US12261049B2
Described herein is a method for selectively cleaning and/or etching a sample. The method includes selectively forming a film in a trench of a substrate such that the trench may be selectively etched. A polymer film is deposited on the bottom surface of the trench without being deposited on the side wall. A second film is selectively formed in the trench without forming the second film on the polymer film. The polymer is then removed from the bottom surface of the trench and then etching is performed on the bottom surface of the trench using an etch chemistry, wherein the second film protects the side wall from being etched.
US12261046B1
Various methods for manufacturing semiconductor structures are provided. An embodiment method includes forming a first patterned hard mask and epitaxial layer on a semiconductor substrate, and forming a first doped region in the epitaxial layer by performing a first implantation through the first patterned hard mask. A second doped region is formed in the epitaxial layer by performing a second implantation through the first patterned hard mask, with the first doped region at least partially overlapping the second doped region. A second patterned hard mask is formed, which surrounds the first patterned hard mask and covers at least a portion of the first doped region. A third doped region is formed in the epitaxial layer by performing a third implantation through the first patterned hard mask and the second patterned hard mask.
US12261036B2
A method includes placing a wafer into a process chamber, and depositing a silicon nitride layer on a base layer of the wafer. The process of depositing the silicon nitride layer includes introducing a silicon-containing precursor into the process chamber, purging the silicon-containing precursor from the process chamber, introducing hydrogen radicals into the process chamber, purging the hydrogen radicals from the process chamber; introducing a nitrogen-containing precursor into the process chamber, and purging the nitrogen-containing precursor from the process chamber.
US12261029B2
A direct drive system for providing RF power to a component of a substrate processing system includes a direct drive circuit including a switch and configured to supply RF power to the component. A switch protection module is configured to monitor a load current and a load voltage in a processing chamber, calculate load resistance based on the load current and the load voltage, compare the load resistance to a first predetermined load resistance, and adjust at least one of an RF power limit and an RF current limit of the direct drive circuit based on the comparison.
US12261025B2
A plasma processing apparatus includes: a shower head provided above a substrate supporter; a gas supply pipe extending vertically above a chamber to be connected to an upper center of the shower head; an introducer through which the gas supply pipe passes and into which an electromagnetic wave of a VHF or higher is introduced to activate a gas; and an electromagnetic-wave supply path connected to the gas supply pipe. The introducer has a first dissociation space arranged upstream of the shower head and to which a first gas is supplied. The chamber has a second dissociation space between the substrate supporter and the shower head. The first gas dissociated in the first dissociation space and a second gas from the gas supply pipe are joined in the second dissociation space where they are dissociated by a radio-frequency wave having a frequency lower than that of the electromagnetic wave.
US12261023B2
The embodiments disclosed herein are directed to systems, methods, and devices for processing a material using a microwave plasma apparatus with an interior liner. In some embodiments, the liner comprises a reduction resistant material layer in direct contact with a hydrogen-containing plasma of a plasma processing apparatus. In some embodiments, the liner may comprise a sleeve disposed between a plasma and one or more concentric tubes of a plasma processing apparatus. In some embodiments, the liner may comprise a coating of material applied to the one or more concentric tubes. In some embodiments, the liner may comprise a flexible ceramic material, such as a ceramic ribbon that is coiled or wrapped in a helix shape spiraling around the interior of the one or more concentric tubes.
US12261021B2
A substrate treatment apparatus including a chamber; a lower electrode in the chamber, wherein the substrate is on the lower electrode; an upper electrode in the chamber, and above the lower electrode; a pulse signal generator configured to generate a pulse signal; and a bias power supply configured to generate bias power having a pulsed non-sinusoidal waveform using the pulse signal, and supply the generated bias power to the lower electrode, wherein the bias power supply includes a DC power generator configured to receive the pulse signal and generate a direct-current (DC) voltage subjected to feedforward compensation based on the pulse signal; and a modulator configured to generate a power signal having a non-sinusoidal waveform using the DC voltage, and filter the power signal using the pulse signal to generate the bias power having the pulsed non-sinusoidal waveform.
US12261018B2
A plenum for a dielectric window of a substrate processing system includes a first inlet port, a second inlet port, and a body. The body includes: a first recessed area configured to hold a first coil; a second recessed area configured to hold a second coil; a third recessed area configured to oppose a first area of the dielectric window, receive a first coolant from the first inlet port, and direct the first coolant across the first area to cool a first portion of the dielectric window; and a fourth recessed area configured to oppose a second area of the dielectric window, receive a second coolant from the second inlet port, and direct the second coolant across the second area to cool a second portion of the dielectric window.
US12261015B2
In one embodiment, an electron beam inspection apparatus includes an optical system irradiating a substrate with primary electron beams, a beam separator separating, from the primary electron beams, secondary electron beams emitted as a result of irradiating the substrate with the primary electron beams, a detector detecting the secondary electron beams separated, a movable stage on which the substrate is placed, a support base supporting the substrate on the stage, and an applying unit applying a first voltage to the substrate. The support base includes a plurality of support pins that support the substrate from below. The support pins each include a columnar insulator and a metal film disposed in the insulator. A second voltage is applied to the metal film.
US12261014B2
There is provided a scanning electron microscope which has a sample chamber capable of being evacuated to a low vacuum. The scanning electron microscope includes an electron gun for emitting an electron beam, an objective lens for focusing the emitted beam onto a sample, and a sample chamber in which the sample is housed. The objective lens includes an inner polepiece, an outer polepiece disposed outside the inner polepiece and facing the sample chamber, at least one through-hole extending through the inner and outer polepieces, and at least one cover member that closes off the through-hole. An opening is formed between the inner polepiece and the outer polepiece. The objective lens causes leakage of magnetic field from the opening toward the sample. The sample chamber has a degree of vacuum lower than that in an inner space that forms an electron beam path inside the inner polepiece.
US12261007B2
A protection element includes: a fuse element configured to be energized in a first direction, which is a direction from a first end portion of the fuse element to a second end portion of the fuse element; a shielding member including a plate-shaped part, configured to rotate around a rotation axis extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, wherein the plate-shaped part viewed from the fuse element is divided to a first portion and a second portion at a contact position between the plate-shaped part and the rotation axis, and an area of the first portion and an area of the second portion are different from each other; and a case having therein a housing portion. Pressure elevation in the housing portion due to an arc discharge causes the shielding member to rotate around the rotation axis and the shielding member divides the housing portion.
US12261006B2
A contactor system includes a contactor actuator that causes an input bus bar to be electrically connected to an output bus bar and an actuator control element that controls operation of the contactor actuator. The actuator controller includes an input and an output. The system also includes a connection that includes two inputs configured to receive signals from two or more controllers and provide one control signal to the input of the actuator control element and a relay coupled between the output of the actuator control element and ground that disrupts the signal from passing through the actuator control element when commanded by any of the one or more controllers.
US12260998B2
A capacitor provides a plurality of selectable capacitance values, by selective connection of six capacitor sections of a capacitive element each having a capacitance value. The capacitor sections are provided in a plurality of wound cylindrical capacitive elements. Two vertically stacked wound cylindrical capacitance elements may each provide three capacitor sections. There may be six separately wound cylindrical capacitive elements each providing a capacitor section. The capacitor sections have a common element terminal. A pressure interrupter cover assembly is sealingly secured to the open end of case for the elements and has a deformable cover with a centrally mounted common cover terminal and a plurality of section cover terminals mounted at spaced apart locations. A conductor frangibly connects the common element terminal of the capacitor section to the common cover terminal and conductors respectively frangibly connect the capacitor section terminals to the section cover terminals. Deformation of the cover caused by failure of the capacitor element breaks at least some of the frangible connections sufficient to disconnect the capacitive element from an electric circuit in which it is connected. A cover insulation barrier mounted on the deformable cover, has a barrier cup substantially surrounding the common cover terminal and a plurality of barrier fins each extending radially outwardly from the barrier cup, and deployed between adjacent section cover terminals.
US12260994B2
A composite electronic component includes a ceramic electronic component including a body, comprising a dielectric layer and an internal electrode, and an external electrode disposed on the body and connected to the internal electrode; and an interposer including a substrate, disposed below the body, and a connection electrode disposed on the substrate and connected to the external electrode by a connection member. The external electrode includes a first electrode layer including metal particles and an insulating resin.
US12260992B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including a dielectric layer having a main component represented by (Ba1-xCax)(Ti1-y (Zr, Hf)y)O3 (where, 0≤x≤1, 0≤y≤0.5), and including first and second internal electrodes alternately stacked with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; a first external electrode connected to the first internal electrode; and a second external electrode connected to the second internal electrode, wherein at least one of the dielectric layer and the internal electrode includes Sn or Dy. If Sn, an average content of Sn at an interface between the dielectric layer and the internal electrode is within a range of 5 at % or more and 20 at % or less. If Dy, an average content of Dy at an interface between the dielectric layer and the internal electrode is within a range of 1 at % or more and 5 at % or less.
US12260991B2
A hard start capacitor replacement unit includes a capacitor container having a cover, a plurality of capacitors received within the container, each of said capacitors having a capacitance value, a common terminal mounted on the cover and electrically connected to a common terminal of each of said plurality of capacitors, a plurality of cover terminals mounted on the cover spaced apart from the common terminal and from each other, each cover terminal respectively electrically connected to one of the plurality of capacitors, a relay having contacts and being capable of opening and closing said contacts in response to a monitored condition of the motor, the relay having relay terminals, a fuse electrically connected to one of the relay terminals by a first wire wherein the fuse electrically disconnects the hard start capacitor replacement unit and the motor upon a failure, and a second wire electrically connecting one of the relay terminals and the motor, a third wire electrically connecting the common terminal and one of the relay terminals, a fourth wire electrically connecting one or more cover terminals to one of the relay terminals, wherein the contacts of the relay close to electrically connect one or more capacitors of the plurality of capacitors to the motor, and the contacts of the relay open to electrically disconnect the one or more capacitors of the plurality of capacitors from the motor.
US12260986B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. A wireless charging device has a plurality of charging cells provided on a first surface and a processor configured to provide a charging current to a first charging coil in a surface of the wireless charging device, determine that an impedance of a resonant circuit has varied from a threshold or setpoint impedance, and restore the threshold or setpoint impedance by modifying frequency of the charging current. The resonant circuit may include the first charging coil. A method for operating the wireless charging device includes providing a charging current to a first charging coil in a surface of the wireless charging device, determining that an impedance of a resonant circuit has varied from a threshold or setpoint impedance, and restoring the threshold or setpoint impedance by modifying frequency of the charging current. The resonant circuit may include the charging coil.
US12260985B2
The present disclosure provides an exemplary three-phase multi-tap balancing distribution transformer capable of operation with both balanced and unbalanced loads and that provides a wide range of incremental voltages to compensate for the varying voltage drops and imbalances as the attached conductor length increases and allows users the ability to incrementally and independently adjust the voltage specifically feeding a specific phase. Incremental adjustment is achieved via the transformer and without any fragile or other external devices or components between the power source and load-side equipment terminals. The transformer, through the use of at least one phase-specific tap-change switch is capable of directly controlling the secondary voltage of the applicable phase independently from the other phases and, thus, does not affect the voltage on the other phases.
US12260977B2
The powder of the magnetoplumbite-type hexagonal ferrite is an aggregate of particles of a compound represented by Formula (1), and, in a particle size distribution based on number measured by a laser diffraction scattering method, in a case where a mode value is defined as a mode diameter, a diameter at a cumulative percentage of 10% is defined as D10 and a diameter at a cumulative percentage of 90% is defined as D90, the mode diameter is equal to or greater than 5 μm and less than 10 μm and an expression of (D90−D10)/mode diameter≤3.0 is satisfied. In Formula (1), A represents at least one metal element selected from the group consisting of Sr, Ba, Ca, and Pb, and x satisfies 1.5≤x≤8.0. AFe(12-x)AlxO19 Formula(1)
US12260974B1
A stranded wire conductor and a method for manufacturing a stranded wire, wherein the stranded wire conductor is made of a plurality of composite wire monofilaments stranded together, each having a nickel-tantalum-tungsten core wire, a conductive alloy tube wrapped around an outside of the nickel-tantalum-tungsten core wire, and a plating disposed on an outside of the conductive alloy tube. By stranding the plurality of composite wire monofilaments together to form the stranded wire conductor, and the composite wire monofilament is made of the nickel-tantalum-tungsten core wire, the conductive alloy tube, and the plating, the stranded wire conductor can still maintain a high strength and conductivity when operating at a temperature in a range of 600° C. to 700° C.
US12260971B2
A cable for carrying electrical current in a coil of a magnet. The cable comprises a stack of tape assemblies. Each tape assembly has a length and a width, such that the length is much larger than the width, and each tape assembly comprises an HTS layer of anisotropic high temperature superconductor. HTS material, wherein a c-axis of the HTS layer is at a non-zero angle to a vector perpendicular to the plane of the HTS layer. The tape assemblies are stacked as a series of pairs, each pair comprising first and second HTS tape assemblies and a copper layer therebetween. The tape assemblies in each pair are arranged such that the c-axis of the HTS layer of the first HTS tape assembly of each pair have reflective symmetry to the c-axis of the HTS layer of the second HTS tape assembly of each pair about a plane which is parallel to and equidistant from each HTS layer.
US12260969B2
Conductive film, method for producing same, conductor, resist pattern formation method, and laminate
The conductive film of the present invention includes a conductive polymer (A) and has a film thickness of 35 nm or less, wherein: a surface resistance of the conductive film is 1×1011 Ω/sq. or less, and a standard deviation of current that flows through the conductive film upon application of voltage to the conductive film is 5 or less. The conductor of the present invention has a substrate, and the conductive film provided on at least a part of the surface of the substrate. The resist pattern forming method of the present invention includes a lamination step of forming the conductive film on a surface of a resist layer including a chemically amplified resist, said resist layer formed on one surface of a substrate, and an exposure step of irradiating the substrate with an electron beam according to a pattern on its side on which the conductive film is formed. The laminate of the present invention has a resist layer and an antistatic film formed on the surface of the resist layer, wherein the antistatic film is the above-mentioned conductive film.
US12260961B2
The generation device 100 according to the present application includes an acquisition unit 131 and a generation unit 134. The acquisition unit 131 acquires a first pathological image captured and an annotation that is information added to the first pathological image and is meta information related to the first pathological image. The generation unit 134 generates learning data for evaluating pathological-related information based on a second pathological image according to the second pathological image different from the first pathological image, the learning data being learning data obtained by transcribing the annotation in a manner corresponding to the second pathological image.
