US12067280B2
Techniques for forecasting temperatures of storage objects in a storage system using machine learning (ML). The techniques can include forecasting at least one temperature of a storage object using at least one ML model, modifying storage of the storage object based on the at least one temperature of the storage object, and, having modified storage of the storage object, obtaining at least one performance metric associated with the storage object. The techniques can further include, based on the performance metric(s), varying a frequency of forecasting the at least one temperature of the storage object, retraining the at least one ML model used in forecasting the at least one temperature, and/or adjusting at least one operational parameter of the system. The techniques provide increased accuracy over known statistical approaches to forecasting temperatures of storage objects, leading to increased performance gains in terms of IO latency, IO operations per second, and bandwidth.
US12067274B2
A method is provided. The method includes receiving a set of data blocks to be stored in a storage system. The storage system includes a plurality of non-volatile memory modules. The method also includes generating a set of segments based on the set of data blocks. A respective segment comprising portions of one or more erase blocks. The method further includes writing the set of segments to the non-volatile memory modules based on orderings of the portions of the one or more erase blocks.
US12067257B2
Methods, systems, and devices for testing operations for memory systems are described. A memory system may include a first circuit and a second circuit configured to test one or more counters tracking the quantity of activates to respective rows of memory cells. In some examples, the memory system may initiate an operation to validate a counter of the memory system. The first circuit may determine if a value of the counter is correct by comparing a set of counter bits representing the value of the counter to a set of parity bits. Subsequently, the second circuit may determine if the counter is incrementing correctly in accordance with a set quantity of activates to the corresponding row of memory cells. If the first circuit or the second circuit detect an error associated with the counter, the memory system may discard the row of memory cells associated with the faulty counter.
US12067248B2
A tiered memory fabric workload performance optimization system includes a workload management device coupled to a processing fabric and a memory fabric. The workload management system receives a workload request to perform a workload including sub-workloads, and identifies a respective processing system in the processing fabric for performing each of the sub-workloads. The workload management device then determines, for use by each respective processing system identified for performing the sub-workloads, a respective memory system in the memory fabric to provide memory systems in different memory tiers in the memory fabric that optimize characteristic(s) of a workload performance pipeline provided by the respective processing systems identified for performing the sub-workloads. The workload management device then configures each respective processing system identified for performing each of the sub-workloads, and the respective first memory system determined for that respective processing system, to perform the sub-workload that respective processing system was identified to perform.
US12067246B2
A method of dynamically adjusting workload of a data storage system includes, while processing a first workload, calculating a saturation value of a saturation metric that scales substantially linearly with an I/O per second (IOPS) rate relative to a maximum IOPS rate of the system, determining that the saturation value is one of (1) above a high threshold and (2) below a low threshold, and performing a workload adjustment operation that establishes a second workload by (1) subtracting from the first workload based on the saturation value being above the high threshold, and (2) adding to the first workload based on the saturation value being below the low threshold, then subsequently processing the second workload.
US12067241B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for assigning flush ownership for a plurality of containers of a common frozen flushing work set to a storage processor of a pair of storage processors of a storage system. For each container of the plurality of containers of the common frozen flushing work set not assigned to a particular storage processor, the storage space of the container not assigned to the particular storage processor is reclaimed. For each container of the plurality of containers of the common frozen flushing work set assigned to a particular storage processor, data stored in the container assigned to the particular storage processor is flushed to persistent memory of the storage system.
US12067238B2
A memory system includes a non-volatile memory including first and second chips, a processor configured to generate first messages in response to a command from an external device, the first messages addressed to the first and second chips, and a repeater including an input port to which the first messages are input and first and second output ports connected to the first and second chips. The repeater is configured to write the first messages input via the input port to a shared memory, read the first message addressed to the first chip from the shared memory when the first chip is ready, and output the first message to the first chip through the first output port, and read the first message addressed to the second chip when the second chip is ready, and output the first message to the second chip through the second output port.
US12067236B2
A system and method of uniform sampling in an append-only database to determine temporal distribution of data.
US12067231B2
An electronic device includes a device housing supporting a user interface, one or more touch sensors, and at least one image capture device. One or more processors cause, in response to the user interface receiving user input initiating an image capture operation, the at least one image capture device to capture a first plurality of images when the one or more touch sensors detect a multi-handed touch input and a second plurality of images when the one or more touch sensors detect a single-handed touch input.
US12067225B2
One or more devices, systems, methods and storage mediums for optical imaging medical devices, such as, but not limited to, Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), single mode OCT, and/or multi-modal OCT apparatuses and systems, and methods and storage mediums for use with same, for viewing, controlling, updating, and emphasizing multiple imaging modalities are provided herein. One or more embodiments provide at least one intuitive Graphical User Interface (GUI), method, device, apparatus, system, or storage medium to comprehend information, including, but not limited to, molecular structure of a vessel, and to provide an ability to manipulate the vessel information. In addition to controlling multiple imaging modalities, the GUI may operate for one or more applications, including, but not limited to, expansion/underexpansion (e.g., for a stent) and/or apposition/malapposition (e.g., for a stent), co-registration and imaging.
US12067220B2
A system and method whereby an user interface editing device is used to create a user interface for a controlling device, the created user interface including user interface elements that are associated with functional operations of a virtual equivalent of an appliance. After the created user interface is transferred to the controlling device, the virtual equivalent of an appliance is caused to be linked to an intended target appliance whereupon activation of those user interface elements of the graphical user interface that were associated with functional operations of the virtual equivalent of an appliance will cause the controlling device to transmit commands to control corresponding functional operations of the intended target appliance.
US12067206B2
A display module and a mobile terminal are provided, which includes a light-emitting backplane. The light-emitting backplane includes a substrate, and an electromagnetic induction layer and a light-emitting component layer sequentially arranged on the substrate. The light-emitting component layer includes a plurality of light-emitting components distributed in an array along a first direction and a second direction intersecting with each other. The electromagnetic induction layer includes first electromagnetic induction coils arranged in the first direction and extending to the second direction and second electromagnetic induction coils arranged in the second direction and extending to the first direction.
US12067200B2
A touch apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment includes: a touch panel that includes a plurality of first touch electrodes extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction that crosses the first direction, and a plurality of second touch electrodes extending in the second direction and arranged in the first direction; and a touch driver that applies a first driving signal for generation of a resonance signal of a stylus pen to the touch panel in a first section, and receives a detection signal from the touch panel in a second section that is next to the first section, wherein the touch driver applies a driving signal of which a ratio of a disable level section with respect to an enable level section within one iterative period is different from that of the first driving signal in the second section, to the touch panel.
US12067198B2
An active stylus is provided, which can reduce battery power consumption and reduce the time required for its signal transmission. A position detection device includes a tablet and the stylus having a built-in power source, which are capable of bi-directional transmission and reception of signals through capacitive coupling therebetween. The tablet is configured to transmit a trigger signal US_trg and then transmit a command signal US_cmd to the stylus. The trigger signal US_trg causes the stylus to start its command information receiver to receive the command signal US_cmd including information for controlling the stylus.
US12067195B2
A control method includes determining an application (APP) running front-end on an electronic device, in response to a first APP running front-end on the electronic device, obtaining a first operation mode of an operating member, and at least displaying an operation window of the first APP on a screen interface of the electronic device at a first target position matching the first operation mode. The first operation mode includes a left-hand mode or a right-hand mode.
US12067191B2
The disclosure relates to a touch sensing device and a driving method thereof. A touch sensing device includes a touch driving device receiving touch sensing data from a touch sensor during a touch sensing period, a touch controller receiving the touch sensing data from the touch driving device during a display period, and a first bus connecting the touch driving device to the touch controller, wherein the touch driving device transfers the touch sensing data to the touch controller through the first bus during the display period.
US12067187B2
A position detection method performed using a capacitive touch sensor with line electrodes two-dimensionally arranged. The method includes: acquiring first two-dimensional data indicating a first distribution of detection values of capacitance on the touch sensor; recognizing that a foreign object is present in an area on the touch sensor based on the first two-dimensional data; in response to the recognizing that the foreign object is present in the area on the touch sensor based on the first two-dimensional data, using a first threshold that is lower than a second threshold for detecting a first touch position or touch area inside of the area on the touch sensor in which the foreign object is present; and detecting the first touch position or touch area inside of the area on the touch sensor in which the foreign object is present based on the first two-dimensional data and the first threshold.
US12067178B2
A touch-sensitive textile device that is configured to detect the occurrence of a touch, the location of a touch, and/or the force of a touch on the touch-sensitive textile device. In some embodiments, the touch-sensitive textile device includes a first set of conductive threads oriented along a first direction, and a second set of conductive threads interwoven with the first set of conductive threads and oriented along a second direction. The device may also include a sensing circuit that is operatively coupled to the first and second set of conductive threads. The sensing circuit may be configured to apply a drive signal to the first and second set of conductive threads. The sensing circuit may also be configured to detect a touch or near touch based on a variation in an electrical measurement using the first or second set of conductive threads.
US12067175B2
This disclosure generally describes a system for warming an area surrounding a control element for controlling operation of an associated machine or device. The system can include a heating element that can warm air in and around the heating element when actuated, a blower unit that can be in fluid communication with the heating element and that can generate a flow of the warm air when the heating element and the blower unit are actuated, and a forearm extension unit that can channel the flow of the warm air from the blower unit to warm a user's forearm when the user uses an associated machine or device to which the forearm extension unit is attached. The associated machine or device can be a wheelchair.
US12067170B2
A device for motion sickness reduction, directional indication, and neural rehabilitation that provides three modes of operation. The device operates by providing haptic feedback using transducers that convert electrical signals to a tactile sensation such as pressure, vibration, electrical stimulation, temperature, or airflow. The transducers are located at different locations on the body of a user, and actively change their operation to indicate a direction of motion or rotation to the user through haptic (tactile) feedback. This tactile feedback can be used to reduce motion sickness, provide directional indication, and enhance neural rehabilitation.
US12067168B2
A method of providing a texture motion effect in a multisensory media system includes generating a texture signal by using linear predictive coding (LPC) filters obtained by applying LPC to each of a column and a row forming a texture image selected from an input image and generating a texture motion by using a visual roughness of the texture signal and a depth speed of a camera.
US12067167B2
A computing device can include a cover, a texture haptics layer adjacent to the cover, a display layer adjacent to the texture haptics layer, an impact haptics layer adjacent to the display layer, a controller, and a housing enclosing the controller and supporting the cover, the texture haptics layer, the display layer, and the impact haptics layer. The controller can be configured to activate the texture haptics layer in response to an object moving along the cover, control an image presented by the display layer, and activate the impact haptics layer in response to the object contacting the cover.
US12067165B2
A haptic reproduction system comprises: a touch display device, an upper computer and a waveform generator. The touch display device comprises a piezoelectric unit, a touch display panel and a touch driving unit. The piezoelectric unit is disposed on the touch display panel. The touch driving unit is electrically connected to the touch display panel and the upper computer, and is configured to acquire touch information and transmit the touch information to the upper computer. The upper computer is electrically connected to the waveform generator, and is configured to send a first waveform generation instruction to the waveform generator according to the touch information. The waveform generator is configured to generate a first waveform signal according to the first waveform generation instruction. The piezoelectric unit is electrically connected to the waveform generator, and is configured to resonate with the touch display panel under the drive of the first waveform signal.
US12067161B1
Ultrasonic transducers may be used to track the position of an object. For example, eyewear such as a pair of glasses or other head-mounted device may use ultrasonic transducers to track a user's eye position and gaze direction. To increase positioning accuracy over short-range distances, an array of ultrasonic transducers with different center frequencies may be formed on a common substrate. The closely spaced ultrasonic transducers with relatively small individual bandwidths may be used to simulate a single transducer with a larger bandwidth. Control circuitry may adjust the phases of the transducers in the array to steer the ultrasonic signal beam towards the user's eye and/or to receive an ultrasonic signal beam from the direction of the user's eye. The control circuitry may use time delay and/or phase delay measurement techniques to determine a distance and/or direction to the user's eye using the ultrasonic transducer arrays.
US12067148B2
A security processor includes a key generator circuit configured to randomly generate a key, an encryption circuit configured to encrypt user data based on the key, and a security manager circuit configured to receive a first user identification (ID), which uniquely corresponds to a user of a device, and determine whether to allow access to the user data by authenticating the first user ID.
US12067145B2
The disclosure herein describes processing consent data and using the processed consent data in workflows. Customer consent data is accessed, wherein the customer consent data includes subject consent instances including associated consent purpose-value pairs. The customer consent data is mapped to a raw consent data schema based on mapping selections made on a mapping UI, wherein the mapping includes mapping consent purpose-value pairs of the consent instances to data columns of the raw consent data schema. Metadata representing one or more consent rules related to the raw consent data schema is generated based on rule selections made on a rule configuration UI and the consent rules are applied to one or more workflows. The disclosure enables consent data in different formats and/or from different sources to be ingested and standardized in a single platform such that consent checking functionality can be provided for applications in a consistent and comprehensive manner.
US12067144B2
A method includes obtaining, by an application executing on a processor of an electronic device, user data of a user, generating a representation of the user data, applying local differential privacy to the representation of the user data, to generate a transform of the representation of the user data, sending the transform of the representation of the user data, to a service provider via a network and receiving, from the service provider, via the network, service data based on the transform of the user data. The service data includes a user-specific output based on the transform of the user data. The application executes outside of a trusted execution environment (TEE) of the electronic device. The transform of the representation of the user data is generated in the TEE of the electronic device.
US12067140B2
A method and system for storing electronic documents based on a distributed environment includes the following steps of: a storage management server receives a document data stream sent by a client; the storage management server parses the document type of the electronic document; the storage management server Match the corresponding first storage server based on the document type of the electronic document and the user information; the storage management server sends the corresponding electronic document to the corresponding first storage server; the first storage server is based on the first storage server The digital watermark loading rule of the server loads the digital watermark on the electronic document; the first storage server stores the electronic document loaded with the digital watermark. The embodiment of the present invention facilitates the distributed storage server to store different types of electronic documents in combination with electronic document types, and ensures that subsequent users can manage and refer to the stored electronic documents.
US12067136B2
A display method, a display device, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: determining, in response to a current account not having an access authority for accessing a target file, an associated account of the current account, where a user corresponding to the associated account matches a user corresponding to the current account; and displaying prompt information based on a relevant authority of the associated account for the target file, where the relevant authority includes at least one of an access authority and an application authority.
US12067130B2
The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented systems, devices, apparatuses, and processes that maintain data confidentiality in communications involving voice-enabled devices in a distributed computing environment using homomorphic encryption. By way of example, an apparatus may receive encrypted command data from a computing system, decrypt the encrypted command data using a homomorphic private key, and perform operations that associate the decrypted command data with a request for an element of data. Using a public cryptographic key associated with a device, the apparatus generate an encrypted response that includes the requested data element, and transmit the encrypted response to the device. The device may decrypt the encrypted response using a private cryptographic key and to perform operations that present first audio content representative of the requested data element through an acoustic interface.
US12067128B2
Methods, computer-readable media, software, systems and apparatuses may retrieve, via a computing device and over a network, information related to one or more characteristics of a particular application or service deployed in a computing environment. The particular application or service may be associated with a class of applications or services based on the information. A type of personal data collected may be determined for each application or service in the associated class. For the particular application or service, a risk metric indicative of a type of personal data collected by the particular application or service in relation to the type of personal data collected by other applications or services in the associated class may be determined. An additional application or service with a lower risk than the particular application or service may be recommended.
US12067119B1
Techniques are described for enabling users of cloud provider services to verify, via cryptographic attestation, that trusted “enclaves” are used to process user data during limited points in time at which user data may be unencrypted or otherwise vulnerable. A cloud provider service processes requests involving user data at least in part using an enclave, where an enclave includes a virtual machine running on isolated computing resources of a host computing device managed by the cloud provider. The enclave, for example, can include an application that performs operations such as decrypting user data included in requests sent to a service (e.g., user data encrypted as part of a Transport Layer Security (TLS) connection established between the service and a client computing device), obtaining user-specific encryption keys from a key management service or other source, encrypting the user data using the encryption keys, and forwarding the encrypted data for further processing.
US12067117B2
According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which is stored machine-readable instructions that may cause the processor to determine a code fingerprint of a document containing a macro, in which the code fingerprint corresponds to a functionality of the macro. The processor may also determine whether the code fingerprint of the document matches a cluster code fingerprint associated with a cluster of documents. Based on a determination that the code fingerprint matches the cluster code fingerprint associated with the cluster of documents, the processor may determine whether the cluster of documents has been identified as being malicious or benign. In addition, based on a determination that the cluster of documents has been identified as being malicious or benign, the processor may handle the document as being malicious or benign while preventing the document from being sent to a sandbox environment for detonation of the document.
US12067113B2
Computer-implemented cyber-security processes and machines provide proactive anti-forensics activity detection and prevention to safeguard the integrity of transactions and their associated log details or other data using artificial intelligence and/or machine learning, thereby ensuring that all transactions and logs within the system are complaint for cyber forensics, and helping to make reactive forensic tasks more robust by adding proactive monitoring and compliance activity.
US12067105B2
Disclosed herein is a technique for managing permissions associated with the control of a host device that are provided to a group of wireless devices. The host device is configured to pair with a first wireless device. In response to pairing with the first wireless device, the host device grants a first level of permissions for controlling the host device to the first wireless device. Subsequently, the host device can receive a second request from a second wireless device to pair with the host device. In response to pairing with the second wireless device, the host device can grant a second level of permissions for controlling the host device to second wireless device, where the second level of permissions is distinct from the first level of permissions.
US12067096B2
An information processing system acquires biological information of a target and generates output information determined in correspondence with identification information using the identification information associated with the biological information. Then, the output information is output.
US12067090B2
The present disclosure provides for improving security in a meter or an intelligent electronic device (IED) through the use of a security key which is unique to each meter or IED. Such a key may be used to prevent password reuse among multiple meters. Such a key may also be used to encrypt critical components of the software, such that only when running on the correct meter can the components of the software be decrypted. Such a key may also be used to uniquely identify the device in a larger data collection and management system. The security key can also be used to prevent the direct copying of meters. The present disclosure also provides for a meter or IED that stores functional software separately from core software.
US12067081B2
A method and an apparatus for training a transferable vision transformer (TVT) for unsupervised domain adaption (UDA) in heterogeneous devices are provided. The method includes that a heterogeneous device including one or more graphic processing units (GPUs) loads multiple patches into the TVT which includes a transferability adaption module (TAM). Furthermore, a patch-level domain discriminator in the TAM assigns weights to the multiple patches and determines one or more transferable patches based on the weights. Moreover, the heterogeneous device generates a transferable attention output for an attention module in the TAM based on the one or more transferable patches.
US12067073B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer-readable storage media for uniform resource locator (URL) customization. A request for URL customization may be received by one or more processors. The one or more processors may translate a URL associated with the request into a destination objection. One or more customized links may be generated based on the destination object. The destination object may include one or more of a brand, scheme, host, path, or query. Prior to translating the URL associated with the request into the destination object, the one or more processors may determine whether the URL associated with the request contains a known host by comparing a host of the URL to a list of known hosts.
US12067069B2
A URL refreshing method, apparatus and device in a CDN, and a CDN node, relating to the technical field of data processing, and the technical problem of poor URL refreshing efficiency in a CDN. The method includes: receiving a first refreshing request, the first refreshing request comprising at least one URL to be refreshed; comparing the at least one URL with a URL stored in a local database, the local database storing a URL corresponding to a locally stored source file; and executing a refreshing operation of the URL existing in the database.
US12067067B2
A site recommendation method, an electronic device, and a readable storage medium are provided, which relate to the field of automatic driving. The method includes: determining, in response to a query request of a user terminal for a target position, a target site recommended to a target user within a specified range of the target position, wherein the target site includes a site that the target user is interested in under a specified travel condition; and sending the target site to the user terminal.
US12067058B2
A database system generates an execution plan including multiple operators for processing a database query, for example, a join query or a group by query. The database system allocates a set of threads. Threads communicate with other threads via blocking channels. A blocking channel includes a buffer of a fixed capacity. The database system processes the database query by streaming data through operators of the execution plan. A thread sends data generated by an operator to another thread via the blocking channel if the buffer of the blocking channel has available capacity to store the data, or else the thread blocks until the buffer has capacity to store the data. Similarly, a thread receives data generated by an operator of another thread via the blocking channel if the buffer of the blocking channel has available data, or else the thread blocks until the buffer has data.
US12067053B2
A media file processing method includes: recognizing content features of a target media file, wherein the content features include an image feature and/or a sound feature; determining a target aggregation theme of the target media file according to the recognized content features of the target media file; determining the target media file as media files under the target aggregation theme; and synthesizing the media files under the target aggregation theme in response to a video clip instruction with respect to the target aggregation theme, to obtain a target video corresponding to the target aggregation theme.
US12067048B1
An apparatus and method for entity data aggregation and analysis is disclosed. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor, wherein the memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive entity data from a data collection module, wherein the data collection module includes at least a sensor, determine an obstacle datum as a function of the entity data, classify the entity data into one or more obstacle groups as a function of the obstacle datum of the entity data, determine at least an obstacle resolution object as a function of an obstacle resolution template and generate the obstacle resolution data structure as a function of a template form field of an entity specific data structure template, the at least an obstacle resolution object and the one or more obstacle groups.
US12067045B2
An electronic apparatus is provided. The electronic apparatus includes an input interface, a memory configured to store a plurality of first embedding vectors and content information related to each of the plurality of first embedding vectors, and at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to obtain a sketch input of a user through the input interface, obtain a second embedding vector by inputting the sketch input to a neural network model, identify a first embedding vector, among the plurality of first embedding vectors, having a highest similarity with the second embedding vector, and obtain and output content information corresponding to the identified first embedding vector.
US12067037B1
A system, method, and computer program are provided for performing natural language searches for documents in a database using alternate search suggestions. The system receives a user's natural language query to search a document database and processes the natural language query to map natural language terms to terms for a database query. The system identifies a term in the user's natural language query that the system is unable to map to terms for a database query and determines that the unmapped term is a candidate document keyword term. The system provides an alternate natural language input search suggestion and, in response to user acceptance, the system creates a database query that includes a metadata subquery with database metadata terms and a document keyword subquery that includes the candidate document keyword term. The system resolves the user's natural language query by performing metadata and document keyword searches on the document database.
US12067028B2
An application programming interface gateway service generates an application programming interface that, in various examples, allows client applications to access database functionality without maintaining active database connections, managing database credentials, or providing SQL code. The application programming interface maintains state information between invocations that allows for improved database performance. The state information may include SQL statements and subroutines, compiled SQL code, database credentials, active database connections, and connection pools. When invoked by a client application, the application programming interface may select an active database connection from a connection pool based at least in part on the activity history of each connection in the connection pool so that the expected cache performance of the database may be improved. Access to the application programming interface may be controlled via fine-grained access controls independent of the credentials used to access the database.
US12067026B2
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium are described that provide integrated testing and validation of multi-phase instructions before deployment. Aspects of the disclosure relate to testing ETL instructions using an efficient process that individually and/or holistically validates the ETL instructions and, using a random number generator, varies various aspects of the source datasets. A benefit of running the combination of instructions includes finding errors that are not apparent during testing of each instruction phase separately. Instructions may be separately provided that identify the framework of an in-memory source dataset (e.g., a quantity of rows, a quantity of columns, types of the various columns, data for each record, and the like). The instructions for the framework may also identify a variability of one or more of the items of the framework.
US12067023B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing predictive data analysis with respect to structured data objects. Certain embodiments of the present invention utilize systems, methods, and computer program products that perform predictive data analysis with respect to structured data objects by utilizing at least one of cross-table data similarity score generation machine learning models and various machine learning frameworks for cross-database similarity determination.
US12067007B1
A method includes causing display to a user of at least one event of a first result set from a first pipelined search on events at an event source. Each event comprises a time stamp and a portion of machine data. A selection of a command is received from the user. The selection is to extend the first pipelined search with the selected command in a second pipelined search. The system selects between the first result set and the event source for execution of the second pipelined search based on an analysis of the selected command and at least one command of the first pipelined search. Based on the selecting being of the first result set, display to the user is caused of at least one event of a second result set from the execution of the second pipelined search on the first result set.
US12067003B2
A system and method including receiving a request to update a timestamp associated with database pages of a database instance logically organized into at least one page set, each of the at least one page set including a plurality of the database pages; updating the timestamp associated with each database page in each respective at least one page set; issuing, in response to updating the timestamp associated with a last database page in each of the at least one page set, a write request to write the plurality of database pages in each of the respective at least one page set to a persistent data store; and writing the plurality of database pages in each of the respective at least one page set to a persistent data store, the plurality of database pages written to the persistent data store having an updated timestamp associated therewith.
US12067002B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for providing a recommendation to modify deficient a deficient content item. A plurality of content items associated with a topic is retrieved. Each of the content items includes a plurality of portions each associated with a respective sub-topic. A rating for each sub-topic of the content items is calculated, and a minimum viable subset of the sub-topics is identified based on the calculated ratings. A new content item associated with the topic is accessed. A plurality of portions of the new content item is identified and a sub-topic for each identified portion is determined. An omitted sub-topic of the minimum viable subset of the sub-topics that is not included in the sub-topics of the new content item is identified, and the system interrupts upload of the new content and recommends modifying the new content item to include a portion with the omitted sub-topic.
US12066998B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to updating schema information for multi-tenant databases. In some embodiments, a multi-tenant database system stores a standard schema for a database object, where the standard schema is shared by multiple tenants and a tenant-specific schema for the database object. The tenant-specific schema may include one or more tenant-specific custom elements for the database object. The system may enforce a naming scheme in which tenant-specific elements include a predetermined pattern that is not included in object elements of the standard schema. The system may, in response to detecting an update of the standard schema, automatically propagate the update to the tenant schema, while the tenant is online.
US12066986B2
Disclosed are systems, apparatus, methods, and computer readable media for suppressing network feed activities using an information feed in an on-demand database service environment. In one embodiment, a message is received, including data indicative of a user action. An entity associated with the user action is identified, where the entity is a type of record stored in a database. A type of the entity is identified. It is determined whether the entity type is a prohibited entity type. When the entity type is not a prohibited entity type, the message data is saved to one or more tables in the database. The tables are configured to store feed items of an information feed capable of being displayed on a device. When the entity type is a prohibited entity type, the saving of the message data, to the one or more tables in the database configured to store the feed items, is prohibited.
US12066979B2
In some embodiments, a meta-data inspection data store may contain hierarchical components and subcomponents of an industrial asset and define points of interest. An industrial asset inspection platform may access that information and generate an inspection plan, including an association of at least one sensor type with each of the points of interest. The platform may then store information about the inspection plan in an inspection plan data store and receive inspection data (e.g., from a manual inspection, from an inspection robot, from a fixed sensor, etc.). A smart tagging algorithm may be executed to associate at least one point of interest with an appropriate portion of the received inspection data based on information in the inspection plan data store.
US12066976B2
This invention provides a generalized electronic computer architecture with multiple cores, memory distributed amongst the cores (a core-local memory). This arrangement provides predictable, low-latency memory response time, as well as a flexible, code-supplied flow of memory from one specific operation to another (using an operation graph). In one instantiation, the operation graph consists of a set of math operations, each accompanied by an ordered list of one or more input addresses. Input addresses may be specific addresses in memory, references to other math operations in the graph, or references to the next item in a particular data stream, where data streams are iterators through a continuous block of memory. The arrangement can also be packaged as a PCIe daughter card, which can be selectively plugged into a host server/PC constructed/organized according to traditional von Neumann architecture.
US12066947B2
Systems, methods and apparatuses to control quality of service of a data storage device. For example, the data storage device receives an input data stream and provides an output data stream. Based at least in part on the input data stream and/or the output data stream, the data storage device determines a quality of service configuration using an artificial neural network. A controller of the data storage device uses the quality of service configuration to control operations of the data storage device that are relevant to quality of service of the data storage device. For example, the configuration identifies optimized strategies and parameters of caching or buffering, and optimized timing and frequency of background maintenance processes, such as garbage collection, wear leveling, etc.
US12066946B2
Embodiments are generally directed to methods and apparatuses for dynamically changing data priority in a cache. An embodiment of an apparatus comprising: a priority controller to: receive a memory access request to request data; and set a priority flag for the memory access request based on an accumulated access amount of data stored in a memory block to be accessed by the memory access request to dynamically change a priority level of the requested data.
US12066938B2
A cache memory circuit that evicts cache lines based on which cache lines are storing background data patterns is disclosed. The cache memory circuit can store multiple cache lines and, in response to receiving a request to store a new cache line, can select a particular one of previously stored cache lines. The selection may be performed based on data patterns included in the previously stored cache lines. The cache memory circuit can also perform accesses where the internal storage arrays are not activated in response to determining data in the location specified by the requested address is background data. In systems employing virtual addresses, a translation lookaside buffer can track the location of background data in the cache memory circuit.
US12066937B2
Techniques for flushing metadata involve: receiving a flushing request, the flushing request instructing to flush metadata in at least one cache region to a persistent storage device; acquiring a plurality of target indicators, the target indicator at least indicating a type of a cache region and a block in the cache region, where the plurality of target indicators are classified based on types of cache regions indicated by the target indicators among the plurality of target indicators; determining, from the plurality of target indicators, at least one target indicator of the same type as the at least one cache region; and flushing metadata in a block indicated by the at least one target indicator. Such techniques avoid flushing a cache region that does not need to be flushed, shortens the response time to the flushing request, and reduces the occupancy of system resources.
US12066928B2
A memory system that includes a system protection function implemented by using a double-map scheme, a memory controller, and operation methods thereof are disclosed. The memory system includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device includes a plurality of nonvolatile memory cells corresponding to a plurality of physical addresses respectively. The memory controller controls the memory device and uses a first map and a second map. The first map includes physical address mapping information based on a logical address for a physical address where first-type data is stored. The second map includes physical address mapping information based on a logical address for a physical address where second-type data is stored.
US12066914B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for enabling a memory sub-system to perform firmware-based monitoring of system state information without adding latency to the memory sub-system. The memory sub-system controller can include multiple CPUs which can be employed to perform different tasks. The memory sub-system controller can employ one of the frontend CPUs as a monitoring CPU capable of executing a data-gathering task to retrieve system state information from another CPU.
US12066912B2
Information as to a group of devices which are part of a monitoring system, can be accumulated in one or more databases. The databases can be addressed via a computer network, such as the Internet. Monitoring systems can access one or more of the databases seeking identification of those devices that correspond to a selected criterion. A database can provide serial numbers of devices that meet the selected criteria. The respective monitoring system can determine if any local devices have serial numbers that match the received serial numbers. A trouble indicator can be generated in response thereto.
