
US12133522B2
The present invention is directed to methods for collecting and processing autografts, processed autografts, kits for collecting and transporting autografts, and tools for preparing autografts. It is also directed to autologous bone grafts, and methods of preparing them.
US12133520B2
A rodent protection insert for a structure opening including a flexible polymer foam sheet having a protective mesh sheet carried on a front side which moves independently of the foam sheet. A securing member maintains a mechanical connection between the flexible polymer foam sheet and the mesh sheet. An airflow port is disposed in the flexible polymer foam sheet that includes a removable plug for controlling airflow through the airflow port. A perimeter edge of the flexible polymer foam sheet compresses against and conforms to interior wall surfaces within a structure opening when mounted to form an airtight seal against the interior wall surfaces and hold the foam sheet in place. The protective mesh sheet engages the interior wall surfaces when the flexible polymer foam sheet is compressed in the structure opening so that the protective mesh sheet stabilizes and supports the flexible polymer foam sheet within the structure opening.
US12133518B1
A fishing rod holder includes a tubular member capable of removably holding a fishing rod thereon. The tubular member includes a first annular wall enclosing a longitudinally extending first cavity portion and a second annular wall enclosing a longitudinally extending second cavity portion. The second annular wall includes an internally-threaded end portion at one end. The fishing rod holder also includes a spike detachably affixable to the tubular member. The spike has a stored configuration and a deployed configuration. At least a portion of the spike is disposed in the second cavity portion when in the stored configuration.
US12133510B2
The embodiments disclose a stress and strain gauge including at least one stress and strain sensor module configured to sense stresses and strains being applied by an animal biting a rope extending from a protective hand guard, a stress and strain gauge indicator coupled to the at least one stress and strain sensor configured for measuring the sensed stresses and strains as strain levels, a processor coupled to the stress and strain gauge indicator configured to dynamically analyze and compare the strain levels to predetermined threshold strain level measurements to determine a current animal play level that varies incrementally, and an alert module wirelessly coupled to the processor configured to notify a user of the protective hand guard in real-time of the current incremental animal play level.
US12133508B2
Systems and techniques are described for pet monitoring during unattended delivery. In some implementations, a monitoring system monitors a property includes sensors located throughout the property and generates sensor data. A monitor control unit receives a first indication that a resident of the property will be receiving a delivery during a delivery time. Based on the sensor data and during the delivery time, the monitor control unit determines that a pet, that resides at the property, has been restrained. The monitor control unit provides, to a delivery person, a second indication that the pet at the property has been restrained.
US12133507B2
A system and method for automatically drying-off a machine-milked dairy animal by controlling milk production during a gradual drying-off period. During the gradual drying-off period, the dairy animal is not milked out. For each milking during this period, an amount of milk to be removed is determined, which is less than the amount removed at a previous milking. When the amount of milk for the current milking has been removed from the dairy animal, milking is stopped. The start of the gradual drying-off period is calculated from the dry-off date, the desired date of cessation of milking for this lactation, and from a predetermined drying-off period.
US12133505B2
The invention provides seeds and plants of pepper line SMO-E718-0977. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper line SMO-E 718-0977 and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a pepper plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper line SMO-E718-0977 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US12133503B2
A soybean cultivar designated 06250837 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 06250837, to the plants of soybean cultivar 06250837, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 06250837, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 06250837. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 06250837. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 06250837, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 06250837 with another soybean cultivar.
US12133498B1
A novel maize variety designated 4ABSM1967 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant comprise crossing maize variety 4ABSM1967 with another maize plant are provided. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into 4ABSM1967 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are provided. Hybrid maize seed, plants or plant parts are produced by crossing the variety 4ABSM1967 or a locus conversion of 4ABSM1967 with another maize variety.
US12133497B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV521661. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV521661, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV521661 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV521661 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV521661.
US12133487B2
Techniques for providing improvements in agricultural science by optimizing irrigation treatment placements for testing are provided, including analyzing a plurality of digital images of a field to determine vegetation density changes in a sector of the field. The techniques proceed by comparing a distribution of pixel characteristics in the digital images for each field sector to determine sectors in which minimal differences are present. Instructions for irrigation placements and testing may then be displayed or modified based on the results of the sector determinations.
US12133486B2
Methods of propagating Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) are described that do not require the addition of, or presence of, any detectable live host plant material or live plant root material. The method comprises addition of water and optionally exposure to sunlight. It was surprisingly found that soil devoid of any detectable live host plant material, including host plant roots, is capable of supporting AMF reproduction, though it is widely believed that AMF are obligate symbionts requiring live plant roots for colonization to reproduce. Described methods optionally include active removal of living host plant material from the soil prior to AMF inoculation. Optionally, phosphorous compounds are added to the soil prior to inoculation. It was found that addition of phosphorous compounds, such as phosphite, to the soil enhances the growth of AMF spores by as much as three-fold over controls having no added phosphorous compounds.
US12133481B2
A main depth control input is detected, that indicates a depth of a soil engaging implement. A corresponding position of a stabilizer depth control actuator is identified, and a control signal is generated to control a main depth control actuator based on the main depth setting detected, and to control a stabilizer depth control actuator based upon the corresponding position identified.
US12137611B2
The present disclosure provides a compound of following formula and an organic light emitting device and an organic light emitting display device including the compound. The compound of the present disclosure serves as a host or a dopant in an emitting material layer.
US12137600B2
A display apparatus includes: a first unit pixel including a plurality of light-emitting diodes, and a second unit pixel including a plurality of light-emitting diodes and a photodetector diode. Each of the plurality of light-emitting diodes includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an emission layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the photodetector diode includes a third electrode, a fourth electrode facing the third electrode, an active layer disposed between the third electrode and the fourth electrode, and a color filter layer disposed between the fourth electrode and the active layer.
US12137591B2
An organic light emitting display apparatus includes an organic light emitting device provided in each of a plurality of subpixels, and a color shift prevention structure on the organic light emitting device.
US12137588B2
A display device includes a display region including a plurality of pixels, a plurality of first electrodes formed by wiring included in a first layer, and aligned in a first direction above the display region, a plurality of second electrodes formed by wiring included in the first layer, and aligned in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a connection wiring formed by wiring included in a second layer, and electrically connecting each of the plurality of first electrodes respectively, an insulating layer separating wiring included in the first layer and wiring included in the second layer, and a light shielding layer located at a different position to the connection wiring and overlapping a space between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes in the first layer, in a plan view.
US12137577B2
A display device includes a substrate, a first set of light emitting structures, a second set of light emitting structures, a diffraction layer, and a refraction pattern. The substrate includes a first region and a second region. The first set of light emitting structures overlaps the first region. The second set of light emitting structures overlaps the second region. The diffraction layer overlaps the first region without overlapping the second region. The refraction pattern overlaps the diffraction layer. The diffraction layer includes first-refractive-index members and second-refractive-index members that are alternately disposed. A refractive index of each of the first-refractive-index members is lower than a refractive index of each of the second-refractive-index members.
US12137568B2
A three-dimensional (3D) NAND memory device includes a substrate, a staircase region including a first stack and a second stack, a barrier structure extending vertically through the first stack and laterally separating the first stack from the second stack, and a through array contact extending vertically through the first stack to the substrate. The first stack is disposed on the substrate and includes first and second dielectric layers arranged alternately in a vertical direction. The second stack is disposed on the substrate and includes conductor layers and third dielectric layers arranged alternately in the vertical direction. The barrier structure has an unclosed shape.
US12137567B2
Embodiments of interconnect structures of a three-dimensional (3D) memory device and method for forming the interconnect structures are disclosed. In an example, a 3D NAND memory device includes a substrate, an alternating layer stack including a staircase structure on the substrate, and a barrier structure extending vertically through the alternating layer stack. The alternating layer stack includes an alternating dielectric stack and an alternating conductor/dielectric stack. The alternating dielectric stack includes dielectric layer pairs enclosed by at least the barrier structure. The alternating conductor/dielectric stack includes conductor/dielectric layer pairs. The memory device further includes a channel structure and a slit structure each extending vertically through the alternating conductor/dielectric stack, an etch stop layer on an end of the channel structure, and first contacts. Each of a conductor layer of the alternating conductor/dielectric stack in the staircase structure, the etch stop layer, and the slit structure is in contact with one of the first contacts.
US12137565B2
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, memory openings vertically extending through the alternating stack, and memory opening fill structures located within the memory openings. Each of the electrically conductive layers includes a metallic fill material layer and a plurality of vertical tubular metallic liners laterally surrounding a respective one of the memory opening fill structures and located between the metallic fill material layer and a respective one of the memory opening fill structures. The tubular metallic liners may be formed by selective metal or metal oxide deposition, or by conversion of surface portions of the metallic fill material layers into metallic compound material portions by nitridation, oxidation, or incorporation of boron atoms.
US12137552B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a first gate structure, a second gate structure, and a first active region. The first gate structure extends along a first direction and is electrically connected to a first transistor. The second gate structure extends along the first direction and is electrically connected to a second transistor. The first active region extends along a second direction different from the first direction and across the first gate structure and the second gate structure. The first gate structure and the first active region collaboratively form a first fuse element. The second gate structure and the first active region collaboratively form a second fuse element.
US12137545B2
Example implementations relate to an integrated circuit (IC) package, an electronic device having the IC package, and a method of assembling the IC package to a printed circuit board (PCB) of the electronic device. The IC package includes a substrate, a chip, and an electromagnetic shield. The chip is coupled to the substrate. The electromagnetic shield is coupled to the substrate such that the chip is enclosed between the substrate and the electromagnetic shield. The electromagnetic shield includes a ferromagnetic material. Further, the electromagnetic shield protrudes beyond the substrate and is electrically grounded to the PCB to prevent an electromagnetic interference (EMI) noise from radiating through the IC package.
US12137541B2
Data storage systems may include a chassis with a first end and a second end. One or more fans may be positioned at the first end of the chassis. At least one storage media device may be positioned inside the chassis and behind the at least one fan relative to the first end of the chassis. A carrier including a frame may be coupled to the at least one storage media device, where the frame includes an elongated member extending away from the storage media device toward the first end of the chassis. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.
US12137538B2
A cooling system includes a first module, a second module provided at a different position in a depth direction of a housing with respect to the first module, a third module provided at a different position in a width direction of the housing with respect to the first module and the second module, an upstream side tube configured to supply a cooling medium to a cooling member of the first module, a downstream side tube configured to supply the cooling medium passed through the cooling member of the first module to a cooling member of the second module, and a branch tube configured to branch from the downstream side tube and supply the cooling medium to a cooling member of the third module.
US12137534B2
A hardware-based fan controller for controlling fan modules in a computer system having multiple computer nodes is disclosed. Each of the computer nodes has a service processor. The fan controller includes a slave module that receives fan speed commands from each of the service processors. A fan speed generator is coupled to the slave module and a subset of the fan modules. The fan speed generator receives fan speed commands from the slave module and fan speed outputs from the subset of fan modules. The fan speed generator is configured to output a speed command to each of the fan modules in the subset.
US12137533B2
Described herein is a compact combined active and passive cooling system to cool electronic audio-video circuitry, wherein all of the AV circuitry and cooling system fits within an enclosure that can be installed in a standard wall gang-box located in interior walls of structures. The combined active and passive cooling system uses convection, conduction, and radiation in active and passive cooling modes to dissipate heat generated by the AV circuitry into the room in which the gang box is located, and further uses the wall plate surface to dissipate heat into the room.
US12137524B2
The disclosure is and includes at least an apparatus, system and method for a rotary table suitable to receive surface mount technology (SMT) components onto a circuit board associated therewith. The apparatus, system and method may include a frame suitable for insertion into a pick and place machine, and having a receiving inset therein; a fixture suitable for removable insertion to the receiving inset; a plurality of roller bearings interactively associated with the fixture, and which impart a low friction roll to at least a perimeter portion of the fixture; and at least one guide on the frame suitable to at least partially positional maintain the circuit board associated with the fixture.