US12260952B2
The present application discloses a method, device, and system for processing a medical image. The method includes obtaining, by one or more processors, a first medical image, wherein the first medical image includes a representation of a target organ, and processing, by the one or more processors, the first medical image based at least in part on a first machine learning model. A classification result associated with the first medical image and a first image of a target region in the first medical image are obtained based at least in part on the processing of the first medical image using the first machine learning model.
US12260948B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods for monitoring the performance of an individual during a fitness activity are disclosed. A method of monitoring the performance of a participant engaged in a fitness activity includes receiving a GPS signal during the fitness activity at a portable fitness device used by the participant; determining participant performance data based on the received GPS signal; at a stationary position beacon, transmitting location data associated with the location of the stationary position beacon; at a mobile participant receiver supported by the participant, receiving the location data from the stationary position beacon; and modifying the participant performance data based on the data received from the stationary position beacon.
US12260944B2
The application relates to devices and methods for determining an administration regimen of a drug to a subject. Determining an administration regimen for a subject comprises computing the amount of drug to be administered to the subject per elemental period of time, and determining and evaluating combinations of at least two dosage forms that can be used to administered the amount of drug, against at least two different criteria. The methods of the invention find applications in the selection of administration regimen for drugs that are available in multiple dosage forms, and especially drugs that are administered routinely over prolonged periods, such as e.g. in the routine prophylaxis of haemophilia.
US12260937B2
Redundancy information can be included in nucleotide symbol strings encoding underlying data. To avoid propagation of errors during the decoding process, during encoding, a constrained encoding can be performed before the redundancy information is computed. The redundancy information can be an outer encoding across multiple nucleotide symbol strings. An inner coding within nucleotide symbol strings can also be supported. Such redundancy information can be interleaved into the underlying nucleotide symbol strings to which the constrained encoding has been applied, resulting in a relaxed constraint. Insertion/deletion redundancy information can also be included in the resulting strings, and an insertion/deletion-sensitive sequence can be included to assist in recovering accurate sequences during decoding operations.
US12260923B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array, an address decoder, a leakage detector and a control circuit. The memory cell array includes a plurality of mats corresponding to different bit-lines. The leakage detector is commonly coupled to the plurality of mats at a sensing node in the address decoder. The control circuit performs a first leakage detection operation on M mats selected from the mats to determine a leakage of at least a portion of word-lines of the M mats in an N multi-mat mode, in response to the leakage of at least the portion of word-lines of the M mats being detected based on a result of the first leakage detection operation, inhibits at least one mat of the M mats, and performs a second leakage detection operation on at least one target mat from among the M mats except the inhibited mat.
US12260916B2
A processing device in a memory sub-system initiates a partial block handling protocol for a closed block of a memory device, the block comprising a plurality of wordlines. The processing device further sends a first programming command to the memory device to program one or more wordlines of the block with first padding data having a first data pattern, wherein the one or more wordlines are adjacent to a last wordline of the block programmed before the block was closed. In addition, the processing device sends a second programming command to the memory device to program all of a set of remaining wordlines of the block with second padding data having a second data pattern comprising fewer bits of data per cell than the first data pattern.
US12260897B2
A memory device includes a memory array having a first memory cell in a first column of the memory array, a second memory cell in the first column of the memory array, a first read bit line extending in a column direction and connected to the first memory cell to read data from the first memory cell, and a second read bit line extending in the column direction and connected to the second memory cell to read data from the second memory cell.
US12260892B2
An integrated circuit includes a sampling control circuit configured to: generate a counting signal according to a periodic signal during a sampling period, and generate a plurality of sampling enable signals by comparing counting bits of the counting signal with random bits of a random signal; and a sampling circuit configured to: store an input address as a plurality of sampling addresses according to the respective sampling enable signals, and generate a plurality of valid section signals based on the sampling enable signals to output one of the sampling addresses as a target address according to an uppermost valid section signal among activated valid section signals.
US12260886B2
Disclosed herein is a magnetic storage device that comprises a suspension arm co-movably fixed to a carriage arm. The suspension arm comprises a slider attachment side and at least one first electrical contact pad on the slider attachment side. The suspension arm also comprises a slider co-movably fixed to the suspension arm. The slider comprises a suspension attachment side, a non-head side facing the suspension arm and intersecting the suspension attachment side at a first slider edge of the slider, a head side facing away from the suspension arm, and at least one electrical contact component on the suspension attachment side up to the first slider edge. At least one solder weldment is directly coupled to the at least one first electrical contact pad and the at least one electrical contact component. Additionally, a read-write head is coupled to the head side of the slider.
US12260874B2
A method includes obtaining, using at least one processing device, noisy speech signals and extracting, using the at least one processing device, acoustic features from the noisy speech signals. The method also includes receiving, using the at least one processing device, a predicted speech mask from a speech mask prediction model based on a first acoustic feature subset and receiving, using the at least one processing device, a predicted noise mask from a noise mask prediction model based on a second acoustic feature subset. The method further includes providing, using the at least one processing device, predicted speech features determined using the predicted speech mask and predicted noise features determined using the predicted noise mask to a filtering mask prediction model. In addition, the method includes generating, using the at least one processing device, a clean speech signal using a predicted filtering mask output by the filtering mask prediction model.
US12260872B2
A speech processing system includes one or more analog microphones each arrangeable within a cabin and configured to output a first analog speech signal, one or more digital microphones each arrangeable within the cabin and configured to output a digital speech signal, a digital-to-analog convertor configured to convert the digital speech signal into a second analog speech signal, and a speech signal processer including a delay processer configured to delay at least the first analog speech signal on the basis of a delay time period when the digital-to-analog convertor converts the digital speech signal, which is collected at the same time point as the first analog speech signal, into the second analog speech signal and output the delayed first analog speech signal as a third analog speech signal and configured to perform speech signal processing on the basis of the second analog speech signal and the third analog speech signal.
US12260869B2
Embodiments relate to an audio processing unit that includes a buffer, bitstream payload deformatter, and a decoding subsystem. The buffer stores at least one block of an encoded audio bitstream. The block includes a fill element that begins with an identifier followed by fill data. The fill data includes at least one flag identifying whether enhanced spectral band replication (eSBR) processing is to be performed on audio content of the block. A corresponding method for decoding an encoded audio bitstream is also provided.
US12260858B2
Systems and methods for providing dialog data, from an initially invoked automated assistant to a subsequently invoked automated assistant. A first automated assistant may be invoked by a user utterance, followed by a dialog with the user that is processed by the first automated assistant. During the dialog, a request to transfer dialog data to a second automated assistant is received. The request may originate with the user, by the first automated assistant, and/or by the second automated assistant. Once authorized, the first automated assistant provides the previous dialog data to the second automated assistant. The second automated assistant performs one or more actions based on the dialog data.
US12260852B2
A method of training a speech recognition model is provided. The method includes that: speech data of each of a plurality of training samples is inputted into a teacher model and a to-be-trained speech recognition model separately. Additionally, an embedding outputted by the teacher model and encoded data outputted by the to-be-trained speech recognition model are obtained. Furthermore, quantized codebook data is obtained by performing a multi-codebook quantization on the embedding. A loss is calculated based on the encoded data, the quantized codebook data, and text data in the training sample. Moreover, a trained speech recognition model is obtained by stopping training the to-be-trained speech recognition model when the loss is less than or equal to a preset loss threshold and/or trained times is greater than preset trained times.
US12260850B2
Brain computer interface BCI comprising an input adapted to be connected to at least one electroencephalography EEG sensor to receive EEG signals, the BCI further comprising a processor running an associative model trained to simulate electrocorticography ECoG signal features from EEG signals received via the input, the BCI comprising an output to transmit the simulated ECoG signal features.
US12260844B2
A removable bridge block system for a guitar having a first opening bordering a first compartment. A support structure is connected to at least a portion of the first compartment. A bridge block is retained within the first compartment of the body portion of the guitar. The bridge block has a recess configured to receive a plate of the locking mechanism. The locking mechanism has a plate including a disk having a substantially curved edge and a flat edge portion. The plate is retained within a second compartment of the body of the guitar. The plate is configured to rotate, with the force of a user's fingers or with a tool such as a screw driver, within the second compartment of the body of the guitar to orient the substantially curved edge of the plate to be retained within the recess of the bridge block.
US12260841B2
Generally discussed herein are techniques, software, apparatuses, and systems configured for presenting information to a user through multiple primary user interfaces. In one or more embodiments, a method can include providing first data to a first primary user interface that causes the first primary user interface to provide a first view of an application state of a software application, providing second data to a second primary user interface that causes the second primary user interface to provide a second view of the application state, changing the application state to a new application state, and in response to changing the application state, providing data to the first and second view modules so as to cause the first primary user interface to provide a first view of the new application state and the second primary user interface to provide a second view of the new application state.
US12260835B2
A driving method and drive circuit of a display panel, a display panel, and a display device. The method includes: receiving initial image data of a frame to be displayed, the resolution of an initial image corresponding to the initial image data being different from the resolution of a display panel; the initial image data including a plurality of pieces of initial gray scale data for displaying the initial image; according to the initial gray scale data in the initial image data, the resolution of the initial image, and the resolution of the display panel, determining target gray scale data corresponding to panel sub-pixels in the display panel; and driving the display panel to display according to the target gray scale data.
US12260824B2
The present application provides a pixel driving circuit and a display panel. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor and a data writing module. a driving timing of the pixel driving circuit includes a writing frame including a first data writing phase and a second data writing phase in sequence, the data voltage includes an active data voltage and a first data compensation voltage, the data writing module is configured to write the first data compensation voltage into the gate, the first electrode, and the second electrode of the driving transistor in the first data writing phase, and to write the active data voltage into the gate, the first electrode, and the second electrode of the driving transistor in the second data writing phase.
US12260822B2
A display device is disclosed that includes a display panel, a scan driver, a panel driving circuit, and a readout circuit. The display panel includes a pixel that includes a light emitting element and a sensor that includes a light sensing element. The scan driver outputs a scan signal for driving the pixel and the sensor in response to a scan control signal. The panel driving circuit outputs the scan control signal. The readout circuit generates switching signals based on the scan control signal and outputs a fingerprint sensing signal corresponding to a sensing signal received from the sensor in response to the switching signals.
US12260815B2
A display panel includes a display area and a non-display area, wherein the display area includes pixel units arranged in array, at least one of the pixel units includes a sub-pixel of a first color, a sub-pixel of a second color and a sub-pixel of a third color, the first color, the second color and the third color are different colors, at least one sub-pixel includes a pixel circuit and a light emitting element, and the pixel circuit is connected to an anode of the light emitting element; the non-display area includes an anode voltage driving circuit connected to a sub-pixel and configured to provide an anode voltage control signal to a pixel circuit of the connected sub-pixel to provide a voltage signal to the anode of the light emitting element.
US12260814B2
A display device may include a display panel having subpixels, a controller configured to generate an output image frame based on moving a received input image frame for the subpixels according to time and to output the generated output image frame, and a panel driver configured to display the generated output image frame on the display panel. A movement order for the subpixels may be determined based on a movement direction and an arrangement of the subpixels disposed on the display panel. The subpixels may be utilized in outputting the generated output image frame to the display panel.
US12260811B2
A micro-LED display includes a first LED subpixel, a second LED subpixel, a third LED subpixel and a fourth LED subpixel. The first LED subpixel is configured to emit a red light. The second LED subpixel is configured to emit a green light. The third LED subpixel is configured to emit a blue light. The fourth LED subpixel is configured to emit a yellow light, in which the yellow light emitted by the fourth LED subpixel has a peak wavelength that satisfies λp,Yellow,lower_limit<λp. λp,Yellow,lower_limit is a lower limit of the peak wavelength of the yellow light, λp is the peak wavelength of the yellow light.
US12260810B1
A pixel driving circuit, a driving method for the pixel driving circuit, and a display panel are provided. The pixel driving circuit includes a writing module, a driving transistor, and a light-emitting element. The writing module is electrically connected to a data signal terminal, and is electrically connected to a first node and a second node. The driving transistor is a double-gate transistor. A first gate of the driving transistor is electrically connected to the first node. A second gate of the driving transistor is electrically connected to the second node. A source of the driving transistor is electrically connected to a first power signal terminal. A drain of the driving transistor is electrically connected to a third node. The light-emitting element is electrically connected to a second power signal terminal and electrically connected to the third node.
US12260807B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a first display panel and a second display panel stacked in a first direction. The first display panel includes a first substrate, and light-emitting units on a side of the first substrate away from the second display panel. The light-emitting units include first light-emitting units and second light-emitting units. One first light-emitting unit includes a first light-emitting layer, and a distance between the first light-emitting layer and the first substrate in the first direction is D1. One second light-emitting unit includes a second light-emitting layer, and a distance between the second light-emitting layer and the first substrate in the first direction is D2, where D1>D2. The second display panel includes a reflective surface on a side of the first substrate away from the light-emitting units.
US12260805B2
Provided is a display device including a display panel, an optical sensor, a timing controller, a scan driver, a data driver, and an image controller. The timing controller controls an image refresh rate of the display panel based on are fresh rate control signal. Thus, the display device provides improved visibility.
US12260798B2
An interpolated flat-panel display comprises a display substrate and an array of clusters disposed on the display substrate. Each cluster comprises an exclusive group of display pixels and a cluster controller for controlling the display pixels. The cluster controller is operable to receive input data specifying a desired light output from one or more but fewer than all of the display pixels in the group of display pixels, calculate interpolated data at least in part from the input data, and drive the display pixels to emit light in response to the calculated interpolated data and received input data. The input data can correspond to an image pixel in an input image. The cluster controller can be operable to receive a parameter value describing attributes of a local portion of the input image including the image pixel and the interpolated data is calculated at least in part from the parameter value.
US12260789B2
Methods and systems for finding and ranking video sequences that contain tactical sequences (e.g., an uninterrupted portion of a sporting event) that are similar to tactical event content in a target video sequence, such as those occurring in sports, include learning and labelling (e.g., through use of metadata and the like) tactically significant sequences in a plurality of video segments, including a plurality of such tactically significant sequences in a single video segment.
US12260785B2
Identification strip for an electrical installation, —having a marking area that is designed to be printed by way of a pressing device, —having a clamping area that is designed to engage in a fastening groove, wherein the marking area and the clamping area comprise a first plastic, characterized in that—the marking area and/or the clamping area has/have at least one adhesion area that comprises a second plastic, —wherein the second plastic is more flexible than the first plastic so as to increase static friction.