US12066904B2
Methods and systems for improving the performance of a primary system that is running one or more virtual machines and capturing snapshots of the one or more virtual machines over time are described. The performance penalty on the primary system when a hypervisor running the one or more virtual machines is used to capture the snapshots of the one or more virtual machines may be reduced by leveraging storage array snapshots to reduce the amount of time that the hypervisor must freeze virtual disks of the one or more virtual machines. In this case, changed block tracking information for changed data blocks associated with the snapshots may be acquired from the hypervisor and the changed data blocks themselves may be pulled from the storage array snapshots without requiring the hypervisor to keep the virtual disks of the one or more virtual machines in a frozen state.
US12066892B2
An error associated with host data written to a page of a storage area of a memory sub-system is detected. A determination is made that parity data corresponding to the host data is stored in a cache memory of the memory sub-system. A data recovery operation is performed based on the parity data stored in the cache memory.
US12066891B2
Methods, systems, and devices for memory operations are described. A read command may be received at a memory device from a host device. As part of an error control operation, a first set of error control bits may be generated for the set of data. Based on the first set of error control bits, a failure of a matching operation associated with the error control operation may be determined. Based on determining the failure of the matching operation, a second set of error control bits that is different than the first set of error control bits may be transmitted to the host device. The second set of error control bits may indicate that the matching operation failed at the memory device.
US12066887B2
In some aspects, the techniques described herein relate to a system including: a memory device including a secure storage area; a server configured to generate cryptographic data and compute a cyclical redundancy check (CRC) value of the cryptographic data; and a manufacturer computing device configured to receive the cryptographic data and the CRC value and issue a command including the cryptographic data and the CRC value to the memory device, wherein the memory device is configured to compute a local CRC value using the cryptographic data in the command, compare the local CRC value to the CRC value, and write the cryptographic data to the secure storage area when the local CRC value matches the CRC value.
US12066883B2
The present disclosure provides a system for automating graphical testing during video game development. The system can use Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) to create a model to detect graphical glitches in video games. The system can use an image, a video game frame, as input to be classified into one of defined number of classifications. The classifications can include a normal image and one of a plurality of different kinds of glitches. In some embodiments, the glitches can include corrupted textures, including low resolution textures and stretched textures, missing textures, and placeholder textures. The system can apply a confidence measure to the analysis to help reduce the number of false positives.
US12066882B2
Systems and methods for managing power consumption of device subsystems include a device which maintains one or more constraint metric tables for applications executable on the device. Each of the one or more constraint metric tables may specify respective power levels for subsystems of the device according to a respective application or an application type of the respective application. The device may determine to operate the device at a reduced power level for a first application, based on a condition for the device satisfying at least one of a thermal threshold criteria or a power threshold criteria when the device operates at full power level. The device may apply a constraint metric responsive to determining to operate at the reduced power level, to cause a subset of the plurality of subsystems to adjust a power consumption level according to a first constraint metric table corresponding to the first application.
US12066879B2
Multiport adapters include a power connection port, a host connection port, a peripheral device connection port, a controller, and a power supply circuit. The controller is configured to receive, through the power connection port, first power information regarding power suppliable from a power supply device to the multiport adapter, determine a maximum power value in the first power information, transmit a message requesting the power supply device to supply power of the maximum power value to the multiport adapter, determine a third power value obtained by subtracting, from the maximum power value, a first power value consumed by the multiport adapter and a second power value set to be supplied to a peripheral device, generate, based on the third power value, second power information regarding power suppliable from the multiport adapter to a host device, and transmit the second power information to the host device through the host connection port.
US12066878B2
According to various aspects, a controller may be configured to: control a transmission over a single-wire interface of an instruction corresponding to a high-current operation; and control an electrical behavior of a charging path to provide current at the single-wire interface during a time period corresponding to an execution of the instructed high-current operation.
US12066875B2
In one aspect, a bracket assembly comprises a bracket and a pair of rails. The bracket comprises a first portion which includes a first segment with a first opening and a second segment with a second opening. The pair of rails comprises: a first rail which includes a first tab protruding from the first rail and including a first notch; and a second rail which includes a second tab protruding from the second rail and including a second notch. The bracket is to attach to the pair of rails when: the first portion is placed against the ends of the rails such that the first tab is inserted into the first opening and the second tab is inserted into the second opening; and the bracket is slid down such that the first opening rests in the first notch and the second opening rests in the second notch.
US12066872B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display including a first area, a second area, and a folding area between the first area and the second area, a first housing configured to support the first area, a second housing configured to support the second area, and a hinge assembly configured to connect the first housing and the second housing, wherein the hinge assembly includes a hinge bracket including a pair of first rail structures formed to define a pair of hinge axes, a pair of hinge structures having one side connected to the first housing or the second housing and another side rotatably connected about the hinge axis along the first rail structure, and including a first cam structure. an intermediate member connected to the hinge bracket, and an elastic member configured to provide an elastic force to the intermediate member.
US12066864B2
Provided is a foldable display that is excellent in mass production applicability, and that is resistant to image distortion that can appear in the folding portion after the display is repeatedly folded, and also a mobile device equipped with such a foldable display. The foldable display includes a hard coating film on at least part of the front surface thereof, the hard coating film including a polyester film having an intrinsic viscosity of 0.65 to 1.0 dl/g as a substrate film; a hardened layer formed from a polyimide-based resin, the hardened layer having a thickness of 0.5 to 3.0 μm; and a hard coating layer, wherein the hardened layer and the hard coating layer are present in this order at least on the front surface side of the substrate film.
US12066855B2
Various implementations described herein are related to a device having multi-port circuit architecture with multiple ports. The multi-port circuit architecture may expand a primary clock into multiple dummy clocks so as to separately track, simulate and report clock power consumption for each port of the multiple ports to a central processing unit.
US12066815B2
There is provided a technique that includes: displaying a recipe editing screen including at least a selection screen area that displays a parameter list for selection of parameters included in a recipe of a substrate processing apparatus, and a parameter editing screen area that edits the parameters; receiving a selection operation that selects an editing target parameter from the parameter list; displaying, on the parameter editing screen area, in an editable manner, a timing chart that is changeable at a time of each process in a series of processes included in a substrate processing process; and editing the editing target parameter by receiving an operation instruction to edit the timing chart displayed on the parameter editing screen area and changing the timing chart according to the operation instruction.
US12066814B2
When a first reference item is selected, an information processing device duplicates a second reference item associated with a second setting screen belonging to another setting category related to a component, which is a setting target of a first setting screen associated with the first reference item, and duplicates a third reference item associated with a third setting screen, of which a setting target is another component electrically or mechanically connected to the component being the setting target of the first setting screen. The information processing device duplicates and collectively displays one or multiple reference items including at least one of the second reference item and the third reference item.
US12066813B2
A relationship between an input, a set-point of a plurality of processes and an output of a corresponding process is learned using machine learning. A regression function is derived for each process based upon historical data. An autoencoder is trained for each process based upon the historical data to form a regularizer and the regression functions and regularizers are merged together into a unified optimization problem. System level optimization is performed using the regression functions and regularizers and a set of optimal set-points of a global optimal solution for operating the processes is determined. An industrial system is operated based on the set of optimal set-points.
US12066812B2
The easy and quick detection of a contour shape of an object from three dimensional point group data, and control a robotic arm and a tool using it. An information processing method comprising: a step of acquiring three-dimensional point group data by a sensor from an object, a step of specifying a contour point group data that constitutes a contour of the object from the three-dimensional point group data, a step of acquiring tool control information including tool position information and tool posture information for specifying a tool trajectory of the tool connected to the arm of the working robot from the contour point group data, and a step of controlling the tool based on the tool control information.
US12066806B2
An industrial automation device includes processing circuitry and a non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to execute a software container and receive, at the software container, a first set of data having raw data from one or more industrial automation devices communicatively coupled to the industrial automation device. When executed, the instructions also cause the processing circuitry to pre-process the first set of data using the software container to generate a second set of data and send the second set of data to a second industrial automation device communicatively coupled to the first industrial automation device.
US12066803B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for iterative and interactive scheduling of an I/O station for an automation control system. The apparatus includes a selection device adapted to specify a selection of signals for the I/O station in the form of (i) signal data and (ii) planning data for the I/O station based on user input. The apparatus also includes a database device adapted to provide property data for a plurality of I/O devices and I/O systems and a configuration device adapted to determine, based on the signal data, the planning data, and the property data, a system configuration for the I/O station that includes at least one I/O device among the plurality of I/O devices. The configuration device is further adapted to perform a technical check of the specific construction rules of the respective I/O system of the system configuration and to change the system configuration in case of failure of the technical check. The apparatus also includes a display device adapted to display the system configuration for the I/O station.
US12066799B2
A post-harvest crop management platform is provided for regulating conditions of an agricultural crop being dried and/or stored. The platform utilizes data collected from sensors positioned proximate to, or embedded within, an agricultural crop, and analyzes selected crop characteristics affecting the stored crop in multiple sections thereof. The platform identifies parameters relative to achieving a desired crop characteristic level in the agricultural crop, generates a profile of the selected crop characteristic across the multiple sections of the stored crop, and models an application of a fluid flow pattern to achieve the desired crop characteristic level in each section. The crop storage monitoring and management platform also actuates a multi-stack assembly, configured within the stored crop, to automatically apply the fluid flow pattern in one or more cycles that are adjustable to changing conditions within the stored crop in real time. The crop storage monitoring and management platform further integrates with, and connects to and communicates with, other systems within an autonomous field activity ecosystem.
US12066797B2
An anomality prediction system, which predicts an anomality of a machine, includes: one or more memories; and one or more processors configured to: obtain a state variable including at least one of output data from at least one sensor that detects a state of at least one of the machine or a surrounding environment, internal data of control software controlling the machine, or computational data obtained based on at least one of the output data or the internal data; generate, by inputting the obtained state variable into a machine learning model, a degree of anomality of the machine based on output from the machine learning model; and notify information based on the generated degree of anomality, wherein the notified information includes at least one of the generated degree of anomality at one or more time points, or one or more levels of anomality based on the generated degree of anomality.
US12066795B2
An input device includes a movable input surface protruding from an electronic device. The input device enables force inputs along three axes relative to the electronic device: first lateral movements, second lateral movements, and axial movements. The input device includes force or displacement sensors which can detect a direction and magnitude of input forces.
US12066773B2
In an image forming apparatus, in a case that a relative position between an inner roller and an outer member with respect to a circumferential direction of the inner roller is changed in a period from a state in which the outer member is separated from a belt until first transfer in a job for forming and outputting an image on a recording material is started when the job is executed, a controller controls a position changing mechanism and a contact and separation mechanism so that a contact operation for bringing the outer member into contact with the belt is performed after changing the relative position.
US12066768B2
An image forming apparatus including a main unit, a main unit memory, a drum cartridge, a toner cartridge, and a controller. The main unit memory stores printer identification information. The drum cartridge including a drum memory that stores drum identification information. The toner cartridge including a toner memory that stores toner identification information. The controller is configured to store in the main unit memory the drum identification information stored in the drum memory and store in the drum memory the printer identification information stored in the main unit memory, if it determines that the drum cartridge installed in the main unit is new, and store in the main unit memory the toner identification information stored in the toner memory and store in the toner memory the drum identification information stored in the drum memory, if it determines that the toner cartridge installed in the main unit is new.
US12066753B2
A light source apparatus includes a first laser light emitter that emits first light, a wavelength converter that converts the first light into second light, a base including a first support part that supports the first laser light emitter and a second support part that supports the wavelength converter, and a first optical element that guides the first light to the wavelength converter. The first optical element has a first light incident surface which faces the first laser light emitter, a first reflection surface that reflects the first light emitted from the first light incident surface and deflects the optical path of the first light, and a first light exiting surface which faces the wavelength converter and via which the first light reflected off the first reflection surface exits. The first light incident surface, the first reflection surface, and the first light exiting surface intersect with each other.
US12066747B2
Digital cameras comprising a lens assembly comprising N lens elements L1-LN starting with L1 on an object side, wherein N is ≥4, an image sensor having a sensor diagonal SD, and a pop-out mechanism that controls a largest air-gap d between two consecutive lens elements within lens elements L1 and LN to bring the camera to an operative pop-out state and a collapsed state, wherein the lens assembly has a total track length TTL in the operative pop-out state and a collapsed total track length cTTL in the collapsed state, wherein SD is in the range of 7-20 mm and wherein cTTL/SD<0.6.
US12066746B2
Intelligent light supplement device, video apparatus and intelligent light supplement method thereof
An intelligent light supplement device, video apparatus, and an intelligent light supplement method are disclosed. The intelligent light supplement device includes a light source input module, a light source computing module, and a light source output module. The light source input module has a light sensing unit, which receives an ambient light source. The light source computing module is electrically connected to the light source input module, compares the ambient light source with a content of an illuminance comparison table to generate an illuminance control signal corresponding to an apparatus illuminance value, and/or compares the ambient light source with a content of a color temperature comparison table to generate a color temperature control signal corresponding to an apparatus color temperature value. The light source output module has a light emitting unit and drives the light emitting unit according to the illuminance control signal and/or the color temperature control signal.
US12066739B2
An optical scanner includes: a light source; a deflection element including a plurality of pixels arranged one-dimensionally or two-dimensionally; a one-cycle diffraction grating including, among the pixels, continuous N pixels, where N is a natural number of two or more; the one-cycle diffraction grating having a length d in the alignment direction that is smaller than a wavelength λ of the light emitted from the light source; and a phase modulation controller configured to control a phase modulation amount of each of the pixels. Incident light is emitted from the light source obliquely from the reflecting surface at an incident angle θ1. Sin θi+(λ/d)>1 or sin θi−(λ/d)>1 is satisfied.
US12066738B2
A lens system may include a lens having a first electrode electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The lens may be divided into a plurality of lens segments that are concentrically arranged proceeding from a center to a radially outer periphery of the lens. An optical power of a first lens segment of the plurality of lens segments may be greater than an optical power of a second lens segment of the plurality of lens segments disposed radially outward relative to the first lens segment. Various other devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US12066733B2
A display device includes a substrate including a display area including a plurality of main pixels, and a sensor area including a plurality of auxiliary pixels and a plurality of transmission portions; and a plurality of wirings arranged along edges of the plurality of transmission portions and electrically connecting the plurality of auxiliary pixels to each other. The plurality of wrings includes a first directional wirings extending in a first direction and arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, and a second directional wirings extending in the second direction and arranged in the first direction, and a wiring adjacent to the transmission portion from among the first directional wirings includes a first extension portion.
US12066730B2
A method of manufacturing, with high mass productivity, liquid crystal display devices having highly reliable thin film transistors with excellent electric characteristics is provided. In a liquid crystal display device having an inverted staggered thin film transistor, the inverted staggered thin film transistor is formed as follows: a gate insulating film is formed over a gate electrode; a microcrystalline semiconductor film which functions as a channel formation region is formed over the gate insulating film; a buffer layer is formed over the microcrystalline semiconductor film; a pair of source and drain regions are formed over the buffer layer; and a pair of source and drain electrodes are formed in contact with the source and drain regions so as to expose a part of the source and drain regions.
US12066720B2
Disclosed are an array substrate and a liquid crystal display panel. The liquid crystal display panel provided by the embodiment of the present application comprises an array substrate. The array substrate eliminates the main electrode of the buffer area, or eliminates the main electrode of the buffer area and then sets a protruding part and adds DBS electrodes on the array substrate. The pretilt angle conflict between two adjacent areas is reduced, thereby preventing the problem of mutual obstruction when the liquid crystal molecules twist, thereby improving dark clusters and solving the problem of uneven display.
US12066718B2
A display panel and a liquid crystal display device are provided. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate, a sealant, a display layer, a circuit layer, and an organic film layer. The organic film layer includes vias and planarization portions arranged adjoining the vias. A first conductive layer includes conductive pads, and each conductive pad covers a signal line in at least one via and the planarization portion adjoining the vias. A second conductive layer is disposed on one side of the second substrate. A conductive ball of the sealant is located on the planarization portions and contact the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The signal line is electrically connected to the second conductive layer through the conductive pad and the conductive ball.
US12066707B2
An optical element includes a light guide plate, an incidence portion, and an emission portion, in which each of the incidence portion and the emission portion includes diffraction portions, the diffraction portion includes diffraction elements, the diffraction element includes a liquid crystal diffraction layer in which a direction of an optical axis of a liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in one in-plane direction, and in a case where the direction in which the direction of the optical axis changes is set as an in-plane rotation direction and a length over which the optical axis rotates by 180° is set as an in-plane period, in-plane rotation directions of liquid crystal diffraction layers of incidence diffraction elements in at least two of a plurality of the incidence diffraction portions are different from each other.
US12066704B2
The present disclosure relates to a display apparatus capable of reducing light leakage due to warpage of a liquid crystal panel. The display apparatus includes a rear chassis, a light source module installed on the rear chassis to output light, a liquid crystal panel disposed in front of the light source module that either blocks the light output from the light source module, or allows the light output from the light source module to pass, a middle mold coupled to be fixed to the rear chassis, and a front chassis provided to support the liquid crystal panel, the front chassis being coupled to the middle mold, wherein the front chassis is configured to be movable forward and backward with respect to the middle mold within a predetermined range.
US12066703B2
A display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a display panel; a case top-down assembly covering a lower area of the display panel; a middle cabinet in which the display panel is mounted, and a cover bottom coupled to the case top-down assembly and the middle cabinet. The middle cabinet comprises a first mounting unit overlapping a partial area at a first long side of the display panel; and a second mounting unit overlapping a partial area at a first short side of the display panel. Ends of the first mounting unit and the second mounting unit overlap each other in a first overlapping area. The display apparatus of the present invention can be linked with an artificial intelligence module, a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a device related to a 5 G service, and the like.
US12066694B2
A system of contact lenses includes at least two contact lenses, each lens having a visual correction for a non-rotationally symmetric eye aberration. Each lens has a different level or degree of a stabilization that is characterized by a thickness differential between a thickness of a stabilization zone and a thickness of a non-stabilization zone.
US12066687B2
A lens barrel and an optical device that can be reduced in size. A lens barrel includes: a cylinder cam with a cam groove; a first movement section having a first cam follower that moves along one side surface of the cam groove in the optical axis OA direction; and a second movement section having a second cam follower that moves along the other side surface of the cam groove in the optical axis OA direction. The position of the first cam follower in the optical axis OA direction and the position of the second cam follower in the optical axis OA direction can overlap each other at least partially.
US12066669B2
Disclosed is an optical device including a first lens and a second lens. The first lens of the optical device is joined to an end surface of an optical waveguide of an optical element to emit light emitted from the optical element. The second lens is optically coupled with the first lens to convert the light emitted from the first lens into collimated light.
US12066666B2
An object of the present invention is to provide, in a local-light coupling technique for improving efficiency of work, an optical fiber local-light coupling apparatus configured to hardly affect communication between an OLT and an ONU while causing light to leak from a coated optical fiber in such an amount that makes it possible to confirm a communication state. The optical fiber local-light coupling apparatus according to the present invention includes a first jig including a concave portion curved in a longitudinal direction with respect to a coated optical fiber, and a probe configured to receive leakage light leaking from the coated optical fiber being bent; a second jig including a convex portion curved in the longitudinal direction with respect to the coated optical fiber, the convex portion being configured to sandwich the coated optical fiber between the convex portion and the concave portion of the first jig; a pressing unit configured to apply pressing force in a direction in which the concave portion of the first jig and the convex portion of the second jig approach each other to form a bend in the coated optical fiber; and a reflective film configured to cover a surface of the concave portion of the first jig except for a leakage light passage portion through which, among the leakage light, reception leakage light to be received by the probe passes, and reflect and return the leakage light other than the reception leakage light to the coated optical fiber.
US12066658B2
An integrated optical device includes a substrate, a waveguide structure and a grating structure. The substrate has a waveguide region and a grating region adjacent to each other. The waveguide structure is disposed on the substrate in the waveguide region. The grating structure is disposed on the substrate in the grating region. In some embodiments, the grating structure includes grating bars and grating intervals arranged alternately, and widths of the grating bars of the grating structure are varied.
US12066657B2
An optical module includes: a substrate and a waveguide element having a mount face opposed to the substrate, the waveguide element having an interference waveguide portion having an optical interference function. Further, the mount face includes a projection region to which the interference waveguide portion is projected on the mount face and a non-projection region, and the waveguide element is joined to the substrate with a joint material in the non-projection region.
US12066655B2
A terminated hollow-core optical fiber includes a capillary, a hollow-core optical fiber including a structured cladding, and an endcap. A first end of the hollow-core optical fiber terminates inside the capillary a non-zero distance away from a first end face of the capillary. The hollow-core optical fiber is adhered to the capillary at a second end face of the capillary where the hollow-core optical fiber extends out of the capillary. The endcap is fused to the first end face of the capillary. The endcap has a larger diameter than the first end of the hollow-core optical fiber. This termination scheme does not require fusing the hollow-core fiber itself to the endcap or any other part. Therefore, this termination scheme is applicable to hollow-core fibers with a structured cladding that cannot tolerate the temperatures associated with fusing the hollow-core fiber to another part.
US12066652B2
The present disclosure relates to a function display for selectively displaying several symbols representing one switching function, respectively, and/or at least two switching states, including a light guide stack which forms a display surface facing towards an observer; wherein the light guide stack is formed from at least planar light guides arranged in an overlaid manner in a stacking direction, which are arranged so as to be spaced apart by a transparent or translucent layer; at least one light source per light guide wherein, further, at least one microstructured symbol area in or on the light guide which is configured, if the light source is activated, to be visible to the observer; a circuit board on which the several light sources are arranged and fixed; a panel fixed to the light guide stack to which the circuit board is fixed while resting against a mounting surface.
US12066638B2
The invention relates to a collimator for testing a camera (6), comprising a collimator housing (1), wherein the collimator housing (1) has a longitudinal wall (8, 9) and two end walls (10, 11), the first end wall (10) having a light source (2) and the second end wall (11) having a lens (5), a reticle (4) being disposed between the lens (5) and the light source, with the reticle (4) being disposed obliquely with respect to the lens (5) and/or obliquely with respect to the longitudinal wall (8, 9) in the collimator housing (1).
US12066637B1
Techniques for facilitating calibration of an IPD for an ER system are disclosed. A current IPD setting for the ER system is determined. An object in a scene is selected. A first distance between the ER system and the object is determined. A hologram is generated, where this hologram includes at least one boundary region that corresponds to at least one boundary region of the object. The hologram is displayed in the scene. The hologram is displayed based on the current IPD setting for the ER system. User input adjusts the current IPD setting such that a new IPD setting is provided to the ER system. The hologram is displayed in the scene based on the new IPD setting. Based on the new IPD setting, the hologram is caused to align with the object, thereby calibrating the IPD setting.
US12066635B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a computer display stray-light suppression system for a head-worn computer comprising an eye cover including a flexible material with a perimeter, wherein the perimeter is formed to substantially encapsulate an eye of a person, and the eye cover including an attachment system adapted to removably and replaceably attach to a perimeter of the head-worn computer to suppress light emitted from a computer display in the head-worn computer.
US12066633B2
A wearable display apparatus is described herein. The wearable display apparatus includes a headset, a left-eye optical system, a right-eye optical system, and an inter-pupil distance (IPD) adjustment system coupled to the headset, the left-eye optical system, and the right-eye optical system for adjusting an inter-pupil spacing between the left-eye optical system and the right-eye optical system.
US12066625B2
Systems and methods for event-based gaze in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes an event-based gaze tracking system, including a camera positioned to observe an eye, where the camera is configured to asynchronously sample a plurality of pixels to obtain event data indicating changes in local contrast at each pixel in the plurality of pixels, and a processor communicatively coupled to the camera, and a memory communicatively coupled to processor, where the memory contains a gaze tracking application, where the gaze tracking application directs the processor to, receive the event data from the camera, fit an eye model to the eye using the event data, map eye model parameters from the eye model to a gaze vector, and provide the gaze vector.
US12066621B2
A MEMS device includes a semiconductor body with a cavity and forming an anchor portion, a tiltable structure elastically suspended over the cavity, first and second support arms to support the tiltable structure, and first and second piezoelectric actuation structures biasable to deform mechanically, generating a rotation of the tiltable structure around a rotation axis. The piezoelectric actuation structures carry first and second piezoelectric displacement sensors. When the tiltable structure rotates around the rotation axis, the displacement sensors are subject to respective mechanical deformations and generate respective sensing signals in phase opposition to each other, indicative of the rotation of the tiltable structure. The sensing signals are configured to be acquired in a differential manner.
US12066618B2
Systems and methods for multi-color imaging using a microscope system. The microscope system can have a relatively small size as compared to an average microscope system. The microscope system can include various components configured to reduce or eliminate image artifacts such as chromatic aberrations and/or noise from stray light that can occur during multi-color imaging. The components can be configured to reduce or eliminate the image artifacts, and/or noise without substantially changing the size of the microscope system.
US12066613B2
An optical imaging device includes at least a first and a second image recording units for generating a first and a second original images of an object, wherein the original images differ at least with regard to an image parameter, wherein the image recording units are arranged such that original images are recorded from the same perspective, an image processing unit configured to further process the original images and an image display unit configured to reproduce displayed images generated from the processed original images. The image processing unit is configured to supplement at least one of the two original images with image information from the other original image to generate a displayed image. In addition, a corresponding method is provided.
US12066610B2
A ring focus optics for machining rotationally symmetrical or nearly rotationally symmetrical workpieces by an annular laser beam includes a conical mirror configured to deflect the annular laser beam radially inward or outward onto a circumference of at least one workpiece, a rotational axis of which is aligned collinear to an optical axis of the ring focus optics. The ring focus optics further includes a holding/centering device surrounded by the annular laser beam and fastened on the housing of the ring focus optics. The holding/centering device is configured to axially fix the at least one workpiece and/or to radially center the at least one workpiece with respect to the optical axis.
US12066598B2
An optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit consisting of one or more negative lenses, a second lens unit with positive refractive power disposed so as to have a first air space from the first lens unit, and a third lens unit disposed so as to have a second air space from the second lens unit. The first air space is a widest air space of air spaces formed closer to the object side than a positive lens disposed closest to the object side in the optical system. A surface of the first lens unit closest to the image side is concave. The third lens unit consists of a lens element with negative refractive power and having a concave surface on the object side. The optical system satisfies predetermined inequalities.
US12066596B2
A cover window includes a base layer; a first coating layer on the base layer; and a second coating layer on the first coating layer. The first coating layer directly contacts a first part of an upper surface of the base layer and exposes a second part of the upper surface of the base layer, the upper surface of the base layer consists of the first part and the second part, and the second coating layer directly contacts the second part of the upper surface of the base layer exposed by the first coating layer, and an upper surface of the first coating layer.
US12066588B2
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) electronics that employ selective solid-state isolation of circuit elements can include solid-state switches, such as back-to-back Field Effect Transistor (FET) pairs, and isolated gate drive electronics adapted to operate the solid-state switches in order to selectively decouple induction coils from receive electronics. The solid-state switches can be placed in series to achieve higher standoff voltages, and can be configured for low on resistance and short switching times. The gate drive electronics can include electrical isolation components adapted to enhance standoff voltages and reduce electrical noise at the selectively isolated receive electronics.
US12066583B2
A method detects seismic events, in particular detects foreshocks for earthquake prediction. The events are detected by a plurality of sensors, wherein at least a part of a water pipe network on which the sensors are arranged is used for detection. An ultrasonic water meter to be connected to a water pipe network and an ultrasonic water meter system connected to a water pipe network are provided to detect seismic events.
US12066579B2
Real-time monitoring of surroundings of a marine vessel. One or more observation sensor modules are configured and positioned to generate sensor data extending around the marine vessel. One or more data processors are configured to map and visualize the sensor data in relation to a virtual model of the marine vessel. A user interface is configured to display the virtual model together with the visualized sensor data from a user selectable point of view to a mariner of the marine vessel.
US12066566B2
A frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radar system is provided that includes a receiver configured to generate a digital intermediate frequency (IF) signal, and an interference monitoring component coupled to the receiver to receive the digital IF signal, in which the interference monitoring component is configured to monitor at least one sub-band in the digital IF signal for interference, in which the at least one sub-band does not include a radar signal.
US12066557B2
Methods performed by wireless devices and base stations for performing GNSS-assisted measurement reporting are disclosed. A method performed by a wireless device includes: determining that a measurement reporting triggering condition has been satisfied based on at least a location of the wireless device, the location of the wireless device being determined using GNSS location measurements; determining one or more measurement quantities relating to satellite(s) for each of the plurality of surrounding cells; and reporting at least a subset of the measurement quantities. A method performed by a base station includes: signalling to a wireless device a measurement report triggering condition, the measurement reporting triggering condition being based on at least a location of the wireless device, the location of the wireless device being determined using GNSS location measurements; and receiving a measurement report from the wireless device when the measurement reporting triggering condition is satisfied.
US12066555B1
A method and apparatus for measuring the angle of arrival AOA of Wi-Fi packets, using a switched beam antenna SBA is described. Wide antenna beams, quadrants, are selected in turn and a burst of packets is transmitted on each quadrant. The quadrant with the highest average signals strength is selected. Then the narrow antenna beams that make up that selected quadrant are selected, in sequence, and the average signal strength for each narrow beam is recorded. The narrow beam with the highest average signal strength is returned as the AOA. Based upon which narrow beam recorded the highest signal strength, the next sequence of antenna beams is selected. When the SBA is mounted on a mobile platform, the parameters of the transmission bursts are chosen such that the angular error due to cornering of the platform is negligible.
US12066553B2
An apparatus for locating an object of interest using offset. The object may be a mobile platform, or portion of same, associated with a vehicle, or a pavement segment or feature of or on a pavement segment on which the mobile platform is located. The vehicle includes first and second fixed points having a known offset from each other. An image sensor whose field of view includes the second fixed point and a segment of the pavement surface provides image data which is used with the known offset to calculate the precise location of the object of interest.
US12066549B1
Disclosed are a same-path and synchronous detection system and a same-path and synchronous detection method for atmosphere data. The detection system includes an emission unit, a receiving unit and a data processing unit, where the emission unit includes multiple sets of laser devices, which are used for emitting the laser of different wavelengths in a synchronous and same-path manner; the receiving unit includes a receiving telescope, which is symmetrically provided with a plurality of pupils, to receive an echo signal after the laser of different wavelengths interacts with the atmosphere; and the data processing unit is configured to calculate atmosphere data parameters through the echo signal. The synchronous and same-path detection for a plurality of atmosphere data parameters may be implemented in the present disclosure.
US12066540B2
An axial deviation estimation apparatus of an in-vehicle sensor includes a road surface recognition unit configured to recognize a road surface by a laser radar installed in a vehicle, an estimation unit configured to estimate an axial deviation amount of the in-vehicle sensor mounted on the vehicle, and a plane creation unit configured to create a virtual plane of the road surface based on a recognition result of the road surface recognition unit. The estimation unit estimates the axial deviation amount based on an inclination of the virtual plane with respect to a reference plane of the laser radar.