US12137521B2
A multilayer circuit board includes an upper surface and an opposing lower surface. An electrically insulating layer is disposed between the upper and lower surfaces. A plurality of electrically conductive upper and lower rear pads are disposed proximate a rear edge on the respective upper and lower surfaces for termination of a plurality of wires. The upper and lower rear pads include respective upper and lower rear ground pads substantially aligned with each other and configured for termination of ground wires. A plurality of electrically conductive front pads are disposed proximate a front edge for insertion into a connector and electrically connected to the upper and lower rear pads. An electrically conductive via extends from the upper rear ground pad to the lower rear ground pad and makes electrical and physical contact with each of the upper and lower rear ground pads.
US12137518B2
An information handling system includes a printed circuit board, which in turn includes a differential pair, a ground trace, and a ground via. The differential pair includes first and second traces. The ground trace is routed between the first and second traces of the differential pair. The ground via is located along the ground trace. The ground trace and the ground via combine to create a common mode signal filter, which in turn resets a skew of the differential pair.
US12137516B2
One way to stop electromagnetic fields from leaking outside of a module is an electric wall. Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to emulating an electric wall with through vias. The through vias may be arranged around cavities in the printed circuit board. The density of the through vias may be selected based on an expected wavelength of the electromagnetic fields. The printed circuit board may then self-isolate components within the cavities from the electromagnetic fields.
US12137510B2
Several embodiments include a cooking instrument. The cooking instrument can include a heating system. The heating system can include one or more heating elements capable of emitting wireless energy into the cooking chamber. The cooking instrument can also include a control system. The control system can select a quantifiable cooking result and drive the heating system to achieve such cooking result. In at least one mode of operation, the control system can increase power density despite a power draw limit of an external power source.
US12137505B2
Provided is a floodlight control apparatus including a light receiving part which is provided with a plurality of light receiving elements which receives reflected light of light projected by a light projecting part, and an object detecting part which performs object detection targeted within a distance measurable range which is a range where the light receiving part is operable to receive the reflected light. The floodlight control apparatus further includes a control part which performs control of differentiating a light projection amount provided by the light projecting part in accordance with detection presence/absence of an object performed by the object detecting part and in a case where the object detecting part detects the object, differentiating a projection mode of the light projecting part between a detection region and a non-detection region of the object.
US12137497B2
Systems and methods for tracking mobile devices are provided. One system comprises at least one processor and memory storing code which when executed by the at least one processor configure the at least one processor to perform a method of tracking a mobile device. The method comprises receiving a disassemble international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) attach message from a base station, identifying the identified mobile device within a location area using the IMSI and LAI, receiving a decode and capture message from the base station, and identifying the unidentified mobile device as being the identified mobile device within the location area. The disassemble IMSI attach message includes an IMSI and a location area identity (LAI) associated with an identified mobile device. The decode and capture message includes a temporary mobile subscriber identity (TMSI) and LAI associated with an unidentified mobile device.
US12137490B2
A first apparatus including: a processor; a memory; and communication circuitry. The first apparatus is connected to a communications network via the communication circuitry. The first apparatus further includes computer-executable instructions stored in the memory which, when executed by the processor, causes the first apparatus to: discover a second apparatus that the first apparatus can communicate with; obtain device information related to the second apparatus; and configure a radio protocol of the first apparatus for direct sidelink communication with the second apparatus.
US12137484B2
A method is performed by a wireless transmitting device for a communication network. The communication network implements a standard in which transmitting devices contend for access to a wireless transmission medium, a transmitting device being permitted to transmit using the wireless transmission medium for a window of time upon winning contention. The method includes: initiating a first, initial transmission to one or more wireless receiving devices in the window of time, the first transmission including a first preamble; and, subsequent to the first transmission, initiating a second transmission to one or more wireless receiving devices in the window of time, the second transmission including a second preamble which is shorter than the first preamble, or including no preamble.
US12137482B2
A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives information indicating mapping relation between transmission occasions for a random access preamble and transmission occasions for a physical uplink shared channel for a MessageA transmission in a two step random access procedure; and a control unit that selects, based on the mapping relation, a transmission occasion for the physical uplink shared channel for the MessageA transmission in the two step random access procedure.
US12137475B2
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a method by which a first device performs sidelink communication with a second device. The method can comprise the steps of: determining a first resource for first sidelink transmission; receiving, from the second device or a third device, on an Nth slot, SCI including information related to a second resource for second sidelink transmission; determining, on the basis of a DMRS RSRP threshold value and a DMRS RSRP measurement value of a first PSCCH related to the SCI, whether to reselect the first resource overlapping with the second resource on an N+Kth slot spaced from the Nth slot by K slot length; and transmitting, to the second device, a second PSCCH related to the first sidelink transmission or a PSSCH related to the second PSCCH, on the basis of the determination on whether to reselect.
US12137474B2
An apparatus in a base station and comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer code for one or more programs, the at least one memory and the computer code configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus at least to: cause scheduling information to be transmitted to a plurality of communication devices and control information to be transmitted to at least one communication device of the plurality of communication devices, said control information controlling in the respective communication device at least one of triggering an inter communication device interference reduction mechanism and parameters of the inter communication device interference reduction mechanism.
US12137471B2
Provided are information transmission method and apparatus. The information transmission method includes that: D control channel resource groups are determined, control information is detected in the D control channel resource groups, and transmission of a channel and/or signal is performed according to control information which is detected.
US12137469B2
This application discloses a method for configuring a positioning reference signal, a network device, and a terminal. The method includes: transmitting resource configuration information of a positioning reference signal; and transmitting the positioning reference signal based on a resource pattern indicated by the resource configuration information, where the resource configuration information includes at least one parameter item, a value of the parameter item is one of at least two optional values corresponding to the parameter item, and the resource pattern is related to the value of the parameter item.
US12137458B2
Configured grant operations for new radio (NR) unlicensed spectrum (NR-U) carrier aggregation (CA) are disclosed. In an aspect, a method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) may include transmitting uplink (UL) data to a base station according to a configured grant configuration. The method may also include determining a carrier to receive feedback from the base station based on the configured grant configuration. The method may further include receiving feedback from the base station on the carrier in response to the transmitting of the UL data.
US12137456B2
The invention relates to the allocation of radio resources by a transmitting user equipment to perform a plurality of direct SL transmissions to one or more receiving user equipments. The allocation of radio resources within a SC period is restricted, for the SC period, by a maximum number of SL processes with which a transmitting user equipment is configured. A plurality of SL grants is acquired. Among the acquired SL grants a number of those SL grants is selected that have most recently been acquired before the start of the subsequent SC period. A plurality of SL processes is associated such that each of the plurality of SL process is associated with a different one of the selected number of SL grants. For each of the plurality of the SL processes, the radio resources are allocated. Each of the plurality of SL transmissions comprises at least one SCI transmission and at least one data transmission over the SL interface.
US12137455B2
The embodiments of the present application disclose a sidelink communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes: determining, by a terminal device, a time frequency resource of a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) in a first time frequency unit; and receiving or transmitting, by the terminal device, the PSCCH on the time frequency resource. The method, the terminal device, and the network device in the embodiments of the present application help reducing the complexity of PSCCH detection by a terminal device at the receiving end.
US12137454B2
A method for processing a control channel at a user agent (UA) to identify power control commands within a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of, at a user agent, monitoring for power control messages on a single carrier, decoding a message received on the single carrier to generate decoded information and using the decoded information to identify a power control command for each of at least first and second carriers.
US12137447B2
A method for a UE for performing a HARQ feedback operation for an SPS transmission is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a transmission configuration for a scheduled transmission, the transmission configuration indicating a first number of HARQ processes used for the scheduled transmission; receiving an SPS transmission configuration for an SPS transmission, the SPS transmission configuration indicating a second number of HARQ processes used for the SPS transmission; receiving scheduling signaling including a reserved HARQ process number for indicating that a HARQ state feedback operation for the scheduled transmission is disabled; determining a first HARQ process number corresponding to the SPS transmission, the first HARQ process number being selected according to the second number of HARQ processes and being equivalent to the reserved HARQ process number; and transmitting a HARQ state feedback for the SPS transmission with a second HARQ process number derived according to the first HARQ process number.
US12137443B2
A DCI receiving unit receives downlink control information (DCI) indicative of allocation of an uplink (UL) signal of a first TTI (long TTI) or an uplink signal of a second TTI (sTTI) having a shorter TTI length than the first TTI; a transmission power determination unit determines transmission power of the uplink signal of the first TTI and transmission power of the uplink signal of the second TTI; and a transmitting unit transmits the uplink signal of the first TTI and the uplink signal of the second TTI by using the determined transmission power on the basis of the downlink control information. The transmission power determination unit reserves desired transmission power for the uplink signal of the second TTI in the first TTI in a case where decoding of the downlink control information indicative of allocation of the uplink signal of the second TTI to be transmitted within the first TTI (e.g., a subframe) is completed before start of transmission of the uplink signal of the first TTI.
US12137441B2
Provided are a user equipment, a base station and wireless communication methods related to physical resource configuration for sidelink communication in NR. A user equipment comprises: circuitry which, in operation, determines a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) assigned for transmitting and/or receiving a physical sidelink channel in a carrier; and a transceiver which, in operation, transmits and/or receives the physical sidelink channel based on the TTI in the carrier, wherein the duration of the TTI is less than a slot duration.
US12137440B2
Methods and systems include beamformed wireless communications to and from a user equipment electronic device. During operation of the user equipment electronic device, a change in slot aggregation is made. Using the aggregated slots, the user equipment electronic device and/or a wireless network utilize beam sweeps to determine a best beam pairing by repeating a shared channel in the aggregated slots with a beam sweep of multiple beams between the user equipment electronic device and the wireless network.
US12137439B2
A resource indication method, and a device, are provided. The method includes that: a first network device sends first signaling to a second network device, the first signaling including N pieces of indication information for indicating symbol-level configuration information, the first signaling being for configuring more than N slots according to N pieces of symbol-level configuration information and the symbol-level configuration information being for configuring a symbol for data transmission in a slot; and the first network device performs data transmission with the second network device according to the symbol-level configuration information corresponding to the indication information in the first signaling. It is not required to indicate symbol-level configuration information of each slot, thereby reducing a signaling overhead. It is not required to uniformly indicate symbol-level configuration information of all the slots either, thus improving symbol-level configuration flexibility.
US12137437B2
Embodiments are presented herein of processors, systems, and methods for performing cellular sidelink communication using a sidelink control channel with frequency hopping and multi-beam diversity. A first wireless device may receive cellular sidelink control channel configuration information. The cellular sidelink control channel configuration information may indicate a cellular sidelink control channel configuration that includes one or more of frequency hopping or multi-beam diversity. The first wireless device may perform cellular sidelink communication with a second wireless device using the cellular sidelink control channel configuration that includes one or more of frequency hopping or multi-beam diversity.
US12137436B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a control message identifying a frequency hop configuration that configures the UE to use frequency hopping when transmitting repetitions of an uplink shared channel transmission. The UE, the base station, or both may determine, based on the UE being configured with the frequency hop configuration, a frequency hop for each repetition of the uplink shared channel transmission. Each frequency hop may be determined based on a corresponding uplink shared channel index for a respective repetition a frequency hop for each repetition of the uplink shared channel transmission. The uplink shared channel index may be an uplink transmission occasion index, or a repetition index. The UE may transmit the repetitions of the uplink shared channel transmission using respective frequency hops in accordance with the determination and the frequency hop configuration.