US12260782B2
Systems for flight simulation, and methods for operating the same. The system may include a 6 degree of freedom devices, a multi-point harness configured to suspend a user above a ground surface, and a sensor circuit integrated with a user-facing surface of the multi-point harness to detect changes in distribution of weight across the user-facing surface. The system includes a processor coupled to the sensor circuit, where the processor may be configured to: detect a shift in weight distribution across the user-facing surface of the multi-point harness. The processor may generate at least one virtual physics parameter associated with the detected shift in weight distribution. The at least one virtual physics parameter representing a force associated with a change in center of gravity of the user. The processor may modulate the 6 DOF device to orient the multi-point harness based on at least one virtual physics parameter to simulate a resultant trajectory of the user during the flight simulation.
US12260781B2
The technology relates generally to an interactive avatar training system. The interactive avatar training system utilizes an interactive platform that allows at least two users, such as a trainer and a trainee, to be in interactive communication in a training program. The interactive avatar training system may assist generating a processed answer or response from the trainer to the trainee so that the answer presented to the trainee has high level of accuracy. Thus, the training efficiency and accuracy may be enhanced and improved.
US12260777B2
Simulated tissue structures and methods of making them are disclosed. An elastic first material is placed in tension. An elastic second material is adhered to the first material while the first material is in tension. The adhered second material and the first material in tension forms a first shape of the simulated tissue structure. Tension on the first material is released. In releasing the tension of the first material, a force is exerted on the adhered second material bring the combination of the first material and the second material into a second shape. The first shape is maintained by a mold or mandrel and the second shape is the desired shape of the simulated tissue structure.
US12260767B2
A method is disclosed here. The method includes receiving an input from an aircraft, determining a towing status of the aircraft based on the input, and sending a message to a transmitter to transmit the towing status of the aircraft. Also disclosed herein is a system including an aircraft including a nose landing gear, a first controller, and a transmitter, wherein the first controller is configured to determine a towing status of the aircraft based on a number of sensor signals received from the aircraft, and the transmitter is configured to transmit the towing status and a tow truck configured to tow the aircraft, the tow truck including a second controller and a receiver, wherein the receiver is configured to receive the towing status from the transmitter, and the second controller is configured to provide an indication of the towing status of the aircraft.
US12260763B2
Disclosed is a dynamic regulation method for a lane changing decision point of a CAV dedicated lane in a diverging area of an expressway, applied to the diverging area of the expressway in which the CAV dedicated lane is provided at an inner side of a road. Vehicles traveling in the CAV dedicated lane are all CAVs. Both the CAVs and human-driven vehicles can travel in ordinary lanes. The method calculates the lane changing decision points of diversion vehicles in the CAV dedicated lane at current time using corresponding algorithms based on a relationship between the lane changing decision points of the CAV dedicated lane and traffic efficiency and a traffic safety. The dynamic regulation method of the present disclosure improves the traffic operation condition of the diversion region, improves traffic efficiency and traffic safety of the diversion region, and reduces fuel emissions, thereby providing a method support for the traffic flow control in the diverging area of the expressway under the setting condition of the CAV dedicated lane.
US12260757B2
A bidirectional interactive traffic-control management system includes a road and traffic network information subsystem, an urban traffic control subsystem and a road-users' route guidance subsystem. The first subsystem forms real-time traffic information of all road sections in the digital urban traffic-control road network. The second subsystem generates a real-time optimal signal timing plan for each intersection based on the real-time traffic information of its connecting road sections. The third subsystem generates a real-time optimal route plan based on the real-time travel information of all road-users, the real-time traffic information of all road sections, and the real-time optimal signal timing plan of each intersection of the road network. It then transmits the optimal route plan into a navigator in a mobile device of a road-user or in an on-board-unit of a moving vehicle or via a roadside unit for transmission.
US12260755B2
A method of controlling an autonomous vehicle and an electronic device are provided, which relate to a field of artificial intelligence technology, and in particular to a field of autonomous driving technology. The method includes: acquiring a vehicle state configuration information from a cloud; enabling a task receiving function of the vehicle, in response to the vehicle state configuration information indicating that the vehicle is in an automatic operation state; acquiring a task information from the cloud in response to the task receiving function being enabled; and controlling the vehicle according to the task information.
US12260753B1
A method includes receiving, via at least one processor, data from a plurality of data sources disposed within an area, the data including area data, emergency event data, and emergency resource data; generating, via the at least one processor, based on the data, a visualization including a graphical representation of the area based on the area data, the emergency event data, the emergency resource data, or any combination thereof; determining, based on an interaction with the visualization, an emergency response plan for a vehicle, wherein the response plan includes an evacuation plan; sending the emergency response plan to a vehicle system associated with the vehicle, wherein the vehicle system is configured to: determine a location associated with the emergency response plan; determine a route to the location; and send instructions to one or more traffic assets along the route to the location, the instructions configured to cause the one or more traffic assets to adjust one or more signals.
US12260744B2
Disclosed are a motion-sensing in-vehicle alerting method, a system, and a related device, which are applied to vehicles. The method includes steps of: obtaining, by a controller, an audio signal from an in-vehicle audio bus; performing an acoustic characteristics analysis on the audio signal, and extracting an acoustic waveform of the audio signal in a time domain waveform; performing an amplitude modulation on a sinusoidal signal of the acoustic waveform to obtain a modulated sinusoidal signal after amplitude modulation; obtaining, by the controller, a control signal indicating operational behavior information from an in-vehicle control bus, matching the control signal with the modulated sinusoidal signal according to a predetermined rule to generate a vibration signal, and transmitting the vibration signal to the excitation oscillator to achieve a vibration alert. The method of the present application not only enhances safety, but also provides the vibration alert, resulting in an improved user experience.
US12260741B2
A security device is disclosed comprising a main housing, a power supply housing releasable from the main housing and a release arrangement configured to provide a release process in which the power supply housing is moveable from an installed configuration to a released configuration via a partially released configuration. A power connection is provided for supply of power to the security device when the power supply housing is in the partially released configuration. Processing circuitry is configured to obtain power via the power connection and receive an indication that the power supply housing has moved from the installed configuration and/or to the partially released configuration.
US12260739B2
Supervisory signals from a first wireless security sensor are received at a first supervisory rate that repeatedly confirms that the first wireless security sensor remains operatively coupled to a security system controller. A first security sensor alarm is received from the first wireless security sensor and in response, the first supervisory rate is changed to a second, higher, supervisory rate. Supervisory signals are received from the first wireless security sensor at the second supervisory rate that repeatedly confirms that the first wireless security sensor remains operatively coupled to the security system controller. When a second security sensor alarm is received from the first wireless security sensor within a predetermined period of time after the first security sensor alarm, an alarm condition detection alarm is issued from the security system controller.
US12260735B1
An ant-loss cell phone case including a transmitter assembly and a receiver assembly. The transmitter assembly includes a transmitter device coupled in a rare compartment of a cell phone case. The transmitter assembly is protected by a compartment cover which includes inside thereof a battery to power the transmitter device allowing to broadcast a signal. The receiver assembly includes a receiver device associated to the transmitter device, wherein the receiver assembly is attachable to the user's body or belonging by means of a swivel snap hook and will emit an alert if the transmitter assembly and the receiver assembly are farther than a predetermined distance therebetween.
US12260730B2
Disclosed is a pair of visualization monitoring glasses, comprising a monocular. The monocular comprises a lens and a temple. The temple is internally provided with a chip, an optical display system, an interactive system, and an early warning system. The chip is configured to receive a monitoring signal, form a display signal according to the monitoring signal, and send the display signal out. The optical display system is configured to receive the display signal and display the display content through the lens. The interactive system is configured to acquire a gesture action and control the optical display system to switch different display content according to the gesture action. The early warning system is configured to acquire the monitoring signal, perform safety analysis according to the monitoring content, and control the optical display system to perform safety feedback.
US12260728B2
Disclosed are a safety service system and a method thereof. The safety service system comprises: a collection unit for collecting position information and image information related to a protected person who is registered by a protector; and a service providing unit for providing the position information and the image information to one or both of the protector and a security company upon detection of a signal that the protected person is in danger.
US12260716B2
Images captured for components of a device are monitored for changes by evaluating a first region of interest in the images. Periodically, a command is sent to the device to move one or more of the components to a known position or state. A certain component or set of components associated with being moved based on the command is evaluated in a second region of interest in the images to determine if the corresponding component or set of components is in the known position or state within the images. When the corresponding component or set of components is not identified from the images in the known position or state, a security alert is raised for the device and security operations are processed on the host device.
US12260706B2
In an electronic gaming device, instances of a target symbol are swapped in to symbol positions of one or more reel strips using one or more index tables to identify the symbol positions at which to swap in the instances of the target symbol. The index table(s) can be configured to cluster instances of the target symbol according to a deterministic approach. Subsequently, spin results are determined for one or more spins of reels using the reel strips.
US12260703B2
An electronic gaming machine includes a display device and a processor configured to execute instructions stored in a memory, which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to generate a game-state-retention sign based upon a plurality of game variables representing a state of a wagering game, where the game-state-retention sign includes a first two-dimensional machine-recognisable image that encodes the plurality of game variables. When executed, the instructions also cause the processor to display the game-state-retention sign on the display device for image capture by a handheld player device, where the handheld player device is configured to display a game-continuation sign generated from the game-state-retention sign for resuming play of the wagering game.
US12260696B2
A history management apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store usage application information of a user in a region into which entry is restricted by biometric authentication, a cancellation control unit configured to cancel, in a case where a predetermined visitor has succeeded in biometric authentication at a gateway of the region, and the usage application information is satisfied, restriction on entry into the region, a history registration unit configured to register, into the storage unit, history information of a visitor who has succeeded in the biometric authentication, a generation unit configured to generate, in a case where a disclosure request for the history information has been received from a terminal of a predetermined disclosure requestor, disclosed information obtained by performing predetermined processing on the history information in accordance with an attribute of the disclosure requestor, and an output unit configured to output the disclosed information to the terminal.
US12260695B2
Various electronic credentials comprising signal activation are disclosed. An electronic credential core comprises a controller configured to maintain an off-state until activated by a received signal during a personalization process. The electronic credential core further comprises an antenna configured to receive a first signal. The energy in the first signal is harvested by a signal interface. The signal interface generates a second signal using the harvested energy of the first signal. The second signal is provided to the controller. The controller transitions to an active state and continuously performs one or more functions until an onboard battery is depleted. By maintaining an off-state until personalization, the electronic credential can be stored without draining power from the battery, extending the shelf life of the electronic credential.
US12260694B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for token thread authentication system for physical space access. The present invention is configured to extract and organize collected NFTs and tokens within a first plurality of threads in accordance with a set of chronological and authenticating parameters. The present invention is structured to interact with an entity network system to receive authenticating requirements, query stored tokens, and present a token thread for achieving authentication. The system is structured to verify the token thread authentication and to grant access to a location to a requesting user. The system is configured to generate and to present a display associated with the token thread authentication process.
US12260683B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a method, including: receiving multi-dimensional event data associated with a vehicle event; determining, based on the multi-dimensional event data, an inspection classification for the vehicle event; receiving multi-dimensional analysis data associated with the inspection classification for the vehicle event; determining, based on the multi-dimensional analysis data, a repair classification for the vehicle event; receiving multi-dimensional action data associated with the repair classification for the vehicle event; and determining, based on the multi-dimensional action data, a monitoring classification for the vehicle event.
US12260679B1
The technology disclosed also initializes a new hand that enters the field of view of a gesture recognition system using a parallax detection module. The parallax detection module determines candidate regions of interest (ROI) for a given input hand image and computes depth, rotation and position information for the candidate ROI. Then, for each of the candidate ROI, an ImagePatch, which includes the hand, is extracted from the original input hand image to minimize processing of low-information pixels. Further, a hand classifier neural network is used to determine which ImagePatch most resembles a hand. For the qualified, most-hand like ImagePatch, a 3D virtual hand is initialized with depth, rotation and position matching that of the qualified ImagePatch.
US12260677B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system for efficiently and securely managing human motion data. In one aspect, a human-motion-data-managing system first receives a sequence of video images including a first person. Next, for each image in the sequence of video images, the human-motion-data-managing system detects the first person in the video image; and subsequently extracts a skeleton figure of the detected first person from the image, wherein the skeleton figure is composed of a set of human keypoints. Next, human-motion-data-managing system combines a sequence of extracted skeleton figures of the detected first person from the sequence of video images to form a skeleton sequence of the detected first person which depicts a continuous motion of the first person. The human-motion-data-managing system subsequently transmits the skeleton sequence to a server in place of the actual images of the first person to preserve the privacy of the first person.
US12260674B2
A video system and method for person search includes video cameras for capturing video images, a display device, and a computer system. The computer system including a deep learning network to determine person images, from among the video images, matching a target query person. The deep learning network having a person detection branch, a person re-identification branch, and an attention-aware relation mixer connected to the person detection branch and to the person re-identification branch. The attention-aware relation mixer including a relation mixer having a spatial and channel mixer that performs spatial attention followed by spatial mixing (tokenized multi-layered perceptron) and channel attention followed by channel mixing (channel multi-layered perceptron), and a joint spatio-channel attention layer that utilizes 3D attention weights to modulate 3D spatio-channel region of interest features and aggregate the features with output of the relation mixer. A display device displays matching person images for the person search.
US12260670B2
An electronic structure includes a first electrode, a first insulating layer, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The first electrode has an opening. The first insulating layer is disposed on the first electrode. The second electrode is disposed on the first insulating layer. The third electrode is disposed on the first insulating layer and surrounding the second electrode. The second electrode and the third electrode are in the same layer.
US12260668B2
Devices, methods, and systems for occupancy detection are described herein. One device includes instructions to receive an image of a portion of a facility captured by an imaging device, the image defined by a field of view, and set a first occupancy detection threshold for a first part of the field of view and a second occupancy detection threshold for a second part of the field of view.
US12260666B2
An image-based animal object condition identification apparatus includes: a communication module that receives an image of an object; a memory that stores therein a program configured to extract animal condition information from the received image; and a processor that executes the program. The program extracts continuous animal detection information of each object by inputting the received image into an animal detection model that is trained based on learning data composed of animal images and determines predetermined animal condition information for each class of each animal object by inputting the continuous animal detection information of each object into an animal condition identification model.
US12260663B2
A patent matching analysis system receives an input indicating a source patent or a court case. When the input indicates a court case, the system identifies a patent associated with the court case, which is deemed as a source patent. For each source patent, the system retrieves a source patent document, parses textual information of the source patent document using an NLP engine, extracts a first set of features, and generates a first feature vector. The system then identifies multiple candidate patents. For each of the candidate patents, the system retrieves a candidate patent document, parses the textual information, extracts a second set of features, and generates a second feature vector. The system then determines a similarity between the first and second feature vectors. Based on the determined similarities, the system identifies one or more target patents, and visualizes the source patent and the determined target patents.