US12066539B2
A method implemented by a first time of flight (ToF) sensor includes generating, by the first ToF sensor, a first depth map in accordance with measurements of reflections of an optical signal emitted by the first ToF sensor; communicating, by the first sensor with a second ToF sensor, the first depth map and a second depth map, the second depth map generated by the second ToF sensor; and determining, by the first ToF sensor, a relative location of the first ToF sensor relative to the second ToF sensor in accordance with the first depth map and the second depth map.
US12066532B2
An ultrasonic imaging device includes a plurality of ultrasonic transducers arranged in an array of a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, the array being divided into a plurality of sub-arrays of neighboring transducers, each including a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns, the device including, for each sub-array: a single transmit and/or receive circuit; and a combiner selector and/or splitter selector circuit configurable to couple any, alone, of the transducers of the sub-array to the transmit and/or receive circuit of the sub-array, or to simultaneously couple a plurality of the transducers of the sub-array to the transmit and/or receive circuit of the sub-array. The device further includes a control circuit adapted to individually controlling the combiner selector and/or splitter selector circuits of the different sub-arrays.
US12066531B2
Disclosed herein is an ultrasonic sensor control device that controls an ultrasonic sensor device configured to transmit and receive ultrasonic waves. The ultrasonic sensor control device includes a transmission control section configured to control transmission of a transmission ultrasonic wave at a first frequency through the ultrasonic sensor device, a reception section configured to receive a reception ultrasonic wave through the ultrasonic sensor device, and a device control section configured to control the ultrasonic sensor device to set given frequencies as a transmission frequency of the transmission ultrasonic wave and a reception frequency of the reception ultrasonic wave. The device control section changes the reception frequency in such a manner that the reception frequency is a frequency different from the first frequency during a first period including at least a transmission period during which the transmission ultrasonic wave is transmitted.
US12066529B2
A radar device comprises a radar circuit configured to transceive first radar signals that occupy a first frequency band and second radar signals that occupy a second frequency band. An antenna device of the radar device comprises a first set and a second set of antennas and is configured to selectively transduce the first radar signals via the first set and not via the second set and to selectively transduce the second radar signals via the second set and not via the first set. A processing device of the radar device detects from the first radar signals target reflections via first propagation channels and from the second radar signals target reflections via second propagation channels. The signal processing device jointly evaluates the target reflections via the first and second propagation channels to form a common virtual antenna array for determining an angular position of a target object.
US12066527B2
Disclosed is a method for resetting the estimated position of a vehicle, including: —a step of receiving by a RADAR system a real RADAR image, —a step of acquiring an estimated position of the vehicle, —a step of calculating by a computer equipping the vehicle a simulated RADAR image, as a function of the estimated position of the vehicle and of a cartographic model of the environment of the vehicle, —a step of comparing the real RADAR image and the simulated RADAR image, and —a step of correcting the estimated position of the vehicle as a function of the result of the comparison.
US12066520B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to radar communications with disparate pulse repetition intervals, as may be implemented with radar transmission, receiver and processing circuitry. As may be utilized in accordance with one or more embodiments herein, time division multiplexing (TDM) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) radar signals are transmitted by transmitting sets of successive radar signals, each set having a pulse repetition interval (PRI) that is different than the PRI of sets of radar signals transmitted in another one of the sets. Positional characteristics of a target may be ascertained based on the PRI used in each of the sets and on phase characteristics of ones of the radar signals reflected from the target.
US12066512B2
Systems and methods provide a parallelized deep learning approach to spectral fitting for magnetic resonance spectroscopy data enabling accurate and rapid spectral fitting and determination of metabolite measurements using a conventional computer. The method may include processing multi-spectra magnetic resonance (MR) spectroscopy data of a region of interest through a series of neural networks. The method may include determining baseline components of each spectrum using a first neural network of the series, generating baseline-corrected components for each spectrum using the baseline components; and determining one or more peak components of each spectrum using a second neural network of the series and the baseline-corrected components. The method may further include determining one or more metabolite measurements of the one or more metabolites in the region of interest using the one or more peak components.
US12066511B2
Systems and methods for designing and manufacturing electromagnetic coils for use with a magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) system are described. More particularly, described here are methods for designing and manufacturing gradient coils for producing magnetic field gradients with greater peripheral nerve stimulation (“PNS”) thresholds relative to conventional gradient coils. The gradient coil design is constrained using an oracle penalty that is computed to account for a PNS requirement for the coil. In other applications, the oracle penalty can be used to optimize driving patterns for an electromagnetic stimulation system, such that a target PNS requirement is achieved.
US12066506B2
To provide a small-sized magnetic sensor capable of achieving closed-loop control. A magnetic sensor includes: a sensor chip mounted on a surface of a substrate such that an element formation surface is perpendicular to the surface of the substrate or inclined by a predetermined angle with respect thereto; an external magnetic member mounted on the surface of the substrate and collecting a magnetic field to be detected in a magnetosensitive element; and a compensating coil wound around the external magnetic member. The compensating coil is thus wound around the external magnetic member, so that it is possible to cancel a magnetic field to be applied to the magnetosensitive element and to prevent the external magnetic member from being magnetically saturated.
US12066505B2
The characteristics of a winding to be tested is allowed to be analyzed more easily and in a shorter time. A testing instrument 1 includes an impulse voltage application capacitor Cs having one end connected to an external terminal T2, a switch SW and a current limiting resistor Rs connected in series between another end of the impulse voltage application capacitor Cs and an external terminal T1, and a parameter calculator 5. The parameter calculator 5 calculates at least one of the value of the equivalent capacitor Cd, the value of the equivalent inductor Ld and the value of the equivalent resistor Rd by performing regression analysis using a measured value of a voltage Vcd in an analysis time period Ta from turning on of the switch SW to start of resonance based on the equivalent inductor Ld, the equivalent capacitor Cd and the equivalent resistor Rd pertaining to a winding 11.
US12066497B2
A power supply includes an I/O module configured to receive a high voltage DC input and output a high voltage DC, a plurality of DC converter modules configured to receive the high voltage DC output from the I/O module and output a low voltage DC output, and a plurality of AC inverter modules configured to receive the high voltage DC output from the I/O module and output a high voltage AC output. Each of the plurality of DC converter modules, each of the plurality of AC inverter modules and the I/O module may be mounted in a corresponding individual chassis. Each of the individual chassis may be configured to be stackable together into a single line replaceable unit (LRU). Each of the individual chassis may have an identically shaped outer frame.
US12066493B2
A battery state analysis system includes a server device configured to analyze a state of a battery. The server device includes: a communication unit configured to receive a plurality of pieces of characteristic data; and a diagnosis unit configured to prepare a deterioration model by modeling resistance deterioration rates of a plurality of batteries and to analyze a deterioration state of the battery on the basis of a result of comparison between the deterioration model and the plurality of pieces of characteristic data. The diagnosis unit is configured to generate training data indicating the resistance deterioration rates by processing the resistance deterioration rates of the plurality of batteries using an experimental design method on acquired in advance, to remove an error by processing the training data using a variance analysis method, and to prepare the deterioration model by performing surface fitting on the training data on the basis of a deterioration transition expression.
US12066479B2
An insulation resistance detection circuit is coupled to a positive end and a negative end of a DC power source, and is used to detect a positive insulation resistance between the positive end and a ground point and detect a negative insulation resistance between the negative end and the ground point. A detection unit sets a first estimated resistance and a second estimated resistance, and acquires a first voltage based on turning on the switch and acquires a second voltage based on turning off the switch. The detection unit calculates a third voltage and a fourth voltage according to the first estimated resistance and the second estimated resistance so as to detect the positive insulation resistance and the negative insulation resistance when the third voltage is equal to the first voltage and the fourth voltage is equal to the second voltage.
US12066476B2
Systems, methods, and circuits for determining a duty cycle of a periodic input signal are provided. A delay element is configured to delay the periodic input signal based on a digital control word. A digital circuit is configured to generate a first digital control word used to delay the periodic input signal a first amount of time corresponding to a period of the periodic input signal, generate a second digital control word used to delay the periodic input signal a second amount of time corresponding to a portion of the periodic input signal having a logic-level high value, and generate a third digital control word used to delay the periodic input signal a third amount of time corresponding to a portion of the periodic input signal having a logic-level low value. A controller is configured to determine the duty cycle based on the first, second, and third digital control words.
US12066475B2
Systems and methods are described herein for charge-based capacitor measurement. The system includes a first pseudo-inverter circuit and a second pseudo-inverter circuit. The system also includes a control circuit coupled between the first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit. The control circuit is configured to generate independent and non-overlapping control signals for the first pseudo-inverter circuit and the second pseudo-inverter circuit. A shielding metal is coupled to the first pseudo-inverter circuit, the second pseudo-inverter circuit, and the control circuit. The shielding metal is configured to dissipate parasitic capacitance of at least one of the first pseudo-inverter circuit or the second pseudo-inverter circuit. A device under test is coupled to each of the first inverter circuit and the second inverter circuit.
US12066473B2
A method of determining a spectrum of energies of individual quanta of radiation received in a radiation detector is disclosed. Spectrum sensitive statistics are computed from a time series of digital observations from the radiation detector, defining a mapping from a density of amplitudes of the pulses to the spectrum sensitive statistics. The spectrum is determined by estimating the density of amplitudes of the pulses by applying an inversion of the mapping to the spectrum sensitive statistics. The statistics may be based on a first set of nonoverlapping time intervals of constant length L at least as long as a duration of the pulses without regard to entirety of clusters of the pulses; and a second set of nonoverlapping time intervals of constant length L1 less than L also without regard to entirety of clusters of the pulses. A method of estimating count rate is also disclosed.
US12066468B1
Disclosed are a method and device for detecting system failure, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method includes obtaining, when a system to be detected is powered on or off, a real-time voltage oscillation signal acquired by a voltage sensor arranged in a detection circuits of the system. The detection circuit is a circuit where a source and drain of a switching device in the system are located. A degradation trend of the system is determined according to the real-time voltage oscillation signal and a reference voltage oscillation signal corresponding to the detection circuit of the system. A failure detection for the system is performed according to the degradation trend of the system.
US12066457B2
A testing apparatus for a semiconductor package includes a circuit board, testing patterns and a socket. The circuit board has a testing region and includes a plurality of testing contacts and a plurality of signal contacts distributed in the testing region. The testing patterns are embedded in the circuit board and electrically connected to the testing contacts, where each of the testing patterns includes a first conductive line and a second conductive line including a main portion and a branch portion connected to main portion. The first conductive line is connected to the main portion. The socket is located on the circuit board and comprising connectors electrically connected to the circuit board, wherein the connectors are configured to transmit electric signals for testing the semiconductor package from the testing apparatus.
US12066436B2
Compositions and methods are provided for detection, diagnosis and prognosis of Lyme disease (LD), including a method for confirming Borrelia spp. infection by contacting, in vitro, whole blood samples from subjects suspected of having LD with synthetic peptides comprising T-cell epitope-containing regions derived from Borrelia proteins that are expressed at different stages of Lyme disease, and indirectly detecting LD-specific activated T-cells by determining production of a T-cell immune response indicator (e.g., interferon-Y) in response to stimulation by the peptides. Also disclosed are methods for predicting elimination of LD spirochetes in LD patients who have undergone LD treatment, by exposing whole blood samples from such subjects to peptides comprising specific T-cell epitope regions of Borrelia proteins that are expressed at different stages of Lyme disease, and confirming a lack of Borrelia-specific activated T-cells in the samples by the absence of a detectable T-cell immune response indicator (e.g., interferon-Y).
US12066433B2
Disclosed is an analytical method for analyzing a test substance contained in a measurement sample, the method comprising: generating a data set based on a plurality of optical spectra acquired from a plurality of locations in the measurement sample; inputting the data set into a deep learning algorithm having a neural network structure; and outputting information on the test substance, on the basis of an analytical result from the deep learning algorithm.
US12066430B2
Disclosed herein are trogocytosis based TCR ligand discovery platforms and methods of using the same, trogocytosis based TCR discovery platforms and methods of using the same, and trogocytosis based ligand discovery platforms and methods of using the same. Also disclosed herein are isolated cells, nucleotides, sequences, and sequence databases produced using trogocytosis based discovery platforms.
US12066429B2
Provided are an expression inhibitor of an inflammation promoting factor based on the discovery of a new factor influencing the expression amount/level of an inflammation promoting factor, and a development tool therefor. Provided are also a diagnostic agent and a diagnosis method for immune diseases, inflammatory diseases, painful conditions and similar. More specifically provided are: an expression inhibitor of an inflammation promoting factor containing at least one kind of inhibitor selected from the group consisting of RBMS2 expression inhibitor and RBMS2 function inhibitor; a screening method using as an indicator the expression or the function of RBMS2; an expression cassette useful for the method; as well as a diagnostic agent containing a product detection agent for RBMS2 gene expression and disease detection method using as an indicator RBMS2 gene expression amount/level.
US12066421B2
A method for determining a reference value of a wine for feasibility of filling an aluminum can, the method comprising: acquiring a pH, an alcohol concentration, and a free sulfite concentration for multiple kinds of wines; calculating a molecular SO2 concentration of each of the multiple kinds of wines from acquired values of the pH, the alcohol concentration, and the free sulfite concentration; enclosing the multiple kinds of wines into aluminum cans of an identical type, respectively, thereby obtaining multiple kinds of canned wines; putting the multiple kinds of canned wines in storage and evaluating quality of the canned wines after the storage; and determining an upper limit value of the molecular SO2 concentration based on an evaluation result obtained from the evaluating.
US12066413B2
Disclosed is a chromatographic separation column assembly (100) comprising a column cylinder (120) having a cylinder wall (126) including an inner wall surface (124) partially defining a column volume (50), and a column component (110/130) insertable into to the cylinder (120), wherein at least an edge region (113/133) of the column component is intended to be in contact or adjacent a part of the inner wall surface (124) in use, the edge region and the contacting or adjacent part of inner wall surface each being formed from a compatible heat fusible material or materials, and wherein at least the cylinder wall in the area of the contacting or adjacent part of the inner wall is formed from a material which allows transmission of the light energy needed to cause said fusing of the adapter plate edge region to the inner wall surface.
US12066408B2
This optical fiber distribution measurement system of distributed optical fiber sensing type includes: a tunable wavelength distributed feedback LD (1) for obtaining a DTSS signal through frequency shift analysis; an external resonance laser (2) for obtaining a DAS signal through phase shift analysis; a pulse compression coding circuit (4) including an intensity modulator (4a) and an phase modulator (4b); an acousto-optic switch (5); an erbium doped optical fiber amplifier (6); a circulator (7); a diversity device (8); a digitizer (11); a CPU (12); and a serial transfer interface (13). Through calculation on discrete signals sent from the digitizer (11), the CPU (12) converts an analyzed Rayleigh frequency shift signal obtained as the DTSS signal, to phase error, and corrects an analyzed phase signal obtained as the DAS signal, by the phase error.
US12066402B2
A method of manufacturing is provided. The method can include determining a cross-sectional shape of an object to be inspected using a sensor configured with a sensor coil. The method can also include providing a substrate having a profile matching the cross-sectional shape of the object. The method can further include applying a dielectric material to the substrate in a patter matching a shape of the sensor coil. The method can also include forming a first layer of a first material on the dielectric material by sputtering particles of the first material on the dielectric material in the pattern and forming additional layers of the first material atop the first layer by iteratively depositing the additional layers in the pattern via an additive manufacturing technique. A sensor including a sensor coil formed via the method is also provided.
US12066396B2
In a sensor element for a limiting-current type gas sensor measuring concentration of NOx in a measurement gas, an inner pump electrode located to face a first internal space communicating with a gas inlet through which the measurement gas is introduced from an external space under predetermined diffusion resistance is made of a cermet of a Pt—Au alloy and zirconia, and the inner pump electrode is located, from among surfaces defining the first internal space, at least on a surface farthest from a heater part in a thickness direction of the element, and is not located on a surface closest to the heater part in the thickness direction.
US12066394B2
A gas detection device and a process monitor an area for a combustible target gas. A heating segment of a detector (10) is heated when electrical current flows therethrough. A heating segment of a compensator (1) is heated when electrical current flows therethrough. An electrical voltage is applied to both the detector and the compensator. The heating of the detector (10) causes a combustible target gas to be oxidized in an interior of the gas detection device. A detection variable, which depends on the temperature (Temp_10) of the detector, and a detection variable, which depends on the temperature (Temp_11) of the compensator, are measured. A presence and/or a concentration of a target gas are determined as a function of the detection variables. A quality parameter is measured and increases as the detection variable depending on the detector temperature increases and as the detection variable depending on the compensator temperature decreases.
US12066390B2
Embodiments include a method, comprising: receiving measured radiation obtained from a radiation detector that received radiation through an object; simulating the measured radiation obtained from the radiation detector that received radiation through the object; generating an offset based on the measured radiation and the simulated measured radiation; estimating scatter radiation based on the offset; and estimating primary radiation based on the estimated scatter radiation.
US12066389B2
A computer-implemented method comprising: controlling input of data quantifying damage received by a compressor of a gas turbine engine into a first machine learning algorithm; receiving data quantifying a first operating parameter of the compressor as an output of the first machine learning algorithm; and determining operability of the compressor by comparing the received data quantifying the first operating parameter of the compressor with a threshold.
US12066382B2
Described herein are novel rapid and reliable methods of detection of extracellular vesicles and quantifying extracellular vesicle concentrations and absolute number from various sources, including raw cell harvest. The methods described herein comprise detection of light scattering of extracellular vesicles in biological samples. Extracellular vesicles analyzed by the methods of this application have a stereotypical elution profile distinct from known contaminants. The methods described herein are a significant improvement over the state of the art and fulfills an unmet need in the field of extracellular vesicle manufacturing and quality control.
US12066374B2
Provided is a measurement method for measuring a size of a damaged portion in a coated metal material that includes a metal base and surface treatment film provided on the metal base, and reaching the metal base through the surface treatment film. The measurement method includes the steps of disposing a water-containing material to be in contact with the damaged portion and an electrode to be in contact with the water-containing material, and electrically connecting between the electrode and the metal base with an external circuit; applying, with the external circuit, a constant voltage between the electrode and the metal base, as a cathode and an anode, respectively, and measuring a current value flowing therebetween; and calculating a size of the damaged portion, based on the current value measured and a correlation between the current value and the size of the damaged portion, determined on an exploratory basis in advance.
US12066372B2
According to an aspect of the present inventive concept there is provided a light excitation and collection device for a micro-fluidic system, comprising: a light source configured to generate excitation light; a plurality of excitation waveguides, each associated with a flow channel of the micro-fluidic system; wherein each excitation waveguide is configured to receive and redirect the excitation light towards the flow channel, such that the excitation light is elastically scattered by a sample in the flow channel forming forward and side scattered light; and wherein the light excitation and collection device further comprises: at least one forward scattered light collection point; and at least one side scattered light collection point; and wherein the forward scattered light collected for all excitation waveguides is detected by a first plurality of light sensitive areas and the side scattered light collected for all excitation waveguides is detected by a second plurality of light sensitive areas, the first and the second pluralities of light sensitive areas form different groups of light sensitive areas.
US12066369B2
Synthetic human cell mimic hydrogel particles and their use in cytometric or coulter device applications are described. The synthetic human cell mimic hydrogel particles described herein are selectively tunable to have at least one optical, volumetric, or capacitance property that is substantially similar to a corresponding optical, volumetric, or capacitance property of the human cell mimic hydrogel particle's natural biological cell counterpart.
US12066365B2
The present invention relates to the chromatographic isolation of a target cell or another complex biological material, in particular by column chromatography such as affinity chromatography or gel permeation chromatography. The invention employs a receptor binding reagent that binds to a receptor molecule that is located on the surface of a target cell. The invention in general provides novel methods for the traceless isolation of biologic materials such as cells, cell organelles, viruses and the like. The invention also relates to an apparatus for the isolation of cells and other complex biological materials.
US12066364B2
Automated cell staining systems and methods are disclosed herein. In particular, the staining systems disclosed herein provide low-volume, automated bench top staining systems for staining biological samples contained on a cytological slide.
US12066363B2
A system for preserving a surgically explanted tissue sample has a first packing station for placing the tissue sample in a selected container among a plurality of containers of different sizes. Each container has a hermetic lid (50) with an opening (33) equipped with a non-return valve (51). The system also has a final packing station equipped with a filling system for filling the selected container with a preservative substance, including a nozzle-holding head (28) mounted movable on a vertical guide (29). A method is also described which provides for the selection of the container based on the evaluation of the volume of the tissue sample, the hermetic closure of the container immediately after the insertion of the tissue sample. and the filling of the container by means of a nozzle (31) of a filling system inserted in the non-return valve (51) of the hermetic lid (50).
US12066360B2
A gas sampling trap includes a first stage and a second stage. The first stage includes a metal salt that reacts with sulfurous species to produce acidic gas. The second stage configured to receive the acidic gas produced in the first stage. An adsorbent substrate in the second stage adsorbs the acidic gas. A method of sampling a gas includes directing gas onto a metal stage within a first stage to produce acidic gas, directing the acidic gas into the second stage, and adsorbing the acidic gas in the second stage with an adsorbent substrate. A method of detecting a concentration of sulfurous species in a gas includes sampling the gas with a sampling trap, desorbing adsorbed acidic gas from an adsorbent substrate of the sampling trap with a solvent, and testing the solvent with ion chromatography.
US12066358B2
A system and method for monitoring conditions in a crawl space is provided. The system generally comprises at least one sensor, computing device, data aggregator operably connected to the at least one sensor, processor operably connected to the computing device, power supply, and non-transitory computer-readable medium coupled to the processor and having instructions stored thereon. The system is designed to collect condition data via the at least one sensor and determine whether the conditions within the crawl space could have a detrimental impact on the building. In particular, the system is designed to alert a third-party when a condition might cause damage to a building so that the third-party might correct the cause of the condition.
US12066357B1
Methods and related systems for operating a climate control system for an indoor space are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes operating an indoor fan of the climate control system to rotate an impeller of the indoor fan in a reverse rotational direction opposite a nominal rotational direction of the impeller. Additionally, the method includes determining an airflow of the indoor fan when the impeller of the indoor fan is rotated in the reverse rotational direction. Further, the method includes determining a duct leakage rate associated with at least one duct of the climate control system based on the determined airflow, wherein the at least one duct is sealed-off at an end thereof.
US12066352B2
The present invention comprises a method for detecting a leak in a vacuum assembly comprising the steps: implementation of a first detection process to identify a leak area, involving the supply of a vacuum assembly which has a plurality of sensors for detecting a parameter, the determination of values of the parameter over time during the evacuation of a cavity of the vacuum assembly, the creation of a value-time curve for each sensor of the vacuum assembly from the values detected for the respective sensors by means of an evaluation unit, the comparison of the value-time curves created with one another and identification of differences depending on the comparison by means of the evaluation unit, and the identification of a leak area in the vacuum assembly depending on the differences determined in the value-time curves and the respective position of the sensor in relation to the vacuum assembly; and implementation of a second detection process following the first detection process to detect the leak within the leak area identified, involving the supply of an additional detection device which is designed to identify a leak in a vacuum assembly, and the detection of a leak within the leak area by means of the detection device.
US12066344B2
Described herein are techniques to enable a mobile device to perform multi-source estimation of an altitude for a location. A baseline altitude may be determined at ground level for a location and used to calibrate a barometric pressure sensor on the mobile device. The calibrated barometric pressure sensor can then estimate changes in altitude relative to ground level based on detected pressure differentials, allowing a relative altitude to ground to be determined. Baseline calibration for the barometric sensor calibration can be performed to determine an ambient ground-level barometric pressure.
US12066343B2
A stress properties measurement method for measuring properties of stresses generated in a structure includes acquiring, from a first imaging device, a plurality of thermal images corresponding to temperatures of a surface of the structure, the plurality of thermal images being different in imaging time from each other, generating a stress distribution image corresponding to each of the plurality of thermal images, acquiring a stress value of a first section that is smaller in stress gradient than a predetermined value and respective stress values of a plurality of second sections where stresses are concentrated for the stress distribution images, and deriving correlation properties of stresses at a section of the structure based on the stress value of the first section acquired and the respective stress values of the plurality of second sections acquired.
US12066329B2
An optical device is disclosed and includes an optical sensor, a plurality of photosensitive pixels disposed on the optical sensor, a wavelength-selective optical filter in optical communication with the photosensitive pixels, and a plurality of spatially-variant written regions disposed in the optical filter, the written regions having a transmission spectrum and each of the written regions being larger than each of the pixels.
US12066318B2
An arrangement and method are provided for weighing plant support structures that are travel along a conveyance line. A load bar includes connections to couple the load bar to a carrier, which is moveable along the conveyance line. The load bar receives ends of plant support structure hooks, and exerts a lateral force on the hooks as the load bar travels. A load cell includes a leading portion that is lower in height than a weighing portion of the load cell. Each hook raises as it travels onto the load cell. The relationship of the height of the weighing portion and the length of the hook end are arranged such that, as the hook end is raised, it remains engaged with the load bar so that the load bar continues to exert a lateral force on the hook as the load bar moves in the direction of travel.
US12066316B2
The technology provides a method for monitoring a load carrier vehicle (10: 12: 22: 154), comprising measuring at least one sensor value indicating a force and determining a mass based on the at least one sensor value. Furthermore, monitoring devices (156) used in the method and load carrier vehicles (10: 12: 22: 154) are described.
US12066313B1
The present method and apparatus use information on the voltage V and the current I drawn by a pump motor to determine the water or liquid level height H in a well in which the pump is employed. In typical examples, the power of the motor can be related to the pressure and the fluid flow, and equations can then be used to relate fluid flow Q1 to fluid height H in the well. Glossary for FIG Calc.=Calculation Meas.=Measurement Detr.=Determines Avg.=Average Param.=Parameter Calib.=Calibration =command CD=Control device (example smart phone).
US12066302B2
A system and method for leveling a selected surface of a structure. The system includes a handheld mobile device and a platform leveling assembly (PLA) supportable on a structure to be leveled. The PLA includes a PLA controller and a PLA receiver communicatively coupled with the PLA controller. The handheld mobile device includes a tilt sensor configured to sense an attitude of a selected surface on which the handheld mobile device is placed; and a mobile device controller communicatively coupled to the tilt sensor and the transmitter and configured to receive signals from the tilt sensor indicating the attitude of the selected surface on which the handheld mobile device is placed.
US12066301B1
A device orientation calibration system to perform operations that include: accessing inertial measurement unit (IMU) data generated by an IMU mounted upon an object that corresponds with a first reference frame, the IMU data indicating a second reference frame that comprises a Z-axis, a Y-axis, and an X-axis; performing a calibration of the IMU data to align the second reference frame of the IMU with the first reference frame of the object, the performing the calibration comprising: determining a gravitational vector based on a first portion of the IMU data; applying a first rotation to the IMU data to align the Z-axis of the second reference frame with the gravitational vector; determining a forward motion vector based on a second portion of the IMU data; and applying a second rotation to the IMU data to align the X-axis of the second reference frame with the forward motion vector.
US12066293B2
Some embodiments provide a map application that identities a transit route that includes one or more transit legs between a starting location and a destination location. In response to a request to start navigating the identified transit route, the map application of some embodiments provides a first display area for displaying a set of navigation instructions, each of which describes a transit maneuver that is associated with a transit leg of the transit route. The map application also provides a second display area for displaying a map region presentation associated with the navigation instruction that is displayed in the first display area.
US12066289B2
A navigation instrument including an orientation angle calculation unit, in particular the first and second orientation angles, wherein the orientation angle calculation unit is configured to be able to determine the first and second orientation angles in a given order and also in reverse order; and wherein the calculation unit is arranged to be able to choose between said given order and said reverse order, to calculate the first and second orientation angles, based on a comparison between an indicator of a risk of error, quantifying a risk of instability of said unit during the determination of the first and second orientation angles, and a predetermined threshold.
US12066288B1
Disclosed are a tool and a method for measuring a perpendicularity and an angle of a femur of a vehicle crash dummy. The tool includes: a base, where the base is provided with a guide ring gear; and a clamp assembly, where the clamp assembly is configured to clamp a femur part. A measurement assembly can measure the perpendicularity and the angle of the femur part conveniently.
US12066282B2
A lighting stage includes a plurality of lights that project alternating spherical color gradient illumination patterns onto an object or human performer at a predetermined frequency. The lighting stage also includes a plurality of cameras that capture images of an object or human performer corresponding to the alternating spherical color gradient illumination patterns. The lighting stage also includes a plurality of depth sensors that capture depth maps of the object or human performer at the predetermined frequency. The lighting stage also includes (or is associated with) one or more processors that implement a machine learning algorithm to produce a three-dimensional (3D) model of the object or human performer. The 3D model includes relighting parameters used to relight the 3D model under different lighting conditions.
US12066275B2
The present invention is generally related to paint ball firing devices. More specifically, the present invention is related to paintball land mines, which can fire multiple paintballs simultaneously and methods of making and using same. Furthermore, the present invention is capable of allowing the device to be disassembled (i.e., field serviceable) and provides a range of combustion chambers, barrel assemblies, and cartridges to be used in the device. In this manner, a wide range of projectile types and feet per second (f.p.s.) projectiles can be used in the device.
US12066273B2
A system and method of locating a target and presenting the location via augmented reality. The inventive subject matter includes a projectile that can transmit information including location information to other computing devices. These computing devices can then use the location information to determine the relative location of the projectile relative to the computing device and generate a visual representation of the location of the projectile on an augmented reality display such that the location of the target is overlaid over a real-world view through the display.
US12066271B2
A holster assembly includes an adaptor flange securable to a firearm and formed with an opening, a garment mounting provision, and a holster clip including resilient arms that include inner faces. One of the resilient arms includes a mounting feature that couples to the garment mounting provision. When the firearm is slid and fully holstered into the holster clip, the inner faces of the resilient arms click over a border of the opening and the firearm is securely held in the holster assembly.
US12066264B2
A barrel for a handgun includes an imaginary barrel bore axis along which it extends in the x-direction, around which barrel axis the following are formed in the interior of the barrel, in succession from a rear end to a front end: a cartridge chamber, which has a first diameter; a cartridge chamber opening, which has a second diameter; a conical transition, which transitions from the second diameter to a third diameter, which is associated with the guide region; and a barrel opening, an end face being formed around the cartridge chamber opening, and the barrel being suitable for a bullet driven by hot gases to accelerate therethrough. The end face is at least 1.5 times larger than the cross-sectional surface formed by the third diameter.
US12066258B2
There is provided a system and method for collecting water droplets from an airflow of a cooling tower (8) through condensation of water vapour using an electrostatic separator (20), wherein the electrostatic separator is a single unit electrostatic separator (20) or a multi-unit electrostatic separator. The method for water particles collection from the exhaust airflow of a cooling tower primarily comprises condensing water vapour into large water droplets. It is experimentally proved that electrostatic separation solves the problem of visible plume pollution, and blow down decreased since collected water flows back to the circulating water. Additionally, electrostatic separation results in small pressure drop of the cooling tower (8).