US12137433B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Accordingly, embodiments herein disclose a method for providing service(s) to an edge application server (EAS) in an edge data network (EDN). The method includes receiving, by an EES, an EAS usage indication from an edge enabler client (EEC) of a user equipment (UE), where the EAS usage indication comprises at least one parameter.
US12137428B1
A first access point (AP) receives a first physical layer (PHY) data unit for initiating a joint channel sounding procedure between a group of APs and one or more client stations. The first AP receives a second PHY data unit for initiating a joint transmission by the group of APs. The first AP uses training signals in the first PHY data unit and the second PHY data unit to calculate a relative timing offset. The first AP uses the relative timing offset to adjust a transmit time of a third PHY data transmitted as part of the joint transmission.
US12137425B2
There is disclosed a method of operating an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node in a radio access network, the IAB node being connected to a first parent IAB node via a first backhaul link, the method including communicating with one or more child nodes based on a downlink timing, the downlink timing being based on a function of one or more values of a first timing parameter, the values of the first timing parameter being indicated by corresponding first timing indicators received from the first parent IAB node and/or one or more values of a second timing parameter, the values of the second timing parameter being indicated by corresponding second timing indicators received from the first parent IAB node. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices.
US12137423B2
The present disclosure discloses an electromagnetic radiation safety control method, which belongs to the field of wireless communication technologies. The method includes: a terminal obtains a transmit power threshold according to a service requirement of service transmitted with a base station, performs a step of detecting a relationship between a beam direction and a position of a human body when a relationship between a current transmit power of the terminal and the transmit power threshold meets a specified condition, and reports safety control information to the base station when it is detected the relationship between the beam direction and the position of the human body meets a predetermined relationship, so as to instruct the base station to perform a control operation related to electromagnetic radiation safety.
US12137419B2
A power management approach for a mobile device includes comparing a battery provided power supply voltage to a reference voltage in order to generate an alarm signal. In response to the alarm signal the frequency of an operating clock applied to a system-on-chip is changed.
US12137417B2
A communication device 100 includes a communicator 140 configured to perform wireless communication, and a controller 120 configured to switch the communicator 140 to an active state when data communication with a server is initiated by the communicator 140, and to switch the communicator 140 to an inactive state when the data communication is completed. The communicator 140 confirms, during the data communication, whether a firmware update of the communicator 140 is available, and in a case where the firmware update is available, notifies to the controller 120 that the firmware update is available. The controller 120 maintains, in response to receiving, from the communicator 140, notification that the firmware update is available, the communicator 140 in the active state even after the data communication is completed.
US12137411B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for reducing user equipment (UE) power consumption, and relates to the field of wireless communications technologies. The method includes: obtaining, by a UE, a network configuration parameter of the UE, where the UE is an electronic device that supports a 5th generation mobile communications technology non-standalone (5G NSA) networking mode and/or a 5th generation mobile communications technology standalone (5G SA) networking mode; determining whether the network configuration parameter of the UE is less than a set threshold, where being less than the set threshold is used to indicate that an Internet speed of the UE is limited; and if the network configuration parameter of the UE is less than the set threshold, starting, by the UE, a power consumption reduction procedure.
US12137400B1
An example device includes multiple Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) transceivers, wherein a first BLE transceiver is configured to receive a first BLE advertising signal on a first channel of a BLE frequency band, a second BLE transceiver is configured to receive a second BLE advertising signal on a second channel of the BLE frequency band, and a third BLE transceiver is configured to receive a third BLE advertising signal on a third BLE channel. The first BLE transceiver, the second BLE transceiver, and the third BLE transceiver currently listen for the BLE advertising signals. Processing logic coupled to the BLE transceivers determines data indicative of a distance from the device to a tag that is a source of BLE advertising signals and provides the data to one of a location server or an asset management system.
US12137397B2
A system, method and architecture for network-assisted scanning of a surrounding environment. In one example arrangement, the system is operative for receiving one or more pieces of environmental data from a plurality of collection agents, each collection agent operating with a plurality of sensors configured to sense data relating to a respective location area of an environment, wherein the one or more environmental data is received responsive to determining that a portion of the environmental data is necessary for updating a consumption point report. Based on the received data, an updated consumption point report may be generated, which may be transmitted to a data consumption point.
US12137394B2
A method, a gateway, a synchronization server, a corresponding terminal and a system for transmitting a message intended for a first terminal, referred to as a destination terminal, from a second terminal, referred to as a source terminal, to at least one third terminal, referred to as an associated terminal, sharing a same identifier with the destination terminal. The method includes, following reception of the message by a gateway, transmitting from the gateway to a synchronization server the message by using a first signaling protocol and recovering by the at least one associated terminal the message intended for the destination terminal from the synchronization server by using a first synchronization message.
US12137389B2
Systems and methods for computing device association are described. One aspect includes receiving first and second network communication data for a first and second computing device over a communication network, respectively. For each computing device, a first and second data set are extracted from the first and second network communication data, respectively. The first data set includes first spatial data and first temporal data associated with the first computing device. The second data set includes second spatial data and second temporal data associated with the second computing device. The first and second data sets are correlated. A first geometric distance between the first temporal data and the second temporal data and a second geometric distance between the first spatial data and the second spatial data are computed. The method identifies that the first computing device and the second computing device belong to a common user.
US12137388B2
A method for localizing a target device (TD) by a user device (UD) includes determining whether the TD is within a range and within a field-of-view (FoV) of the UD based on a UWB channel between the TD and the UD. In response to a determination that the TD is outside the range and not within the FoV, the method includes identifying a first electronic device. The method also includes transmitting, to the first electronic device, a request for localizing the TD using an out-of-band channel. The method further includes receiving, from the first electronic device, location information of the TD on the out-of-band channel. The location information represents a candidate location of the TD in a coordinate system of the first or a second electronic device. Additionally, the method includes identifying a TD location with respect to a coordinate system of the UD based on the candidate location.
US12137386B2
Provided is a method for a user equipment (UE). The method includes determining a mobility state of the UE and performing reference signal measurement in a relaxation mode within at least one cell. The mobility state indicates mobility capability of the UE, and, the at least one cell is determined based on the mobility state.
US12137383B2
There is herein disclosed a method of measuring the performance of a first communication channel at a first access point in a WLAN, in which the first access point is associated to a client device so that the first access point can send data to, and/or receive data from, the client device on a second communication channel, the method including disassociating the first access point to the client device and associating a second access point to the client device; switching the working channel of the first access point from the second communication channel to the first communication channel; and making one or more performance measurements in respect of the first communication channel at the first access point.
US12137376B2
In a multi-hop network including a wireless relay device and a gateway device, the wireless relay device includes a determination unit which determines whether a wireless device connected to the wireless relay device supports a routing protocol of the multi-hop network, and a notification unit which notifies the gateway device or another wireless relay device in the multi-hop network of information for identifying the wireless device when the determination unit determines that the wireless device does not support the routing protocol.
US12137375B2
A wireless communication system comprising a user equipment (UE) component configured to receive a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) packet. The UE component is configured to duplicate the V2X packet to form a plurality of duplicated V2X packets at a protocol stack layer of the UE component, wherein each duplicated V2X packet is associated with a directional range.
US12137373B2
This disclosure provides a method for determining a transport block size (TBS) of a transport block and a communications apparatus. The method includes: A communications apparatus determines a data block size corresponding to each of n code words, where the n code words correspond to a same transport block, and n is an integer greater than 1; and then, the communications apparatus determines a TBS of the transport block based on a data block size of one or more of the n code words.
US12137366B2
A resource sharing marketplace platform includes a back-office server including a controller adapted to run a plurality of integrated systems and a wireless communication module in communication with the controller, wherein, the resource sharing marketplace platform is adapted to receive a request from a user, collect data from a plurality of acceptable service providers, and provide a response to the user.
US12137360B2
A terminal is disclosed including a processor that when a search space for a beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure associated with a control resource set (CORESET) for the BFR procedure is configured by a radio resource control (RRC) information element, performs to monitor downlink control channel during the BFR procedure in the search space for the BFR procedure configured by the RRC information element, and when the search space is not configured by the RRC information element, performs to monitor the downlink control channel during the BFR procedure in a common search space; and a receiver that monitors the downlink control channel during the BFR procedure. In other aspects a radio communication method, a base station, and a system are also disclosed.
US12137356B2
Provided is a technology capable of securing satisfactory communication quality. A communication system includes a user equipment, and a base station configured to be connected to the user equipment to perform radio communication with the user equipment. The user equipment performs radio communication with a beam. When the user equipment detects a beam disappearance state being a state incapable of maintaining communication quality with the base station, the user equipment transmits a notification of the beam disappearance state with a beam having a wider half width than a half width before detection of the beam disappearance state.
US12137346B2
A computer implemented method of selective transmission of a communications message from a home telecommunications network to a visited telecommunications network for delivery to a subscriber device roaming via the visited network includes receiving the message at the home network; identifying a communications component of the visited network to which the messages is to be routed; defining an input vector for a classifier, the input vector encoding parameters of the communications component; executing the classifier to classify the communications component to determine a reliability state of the communications component; and forwarding the message to the communications component of the visited network for delivery to the subscriber device in dependence on the classified reliability state.
US12137334B2
A linear motor magnet assembly for use in a loudspeaker unit, with a fixed base actuator component and a membrane actuating element, the membrane actuating element having a linear excursion axis. A first auxiliary magnetic element and a second auxiliary magnetic element are present, the first auxiliary magnetic element providing a first auxiliary spatial magnetic field with a major axis aligned with the linear excursion axis. The second auxiliary magnetic element is fixedly connected to the membrane actuating element of the linear motor magnet assembly and has a second auxiliary spatial magnetic field, the second auxiliary magnetic field overlapping the first auxiliary spatial magnetic field and being substantially similarly oriented as the first auxiliary spatial magnetic field over a first predetermined excursion range of the linear motor magnet assembly.
US12137333B2
An electrodynamic actuator (1a . . . 1c) for a plate like structure (25) or membrane (2) is disclosed, which comprises a voice coil (7, 7a, 7b), a magnet system (8) and a plurality of arms (17a . . . 17t) coupling the voice coil (7, 7a, 7b) and the magnet system (8) in a movable manner. The arms (17a . . . 17t) are made of a metal with a fatigue strength of at least 370 N/mm2 or an ultimate tensile strength of at least 1100 N/mm2. Each of the arms (17a . . . 17t) comprises at least two arm sections (s, s1, s2), which are arranged movable to each other, and which are connected to each other by means of a damping material (18a . . . 18g) with a tensile storage modulus of 0.1-6000 MPa and a tensile loss factor of at least 0.1, each measured at room temperature of 20° C. Moreover the invention relates to speaker (5) and an electrodynamic transducer (26a, 26b) with such an electrodynamic actuator (1a . . . 1c) and a method of manufacturing an intermediate product for such an electrodynamic actuator (1a . . . 1c).
US12137332B2
The present disclosure relates to an audio device and an operation method thereof. The audio device may include a speaker; a plurality of microphones spaced a predetermined distance apart from each other; and controller. The controller controls the plurality of microphones to receive audio output from an external audio device, determines a location of the external audio device on the basis of signals received from the plurality of microphones and adjusts a setting for an audio output from at least one of the external audio device and the speaker, based on the location of the external audio device.
US12137329B2
Systems and methods are described for improving audio quality. Sensor data is received from an accelerometer of a camera. Based on measurements captured by the sensor data, a position of a lens of the camera and a current field of view (FOV) of the camera is determined. Audio beamforming is performed based on the current FOV of the camera by selecting a subset of microphones disposed on the camera to record audio based on the position of the lens and the current FOV of the camera; and activating the subset of microphones disposed on the camera, where microphones outside the selected subset of microphones are excluded from activation so that audio originating outside of the current FOV is removed.