US12260662B2
A computer implemented method includes rendering a document page as an image; detecting tables, columns, and other associated table objects within the image via one or more table recognition models that model objects in the image as overlapping bounding boxes; transforming the set of objects into a structured representation of the table; extracting data from the objects into the structured representation; and exporting the table into the desired output format.
US12260657B1
Presented herein are systems and methods for the employment of machine learning models for image processing. A method may include a capture of a video feed including image data of a document at a client device. The client device can provide the video feed to another computing device. The method can include, by the client device or the other computing device object recognition for recognizing a type of document and capturing an image exceeding a quality threshold of the document amongst the frames within the video feed. The method may further include the execution of other image processing operations on the image data to improve the quality of the image or features extracted therefrom. The method may further include anti-fraud detection or scoring operations to determine an amount of risk associated with the image data.
US12260656B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there may be provided an operation method of a server for estimating the size of damage in disaster affected areas. In this instance, the operation method of the server may include acquiring at least one first disaster image, deriving an affected area from each of the at least one first disaster image, acquiring affected area related information through labeling based on the derived affected area, and training a first learning model using the at least one first disaster image and the affected area related information.
US12260647B2
A measurement apparatus detects a person and an umbrella based on acquired image data, and measures the number of persons based on a detected result.
US12260644B2
A method and an apparatus for early warning of climbing behaviors, an electronic device, and a storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: acquiring video image data including a monitored target and at least one object (11); acquiring behavior information of the at least one object when it is determined that the at least one object enters a target area corresponding to the monitored target (12); marking video frames in which the at least one object is included when it is determined that the behavior information indicates that the at least one object climbs the monitored target (13). By marking the video frames in the video image data, the behavior of the object climbing the monitored target can be found in time, and the management efficiency can be improved.
US12260643B2
Computer program products, methods, systems, apparatus, and computing entities are provided for optimizing package delivery and confirmation are disclosed. In one embodiment, the system's processors accesses a first image of an assigned delivery location captured by a first computing device. The first image comprises an annotation indicating a specific location at the assigned delivery location for delivery of a parcel. At a display device of a second computing device, a real-time image stream comprising the annotation is captured by a camera of the second computing device is displayed. The annotation is overlaid within the real-time image stream based on comparing the first image received from the first computing device to the real-time image stream. The system further captures, from the real-time image stream, a second image when the parcel is positioned at the specific location based on the annotation overlaid within the real-time image stream.
US12260640B2
Described herein are techniques for receiving, from a first device, first data about a physical object located in a physical space. The techniques further including storing, in a catalog of objects generated for the physical space, information about the physical object and indicating at least a first location of the physical object in the physical space. The techniques include receiving, from a second device, second data about the physical space, the second data sent from the second device upon or after an occurrence of an event. The techniques include determining, based on the second data, at least an impact area of the event to the physical space and determining, based on the catalog of objects and the second data, whether the physical object is impacted by the event. The techniques include causing an output indicating whether the physical object is impacted by the event.
US12260637B1
The application discloses a classification method and a system of UAV hyperspectral vegetation species based on a deep learning, where the method includes the following steps: collecting hyperspectral images by a UAV; preprocessing collected hyperspectral images to obtain preprocessed images, and performing a stitching mosaicking preprocessing on the preprocessed images to obtain hyperspectral orthoimages; labeling the hyperspectral orthoimages to obtain a label data set; performing a vegetation index fusion on the hyperspectral orthoimages to obtain vegetation index-hyperspectral orthoimages; constructing a grassland vegetation classification model based on the vegetation index-hyperspectral orthoimages and the label data set, and completing a vegetation species classification by using the grassland vegetation classification model.
US12260629B2
The present application relates to the field of image recognition. Disclosed are a multi-modal model training method and apparatus, an image recognition method and apparatus, and an electronic device. The method comprises: acquiring a sample image and a text feature vector corresponding to the sample image; inputting the sample image into a feature extraction network of an initial multi-modal model, so as to generate an image feature vector corresponding to the sample image; inputting the text feature vector and the image feature vector into a transformer structure of the initial multi-modal model, and outputting candidate texts corresponding to the sample image; and updating parameters of the initial multi-modal model according to a target text corresponding to the text feature vector, and the candidate texts, so as to determine a target multi-modal model.
US12260628B2
Implementations of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices, and computer program products of extracting a feature for multimedia data that comprises a plurality of medium types. In a method, a first feature is determined for a first medium type in the plurality of medium types by masking a portion in a first medium object with the first medium type. A second feature is determined for a second medium type other than the first medium type in the plurality of medium types. The feature is generated for the multimedia data based on the first and second features. With these implementations, multiple medium types are considered in the feature extraction, and thus the feature may fully reflect various aspects of the multimedia data in an accurate way.
US12260627B2
An image obtaining section obtains a taken image from an imaging device. A pallet type identification section has a learning model for combinations of images of a plurality of types of pallets and types of the pallets, and identifies a type of a target pallet by inputting, to the learning model, the taken image of the target pallet, which is obtained by the image obtaining section. A pallet position/shape obtaining section obtains position/shape data of the target pallet from a distance measuring device for measuring a distance to the target pallet. A pallet deviation detection section previously stores position/shape data of the pallets and performs comparison between the stored position/shape data corresponding to the identified type of the target pallet and the position/shape data of the target pallet.
US12260626B2
A method for re-recognizing an object image is provided based on multi-feature information capture and correlation analysis weights of an input feature map by using a convolutional layer with a spatial attention mechanism and a channel attention mechanism, causing channel and spatial information to effectively combined, which not only focus on an important feature and suppress an unnecessary feature, but also improve a representation of a feature. A multi-head attention mechanism is used to process a feature after an image is divided into blocks to capture abundant feature information and determine a correlation between features to improve performance and efficiency of object image retrieval. The convolutional layer with the channel attention mechanism and the spatial attention mechanism is combined with a transformer having the multi-head attention mechanism to focus on globally important features and capture fine-grained features, thereby improving performance of re-recognition.
US12260612B2
Provided is an impact motion recognition system for screen-based multi-sport coaching. The impact motion recognition system for screen-based multi-sport coaching includes: a high-speed stereo camera device installed on an upper end of a target object including a hitting body and an moving body and configured to acquire a stereo image sequence in which the hitting body and the moving body are photographed; an object detection unit configured to detect an object in the acquired stereo image sequence; a moving body recognition unit configured to identify whether an impact motion has occurred in the detected object to recognize the moving body; a hitting body detection unit configured to, based on the moving body being recognized through the moving body recognition unit, detect the object excluding the moving body as the hitting body; a target object tracking unit configured to continuously detect a center point of the moving body and a feature point of the hitting body in a subsequent stereo image sequence using characteristics of the moving body and the hitting body that are detected, and continuously track the center point of the moving body and the feature point of the hitting body until the center point of the moving body and the feature point of the hitting body are not detected; and a motion analysis unit configured to analyze three-dimensional (3D) motion information of the target object using the center point of the moving body and the feature point of the hitting body, which are detected through the target object tracking unit, and high-speed stereo camera correction data.
US12260608B2
Provided are an image capturing method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: at a new acquisition moment, predicting a predicted projection area position of a target object in a current captured image on an image sensor and estimated exposure brightness information of the target object in the predicted projection area position; adjusting, according to a type of the target object and the estimated exposure brightness information, an exposure parameter of the target object in the predicted projection area position when the new acquisition moment arrives; and acquiring a new captured image at the new acquisition moment according to the adjusted exposure parameter, where both the new captured image and the current captured image include the target object.
US12260607B2
Systems and methods are provided for augmenting digital analysis of lesions. An image of tissue having a glandular epithelial component is generated. The image represents a plurality of medium-scale epithelial components. For each of a plurality of cells within the image, a representative point is identified to provide a plurality of representative points for each of the plurality of medium-scale epithelial components. For each of a subset of the plurality of medium-scale epithelial components, a graph connecting the plurality of representative points is constructed. A plurality of classification features is extracted for each of the subset of medium-scale epithelial components from the graph constructed for the medium-scale epithelial component. A clinical parameter is assigned to each medium-scale epithelial component according to the extracted plurality of classification features.
US12260601B2
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: assigning three-dimensional points to one of layers, based on items of geometry information of the three-dimensional points; searching three-dimensional points surrounding a current three-dimensional point to be encoded, to select, from the three-dimensional points, a three-dimensional point to be referred to when a predicted value of attribute information of the current three-dimensional point is calculated, the current three-dimensional point belonging to a first layer among the layers; and calculating the predicted value of the attribute information of the current three-dimensional point using the three-dimensional point selected. In the searching of the three-dimensional points, a search range for a same layer as the current three-dimensional point is different from a search range for a layer higher than the first layer.
US12260593B2
Sensors coupled to a vehicle are calibrated, optionally using a dynamic scene with sensor targets around a motorized turntable that rotates the vehicle to different orientations. One vehicle sensor captures a representation of one feature of a sensor target, while another vehicle sensor captures a representation of a different feature of the sensor target, the two features of the sensor target having known relative positioning on the target. The vehicle generates a transformation that maps the captured representations of the two features to positions around the vehicle based on the known relative positioning of the two features on the target.
US12260591B2
A method for image processing is disclosed herein. A computer system obtains a first image and a second image acquired by an imaging device. The computer system determines a matrix relating a first set of image points in the first image to a second set of image points in the second image. Based on the matrix, the computer system determines a set of parameters of the imaging device and a rotational relationship between the first image and the second image corresponding to poses of the imaging device. In response to determining that the first image and the second image are aligned based on the set of parameters of the imaging device and the rotational relationship between the first image and the second image, the computer system generates a composite image of the first image and the second image and causes display of the composite image.
US12260585B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a visual positioning method, the method may include obtaining a positioning image collected by an imaging device; obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud map associated with an area where the imaging device is located; determining a target area associated with the positioning image from the 3D point cloud map based on the positioning image; and determining positioning information of the imaging device based on the positioning image and the target area.
US12260580B2
A head wearable display system comprising a target object detection module receiving multiple image pixels of a first portion and a second portion of a target object, and the corresponding depths; a first light emitter emitting multiple first-eye light signals to display a first-eye virtual image of the first portion and the second portion of the target object for a viewer; a first light direction modifier for respectively varying a light direction of each of the multiple first-eye light signals emitted from the first light emitter; a first collimator; a first combiner, for redirecting and converging the multiple first-eye light signals towards a first eye of the viewer. The first-eye virtual image of the first portion of the target object in a first field of view has a greater number of the multiple first-eye light signals per degree than that of the first-eye virtual image of the second portion of the target object in a second field of view.
US12260579B2
An application processor processes an application. A sensor processor acquires image data from an image sensor and analyzes the image data. A motion controlling processor controls motion of a movable part of a robot. The motion controlling processor provides posture information for specifying an orientation of the image sensor to the sensor processor, not via the application processor. The posture information includes information for specifying a position of the image sensor.
US12260576B2
A system for generating a depth output for an image is described. The system receives input images that depict the same scene, each input image including one or more potential objects. The system generates, for each input image, a respective background image and processes the background images to generate a camera motion output that characterizes the motion of the camera between the input images. For each potential object, the system generates a respective object motion output for the potential object based on the input images and the camera motion output. The system processes a particular input image of the input images using a depth prediction neural network (NN) to generate a depth output for the particular input image, and updates the current values of parameters of the depth prediction NN based on the particular depth output, the camera motion output, and the object motion outputs for the potential objects.
US12260570B2
A model dataset is generated based on first image data. The model dataset and second image data map at least a common part of an examination region at a second detail level. The model dataset and the second image data are pre-aligned at a first detail level below the second detail level based on first features that are mapped at the first detail level in the model dataset and the second image data and/or an acquisition geometry of the second image data. The model dataset and the second image data are registered at the second detail level based on second features that are mapped at the second detail level in the model dataset and the second image data. The second class of features is mappable at the second detail level or above. The registered second image data and/or the registered model dataset is provided.
US12260568B2
An optimal automatic mapping method between a real image and a thermal image in a body heat tester, and the body heat tester using the method. The real image from the real imaging camera has wider angle of view than the thermal image from the thermal imaging camera, to maximize the use of thermal imaging without omission of thermal imaging pixels in a thermal inspection device using an infrared imaging device. The body heat tester comprises a thermal imaging camera, a real imaging camera and a data processing unit. The data processing unit matches the thermal and real images, obtains the reconstructed real image matched with the thermal image by stretching or shortening the top, bottom, left, and right of the real image based on the thermal image, and detects the body heat (temperature) of the subject using the thermal image and the reconstructed real image.
US12260561B2
A system for tracking at least one object in computer-assisted surgery may include a processing unit and a non-transitory computer-readable memory communicatively coupled to the processing unit and comprising computer-readable program instructions executable by the processing unit for: obtaining orientation data from at least one inertial sensor unit on at least one object; concurrently obtaining position and orientation data for a robot arm relative to a frame of reference; registering the at least one object with the robot arm to determine a position of the at least one object in the frame of reference; and continuously tracking and outputting the position and orientation of the at least one object in the frame of reference, using the orientation data from the at least one inertial sensor unit on the at least one object and the position and orientation data for the robot arm.
US12260560B1
Various implementations track an eye using both camera images and light sensor data, e.g., from a photosensitive surface or set of photodetectors. The camera need not capture images at a high capture rate since the light sensor data captured from the light sensor provides information about the eye during the time periods between camera frames. An eye tracking device may thus provide eye tracking with high temporal resolution using less power and resources and prior devices. The eye tracking device includes a lens (e.g., a diffractive optical element (DOE)) that splits received light onto the camera and light sensor. The camera and light sensor may be aligned, e.g., co-centered. Using such a lens to provide light to an aligned camera and light sensor facilitates tracking the eye characteristics by reducing the need for matching the data and/or accounting for multiple environmental light sources.
US12260558B2
Described herein are Deep Multi-Magnification Networks (DMMNs). The multi-class tissue segmentation architecture processes a set of patches from multiple magnifications to make more accurate predictions. For the supervised training, partial annotations may be used to reduce the burden of annotators. The segmentation architecture with multi-encoder, multi-decoder, and multi-concatenation outperforms other segmentation architectures on breast datasets, and can be used to facilitate pathologists' assessments of breast cancer in margin specimens.
US12260554B2
In a case where a first specific scene recognized at a time of insertion of an endoscope is stored in a specific scene memory and a recognized scene recognized by a scene recognition unit is a scene on a side deeper than the first specific scene in a direction of movement of the endoscope, the recognized scene is output without being changed. In a case where the first specific scene is stored in the specific scene memory and the recognized scene is a scene on a side shallower than the first specific scene in the direction of movement of the endoscope, the recognized scene is changed and output.