US12066257B2
A sealing retainer may be coupled between a chassis and an electronic module. The sealing retainer includes a retainer body to be coupled to the chassis and a first cooling gas passageway that may be aligned with a chassis cooling gas passageway. A gas seal body has a second cooling gas passageway aligned with the first cooling gas passageway and coupled to the retainer body and movable between a retracted position that permits insertion and removal of the electronic module and an extended position that seals against the electronic module.
US12066249B2
An induction furnace for carrying out a heat treatment of a dental replacement part. The induction furnace includes an induction coil, a radiant heater, an insulation layer and a furnace chamber. The induction furnace has a cooling system with a liquid cooling system in order to control an internal temperature of the furnace chamber.
US12066248B2
A combustion system includes a fuel and oxidant source, a first distal flame holder body, a second distal flame holder body, and a thermal load. The fuel and oxidant source outputs fuel and oxidant. The first and second distal flame holder bodies simultaneously or alternately hold combustion reaction portions of the fuel and oxidant and/or of combustion products. The thermal load receives thermal energy from the first and second combustion reaction portions.
US12066240B2
An embedded refrigerator which includes a cabinet, a door and a hinge assembly, the hinge assembly includes a first hinge part, a second hinge part and a switching assembly; when the door is in an opening process, the first hinge part moves relative to the switching assembly, and then, the second hinge part moves relative to the switching assembly; the hinge assembly drives the door to rotate in situ relative to the cabinet, then drives the door to move from the pivoting side towards the accommodating chamber, drives the door to move from the accommodating chamber towards the pivoting side, and then drives the door to continuously rotate in situ relative to the cabinet. The refrigerator can increase an opening-closing freedom degree of the door.
US12066234B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet that defines a refrigerating compartment and a freezing compartment, and an ice maker located at the freezing compartment and configured to generate carbonated ice. The ice maker includes a reservoir configured to store carbonated water that includes dissolved gas, a water line connected to the reservoir and configured to supply non-carbonated water to the reservoir, a gas line connected to the reservoir and configured to, based on the reservoir receiving the non-carbonated water, supply pressurized gas to the reservoir to thereby produce the carbonated water that is stored in the reservoir, a heating element configured to heat the reservoir to a temperature above freezing, and an ice tray configured to receive the carbonated water from the reservoir and to generate the carbonated ice.
US12066233B2
A cryocooler assembly including at least one remotely driven cryocooler operable between an ON-state of operation and an OFF-state of operation and defining a first stage of the cryocooler assembly. A liquefaction cup in fluidic communication with a cryogenic fluid reservoir, wherein a plurality of conduits thermally couple the liquefaction cup to the fluid reservoir and define a second stage of the cryocooler assembly. The cryocooler assembly further including one or more of a valve, a gas/liquid switch, an actuating support arm and a heat pipe coupled to the second stage of the cryocooler assembly to remotely disconnect a heat path generated by the at least one remotely driven cryocooler between the first stage and the second stage during the OFF-state of operation. A superconducting generator including at least one remotely driven cryocooler assembly and method of operating a cooling assembly for a superconducting generator utilizing at least one remotely driven cryocooler assembly are disclosed.
US12066231B2
A vapor compression system includes a compressor configured to circulate a refrigerant through a refrigerant loop, a sump configured to receive a mixture of lubricant and the refrigerant from the compressor, and a controller having a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a first signal indicative of a temperature of the mixture within the sump, receive a second signal indicative of a pressure of the mixture within the sump, determine a relative amount of the refrigerant in the mixture based on the first signal and the second signal, and output a control signal in response to the relative amount of the refrigerant in the mixture exceeding a threshold value.
US12066229B2
An HVAC system includes a compressor, condenser, and evaporator. A sensor measures a value associated with the refrigerant in the condenser or the evaporator, and a controller is communicatively coupled to the compressor and the sensor. The controller determines, based on an operational history the compressor, that pre-requisite criteria are satisfied for entering a sensor validation mode. After determining the pre-requisite criteria are satisfied, an initial sensor measurement value is determined. Following determining the initial sensor measurement value, the compressor is operated according to a sensor-validation mode. Following operating the compressor according to the sensor-validation mode for at least a minimum time, a current sensor measurement value is determined. The controller determines whether validation criteria are satisfied for the current sensor value. In response to determining that the validation criteria are satisfied, the controller determines that the sensor is validated.
US12066223B2
Modular heating and cooling systems may include one or more modules connected to a fluid input and fluid output. Conventional modular heating and cooling systems typically use a single fluid in the cooling, heating and source fluid loops due to the mixing of fluids in the system. According to an aspect there is provided a modular heating system comprising at least one heating and cooling apparatus. The apparatus comprises a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger and a third heat exchanger. The apparatus further comprises a refrigerant line system coupled to the first (e.g. cooling), second (e.g. heating) and third (e.g. source) heat exchangers and configurable for selectively directing refrigerant fluid through the heat exchanger to provide multiple modes of operation. The heating, cooling and source fluid loops may be separate and independent such that the fluids do not mix.
US12066221B2
A hydronic economizer module is configured for use in a chiller system that has a vapor compression cycle. The hydronic economizer module includes a heat exchanger assembly located within a housing having at least one heat exchanger coil, a fan assembly having at least one fan generally aligned with at least one heat exchanger coil, and at least one valve is movable between a plurality of positions to control a flow of fluid into the heat exchanger assembly. When the at least one valve is in a first position, the economizer module is arranged in parallel with a flat plate heat exchanger. When the at least one valve is in a second position, the economizer module is arranged in series with the flat plate heat exchanger. The flat plate heat exchanger includes at least one fluid port for communicating with a component of the vapor compression cycle.
US12066218B2
The present disclosure provides a solution-processed selective solar absorption coating and a process for the preparation thereof.
US12066202B2
Steam cylinders for humidifies require periodic replacement as well as replacement to address failures etc. However, field replacement of steam cylinders is not a straight-forward operation and there is significant risk and potential for damage to the replacement cylinder and the humidifier as fluidic seals for the water inlet and steam outlet must be unmade as well as electrical connections for heater elements, level sensors etc. Accordingly, embodiments of the invention provide solutions for the deployment of replacement cylinders etc. for domestic, retail, and commercial systems that reduce the likelihood of damage to the fluidic seals, electrical connectors etc.
US12066192B2
A venting system in accordance with the present disclosure includes a ventilation fan and one or more sensors coupled to the ventilation fan. The ventilation fan is positioned to vent air from an indoor environment. The sensors are positioned to monitor conditions in the indoor environment and selectively operate the ventilation fan to condition air in the indoor environment.
US12066189B2
A method of optimising the performance of combustion equipment of a gas turbine engine includes providing a fuel flow into the combustion equipment via a plurality of fuel injectors circumferentially disposed about a principal rotational axis at a plurality of injector positions; determining a plurality of temperatures of combustion gases at a plurality of circumferential positions downstream of the combustion equipment using a plurality of temperature measurement devices; ranking the plurality of circumferential positions based on the plurality of temperatures of the combustion gases determined using the plurality of temperature measurement devices; and repositioning at least some of the plurality of fuel injectors between the plurality of injector positions based at least on the ranking of the circumferential positions.
US12066173B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses provide a light emitting device including one or more arrays of light emitting diodes attached to a first outward facing surface of a first substrate. The light emitting device further includes driver circuitry attached to a second outward facing surface of a second substrate. The light emitting device further includes a wire connection electrically coupling the first substrate and the second substrate such that the driver circuitry drives the one or more arrays of light emitting diodes. The light emitting device further includes an enclosure for housing the first substrate, the second substrate, and the wire connection.
US12066162B2
A vehicle lamp includes a light source, a lighting control unit configured to control an emission timing of light emitted from the light source, and a rotary scanning unit configured to repeatedly perform scanning with the light emitted from the light source while rotating. The vehicle lamp illuminates a predetermined region with scan light. The rotary scanning unit performs plural repetitive scans in one rotation. The lighting control unit detects a rotation cycle of the rotary scanning unit, and controls the emission timing of the light source at a timing obtained by equally dividing the detected rotation cycle.
US12066147B2
Disclosed is a display stand, including a moving unit configured to extend in a direction perpendicular to a first link configured to extend from one side of a monitor fixing unit, and an elevating unit including a housing configured to have an elevating hole formed therein so that the moving unit is inserted into the elevating unit therethrough, a support member installed in the housing so that the moving unit is movable in a lengthwise direction of the housing and configured to extend in a direction perpendicular to a floor surface, and friction units configured to surround the support member, to have one surface coupled to the moving unit and a plurality of friction members, and to come into contact with an inner surface of the housing.
US12066145B2
The invention relates to a biaxially oriented pipe made of a polymer composition comprising a propylene-based polymer, wherein the propylene-based polymer comprises a random copolymer of propylene and a comonomer which is ethylene and/or an a-olefin having 4 to 10 carbon atoms, wherein the propylene-based polymer has a comonomer content of 0.5 to 3.8 wt % based on the propylene-based polymer.
US12066143B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a polymer-enhanced pipeline element, in particular of a fire extinguishing installation, and to a pipeline element and a pipeline system of a fire extinguishing installation. It is proposed according to the invention to provide a first a first and a second hollow body, to align in each case one encircling edge surface of the hollow bodies with one another, to weld the two hollow bodies to one another along the encircling edge surfaces such that an encircling weld seam is generated which has a root extending on the inside of the pipeline element, and to apply a polymer-based layer to the inside of the pipeline element, wherein the polymer-based layer completely covers the inside of the pipe element and the root of the weld seam.
US12066117B2
Described is a check valve having a valve housing, a valve seat, a ball and a spherical loading element. The valve seat is disposed proximate to a first end of the bore. The ball is disposed in the bore and is movable between a closed position in which the ball is received against the valve seat and prevents a flow of fluid through the bore and an open position in which the ball is displaced from the valve seat and allows fluid to flow through the bore. The spherical loading element is disposed in the bore and is movable between the ball and the second end of the bore. The spherical loading element applies a supplemental force to move the ball against the valve seat during closing of the check valve. The check valve provides a low and predictable cracking pressure which does not vary significantly between similarly manufactured valves.
US12066108B2
A rotary seal comprises includes a first annular element, a second annular element and a seal element. The first annular element has a first axially extending flange and a first radially extending flange extending radially from a proximal end of the first axially extending flange. The second annular element has a second axially extending flange and a second radially extending flange extending radially from a proximal end of the second axially extending flange in the same direction as the first radially extending flange. The second annular element is fixed to the first annular element, the second axially-extending flange being received radially on the first axially-extending flange. The second radially extending flange is spaced axially from the first radially extending flange to define a pocket therebetween.
US12066106B2
A seal device (3) for a rotating shaft (1). The seal device has a shaft seal (4) and a collecting device (5) for the contactless removal of leakage, that penetrates through the shaft seal (4), from the shaft (1). Further, an electric machine has a rotor shaft (1) that can be driven in rotation and a seal device (3) of the type for sealing the rotor shaft (1) and, therefore, also an inside space of the electric machine. Additionally, a drive device for the electrical driving of a motor vehicle that has an electric machine of the type for the provision of a drive power of the drive device.
US12066094B2
An oil supply system for an automatic transmission or for an automated manual transmission in a drive train. The oil supply system includes an oil sump and a heat exchanger, wherein the oil supply is provided for at least the following operating states of the automatic transmission: a converter mode; a drive mode in one of the mechanical gears; and a retarder mode. To optimize cooling of the oil volume flows in the different operating states two heat exchangers are provided, through which an oil volume flow can be conducted depending on the operating state of the transmission.
US12066091B2
A case for a vehicle drive device includes a first case part having a first support part, a second case part having a first part, and a third case part having a second part. The second case part is joined to the first case part on an axial-direction first side, the third case part is joined to the first case part on an axial-direction second side, a first rotating body and a first input member are placed between the first support part and the first part in an axial direction, in a supported state by the first support part and the first part, and a second rotating body and a second input member are placed between the first support part and the second part in the axial direction, in a supported state by the first support part and the second part.
US12066089B1
A follower bearing module includes a follower bearing, a fixing element, and a fastening element. The follower bearing includes an inner member, an outer ring having an annular second raceway surface that faces a first raceway surface, and a plurality of rolling elements. The inner member includes a large diameter portion having the first raceway surface, and a shaft portion extending from the large diameter portion and having at least a portion accommodated in a mounting hole. The fixing element includes a cylindrical portion disposed in a shaft through hole and having a threaded groove on its inner circumferential surface, and a plate-shaped portion provided at one end of the cylindrical portion. The fastening element fastens the follower bearing and the fixing element with the cylindrical portion being disposed in the shaft through hole. At least one of the follower bearing and the fixing element includes a rotation prevention mechanism.
US12066083B2
An epicyclic gear system includes an input sun gear configured to receive rotational input from a turbine of a turbo charger. A first set of planet gears is distributed around and meshes with the input sun gear. A carrier holds the first set of planet gears and defines a rotational axis about which the carrier rotates. A second set of planet gears is mounted to the carrier. An output sun gear is included, wherein the second set of planet gears are distributed around and mesh with the output sun. The output sun gear is configured to deliver rotational power to an internal combustion engine. The carrier is configured to selectively be driven by a variable speed drive to regulate output to the output sun over a range of input rotational speeds of the input sun gear.
US12066081B2
A dual-clutch transmission for use in a vehicle has a housing, a clutch pack drum adapted to rotate inside the housing, a central clutch gear connected to the clutch pack drum, a first clutch pack, a first clutch hub, a first pressure plate disposed on the first side of the central clutch gear, and a first shaft connected to the first clutch hub. The first shaft drives at least one first transmission gear when the first pressure plate squeezes the first clutch pack. The dual-clutch transmission further includes a second clutch pack, a second clutch hub, a second pressure plate disposed on the second side of the central clutch gear, and a second shaft connected to the second clutch hub. The second shaft drives at least one second transmission gear when the second pressure plate squeezes the second clutch pack. A vehicle having a dual-clutch transmission is also encompassed.
US12066077B2
An industrial gas spring with a pressure chamber in a casing with an end wall, a piston rod received at least in part in the casing for reciprocation between extended and retracted positions and a pressure relief assembly carried by the end wall. The pressure relief assembly may have a membrane communicating with the pressure chamber and a plunger configured to breach the membrane when engaged and moved by the piston rod when it overtravels its design intended retracted position.
US12066075B2
A shock absorber includes: a cylinder; a piston slidably inserted into the cylinder; a piston rod connected to the piston and extending outside the cylinder; a main valve that generates a damping force; a pilot chamber that applies pressure to the main valve; an introduction passage that introduces the fluid into the pilot chamber; a pilot passage that communicates the pilot chamber and a downstream side of the main valve with each other; and a control valve provided in the pilot passage. In an upstream side of the pilot passage from the control valve, the pilot passage is provided with a first orifice, a first passage provided in parallel with the first orifice, a first check valve that is opened at a predetermined differential pressure and allows a flow toward the control valve through the first passage, and a second orifice.
US12066074B1
A system and method for modifying motion of a liquid is provided. Containers are disposed within a liquid contained within a tank. Each container has an open end. Each container is disposed in the liquid such that a portion of the liquid fills a portion of each container to seal its open end. A remainder of each container is filled with a gas. At least one gas pressurization source is in fluid communication with the remainder or gas-containing portion of at least one of the containers for pressurizing the gas therein. Pressure is applied to the gas in each container. For each container, the portion of the liquid contained therein and the pressure applied to the gas therein cooperate to modify movement of the liquid in the tank.
US12066069B2
Disclosed is a braking system including a brake pad, the pad including a backing plate with a first face and a second face, and a lining made of friction material and fixed to the first face, the lining being delimited by a friction face, a mounting face, an inner edge, an outer edge, a rear edge, and a front edge, the lining being provided with at least one collection groove which is open to the friction face, which extends at its first end towards the inner edge and which has an opening at its second end towards the outer edge. The braking system further includes a collection system which includes a collection pipe through which air can flow, the air inlet orifice of the collection pipe being located opposite the second end, and the collection groove is open to the outer edge at its second end.
US12066067B2
Protruding portions protruding in a direction of approaching a disc rotor are integrally formed in a locking plate portion of a pad spring. Moreover, an insulating resin coating is formed on a front surface side (surface in a region opposed to an outer peripheral surface of the disc rotor) of the locking plate portion. The coating film formed on the front surface of the locking plate portion flows downward by its own weight before the coating material is solidified. As a result, the coating film formed on bottom surfaces (front surfaces of protrusions) of the protruding portions is thinner in film thickness than that of the coating film in other region.
US12066043B2
A retaining device for attachment of objects to a wall surface includes a main body, a fastening arrangement, and a cover lockable to the main body that arches over the fastening arrangement. The main body has a bottom side, that faces the wall during mounting, and a top side, that faces away and includes a retaining ring. The fastening arrangement includes a fastener and a centering cap which fixes the fastener. The bottom side of the main body has a circular-ring-shaped surface, on inner and outer edges of which, in each case, one closed encircling web is provided which faces away from the bottom side. Two passage openings are provided in the circular-ring surface between the top and bottom sides. When attached, the main body is pressed onto the wall and an adhesive is injected through one of the passage openings until it emerges again at the other passage opening.
US12066041B2
A coiled filter for use in a hydraulic braking system of a vehicle comprises a coiled mesh-like structure which is configured to be installed around a first surface of a cylindrical hydraulic component. The coiled filter is configured to have an internal spring force as a retention force which couples the filter to the first surface of the cylindrical hydraulic component. The filter may be pre-coiled prior to installation by plastically deforming to a diameter that is smaller than the diameter of the cylindrical hydraulic component on which the filter is installed.
US12066035B1
A fan case assembly adapted for use with a gas turbine engine includes a case at extends circumferentially at least partway about an axis of the gas turbine engine and a plurality of vanes. The case is formed to define a channel that that extends circumferentially at least partway about the axis. The plurality of vanes are arranged in the channel and spaced apart circumferentially about the axis.
US12066029B2
A vacuum pump that allows for timely inspection and replacement of a temperature adjustment means, prevents unexpected stopping, and limits the maintenance cost, and a controller that controls the vacuum pump are proposed. The present disclosure relates to a vacuum pump for exhausting gas from an apparatus, such as manufacturing equipment, subjected to exhaustion. The vacuum pump includes: a temperature adjustment means for causing a predetermined area of the vacuum pump to have a predetermined temperature; an output control means configured to operate the temperature adjustment means; and an information output means configured to output information regarding ON/OFF of the temperature adjustment means obtained from the output control means.
US12066026B2
An electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly that includes an electric motor with a splined drive shaft with drive shaft teeth, an ESP mechanically coupled to the electric motor that includes a splined ESP shaft with ESP shaft teeth, and a downhole component mechanically coupled to the electric motor that includes a splined component shaft with component shaft teeth. Splined couplings each include a central axis and grooves through the coupling with groove sidewalls sized to receive the shaft teeth. The grooves are angled relative to the central axis to form a space on either side of each tooth in each groove for at least a portion of the overlapped length of the tooth within the groove. Each coupling is engageable with the teeth of two of the drive shaft, the pump shaft, or the component shaft to mechanically couple the electric motor, the ESP, and the downhole component.
US12066024B2
A method for controlling the rotational speed (S) of an electric motor driven air compressor (2) that supplies compressed air to a pneumatically operated system (5) of a vehicle (1), characterized by the preliminary steps of: a) determining the efficiency (e) of the air compressor (2) for different values (Si) of the rotational speed (S) of the air compressor (2), the efficiency (e) of the air compressor (2) corresponding to the ratio between the pneumatic power (PI) produced by the air compressor (2) and the power (PO) given to the air compressor (2); b) determining one or several specific values (S2, S4) among said different values (Si), for which the efficiency (e) of the air compressor (2) is higher than a threshold value (emin) and/or comparatively higher than those determined for values (SI, S3) close to said specific value(s) (S2, S4); the preliminary steps a) and b) being preferably implemented only once; and characterized by the further repetitive steps of: c) determining the air consumption rate of the pneumatically operated system (5) receiving compressed air from the air compressor (2); d) determining a minimum rotational speed (Smin) of the air compressor (2) to obtain an air production rate of the air compressor (2) that is equal or substantially equal to said determined air consumption rate; e) determining if the specific value or one of the specific values (S2, S4) is greater than said determined minimum rotational speed (Smin); f) if no specific value is greater than said determined minimum rotational speed (Smin), controlling the rotational speed (S) of the air compressor (2) based on said minimum rotational speed (Smin); g) if only one specific value (S4) is greater than said determined minimum rotational speed (Smin), controlling the rotational speed (S) of the air compressor (2) based on said only one specific value (S4); h) if a plurality of specific values (S2, S4) is greater than said determined minimum rotational speed (Smin), determining the specific value (S2) with the best efficiency among said plurality of specific values (S2, S4) and controlling the rotational speed (S) of the air compressor (2) based on said specific value (S2) with the best efficiency.
US12066020B2
A mobile pump unit including a mobile trailer having mounted thereon one or more pumps, an internal combustion engine(s) to power the one or more pumps, and a heat exchanger assembly for cooling a fluid for the engine, transmission, hydraulic driven components, or pressure pump. The heat exchanger assembly includes a heat exchanger with an air inlet. The air inlet faces the engine and is for receiving air. In addition to the air inlet, the heat exchanger has a fluid inlet for receiving the fluid; a heat exchange surface for transferring heat from the fluid to the air; an air outlet for discharging the air; and a fluid outlet for delivering the fluid to the engine. The heat exchanger assembly also includes an air circulation device for moving the air through the heat exchanger, and an air intake duct that directs the air into the air inlet of the heat exchanger. The air intake duct is configured to resist heated air produced by the engine from entering the air inlet.
US12066007B2
Provided is a method, computing system, and computer program product for reducing floating wind turbine loads induced by ocean waves by adjusting a blade pitch angle of at least one rotor blade of a floating wind turbine to minimize a moment imbalance at a platform top of the floating wind turbine caused by ocean wave activity.
US12065999B2
A modular wave energy converter includes: a forward attachment frame; forward guide rails coupled to the forward attachment frame; a forward paddle coupled to the forward guide rails; and one or more forward tethers coupled to the forward paddle and the shaft. A combination of heave and surge forces from waves of water causes the forward paddle moves up and down the forward guide rails. The movement of the forward paddle moves the one or more forward tethers. The movement of the one or more forward tethers causes the shaft to rotate via the rotation of winches. The winches are configured with a one-way clutch, which allows the shaft to rotate in a first direction but not a second. The converter has the same structure on the aft side, including an aft paddle. The forward and aft paddles are positioned vertically or inclined.
US12065998B2
A method for the preliminary use of a partially constructed lower reservoir for an underwater pumped-storage power plant is disclosed, wherein a partially constructed lower reservoir is provided which is located in a dry but flooded ground depression, and which, when the dry ground depression is flooded, can be operated in such a way that electrical energy is generated when water is admitted into the lower reservoir from the flooded ground depression and electrical energy is stored when water is pumped out of the lower reservoir into the flooded ground depression, wherein the partially constructed lower reservoir is connected to a preliminary upper reservoir via a penstock.
US12065992B2
A gaseous fuel engine system includes a hydrogen fuel supply, an engine housing having an intake port extending to a cylinder, and an intake runner. The intake runner includes a valve mount attached to a conduit and having a valve mounting face, and a gaseous fuel admission valve is mounted upon the valve mounting face. A hydrogen fuel passage extends from the valve mount through the conduit and is oriented angularly to at least one of a clamping face of the intake runner or the valve mounting face. Related apparatus and methodology is also disclosed.
US12065989B2
A gas turbine is provided, the gas turbine engine including a turbomachine having an inlet splitter defining in part an inlet to a working gas flowpath and a fan duct splitter defining in part an inlet to a fan duct flowpath. The gas turbine engine also includes a primary fan driven by the turbomachine defining a primary fan tip radius R1, a primary fan hub radius R2, and a primary fan specific thrust rating TP; and a secondary fan downstream of the primary fan and driven by the turbomachine, the secondary fan defining a secondary fan tip radius R3, a secondary fan hub radius R4, and a secondary fan specific thrust rating TS; wherein the gas turbine engine defines an Effective Bypass Area, and wherein a ratio of R1 to R3 equals R 1 R 3 = ( EFP ) ( 1 - RqR ( Sec . - Fan ) 2 ) ( 1 - RqR Prim . - Fan 2 ) ( T P T S ) ( EBA ) .
US12065967B2
A turbofan engine has a fan portion in fluid communication with a core stream and a bypass stream of air separated by splitters disposed both upstream and downstream of the fan portion. A blade splitter (shroud) on the fan partially spans the fan blade thus separating the core and bypass streams downstream while leaving a gap upstream for communication between the flows. The communication gap expands the operational range of the fan over fans without the communication gap.
US12065966B2
An apparatus is provided for an aircraft propulsion system. This apparatus includes a duct structure, and the duct structure includes a transition duct, an inlet duct and a bypass duct. The duct structure is configured as a monolithic body. The transition duct includes an inlet, a first outlet and a second outlet. The transition duct extends longitudinally along a longitudinal centerline from the inlet to the second outlet. The first outlet is arranged longitudinally along the longitudinal centerline between the inlet and the second outlet. A centerline axis of the first outlet is angularly offset from the longitudinal centerline. The inlet duct extends longitudinally along the longitudinal centerline to the inlet. The bypass duct extends longitudinally along the longitudinal centerline from the second outlet.
US12065961B2
A V-type engine includes an engine body including a crankcase configured to rotatably support a crankshaft, and a first and second cylinder banks extending from the crankcase, an exhaust collecting pipe connected to the first and second cylinder banks, a catalyst accommodated in the exhaust collecting pipe, and a muffler detachably connected to the exhaust collecting pipe, wherein when viewed in an axial direction of the crankshaft, the catalyst is arranged within an area between axial lines of the first and second cylinder banks.
US12065959B2
Heating of the charge air in an intake is provided by a working fluid that is circulated through the intake to exchange heat with the charge air. The heated charge air can be used in response to a thermal management condition for an exhaust gas produced by operation of the internal combustion engine.
US12065955B2
A flow management device comprises an outer chamber with an inlet arranged to receive a flow in a first flow direction and an outlet arranged to provide the flow in a second flow direction different from the first direction, and a duct arranged within the chamber, the duct having a first end configured to receive the flow from the inlet and a second end configured to release the flow towards the outlet, wherein a cross-sectional area of the duct increases towards each of the first and second ends of the duct.
US12065942B2
A fan stage of a ducted fan gas turbine engine has a rotor hub having a principal axis of rotation and a plurality of fan blades having a hub end attached to the hub and extending radially towards a tip end so as to define a blade span dimension. Each blade has a leading and a trailing edge, a chord for a section of the blade being a straight line joining the leading and trailing edges within the section. A difference between a stagger angle in a mid-span region and in the vicinity of the tip end of each blade is greater than or equal to 20°. The fan blades are twisted to a greater extent than conventional between the mid-span and tip end. A camber angle difference between the mid-span region and the tip end may be greater than 30 degrees.
US12065933B2
A bearing device includes a piston arranged in a cylinder of a rotor, and a half bearing mounted on the piston to support a roller. The piston includes a recessed holding surface, and holding side surfaces on both axial sides thereof. Each holding side surface includes a ridge portion having an arc-shaped or elliptic-arc-shaped profile protruding toward a radially inner side of the piston. The half bearing includes a partially cylindrical portion, and protruding portions at a circumferential center thereof. Each protruding portion has a protruding portion end face which includes a central recessed surface, and two support recessed surfaces located on both circumferential sides thereof, that have an arc shape or an elliptic arc shape to correspond to the profile of the ridge portion, so that only the two support recessed surfaces are in contact with the ridge portion.
US12065931B2
The invention discloses a device and a method for accurately fixing an internal waterstop in a lakebed tunnel, comprising two supporting bars arranged in parallel, two transverse clamping bars arranged in parallel between the supporting bars, vertical clamping bars arranged on the transverse clamping bars, wherein the supporting bars, the transverse clamping bars and the vertical clamping bars are mutually perpendicular, at least two vertical clamping bars are arranged on each transverse clamping bar, and the vertical clamping bars are arranged at the inner side of the transverse clamping bars. The beneficial effects of the invention are as follows: With vertical clamping bars that clamp the waterstop, the invention can limit the movement and rotational degree of freedom of the waterstop within in the space, to avoid displacement of the waterstop, thus making the construction more productive.
US12065929B2
A system and methods for petro-steering methodologies are provided. An exemplary method obtains rock fabric data, and integrate rock fabric data with dynamic productivity data to identify patterns between the rock fabric data and dynamic productivity data. Gas rates and steering values are predicted across UBCT wells based on the patterns.
US12065928B2
A control unit for controlling machine functions of a mining machine, such as an underground mining machine, tunneling machine or bolting rig, includes a flameproof housing having at least one fluid inlet and at least one fluid outlet, and a plurality of fluid control valves respectively communicating with the at least one inlet and outlet. In particular, the fluid control valves are formed inside at least one valve monoblock, the monoblock including a plurality of distinct fluid passages.
US12065926B2
A method of operating an actuator in mud having debris and lost circulation material is described. The method includes closing a servo valve positioned within a valve housing. The valve housing has a plurality of fluid vents positioned downstream of the servo valve and a plurality of debris vents positioned upstream of the servo valve. Dimensions of the plurality of fluid vents are less than dimensions of the plurality of debris vents. Closing of the servo valve creates a first fluid path such that fluid flows from a mud pump at a surface into the plurality of debris vents and out of the plurality of fluid vents shielding the servo valve from debris and lost circulation material.
US12065923B2
A drilling method and a drilling apparatus are provided. In the method, the feature parameter of the stratum around the well, the feature parameter of the stratum in front of the drill bit, the preset drilling parameter, the preset trajectory parameter, the current pose of the drill bit and the current rate of penetration of the drill bit are obtained; the feature parameter of the reservoir in front of the drill bit is determined based on the feature parameter of the stratum around the well and the feature parameter of the stratum in front of the drill bit; the above parameters are inputted to the pre-trained drilling parameter modification model to obtain drilling trajectory parameter and drilling speed parameters; and the drilling direction and the rate of penetration are regulated based on the above parameters.
US12065918B2
Systems and methods for steam fracking may provide for fracking at a lower cost, providing faster cycles, higher pressure, and more perforation, thereby making a safer system and less expensive method. A high-energy spark initiator may be maneuvered into a horizontal drill hole where a petroleum-bearing formation is fractured for trapped petroleum to flow out through cracks and into the horizontal borehole and pumped to the surface for collection. The horizontal borehole may be flooded with slickwater which may submerge the spark initiator. A high-energy electric charge may be sparked across the contacts on the spark initiator, followed by a high energy steam explosion caused by the heat of the spark. This may heat the water in the borehole near the initiator into high-pressure live steam which forces slickwater into the formation's cracks, opening the cracks wider where the slickwater sand will pack into cracks to hold them open.