US12137317B2
A loudspeaker device may include a speaker component, a circuit housing configured to accommodate a control circuit, and a key module disposed on the core housing. The speaker component may include an earphone core and a core housing for accommodating the earphone core. The control circuit may drive the earphone core to vibrate to generate a sound, and the vibration of the earphone core may include at least two resonance peaks. The key module may include a key and an elastic bearing for supporting the key. The elastic bearing may include an integrally formed bearing body and a support column.
US12137316B2
One or more earbuds comprise one or more external connectors for removably coupling the earbuds with an additional article. The one or more earbuds are additionally able to comprise magnets for removably coupling with each other. In some embodiment, the one or more earbuds are configured to removably couple with a base unit. Based on a coupling and decoupling of the one or more earbuds with the base unit, a signal is sent to control a remotely located electronic device.
US12137313B2
An ear insert having a funnel-shaped wall defining a tapering channel extending between first and second open ends, the first open end having a diameter greater than that of the second open end, wherein a portion of the funnel-shaped wall adjacent the second open end enables the ear insert to be located within the opening of a user's ear canal, with the first open end adjacent the user's tragus and the second open end facing the user's tympanic membrane, at least a portion of the tapering channel having an acoustic wave reflecting region extending from a location at or near the first open end toward the second open end at an angle of 60°-75° relative to a lateral plane defined by the edge of the funnel-shaped wall at the first open end.
US12137307B2
An information processing device includes: a communication interface that receives instructions including a command to control an instrument; a storage that stores a rule of an execution procedure of the command; a CPU that verifies the instructions; and an output interface that outputs a verification result of the instructions. The CPU acquires the instructions through the communication interface, reads the rule from the storage, and detects a defect of the instructions by comparing an execution procedure of the command included in the instructions with the rule. The output interface outputs a detection result of the defect.
US12137281B2
A computer-implemented system is provided that includes instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations for transporting data over content delivery networks, the operations comprising: segmenting a data stream into a plurality of segments, where a segment may include at least one packet; generating a manifest file containing information associated with one or more segments in the plurality of segments, receiving a request for the manifest file, transmitting the manifest file to a receiver through a content delivery network, receiving a request for a segment in the manifest file, and transmitting the requested segment to the receiver through the content delivery network.
US12137267B2
Systems and methods for dynamic communication and control of devices associated with a premises are disclosed. The systems and methods may include a device such as a camera that may be configured via configuration service to capture video of a premises and to transmit segments of the captured video having a pre-determined length of time to a video service. The transmission of the video segments may be periodic and may have a frequency of transmission based on parameters provided by the configuration service.
US12137266B2
A system for processing video files includes receiving the video files, transcoding each of the video files, and making available each of the transcoded video files to a target platform. A predictive analysis process estimates the respective end times that each of the video files will be available for the target platform. Each of the respective end times are compared against a licensing window associated with the respective video file.
US12137263B2
Systems and methods for updating advertisements embedded in a media asset scheduled for download at a future time. The media guidance application may receive a request from a user to download a media asset at a future time, where the media asset includes a plurality of embedded advertisements. The media guidance application may determine whether to update an embedded advertisement in the plurality of embedded advertisements. After determining to update the embedded advertisement, the media guidance application may replace the embedded advertisement with an updated advertisement in the media asset.
US12137260B2
Systems and methods are described for a media guidance application (e.g., implemented on a user device) that dynamically adapts network performance parameters for applications based on their respective usage likelihoods.
US12137259B2
A system is configured to enhance a video feed in real time. A live video feed captured by a video capturing device is received. A presentation of the live video feed on one or more client devices is enhanced. The enhancing includes causing a first content item of a plurality of content items to be displayed at a first location within the presentation of the five video feed. Based on a detecting of a first instance of a first gesture made by a hand at the first location in the live video feed, a content item manipulation mode with respect to the first content item is entered. The entering of the content item manipulation mode with respect to the first content includes at least one of causing the first content item to be moved within the presentation of the live video feed based on a movement of the hand or causing a scale of the first content item to be changed within the presentation of the live video feed based on a detecting of a second gesture made by the hand.
US12137257B2
A method for processing a video includes determining a valid splitting type for a current video block; determining whether or how to signal a splitting type to be used for the current video block based on the determination of the valid splitting type; and performing a conversion between the current video block and a bitstream representation of the current video block in accordance with the determining results.
US12137256B2
Interpolation between explicitly signaled CPB (or HRD) parameters at selected bit rates is used to achieve a good compromise between CPB parameter transmission capacity and CPB parametrization effectiveness and may be, particularly, made in an effective manner.
US12137252B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for video processing are described. The video processing may include video encoding, video decoding or video transcoding. One example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a video including one or more video regions and a bitstream of the video according to a format rule. The format rule specifies that a variable X indicates whether B slice is allowed or used in a video region. The format rule further specifies that the variable X is based on values of a reference picture list information present flag and/or a field indicating a number of entries in a reference picture list syntax structure.
US12137249B2
A method of utilizing an 8-bit primary transform core matrix to decode compressed video or image data or encode uncompressed video or image data. The method may include determining whether to use a first transform core matrix that is of a first size type or a second transform core matrix that is of a second size type that is smaller than the first size type. When a result of the determination is to use the first transform core matrix, encoding or decoding the target file using the 8-bit primary transform core matrix that has the size that is 64-point or larger. If not, the method may include extracting the second transform core matrix of the second size type from the first transform matrix and encoding or decoding the target file using the extracted second transform core matrix.
US12137237B2
This disclosure relates to improved video coding scheme for zero residual or zero coefficient flags. For example, a method for decoding a current block in a video stream is disclosed. The method may include determining a zero-skip flag of at least one neighboring block of the current block as a reference zero-skip flag; determining a prediction mode for the current block as being either an intra prediction mode or inter prediction mode; deriving at least one context for decoding the zero-skip flag of the current block based on the reference zero-skip flag and the current prediction mode; and decoding the zero-skip flag of the current block according to the at least one context.
US12137227B2
Encoding and/or decoding a block of a video frame may be based on a previously decoded reference block in the same frame or in a different frame. The reference block may be indicated by a block vector (BV). The BV may be encoded as difference between a block vector predictor (BVP) and the BV. The BVP may be adjusted to improve prediction accuracy of the BVP.
US12137226B2
A method of determining a reference picture set (RPS), which is a set of reference pictures used in predictive decoding of a current picture that is to be decoded includes: obtaining a flag indicating whether the RPS is determined based on POC values of the current picture and a previous picture or whether the RPS is determined based on an index of a reference RPS, which is an identification value of the reference RPS that is one of pre-defined RPSs and is referred to in determining the RPS, and a delta RPS that is a difference value between a POC vale of a reference picture included in the reference RPS and a POC value of a reference picture included in the RPS; and determining the RPS according to a value of the flag.
US12137218B2
There is provided an image decoding method comprising: deriving a first prediction value of a current block by using at least one sample included in a reference block, obtaining an illumination compensation parameter on the basis of a predetermined reference region, deriving a second prediction value of the current block by applying the illumination compensation parameter to the first prediction value and reconstructing the current block on the basis of the second prediction value.
US12137217B2
A device for encoding video data includes a memory configured to store video data, and a video encoder implemented in circuitry and configured to encode a future picture of the video data having a first display order position, the future picture being included in an intra period (IP) of the video data, the IP comprising a plurality of groups of pictures (GOPs), and after encoding the future picture, encode a picture of an ordinal first GOP of the plurality of GOPs using the future picture as a reference picture, each picture of the ordinal first GOP having display order positions earlier than the first display order position. Encoding the future picture in this manner may result in encoding performance improvements with minimal increases in encoding and decoding complexity.
US12137213B2
An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise: a step for deriving an inter prediction mode from encoded information; a step for constructing reference pictures lists; a step for deriving motion information including reference picture indices for symmetric motion vector differences (SMVD) on the basis of reference pictures included in the reference picture lists; and a step for generating prediction samples on the basis of the motion information. The reference picture indices for SMVD may be derived on the basis of short-term reference pictures included in the reference picture lists.
US12137205B2
A method and device for video signal processing are provided. The method includes: an intra prediction mode of a current block is determined, a reference sample for intra prediction of the current block is determined, a predetermined matrix is determined based on the intra prediction mode, and the current block is predicted based on the reference sample and the matrix. The operation of predicting the current block based on the reference sample and the matrix includes a prediction block is generated by applying the matrix to the reference sample.
US12137196B2
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a technique for creating color conversion parameters for performing highly accurate conversion. One embodiment of the present invention is an information processing apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire information relating to a geometrical condition in a case where a color chart irradiated with light is captured; and a determination unit configured to determine a position at which each of a plurality of color patches is laid out in the color chart based on the geometrical condition.
US12137193B2
A printing system includes an image forming apparatus capable of performing visible printing and invisible printing and a terminal apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes first circuitry. The first circuitry adds a printing command instructing to invisibly print an image of a two-dimensional code obtained by two-dimensionally encoding a print target image to print data generated based on the print target image. The first circuitry transmits, to the image forming apparatus, the print data to which the printing command is added. The image forming apparatus including second circuitry. The second circuitry visibly prints the print target image based on the print data transmitted from the terminal apparatus, and invisibly prints the image of the two-dimensional code according to the printing command added.
US12137191B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores computer-readable instructions executable by a processor of an information processing device. The instructions support a general-purpose printing program incorporated in an operating system of the information processing device. The instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the information processing device to obtain, from a printer, main body information about sheet characteristics for each feed tray of the printer, obtain print settings from the general-purpose printing program, generate, based on the main body information, notification data including sheet information indicating the sheet characteristics for a feed tray set in the print settings, and provide the notification data to the general-purpose printing program, thereby enabling the notification data to be displayed on the print setting screen.
US12137189B2
A first controller of an image forming apparatus executes a remote display control. The remote display control is control of, in response to receiving a start request from one of a plurality of information processing apparatuses, transmitting remote screen data to a requesting information processing apparatus. A second controller of the requesting information processing apparatus displays a remote screen in accordance with the remote display control by the first controller. A determination controller determines whether the remote display control is currently executed by a previous request. The first controller is configured to: in response to determining that the remote display control is not currently executed by the previous request, execute the remote display control for the requesting information processing apparatus; and in response to determining that the remote display control is currently executed by the previous request, not execute the remote display control for the requesting information processing apparatus.
US12137187B2
An image forming apparatus includes a communication interface, a display, and a controller configured to, when the image forming apparatus is remotely connected with an information processing device via the communication interface, transmit, to the information processing device, screen data for causing the information processing device to display a screen corresponding to a display screen being displayed on the display, when receiving remote access from the information processing device, perform display processing for the display screen in accordance with the remote access, and when the remote access is received while a particular screen is being displayed as the display screen on the display, impose a display restriction on the display screen.
US12137183B2
A call captioning system for captioning a hearing user's (HU's) voice signal during an ongoing call with an assisted user (AU) includes: an AU communication device with a display screen and a caption service activation feature, and a first processor programmed to, during an ongoing call, receive the HU's voice signal. Prior to activating the caption service via the activation feature, the processor uses an automated speech recognition (ASR) engine to generate HU voice signal captions, detect errors in the HU voice signal captions, use the errors to train the ASR software to the HU's voice signal to increase accuracy of the HU captions generated by the ASR engine; and store the trained ASR engine for subsequent use. Upon activating the caption service during the ongoing call, the processor uses the trained ASR engine to generate HU voice signal captions and present them to the AU via the display screen.
US12137178B2
A method performed by a node of a blockchain network, comprising: accessing the locking script from a first transaction on the blockchain; receiving a second transaction not yet on-chain, the second transaction comprising an unlocking script; extracting from the first transaction or another transaction on the blockchain, a portion of code formulated in a second language other than a first language used for the locking and unlocking scripts; running the extracted portion of code in the second language, wherein as a result thereof the code generates at least one value; writing this value to a storage location readable by the locking script; and running the locking script together with the unlocking script in order to validate the second transaction, wherein the unlocking script is configured to read the first value from said storage location, and a condition for validation according to the locking script is dependent on the first value.