US12260545B2
In learning processing performed before sample observation processing (steps S705 to S708), the sample observation device acquires a low-picture quality learning image under a first imaging condition for each defect position indicated by defect position information, determines an imaging count of a plurality of high-picture quality learning images associated with the low-picture quality learning image for each defect position and a plurality of imaging points based on a set value of the imaging count, acquires the plurality of high-picture quality learning images under a second imaging condition (step S702), learns a high-picture quality image estimation model using the low-picture quality learning image and the plurality of high-picture quality learning images (step S703), and adjusts a parameter related to the defect detection in the sample observation processing using the high-picture quality image estimation model (step S704).
US12260535B2
A method for detecting defects in images, is employed in a computer device, and stored in a storage medium. The method trains an autoencoder model using unblemished images, inputting an image to be detected into the autoencoder model, and obtaining a reconstructed image. An image error is calculated between the image to be detected and the reconstructed image, and the image error is inputted into a student's t-distribution and a calculation result is obtained. In response that the calculation result falls within a preset defect determination criterion range, the image to be detected is determined to be an unblemished image. In response that the calculation result does not fall within the preset defect determination criterion range, the image to be detected is determined to be a defective image. The method improves the efficiency and accuracy of defect detection.
US12260534B2
A method of detecting a blemish in a digital camera includes capturing a digital image of a white area by the digital camera; reducing resolution of the digital image by grouping pixels of the digital data into a matrix of a plurality of data blocks; and comparing a luminance value of each of the plurality of data blocks to an average luminance value of other data blocks of the plurality of data blocks within a predetermined region to determine if each of the plurality of data blocks is a potentially bad data block.
US12260532B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate performing registration of a first image to a second image where the first image is undistorted to linear space before applying a geometric transformation matrix to modify the first image to align with the second image. The geometric transformation matrix may be a linear matrix that causes the undistorted version of the first image to make translation movement, rotational movement or both. The undistorted and modified first image is then reverted back to nonlinear distorted space. Then the reverted first image may be warped to better align with the second image for fusing with the second image. In this way, visual distortions in the fused image such as wobbling may be reduced or eliminated.
US12260530B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via scene-based editing using image understanding facilitated by artificial intelligence. For example, in one or more embodiments the disclosed systems utilize generative machine learning models to create modified digital images portraying human subjects. In particular, the disclosed systems generate modified digital images by performing infill modifications to complete a digital image or human inpainting for portions of a digital image that portrays a human. Moreover, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems perform reposing of subjects portrayed within a digital image to generate modified digital images. In addition, the disclosed systems in some embodiments perform facial expression transfer and facial expression animations to generate modified digital images or animations.
US12260513B2
A method and system including: defining a geographic area; receiving a plurality of images; determining a plurality of image points; partitioning the geographic area into a plurality of image regions based on the plurality of image points; and stitching the plurality of images into a combined image based on the plurality of image regions.
US12260506B1
For a given region of a given virtual image to be presented to a given eye of user(s), intensity values of pixels in a corresponding portion of a real-world image and an amount of crosstalk due to other virtual image(s) are determined. A minimum intensity level of pixels in the given region of the given virtual image are increased, based on the intensity values of the pixels in the corresponding portion of the real-world image. First intensity values of the pixels in the given region of the given virtual image are adjusted, based on the amount of crosstalk determined for the given region of the given virtual image. A light field image is generated by utilising the given virtual image and the other virtual image(s). The light field image is displayed via a light field display unit for producing a synthetic light field.
US12260504B2
A method and system for performing dynamic provisioning of augmented reality information is provided. The method includes acquiring, from a user device of a user, user device-based information, retrieving rebate information corresponding to the user device-based information, and retrieving user information of the user of the user device. Based on the acquired and retrieved information, the method further tracks movement or activity of the user device, and determines whether a predetermined condition is met. When the predetermined condition is determined to have been met, the method displays one or more rebates in augmented reality over image information displayed on a display of the user device. However, when the predetermined condition is determined not to have been met, the method continues the tracking of movement or activity of the user device until the predetermined condition is determined to be met.
US12260502B2
A system and method for mapping location of one or more target data points to a D-dimensional environment are provided. The method includes mapping a sorted array of D-dimensional polygons to a D-dimensional cartesian coordinate system, determining a floor value and a ceiling value of each coordinate point of each target data point, calculating one or more shifted floor value and one or more shifted ceiling value of each coordinate point, combining the shifted floor value and the shifted ceiling value for determining one or more potential centroids, authenticating the potential centroids for determining one or more real centroids by determining the presence of the potential centroid in the array, calculating the distance of the target data point from the real centroids, and determining the polygon having the real centroid with the least distance from the target data point.
US12260499B1
A computer-implemented method for incorporating a time dimension to create a 3D graphics display from genealogical family tree data showing discrete individuals in multiple generations of a genealogical family tree data set, a computerized system for displaying the 3D genealogical family tree data set, and a non-transient medium encoding instructions for implementing the method are described herein. Icons representing individuals of interest in the three-dimensional genealogical family tree data set are displayed within a virtual three-dimensional space employing three orthogonal coordinates wherein the vertical axis (Z axis) represents chronological time extending backward in time from the current date to an earlier time during which specified individuals or generations of individuals lived, and each icon has a height or extent in the Z-dimension representative of the lifespan of the individual represented by the icon and is positioned in the Z-dimension at coordinates corresponding to that lifespan.
US12260490B2
An image processing apparatus includes an imaging unit that images a user and a real object, an analysis unit that analyzes an attitude of the real object based on imaging information captured by the imaging unit, and a control unit that controls display of an image related to the real object based on the attitude of the real object.
US12260486B2
A Displaced Micro-mesh (DMM) primitive enables high complexity geometry for ray and path tracing while minimizing the associated builder costs and preserving high efficiency. A structured, hierarchical representation implicitly encodes vertex positions of a triangle micro-mesh based on a barycentric grid, and enables microvertex displacements to be encoded efficiently (e.g., as scalars linearly interpolated between minimum and maximum triangle surfaces). The resulting displaced micro-mesh primitive provides a highly compressed representation of a potentially vast number of displaced microtriangles that can be stored in a small amount of space. Improvements in ray tracing hardware permit automatic processing of such primitive for ray-geometry intersection testing by ray tracing circuits without requiring intermediate reporting to a shader.
US12260475B2
Embodiments are disclosed for performing content linting in a graphic design system. A method of content linting includes receiving a selection of a content type to be generated, receiving a selection of a location in a digital canvas to place content of the content type, determining a placement context associated with the location in the digital canvas, identifying one or more content rules to the content based on a static analysis of the placement context, and generating, using one or more machine learning models, content of the selected content type at the location in the digital canvas using the one or more content rules.
US12260462B2
Techniques for real-time expense auditing and machine learning are disclosed. An expense auditing system trains a machine learning model to compute audit risk scores as a function of expense descriptions. The auditing system receives an expense description associated with an employee. The expense auditing system computes, using the trained machine learning model, an audit risk score associated with the expense description. The expense auditing system compares the audit risk score with an audit trigger. The audit trigger includes one or more conditions that, when satisfied, identifies expense descriptions that are at risk of being audited. The expense auditing system determines that the audit risk score satisfies the audit trigger. Responsive to determining that the audit risk score satisfies the audit trigger, the expense auditing system alerts the employee that the expense description is at risk of being audited.
US12260456B2
Various implementations directed to price time priority queue routing for a multi-dimension map tile data exchange linked database are provided. In one implementation, a method may include receiving origin location data and destination location data. The method may also include generating routes based on the origin location data and the destination location data. The method may further include determining virtual hubs along the routes, where the virtual hubs include a first virtual hub based on the origin location data and a second virtual hub based on the destination location data. In addition, the method may include receiving market depth data for a geolocation exchange for the geolocation exchange units based on the routes. The method may also include selecting an optimized route of the routes for the geolocation exchange units based on an objective function.
US12260451B2
A method of delivering advertising in an online environment includes determining a context of a user operating a client computer to interact with an e-commerce website, where the determined context representing an intent of the user to locate a product for purchase, defining a relation between one or more of a plurality of advertisements and the product based on at least one of a plurality of relevance types, and displaying, to the user, at least one of the advertisements having the relation to the product.
US12260445B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an information display method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The information display method includes: displaying a live page; obtaining popularity information corresponding to the resource; and displaying the popularity information in an area which is associated with the first multimedia information on the live page.
US12260442B2
There is provided a computer system and method for orchestrating a user interface, the method include: obtaining a first data set representative of intercepted data communication messages between a user interface of a user and a merchant hosting server; obtaining a second data set representing an instruction set for loading visual elements on the user interface provided from the merchant hosting server; analyzing the first data set to obtain one or more user-specific characteristics; determining if the user-specific characteristics associated with the user satisfy a trigger condition associated with a current resource offering; and responsive to a positive determination: injecting, into the instruction set for loading the visual elements on the user interface provided from the merchant hosting server, code corresponding to an interactive visual element corresponding to the current resource offering.
US12260426B2
A method and apparatus are provided for presenting multimedia content to a caller and/or a called party in association with a telephone call. Content may be presented pre-ring (before the called party's telephone rings), in-call, and/or post-call. Content presented to a party may be related to another party participating in the call or may be related to a third party (e.g., an advertiser that paid for the ability to have its content presented). Presented content may be actuable, to allow a caller to change the destination of a call, take advantage of an offer presented to him or her, redeem a coupon, schedule or queue a subsequent call, etc. To find a desired destination party, a caller may initiate a manual or automatic search of his or her local contacts (on his telephone) and/or a central or global directory or contact list.
US12260425B2
In one aspect of the present disclosure, a device includes one or more memories having computer-readable instructions stored therein and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute the computer-readable instructions to receive, over a period of time, information regarding transactions conducted in association with a user account; identify a category associated with one or more of the transactions based on the information, wherein identifying yields a number of categories; generate a ranking of the categories based on a transaction parameter; assign a different number of points to corresponding transactions in one or more of the categories based on the ranking, with a highest number of points assigned to the corresponding transactions in at least one category with highest ranking; and apply the corresponding number of points to the user account.
US12260412B2
Systems and methods discussed herein relate to a system for detecting and preventing fraudulent transactions through collecting requests for website access, stored-card trades and sales, and transactions using physical or electronically issued credit, debit, stored-value, and other cards. The fraud detection system not only flags individual transactions, but is also configured to dynamically track and update banned/watch lists associated with request artifacts and cards in order to catch and prevent individual actors as well as BOTs, at least by adjusting the thresholds used to evaluate risk scores and what is placed on the banned/watch lists based upon requests received as well as information from financial institutions, merchants, government agencies, and watchdog groups. The system is also configured to provide information to those groups.
US12260401B2
Electronic device for transmitting transaction by using external device and operation method thereof
An electronic device including a processor that generates first identification data including a unique value corresponding to an external device, transmits an authentication request including information on a blockchain application and the first identification data to the external device, receives, a random value generated from the external device if authentication is successful, transmits a signature request including the random value and information on a transaction to the external device, generates a first hash value for the transaction, receives a second hash value for the transaction, which is generated based on verification of the random value, and signature data obtained by performing digital signature to the transaction with a private key stored in the external device, and determines whether to transmit the transaction to the blockchain network, based on the first hash value and the second hash value.
US12260400B2
The present invention discloses a computer-implemented method for digitally signing transactions between multiple nodes comprising preparing a multi-party transaction block, comprising at least one transaction object comprising at least a goods transaction and a payment transaction, adding first digital asset sources, digital signing and transmitting the multi-party transaction block in the previous node, to a subsequent node, adding additional digital asset sources, digital signing and finally submitting the multi-party transaction block to a transaction ledger by the final node, wherein all of the digital asset sources to be swapped are recorded in the ledger. The present invention further discloses a system to accomplish the above, comprising a first node, a second node, and a transaction ledger. Further a computer program product including a program for a processing device, comprising software code portions for performing the steps of the above method is disclosed.
US12260395B2
In some embodiments, a near-field communication card may be provided with an NFC-field-strength visualization display and a transparent window through which the NFC-field-strength visualization display is visible. In some embodiments, a token (e.g., the NFC card) may be constructed to include an electromagnetic field visualization display, a radiofrequency communication antenna, and a first transparent region having a transparent surface through which the electromagnetic field visualization display is visible. In some embodiments, a first layer of a token may be provided, where the first layer includes an electromagnetic field visualization display and a radiofrequency communication antenna. A second layer of the token may be provided, where the second layer includes a first transparent region. The first and second layers may be bonded such that the electromagnetic field visualization display of the first layer is visible through the first transparent region of the second layer.
US12260392B2
Provided are methods, systems, and computer program products for verifying a card image file. A system may include at least one processor programmed or configured to parse a card image file to determine card data represented by the card image file, generate a plurality of simulated payment transactions based on the card data, each simulated payment transaction including simulated transaction data, issue a plurality of commands to the payment device emulator, the plurality of commands based on the simulated transaction data for the plurality of simulated payment transactions, receive a plurality of command responses generated by the payment device emulator based on the plurality of commands, and verify the card image file based on the plurality of command responses and the card data.
US12260388B2
A BLUETOOTH low energy mobile payments system may comprise a BLE beacon that is deployed at a merchant location. The BLE beacon may be associated with a specific merchant terminal. The BLE beacon may be configured to broadcast a unique beacon ID that is detectable by a user device. The user device may be configured to communicate the beacon ID to a payment system. In response to receiving the beacon ID, the user device may initiate a payment between a user and a merchant, via a user device and a merchant terminal.
US12260381B1
A computer implemented method, system and non-transitory computer-readable device for a remote deposit environment activating, on a client device, a financial application, wherein the financial application is configured to instantiate a customer interface (UI) on the client device. Upon receiving a customer request, based on interactions with the UI, the method implements an electronic deposit of a financial instrument by activating a camera on the client device to generate a live stream of image data of a field of view of at least one camera, wherein the live stream includes imagery of at least a portion of the financial instrument. The method continues by extracting, based on the live stream of image data and by an optical character recognition program resident on the client device, one or more data fields from the financial instrument and communicating the extracted one or more data fields to a remote deposit server to complete the electronic deposit.
US12260374B2
The issue-discovery services described herein may access data from the messaging platform and/or the issue-tracking platform to automatically determine issue attributes for creating a new issue in the issue-tracking platform based on activity in the messaging platform. The issue-discovery service may provide or otherwise be associated with a user input element presented on a client device (e.g., presented in the chat user interface), which allows a user of the client device to provide a user input to create a new issue in the issue-tracking platform based on activity in the chat channel. The user input may identify content associated with the chat channel (e.g., one or more messages displayed in the chat user interface) for use in creating the new issue in the issue-tracking platform.