US12065912B2
A hydrocarbon flow control generator system includes a pressurized hydrocarbon flow inlet, an expansion device in pressurized hydrocarbon flow communication with the pressurized hydrocarbon flow inlet, a generator connected to the expansion device, a drive system connecting the generator and the expansion device, a gathering point at which depressurized hydrocarbon stream is delivered to an end use location, and a variable load device via which an electrical power stream generated by the generator is delivered to an electric load. The expansion device is configured to receive a highly pressurized hydrocarbon stream from the pressurized hydrocarbon flow inlet, control and regulate a received hydrocarbon stream, and depressurize the hydrocarbon stream. The variable load device is configured to adjust load on the generator by adjusting electrical demand on the generator based on a pressure of the depressurized hydrocarbon stream sensed between the expansion device and the gathering point.
US12065908B2
A system for emergency response to a well control incident is disclosed, which includes a capture device fitted to a subsea wellhead, a pipeline termination unit fluidly connected to the capture device, and a subsea module fluidly connected to the pipeline termination unit via a subsea flowline, wherein the subsea module comprises a subsea separator, and wherein the subsea module is anchored to a seabed. The system also includes a mini spar fluidly connected to the subsea module by a riser system.
US12065901B1
Systems and methods presented herein include expanding and collapsing apparatus that include a slips cartridge that is bookended by seal elements. The pressure (e.g., whether from uphole and/or from downhole of the downhole tool) pushes at axial points at which the seal elements abut the slips cartridge. In addition, all of the load is transferred to the wellbore casing, and not to an inner mandrel at all. Specifically, the inner mandrel only experiences the setting force in tension. In addition, the elastomer that is being used is not stretched during expansion, but simply moved as it is expanded.
US12065894B2
A wellbore positioning system includes a first wellbore casing element bearing a first magnetic pattern that encodes first information associated with the wellbore or a drone. The first wellbore casing element is configured for placement down-hole in the wellbore. The first wellbore casing element extends along a central axis and defines an axially oriented passage. Also, the system includes an untethered drone configured for relative movement in the passage of the first wellbore casing element. The drone is configured to detect the first magnetic pattern and determine a position of the drone within the wellbore based on the first information.
US12065883B2
A hybrid bit includes fixed blades and wheel support structures. The wheel support structure includes a wheel inserted into a slot between a leading support and a trailing support. One or more shims fill a gap between a flange and the leading supports. An elongated seal between the wheel and the supports is provided to seal the wheel support.
US12065880B2
A stabilizer apparatus has a mounting frame that mounts onto a ladder so as to be longitudinally slidable along the rails of the ladder. Stabilizer legs are pivotally supported on the mounting frame between a stored position in which the legs are supported alongside the mounting frame and a working position protruding outwardly from the mounting frame. A screw clamp type retaining mechanism selectively prevents longitudinal displacement of the mounting frame relative to the ladder for stabilising the ladder while in the working position of the legs.
US12065877B2
A manually-operated window treatment system includes a roller tube, a covering material, and a chain (e.g., a semi-rigid chain). The roller tube is supported at opposed ends thereof. The covering material is attached to the roller tube. The covering material is operable between a raised position and a lowered position via rotation of the roller tube. The chain is configured to be operated by a user to rotate the roller tube. The chain has a first minimum bend radius when bent in a first direction and a second minimum bend radius when bent in a second direction. The first minimum bend radius is less than the second minimum bend radius.
US12065876B2
A motorized window treatment may provide a low-cost solution for controlling the amount of daylight entering a space through a window. The window treatment may include a covering material (e.g., a cellular shade fabric or a roller shade fabric), a drive assembly for raising and lowering the covering material, and a motor drive unit including a motor configured to drive the drive assembly to raise and lower the covering material. The motorized window treatment may comprise one or more battery packs configured to receive batteries for powering the motor drive unit. The batteries may be located out of view of a user of the motorized window treatment (e.g., in a headrail or in a battery compartment). The motorized window treatment may use various power-saving methods to lengthen the lifetime of the batteries, e.g., to reduce the motor speed to conserve additional battery power and extend the lifetime of the batteries.
US12065857B2
Opening and closing a door without the use of one's hands is facilitated. For instance, an apparatus can comprise one or two rotatable rings. For a one ring apparatus, the ring can have an opening so that the inner cross section of the opening of the ring can be pushed with a forearm or knee so that the ring will rotate and the person can then pull on the ring with his/her forearm or knee to open the door. In a two-ring apparatus, two adjacent rings, both with openings, can comprise similar push surfaces. When pushed on the pushed surfaces, the rings will rotate and the cross sections of the openings of the rings come into contact with one another, creating a surface against which a forearm or knee can pull on to open the door. A rotation plane converter can turn a doorknob using the apparatus.
US12065854B2
Exemplary embodiments are directed to pool cleaners that remove debris from water using a plurality of cyclonic flows, or that include a removable impeller subassembly, a check valve for a debris canister, a particle separator assembly having a handle that locks to the pool cleaner, a modular roller drive gear box, or a roller latch that secures a roller to the pool cleaner. Exemplary embodiments are also directed to the check valve and the roller latch themselves. Exemplary embodiments are directed to a filter medium for pool cleaners that includes embossments providing flow channels for water, and to roller assemblies for pool cleaners. Exemplary embodiments are directed to pool cleaners including alternative pump motor engagements. Exemplary embodiments are directed to pool cleaners power supplies that include a potted and contoured power board assembly, and to kickstands therefor. Exemplary embodiments are directed to a pool cleaner caddy, and removable wheels therefor.
US12065853B2
A lane rope float having higher wave absorbing performance than before is provided. A lane rope float is one that is attached to a rope R via a tubular portion and divides lanes of a pool, and the lane rope float is characterized by: including a plurality of blades that protrude from a side surface of the tubular portion in parallel with the rope R, and a wall surface portion that is coupled to side end portions of the blades to cover the blades, in which in an outer end portion of the lane rope float from the center of the tubular portion to the wall surface portion, at least ½ of the range from the center of the tubular portion to the wall surface portion is formed along a vertical plane V2 perpendicular to the tubular portion.
US12065851B2
An enhanced security fence for use in high security situations is provided. The fence is made of high strength materials that are preferably welded together in a convenient, location and sent as prefabricated sections to the installation location to form an all welded bracket-less perimeter barrier fence system. Posts with section hangers are provided and installed at a perimeter, and the prefabricated panels are quickly and securely attached to the posts. The panels can be friction fit to the posts and, if desired welded thereto. The invention includes a method of creating an enhanced security fence, that includes prefabrication of panels and rapid, fitting and securing the panels to posts to more quickly create a secure perimeter in places having difficult environments.
US12065849B2
An in-ground niche is disclosed. Example in-ground niches can comprise containers of appropriate size and shape for human or animal cremated remains storage. A portion of an in-ground niche can define an in-ground storage cavity, while another portion thereof can provide a lid support structure for a lid that is positionable on or above ground level. An in-ground niche can also comprise attachment points, both for security bolts to secure the lid to the lid support structure, and for anchor rods to anchor the in-ground niche in the ground.
US12065848B2
An umbrella assembly including a central shaft, the central shaft having a first end and a second end opposite the first end; a canopy coupled to the first end of the central shaft; an auger extending from the second end of the central shaft; a collar/hub nonslideably coupled to the central shaft and spaced from the auger; a plurality of legs, each of the plurality of legs having a first end and a second end; wherein the first end of each of the plurality of legs is coupled to the collar/hub, the second end of each of the plurality of legs extends towards the auger, and the collar/hub remains in a fixed position with respect to the central shaft when the second end of each leg extends outwardly from the central shaft to a deployed position and returns towards the central shaft from its deployed position to a stowed position; and a flexible material having an opening through which the central shaft extends and wherein the second end of each leg is coupled to the flexible material.
US12065847B1
A skylight leak repair kit and method especially adapted for use in repairing a skylight damaged dome mounted in a metal frame on a commercial flat roof. Required equipment includes an oversized sheet formed of PVC membrane which is 12 oz to 20 oz per yard in weight and reinforced with a mesh network of fibers, sticks of termination bar about 1 inch high with pre-punched holes spaced about 6″ to 8″ on center, self-tapping metal screws with plastic washers. Steps include draping the sheet, positioning sections of the termination bar along the metal frame, pleating the sheet along the sides and securing the sheet along the metal frame with the self-tapping metal screws while avoiding the pleats but coming within inches of the corners with the termination bars.
US12065838B2
The present invention relates to a panel and to a floor covering including the same. The present invention also relates to other coverings, such as a wall covering, which are constructed by using a plurality of the panels. According to the invention, the panel includes a first and second coupling profile on opposing sides of the panel. The first coupling profile includes an upward tongue that has a curved portion. This upward tongue is spaced apart from a first inner flank of the panel by a clearance that defines an upward groove. According to the invention, an outermost point of the curved portion is positioned further away from the first inner flank than a center point of the upward tongue.
US12065826B2
The present disclosure relates to the building industry and in particular to a block for use in automated building construction. In one aspect, the block comprises a generally cuboid body having a top and a base, a length extending between a pair of opposed ends, and a width extending between a pair of opposed sides; the body including a plurality of hollow cores extending from said top to said base, and arranged in a row between said opposed ends; wherein each core has a rectilinear cross-sectional shape; and wherein the thickness of the block between each pair of adjacent cores is at least double the thickness of the block on all other sides of each core, so that the block is divisible into a plurality of substantially identical block portions, each portion including four walls of substantially uniform wall thickness about its core.
US12065824B2
Watertight anchoring for securely fastening elements to a building, comprising a base or support anchored in a supporting structure of the building; a heat-insulating layer; a first watertight layer applied over the heat-insulating layer and the base or support; a bearing structure fixed to the base or support and a second watertight layer applied over parts of the aforementioned bearing profiles and over parts of the first watertight layer that are adjacent to the respective bearing profiles.
US12065823B2
Systems and methods for providing modular building unit or “pods” are provided. In various embodiments, site-specific conditions and risk factors are evaluated and identified. The conditions and risk factors are used to inform decisions and design requirements for one or more pods and to modify or reinforce a pod prior to installation if needed. Methods and systems of securing the pods are also provided.
US12065822B2
The present invention relates to a venturi device for a combined sewage overflow system, the venturi device comprising: a body defining a fluid passageway therethrough, the body having a first end portion defining a fluid inlet; a second end portion opposing the first end portion, the second end portion defining a fluid outlet and an opposing venturi inlet in fluid communication with the fluid outlet: and a mid-portion located between the first and second end portions; and a venturi pipe located between the first fluid outlet and the venturi inlet and in fluid communication with both, wherein the venturi pipe is narrower in cross section than the venturi inlet, and wherein the fluid inlet comprises an intake funnel that decreases in width in a direction towards the fluid passageway. The present invention further provides a CSO system including such a venturi device.
US12065815B2
A sanitary insert (1) in which the overall cross section of the aeration ducts (9, 18, 22, 23) of a jet aeration unit (3) is reduced by a ratio to the outer circumference of a mixing chamber (6) so that an air flow captures a leakage flow on the seal-free outer circumference of the insert (1) and transports the same into the mixing chamber (6).
US12065803B2
A work machine includes a controller that executes a semi-automatic control to correct an operation amount indicated by an instruction given by operation devices. The controller is configured to make a compaction determination to determine whether or not a bottom surface of a bucket is being pressed against a ground; and to further correct an operation amount having been corrected by the semi-automatic control, such that a force that the bucket applies to the ground increases if the bottom surface of the bucket is determined as being pressed against the ground.
US12065790B2
A compactor includes a plate, an electric motor coupled to the plate, an exciter coupled to the plate and configured to vibrate the plate in response to receiving torque from the electric motor, a means for transferring torque from the electric motor to the exciter, a battery configured to provide power to the electric motor, and a vibration isolator coupling the battery to the plate.
US12065784B2
A structured tissue belt assembly including a supporting layer and a nonwoven web contacting layer. The supporting layer has a top surface and a bottom surface and is formed of monofilaments including one or more layers of warp yarns interwoven with weft yarns in a repeating pattern. At least one of: a) at least some of the warp yarns; or b) at least some of the weft yarns, include laser energy absorbent material, and at least one of: a) at least some of the warp yarns; or b) at least some of the weft yarns include laser energy scattering material. Laser welds attach the bottom surface of the web contacting layer to the top surface of the supporting layer at points where the web contacting layer contacts the at least one of: a) the at least some of the warp yarns; or b) the at least some of the weft yarns that include laser energy absorbent material.
US12065778B2
The invention relates to a tile, in particular a carpet tile. The invention also relates to the use a tile according to the invention as floor tile, wall tile, or ceiling tile. The invention further relates to a tile covering consisting of a plurality of tiles according to the invention. The invention additionally relates to a carpet covering consisting of at least one carpet tile according to the invention.
US12065776B2
An inorganic fiber sizing agent that contains at least one carbon nanostructure selected from the group consisting of carbon nanotubes and carbon nanofibers, a resin, and a surfactant. If the total content of a nonvolatile content of the resin and the surfactant is taken as 100 parts by mass, the inorganic fiber sizing agent contains the surfactant at a ratio of 2 to 50 parts by mass.
US12065774B2
A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet having a detergent opening defined a front surface thereof, a tub located inside the cabinet, a drum rotatably disposed inside the tub, and a storage for storing detergent to be supplied to the tub therein. The storage is retracted into or extended out of the cabinet through the detergent opening. The storage includes a storage frame having a detergent storage space defined therein for storing the detergent therein, where a top surface of the storage frame is opened such that the detergent storage space is opened, a cover seat portion formed on the storage frame and formed along a perimeter of the detergent storage space, and a cover detachably coupled to the cover seat portion to shield at least a portion of an open top surface of the detergent storage space.
US12065756B2
A method of manufacturing synthetic diamond material using a chemical vapour deposition process, and a diamond obtained by such a method are described. The method comprises providing a freestanding synthetic single crystal diamond substrate wafer having a dislocation density of at least 107 cm−2. The synthetic single crystal diamond substrate wafer is located over a substrate holder within a chemical vapour deposition reactor. Process gases are fed into the reactor, the process gases including a gas comprising carbon. Crack-free synthetic diamond material is grown on a surface of the single crystal diamond substrate wafer at a temperature of at least 900° C. to a thickness of at least 0.5 mm and with lateral dimensions of at least 4 mm by 4 mm.
US12065742B2
A multilayered article is disclosed, the multilayered article including a thermosetting polymer material having at least one surface, a thermoplastic polymer layer deposited on the at least one surface of the thermosetting polymer material, a cold sprayed metal layer present on at least a portion of a surface of the thermoplastic polymer layer, at least one additional layer, the at least one additional layer sandwiching at least a portion of the cold sprayed metal layer between the additional layer and the thermoplastic polymer layer, where the thermoplastic polymer layer has a crystallinity of about 5% to about 60%. A method of providing a composite laminate structure is also disclosed.
US12065741B2
There is provided a gas supply system including a supplying part connected to a reaction vessel and a blocking part provided at an upstream side of the supplying part and directly connected to the supplying part without providing a pipe between the blocking part and the supplying part. The gas supply system further including a switching part provided at an upstream side of the blocking part and configured to supply a gas into the reaction vessel in cooperation with the blocking part and an exhaust part configured to exhaust an inside of a pipe provided between the switching part and the blocking part.
US12065735B2
Provided is a vapor deposition apparatus including a first injection unit injecting a first raw gas in a first direction and a first filter unit mounted on the first injection unit. The first filter unit includes a plurality of plates separated from one another in the first direction and disposed in parallel to one another, each of the plurality of plates having holes therein, being detachably coupled with the first filter unit, and having the holes with sizes of horizontal cross-sections gradually increasing in a direction in which the first raw gas moves. Accordingly, a process efficiency of the vapor deposition apparatus may be enhanced.
US12065731B2
In some implementations, one or more semiconductor processing tools may deposit cobalt material within a cavity of the semiconductor device. The one or more semiconductor processing tools may polish an upper surface of the cobalt material. The one or more semiconductor processing tools may perform a hydrogen soak on the semiconductor device. The one or more semiconductor processing tools may deposit tungsten material onto the upper surface of the cobalt material.
US12065721B2
A method of manufacturing an AA2xxx-series aluminium alloy plate product having improved fatigue failure resistance and a reduced number of flaws, the method comprising the following steps (a) casting an ingot of an aluminium alloy of the 2xxx-series, the aluminium alloy comprising (in wt. %): Cu 1.9 to 7.0, Mg 0.3 to 1.8, Mn up to 1.2, balance aluminium and impurities, each 0.05 max, total 0.15; (b) homogenizing and/or preheating the cast ingot; (c) hot rolling the ingot into a plate product by rolling the ingot with multiple rolling passes characterized in that, when at an intermediate thickness of the plate between 100 and 200 mm, at least one high reduction hot rolling pass is carried out with a thickness reduction of at least 15%; wherein the plate product has a final thickness of less than 60 mm. The invention is also related to an aluminium alloy product produced by this method.
US12065714B2
The present disclosure is directed to a gold recovery process in which activated carbon or another carbon-based material is used to accelerate thiosulfate leaching of gold from a gold-bearing material. The present disclosure improves the overall precious metal recovery of thiosulfate refractory precious metal-bearing materials. Leaching is done by substantially simultaneously mixing a slurry containing the precious metal-bearing material, water, thiosulfate, a carbon-based material, and dissolved molecular oxygen (as the oxidizing reagent) and performing leaching in the presence of the various components for a predetermined residence time. The carbon-based material is maintained in the slurry during leaching to provide increased gold recoveries.
US12065705B2
The present disclosure provides methods, compositions, kits, and systems useful in the determination and evaluation of the immune repertoire. In one aspect, methods provide for determining convergence of T cell receptor and/or B cell receptor repertoires in samples prior to a treatment and predicting a subjects response to the treatment based on the measured convergence frequency. In another aspect, methods provide for an immune receptor haplotype group and predicting a subjects potential or predisposition to be protected from or vulnerable to an adverse event following a treatment.
US12065704B2
Embodiments of this invention provide methods, systems, and apparatus for determining whether a fetal chromosomal aneuploidy exists from a biological sample obtained from a pregnant female. Nucleic acid molecules of the biological sample are sequenced, such that a fraction of the genome is sequenced. Respective amounts of a clinically-relevant chromosome and of background chromosomes are determined from results of the sequencing. The determination of the relative amounts may count sequences of only certain length. A parameter derived from these amounts (e.g. a ratio) is compared to one or more cutoff values, thereby determining a classification of whether a fetal chromosomal aneuploidy exists. Prior to sequencing, the biological sample may be enriched for DNA fragments of a particular sizes.
US12065696B2
The disclosure provides various systems and methods for identifying individuals from one or more samples. In particular, improved systems and methods of analysis are provided for handling multiple contributors, as well as systems and methods that model not only individual error rates per locus but factor in amplification of errors induced through PCR cycles. In some embodiments, modeling of error rates can be applied in multi-contributor settings to more accurately establish real alleles from artifacts. Other aspects involve application of sequencing in error modeling. Further, methods are provided for determining the presence of common individual DNA profiles in one or more complex DNA mixtures and for deconvolution of multiple complex DNA mixtures into shared individual components. The methods of the disclosure do not require any prior knowledge of individual DNA profiles or contributors to the complex DNA mixtures. Moreover, the methods of the disclosure may use any SNP panel, including those panels already existing and those panels specifically designed to maximize performance characteristics of the methods described herein.
US12065688B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods for cellular analysis. Nucleic acid from single cells may be processed in one or more partitions. A partition may comprise a cell bead and one or more enzymes for nucleic acid processing. A partition may comprise a functionalized polymer. In some cases, single cells may be subjected to epigenetic analysis, thereby generating an epigenetic profile for each cell from a plurality of cells.
US12065681B2
Ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate oxygenase (RuBisCO) protein fibers and a method of producing them are disclosed herein. The method of producing one or more RuBisCO protein fibers including obtaining RuBisCO, tbr example from tobacco, combining the RuBisCO with one or more plasticizers, heating the combination of the RuBisCO and the one or more plasticizers up to about 140 degrees C., filtering the heated combination through an about 20 μm filter, and passing the filtered combination through an orifice to produce one or more RuBisCO protein fibers.
US12065677B2
A microorganism is transformed to be capable of producing guanidinoacetic acid (GAA). A method can be used for the fermentative production of GAA using such a microorganism. A corresponding method can be used for the fermentative production of creatine.
US12065674B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods of preparing airway cells. In one aspect, an epithelial airway cell derived from an induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell characterized by expression of airway cell surface markers and an ability to proliferate is described. In another aspect, methods of differentiating an iPS into an epithelial airway cell is provided. Engineered lungs, methods of making such engineered lungs comprising the epithelial airway cells and treating respiratory disorders are also disclosed.
US12065672B2
Down-regulating autoimmune regulator (AIRE) function in B cells to produce antibodies is described. The antibodies can be class-switched, high affinity, and neutralizing, and have a high degree of somatic hypermutations, even in the framework region, as compared to antibodies produced in the absence of AIRE downregulation.
US12065671B2
Provided herein are methods of producing an RPE cell population from a starting cell suspension, such as a single cell suspension, of pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). Such a method may comprise culturing the starting single cell suspension of PSCs in differentiation media to produce human RPE cells.
US12065670B2
An insect culture maintenance system includes a sequence of open-ended cylindrical tubes joined pairwise alternately at their tops and bottoms using multiple dual-cap connectors. Each dual-capped connector has a channel from an inside of a first cap to an inside of a second cap. In use, connectors that cap the bottoms of the tubes are filled with insect food media, while connectors that cap the tops of the tubes are open. As a result of this design, adults pass from one tube to the next through the top dual-cap connectors, while larvae pass from one tube to the next through the bottom dual-cap connectors, resulting in propagation of subsequent generations of insects through the sequence of tubes.
US12065664B2
Disclosed are targeted lipid based particles for delivery of nucleic acid molecules (such as siRNA) to leukocytes (such as T-Cells and B-cells). Further disclosed are uses of the targeted lipid based particles for treating Leukocytes-associated diseases, such as, cancer.
US12065663B2
The present application relates to a vector comprising a polynucleotide encoding CYP4V2 and a promoter operably linked to the polynucleotide encoding CYP4V2. The vector described herein has a good expression effect, high expression speed, and more stable expression intensity. The present application also provides cells, pharmaceutical compositions, and kits comprising the vector, and methods for treating, alleviating, and/or preventing a disease or disorder associated with retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) atrophy.
US12065654B2
The present invention refers to a method for controlling undesired vegetation at a plant cultivation site, the method comprising the steps of providing, at said site, a plant that comprises at least one nucleic acid comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase or a mutated hydroxyphenyl pyruvate dioxygenase (mut-HPPD) which is resistant or tolerant to a HPPD-inhibiting herbicide and/or a nucleotide sequence encoding a wild-type homogentisate solanesyl transferase or a mutated homogentisate solanesyl transferase (mut-HST) which is resistant or tolerant to a HPPD-inhibiting herbicide, applying to said site an effective amount of said herbicide. The invention further refers to plants comprising mut-HPPD, and methods of obtaining such plants.
US12065652B2
The present invention is directed to a nucleic acid construct comprising a polynucleotide operably linked to one or more control sequence that directs the expression of the polynucleotide in a host cell, wherein at least one control sequence comprises a promoter sequence of an operon comprising a secA gene or a functional fragment or functional variant thereof and wherein said promoter sequence is heterologous to the polynucleotide. In a further embodiment, the invention is directed to an expression vector and a host cell comprising the nucleic acid construct comprising the promoter sequence described herein and a method of expressing a polynucleotide in a host cell.
US12065651B2
Nucleic acid molecules comprising a coding sequence with at least one codon substituted to a synonymous codon, a modified form of a virus comprising the nucleic acid molecules of the invention, and methods for producing these nucleic acid molecules, and viruses, are provided.
US12065642B2
Compositions and methods for using nucleosome interacting protein domains to increase accessibility of programmable DNA modification proteins to target chromosomal sequences, thereby increasing efficiency of targeted genome/epigenetic modification in eukaryotic cells.
US12065637B2
Embodiments described herein generally provide for the scheduled feeding of cells in a cell expansion system. A schedule to proactively and automatically increase and/or maintain inlet rates of media to feed cells may be created, in which inlet rates to the intracapillary portion (or extracapillary portion) of a bioreactor may be increased or maintained according to the schedule. Such schedule may be conservative or aggressive or a combination thereof, for example. Multiple schedules may be used. Scheduled media exchanges may also be included. By following a feed schedule, the monitoring of metabolite levels may be optional. Inlet rates may be increased or maintained without manual manipulation. Media usage may also be more predictable. In an embodiment, a custom task(s) may be created to follow a desired feed schedule. In another embodiment, a pre-programmed task(s) may be used for the scheduled feeding of cells.
US12065635B2
Organ-on-chip platforms with reduced fluid volumes include circulating fluid volumes of below 1000 μL, preferably about 500 μL or less. The platforms are adjustable for culturing cells with varied oxygen demand at various seeding densities. The platforms include at least one lane, wherein each lane includes at least one cell culture well, at least one oxygenator for fluid oxygenation, and a pump system containing at least one pump per lane. The oxygenator may include a separate fluid path for oxygenating the fluid, which allows controlling and measuring the oxygen concentration in the fluid, shortening the diffusion length, and passively diffusing oxygen. Provided are also different configurations for the oxygenator, fluid circulation in the platforms, attachment means for securing scaffolds to culture wells, and pneumatic plates.
US12065633B2
A biological cell preservation or culturing arrangement (20) comprises a chamber defining a fluid retaining space (30) for retaining in use a body of fluid (34) and a deformable membrane (36) in communication with the fluid retaining space, and being manipulable by an electroactive polymer actuator arrangement (38) to undergo a defined topology change to induce in the fluid a pattern of fluid flow by which fluid is exchanged between a sub-region (46) immediately proximal the deformable membrane and a sub-region (48) removed from the deformable membrane.
US12065632B2
The invention provides cell culture chambers and methods of use thereof. In certain embodiments, the cell culture chambers and methods provide for an expansion and stimulation of T-cells using autologous antigen-presented cells to provide a therapeutic T-cell product that can mobilize a patient's own immune system in a manner that selectively targets a patient's tumor.
US12065621B2
A method to create a natural charcoal briquette is described herein. A wood material is collected and impurities are removed from the wood material. The wood material is dried at a temperature in a range of approximately 150° C. to approximately 200° C. to reach a moisture level in a range of approximately 3.7% to approximately 5.0%. The dried wood material is compressed in a shaped mold at approximately 300° C. and under 40 tons of pressure to form a charcoal briquette. The charcoal briquette is carbonized at a temperature in a range of approximately 700° C. to approximately 800° C. in a range of approximately 14 days to approximately 17 days. The charcoal briquette is then cooled for approximately 2 days prior to use or packaging.
US12065609B2
A cement composition comprising a hydraulic cement, water and a suspension agent comprising a polymer formed via emulsion polymerization, wherein the polymer has a weight average molecular weight of at least 600,000. The cement composition may be introduced into a wellbore to cement a casing in place within the wellbore. The cement composition is able to maintain consistency and thickness even at high temperatures above 350° F.
US12065599B2
Disclosed are compositions and kits of fibers and acid-functional vinyl alcohol polymers, wherein such compositions and kits are useful for wellbore remediation as applied to a subterranean formation traversed by the borehole of an oil or gas well.
US12065591B2
A packaging material for molding includes a heat resistant resin layer as an outer layer; a thermoplastic resin layer as an inner layer; a metal foil layer disposed between the heat resistant resin layer and the thermoplastic resin layer; a first adhesive layer disposed between the metal foil layer and the heat resistant resin layer; and a second adhesive layer disposed between the metal foil layer and the thermoplastic resin layer. The first adhesive layer is composed of a color adhesive agent composition containing a color pigment and an adhesive agent. The color adhesive agent composition contains a color pigment of 2 mass % or more and less than 5 mass % with respect to a solid component. The first adhesive layer is a coating of the color adhesive agent composition of 5 g/m2 to 10 g/m2. The first adhesive layer contains a color pigment of 0.25 g/m2 to 0.49 g/m2.
US12065587B2
Chemical mechanical polishing compositions include an abrasive, an additive, and water. The polishing compositions have a value of less than 800,000 for the relation: large particle counts/weight percent abrasive, when measured using a 0.2 μm bin size.
US12065579B2
An organosiloxane which has at least one aromatic radical can be used in release coatings. Compositions, radiation-curing coating materials and release coatings can contain this organosiloxane. A method can be used to produce a release coating using this organosiloxane. The said organosiloxane is notable in that the at least one aromatic radical is bonded via a non-aromatic organic radical to a silicon atom.
US12065578B2
The present invention relates to a two-component coating composition comprising one first saturated polyhydroxy component, optionally one second saturated polyhydroxy component, wherein the second polyhydroxy compound is different from the first polyhydroxy compound, at least one metal component, water and at least one polyisocyanate. The resulting composition offers excellent scratch resistance, better mechanical properties and good applicability.
US12065572B2
A carbon black is disclosed which can exert excellent abrasion resistance while suppressing heat generation when incorporated into a rubber composition. A carbon black in which the total number of active sites represented by a product of a full width at half maximum of a Raman scattering peak appearing in a range of 1340 to 1360 cm−1 when an excitation wavelength is 532 nm and a specific surface area when nitrogen gas is adsorbed is 3.60×104 to 8.20×104 (cm−1·m2/g), and when a nuclear magnetic resonance signal of a spin-spin relaxation process observed by a solid echo method is represented by a sum of a first signal and a second signal having a time constant larger than that of the first signal, an amount of hydrogen represented by a signal intensity per unit mass at time 0 of the first signal is 50.0 to 250.0 (/g).
US12065568B2
The present invention provides: porous spherical silicone rubber particles which have high light scattering performance; porous silicone composite particles; and a method for producing these particles. The porous spherical silicone rubber particles have pores inside the particles or in the surfaces of the particles.
US12065565B2
A polyester composition comprising, based on the total weight of the polyester composition, a first polyester and a second polyester, wherein a weight ratio of the first polyester to the second polyester is 80:20 to 20:80, preferably 60:40 to 40:60; 5 to 60 weight percent (wt %), preferably 5 to 50 wt % of a reinforcing filler; and 5 to 60 wt %, preferably 10 to 50 wt %, more preferably 20 to 50 wt % of an inorganic filler having a specific gravity of greater than 3 grams per cubic centimeter, as determined in accordance with ASTM D792, wherein a molded article comprising the polyester composition has a sound transmission loss of greater than 30 dB, preferably 35 to 50 dB, more preferably 36 to 45 dB, as determined at 1,250 Hz according to ASTM E1050 using a molded disc with a diameter of 100 mm and a thickness of 3.2 mm.