US12137176B1
A client-side electronic device includes a receiver, a processor, and a memory. The receiver communicates with a message server over a communication medium of a communication network. The memory stores computer-executable instructions, which, when executed by the processor, cause the device to receive, from the message server, a broadcast message, a timestamp associated with the broadcast message, and a first digital signature of the broadcast message and a second digital signature of the timestamp. The executed instruction further cause the device to verify an integrity of the broadcast message based the first or second digital signatures, determine a freshness of the broadcast message based on the received timestamp, calculate a trust state of the broadcast message based on the integrity verification and the freshness determination, and store the broadcast message in the memory along with the calculated trust state.
US12137164B1
Techniques for storage-free message authentication for error-correcting-codes are disclosed. A storage controller of a storage device receives a request to encode a message in a format having an error-correcting code schema that generates a parity code. A key generator generates a pseudorandom transposition of the message and the parity code as a first part of a secret key. A pseudorandom character string is determined as a second part of the secret key. The output of the pseudorandom transposition and the pseudorandom character string are combined to generate the encoded message which is returned in response to the request. The secret key associated with the message is stored in non-volatile memory.
US12137160B2
A method of scheduling encryption key delivery communication sessions in a satellite quantum key distribution system comprising a constellation of one or more satellites and a plurality of user ground stations comprises producing a list of user ground stations requiring encryption keys. For each satellite of the constellation of satellites, determining a region of the earths surface within which the satellite can carry out encryption key delivery communication sessions to user ground stations using a quantum optical communications link during a scheduling period. Obtaining a cloud cover map. Comparing the locations of the listed user ground stations, the determined regions of the earths surface for the constellation of satellites, and the cloud cover map, to identify listed user ground stations to which encryption key delivery can be carried out by the constellation of satellites during the scheduling period. Determining which of the identified user ground stations each satellite of the constellation of satellites will carry out encryption key delivery communication sessions with at different times in the scheduling period based upon one or more of: an amount of unused encryption keys at each identified user ground station; and an expected time duration before each identified user ground station runs out of encryption keys.
US12137157B1
This application is directed to controlling bandwidths of clock recovery circuit in an electronic device. The electronic device includes a clock recovery circuit and a bandwidth controller coupled to the clock recovery circuit. The clock recovery circuit is configured to receive a data signal carrying a stream of data bits according to a reference clock frequency and recover a clock signal from the data signal. The bandwidth controller is configured to control the clock recovery circuit to start with a pull-in bandwidth, settle at a target bandwidth, and apply an intermediate bandwidth between the pull-in bandwidth and target bandwidth. The intermediate bandwidth is greater than the target bandwidth and less than the pull-in bandwidth. In some implementations, the bandwidth controller controls the clock recovery circuit to apply one or more additional bandwidths to the clock signal after the pull-in bandwidth and the intermediate bandwidth and before the target bandwidth.
US12137150B2
Systems and methods described herein related to real-time management of service deployment systems are disclosed. A management system may monitor an infrastructure environment repository in real-time. Differences in configurations stored within the repository may be identified and used to generate configuration data. The configuration data may be used to update service operating parameters and service deployment configurations. The configuration data may be used to generate deployment data comprising location information of the updated infrastructure environment. The deployment data may be utilized to deploy one or more services on an updated infrastructure using the updated services.
US12137147B2
The systems and methods described herein can enable the indirect transmission of session data between different domains. The system can pass the session data through a hashing function so that the data from a given domain remains private and secure to the specific domain. The system can generate clusters of associated domains for a given client device that the system can use to maintain a session between the client device and the domain.
US12137141B2
A network device includes a first interface, a second interface and circuitry. The first interface is configured to communicate at least with a first memory. The second interface is configured to communicate over a network with a peer network device coupled to a second memory. The circuitry is configured to (i) receive a request to transfer data over the network between the first memory and the second memory in accordance with a pattern of offsets to be accessed in the first memory or in the second memory, and (ii) transfer the data in accordance with the request.
US12137127B1
Solutions are disclosed that provide for proxy-call session control function (P-CSCF) awareness of access point name (APN) or data network name (DNN). This permits the P-CSCF to enforce policies regarding use of internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) resources, such as certain voice codecs (e.g., enhanced voice services, EVS) that use larger amounts of bandwidth, based on the APN/DNN assigned to a user equipment (UE). For example, certain IMS resources may be prioritized for home UEs over mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) UEs, or outbound roamers over inbound roamers, leveraging the P-CSCF's awareness of APN/DNN. In some examples, a packet gateway (PGW) or session management function (SMF) inserts APN/DNN information into a session initiation protocol (SIP) message going to the P-CSCF. In some examples, the P-CSCF retrieves APN/DNN information from a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) or a policy control function (PCF).
US12137125B2
Techniques are described for classification-based data security management. The classification-based data security management can include utilizing device and/or data attributes to identify security modes for communication of data stored in a source device. The security modes can be identified based on a hybrid-encryption negotiation. The attributes can include a device resource availability value, an access trust score, a data confidentiality score, a geo-coordinates value, and/or a date/time value. The security modes can include a hybrid-encryption mode. The source device can utilize the hybrid-encryption mode to transmit the data, via one or more network nodes, such as an edge node, to one or more service nodes.
US12137113B2
Methods and systems for scanning an endpoint terminal across an open computer network are disclosed. An exemplary method includes providing a scanner engine in a computer server in communication with an open computer network, and establishing a secure connection across the open computer network between the scanner engine and a scanner agent installed on the endpoint terminal in communication with the open computer network. Commands for collecting data regarding the endpoint terminal are sent from the scanner engine across the secure connection to the scanner agent. The scanner engine then receives the collected data from the scanner agent across the secure connection, analyzes the data to assess a current posture of the endpoint terminal, and determines any updates for the endpoint terminal from the analysis. Updates are sent across the secure connection to the scanner agent for installation on the endpoint terminal, and the secure connection may then be terminated.
US12137104B2
One variation of a method for verifying email senders includes: intercepting an email addressed to a target recipient within an organization, the email received from a sender at an inbound email address and including an inbound display name; accessing a whitelist including a verified display name and a set of verified email addresses corresponding to an employee within the organization; characterizing a display name difference between the inbound display name and the verified display name; in response to the display name difference falling below a threshold difference, comparing the inbound email address to the set of verified email addresses; in response to identifying the inbound email address in the set of verified email addresses, authorizing transmission of the email to the target recipient; and, in response to the set of verified email addresses omitting the inbound email address, withholding transmission of the email and flagging the email for authentication.
US12137100B1
Various example implementations are directed to circuits, apparatuses, and methods for providing virtual computing services. According to an example embodiment, an apparatus includes a data storage device and a set of computing servers communicatively coupled to the data storage device. The set of computer servers are configured to provide a respective (e.g., virtual) data center for each of a plurality of accounts. The respective data center for each account is configured to provide data communication services specified in a respective settings file for the account stored in the data storage device. For at least one of the accounts, a set of virtual desktops and/or a set virtual data-communications servers may be designated to provide the data communications services as specified in the settings file for the account.
US12137095B2
A limited input device, such as a camera, is authenticated based on a request received from an authenticated application. The camera provides an authorization code to the authenticated application and receives an access token. The access token is associated with a user account. The access token is received based on a verification of the authorization code. The camera transmits one or more images associated with the user account to the first device based on the verification.
US12137090B1
Techniques for providing secured, automatic log-in and authentication of a user to a website via a browser executing at the user's personal electronic device (PED) include generating a token based on an identifier of the PED and a user identifier, and storing the token at the user's PED for use in validating and authenticating the user and device credentials against those stored at back-end system and/or in another memory location at the device. Based on the persisted token (and optionally on a user preference), the user may be automatically logged in as the user navigates across restricted and unrestricted portions of the website, and/or to other websites (e.g., without the user's knowledge). At least these features enable automatic log-in and authentication to be performed on an as-needed basis, and/or on a per-device basis, thereby providing significantly more secure access as compared to known techniques.
US12137089B2
The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented systems, apparatuses, and processes that dynamically manage consent, permissioning, and trust between computing systems and unrelated, third-party applications operating within a computing environment. By way of example, the apparatus may receive a request for an element of data that includes an access token and first credential data associated with an application program. When the first credential data corresponds to second credential data associated with the application program, may determine that the requested data element is accessible to the application program and perform operations that validate the access token. Further, and based on the validation of the access token, that apparatus may obtain and encrypt the requested data element, and may transmit the encrypted data element to a device via the communications interface.
US12137087B2
A third-party server, delegated by organizations to manage application environment, may maintain a plurality of guided workflow plans. At least one of the guided workflow plans may include one or more steps associated with setting up an interaction control policy. The third-party server may receive an interaction report associated with the organization. The interaction report may include metadata of one or more devices that interacted with other devices. The third-party server may identify a particular device to which existing interaction control policies of the organization are inapplicable. The third-party server may search for additional out-of-band information of the particular device using the metadata in the interaction report. The third-party server may select an applicable guided workflow plan for setting up an applicable interaction control policy for the particular device. A guided workflow may be presented via a graphical user interface according to the applicable guided workflow plan.
US12137074B2
A method performed by a mobile device includes causing display of graphical tiles on a display of the mobile device and detecting a gesture while displaying the graphical tiles. The gesture includes an indication to move a particular graphical tile among the graphical tiles. In response to the gesture, the mobile device can automatically move another graphical tile to accommodate the new location of the particular graphical tile and cause display of the graphical tiles arranged in a new order that includes the particular graphical tile in the new location.
US12137070B2
An electronic device includes a communication circuit, a display, and a processor. The processor transmits the media contents to the external electronic device using the communication circuit. The processor displays a plurality of visual objects in the display that respectively represents the media contents. Before transmitting the first media content to the external electronic device, the processor displays a first visual object representing the first media content within a first state in which a visual aspect is adjusted. After the first media content is transmitted to the external electronic device, the processor changes the state of the first visual object to a second state different from the first state.
US12137069B2
A system and method are disclosed to generate, transmit, and automate communications with end user systems. Embodiments comprise an automation platform comprising a processor and memory. Embodiments generate a communication based, at least in part, on input from a rules engine and one or more communication templates. Embodiments modify the content of the generated communication and revise the one or more communication templates to include the modifications made to the communication content. Embodiments transmit, using one or more communication channels, the modified communication to one or more end user systems, and automate the generation and transmission of one or more subsequent communications to the one or more end user systems based, at least in part, on the revised one or more communication templates.
US12137057B2
Systems and methods are provided for allocating computation capability. A network compute orchestrator (NCO) receives a request for service from a requester device. The NCO determines a required compute grade requirement for the service, and a maximum acceptable latency for the service. The NCO accesses a data structure that stores for each of a network arrangement of network devices: a number and type of available compute units, and latency to the requester device. The NCO selects a network device of the network arrangement of network devices that has an available compute unit meeting the required compute grade requirement, and has latency to the requester device that is lower than the maximum acceptable latency for the service. The NCO causes the selected network device of the network arrangement of network devices to perform the requested service for the requester device.
US12137052B2
A method of optimizing network traffic visibility resources comprises receiving, by a controller associated with a network traffic visibility system, information indicative of operation of the network traffic visibility system. The method further comprises facilitating, by the controller, control of resources in the network traffic visibility system, according to a configured resource control policy. The facilitating can include providing, by the controller, control signaling to cause maximization of network traffic monitoring fidelity for a plurality of Quality of Service (QoS) classes of network traffic, based on a specified fixed amount of one or more network resources associated with the network traffic visibility system. Alternatively or additionally, the facilitating can include providing, by the controller, control signaling to cause minimization of use of the one or more network resources, based on a specified fixed level of traffic monitoring fidelity associated with the plurality of QoS classes.