US12260372B1
Botanical, plant-based products have a variety of labels and symbols that often do not represent active ingredients they contain. As described herein, this may be addressed using a method which comprises receiving active ingredient data for a product, determining a category for the product based on the received active ingredient data, generating one or more data outputs comprising an identifier for the product, and outputting the identifier for the product on a digital display of a computer which is local to a user. Other useful information, such as scores indicating interactions between product ingredients, may also be generated.
US12260368B2
A system for receiving and temporarily maintaining a delivery item and dynamically initiating a dispatched logistics operation for a storage receptacle. The storage receptacle has an entrance opening for receiving the delivery item, a temporary storage area for temporarily maintaining the delivery item once deposited with the storage receptacle, and a retrieval door providing selective access to the temporary storage area. The system includes a backend server that maintains a management profile related to the storage receptacle, a bridge node mounted to the storage receptacle, and a wireless accessory sensor node having at least one sensor that monitors for a change in state of the storage receptacle. The wireless accessory sensor node broadcasts an updated advertising signal. The bridge node transmits retrieved event information to the backend server at a reporting time, and the backend server initiates the dispatched logistics operation from comparing the retrieved event information to location information.
US12260361B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to intelligent bot performance tracking and analysis. A computing platform may receive a work queue of items to be processed using a bot. The computing platform may receive, in real-time with processing of the work queue using the bot, metadata associated with the work queue. Based on the metadata, the computing platform may assign, in real-time, a value metric associated with completion of each item in the work queue. Based on the assigned value metric, the computing platform may identify a robotic process automation cost associated with processing the work queue via the bot. The computing platform may compare, the robotic process automation cost to a cost to process the work queue via another operation, and determine a performance metric for the bot based on the comparison. The computing platform may dynamically generate and transmit, in real-time, an indication of the determined bot performance metric.
US12260360B2
Data associated a plurality of user interface elements may be retrieved from at least one database associated with a service business, such as a casino. At a first time, a first indication to turn on a first subset of the plurality of user interface elements may be received. The user interface elements may include content management, task management, property management, action management, player profiling, comp management, player development, asset tagging and flagging, profitability and comparative analysis, player insights, floor mapping, campaign management, etc. Each of the first subset of user interface elements may be populated with the respective data associated that user interface element.
US12260359B2
A method for determining cognitive attributes from adjusted forecast to automatically recommend changes in adjusted forecast is provided. The method includes (i) receiving for a bias management service, action recommendation to mitigate or leverage from parameter forecast, which is a forecast of future values of a parameter associated with a factor group, tracking a modification in parameter forecast based on adjustment made by cognitive system in parameter forecast, classifying adjusted forecast as negative or positive cognitive system bias based on a deviation of the adjusted forecast from actual value to determine bias of the cognitive system, determining factors that associate with bias of the cognitive system, generating a skill score of cognitive system based on factor group of the bias management service using a machine learning engine and generating a recommendation to change a value of adjusted forecast based on cognitive attributes and skill score of cognitive system.
US12260352B2
Systems and methods of database optimization and distributed computing using thin locator style records are described herein. In some embodiments, a method includes distributing remote agents to a plurality of remote computing systems, generating standardized inventory records received via the remote agents, generating a database of available inventory that comprises complete standardized inventory records, generating thin locator style records for the complete standardized inventory records, the thin locator style records comprising key record identifiers receiving a query, the query comprising a price quote request, generating a standardized query based on the received query; selecting the thin locator style records in response to the standardized query; obtaining the complete standardized inventory records corresponding to the thin locator style records of the key record identifiers included in the price quote request; and providing the complete inventory records to a requestor.
US12260351B2
Methods and systems for automatically predicting the probability of regulatory compliance approval based on data contained in a data structure. A data structure can be configured to include data collated and collected from one or more regulators (e.g., regulatory agencies) and one or more value chain participants. Such data is inclusive of data indicative of actual approval-request results of applications for regulatory approval by one or more regulators and variable weights assigned to different data elements. A prediction can be then made as to the probability that an application for regulatory approval by a value chain participant will be approved by a regulator based on the data collated and collected and contained in the data structure. This approach predicts the probability that an application for regulatory approval by a value chain participant will be approved and also predicts what is missing for a regulatory approval application.
US12260349B2
A simulation tool executing a simulation model and a generating an automated dialog associated therewith. The automated dialog comprises a bot configured for interacting with a user, wherein the dialog is displayed to the user. The bot is integrated with a set of rules that are referenced as a function of input received from the user for furthering the dialog and making a recommendation about the process simulation. In certain embodiments, the simulation tool is configured to select a thermodynamic method for use in a process simulation as a function of the set of rules and the user input.
US12260347B2
A method for predicting a time-to-failure of a target storage device may include training a machine learning scheme with a time-series dataset, and applying the telemetry data from the target storage device to the machine learning scheme which may output a time-window based time-to-failure prediction. A method for training a machine learning scheme for predicting a time-to-failure of a storage device may include applying a data quality improvement framework to a time-series dataset of operational and failure data from multiple storage devices, and training the scheme with the pre-processed dataset. A method for training a machine learning scheme for predicting a time-to-failure of a storage device may include training the scheme with a first portion of a time-series dataset of operational and failure data from multiple storage devices, testing the machine learning scheme with a second portion of the time-series dataset, and evaluating the machine learning scheme.
US12260345B2
A system and a method of generating and using a multimodal knowledge representation within an artificial intelligence computing system may include prompting a selection of nodes in a graphical visualization; defining an adaptation strategy based; integrating an adaptation strategy representation with the selection of nodes to generate a multimodal knowledge representation; traversing the selection of nodes in response to a user query; performing an adaptation on the selection of nodes; and updating the knowledge representation based on user feedback to a result generated in response to the user query.
US12260343B2
Techniques for use in identifying one of more concepts in a knowledge representation (KR). The techniques include obtaining user context information associated with a user, wherein the user context information comprises a plurality of words; Also included are semantic disambiguation techniques comprising obtaining user context information associated with a user, wherein the user context information comprises a first portion and a second portion different from the first portion; and disambiguating between a first and second concept in a knowledge representation (KR) associated with a first meaning of the first portion. Semantic disambiguation techniques further include obtaining user context information associated with a user, wherein the user context information comprises a first portion and a second portion different from the first portion; and disambiguating between a first concept and second concept in a knowledge representation (KR) using a measures of dominance and semantic coherence. Additionally, techniques are disclosed for calculating a measure of semantic coherence based on a graph of a knowledge representation (KR) and, an overlap of semantic context of a first concept and a second concept in the KR.
US12260340B2
Provided is a knowledge distillation technique for training a student language model that, relative to a larger teacher language model, has a significantly smaller vocabulary, lower embedding dimensions, and/or hidden state dimensions. Specifically, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a dual-training mechanism that trains the teacher and student language models simultaneously to obtain optimal word embeddings for the student vocabulary. In some implementations, this approach can be combined with learning shared projection matrices that transfer layer-wise knowledge from the teacher language model to the student language model. Example experimental results have also demonstrated higher compression efficiency and accuracy when compared with other state-of-the-art compression techniques, including the ability to compress the BERTBASE model by more than 60×, with only a minor drop in downstream task metrics, resulting in a language model with a footprint of under 7 MB.
US12260335B2
A computer system is provided and programmed to assemble a plurality of synthetic datasets and blend those synthetic datasets into a synthesized dataset. An evaluation is then performed to determine whether an existing model should be associated with the synthesized dataset or a new model should be trained from an existing model using the synthesized dataset.
US12260333B2
A semi-supervised model incorporates deep feature learning and pseudo label estimation into a unified framework. The deep feature learning can include multiple convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The CNNs can be trained on available training datasets, tuned using a small amount of labeled training samples, and stored as the original models. Features are then extracted for unlabeled training samples by utilizing the original models. Multi-view clustering is used to cluster features to generate pseudo labels. Then the original models are tuned by using an updated training set that includes labeled training samples and unlabeled training samples with pseudo labels. Iterations of multi-view clustering and tuning using an updated training set can continue until the updated training set is stable.
US12260330B2
A learning apparatus includes a metric space learning unit and a case example storage unit. The metric space learning unit learns a metric space including feature vectors extracted from sets of attribute-attached image data for each combination of different attributes by using the sets of attribute-attached image data to which pieces of attribute information are added. The case example storage unit calculates feature vectors from sets of case example image data, and stores the feature vectors as case examples associated with the metric space.
US12260329B2
The present technology is directed to identifying neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) in blood. For example, the present technology provides artificial intelligence systems, architectures, and/or programs that can rapidly and/or automatically identify and/or enumerate NETs in peripheral blood smears, CBC scattergrams, and the like. The artificial intelligence architectures can be integrated into current automated imaging and/or analysis systems (e.g., automated imaging systems for performing cell blood counts (CBC)). The artificial intelligence architectures can also be integrated into another computing device, such as a mobile device.
US12260327B2
The present application discloses an optimizer learning method and apparatus, an electronic device and a readable storage medium, which relates to the field of deep learning technologies. An implementation solution adopted by the present application during optimizer learning is: acquiring training data, the training data including a plurality of data sets each including neural network attribute information, neural network optimizer information, and optimizer parameter information; and training a meta-learning model by taking the neural network attribute information and the neural network optimizer information in the data sets as input and taking the optimizer parameter information in the data sets as output, until the meta-learning model converges. The present application can implement self-adaptation of optimizers, so as to improve generalization capability of the optimizers.
US12260325B2
A processor-implemented neural network model reconfiguration method is provided. The method calculates required resource information of each of a plurality of layers of a neural network model, determines whether a layer of the plurality of layers is a reconfiguration target layer based on the required resource information and hardware information, determines reconfiguration layers, with respect to the reconfiguration target layer, based on required resource information of the reconfiguration target layer and the hardware information, selects one of the reconfiguration target layer and the determined reconfiguration layers based on performance information of the reconfiguration target layer and performance information of each of the determined reconfiguration layers, and implements one of the determined reconfigured layers in the neural network model based on the selecting of the determined reconfiguration layers.
US12260311B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing inputs using a neural network system that includes one or more pre-normalized layers or one or more regularization normalization layers.
US12260309B1
Systems and methods to train and/or utilize a machine learning model to classify smart contracts in transactions recorded on a transaction log stored in immutable distributed electronic storage, are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: obtain transaction information characterizing transactions recorded on a transaction log stored in immutable distributed electronic storage; obtain classification information identifying contract classes of the transactions; aggregate transaction information and classification information into model training information; provide the model training information to a machine learning model to train the machine learning model and generate a trained machine learning model; and/or perform other operations. Exemplary implementations may: provide transaction information of new transactions as input into a trained machine learning model; obtain output from the trained machine learning model; generate, from the output, classification information including contract classes of the new transactions; and/or perform other operations.
US12260302B2
A computer-implemented method for performing Learning from Demonstrations, particularly Imitation Learning, based on data associated with a first domain, particularly a source domain. The method includes: determining first data characterizing a demonstrator of the first domain, wherein particularly the first data characterizes sensor data of the demonstrator and/or sensor data of at least one spectator observing the demonstrator, determining first knowledge from the first domain based on the first data, transferring at least a part of the first knowledge to a second domain, particularly a target domain.
US12260301B2
A data annotation server accesses a request from a machine learning server for annotated images of a user interface containing a specified user interface element. The data annotation server programmatically determines whether user interfaces generated by an application server include the specified user interface element. If so, an image of the user interface is stored and a location or bounding box of the user interface element is determined. The stored image of the user interface is annotated with the determined location of the user interface element. The image and the annotation are provided to the machine learning server, which uses the images and annotations to train a machine learning model.
US12260299B2
Systems and methods for using machine learning models to predict an outcome of a product test are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may generate a machine learning model using training data indicating a set of results of a set of products tested according to a specific product test. The electronic device may access a set of inputs comprising a set of additional results of at least one additional product tested according to a modified product test, and input the set of inputs into the machine learning model. Based on an output of the machine learning model, the electronic device may predict whether the at least one additional product would pass or comply with the original specific product test.
US12260297B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for implementing two-qubit gates using a tunable coupler. In one aspect, a method of implementing a two-qubit gate includes: applying a unitary transformation control signal to a tunable coupler arranged between a first data qubit and a second data qubit to obtain a target unitary transformation of the first data qubit and the second data qubit, wherein the unitary transformation control signal is applied to the tunable coupler over a predetermined period of time to allow coupling between the first data qubit and the second data qubit through the tunable coupler.
US12260293B2
An information processing system including a circuitry configured to detect first identification information used to identify a job, generate second identification information associated with the first identification information, and create a slip on which the first identification information and the second identification information are displayed.
US12260292B2
A method for locating an optical code, on the basis of a finder pattern of the optical code, in an image having a plurality of pixels, the method comprising the steps of determining at least one candidate position for the finder pattern on the basis of edge transitions along at least one line through the image; determining a final position of the finder pattern in a vicinity of the candidate position; and verifying the final position, i.e. verifying that the image comprises the finder pattern in the final position, using a known property of the finder pattern.
US12260291B1
Methods and systems disclosed herein enable tracking user actions by generating different visually scannable codes (e.g., QR codes) for combinations of user, operator, and action(s). Each visually scannable code may be stored with user action data and an operator identifier and linked to another visually scannable code corresponding to the user. When a visually scannable code is scanned, all data associated with the visually scannable code and data associated with other linked visually scannable codes is generated for display. By generating the visually scannable codes and storing the codes in a linked state, the system is able to provide quick and efficient data retrieval.
US12260288B2
Bioptic barcode readers with multiple imaging devices are disclosed herein. An example bioptic barcode reader includes a housing with a generally horizontal window and an upright window, a barcode reading device positioned within the housing, a first imaging device positioned within the housing, and a second imaging device positioned within the housing below the first imaging device. The first imaging device has a first field-of-view directed out of the upright window, the second imaging device has a second field-of-view directed out of the upright window, and a first central imaging axis of the first field-of-view intersects a second central imaging axis of the second field-of-view at an intersecting angle that is greater than or equal to 15 degrees and less than or equal to 55 degrees. The second central imaging axis of the second field-of-view extends upward above the generally horizontal window at a second angle that is greater than 0 degrees.
US12260287B2
A wireless tag reading device includes: a reader that receives tag information transmitted from a wireless tag attached to an article; a first engagement portion provided in the reader; and a handle portion detachable from the first engagement portion. The handle portion further includes a second engagement portion detachable from the first engagement portion, and a gripper detachable from the second engagement portion.