US12065555B2
Methods to control the flow behavior of non-Newtonian materials are described. Methods can increase the shear-thinning behavior of non-Newtonian materials such as aqueous suspensions, polymer melts and solutions, etc. Methods include induction of electrostatic charges to the surface of particles, e.g., nanostructures, held in suspension in the materials. The suspensions include different types of particles having different point of zero charge. Electrostatic charges are induced through adjustment of the pH of a suspension containing the particles, thereby modifying rheological characteristics of the material.
US12065549B2
Polymeric sheets of the invention comprise sequential layers as follows: a topcoat layer, a polyurethane-based carrier layer, and an adhesive layer. The polyurethane-based carrier layer is formed using essentially no chain extender having a molecular weight of 350 grams/mole or less, resulting in a relatively low storage modulus polymeric sheet. Such polymeric sheets are particularly useful for application to surfaces having a concave topography.
US12065544B2
A curable composition and an optical element including a cured product thereof. The curable composition includes an episulfide compound and an aromatic heterocyclic compound.
US12065542B2
A polycarbonate polyol represented by the following Formula (A-1): [in Formula (A-1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or a hydroxyalkyl group, R2 represents an alkanediyl group, n and m each represent an integer of 1 or more; and a plurality of R2's may be the same as or different from each other].
US12065541B2
A thermoplastic resin including a structural unit of formula (1): wherein A1 to A8 are each independently ═CH— or ═N—, and at least one of A1 to A8 is ═N—. R1 to R8 are each independently a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, a heteroaryl group, or the like. At least two adjacent groups out of R1 to R8 are optionally bonded to each other to form a ring. R9 and R10 are each independently a direct bond or an optionally substituted alkylene group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms. X is an oxygen atom, a carbonyl group, or an optionally substituted amino group, and n is an integer of 1 to 5. A retardation film, a circularly polarizing plate containing the thermoplastic resin are disclosed.
US12065529B2
The present disclosure relates to a purification method of a polymerization solvent used in and recovered from the preparation of a polyolefin resin, which can effectively remove impurities, in particular polyolefin wax, from the polymerization solvent to obtain a purified polymerization solvent with high purity, and can improve energy efficiency.
US12065524B2
Provided are an ethylene-propylene-diene monomer (EPDM) copolymer and a method of preparing the same. An EPDM copolymer which has more improved miscibility with inorganic fillers such as carbon black, may further facilitate dispersibility in mixing to further decrease the viscosity of a compound composition, and may provide a compound composition having excellent processability and mechanical properties. A method of preparing the same is also provided.
US12065518B2
Controlling the shutdown of a polyethylene reactor system that includes a secondary compressor, a reactor, a high pressure let down valve (HPLDV), a high-pressure separator, and a high-pressure recycle gas system is provided. After a partial or complete shutdown of secondary compressor, HPLDV opens to a pre-set open position until the reactor pressure reduces to either a pre-set reduced pressure limit or a until the slope of the reactor gas density to reactor pressure exceeds 0.15. The HPLDV controls the pressure to a pressure set point.
US12065510B2
Novel programmable targeting sequences and applications thereof. The targeting sequences can be engineered for binding to proteins, polypeptides, and other macromolecules.
US12065502B2
This invention relates to a pharmaceutical formulation of a bispecific antibody which binds to carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and CD3, a process for the preparation and uses of the formulation.
US12065496B2
The present disclosure relates to antibody molecules that bind epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) and/or c-Met and conjugates containing these antibody molecules. The antibody molecules and conjugates find application in the treatment of cancer, for example.
US12065495B2
Provided are antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that specifically bind to human neuropilin-2 (NRP2) polypeptides, including those that modulate binding interactions between human NRP2 and at least one NRP2 ligand, for example, human histidyl-tRNA synthetase (HRS), and which thereby modulate subsequent NRP2-mediated downstream signaling events, including related therapeutic compositions and methods for modulating NRP2 activity and treating diseases such as NRP2-associated diseases.
US12065492B2
Antibodies, chimeric antigen receptors, and bispecific T-cell engagers having specificity for B7-H6 and methods for using the same in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders associated with B7-H6 expression are provided.
US12065485B2
Materials and methods are provided for treatment and/or prevention of Staphylococcal diseases and disorders such as infection and dermal inflammation.
US12065483B1
The present disclosure provides single-domain antibodies having binding specificity to both influenza hemagglutinin A and B and thus being capable of neutralizing both influenza A and B viruses.
US12065472B2
The present invention relates to a tumor necrosis factor receptor (TNFR) binding protein complex comprising 12 or more N protein ligands (PLs) that specifically bind to the extracellular part of the same TNFR. Preferably, the TNFR binding protein complex binds to the extracellular part of TNFR2. Preferably, the TNFR binding protein complex of the present invention further comprises a two or more polymerization domains (PD).
US12065468B2
The disclosure provides heme binding peptides and their use for treating disorders that can benefit from sequestering free heme.
US12065466B2
Aspects of the application provide methods of identifying and sequencing proteins, polypeptides, and amino acids, and compositions useful for the same. In some aspects, the application provides amino acid recognition molecules, such as amino acid binding proteins and fusion polypeptides thereof. In some aspects, the application provides amino acid recognition molecules comprising a shielding element that enhances photostability in polypeptide sequencing reactions.
US12065465B2
The present disclosure relates to stereodefined polycyclic (e.g., tetracyclic) compounds that contain quaternary centers at one or multiple ring fusions, synthetic methods for preparing such compounds, and methods of using such compounds to treat a disease, such as a brain tumor and, particularly, a glioma.
US12065463B2
Described herein are neuroactive steroids of the Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein , A, R1, R2, R3a, R4a, R4b, R5, R7a, and R7b are as defined herein. Such compounds are envisioned, in certain embodiments, to behave as GABA modulators. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of the present invention and methods of use and treatment, e.g., such for inducing sedation and/or anesthesia.
US12065450B2
The disclosure provides Group 6 complexes, which, in some embodiments, are useful for catalyzing olefin metathesis reactions. In some embodiments, the compounds are compounds of the following formula: wherein: M is a Group 6 metal atom; X is an oxygen atom, ═N—R5, ═N—N(R5)(R5′) or ═N—O—R5, R5 and R5′ independently being various substituents, such as aryl or heteroaryl, each optionally substituted; n is 0 or 1; Rz is a neutral ligand; R1 is hydrogen or an organic substituent; R2 is an aryl or heteroaryl group, each optionally substituted; R3 is an anionic ligand; and R4 is an anionic ligand, such as a pyrrolide, a pyrazolide, an imidazolide, an indolide, an azaindolide, or an indazolide, each optionally substituted.
US12065446B2
The present disclosure is directed to compounds of Formula (I) and methods of their use and preparation, as well as compositions comprising compounds of Formula (I).
US12065433B2
Described are positive allosteric modulators of muscarinic acetylcholine receptor M1 (mAChR M1), pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds, and methods of using the compounds and compositions for treating neurological disorders, psychiatric disorders, or a combination thereof.
US12065421B2
Compounds that may selectively inhibit Oplophorus luciferase-derived bioluminescent complexes, e.g., NanoBiT® bioluminescent complex, are disclosed as well as compositions and kits comprising the compounds, and methods of using the compounds.
US12065419B2
A novel organic compound is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound that exhibits light emission with favorable chromaticity is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound that exhibits blue light emission with favorable chromaticity is provided. Alternatively, a light-emitting device with favorable emission efficiency is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound having a high carrier-transport property is provided. Alternatively, an organic compound with favorable reliability is provided. An organic compound having at least one amino group in which any one of a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzofuranyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted dibenzothiophenyl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted carbazolyl group is bonded to any one of a substituted or unsubstituted naphthobisbenzofuran skeleton, a substituted or unsubstituted naphthobisbenzothiophene skeleton, and a substituted or unsubstituted naphthobenzothienobenzofuran skeleton is provided.
US12065416B2
Disclosed are novel compounds of Formula I that are cGAS antagonists, methods of preparation of the compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and their use in medical therapy.
US12065412B2
Provided herein are compounds that activate CFTR and methods for treating constipation, dry eye disorders, and other diseases and disorders.
US12065409B2
Provided herein are compounds useful in treating exposure to an organophosphorus compound, such as a nerve agent, pesticide, or, generally, an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, such as sarin. Compositions, e.g. pharmaceutical compositions or dosage forms, comprising the compounds also are provided herein. Methods of treating a patient exposed to a nerve agent, pesticide, or, generally, an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, e.g., an organophosphorus compound, such as sarin, also are provided.
US12065408B2
Compounds and methods for preventing and/or treating one or more symptoms of sickle cell diseases (SCD) by administering at least one of the compounds are provided. The compounds are chemically modified to increase bioavailability and activity, e.g., so that the compounds prevent adhesion and sickling of red blood cells (RBCs).
US12065402B2
This disclosure relates to modulators of liver receptor homologue 1 (LRH-1) and methods of managing disease and conditions related thereto. In certain embodiments, modulators are derivatives of hexahydropentalene. In certain embodiments, this disclosure relates to methods of treating or preventing cancer, diabetes, or cardiovascular disease by administering an effective amount of a hexahydropentalene derivative disclosed herein.
US12065400B2
Methods for making higher-octane fuel components from a feed stream of C8+ paraffins, including catalytically cracking the C8+ paraffins using a Zeolite catalyst to produce a reaction product of mid-chain paraffins and olefins and short-chain paraffins and olefins. The reaction product comprises liquid phase paraffins having an increased Octane Value over the feed stream paraffins. The reaction product further comprises a gas phase of short-chain paraffins which are separated from the liquid phase. In embodiments, the short chain olefins are hydrogenated to form mid-chain paraffins and a gas phase containing short-chain paraffins.
US12065397B2
Disclosed are benzoate derivatives. Provided is a compound having a formula selected from the group consisting of following structures. The compound can be used for quality control over a 2-(diethylamino)ethyl 2-acetoxybenzoate hydrochloride product, and also for inflammation diminishment
US12065394B2
The present invention provides a compound represented by the following Chemical Formula 1 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof which can be effectively used for preventing or treating obesity or metabolic syndrome, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same. in Chemical Formula 1, R1 and R2 are the same as defined in the specification.
US12065389B2
A fluid-bed granulator system may include a fluid-bed granulator, a scrubber unit, and a connection-duct between an air vent opening of the fluid-bed granulator and the scrubber unit. An inner surface of the connection-duct may be at least partially coated with an anti-adhesion layer. The system may further include a granulator space inside the fluid-bed granulator, a perforated plate disposed inside the granulator space, spray nozzles disposed at the perforated plate, a fluidization air inlet, supply lines for atomization air connected to the spray nozzles, supply lines for a liquid melt connected to the spray nozzles, a granulation seeds inlet, a granulator outlet opening, and an air vent opening. A disclosed urea granulation plant may utilize the fluid-bed granulator system.
US12065388B2
The present invention relates to a method for impregnating concrete with a non-aqueous electrolyte characterized in that an electric field is applied between electrodes mounted on the concrete surface and/or embedded in the concrete such that the non-aqueous electrolyte migrates into the concrete. Preferably, lithium ions are dissolved in the non-aqueous electrolyte.
US12065371B2
A system and process for forming a curved glass laminate article is provided. The process and system utilizes co-sagging of a stack of glass sheets of different thicknesses and different glass materials. During co-sagging the thicker glass layer is placed on top of the thinner glass layer. In this process, shape mismatch is avoided by selecting/controlling the glass materials of the sheets of glass such that the viscosity of the lower, thinner sheet during co-sagging is greater than the viscosity of the thicker glass sheet.
US12065370B2
Systems and processes for purifying and concentrating a liquid feed stream are disclosed. In the systems, the concentrated liquid output from the high pressure side of a reverse osmosis stage is used as the draw solution in the low pressure side of the reverse osmosis stage in a configuration called osmotically assisted reverse osmosis. This reduces the osmotic pressure differential across the membrane, permitting high solute concentrations to be obtained, hastening the purification of the liquid. Reduced system pressures are also obtained by arranging multiple osmotically assisted reverse osmosis stages in a cross-current arrangement. Overall system energy consumption is reduced compared to conventional thermal processes for high concentration streams.
US12065360B1
Provided is a method for preparing a soft magnetic manganese-zinc ferrite composite by removing impurities from industrial waste step by step. Manganese-containing waste residue is crushed and dried, and then mixed with a flux in a muffle furnace and roasted at a temperature below 1000° C. till solid-liquid stratification; then, multi-step impurity removal is performed to obtain a high-purity quaternary purification solution of manganese sulfate. Similarly, zinc residue is melted to remove impurities, and then multi-step impurity removal is performed to obtain a high-purity quaternary purification solution of zinc sulfate. According to a manganese-zinc-iron ratio required for the manganese-zinc ferrite, the two purification solutions are mixed, and ferrous sulfate is added. The mixed purification solution is coprecipitated with ammonium bicarbonate, washing is performed, and co-precipitated powder is decomposed into ferric oxide, manganese tetroxide and zinc oxide which are then roasted to obtain the manganese-zinc ferrite composite.
US12065358B2
Disclosed are a ZSM-5 molecular sieve and a preparation method and use thereof. In this disclosure, a silicon source, an aluminum source, sodium hydroxide, a template and water are mixed in a rotating micro liquid membrane reactor, and then subjected to a hydrothermal crystallization to obtain the ZSM-5 molecular sieve.
US12065352B1
The present invention discloses a liquid dispenser (1000), for transfer of liquid (220) from a storage container (800) to a receiving container (700) having a receiving aperture (710) facing upwards. The liquid dispenser (1000) comprises a flow controller (400), a liquid conductor (210), a liquid outlet element (200), a vertical actuator (100), a spatiality sensor (300) and a control unit (600). A method for production of a receiving container (700), having liquid (220) in its internal volume, is also disclosed.
US12065346B2
The improved hydraulic system utilizes a secondary hydraulic force control circuit that changes the gripping force on the load independently of movement of the clamp arms.
US12065344B2
A thin film transfer vehicle includes a base frame, a bearing frame and a baffle disposed on the base frame; the bearing frame has multiple support layers from top to bottom, and the multiple support layers are configured to carry multiple thin films respectively; the baffle is disposed in front of the bearing frame along a moving direction of the transfer vehicle, and multiple openings are disposed on the baffle, which are disposed in multiple rows and columns; and the support layers correspond to positions between two adjacent rows of the openings.
US12065336B1
An aerial device for operating on energized powerlines is disclosed. Embodiments of the current disclosure relate to a slew drive system for an aerial device. In some embodiments, the slew drive system provides leveling and jerk mitigation to an aerial platform of the aerial device. Various sensors may be disposed on an aerial device boom, on the slew drive, and on the aerial platform, for obtaining data indicative of a state of the aerial device. The data indicative of the state of the aerial device may be used to control the slew drive with various hydraulic valves and motors to level the aerial platform and mitigate/eliminate jerk. The systems and methods described herein provide a comfortable riding experience for aerial line workers in the aerial platform and maintain a level state of the aerial platform across a wide range of boom angles including at extreme ends of the boom assembly.
US12065330B2
A method for dynamic elevator door control is provided. The method is implemented by a system, which includes an elevator. The system procures passenger data, which can include a number of passengers presently travelling to a floor and a number of passengers awaiting to board at the floor. A determination is made by the system with respect a door operational time based on the passenger data. The system implements the door operational time to dynamically cause doors providing access to the elevator to remain open for a duration of the door operational time.
US12065321B2
The invention relates to a transport and handover system for storing and removing or relocating storage goods (1) in high-bay warehouses (2), in particular in a transshipment facility of a seaport or inland port for the storage of standard containers, wherein the high-bay warehouse (2) consists of an arbitrary number of warehouse modules (10), which are arranged next to each other in the longitudinal direction and in the width direction of the high-bay warehouse (2) extending transversely to the longitudinal direction and which have a plurality of rack compartments (12) lying one over the other in the vertical direction, said warehouse modules being separated from each other by aisles (11) extending parallel to the storing and removal sides of the rack compartments (12) or warehouse modules (10), wherein at least one storage and retrieval machine (19) that can move back and forth is provided in each aisle (11) for transporting and storing and removing or relocating the storage goods (1), and a storage and retrieval machine (19). Accelerated transfer with fewer steel constructions is achieved in that the high-bay warehouse (2) is designed with at least one transverse conveying device (13; 113), which crosses at least some aisles (11) and conveys the supplied storage goods (1) into the high-bay warehouse (2) and/or out of the high-bay warehouse. For handling of the storage goods (1) provided from below the level of the running rails (20), the base bar of the storage and retrieval machine (19) is designed with a passage opening in a frame-like manner so that the storage goods (1) can be lifted through.
US12065309B2
A robotic service device is described for use on a robotic picking system grid. The robotic service device is capable of driving to any location on the grid order to perform maintenance operations or cleaning. Additionally, the service device may be used to rescue robotic load handling devices operational in the picking system. The robotic service device may include a releasable docking mechanism to enable it to dock and latch on to malfunctioning load handling devices. The service device may also be provided with cleaning capability and a camera to enable the condition of the grid and other robotic devices to be monitored.
US12065306B1
A waste removal system featuring sidewall extensions designed to bridge a height differential between a dumpster portion and an integrated portable toilet housing, ensuring secure waste containment. Mounted on a chassis, the system comprises a dumpster portion and a toilet housing portion for a portable toilet, with the portable toilet housing's elevation creating a height differential between a dumpster portion and the portable toilet housing. The sidewall extensions attached to the sides of the dumpster portion, effectively filling the void caused by the height disparity, and redefining the dumpster portion's top opening for improved containment. An advanced roll-off tarp system, with a spool and lever arm mechanism, facilitates the deployment of a tarp large enough to cover both portable toilet housing and the top opening of the dumpster portion, ensuring the system's contents are securely covered during transport, thereby enhancing site cleanliness and regulatory compliance.
US12065305B2
A space division device includes: a rail installed on an upper side of a space box along a first direction of the space division device, a drive module that is installed to be movable along the rail, and a first partition that is connected to the drive module and forms a surface in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction to partition an inner space of the space box.
US12065304B2
An improved beverage cartridge is provided for use in forming a beverage in a beverage machine that provides a pressurized liquid. The cartridge includes a container having an interior space, a lid that accommodates an inflow of the pressurized liquid, and a filter arranged to contain a beverage medium arranged to interact with a liquid to form the beverage. The cartridge also includes annular disc shaped capsule configured for placement within the container. The capsule has a hollow interior chamber that contains a beverage medium and an open bottom that is sealed closed by a membrane. The membrane is configured to selectively provide fluid communication between the space inside the container and the chamber allowing liquid introduced into the container to flow into the capsule's chamber. The membrane is also pierceable by the beverage machine to accommodate an outflow of the liquid flowing into the capsule.
US12065301B1
A self-combining receptacle for producing a coated or partially-coated product or an admixture product is provided according to the invention. This receptacle can comprise a food service container for finger food like French fries having a sealed package of ketchup or other condiment installed in the bottom of the container and below the French fries where a closure panel extending outside the receptacle is pulled in a lateral direction away from the receptacle to peel off the closure panel to open the condiment package inside the container whereupon the French fries automatically drop down inside the container into the condiment contained in the now-opened condiment package. Alternatively, the self-combining receptacle may comprise two open faced vessels that are fitted together to join their common open faces with a common closure panel sealing the two open faces to divide the two vessels containing separate components of an admixture product. When the closure panel is removed from the receptacle or pierced by means of an integral utensil device, the two product components can be mixed together to produce the admixture product. Such an admixture product may comprise a food dish like fruit, granola pieces, chocolate pieces, or syrup mixed into yogurt or ice cream, or an industrial product like two resin components mixed together to produce an epoxy adhesive.
US12065294B2
The present invention relates to a packaging system for transporting delicate goods, such as glass bottles. According to the present invention, the improved packaging system (10) comprises an outer box (1) and an inner portion (2) configured for interacting with each other, said outer box developing in height along a direction Y, in width along a direction X and in depth along a direction Z, said inner portion comprising one or more support inserts (21, 22) complementary to said outer box (1), said inserts (21, 22) being configured for supporting one or more objects (100) in such a way as to prevent movement thereof with respect to said outer box (1), in particular with respect to said directions X and Z, said packaging system (10) being characterized in that it comprises at least one interposition element (3) between said outer box (1) and said inner portion (2) so as to prevent movement along said direction Y of the assembly formed by said support inserts (21, 22) and said objects (100) with respect to said outer box (1), said support inserts (21, 22) and said at least one interposition element (3) comprising coupling means (23, 24, 33) for their mutual coupling.
US12065290B2
A container with a terracotta lid includes a container having a attached to the container and movable between an open position allowing access to the container interior space and a closed position enclosing the container interior space, with a lid opening arranged to allow air to travel from the container interior space through the lid opening when the lid is in the closed position. An access panel allows access to the container interior space through the lid opening. A moisture-retaining insert such as a terracotta material is removably retained between the lid and the access panel when the access panel is in the closed position.
US12065280B2
This disclosure provides new closure and finish structures suited for small and light-weight carbonated beverage packaging that provide surprisingly improved carbonation retention and greater shelf life, while still achieving light weight. This closure and finish presented herein are particularly suited to small PET containers for carbonated beverages, for example less than or about 400 mL and provide good carbonation retention and shelf life.
US12065277B2
A foldable container and method of storing adhesive in which a single strip of adhesive material is attached to a single release liner featured on a side surface or a flap of the foldable container. The strips of adhesive material can be peeled off a surface of the container and applied to and used to seal the top and bottom surfaces of the container as needed. The container features one or more release liner(s) each with a single strip of adhesive material attached only to the release liner and not a surface of the container itself.
US12065274B2
A banding machine applies bands about objects for packaging, decorative, or other purposes. An object is banded with tape by: grasping a starting end of a tape extending from a tape roll between a first roller and a brake, with the first roller being situated adjacent the object alongside a second roller; orbiting the object with tape roll to apply the tape to the circumference of the object; during the orbit, pressing the starting end of the tape against the object with a wiper, and releasing the tape starting end from the brake; upon the tape's orbital approach of the tape starting end, receiving the tape over the first and second rollers; extending a knife between the first and second rollers to cut the tape, thereby defining a finishing end of the tape extending about the object; and pressing the finishing end of the tape against the object with a wiper.
US12065268B2
An antenna assembly has a solar layer having one or more solar cells generating solar power, an antenna layer connected to the solar layer and having electronic components utilizing the solar power generated by the solar layer, and a thermal dissipation device dissipating heat locally at the antenna assembly. A large number of antenna assemblies are connected to form an antenna array in which heat is generated locally at each antenna assembly and dissipated locally at each antenna assembly.
US12065266B2
A method of testing an aircraft landing gear is disclosed including: a) generating a test signal with the first tachometer, wherein the first wheel is not rotating during the generation of the test signal; b) receiving the test signal via one of the tachometer output lines; c) issuing a braking command in response to the receipt of the test signal, wherein the braking command is issued via the braking command line which is associated with the one of the tachometer output lines; and d) monitoring a response of the first or second braking system to the braking command to test for a cross-connection between the first and second braking systems. The landing gear includes first and second wheels; a first braking system having a first tachometer mounted to the first wheel and configured to generate a first tachometer signal indicating rotation of the first wheel, and a first brake configured to brake the first wheel.
US12065263B2
A charge dissipation plate for aircraft electronic systems having a metal plate with machined through openings. A collar is integrally formed with each through opening. The collar extends upwardly from the plane of the plate and includes a threaded outer surface for receiving an electronic connector.
US12065253B2
Actuation assemblies for emergency devices (e.g., inflatable life rafts carried on-board an aircraft) are provided with enhanced (preferably multiple) levels of security to preclude inadvertent unlatching and/or deployment but also allow access to an on-board emergency device removably positioned within a device bay of the vehicle which is normally covered by an access panel. The actuation assembly may be provided with a rotatable actuation shaft, a manually operated actuation lever fixed to the actuation shaft so as to rotate the actuation shaft in response to movement of the actuation lever between stowed and deployed conditions thereof, and a safety locking system operably connected to the rotatable shaft and having a locked condition which prevents operation of the actuation lever to thereby maintain the actuation assembly in a safe mode during normal vehicle operation, and an armed mode which allows the actuation lever to be moved into the deployed condition thereof.
US12065249B2
A seat extension apparatus for a cabin dividing element, in particular of an aircraft cabin, the seat extension apparatus comprising at least an extension device having a mounting side and a bed surface side, wherein the extension device is movable between a vertical stowed position and a horizontal use position, and a support structure coupled to the extension device to pivotably support the extension device, wherein the support structure comprises at least one pivotable strut element having at least one end pivotably coupled to the mounting side of the extension device and at least one free end.
US12065248B2
The invention relates to a seat assembly for a cabin of a means of transportation, having an aisle which is arranged in the longitudinal direction of the cabin, two mutually spaced cabin walls which are oriented parallel to the aisle at least in some regions and laterally delimit the cabin, two outer passenger seat regions which are separated from one another by the aisle and each of which adjoins one of the two cabin walls, wherein the outer passenger seat regions have at least one row of seats with a respective inner first seat module which faces the aisle, a central second seat module adjoining the first module, and an outer third seat module adjoining the respective cabin wall. Each of the seat modules has a seat and an ottoman paired with the seat or a foot rest at a distance from the respective seat, and the third seat module is offset to the second seat module in the longitudinal direction such that the seat of the third seat module adjoins the ottoman of the foot rest of the second seat module in the transverse direction.
US12065242B2
A passive guidance mechanism enables smooth guiding to a desired position; and a flying object landing system enables smooth guiding to and landing at a desired position. A pair of guide rails are arranged side by side with a space therebetween, and are provided so that the space increases toward one set of tips of the guide rails. One guide rail is supported so as to be rotatable about a first shaft extending in a direction perpendicular to a plane including the guide rails, at or near the tip of the guide rail. The other guide rail is supported so as to be rotatable about a second shaft extending in a direction perpendicular to the plane including the guide rails, at or near the tip of the guide rail.
US12065238B2
A vertical landing and take-off aircraft VTOL transitions from a vertical takeoff state to a cruise state where the vertical takeoff state uses propellers to generate lift and the cruise state uses wings to generate lift. The aircraft has an M-wing configuration with propellers located on the wingtip nacelles, wing booms, and tail boom. The wing boom and/or the tail boom can include boom control effectors. Hinged control surfaces on the wings, tail boom, and tail tilt during takeoff and landing to yaw the vehicle. The boom control effectors, cruise propellers, stacked propellers, and control surfaces can have different positions during different modes of operation in order to control aircraft movement and mitigate noise generated by the aircraft.
US12065236B2
A system includes a surface, an actuator, and processing circuitry. The surface includes one or more non-actuating zones and one or more actuatable zones. The actuator is configured to a flow property of a fluid that flows over the one or more actuatable zones of the surface. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain a value of a parameter of the fluid that flows over the surface, and operate the actuator to adjust the flow property of the fluid that flows over the one or more actuatable zones based on the value of the parameter of the fluid.
US12065232B1
A watersports boat is equipped with a trimmable drive used to generate a virtual ballast effect. Turbulence experienced by a wake rider on startup is reduced by automatically varying the drive orientation as the watersports boat comes up to speed. A pair of water channelers are located at the stern. One of the water channelers is deployed below the running surface to redirect water across centerline and improve wake shape on the selected side.
US12065230B1
A marine propulsion system for propelling a marine vessel includes at least two steerable rear marine drives that each generate forward and reverse thrusts, wherein each rear marine drive is independently steerable to a range of steering angles, and a lateral marine drive configured to generate starboard and port thrusts on the marine vessel. The system further includes a user input device, such as a joystick, operable by a user to provide a propulsion demand input commanding lateral movement of the marine vessel and rotational movement of the marine vessel. A control system is included that is configured to control steering and thrust of each of the at least two rear marine drives and thrust of the lateral marine drive based on the propulsion demand input so as to generate the lateral movement and/or the rotational movement commanded by the user.
US12065226B1
A fixed-pitch bolted propeller includes: a hollow hub body configured for attachment to a rotatable shaft, where the hollow hub body includes connection ports circumferentially distributed on an outer surface thereof; propeller blades, where each of the propeller blades terminates in a blade flange attached to the outer surface of the hollow hub body at one of the connection ports; retention plates positioned on an inner surface of the hollow hub body adjacent to the connection ports, where the retention plates include threaded recesses; and bolts extending through bolt holes in the blade flanges and the connection ports and into the threaded recesses of the retention plates to secure the propeller blades to the hollow hub body. The retention plates and the bolts each comprise a material having a tensile strength of at least about 125 ksi and/or a fatigue endurance limit of at least about 50 ksi.
US12065220B2
The present invention provides a connecting device for connecting at least two floating bodies, in particular at least two stand-up paddle boards, side by side, comprising: a linkage having at least one rod; and a plurality of fastening means arranged on the at least one rod of the linkage, at least some of the plurality of fastening means being provided axially displaceable along the axis of the at least one rod of the linkage adapted to the respective geometry of the at least two floating bodies such that each floating body can be clamped between at least two fastening means on the at least one rod of the linkage in a positionally stable manner.
US12065206B2
A steering torque sensor assembly includes a magnetically coded steering shaft section, which forms a primary sensor, and a secondary sensor for converting the changes in a magnetic field generated by the primary sensor into an electrical signal. The secondary sensor is situated on a sensor circuit board which runs parallel to the steering shaft section and is positioned opposite the primary sensor.
US12065199B2
A user interface actuator for a pilot-by-wire system comprises a rotary electric motor having an output shaft suitable to be connected to a rotating user interface, a first absolute angular sensor for detecting in direct drive the number of revolutions of the shaft and a second absolute angular sensor redundant with respect to the first absolute angular sensor.
US12065191B2
A working machine includes a first rotation detector to detect a first rotation speed of the left traveling motor, a second rotation detector to detect a second rotation speed of the right traveling motor, and a controller to perform automatic deceleration to automatically reduce the first rotation speed and the second rotation speed both set at respective second speed stages by shifting a speed stage of each of the first rotation speed and the second rotation speed to a first speed stage that is lower than the second speed stage. During straight traveling of a machine body of the working machine, the controller determines a straight-traveling threshold serving as a deceleration threshold for judging whether to perform the automatic deceleration based on the first rotation speed or the second rotation speed.
US12065189B2
A method for operating a motor-adjustable steering column may be employed by a motor vehicle with an actuating unit supported by a supporting unit. A steering spindle may be rotatably supported in the actuating unit. The actuating unit may be adjustable relative to the supporting unit by means of at least one adjustment drive. The adjustment drive is controlled by a control unit, and the adjustment speed caused by the adjustment drive is determined based on measurement data of a sensor. The control unit controls the adjustment drive in a control loop based on a control deviation between a specifiable speed profile and the determined adjustment speed.