US12137051B1
A technique is described for quantifying the effect of a perturbation on a property of a network link or flow, and to manipulate the network based on a quantitative estimation of the perturbation.
US12137038B2
An electronic meeting tool and method for communicating arbitrary media content from users at a meeting includes a node configuration adapted to operate a display node of a communications network, the display node being coupled to a first display. The node configuration is adapted to receive user selected arbitrary media content and to control display of the user selected arbitrary media content on the first display. A peripheral device adapted to communicate the user selected arbitrary media content via the communications network is a connection unit including a connector adapted to couple to a port of a processing device having a second display, a memory and an operating system, and a transmitter. A program is adapted to obtain user selected arbitrary media content, the program leaving a zero footprint on termination. The user may trigger a transfer of the user selected arbitrary media content to the transmitter.
US12137037B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises: obtaining a plurality of results for a corresponding plurality of independent tests performed on a corresponding plurality of services in a computer network, the plurality of results comprising one or more determined pathways through the computer network; determining a specified subset selection regarding the plurality of results, the specified subset selection corresponding to at least two independent service-related tests; combining a portion of the plurality of results into an aggregated results subset according to the specified subset selection; generating a graphical representation visualization of the aggregated results subset, the graphical representation visualization illustrating a plurality of specific pathways through the computer network corresponding to the aggregated results subset; and providing, to a graphical user interface, the graphical representation visualization of the aggregated results subset, the graphical user interface providing for further specification of the specified subset selection regarding the plurality of results.
US12137035B2
A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided for a network entity. The network entity receives an analytics request from a consumer, the analytics request indicating at least one analytic and determines one or more network data analytics functions (NWDAFs) for the analytics request based on the at least one analytic indicated in the analytics request. A consumer sends an analytics request to a network entity including one or more analytics identifiers. The consumer receives, from the network entity, a response to the analytics request including an analytics output from one or more NWDAFs based on the analytics identifier(s) included in the analytics request. An NWDAF sends an analytics identifier registration to a network entity indicating one or more analytics supported by the NWDAF. Then, the NWDAF receives an analytics request(s) from consumer(s) via the network entity based on the NWDAF supporting an analytic in the analytics request.
US12137028B2
A tool is provided to configure an edge compute environment of a network. The edge compute configuration tool may generate a configuration process for instantiating an edge compute environment at an edge site of a network including configuring one or more of the components of the edge compute environment. The configuration process may be based on seeding data and/or information provided to the edge compute configuration tool via a user interface and/or from one or more databases associated with the network. The configuration process may further include generating automatically executed configuration instructions that communicate with the devices of the edge compute environment to configure operational processes of the devices, provision communication ports, establish one or more network addresses with the devices, etc. In some instances, the edge compute configuration tool may execute one or more micro-services to communicate with and control configuration of the devices of the edge compute environment.
US12137027B2
Network slice providers and resource providers in a communication network are configured to cause various records related to a smart contract for one or more resources to be stored in a permissioned blockchain. The records include an allocation, a deallocation and monitoring records related to the resource(s). When the resources are released, the blockchain records ease settling slice beneficiaries' financial obligations.
US12137024B2
An example system includes access point (AP) devices configured to provide a wireless network at a site; and a network management system that stores network data received from the AP devices, the network data collected by the AP devices or client devices associated with the wireless network, and one or more processors configured to: receive a time series of SLE metrics based on the network data, determine, based on the time series, whether a network event has occurred, in response to a determination that a network event has occurred, determine a root cause for the network event, and in response to a determination that the root cause of the network event is associated with an AP device, determine a classification of the AP device, and determine a network management action for the AP device based on the network event and the classification of the AP device.
US12137023B2
Systems and methods include monitoring user experience of one or more users accessing any of the Internet, cloud applications, and private applications; determining a user experience score for the one or more users; responsive to detecting a low user experience score for a user, performing one or more analyses on the user experience of the user; and determining a root cause of the low user experience score based on the one or more analyses. The systems and methods can include determining a remedial action for the user based on the root cause.
US12137022B2
The present invention provides a method of scaling the reliability of the service of a hierarchical computing network with large number of participant nodes servicing large number of users with large volume of data by adding/subtracting a service node to/from a service node group to linearly increase/decrease the network service uptime. Also disclosed is a method of incentivizing the owner of a participant computer in a general computer network to continuously and reliably share its spare capacity and capability by rewarding/punishing the participant computer with increased/decreased uptime value if a fault incident of the participant computer is/is not detected; and making the uptime value of the participant computer visible to end users.
US12137018B2
Provided are a method for a terminal transmitting uplink control information (UCI) through a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) in a wireless communication system, and a terminal using the method. A transmission power to be applied to the uplink control channel is determined on the basis of a value subordinate to a PUCCH format, and at least one type of UCI is transmitted from the physical uplink control channel by using the transmission power that is determined, wherein when the PUCCH format is PUCCH format 3, and the at least one type of UCI includes acknowledgement/negative-acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) and periodic channel state information (CSI), the value subordinate to the PUCCH format is determined on the basis of the number of bits of the ACK/NACK and the number of bits of the periodic CSI.
US12137000B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that support group-based acknowledgment feedback techniques. Two or more different groups of downlink transmissions may each have an associated group-based acknowledgment feedback, and a base station may transmit downlink control information to a UE that indicates one or more parameters that are used to determine which downlink transmissions are to be reported in the group-based feedback. Based on the parameters in the downlink control information, the UE may determine the feedback to be reported, and a timing for when to transmit the feedback to the base station.
US12136994B2
Methods and apparatuses for windowing-based channel filtering in an OFDM-based communication network
Disclosed is a method and an apparatus for handling signals in an OFDM-based communication network (100) received at a receiver (120). The method comprises obtaining a signal in time domain, the signal comprising a payload signal sent from a transmitter (110) towards the receiver (120) as well as an interference signal, the payload signal residing in a first frequency band and the interference signal residing in a second frequency band outside the first frequency band. The method further comprises separating the payload signal from the interference signal using a filter, and processing (208) the payload signal with a time window (W, Wp), or the separated interference signal with a time window, (W, Wi), or processing both the separated payload signal with a window (W, Wp) and the obtained signal with a window (W, Wi), the window (W, Wp, Wi) being substantially an OFDM symbol wide, so as to achieve a output signal/first output signal comprising the payload signal and a time-windowed interference signal and/or a second output signal comprising the interference signal and a time-windowed payload signal. The windowed signals become attenuated by the FFT so that the wanted signal are achieved undisturbed.
US12136988B2
Provided is a signal transmission apparatus for radiation equipment. The signal transmission apparatus includes a first wireless transmission component, the first wireless transmission component includes a first antenna and a second antenna; wherein the first antenna is a loop antenna, and the first antenna is disposed on a gantry in the radiation equipment and is rotatable synchronously with the gantry; and the second antenna is disposed separately from the gantry and is wirelessly connected to the first antenna.
US12136979B2
A method and an apparatus are provided in which a vector is generated from a covariance matrix of a received signal. The vector is input to a neural network to obtain an enhanced vector. The enhanced vector is converted into an enhanced matrix. Interference whitening is performed on the received signal using a whitening filter based on the enhanced matrix.
US12136972B2
Disclosed are a device and method in a wireless communication system. The device comprises: a first generating unit configured to generate a first pre-coding matrix according to first channel information on a channel between a first communication apparatus and a second communication apparatus; a second generating unit configured to generate a second pre-coding matrix according to the first pre-coding matrix and second channel information on the channel; and a pre-coding unit configured to pre-code a data signal according to the first pre-coding matrix and the second pre-coding matrix. According to the embodiments of the present invention, interference between user equipment can be effectively removed, the operation complexity is reduced, and the whole performance of the system is optimized.
US12136969B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a parameter switch configuration comprising: a first parameter configuration that indicates a first value of a configuration parameter, the first value corresponding to a first set of communication occasions associated with a single user multiple input multiple output (MIMO) operation; and a second parameter configuration that indicates a second value of the configuration parameter, the second value corresponding to a second set of communication occasions associated with a multiple user MIMO operation. The UE may communicate, based at least in part on the parameter switch configuration, with at least one wireless communication device. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12136966B2
Methods and apparatus for obtaining a frequency offset corresponding to a Doppler shift of transmission and/or reception frequencies between a wireless device and a network node. In one embodiment a method is performed by a wireless device for operating in a non-terrestrial network, NTN, the NTN having at least one network node and a communication satellite, wherein the at least one network node is one of a terrestrial base station and a satellite base station or satellite gateway, the method includes obtaining a frequency offset corresponding to a Doppler shift of transmission and/or reception frequencies between the wireless device and the network node and applying the frequency offset to an uplink transmission to the network node.
US12136962B2
A method for tunning high speed link parameters for cables with a transceiver at each end includes transmitting, in response to establishing a link, an eye pattern bit sequence from a first computing device to a second computing device over a cable with a transceiver connected to each end of the cable. Establishing the link includes establishing a communication link over the cable between the first computing device and the second computing device. The method includes receiving an eye pattern quality message from the second computing device using a device discovery protocol. The eye pattern quality message includes quality information of a received waveform corresponding to the transmitted eye pattern bit sequence. The method includes adjusting transmission parameters for transmission over the cable in response to the quality information, and retransmitting the eye pattern bit sequence using the adjusted transmission parameters.
US12136956B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for controlling vibrations output by one or more computing devices. A computing device may determine an event, and may also determine, using a camera, an image of the surroundings of the computing device. Based on an analysis of the image, the computing device may then output a tactile vibration, an audible sound, and/or a visual notification associated with the event.
US12136955B2
Provided is a mobile object including: a mobile object information transmitting unit configured to transmit, to another mobile object by optical wireless communication by a first optical wireless communication unit, first mobile object information including first inertial measurement information and first body control information; a mobile object information receiving unit configured to receive, from the another mobile object by optical wireless communication by the first optical wireless communication unit, second mobile object information including second inertial measurement information and second body control information; and an optical axis direction control unit configured to control a direction of an optical axis of the first optical wireless communication unit on a basis of the first mobile object information and the second mobile object information.
US12136954B2
A packaged optical receiver, comprising: a photodiode configured to receive an optical signal; a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) coupled to the photodiode; and a signal pin; wherein the optical receiver is configured to receive, via the signal pin, a reset signal; and wherein the optical receiver is configured to output in response to the reset signal, via the signal pin, a received signal strength indication (RSSI) for the received optical signal.
US12136943B2
A UWB pulse emitter includes an H-bridge having first and second branches in parallel, a first end common to the branches being connected to a first amplitude control module to regulate a high voltage, a second end common to the branches being connected to a second amplitude control module to regulate a low voltage. A first envelope control module controls the shape of the positive portion of a UWB pulse and a second envelope control module controls the shape of the negative portion of this pulse. Each branch comprises first and second switches for respectively switching the high voltage to a first or second input of the first envelope control module and the low voltage to a first or second output of the second envelope control module. Centre taps of the branches, between which the UWB antenna is connected, connect the outputs and the inputs of the control modules.
US12136931B2
A semiconductor device includes an analog-to-digital converter configured to perform a process of sampling an analog input signal and a successive-approximation process, execute an AD conversion process, and output a digital output signal. The AD converter includes an upper DAC, a redundant DAC, a lower DAC, a comparator configured to compare a comparative reference voltage and output voltages of the upper DAC, the redundant DAC and the lower DAC, a control circuit configured to control successive approximations by the upper DAC, the redundant DAC and the lower DAC based on the comparison result of the comparator, and generate a digital output signal, and a correction circuit. The correction circuit includes an error correction circuit configured to correct an error of the upper bit with the redundant bit, and an averaging circuit configured to calculate an average value of conversion values of a plurality of the lower bits supplied multiple times.