US12260285B2
A data collection system able to provide in real-time sensor data and asynchronous sensor data is described. The data collection system comprises at least one tag device comprising a battery, a memory, a transceiver, a controller, and at least one sensor. The tag device being adapted for generating and transmitting a beacon signal at first intervals; and for storing the data in memory when no reception signal is received within a first time lapse. The data collection system comprises a bridge device comprising a controller and a transceiver. The bridge device being adapted for receiving, tether-free from the at least one tag device, the beacon signal; and transmitting the reception signal in response to the beacon signal. The tag device is also adapted to transmit asynchronous signals when the beacon signal is received.
US12260283B2
A wireless tag communication device includes an antenna, a communication control circuit, a camera, a sensor, and a processor. The antenna has directivity. The communication control circuit communicates with a wireless tag via the antenna. The camera captures an image in which a direction in which the directivity of the antenna is maximized coincides with a capturing direction. The sensor detects brightness in a first image captured by the camera. The processor calculates a detection position of a wireless tag as a search target in the first image and displays on a display the first image and a second image in which the first image is masked with a mask density according to a sensor value detected by the sensor in an area other than an explicit area with the detection position of the wireless tag as a base point.
US12260282B2
A card reader includes a card accommodating part which has an insertion port into which a card is inserted, accommodates at least a part of the card having been inserted, and has a discharge hole which is capable of discharging a foreign matter in an inside of the card accommodating part, and a foreign matter accommodation member which accommodates the foreign matter discharged through the discharge hole and is capable of being attached and detached. The foreign matter accommodation member structures an airtight space together with the card accommodating part, and the airtight space is airtight in a portion at least except the insertion port.
US12260280B2
An embodiment of the present invention is an RFID label having a label substrate, an RFID antenna, an IC chip, and an adhesive layer that are stacked in this order. The label substrate is a thermal paper having a thermosensitive color developing layer on one surface. The RFID antenna is provided on the other surface of the label substrate. The IC chip is connected to the RFID antenna with an ultraviolet curable anisotropic conductive adhesive.
US12260266B2
A system and method of balancing data storage among a plurality of groups of computing devices, each group comprising one or more respective computing devices. The method may involve determining a compute utilization disparity between the group having a highest level of compute utilization and the group having a lowest level of compute utilization, determining a transfer of one or more projects between the plurality of groups of computing devices that reduces the compute utilization disparity, and directing the plurality of groups of computing devices to execute the determined transfer.
US12260265B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums described herein are directed to determining and recommending an optimal compute resource configuration for a cloud-based resource (e.g., a server, a virtual machine, etc.) for migrating a customer to the cloud. The embodiments described herein utilize a statistically robust approach that makes recommendations that are more flexible (elastic) and account for the full distribution of the amount of resource usage. Such an approach is utilized to develop a personalized rank of relevant recommendations to a customer. To determine which compute resource configuration to recommend to the customer, the customer's usage profile is matched to a set of customers that have already migrated to the cloud. The compute resource configuration that reaches the performance most similar to the performance of the configurations utilized by customers in the matched set is recommended to the user.
US12260261B2
The present disclosure relates to a framework that provides execution of serverless functions in a cloud environment based on occurrence of events/notifications from services in an entirely different cloud environment. A target agent obtains a notification from a source agent, where the target agent is deployed in a target cloud environment and the source agent is deployed in a source cloud environment that is different than the target cloud environment. The target agent determines a function that is to be invoked based on the notification. Upon successfully verifying whether the target agent is permitted to invoke the function that is deployed in a target customer tenancy of the target cloud environment, the target agent invokes the function in the target customer tenancy of the target cloud environment.
US12260242B2
Examples for managing virtual infrastructure resources in cloud environments can include (1) instantiating an orchestration node for managing local control planes at multiple clouds, (2) instantiating first and second local control planes at different respective clouds, the first and second local control planes interfacing with different respective virtualized infrastructure managers (“VIMs”), where the first and second local control planes establish secure communication with the orchestration node, and (3) deploying, by the orchestration node, services to the first and second local control planes. Further, the first and second local control planes can cause the respective VIMs to manage the services at the different respective clouds.
US12260236B1
Techniques for machine learning prediction using edge devices are described. In some examples a method of use includes receiving a request to load a second model onto an edge device while a first model has already been loaded on the edge device, wherein the second model and the first model share an external handle; loading at least one instance the second model into memory of the edge device; and after the second model has been loaded into memory of the edge device, directing a prediction request to the shared external handle to the second model instead of the first model.
US12260234B2
Systems and processes for application integration with a digital assistant are provided. In accordance with one example, a method includes receiving an audio input including a natural-language user input and identifying an intent object of a set of intent objects. The intent object may be derived from the natural-language user input. The method further includes identifying a software application associated with the intent object of the set of intent objects, providing the intent object to the software application to cause the software application to perform a task associated with the intent object, receiving a result response indicating whether the task was successfully performed, and providing an output indicating whether the task was performed.
US12260233B2
Methods and systems described herein for addressing issues associated with varying graph analytics tools that require different tool-specific coding languages. An artificial intelligence (AI) sub-system of various modules extracts metadata from a dataset and identifies nodes and relationships in the dataset using the metadata. The dataset is matched with a corresponding graph-analytics template in a data store, and a dynamic template modifier modifies the corresponding graph-analytics template. In some examples, the AI system generates smart guided videos with logical breakpoints that are embedded along with templates for quick learning and to build faster graphical analytics. The AI system includes a dynamic template modifier and a cognitive smart AI engine that includes a graph.
US12260230B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining a set of selectors associated with the publisher identifier, each selector comprising specified content to extract from source data and one or more rules for extracting the specified content. The system and methods further provided for each location data in the list of location data, extracting, from the source data, specified content for each selector of at least a subset of the set of selectors based on the one or more rules specified in each selector of the at least the subset of the set of selectors; determining a template to use to generate the media content item, the template comprising regions corresponding to the one or more selectors; populating each region of the template using specified content for the corresponding selector; and generating the media content item from the populated template.
US12260229B2
Drift is automatically detected in configuration of services running in a management appliance of a software-defined data center. A method of automatically detecting drift includes: in response to a notification of a change in a configuration of a first service enabled for proactive drift detection, transmitting a first request to compute drift in the configuration of the first service to a plug-in of the first service, the first request including the change in the configuration of the first service; periodically, at designated time intervals, transmitting a second request to compute drift in the configuration of a second service enabled for passive drift detection, to the plug-in of the second service, the second request including a current state of the configuration of the second service; and notifying a desired state management service of the computed drift in the configuration of the first and second services.
US12260228B1
Optimizing configuration rules in a computerized system comprises accessing a set of configuration rules associated with one or more management domains, computing standardized configuration rules, and iteratively optimizing these rules. The optimization process involves computing a candidate set of optimized rules, comparing the candidate set of optimized rules to the original set using a distance metric, and accepting the optimized set if it meets a proximity threshold. System configuration values are then modified based on the optimized rules. The method enhances efficiency and security in identity management systems by reducing redundancies, updating outdated rules, and simplifying rule expressions.
US12260221B2
Circuitry comprises processing circuitry configured to execute program instructions in dependence upon respective trigger conditions matching a current trigger state and to set a next trigger state in response to program instruction execution; the processing circuitry comprising: instruction storage configured to selectively provide a group of two or more program instructions for execution in parallel; and trigger circuitry responsive to the generation of a trigger state by execution of program instructions and to a trigger condition associated with a given group of program instructions, to control the instruction storage to provide program instructions of the given group of program instructions for execution.
US12260217B2
A method for renaming architectural register, such as control and status register (CSR), is disclosed. The method includes decoding an instruction for updating CSR, updating the CSR based on a respective instruction of the one or more instructions, allocating a unique tag to the instruction in pipeline, and writing the tag into a mapping table for renaming the CSR. The tag can identify the CSR included in the instruction or the updated values of the CSR. The tag can be associated with a unique value. Moreover, the method can employ a First In, First Out (FIFO) queuing technique and virtual bits.
US12260204B2
A deployment engine executing on a computing device can receive a command from a user via a command line interface of the deployment engine. The command can include a predesignated flag for replicating a software development environment that is local to the computing device. The deployment engine can obtain configuration data describing characteristics of the software development environment. The deployment engine can, in response to receiving the command, build an image file based on the configuration data. The image file can be configured for deploying the software development environment inside a virtual guest on a remote computing device.
US12260193B2
In an example embodiment, a common, composable abstraction is provided that allows components to work efficiently across programming languages and services without the need to write glue code. Application developers can concentrate on the application logic itself. The functionality of services can be developed by framework developers only once, using the programming language of their choice.
US12260190B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for a workflow building module utilizing a canvas are disclosed. A configuration phase includes enabling workflow construction via selection of preconstructed workflow blocks interconnectable with logical connections, and enabling placement of a first workflow block on a canvas. The first workflow block has an input field having a static subfield, and a subfield URL for retrieving dynamic subfields. Upon placement of the first block on the canvas, the subfield URL is invoked to retrieve the dynamic subfields. Placement is enabled of a second workflow block on the canvas, in a same branch as the first workflow block. The second workflow block has an input field utilizing a subset of the dynamic subfields of the first workflow block. During a runtime phase, values of the subset of the dynamic subfields of the first workflow block are fetched and used as inputs for the second workflow block.
US12260178B2
A communication support server includes: a message content analysis unit configured to analyze a content of a message transmitted from a first terminal device used by a first user and/or a second terminal device used by a second user; a question information generation unit configured to generate question information to be transmitted to the first user based on the content of the message analyzed by the message content analysis unit; and an assist message generation unit configured to generate an assist message to be transmitted only to the second terminal device based on answer information that is an answer of the first user to the question information.
US12260176B2
A trouble ticket may contain various details of an observed issue and information of the actual issue which is hidden in the trouble ticket description along with other information. Embodiments herein describe an algorithm of algorithms (AoA) layer approach for extracting issues from trouble ticket descriptions. The method identifies the type of trouble ticket whether it is machine generated or user generated trouble tickets and accordingly selects the appropriate algorithm for issue extraction. It selects a relevant algorithm for the machine generated trouble tickets, and user generated trouble tickets based on trouble ticket data properties, historical performance, and a user feedback. It identifies right mix of columns from a service catalog to be used for matching based on presence of weighted keywords in the input data and identifies high-weighted keywords from input data descriptions and compares them with selected columns from catalog to generate accurate matches with their similarity score.
US12260173B2
The disclosed technology includes multi-way triggering of automatic replication elements selectively within and across documents, cellular atomization of spreadsheet cells and charts while retaining their desired formula, function and content properties, combining the selective multi-way replication with the cellular atomization, and employing a library capability to easily reuse automatically coordinating elements and atomized spreadsheet or tabular cells and charts.
US12260172B2
Systems, devices, and methods for fileless information management are provided. A system includes a content-management server in communication with at least one client device via a computer network. The client device has a client user interface to concurrently display a content-editing area and a content card-management area. The content-management server stores content data and content card template metadata shareable between client devices. The content-management server stores programming instructions for a content card-management program for receiving, storing, and transmitting content data via content card templates. A content card template may include metadata associating content data stored in the memory with a content binding in the content-editing area of a client device.
US12260170B2
Example embodiments facilitate augmenting a client-side worksheet of a spreadsheet with context information retrieved from non-direct ancestor worksheets of the client-side worksheet. A spreadsheet plug-in enables retrieval of the context information from a server system, e.g., cloud-based database, via one or more web services. In a specific embodiment, the context information represents one or more data dimensions, e.g., worksheet columns, retrieved via the server system form one or more remote databases and populated into one or more non-direct ancestor worksheets (e.g., grandparent worksheets, great grandparent worksheets, etc.). Then those data dimensions are displayed in the client-side descendant worksheet. The user can now efficiently edit the worksheet while viewing relevant context information in the worksheet.
US12260166B2
A method includes receiving a document for displaying on a display of the client device. The method includes identifying a first portion and a second portion of the document having a first level of content hierarchy, and determining a first text corresponding to the first portion and a second text corresponding to the second portion of the document. The method includes generating a first outline entry including the first text and a second outline entry including the second text, and displaying a selectable entry point on a graphical user interface. The method includes, in response to a selection of the selectable entry point, displaying an outline window, including the first outline entry and the second outline entry, and navigating to the first portion of the received document or the second portion of the document in response to a selection of the first outline entry or the second outline entry.
US12260163B2
Disclosed are embodiments of a computer-aided design system and corresponding method for power-optimized timing closure of an integrated circuit (IC) design. In the embodiments, a cell library includes sets of cells, where each cell in the same set has the same internal structure but different combinations of cell boundary isolation structures associated with different passive delay values. Timing closure includes replacement of a cell in a previously generated layout with another cell from the same set in order to adjust delay (e.g., increase delay) of a data signal or clock signal and, thereby facilitate fixing of a previously identified violation of a timing constraint. By eliminating or at least minimizing the need to insert buffer and/or inverter cells into a layout to add delay to a data signal and/or a clock signal during timing closure, the embodiments avoid or at least limit concurrent increases in power consumption and area consumption.
US12260159B2
A method, programming product, and/or system is disclosed for identifying flaws in integrated circuits, e.g., processors, that includes: selecting from a list of a plurality of timing issues in an integrated circuit, where each timing issue on the list is represented by one or more VHDL code lines, a particular timing issue to investigate; tracing back the selected one or more VHDL code lines, corresponding to the selected particular timing issue to investigate, to one or more selected physical design VHDL (PD-VHDL) code lines; logically navigating across the one or more selected PD-VHDL code lines to one or more corresponding normalized VHDL (NVDHL) code lines; and tracing back the one or more corresponding NHVDL code lines to one or more short-hand VHDL (SVHDL) code lines to identify one or more code lines, written by a code designer, responsible for the particular timing issue being investigated.
US12260156B2
Techniques are described for computing devices to perform automated operations related to using images acquired in a building as part of an automated generation process of a floor plan or other mapping information for the building, in some cases without using depth information from depth-sensing equipment about distances from the images' acquisition locations to objects in the surrounding building, and for subsequent use in further automated manners, such as controlling navigation of mobile devices and/or for display to end users in a corresponding graphical user interface. The automated analysis and assessment of the building images may, for example, include incrementally generating partial versions of the mapping information, determining acquisition instructions related to further acquisition of additional images and/or other types of data (e.g., to reduce uncertainty associated with portions of the partial mapping information or otherwise obtain missing data), and providing corresponding guidance in or more manners.