US12065173B2
Systems and methods for speed and lane advisory are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes determining a host longitudinal position in a current lane. The method includes identifying at least one candidate lane adjacent the current lane. The method includes calculating a longitudinal maneuver distance for the host agent to execute a maneuver from the current lane to a candidate. The method includes calculating an augmented minimum distance by combining a predetermined minimum distance and the longitudinal maneuver distance. The method includes calculating a current lane headway distance for the current lane and a first candidate lane headway distance for the first candidate lane. The method includes selecting a target lane from a current lane or a candidate lane based on a comparison of the current lane headway distance and the first candidate lane headway distance and controlling the host agent based on the selection of the target lane.
US12065165B2
Systems and methods for adapting various autonomous vehicle settings to protect personal information based on the composition of passengers in a vehicle. In particular, sensitive user information is intelligently parsed out or generalized based on user preference and the presence of unknown passengers. In some examples, sensitive user information is routed to more secure channels such as a mobile device application or a personalized display. In some implementations, the position of passengers within a vehicle is determined to identify which displays are in each passenger's field of view. Additionally, pick-up and drop-off locations can be scrambled to nearby destinations to obscure a home address, work address, or other identifiable address information.
US12065159B2
The disclosure generally relates to a system comprising a memory and a processor configured to access the memory and execute the machine-executable instructions stored on the memory to determine that a target vehicle is engaging in an abnormal driving, determine that the abnormal driving exceeds a notification threshold parameter of an abnormal driving notification system, generate a notification, and monitor the ego vehicle and/or driver to alter notification threshold values based on the reactions of the ego vehicle and/or driver inputs.
US12065158B2
Commercial personal mobile vehicles (PMVs) managed by a fleet management system are sometimes equipped with a radar sensor to detect objects in an environment external to the PMVs. Specifically, the PMV may be equipped with a variety of sensors, such as a radar, a sonar sensor, a (optional) camera, an inertia measurement unit (IMU), and/or the like. The combination of a radar reflection signal and a sonar signal may provide measurements of characteristics such as a Doppler velocity and height information of a nearby object, which may be input to a machine learning classifier to determine the probability that the nearby object is a VRU. For another example, the reflection pattern from radar and ultrasonic may be used to input to a machine learning classifier to determine a type of the road surface, e.g., an asphalt road surface, a concrete sidewalk surface, a wet-grass lawn surface, and/or the like.
US12065145B2
The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for providing a vehicle occupant preparation system for certain acceleration modes. In an example method, sensor data associated with one or more sensors of the vehicle may be generated when a vehicle is in an acceleration mode. Subsequently, an orientation of an occupant in the vehicle relative to a seat or other structure within an interior of the vehicle may be determined using the sensor data. The orientation of the occupant may comprise at least a position of a head of the occupant or a direction the head of the occupant is facing. It may be determined that the orientation of the occupant is not within a predetermined orientation threshold. A notification associated with the orientation of the occupant may then be presented. In some instances, a performance parameter of the vehicle may be adjusted.
US12065138B2
Systems and methods are provided for using sensors and signal processing to detect vehicle surface impacts. In particular, a sensor and signal processing approach is provided for detecting impacts, with the results having a low false positive rate. The approach reduces operator costs by reducing operator involvement through improved automated detection technology. Additionally, systems and methods are provided for distinguishing chassis-driven fascia vibration from impact-driven fascia vibration.
US12065137B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a controller. The controller comprises an input means (22) for receiving a trajectory parameter signal comprising one or more parameters indicative of the trajectory (32, 38) of a vehicle (30). The controller further comprises a processing means arranged to set, in dependence on the one or more parameters, a distance from the trajectory for a boundary of an alert zone (40, 44), where the alert zone boundary is, in use, determinative of the minimum distance from the trajectory (32, 38) below which a detected object will trigger an alert.
US12065134B2
A method and system for adjusting vehicle operations. Wheel sensors are disposed to detect parameters associated with treads of wheels and parameters associated with road conditions. An electronic control unit receives information from the wheel sensors. The electronic control unit determines a performance metric of the wheels based on the parameters associated with treads. The electronic control unit receives determine adjustments for operation of the vehicle based on the performance metric and the parameters associated with road conditions.
US12065133B2
An apparatus for controlling a host vehicle may include: a processor configured to calculate a cut-in possibility in which a nearby vehicle cuts into a lane on which the host vehicle travels ahead of the host vehicle, to determine a plurality of cut-in steps of the calculated cut-in possibility, and to control operation of the host vehicle so as to perform an inter-vehicle distance control operation or to provide a warning to a user of the host vehicle based on a state of the user in each of the plurality of cut-in steps; and storage configured to store the calculated cut-in possibility.
US12065126B2
A controls system for a range-extended electric vehicle comprising an overall system control unit, an engine control module configured to control a range extender of the range-extended electric vehicle, power electronics configured to control a generator of the range-extended electric vehicle, and a supervisory control module coupled between the overall system control unit and the engine control module and the power electronics, the supervisory control module configured to receive information from the overall system control unit and provide commands to the engine control module and the power electronics.
US12065118B2
Disclosed are a brake pedal assembly, a braking apparatus, and a control method, where the brake pedal assembly includes a pedal, a stroke sensor configured to detect a depression stroke of the pedal, Hall sensors spaced apart from each other in a direction parallel to an operation direction of the pedal, and a controller configured to determine the depression stroke of the pedal using any one or any combination of the stroke sensor and the Hall sensors and to determine a required braking force of a vehicle, in response to the depression stroke of the pedal.
US12065110B2
The invention relates to the use of a suction-cleaning attachment of a cleaning device for cleaning the interior of motor vehicles by means of a suction airflow, having a housing which has a suction duct for conducting the suction airflow, there being in the housing in addition to the suction duct a compressed air duct for conducting a compressed airflow, and/or the housing being assigned in addition to the suction duct a compressed air duct for conducting a compressed airflow, and a grip region for gripping the suction-cleaning attachment with one hand being provided on the outside of the housing. According to the invention, a switch for controlling the compressed airflow is provided, and the switch is arranged on the grip region such that the switch can be operated by the hand holding the grip region.
US12065109B2
A vehicle lamp system includes: a vehicle lamp that emits light to a front area of a vehicle thereby forming a predetermined light distribution pattern; an imaging device that captures an image of the front area of the vehicle; and a foreign substance determination device including a storage unit that stores a light distribution pattern formed in the front area by the vehicle lamp in a state where no foreign substance adheres to a light emitting surface as a reference pattern, and a determination unit that compares a light distribution pattern captured by the imaging device with the reference pattern and determines whether a foreign substance adheres to the light emitting surface based on a determination result.
US12065093B2
A bumper arrangement relating to a motor vehicle, having an upper main crossmember, which is able to be coupled to the motor vehicle by way of crash boxes, and a lower auxiliary crossmember wherein the main crossmember and the auxiliary crossmember are coupled to one another by way of vertical struts, wherein the bumper arrangement extends over at least 70% of the vehicle width, and in that the main crossmember and the auxiliary crossmember have end portions which protrude laterally in the motor vehicle transverse direction with respect to the crash boxes. A vertically oriented hollow profile is arranged in an outer portion of the end region.
US12065087B2
A vehicle device includes a control unit and a monitoring unit monitoring an abnormality occurred in the control unit and solving the abnormality. The control unit includes a plurality of operating systems that respectively control a plurality of human machine interfaces. The monitoring unit monitors whether the abnormality is occurred in functions of the control unit. In response to a detection of the abnormality, the monitoring unit solves the abnormality of the function in which the abnormality is detected while continuing operation of the function in which the abnormality is not detected.
US12065082B2
A positioning system for positioning a display device for presenting visually perceptible information in a motor vehicle, the positioning system includes a display and a guide system with at least one rail element, and with at least one slide element guidable with the rail element. One of the two elements is fixed by a connection device to the display device and the respective other element is designed to be connected to a supporting structure or a transverse member of an instrument panel. At least one securing element which is rigidly connected by a first end region to the display device and by a second end region to the element designed for connection to the supporting structure. Under action of specific pulses, the guide system can achieve a substantially translational displacement of the display device by a relative movement between the rail element and the slide element in the guide plane.
US12065075B2
Systems and methods for facilitating safe vehicle operations, such as reducing illegal passings, avoiding possible collisions, and assisting road users around a vehicle are provided. The system uses a smart algorithm to perform negotiations between the vehicle, e.g., a school bus, and other road users, e.g., road vehicles, bicycles, scooters, etc. The method may include capturing image data of the surroundings of the school bus to identify violations within a proximity of the school bus such as children jay-walking and vehicles illegally passing the school bus when the stop arm is raised. The captured data may be recorded and shared with the school bus, other road users, or local authorities.
US12065074B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for selectively selecting and controlling interior and exterior displays of a vehicle. The apparatus includes an input unit configured to receive driving environment information, a memory configured to store a program for controlling interior and exterior displays of a vehicle according to a driving environment, and a processor configured to execute the program. The processor controls at least one of the interior and exterior displays to selectively project display information in consideration of the driving environment information by transmitting a control command signal for the at least one of the interior and exterior displays.
US12065070B2
A convertible furniture system or futon includes a convertible frame assembly that is mountable in an interior space and is deployable between a bench configuration and a flat, bed configuration. The frame assembly includes a back frame and a bottom frame that are pivotably coupled together and coordinate to form either the bench configuration that provides a user an upright seat or the bed configuration that provides the user a flat, substantially horizontal bed to lie down on. A user can maneuver the system from the bench configuration into the bed configuration and vice versa. The system may include an actuator, such as a spring mechanism or motorized linear actuator. The system includes various support elements mounted to upright walls and the support elements may be selectively engaged to support the system in the bed or bench configurations and during deployment and stowage of the system.
US12065068B2
A vehicle console includes a housing having at least one cupholder, a deployable shelf located proximate to the housing and movable between a recessed position in thermal communication with the at least cupholder and an extended position extending outward from the housing. The deployable shelf has a thermally conductive surface, and a heater operatively coupled to the thermally conductive surface.
US12065057B2
A control device for a virtual power plant that adjusts balance between supply and demand of electric power in a transmission and distribution network by controlling charging and discharging operations of storage batteries mounted on vehicles, includes: an estimation unit configured to estimate, based on past action patterns of the vehicles, possibilities of participation of the vehicles in the virtual power plant when a charging and discharging operation is requested; and a control unit configured to control charging and discharging operations of the storage batteries mounted on the vehicles based on the estimation result of the estimation unit.
US12065055B2
A grid to vehicle system is described. In some examples, the system selectively controls one or more electric vehicles connected to an electric grid based on conditions associated with the electric grid. For example, the system may control charging operations of the electric vehicles based on load balancing conditions associated with the electric grid, based on cost conditions associated with electric power provided by the electric grid, and so on.
US12065054B2
The invention provided an electric vehicle charging scheduling method, apparatus and system based on cloud-edge collaboration, a storage medium and an electronic device. In the present invention, a charging request of an electric vehicle user is accepted and processed by an edge computing unit, and a target charging station for a to-be-charged electric vehicle is determined with a minimum traveling cost as a target, so that a data transmission distance is reduced, and the electric vehicle user is timely assisted in selecting the target charging station and completing a charging appointment. After the charging appointment is made, charging data is uploaded to a charging optimization scheduling model pre-trained by a cloud platform for obtaining an electric vehicle charging scheduling strategy, so that powerful cloud platform computing abilities and rapid response advantages of the edge computing unit are fully utilized, the problem of network congestion is avoided, and timeliness is improved.
US12065045B2
A vehicle-mounted power supply system includes a sampling circuit, a voltage comparison control circuit, a power conversion circuit, and a motor. The sampling circuit is configured to obtain an output voltage value of an output terminal of the power conversion circuit. The voltage comparison control circuit is configured to output a first power adjustment signal to the power conversion circuit when the output voltage value is less than a first target voltage value. The power conversion circuit is configured to increase an output voltage to a first target voltage based on the first power adjustment signal, to output the output voltage to the motor and increase an input voltage of the motor. When a voltage of a power supply is low, the input voltage of the motor can be maintained at a required level.
US12065030B2
A rear vehicle-body structure absorbs an impact while also accommodating an elongated battery installation and an increase in an amount of batteries installed. The rear vehicle-body structure includes a rear side frame which extends in a vehicle front-rear direction in a vehicle rear portion, a rear-side battery frame which extends in a vehicle width direction in vehicle rear of a battery and in vehicle front of the rear side frame and protects the battery, and a frame bracket which couples the rear side frame with the rear-side battery frame.
US12065025B2
The present invention relates to a vehicle body-use resin member disposed on an upper portion of a window member in a vehicle. At least one in-vehicle member is mounted on the vehicle body-use resin member. The vehicle body-use resin member has a visible light transmittance of 50% or less. The visible light transmittance may be 20% or less.
US12065016B2
A heat pump system includes a compressor, a fluid switching device, a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, a third heat exchanger, a fourth heat exchanger, a flow regulating device and a throttle element. The second heat exchanger includes a first heat exchange portion and a second heat exchange portion. An outlet of the first heat exchange portion communicates with the throttle element. An inlet of the first heat exchange portion communicates with at least one of a second port of the third heat exchanger and an outlet of the fourth heat exchanger. An inlet of the second heat exchange portion communicates with the outlet of the first heat exchanger. An outlet of the second heat exchange portion communicates with an inlet of the compressor. In a heating mode, the function of the second heat exchanger is reduced, thereby the heating capacity of the heat pump system is improved.
US12065012B2
A chassis link has a link body, a ball joint socket being arranged at one link end of the link body. The ball joint socket has a cylindrical portion and an outwardly directed flange which is formed from the same material as and in one piece with the cylindrical portion. The ball joint socket is joined by way of the flange to a first web of the link body. A second lower web of the link body is joined to the cylindrical portion.
US12065003B2
A shear band for a tire includes an annular first, radially outer fabric layer extending circumferentially around the tire; and an annular second, radially inner fabric layer extending circumferentially around the tire. The shear band is formed from a single shear band strip helically wound circumferentially and axially with a first edge of the shear band strip. The first edge of the shear band strip has a first extension flap for engaging an opposite second edge of the shear band strip. The first extension flap is continuously secured to the opposite second edge linearly along the opposite second edge of the shear band strip.
US12064992B2
A transport cart (3) and a transmission device thereof (32). The transmission device comprises: a crawling assembly (320), a rotary drive assembly and a crawling drive assembly. The crawling assembly comprises: a wheel frame (321), comprising a first end and a second end opposite to the first end, the wheel frame extending from the first end to the second end; a driving wheel (322), mounted at the second end and having an axis perpendicular to the extending direction of the wheel frame; and a guide wheel (323), mounted at the second end and having an axis parallel to the extending direction of the wheel frame. The present transport cart provided with the described transmission device may move along both a horizontal rail and a vertical rail and may quickly switch between the horizontal rail and the vertical rail, thus improving the moving efficiency.
US12064985B2
The active energy ray-curable liquid composition according to the present disclosure is an active energy ray-curable liquid composition that contains water and a curable substance and is curable with an active energy ray, in which the curable substance contains a monofunctional polymerizable monomer having a structure represented by the Formula (1); in Formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a saturated hydrocarbon group, R2 represents a saturated hydrocarbon group that has at least one of a hydroxyl group or an amide bond and may contain a heteroatom, R3 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, R1 and R2 may be bonded together to form an aliphatic heterocycle together with a nitrogen atom substituted with R1 and R2 in a case where R1 represents a saturated hydrocarbon group, and a total number of carbon atoms of the saturated hydrocarbon groups represented by R1 and R2 is 5 or more.
US12064982B2
A coating module for variable speed ribbon coating, the coating module including a ribbon including an inner face and an outer face; a conveyor system including a support element holding and transporting the ribbon on its inner face; a squeeze ink roller arranged in contact with the outer face of the ribbon; the squeeze ink roller including an outer layer made of elastic material; a reservoir assembly designed to hold ink thereon and to feed the squeeze ink roller with the ink, and a pressure controller including an active element for pressing the ribbon between the squeeze ink roller and the support roller along a coating zone.
US12064977B2
A recording apparatus includes a recording head including a plurality of heating elements, a sheet-like recording medium formed of a plurality of laminated color-developing layers for developing a plurality of colors. A first condition is satisfied when a subsequent pixel, located at the same position as a target pixel to be recorded following the target pixel, is a pixel for developing a color of a bottom color-developing layer of the recording medium. In a case where a value of the target pixel in the image data is a predetermined value and does not satisfy the first condition, the pulse control unit controls the pulse so that a thermal energy to be applied to the recording medium by the recording head in forming the target pixel is lower than if the first condition is satisfied.
US12064975B2
A liquid discharge head includes: a substrate, where a recording element is disposed; and a discharge orifice forming member, where a discharge orifice, facing the recording element, and configured to discharge the liquid, is formed. The liquid discharge head has a pressure chamber, a first liquid channel configured to supply liquid to the pressure chamber, and a second liquid channel configured to recover liquid from the pressure chamber. The substrate has a liquid supply channel connected to the first liquid channel to supply liquid to the first liquid channel, and a liquid recovery channel connected to the second liquid channel, to recover liquid from the second liquid channel. Pressure at an inlet portion of the liquid supply channel is higher than pressure at an outlet portion of the liquid recovery channel, and a flow velocity of liquid within the pressure chamber is 3 to 140 mm/s.
US12064974B2
A liquid container to be mounted on a liquid discharge apparatus includes a casing, a pouch, and a spout. The pouch is removable and contained in the casing. The spout is connected to the pouch. The casing has a rigidity that is higher than a rigidity of the pouch. The pouch and the spout each have a dimension in a direction of gravity in a posture of the liquid container that is taken when the liquid container is mounted on the liquid discharge apparatus, and the dimension of the spout is less than or equal to half the dimension of the pouch.
US12064970B2
A liquid discharge device includes a liquid discharge head and a head tank. The head tank stores liquid to be supplied to the liquid discharge head. The head tank includes a body, a film, and a cover. The body includes a hole. The film covers the hole and includes a fixed portion fixed to the body. The cover contacts the film from an outer surface of the film. The cover includes a fixing-side cover part to contact a portion adjacent to the fixing portion of the film. The fixing-side cover part includes a curved contact surface to contact the film.
US12064969B2
A liquid ejection head includes a print element substrate including multiple ejection openings, pressure chambers, a common flow path, and pumps, the pumps being configured to circulate liquid between the common flow path and the pressure chamber; and a flow path member laminated to the print element substrate. The flow path member includes a supply flow path and a collection flow path, the supply flow path being configured to supply liquid to the print element substrate, and the collection flow path being configured to collect liquid that is not ejected. The supply flow path and the collection flow path have liquid connection with the same common flow path. A circulating pump generates a flow of liquid flowing in an order of the supply flow path, the common flow path, and the collection flow path, the circulating pump being provided at a position different from the print element substrate.
US12064961B2
In a print device, the conveyance member conveys a tape on which printing is performed. The tape has a base material and a release material bonded together. The tape includes a print portion on which an image is printed by the head. The printed tape is used to create a printed matter. The half cutter performs a half cut to cut through the release material without cutting through the base material. The full cutter performs a full cut to cut through the tape conveyed by the conveyance member. The controller controls the half cut so that the half cutter cuts through the release material at a position downstream side of a most downstream end of the print portion of the printed tape, which is conveyed by the conveyance member and is printed by the head, in a conveying direction of the tape.
US12064958B2
The present disclosure relates to a hybrid inkjet printer capable of continuous output, which is configured to perform printing while an output medium is input to an input unit and then moved to an output unit, and to be able to press the surface of an output medium to correspond to the thickness of the output medium at the input unit and the output unit, thereby being able to perform continuous output, stably move an output medium, and minimize poor printing.
US12064952B2
A laser transfer printing device and a laser transfer printing method are provided. The laser transfer printing device includes a laser, a beam expander, a beam splitter and a focusing module. The laser is configured to generate a laser beam. The beam expander is disposed on an optical path of the laser beam generated by the laser to expand the laser beam generated by the laser. The beam splitter is disposed on an optical path of the laser beam expanded by the beam expander to reflect the expanded laser beam to the focusing module. The focusing module is disposed on an optical path of the laser beam reflected by the beam splitter to focus the laser beam and project the focused laser beam to a predetermined transfer processing position.
US12064937B2
A laminate including a metallic base material, a first nickel-containing plating film layer formed on the metallic base material, a gold plating film layer formed on the first nickel-containing plating film layer, a second nickel-containing plating film layer formed on the gold plating film layer, and a nickel fluoride film layer formed on the second nickel-containing plating film layer. Also disclosed is a method for producing the laminate as well as a constituent member of a semiconductor production device including the laminate.
US12064936B2
A drive system is configured to feed a sheet material. The drive system includes a first roller and a second roller. A circumference of the first roller has a first curved profile. A circumference of the second roller has a second curved profile. The first and second rollers are arranged such that, when the sheet material is not located between the first and second rollers, the first curved profile of the first roller contacts the second curved profile of the second roller. The first and second rollers are further arranged such that, when the sheet material is located between the first and second rollers, rotation of at least one of the first and second rollers causes the sheet material to be fed through the drive system.
US12064922B2
Methods and apparatus for optimally positioning objects for automated machining are described herein. An example build file generator described herein includes an object file manager to identify a first toolpath volume associated with a first object to be formed via an additive manufacturing (AM) process. The first toolpath volume is based on a first toolpath of a first post-manufacturing process to be used on the first object. The object file manager is also to identify a second toolpath volume associated with a second object to be formed via the AM process. The second toolpath volume is based on a second toolpath of a second post-manufacturing process to be used on the second object. The example build file generator also includes a layout determiner to determine a layout of the first and second objects to be formed on a substrate by the AM process based on the first and second toolpath volumes.
US12064919B2
A method for continuously forming a three-dimensional body from a mixture, the mixture comprising at least 15 vol % solid particles and a radiation curable material. The method allows the continuous production of three-dimensional bodies comprising to a high content ceramic particles at a forming speed of at least 25 mm/hour.
US12064918B2
A stereolithography apparatus for generating a three-dimensional object from a photocurable substance, that includes: a vat for storing the photocurable substance; and a platform for supporting the three-dimensional object, wherein the platform is movable relative to the vat; an optical unit for sequentially projecting layered images towards the photocurable substance for hardening the photocurable substance deposited between the three-dimensional object and the bottom of the vat; and further includes: an oscillation unit adapted to horizontally oscillate the vat concomitantly with the projection of the layered images with a substantially constant amplitude that is smaller than the pixel size of the layered images in the horizontal direction for preventing adhesion of the three-dimensional object to the bottom of the vat.
US12064915B2
The invention relates to a blow molding tool for a blow molding machine for producing plastic containers in an extrusion or stretch blow-molding process. The blow molding tool comprises two blow mold halves, each of which comprises at least one molding body in which at least one mold cavity is disposed, and a baseplate that receives said molding body. An insulation block consisting of a thermally insulating material is arranged between the molding body and the baseplate and, optionally, further components of the blow mold halves.
US12064911B2
A method for measuring a tubular strand exiting from an extrusion device comprises directing electromagnetic radiation from an inside of the tubular strand to an inner side of a tubular strand. The electromagnet radiation is radiated from at least one radiation source within a frequency range from 1 GHz to 6000 GHz. The electromagnetic radiation is reflected off of the tubular strand and received by at least one radiation receiver. A value for at least one of a diameter, a wall thickness, and a deviation in shape of the tubular strand is determined from the electromagnetic radiation received by at least one radiation receiver.
US12064910B2
The invention relates to a system (10) for improved introduction of a separating device (40) into a flattened film tube (2) of a blown film line (1), with a cutting device (20) for severing only a first tube side (2.1) of the film tube (2), in particular the film tube (2) which has not yet been flattened. Furthermore, the invention relates to a blown film line (1), as well as a method (100) for producing and providing at least two film webs (6).
US12064909B2
A method for determining positions of a real moulding material front during a process to be carried out with a moulding machine, wherein a simulation progression (SV) of a variable characteristic of the process is calculated, positions of a simulated moulding material front are determined from the simulation, the real process is carried out, and at least one measurement progression (MV) of the at least one characteristic variable is measured directly or indirectly, a transformation is chosen, which has at least one parameter (ΔV, kp, Vunknown), the transformation is applied to the at least one simulation progression (SV), with the result that a transformed simulation progression (tSV) is formed, and a parameter value is determined for the parameter (ΔV, kp, Vunknown) such that a deviation between the measurement progression (MV) and the transformed simulation progression (tSV) is minimized according to a predetermined error measure or according to an operator input.
US12064903B2
The disclosure provides a process for manufacturing a tread molding element configured to mold at least a portion of a tire tread, the process comprising the steps of modeling a three-dimensional shape of a tread molding element through a modeling program that can be recognized by a 3D printer; providing one or more plastic compositions comprising one or more thermoplastic polymers having a melting point of at least 180° C.; forming a tread molding element by 3D printing from the one or more plastic compositions; and optionally annealing the tread molding element.
US12064889B1
A two way razor is disclosed having a handle, a bracket, and a shaving head mounting dual opposing shaving cartridges each comprising a plurality of razor blades, and a swivel mechanism disposed between the handle and the bracket for exchanging the positions of the first and second cartridges' positions, the swivel mechanism comprising first and second disks where a first disk has two projections at opposite ends and a second disk has two recesses at opposite ends, such that the projections and recesses engage to lock the bracket in first and second orientations with respect to the handle.
US12064881B2
A robot controlling device controls operation of a robot having a first robotic arm and a second robotic arm. The robot controlling device includes a distance calculating module configured to calculate a distance between a tip end of the first robotic arm and a tip end of the second robotic arm, and a distance monitoring module configured to monitor whether the distance calculated by the distance calculating module is equal to or less than a predetermined value.
US12064875B2
A robot includes elbows connecting forearms rotatably to upper arms with two rotational degrees of freedom. The elbow includes: an elbow joint connecting the forearm and the upper arm with two rotational degrees of freedom; an elbow drive main link; an elbow drive auxiliary link; a forearm-side main link attaching unit attached with one end of the elbow drive main link with two rotational degrees of freedom, and provided in the forearm; an elbow-drive-main-link-side auxiliary link attaching unit attached with one end of the elbow drive auxiliary link with two rotational degrees of freedom, and provided on the elbow drive main link; and two linear actuators for moving two upper-arm-side link attaching units each attached with the other end of either the elbow drive main link or the elbow drive auxiliary link with two rotational degrees of freedom, and provided so as to be movable along the upper arm.
US12064869B2
Devices, systems and methods of controlling movement of a host mechanical system using inertial forces imparted by an augmentable or morphable appendage. Such appendages are attached to the host mechanical system such that augmentation or morphing of the appendage to move a mass of the appendage from an extended to a retracted configuration imparts inertial forces to the supporting structure. Augmentation/morphing is controlled and coordinated such that imparted inertial forces facilitate a desired movement of the mechanical system. The imparted forces can include translation forces and/or rotational forces along one or more axes. The augmentation or morphing of the appendage can be performed concurrently with separately controlled coordinated movement of the appendage to facilitate a desired movement of the mechanical system. Such appendages can include, but are not limited to, telescoping and/or folding designs.
US12064855B2
A system, an electrical combination and a method for powering a load device. The combination may include a burst circuit configured to provide power to the load device to perform a burst operation, the burst circuit including a supercapacitor, a first switch between a power source and the supercapacitor and operable to control whether power is provided from the power source to charge the supercapacitor, and a second switch between the supercapacitor and the load device and operable to control whether power is provided from the supercapacitor to the load device; and an electronic processor configured to control the first switch and the second switch based at least in part on a voltage of the supercapacitor.
US12064854B2
A nailing unit includes a nail box, a nail magazine, a nail pushing block, a tail buckle switch, a nail limiting block fit together with a nail guiding plate through slits is provided. The nail magazine includes a heat-treated guide rail assembly mounted with a nail splitting plate at the end near the nail guiding plate. The nail pushing block connected to a spring is formed with three nail pushing feet adapted to a first, second, and third gaps. The nail guiding plate includes two connecting wings and forms a low-lying guide plate therebetween. Each angle between the guide plate and each connecting wing is respectively fixedly provided with a positioning step along the longitudinal direction.
US12064852B2
An abrasive article including a bonded abrasive having a body of a diameter of at least 260 mm and a volume of at least 20 cubic centimeters, the body also having a bond material including an inorganic material, abrasive particles having an abrasive particle size of at least 40 microns contained in the bond material, and a certain Homogeneity Factor.
US12064851B2
An abrasive article including a bonded abrasive body having a certain Homogeneity Factor and a multimodal distribution of abrasive particle sizes where the particles size of a first mode is no greater than 80% of a particle size of a second mode. The bonded body can also have a consistent hardness throughout the body.
US12064848B2
An ice blade measuring system comprises a holder for holding an ice blade in a measurement position, and a non-contact measuring device operationally positioned relative to the holder to measure at least a three-dimensional (3D) shape of an ice contacting surface of the ice blade held in the holder. The non-contact measuring device is configured to create a dataset which corresponds to the measured 3D shape. The system further comprises a data storage means operatively connected to the non-contact measuring device to record the measured dataset.
US12064845B2
CMP polishing pads or layers made from a polyurethane reaction product of a reaction mixture comprising (i) a liquid aromatic isocyanate component comprising one or more aromatic diisocyanates or a linear aromatic isocyanate-terminated urethane prepolymer, and (ii) a liquid polyol component comprising a) one or more polymeric polyols, b) from 12 to 40 wt. %, based on the total weight of the liquid polyol component, of a curative mixture of one or more small chain difunctional polyols having from 2 to 9 carbon atoms, a liquid aromatic diamine, wherein the mole ratio of liquid aromatic diamine to the total moles of small chain difunctional polyols and liquid aromatic diamine ranges from 15:85 to 40:60, wherein, the reaction mixture comprises 48 to 68 wt. % hard segment materials.
US12064838B2
A device for holding a stud with a radially flange and an axial shank. The holding device comprising a collet including a clamping section and a hollow insertion section defining an insertion axis such that the stud can be inserted via the insertion section to the clamping section. The holding device further comprising a tubular securing sleeve located radially inward of and concentric with the insertion section. A clearance is defined between a bottom end of the securing sleeve and a top end of the clamping section and is adapted to releasably receive the stud flange. A first air flow channel in a first direction is adapted to blow feed the stud into the collet; and a second airflow channel oriented in a second different direction is adapted to maintain the stud shank substantially in line with the insertion axis.
US12064835B2
Operating panel (1) for a welding device (SG) comprising a welding parameter display unit (2) for displaying welding parameters, and comprising at least one operating element (3) which can be actuated manually by a user, wherein the operating panel (1) can be switched between a welding parameter selection mode and a welding parameter editing mode by actuating the operating element (3), wherein in the welding parameter selection mode one of the welding parameters of the welding parameter display unit (2) can be selected by rotating the operating element (3), and wherein in the welding parameter editing mode a parameter value of a selected welding parameter of the welding parameter display unit (2) can be set by rotating the operating element (3).