US12136930B2
The present disclosure provides an analog-to-digital converter system comprising a sampler configured to sample an input signal and provide at least two output signals with a predetermined output sample rate, and an analog-to-digital converter for each one of the output signals and configured to convert the respective output signal into a digital signal with a predetermined converter sample rate, wherein the converter sample rate is higher than the output sample rate. Further, the present disclosure provides a respective method.
US12136929B2
An interleaved analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) system may have timing errors in a time domain that is corrected using phase compensation in a phase domain. The ADC system may include sub-ADCs, each receiving a clock signal, which is associated with a representation of a timing skew value, reflecting an undesired timing error. A mixer may have sub-mixers, each receiving a sub-ADC output signal and a compensated numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) value. A combiner may combine the sub-mixer output signals. A decimator may decimate the output of the combiner. Each timing skew value is in a time domain. A compensated NCO value is determined using a respective phase skew value. Each phase skew value is an offset value in phase and is not a value in time. Each phase skew value in a phase domain compensates the respective timing skew value in a time domain. Multiple ADC systems and methods are described.
US12136899B1
During an installation of solar panels, multiple mounting brackets are attached to solar panel frames. An installer may use a wedge through module frame and mounting bracket slots to securely attach a mounting bracket to a panel frame. A typically installation process is implemented manually with a wedge loaded individually for installation. The cost-effectiveness of this approach works fine within smaller solar deployments but struggles to cost-effectively scale to large solar systems as described below. Embodiments of automatic wedge loading are disclosed for solar panel installation with improved efficiency. The implementation of automatic wedge loading provides an easy and streamlined method to reload wedges on an installation tool. An installer may continue installation process almost un-interruption with ample loaded wedge magazines.
US12136898B2
An apparatus for generating electricity via thermophotovoltaic (TPV) energy conversion is described. High efficiency is obtained by introducing a material into a combustion chamber that emits bright near-monochromatic visible light upon heating. This light is then directed to fall on an array of photovoltaic (PV) cells which convert the light to electricity. Heat and infrared radiation that is not absorbed by the PV cells is returned to the combustion chamber to further improve conversion efficiency.
US12136894B2
A control circuit is used for a system including a power storage unit, an electric load, and a power converter electrically connected to the electric load. The control circuit includes an abnormality determination unit, an emergency power supply that generates power based on electricity supplied from the power storage unit, and a protective control unit that, when the abnormality determination unit determines that an abnormality has occurred, performs protective control for the system. The emergency power supply includes a power supply control unit configured to be operable based on electricity supplied from the power storage unit. During the period from when the voltage input to the power supply control unit starts increasing based on electricity supplied from the power storage unit, the power supply control unit starts the emergency power supply in response to the input voltage reaching a specified voltage.
US12136891B2
A low voltage, low frequency multi-level power converter capable of power conversion is disclosed. The power converter may include a low voltage, low frequency circuit that includes a plurality of phase-shifting inverters in series; a plurality of low voltage source inputs, and a plurality of phase-shifting inverters in series. Each of the plurality of phase-shifting inverters may be configured to receive at least one of the plurality of low voltage source inputs; and generate at least one square wave output. A semi-sine wave output may be derived from the generated at least one square wave output.
US12136879B1
A power converter circuit is disclosed. In one aspect, the power converter circuit includes a power input terminal, a first output terminal and a second output terminal, a plurality of capacitors coupled to the power input terminal, the first output terminal and the second output terminal, a plurality of switches coupled to the plurality of capacitors and arranged to repetitively cycle the plurality of capacitors between a first configuration and a second configuration to generate a first output voltage at the first output terminal and a second output voltage at the second output terminal, and where the circuit is arranged to limit a maximum voltage applied to each of the plurality of capacitors and switches to a fraction of a voltage at the power input terminal.
US12136874B2
An electrical circuit for reducing electromagnetic noise or interference in a power converter. The circuit includes at least one shunt capacitor arranged to connect with a grounded component of the power converter, wherein the at least one shunt capacitor is further arranged to be driven by an active control signal so as to sink a noise current originating from a noise source to the grounded component of the power converter, wherein the noise source is connected to the grounded component via a capacitive path formed by at least one stray capacitors.
US12136871B2
An energy combiner apparatus is used to convert output of a power supply, and has three output terminals, so that output ports are increased. In the three output terminals of the energy combiner apparatus, a voltage of 1500 V is output between a first output terminal and a second output terminal, a voltage of 1500 V is also output between the second output terminal and a third output terminal, and a total of 3 kV is output. Therefore, an overall output voltage is increased in a case of equal output power. Because the overall output voltage is increased, a current transmitted on a cable may be reduced. Therefore, a thinner cable may be used, so that costs of the cable are reduced. In addition, four cables conventionally required for connecting to the output terminals of the energy combiner apparatus are reduced to three, so that quantity and costs are reduced.
US12136868B2
A self-powered pipeline pig includes a housing defining a trailing end, a leading end and a longitudinal axis. The plurality of internal flow channels extend longitudinally through the housing between the trailing end and the leading end. A power generation device is disposed in a first one of the plurality of internal flow channels. The power generation device generates electric power from a pipeline fluid flowing through the first flow channel during a pigging operation. A battery is disposed on the self-powered pipeline pig to provide electric power during the pigging operation to operate one or more components installed on the self-powered pipeline pig. The power generation device is electrically coupled to the battery to recharge the battery using the generated electric power.
US12136863B2
A rotary electric machine includes a rotor, a stator, a substrate, a bus bar, a housing having a stator housing portion and a substrate housing portion, and a cover member. The substrate housing portion is located radially outside the stator housing portion. The housing has a connection hole connecting the stator housing portion and the substrate housing portion. The bus bar radially passes through the connection hole. The bus bar includes a coil connection portion electrically connected to the coil in the stator housing portion, and a substrate connection portion electrically connected to the substrate in the substrate housing portion. The bus bar is located on one side in the axial direction of the stator. The cover member has an opposing portion located on one side in the axial direction of the bus bar in the stator housing portion, and having an axial positioning portion for the bus bar.
US12136856B2
A hairpin conductor includes two wire segments each having respective first and second ends and a respective middle region. The segments are disposed in a side-by-side orientation such that their first ends are proximate each other and their second ends are proximate each other. The first ends are welded to each other and the second ends are welded to each other, or the middle regions are welded to each other, thereby providing a welded wire assembly, which is bent such that the two wire segments are bent equally to form the hairpin conductor. The hairpin conductor has a primary bend in the middle regions to form an apex thereat and first and second secondary bends in the two wire segments nearer to the apex than to the first and second ends to form respective first and second shoulders thereat. A method of forming the hairpin conductor is also presented.
US12136855B2
A rotating machine includes a machine housing defining a housing interior, a shaft disposed in the housing interior, with the shaft having a length and an axis extending along the length. The shaft is rotatable about the axis. The rotating machine also includes an impeller wheel disposed in the housing interior and coupled to and rotatable by the shaft, with the impeller wheel having an angular position with respect to the axis. The rotating machine further includes a backplate coupled to the machine housing and having a first side facing the impeller wheel, at least one target element coupled to and rotatable with the impeller wheel, a circuit board coupled to the first side of the backplate and facing the impeller wheel, and at least one sensor disposed on the circuit board for detecting the at least one target element to determine the angular position of the impeller wheel.
US12136853B2
An electric-rotating-machine rotor has a rotor core in which ring-shaped plate materials that are each magnetic materials are stacked in an axial direction and a shaft-press-fitted into an inner circumferential surface of the rotor core; the inner circumferential surface has a first press-fitting portion that is an axial-direction section into which the shaft is inserted and a second press-fitting portion that is an axial-direction section adjacent to the first press-fitting portion and into which the shaft is inserted with an interference larger than that of the first press-fitting portion, and the shaft is press-fitted into the inner circumferential surface of the rotor core from the first press-fitting portion side. As a result, the electric-rotating-machine rotor in which no gap is caused between the stacked plate materials can be realized at low cost. Moreover, it is made possible to produce the electric-rotating-machine rotor through simple processes and at low cost.
US12136847B2
The invention relates to a central unit (100) for supplying emergency lighting means (101a, 101b) on a DC bus (101), comprising an AC input (103) for receiving an AC supply signal, an AC/DC converter (104) configured to convert the AC supply signal into a DC supply signal, an electrical energy storage (105), in particular a battery, configured to be charged by the DC supply signal, wherein the electrical energy storage (105) is configured to supply electrical power in an emergency situation, and a DC/DC converter (107) configured to convert a DC output signal of the electrical energy storage (105) into a DC bus voltage and to forward the DC bus voltage to the lighting means (101a, 101b) on the DC bus (101) via an output circuit (109), wherein the output circuit (109) is arranged on a modular card (111), and wherein the modular card (111) is detachably connectable to a base body (102) of the central unit (100).
US12136846B2
Electrical energy is transferred between an on-vehicle DC power source and an off-vehicle DC power source by controlling conduction of the phase legs of a power inverter to operatively configure the power inverter and the stator phase windings of a traction motor as a switched-mode power converter including the at least one phase winding and at least one switch of one of the phase legs.
US12136844B2
A stored energy power source uses a wound-rotor induction machine (WRIM) to receive energy from an external source, store the energy in N energy storage elements (ESEs) via tertiary windings, and discharge the ESEs to deliver energy via a secondary winding to a load producing output. Each discharging ESE contributes to a total flux at the secondary winding to sum the individual ESEs voltages. These voltages can be stepped up or down by a transformation ratio between the secondary winding and each of the tertiary windings. A flywheel may be coupled to the secondary to store and delivery energy. Load factor power control can be used to stabilize the output voltage. The source may be configured to allow for the bi-directional flow of energy between an external power source, the ESEs, the flywheel and the load. The WRIM provides a safe, reliable and efficient system to provide high-level AC and DC output voltages.
US12136843B2
A system to supply emergency power to an elevator includes one or more lithium batteries, an inverter coupled to the lithium batteries, a battery management system (BMS) coupled to the inverter, an Energy Management Software (EMS) coupled to the BMS, and a relay coupled to utility power, wherein the relay operates to provide utility power to the system and notifies the EMS that utility power is on, wherein the EMS initiates charging of the BMS system, wherein the BMS sends charging command to the inverter, which operates until the state of charge is 100%, where the inverter goes into a standby mode.
US12136836B2
Battery charger systems and apparatuses are described. In an example, an apparatus may include a first controller, a first port connected to the first controller, a first charger module connected to the first controller, a second controller, a second port connected to the second controller, and a second charger module connected to the second controller. The first controller may be configured to form a first connection path between the first charger module and the second port via the second controller. The first controller may be further configured to form a second connection path between the second charger module and the first port via the first controller.
US12136828B2
An electrically conductive material configured having at least one opening of various unlimited geometries extending through its thickness is provided. The opening is designed to modify eddy currents that form within the surface of the material from interaction with magnetic fields that allow for wireless energy transfer therethrough. The opening may be configured as a cut-out, a slit or combination thereof that extends through the thickness of the electrically conductive material. The electrically conductive material is configured with the cut-out and/or slit pattern positioned adjacent to an antenna configured to receive or transmit electrical energy wirelessly through near-field magnetic coupling (NFMC). A magnetic field shielding material, such as a ferrite, may also be positioned adjacent to the antenna. Such magnetic shielding materials may be used to strategically block eddy currents from electrical components and circuitry located within a device.
US12136818B2
A thermal power unit-flywheel energy storage cooperative frequency regulation control method and system is provided, which belongs to the technical field of a power grid. First, a real-time output increment of a thermal power unit is predicted, then a real-time frequency regulation power instruction of a flywheel energy storage system is determined based on the predicted real-time output increment of the thermal power unit, and finally the frequency regulation power instruction of the thermal power unit is determined by a difference adjustment coefficient of a governor and a grid frequency deviation. The thermal power unit and flywheel energy storage system is cooperatively controlled by frequency regulation based on the real-time output increment predicted value of the unit, which realizes self-adaptive adjustment of output of the flywheel energy storage system under dynamic working conditions, and improves the grid frequency stability and operation safety of the thermal power unit.
US12136798B2
A vertical cavity surface emitter device (e.g., VCSEL or RC-LED) containing a buried index-guiding current confinement aperture layer which is grown, and lithographically processed to define position, shape and dimension of an inner aperture. In a regrowth process, the aperture is filled with a single crystalline material from the third contact layer. The aperture provides for both current and optical confinement, while allowing for higher optical power output and improved thermal conductivity.
US12136792B2
A terminal block includes: busbars connected to a device; a collar through which a fastening member is inserted; a housing integrally molded with the busbars and the collar; and a capacitor including a casing and a ground terminal protruding from the casing, the capacitor connected to the busbars, in which the housing houses the casing in a state where the ground terminal faces the collar so that the ground terminal and the collar can be fastened together to a metal case by the fastening member.
US12136790B2
A crimp terminal (100, 101, 102, 103), a crimp terminal module (200), a terminal box and a tester. The crimp terminal is used for connecting to a wiring end of a sensing element. A press button (03) of the crimp terminal is pressed to drive a wiring port (010), formed by attaching a first attachment sheet (05) to a second attachment sheet (08), to open, so as to insert the wiring end of the sensing element into the wiring port. Compared with a traditional screwing means, the crimp terminal can reduce heat generated by friction and reduce the contact potential between a plug and the terminal, and facilitates improving working efficiency of batch detection.
US12136783B2
A waterproof electrical connector assembly releasably connects an electrical cable to a second cable, or to one or more electrodes or sensors in a housing that has a bore therethrough that accommodates the electrical cable on one end and a fitting on the other end. The fitting holds one or more electrodes/sensors in a bore through the fitting. The fitting is a commercially-available male-threaded polymeric fitting of the type used in High-performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) applications. This type of polymeric fitting has a conical, or tapered, ferrule portion at one end that is configured to fit securely into a female-threaded and chamfered bore in the housing so that when the fitting is tightened against the chamfered housing bore it forms a watertight seal which is waterproof to at least 10,000 psi. As the seal is formed, the components contact each other to form an electrical connection, illustratively, a connection from electrode or sensor probes to the cable leading to measuring equipment.
US12136780B2
A connector is mateable with a mating connector. The connector comprises a housing and a terminal. The terminal has an arm, a contact portion and a held portion held by a holding portion of the housing. The arm couples the held portion and the contact portion to each other and supports the contact portion so that the contact portion is movable. The contact portion has a bottom portion, a first support portion, a second support portion, a first contact point and a second contact point. Each of the first support portion and the second support portion extends upward from the bottom portion. The first contact point is supported by the first support portion. The second contact point is supported by the second support portion. Under a mated state, a mating terminal of the mating connector is sandwiched and held between the first contact point and the second contact point.
US12136779B2
A card edge connector includes: a housing including a board accommodation space and a connection terminal including a resilient contact piece configured to contact a circuit board inserted into the board accommodation space, the connection terminal being mounted into the housing. The connection terminal is movable between a connection position where the resilient contact piece is in contact with a surface of the circuit board and a retraction position where the resilient contact piece is separated from the circuit board. A first interference preventing portion and a second interference preventing portion are formed between a moving path of the resilient contact piece and the board accommodation space. The first interference preventing portion and the second interference preventing portion restrict the interference of the resilient contact piece and an inserting end part of the circuit board inserted into the board accommodation space in a moving process of the connection terminal.
US12136776B2
Disclosed in the present disclosure is a miniaturized self-oscillating active integrated antenna system. The system includes at least one antenna array unit, and the antenna array unit includes an initial unit and multiple amplifying units which are stimulated to emit. The initial unit includes a first dielectric substrate and a first surface structure, the first surface structure is connected to a surface of the first dielectric substrate, and the first surface structure includes a first boat-shaped monopole antenna, a first switching transistor, a base bias network and a first direct current bias network. The amplifying unit includes a second dielectric substrate and a second surface structure, and the second surface structure is connected to a surface of the second dielectric substrate. The second surface structure includes a second boat-shaped monopole antenna, a second switching transistor, a first resistor and a second direct current bias network.
US12136772B2
A phased-array includes, in part, N transceivers each including a receiver and a transmitter, and a controller. The phased array is configured to transmit a first radio signal from a first element of the array during a first time period, receive the first radio signal from a second element of the array, recover a first value associated with the radio signal received by the second element, transmit a second radio signal from the second element of the array during a second time period, receive the second radio signal from the first element of the array, recover a second value associated with the radio signal received by the first element, and determine a first phase of a reference signal received by the second element from the recovered first and second values. The first phase is relative to a second phase of the reference signal received by the first element.
US12136770B2
An electronic device includes a housing including an internal space, a display disposed in the internal space, the display being visible from an outside of the electronic device through at least a part of the housing, at least one first antenna disposed in the internal space, a second antenna disposed in the internal space and wound multiple times and including a conductive pattern disposed to be spaced apart from the first antenna, a first wireless communication circuit configured to transmit or receive a wireless signal in a first frequency band via the at least one first antenna, and a second wireless communication circuit configured to transmit or receive a wireless signal in a second frequency band via the second antenna, wherein the at least one first antenna is spaced apart by a distance from the conductive pattern.
US12136765B2
An antenna includes an antenna body and a housing case. The antenna body configured to enter a first mode exhibiting an artificial magnetic conductor character with respect to an electromagnetic wave in a first frequency band and configured to enter in a second mode (TM mode) serving as a resonator for the electromagnetic wave in a second frequency band higher than the first frequency band. The housing case includes a bottom plate on which the antenna body is installed and a side wall provided standing from the bottom plate and spaced with a distance from a periphery of the antenna body. The housing case is a case made of metal including an opening in a face through which the electromagnetic wave enters and exits.
US12136764B2
A high-frequency circuit includes: a first ground layer having an electric conductor formed therein; a second ground layer having an electric conductor formed therein; and a conductive pattern layer having a first conductive pattern formed thereon. The first ground layer, the second ground layer, and the conductive pattern layer are laminated one on another. The conductive pattern layer includes a first area in which a distance to the electric conductor formed in the second ground layer is longer than a distance to the electric conductor formed in the first ground layer, in a lamination direction in which the first ground layer, the second ground layer, and the conductive pattern layer are laminated. At least a part of the first conductive pattern is disposed in the first area.
US12136763B2
An anti-interference microwave antenna includes a reference ground and at least one radiating source spacedly disposed at the reference ground to define a radiating clearance between the radiating source and the reference ground, wherein the radiating source is electrically connected to the reference ground to ground the radiating source so as to narrow a bandwidth of the antenna. When an electromagnetic excitation signal is received at a feed point of the radiating source, the bandwidth of the antenna is narrowed down to prevent any interference of the electromagnetic wave signal received or generated by the antenna in response to nearby electromagnetic radiation frequency or stray radiation frequency of the adjacent frequency bands.
US12136752B2
A method of operating a power generator having a first electrical output electrically connected to a utility grid and a second electrical output electrically connected to a load includes detecting if the first electrical output of the power generator is electrically disconnected from the utility grid, and electrically connecting at least a neutral line of the first electrical output to ground in response to detecting that the first output is electrically disconnected from the utility grid.
US12136751B2
A system and method for power generation and CO2 sequestration include a fuel cell system configured to generate power using natural gas (NG), a container configured to store liquid natural gas (LNG), and a fluid processor configured to convert LNG received from the container into NG and to convert exhaust output from the fuel cell system to dry ice by transferring heat between and the LNG and the exhaust.
US12136747B2
A method for manufacturing a battery cell having electrode foils protruding from a cell pouch includes positioning the cell pouch in a fixture such that distal end sections of the foils extend outward from the fixture. The method includes clamping the distal end sections in a curvilinear guide clamp to cause the distal end sections to taper into an electrode foil stack, and then translating the clamp a predetermined distance toward the fixture to displace the distal end sections by the predetermined distance. The method also includes trimming the distal end sections using a trim tool, positioning a sonotrode and an anvil adjacent opposite surfaces of the stack, and ultrasonically welding the stack to a conductive lead tab using the sonotrode to thereby form a welded joint within the battery cell. The sonotrode may be multi-sided with different knurl patterns for performing different welding processes.
US12136744B2
The present invention pertains to a process for manufacturing a fluoropolymer electrolyte membrane comprising a fluoropolymer hybrid organic/inorganic composite for an electrochemical cell, to a polymer electrolyte membrane obtainable by the process and films and membranes thereof and to an electrochemical cell comprising the polymer electrolyte membrane between a positive electrode and a negative electrode. The present invention also relates to the use of the polymer electrolyte membrane obtainable by the process according to the present invention in an electrochemical device, in particular in secondary batteries.
US12136741B2
A casing of a battery, a battery and an electricity-consuming apparatus are provided by the present application. The casing of the battery includes a first beam, a second beam and a connecting assembly. A surface of the first beam is provided with a groove. The second beam is arranged on a side of the first beam provided with the groove. The first beam and the second beam is configured to limit a space for accommodating a battery cell. The connecting assembly is configured to connect the first beam with the second beam. At least a portion of the connecting assembly is arranged inside the first beam and the second beam.
US12136740B2
An energy storage system includes a battery module including a plurality of secondary battery cells and an electrode tab disposed on one or both sides; and a housing accommodating a module stack in which the plurality of battery modules are stacked, wherein the housing includes a first cover disposed to oppose at least one side surface of the module stack on which the electrode tab is disposed, and a second cover disposed to oppose at least one of the side surfaces of the module stack on which the electrode tab is not disposed, and wherein a flame passage is formed between the first cover and the module stack, and a cooling passage is formed between the second cover and the module stack.
US12136736B2
A pouch-shaped case forming apparatus for forming a pouch-shaped case has a terrace step, wherein there are no dents or wrinkles at a pouch folding portion of the pouch-shaped case.
US12136733B2
The cathode active material according to embodiments of the present invention includes a lithium composite oxide particle having a form of secondary particle in which a plurality of primary particle are aggregated, wherein the primary particles respectively include a lithium conduction pathway through which lithium ions are diffused. Wherein the primary particles include a first particle, and the first particle has an angle of 45° to 90° formed by a direction from a center of the first particle to a center of the lithium composite oxide particle and a direction of the lithium conduction pathway included in the first particle, wherein a ratio of the number of the first particles among the primary particles located on a surface of the lithium composite oxide particle is 20% or more.
US12136729B2
A method for preparing a sulfur-carbon composite including the steps of: (a) mixing a carbon-based material with sulfur or a sulfur compound; (b) placing the sulfur-carbon mixture mixed in step (a) and a liquid which is vaporizable into a sealable container, and (c) heating the sealed container to a temperature of 120 to 200° C.; a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery including the sulfur-carbon composite prepared by the above method, and a lithium secondary battery including the above positive electrode.
US12136715B2
A battery pack housing for improved cooling efficiency of a battery cell is disclosed. A cooling fluid introduced into a battery pack of the battery pack housing flows to generate turbulence around a battery tab at which high-temperature heat is typically generated. A flow rate and a flow velocity of the cooling fluid may be increased around the battery tab, the cooling fluid may be more actively circulated, and a temperature deviation between cells in the battery pack may be effectively reduced so that performance degradation of the battery pack may be prevented and a lifetime of the battery pack may be increased. In addition, even when the same amount of cooling fluid is used, the cooling efficiency of the battery pack may be improved, and an amount of the fluid needed for cooling may be reduced to simplify an entire system of the battery pack.