US12064831B2
A joining system (100) of the present invention is for joining a joining target (W) including first, second, and third members (W1), (W2), (W3), and includes a welder (101), a friction stir welding machine (102), and a controller (110) that: (A) causes the welder (101) to weld the second and third members (W2), (W3); (B), after (A), causes the joining target (W) to be placed at the friction stir welding machine (102) so that the first member (W1) is opposed to a distal end of a tool (10); and (C), after (B), controls a linear motion driver (7) and a rotation driver (8) so as to, while pressing the distal end of the tool (10) to the joining target (W), rotate the tool (10) around an axis, so that the softened second and third members (W2), (W3) intrude into the softened first member (W1), thus joining the joining target (W).
US12064830B2
A perforation system is disclosed that utilizes an optical beamlet generator and a scanner (e.g., at least two moveable mirrors). The optical beamlet generator may be a lenslet array or a diffractive optical element. The optical beamlet generator outputs a plurality of beamlets from a single input laser beam. These beamlets are moved in at least two dimensions relative to a surface of a substrate to form perforations in the substrate.
US12064824B1
A material handling apparatus and a process for feed indexing. The process for feed indexing and processing of elongated stock includes the steps of gripping and moving an elongated stock with a first shuttle vise at a desired travel velocity toward a first final position. An open second vise accelerates from a second home start position until reaching the desired travel velocity. The second vise grips and moves the stock once the second vise is at the desired travel velocity while the first vise is gripping the stock. The first vise releases the stock and recycles to a first home position while the second vise moves the stock.
US12064821B2
A cutting insert for a rotary cutting tool has a second surface that includes a second seating surface having a shape of a flat surface. The first cutting edge has a first main cutting edge portion and a first sub cutting edge portion. The second cutting edge has a second main cutting edge portion and a second sub cutting edge portion. When viewed in a direction from the first surface toward the second surface, at least a portion of the second sub cutting edge portion is located outside the first main cutting edge portion, and at least a portion of the first sub cutting edge portion is located outside the second main cutting edge portion. When viewed in the direction from the first surface toward the second surface, each of the first sub cutting edge portion and the second sub cutting edge portion has a shape of a curved line.
US12064818B2
In order to provide an adjustment device (1), which can be driven in rotation about a longitudinal axis (2), for adjusting a cutting tool, comprising a cutting tool carrier element (3) mounted for carrying out an adjusting movement (6), a drive unit (13, 13b) for driving the cutting tool carrier element (3) and a circuit carrier element (200), which has a surface region facing the drive unit (13, 13b), for forming at least one electronic control circuit (500, 510, 520, 530) provided for controlling the drive unit (13, 13b), 13b), which allows an improved compact design so that instabilities of the main drive element, in particular a tool spindle, are better avoided and the machining space is better utilised, it is proposed that two surface points (600, 610) of the surface area (220) can be connected outside the circuit carrier element (200) by a connecting straight line (620), the end points of which are the surface points (600, 610).
US12064814B2
Provided is a method of producing a composite having high strength and high thermal conductivity. The method includes: an alloy preparation step including preparing an alloy which is a solid solution containing α-Fe as a solvent and at least one type of α-phase stabilizing element as a solute; a first mixing step including mixing at least one type of α-phase stabilizing element in powder form and SiC to prepare a first mixture; a second mixing step including mixing the alloy and the first mixture to prepare a second mixture; and a sintering step including sintering the second mixture.
US12064804B2
A machine handling device for handling a sheet-metal workpiece includes a control device that comprises two sensing elements, and a testing station that includes a testing device configured to test functional capability of the control device. The testing device includes a respective electrically conductive testing-contact body for each of the two sensing elements of the control device. The testing station further includes a testing-evaluation device configured to apply a testing voltage between the respective sensing element and the corresponding testing-contact body. The testing-evaluation device includes a testing-measuring unit and a testing-comparing unit. The testing-measuring unit is configured to measure an actual value of a contact-dependent electrical variable that is dependent on a state of an electrically conducting contact between the sensing element and the testing-contact body. The testing-comparing unit is configured to compare the actual value of the contact-dependent electrical variable with a reference value of the contact-dependent electrical variable.
US12064798B2
A method disclosed herewith is a method for producing a first seamless metal tube with a first wall thickness and a second seamless metal tube with a second wall thickness by using a three-roll-type inclined rolling mill, and the method includes a first inclination rolling step (#5), a setting changing step (#10), and a second inclination rolling step (#15). At the first inclination rolling step, a first workpiece is rolled by the inclined rolling mill. At the setting changing step, a setup condition of the inclined rolling mill is changed in a manner (a) or (b) as described below. At the second inclined rolling step, a second workpiece is rolled by the inclined rolling mill under the changed condition. (a) When the second wall thickness is smaller than the first wall thickness, the cross angle of each of the inclined rolls is made greater than the cross angle set for the first inclination rolling step. (b) When the second wall thickness is larger than the first wall thickness, the cross angle of each of the inclined rolls is made smaller than the cross angle set for the first inclination rolling step.
US12064790B2
A control console for a powered surgical tool. The console includes a transformer that supplies the drive signal to the surgical tool. A linear amplifier with active resistors selectively ties the ends of the transformer primary winding between ground and the open circuit state. Feedback voltages from the transformer windings regulate the resistances of the active resistors.
US12064788B2
The present invention related to a method of manufacturing of a contamination control sheet, the method comprising the steps of: passing a web of support material from a supply roller to a coating station, and applying a coating of polymeric material to one surface of the support material; passing the coated support material through an oven to cure the polymeric material; and passing the coated support material around a cooling roller to a take up roller; characterised in that a nip roller is provided adjacent to the cooling roller so that the coated surface of the support material is pressed onto the cooling roller by the nip roller, and further characterised in that the cooling roller has a surface roughness of 0.2 to 1 Ra.
US12064771B2
The disclosure provides a device and method for rapidly changing temperatures of a sample. An example of the device include: a first plate; a second plate; and a heating/cooling layer disposed on either the first or second plate. The first plate and the second plate face each other and are configured to receive a fluid sample sandwiched therebetween. The method includes depositing the fluid sample on one or both of the two plates, pressing the plates to form a thin layer of the sample, and changing and/or maintaining the temperature of the sample. The device or method can be used in, for example, PCR.
US12064768B2
The technology provides arrays of microwells with reversible shape for culture, analysis, and recovery of individual cells or groups of cells. The microwells are reversibly formed by vacuum-induced deflection of an elastomeric membrane into an array of microwell molds formed in a microwell substrate. The shape of each microwell or groups of microwells can be selectively altered by applying or releasing vacuum to individual microwells. The devices, systems, and methods utilizing the technology enable collection of individual cells for further study or therapeutic use without the need for micromanipulation.
US12064767B2
To enable taking in a biological sample at a position a predetermined distance away from an EWOD electrode, a biochemical cartridge, including a droplet passage on which a plurality of EWOD electrodes is arranged along a direction in which a sample droplet that is a droplet including a biological sample is transported, the plurality of EWOD electrodes configured to transport the sample droplet, and a sample take-in unit having a predetermined distance from an EWOD electrode at a tail end of the droplet passage, the sample take-in unit being provided at a position at which the biological sample in the sample droplet is taken in. When the biological sample is taken in, the sample take-in unit is located at a position lower than the droplet passage having the EWOD electrode at the tail end, and an area between the droplet passage and the sample take-in unit is smoothly connected.
US12064764B2
A heater for a microfluidic test card is disclosed herein. In a general example embodiment, a test card for analyzing a fluid sample includes at least one substrate layer including a microchannel extending through at least a portion of one of the substrate layers, and a printed substrate layer that is bonded to or printed on one substrate layer of the at least one substrate layer. The printed substrate layer includes a heater printed on the printed substrate layer so as to align with at least a portion of the microchannel. The heater includes two electrodes aligned on opposite sides of the microchannel, and a plurality of heater bars electrically connecting the two electrodes. The plurality of heater bars includes a central heater bar disposed between outer heater bars.
US12064741B2
Polymers synthesized by solid-phase synthesis are selectively released from a solid support by reversing the bias of spatially addressable electrodes. Change in the current and voltage direction at one or more of the spatially addressable electrodes changes the ionic environment which triggers cleavage of linkers that leads to release of the attached polymers. The spatially addressable electrodes may be implemented as CMOS inverters embedded in an integrated circuit (IC). The IC may contain an array of many thousands of spatially addressable electrodes. Control circuity may independently reverse the bias on any of the individual electrodes in the array. This provides fine-grained control of which polymers are released from the solid support. Examples of polymers that may be synthesized on this type of array include oligonucleotides and peptides.
US12064738B2
A static mixer for mixing together at least two components includes an injection molded or dimensionally stable mixer housing, a mixing inset arranged at least partly in the mixer housing, the mixing inset including a plurality of mixing elements which are connected by at least one peripheral web, and a sealing element. A passage between the mixer housing and the at least one peripheral web is blocked by the sealing element, and the sealing element is located in a middle section of a set of mixing elements.
US12064737B2
A blending system includes a blender base and a container. The blender base includes a housing that houses a motor. The container is attachable to the blender base. The blending system includes a user device that communicates with the blender base. The user device may communicate with a remote computing device. The user device generates instructions and recipes for the blender base.
US12064734B2
Provided is an ultra-dispersion mixer, for stirring a mixed material for producing a high-quality slurry for an electrode of a secondary battery within a short time by disposing a low-speed blade and a high-speed blade for stirring a mixed material in a chamber so as to easily and effectively disperse elements of the slurry of a secondary battery, supplied to a mixer during a procedure of preparing the slurry of a secondary battery produced by performing mixing procedures multiple times, and disposing blade parts having a plurality of stirring characteristics so as to realize various stirring characteristics in the mixed material on the high-speed blade to increase the dispersion of the mixed material while the mixed material circulates in a high-shear disperser of the chamber and to simultaneously increase the temperature of a supplied solution at the beginning of stirring of the mixed material in the chamber.
US12064730B2
Articles with covalently attached thiocarbonylthio-containing groups are provided. More specifically, the articles include a solid polymeric substrate with a plurality of thiocarbonylthio-containing groups covalently attached directly to a carbon atom in a polymeric backbone of the solid polymeric substrate. Methods of making the articles with covalently attached thiocarbonylthio-containing are provided. Additionally, methods of using these articles to generate further articles with covalently attached polymeric chains are provided.
US12064728B2
An electrodeionization filter includes: a housing having a water inlet and a water outlet; a first electrode installed inside the housing in a spiral shape; a second electrode installed inside the housing in a spiral shape so as to be spaced apart from the first electrode; and an ion exchange module installed between the first electrode and the second electrode for adsorbing or desorbing ionic substances contained in water introduced by an application of electricity. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode has a structure in which a center portion thereof is denser than a peripheral region thereof. Accordingly, the lifespan of the electrodes of the electrodeionization filter can be increased, and the assembly of the electrodes and related parts can be easily facilitated.
US12064714B1
Sand and liquid that are stored within a hopper are pulled together along a trough by a set of discs that are attached to and rotate about a shaft. The trough is configured to allow the liquid to flow downwards as the sand is compacted and elevated. The discs conform to a part of the surface of the trough with enough space to allow the liquid to flow around it. This allows dry sand to exit the trough and retains the liquid in the hopper. The discs are rotated on the shaft by a belt and motor.
US12064712B2
Apparatus for treating water has a container having a clarification zone, a water entry arrangement for flowing water into the clarification zone, and water exit units mounted to the container for at least partial immersion in the water in the clarification zone. Each water exit unit has a transfer channel for transferring a flow of clarified water from a layer of the water to a predetermined depth in the clarification zone and to direct the received clarified water to a water exit arrangement. A height adjustment mechanism is used for differentially adjusting the heights of the water exit units and their transfer channels relative to the container so as to compensate for any angular tilt of the container owing to the container being deployed on sloping ground.
US12064707B2
A three-dimensional display system includes a first display and a second display spaced apart from the first display having one or more light sources configured to emit light and to illuminate the first display, where the first display is at least partially transparent such that the second display is visible through the first display. The three-dimensional display system includes a special effect system disposed at least in part between the first display and the second display and is configured to be activated to cause a special effect to be visible through the first display. The three-dimensional display system includes a controller communicatively coupled to the first display, the second display, and the special effect system.
US12064697B2
A gamified application is provided for users to feed animated virtual characters with images of real-world food items. The images fed to the virtual characters are to be uploaded to a data store in a cloud environment, for use in training a custom machine learning model. A server in the cloud environment receives a photo of a food item fed to a virtual character in an augmented reality environment in the gamified application executing on a user device, invokes the custom machine learning model to generate classification information for the photo, sends the classification information to the user device for verification by a user, and stores the verified information to the data store used for periodically training the machine learning model. Over time, the data store would include a large volume of food images with label data verified by a large number of users.
US12064694B2
A player may send virtual characters to travel to remote locations in a parallel-reality game. The remote locations are virtual locations corresponding to real-world locations other than where the player is located. The player can therefore send a virtual character to a virtual location without traveling to the corresponding real-world location themselves. A travel time and a path the character will travel along to reach the remote location is determined. Once the virtual character has reached the remote location, it stays there for a duration of time. Client devices of players near the remote location may display a visual representation of the virtual character. The virtual character may collect virtual items and interact with other players and return to the player with any virtual items it has collected or been given.
US12064692B2
This application provides an information processing method and apparatus in a virtual scene, a device, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer program product. The method includes displaying a skill control of a target skill corresponding to a virtual object controlled by the electronic device in a display interface of a virtual scene; when the skill control is in a cooldown state, receiving a transmission instruction of skill cooldown prompt information triggered from the skill control, the transmission instruction being associated with a target virtual object in the virtual scene; transmitting the skill cooldown prompt information of the skill control to the target virtual object in the virtual scene in response to the transmission instruction; and displaying the skill cooldown prompt information prompting a cooldown time of the skill control.
US12064686B2
An information processing system comprises a player terminal and a server, wherein the player terminal is configured to execute: transmission processing for transmitting action identification information corresponding to a selected action to the server on the basis of an input of a selecting operation for selecting one of a plurality of actions, the server is configured to execute: update processing for updating a parameter at least on the basis of the received action identification information; and setting rendering information at least on the basis of the received action identification information, the player terminal is further configured to execute: displaying an action image on a display on the basis of the received rendering information; and setting a terminal-side wait period on the basis of an input of a specific operation, and the player terminal does not execute the transmission processing during the terminal-side wait period.
US12064670B2
Embodiments of golf club heads and methods to manufacture golf club heads are generally described herein. In one example, a method of manufacturing a golf club head may include providing a golf club head having a face portion. The method may include determining a reference characteristic time value at a reference location on the face portion, determining a measured characteristic time value at each of a plurality of locations on the face portion, determining a differential characteristic time value at each of the plurality of locations, and altering a face thickness at a location where the differential characteristic time value is nonzero. Other examples and embodiments may be described and claimed.
US12064665B2
A method and an electronic apparatus is provided. A first UI indicating a start of an activity is displayed when first data indicating that the activity occurs is received from a first sensor. Information is displayed about a preset time or a preset intensity required for the activity to be converted into exercise. The preset time or the preset intensity is set based on user information related to a characteristic of a user. It is detected that the activity is maintained for at least one of the preset time or at the preset intensity. In response to the detecting that the activity is maintained, a second UI is displayed indicating a start of an exercise. A sensor is activated based on the start of the exercise and exercise history of the user. A function is executed for measuring exercise information by using second data received from the activated sensor.
US12064651B2
A filter mask for filtering air inhaled and exhaled from the mouth and nostrils while providing a secure fit and comfort to the wearer is provided. The filter mask has upper and lower edges which are provided with at least one malleable stiffener for conforming to the shape of the wearer's nose and cheek area and/or the lower jaw and chin area. In some embodiments, the filter masks further comprises a malleable stiffening member configured to conform the filter material to at least a chin portion and a jaw portion of the face. In some embodiments, the malleable stiffener can have a bend portion, which allows the wearer of the mask to know which part, center and side of the mask is to be properly placed on the nose and cheek area. The masks provide excellent filtration and provide a secure and comfortable fit to the wearer.
US12064646B2
Systems and method for automatically generating structures, such as target volumes, in a treatment image using structure-guided deformation to propagate the structures from a planning image onto the subsequently acquired treatment image.
US12064633B2
Techniques are disclosed for using a cardiac signal sensed via a plurality of electrodes disposed on one or more leads implanted within an epidural space of a patient to control spinal cord stimulation (SCS) therapy. In one example, an implantable medical device (IMD) senses an electrical signal via a plurality of electrodes disposed on one or more leads implanted within an epidural space of a patient. Processing circuitry determines, from the electrical signal, one or more cardiac features indicative of activity of a heart of the patient. The processing circuitry controls, based on the one or more cardiac features, delivery of SCS therapy to the patient.
US12064628B2
Apparatuses and methods for treating neurological disorders by electro-stimulation. The apparatus may include a neural input signal acquisition module having a front-end block configured to amplify the potential difference of its input signals (V1a, V2a) and to filter a stimulus artifact and may include a multi-stage fully-differential switched capacitor circuit (e.g., an integrated circuit) configured for discrete-time signal processing.
US12064627B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for targeted nerve stimulation. In particular, the present disclosure provides systems and methods for determining the location of electrode placement providing the most therapeutic benefit for a particular subject. The various embodiments disclosed herein include methods for identifying a target nerve having the strongest representation and/or the strongest subject perception associated with a peripheral nerve in a patient-specific manner.
US12064620B2
Applying therapeutic neural stimuli involves monitoring for at least one of sensory input and movement of a user. In response to detection of sensory input or user movement, an increased stimulus dosage is delivered within a period of time corresponding to a duration of time for which the detected sensory input or user movement gives rise to masking, the increased stimulus dosage being configured to give rise to increased neural recruitment.
US12064610B2
A skin treatment device using both a radiofrequency and medication and including tightening members, includes a skin expansion module configured to stretch a region of the skin into which first needles are inserted to be tightened, the skin expansion module including a guide body protruding outward from a lower end of a handpiece main body and a pair of tightening members hinge-coupled to hinge shafts provided on a left side and a right side of the guide body to be rotatable, wherein lower ends of the pair of tightening members are spread outward while pressurizing the skin in contact with the skin when the handpiece main body is moved downward.
US12064605B2
A syringe for medical use having a barrel with a longitudinally extending tubular fluid chamber and at least one longitudinally extending, outwardly facing, substantially flat indicia display surface disposed proximally to the fluid chamber, a plunger slidably inserted into the fluid chamber, a needle projecting forwardly from the barrel in fluid communication with the fluid chamber; and a fixed length needle safety device having an activation handle slidably engaging the barrel and a forwardly projecting needle tip shield encircling the needle that moves forwardly to cover a tip end of the needle when the activation handle is moved forwardly following use of the syringe.
US12064589B2
Apparatus, system and method for heating fluid from a plurality of fluid sources. A heating chamber top portion includes a plurality of fluid inlet tubes configured to pass fluid from the plurality of fluid sources. A heating chamber may be coupled to the heating chamber top portion, the heating chamber collectively receives at least some of the fluid from the plurality of fluid sources. At least one heating element configured within the heating chamber heats the received fluid from the plurality of fluid sources. An agitator mixes the received fluid from the plurality of fluid sources in the heating chamber, wherein the agitator is configured to mix the received fluid from the plurality of fluid sources by rotationally turning within the heating chamber.
US12064587B2
A medical female connector (10) for controlling a fluid flow is disclosed, as well as a method for its manufacturing, and medical devices including such a female connector. A tubular plunger (40) and a flexible valve member (60) are inserted into a housing (20). A distal end (42) of the plunger (40) is located at a distance proximally from the distal end (22) of the housing (20). In a flow stop configuration, the flexible valve member (60) seals a flow path (44) through the tubular plunger (40). In a flow configuration, the valve member (60) is compressed by a male connector (90) and deformed by the plunger (40) to allow a fluid flow through the plunger (40). A frusto-conical female sealing surface (24) is arranged to form a seal with the male connector (90). An entrance opening (25) of the housing (20) presents a diameter equal to or larger than the maximum diameter (d1) of the female sealing surface (24).
US12064585B2
The present disclosure relates to a connector for an infusion set. The connector comprises a body and at least one arm connected to the body which is configured to couple with a base of an infusion set; wherein the body has a first portion and a second portion which are configured to be removably and replaceably coupled together; and wherein each portion has a fluid delivery conduit, the conduits being configured to allow fluidic communication of the connector with at least two independent fluid sources. Also disclosed is an infusion set.
US12064584B1
Some embodiments are directed to a connector for connection with a fluid transfer device, including an outer body having a longitudinal axis; and a luer lock connection port positioned within the outer body and configured to be coupled with an external port of said fluid transfer device. The luer lock connection port can be rotatable about the longitudinal axis at least in one of a clockwise direction and a counter-clockwise direction at least prior to initiation of coupling thereof with the external port. The outer body can be structured, and the luer lock connection port is positioned therewithin, such that to prevent an operator to access, through the outer body, directly by fingertips an exterior of the luer lock connection port after the luer lock connection port has been coupled with the external port.
US12064579B2
Apparatus and a method for the provision of TNP therapy to a wound are described, the apparatus comprising: a sealing membrane (504) for covering a wound to form a wound cavity (500); one end of an aspirant conduit (522) operably associated with the wound cavity, vacuum means (524) provided at a distal end of the aspirant conduit for applying a vacuum to the wound cavity; and, air bleed means (510) in fluid communication with the wound cavity. Various embodiments of air bleed port members are also described.
US12064568B2
The present invention relates to a catheter 10. The catheter 10 includes a catheter tube 12 having a tip end 13 and a distal end 14, with the distal end 14 being coupled to or forming at least part of a funnel 16 for discharging fluid from within the catheter tube 12. A sleeve 18 is provided about the catheter tube 12 which is coupled at an end thereof to the funnel 16 and extends towards the tip end 13 of the catheter tube 12. The catheter 10 additionally includes a wetting mechanism 20 which is integrally formed with the funnel 16 and includes a holding chamber 22 and a fluid outlet 26 operable to allow fluid 24 from within the holding chamber 22 to be released within the sleeve 18 for wetting an outer surface of the catheter tube 12.
US12064564B2
A method of providing repetitive motion therapy comprising providing access to audio content; selecting audio content for delivery to a patient; performing an analysis on the selected audio content, the analysis identifying audio features of the selected audio content, and extracting rhythmic and structural features of the selected audio content; performing an entrainment suitability analysis on the selected audio content; generating entrainment assistance cue(s) to the selected audio content, the assistance cue(s) including a sound added to the audio content; applying the assistance cues to the audio content simultaneously with playing the selected audio content; evaluating a therapeutic effect on the patient, wherein the selected audio content continues to play when a therapeutic threshold is detected, and a second audio content is selected for delivery to the patient when a therapeutic threshold is not detected.
US12064563B2
A therapy method (for a patient having post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)) includes: providing an exposure event, to the patient, which is related to a traumatic event that contributed to the PTSD; and, during a therapy session which includes the exposure event, applying vagus nerve stimulation (VNS). A therapy method (for a patient having a given disorder, e.g., a phobia disorder or an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) or an addiction disorder) includes: providing a therapy event (e.g., an extinction event for a phobia disorder), to the patient, which is related to one or more things that contributed to the given disorder; and during a therapy session which includes the therapy event, applying VNS.
US12064562B2
The systems, devices, and methods described herein relate to providing breathing gas to a patient using a base unit and an auxiliary unit configured to be removably disposed on or at least partially in the base unit. The base unit has several couplings for improved control and sensing of the auxiliary unit and its components, wherein the couplings are configured to be non-contact with the corresponding components of the auxiliary unit and/or otherwise configured to minimize operational defects or improve efficiency. Non-contact couplings include induction heating, capacitive level sensing, a magnetically coupled rotor pump, RFID tag and reader, and Hall effect sensing. The breathing gas can be provided at high velocities by setting breathing gas flowrates based on dimensions of a nasal cannula used to direct the breathing gas into a patient's nares.
US12064561B2
A patient interface for delivery of a supply of pressurised air or breathable gas to an entrance of a patient's airways comprising: a cushion member that includes a retaining structure and a seal-forming structure permanently connected to the retaining structure; a frame member attachable to the retaining structure; and a positioning and stabilising structure attachable to the frame member.
US12064560B2
Patient interfaces for respiratory therapy in the form of nasal interfaces or nasal masks include features that enhance or provide lateral stability of the interface. At least some of the embodiments provide multiple facial contact points or areas located in the general areas of the user's cheeks and/or upper lip. Some embodiments of the nasal interfaces provide advantageous sealing characteristics. The nasal interfaces may provide a controlled expiratory flow to reduce noise. Some embodiments include nasal pillows instead of or in addition to nasal prongs. The nasal pillows can have exhaust vents or can change in length in response to a pressure level within the nasal pillow.
US12064557B2
A patient interface for sealed delivery of a flow of air at a continuously positive pressure with respect to ambient air pressure to an entrance to the patient's airways including at least entrance of a patient's nares to ameliorate sleep disordered breathing may include a seal-forming structure comprising a foam undercushion and a textile membrane for contact with the patient's face; a positioning and stabilising structure to maintain the seal-forming structure in sealing contact with an area surrounding an entrance to the patient's airways while maintaining a therapeutic pressure at the entrance to the patient's airways; and a plenum chamber pressurised at a pressure above ambient pressure in use.
US12064548B2
A dynamic output power management unit for a heating circuit of an electronic smoking device includes a heating element connected to a power source via a first switching element. The unit has at least one voltage detection device to detect voltage values at various points of the heating circuit. A controller is configured to derive a resistance of the heating element, and estimate a discharge time or a power consumption value of the power source such that an energy converted in a period of time is substantially identical to a predetermined energy conversion value for a same period of time.
US12064542B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for performing an automated peritoneal dialysis treatment on a patient, the apparatus comprising: a first dialysis fluid port for receiving a first dialysis fluid having a first composition, which is determined by the concentrations of a set of first dialysis fluid constituents; a dialysis fluid line system connecting the first dialysis fluid port to a patient terminal; at least one dialysis fluid pump acting on the dialysis fluid line system and configured to convey the first dialysis fluid from the first dialysis fluid port to the patient terminal; and a control unit operably connected to the at least one pump; wherein the apparatus further comprises a second dialysis fluid port for receiving a second dialysis fluid having a second composition, which is determined by the concentrations of a set of second dialysis fluid constituents. The invention further relates to a system for automated peritoneal dialysis treatment and a data carrier comprising controlling software for such apparatus or system.
US12064537B2
Provided are methods for preparing pathogen-inactivated platelet compositions, as well as processing sets and compositions related thereto.
US12064535B2
A medical system including a tube defining a lumen, a porous body connected to a distal end of the tube to be advanced to a target site within a subject. The porous body defines a plurality of openings, the plurality of openings are in fluid connection with the lumen, the porous body includes a first material and a second material, and the second material elutes from the porous body in the subject.
US12064514B2
The present invention is directed to peptisomes, including nanopeptisomes, which have a perfluorocarbon liquid core containing a perfluorocarbon liquid and a cargo, such as a therapeutically active agent, dispersed in the perfluorocarbon. liquid, and a plurality of amphiphilic peptide molecules surrounding the perfluorocarbon liquid core, wherein the amphiphilic peptide is represented by Formula (I) HB-CL-HP wherein HB is a fluorinated hydrophobic block, such as a fluorinated hydrophobic amino acid sequence, CL is a cross-linking motif, and HP is a hydrophilic amino acid sequence. The present invention is also directed to methods of use of the amphiphilic peptides and peptisomes, such as nanopeptisomes, to deliver a cargo, such as a therapeutically active agent, to a cell, Q wherein the cell may be in vitro, ex vivo, or in vivo.
US12064504B2
The present disclosure relates to stable cosmetic compositions containing high amounts of acetyl trifluoromethylphenyl valylglycine. The cosmetic compositions further include high amounts of hydroxypropyl tetrahydropyrantriol, taurate copolymers, fatty alcohols, fatty compounds (other than the fatty alcohols), nonionic emulsifiers, and water. Methods for stabilizing cosmetic compositions containing high amounts of acetyl trifluoromethylphenyl valylglycine and methods for treating the skin with the cosmetic compositions is also described.
US12064495B2
An oral hygiene composition includes a mixture of: (i) a carrier liquid; and (ii) a water-insoluble hydratable polymer fibers forming an entangled three-dimensional network of said water-insoluble hydratable polymer fibers in said carrier; wherein: said carrier liquid comprises one or more humectant in a concentration of total humectant in excess of 5 wt. % based on the weight of the composition; said composition has an elastic modulus G′ and a loss modulus G″, and said elastic modulus G′ is larger that said loss modulus G″; and said water-insoluble hydratable polymer fibers have a diameter of about 10 to about 20,000 nm and a length of at least 100 nm.
US12064488B2
The present invention provides methods of using nitroxide spin-labeled amyloid beta-binding compounds to image amyloid. The present invention also provides nitroxide spin-labeled amyloid beta-binding compounds.
US12064479B2
The present disclosure provides for improved compositions of ionizable lipid nanoparticles for the delivery of therapeutic nucleic acids to cells. Anionic phospholipids, including phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylglycerol are included in the lipid nanoparticles to increase the transfection efficiency in human dendritic cells. The further incorporation of mono-unsaturated alkyl chain analogs in dimethylaminopropyl-dioxolane or heterocyclic ketal ionizable lipids in the formulation demonstrated high levels of transfection in human dendritic cells, compared to other ionizable lipids in the same family, and demonstrated good stability to oxidative damage. Finally, the use of an ammonium salt of phosphatidylserine allows for the efficient production of PS-targeted LNPs.
US12064473B2
Disclosed herein are nucleic acid molecules comprising one or more nucleic acid sequences that encode synthetic consensus Survivin antigens. Vectors, compositions, and vaccines comprising one or more nucleic acid sequences that encode synthetic consensus Survivin antigens are disclosed. Methods of treating a subject with a Survivin-expressing tumor and methods of preventing a Survivin-expressing tumor are disclosed. Synthetic consensus Survivin antigens are disclosed.
US12064470B2
The present invention relates to the activation of FGF10 signaling pathway for use in the treatment of a heart disease.
US12064467B2
The present disclosure generally relates to systems and methods for delivering humanin and/or other peptides to a subject. In some cases, these may be used for treating or preventing aging skin, or for other diseases. Non-limiting examples of other peptides include mitochondrial-derived peptides such as HNG or MOTS-c. In addition, certain embodiments are generally directed to treatments that can be delivered using topical compositions applied to the skin. For example, in some cases, the composition includes lecithin and/or other components that may facilitate delivery through the skin. Further, certain embodiments may include active ingredients such as tributyrin or 2,6-dimethyl-L-tyrosine, which may interact with humanin or other peptides. Compositions such as these may be used in certain embodiments, for example, to reduce inflammation within the skin, or as an anti-aging treatment, etc. Other aspects are generally directed to methods of making or using such compositions, methods of promoting such compositions, kits including such compositions, or the like.