US12260150B2
Audio devices comprise a housing, a first audio connection supported by the housing, a second audio connection supported by the housing, and a controller supported by the housing that is configured to receive an input audio signal via the first audio connection, combine the input audio signal with a sound bite to create an output audio signal, and transmit the output audio signal via the second audio connection. Audio systems comprise an audio device and software that directs a computing device to receive a user input and transmit a sound bite to the audio device responsive to receipt of the user input.
US12260149B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and device for multiple-terminal collaboratively updating a displayed content. The method includes: displaying, by the first terminal, the first application interface of the first collaborative whiteboard application, where the first collaborative whiteboard application and the second collaborative whiteboard application of the second terminal are in a collaborative mode, where the second terminal displays the second application interface of the second collaborative whiteboard application; receiving a controlling parameter transmitted by the second terminal, where the controlling parameter is generated by the second terminal when receiving a controlling operation performed on the second application interface; and updating, by the first terminal, a content of the first application interface based on the controlling parameter, where the controlling operation is determined as a moving operation, the first canvas is moved based on the controlling parameter, and when an edge of the first canvas coincides with an edge of the first application interface in the same direction, re-rendering, by the first terminal, the content in the first canvas. The present disclosure solves the technical problem that the following terminal is difficult to follow when the canvas of the followed terminal expands infinitely in the prior art.
US12260147B2
A display control method includes obtaining an image signal from an electronic apparatus. The image signal includes at least a first image signal and a second image signal. The first image signal corresponds to first configuration information, the second image signal corresponds to second configuration information. The first configuration information and the second configuration information are used to enable the electronic apparatus to determine two different display areas. The display control method further includes determining a current display mode of a first display apparatus, when the current display mode is a first display mode, controlling the first image signal to be output and displayed on the first display apparatus corresponding to the first configuration information and controlling the second image signal to be output and displayed on a second display apparatus connected to the first display apparatus and corresponding to the second configuration information.
US12260146B2
Provided is a wearable device that includes: a first display provided on a first surface of the wearable device configured to face a face of a user wearing the wearable device, and a second display provided on a second surface of the wearable device configured to face an external environment of the wearable device when the wearable device is worn by the user. The wearable device may be configured to display a first execution screen of a first application on the first display, while the wearable device is worn by the user, determine a display type for information to be displayed on the second display, while displaying the first execution screen on the first display, and display information related to the first execution screen on the second display based on the display type.
US12260135B2
An information processing device includes a processor configured to: recognize, based on a predetermined condition, a degree of confidentiality of acquired print data; request a first apparatus that is installed in an internal environment in which the first apparatus is installed or that is installed in an environment that requires authentication processing for access to perform rasterization processing on print data that is recognized as having a high degree of confidentiality; and request a second apparatus, which is different from the first apparatus, to perform rasterization processing on print data that is recognized as not having a high degree of confidentiality.
US12260132B2
A first printing system configured to cooperate with a second printing system includes a first reception unit configured to receive a first request relating to printing from a first printing apparatus, a first transmission unit configured to transmit, to the first printing apparatus, print data corresponding to a user that is an issuer of the first request, a second reception unit configured to receive a second request relating to printing from a client terminal based on acquisition of configuration information about a second printing apparatus which is to be a printing target on the client terminal, and a second transmission unit configured to transmit, to the second printing system managing the second printing apparatus, print data corresponding to a user that is an issuer of the second request so that the second printing apparatus specified by the configuration information prints the print data.
US12260131B2
Improved automation can be achieved using command-parts. Rather than using a command to determine which key to use, command partitioning will generate a task-ID based on a key index table to determine what key to use. Based on the task-ID, an encryption engine (XTS) will know which key to use. The command is split into partitions with the same attributes. The amount of task-IDs created will equal the amount of partitions. Automation will be based on the task-IDs to create a completion for a host. The controller will then return to the key index table to count the completed commands and send the completion to the host.
US12260129B2
Disclosed herein are related to a system and a method for adjusting a read voltage threshold to read data from a plurality of memory dies of a nonvolatile memory device. Each of the plurality of memory dies comprises a plurality of blocks. A controller in communication with the plurality of memory dies may read, from a first block of the plurality of blocks, data corresponding to a read command received from a host. The controller may determine a bit error rate for the first block based on the data. The controller may update the read voltage threshold for the first block when the bit error rate for the first block exceeds a first error threshold. The read voltage threshold may be stored in the controller.
US12260125B2
New systems and methods for offering an upgraded version of media content to user(s) are provided. In some aspects of the invention, a system implementing aspects of the invention scans or otherwise determines a version and/or condition of media content stored on a device owned by the user(s). The control system also determines whether the media content can be supplemented and improved based on other, more complete, more recent, higher resolution, or otherwise superior version(s) of the media content, for a customized fee. If so, the system builds and offers an upgraded experience to the user(s) based on the superior version(s), for a customized monetary fee. If the user(s) request and/or pay for the upgraded experience, the control system then facilitates providing the upgraded experience of the media content to the user(s).
US12260124B2
A method for programming a memory device having a plurality of planes is provided. Program commands and addresses are received. Each of the addresses associated with one of the program commands. A first plane of the plurality of planes are determined according to a first address of the addresses. A page register of the first plane is reset. A second plane of the plurality of planes is determined according to a second address of the addresses. A page register of the second plane is reset.
US12260123B1
A method for performing data access control of a memory device and associated apparatus are provided. The method may include: receiving a plurality of host commands from a host device, for performing data access including data reading on the NV memory according to the plurality of host commands; and performing a reading parameter learning procedure to generate predicted data of a predicted reading voltage parameter offset regarding adjustment of a reading voltage parameter, for maintaining correctness of the data reading, for example: scanning for a best value, and adding latest information comprising the best value into a data set among one or more data sets in at least one reading-voltage control database; performing local linear regression according to the data set to update a reading voltage prediction function corresponding to a reading voltage prediction model; and generating or updating the predicted data according to the reading voltage prediction function.
US12260120B2
An electronic device includes a processor that executes a guest operating system; a memory having a guest portion that is reserved for storing data and information to be accessed by the guest operating system; and an input-output memory management unit (IOMMU). The IOMMU writes, in the guest portion, information into guest buffers and/or logs used for communicating information from the IOMMU to the guest operating system. The IOMMU also reads, from the guest portion, information in guest buffers and/or logs used for communicating information from the guest operating system to the IOMMU.
US12260114B2
Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for priority information are described. A memory system may be configured to receive, at a memory system, an indication that data is critical to operating the memory system; receive the data that is critical to operating the memory system based at least in part on the indication; select one more parameters to provide a reliability of a storage of the data into a memory device of the memory system based at least in part on receiving the indication and receiving the data; and program the data into the memory device of the memory system using the one or more parameters based at least in part on selecting the one or more parameters.
US12260111B2
A system including sensors of an advanced driver assistance system and a data recorder. The data recorder has: a volatile memory; a non-volatile memory configured with a file system region and a buffer region; and a processor configured to implement a file system mounted in the file system region. The data recorder records outputs from the sensors via the volatile memory into the buffer region in a cyclic way and, in response to an event, retrieve sensor data from the buffer region and store the sensor data into files organized under the file system mounted in the file system region.
US12260104B2
A data storage system includes an interface circuit configured to receive a read request for a chunk of data; a disk array including a plurality of main disks and a plurality of sub disks; an input/output control circuit configured to read a chunk from the main disks according to the read request; a data mapping circuit configured to store mapping relations between logical addresses and physical addresses of chunks; and a data relocation control circuit configured to control relocation of chunks stored in the disk array. The data relocation control circuit is configured to control movement of a first chunk stored in a main disk in an overloaded state to a main disk in an underloaded state, and to control movement of a second chunk stored in a sub disk to a main disk which can accommodate a required bandwidth of the second chunk.
US12260098B2
An apparatus can include memory devices and a memory controller coupled to the memory devices via memory channels. The memory channels can disable a first memory channel associated with a first memory die in a respective memory chip of a memory device and perform a memory operation via a second memory channel involving a second memory die in the respective memory chip.
US12260094B2
The present disclosure provides a memory system with a non-volatile memory that includes a plurality of storage areas. Each storage may include a plurality of first storage groups in a first area and a plurality of second storage groups in a second area. The first area may support physical addressing. The second area may not support physical addressing. A memory controller of the memory system may perform a wear leveling process by swapping a first storage group having a first group write count with a second storage group having a second group write count. The first group write count may be a maximum group write count among a plurality of group write counts corresponding to the plurality of first storage groups. The second group write count may be a minimum group write count among a plurality of group write counts corresponding to the plurality of second storage groups.
US12260088B2
Methods, systems, and devices for commanded device states for a memory system are described. For example, a memory system may be configured with different device states that are each associated with a respective allocation of resources (e.g., feature sets) for operations of the memory system. Resource allocations corresponding to the different device states may be associated with different combinations of memory management configurations, error control configurations, trim parameters, degrees of parallelism, or endurance configurations, among other parameters of the memory system, which may support different tradeoffs between performance characteristics of the memory system. A host system may be configured to evaluate various parameters of operating the host system, and to transmit commands for a memory system to enter a desired device state of the memory system.
US12260081B1
An apparatus including a scroll wheel. The apparatus includes a rotary encoder with detents. The apparatus includes a spring. The apparatus includes a switch.
US12260078B2
A dynamic webpage interface for an intelligent electronic device (IED) and method thereof are provided. The present disclosure provides for separating a webpage into multiple discrete resources, and to customize the resources returned by a web server based on the contents of a request. In one embodiment, such a custom request is implemented by a Web Services interface, such as content based API's like SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), or address and command based API's like REST (Representational State Transfer). In another embodiment, such a custom request may also be implemented by server side processing, such as CGI (Common Gateway Interface), PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor), or other server side engines.
US12260069B2
A display data generation method used in a computer including an output module, includes generating display data of page numbers for scrollably displaying page numbers of a plurality of pages each containing predetermined item information, to output the display data of page numbers from the output module, retrieving page information indicating a same number of pages as a number of page numbers displayed in a distance corresponding to a distance between two points in a display region in which the page numbers are displayed when the two points are specified by the user, wherein the number of page numbers are calculated based on the distance between the two points and the distance between adjacent page numbers displayed in the display region, and generating item display data for displaying item information contained in the pages indicated in the retrieved page information, to output the item display data from the output module.
US12260067B2
A video playlist associated with a set of videos is distinguished in a graphical user interface using a dynamic thumbnail to represent the playlist. The dynamic thumbnail comprises a static portion comprising a first image associated with the set of videos and a dynamic portion comprising one or more second images associated with the set of videos. An image provided in the dynamic portion is configured to change while the first image remains the same in response to a shift in the graphical user interface that results in a change in position of the thumbnail about the user graphical user interface.
US12260066B1
Technologies and techniques for generating an efficient computer interface for an immunization regimen. A processing apparatus is coupled to a memory storing immunization data itemsets and medical data itemsets, and a data display control module. The processing apparatus is configured to determine a frequency of immunization data and medical data itemsets associated with a rule for an immunization regimen. Proportions of the itemsets for the immunization regimen are calculated, along with a confidence factor that includes an estimate of the probability a rule portion of a rule includes another rule portion. A computer interface is generated via templates that includes immunization regimen that is based on the confidence factor. The immunization regimen data includes expected frequencies of immunization data.
US12260061B2
Systems and methods for controlling an Internet of Things (IoT) device through interaction with an augmented reality (AR) camera includes pairing an interactable augmented reality (AR) overlay with the IoT device. The interactable overlay includes control information for generating a control signal for controlling the IoT device when the interactable overlay is interacted with by the AR camera. The interactable overlay is presented on a display of the AR camera when the IoT device is in a field of view of the AR camera. An indication that the user has pointed the AR camera at the interactable overlay associated with the IoT device on the display of the AR camera is provided, and a control signal associated with the interactable overlay pointed at by the AR camera is provided to the at least one IoT device associated with the interactable overlay pointed at by the AR camera.
US12260058B2
According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a display; a coil array layer disposed under the display; a magnetic layer disposed under the coil array layer; a conductive layer disposed under the magnetic layer; a conductive plate disposed under the conductive layer; a bracket disposed under the conductive plate; and a magnetic component disposed on the bracket and under the conductive plate, wherein the conductive layer has a first opening, and the first opening and the magnetic component at least partially overlap each other.
US12260051B2
An electronic device includes a first sensing group that includes a plurality of first electrodes arranged in a first direction and a plurality of second electrodes arranged in a second direction that crosses the first direction, and a second sensing group that includes a central electrode and a plurality of peripheral electrodes disposed in a plurality of openings formed in some of the plurality of first electrodes. At least one first electrode of the plurality of first electrodes or at least one second electrode of the plurality of second electrodes is interposed between the central electrode and each of the plurality of peripheral electrodes.
US12260035B2
A touch display panel for improving product yield and product reliability and reducing manufacturing cost includes a touch sensor unit disposed on an encapsulation unit, the touch sensor unit including a plurality of touch sensors corresponding to an active area and a touch passivation layer on the plurality of touch sensors, and an antireflection unit disposed on the touch sensor unit, the antireflection unit at least including a black matrix disposed in non-emissive areas of the active area and a bezel area, wherein the antireflection unit and the touch passivation layer overlap the active area and the bezel area and do not overlap at least a pad area of the bezel area, and, in the bezel area, the overlapping area of the antireflection unit is equal to the overlapping area of the touch passivation layer.
US12260031B1
A hubless scroll wheel for a computer peripheral device may include a wheel defining an open interior. The wheel may include a plurality of contactless indexing features positioned at different angular positions. The scroll wheel may include at least one fixed contactless ratchet member disposed within the open interior of the wheel. The wheel may be rotatable relative to the fixed contactless ratchet members. Each contactless indexing feature and fixed contactless rachet member may include one or both of a magnet and a ferromagnetic material. fixed contactless rachet members may be configured to interact with the contactless indexing features to produce a tactile response as the wheel is rotated. The scroll wheel may include at least one sensor that is configured to detect a magnitude and direction of rotation of the wheel relative to the fixed contactless ratchet members.
US12260027B2
A programing method that increases the number of keys available especially for Ethiopic typing to render and settle in computer and virtual keyboards by many folds is provided. The Ethiopic Unicode or other glyphs close to 500 where the default is typed with one keystroke each and the rest with two keystroke each with more efficient novelty is described. It is also possible to increase the keystrokes of some to three, especially to make typing simple with consideration to the spread of the keys on computers. The efficiency of the Ethiopic novel writing system in QWERTY, Heleheme, and other layouts including virtual abbreviated, non-abbreviated, ligated keyboards and the like as well as those useable by other non-default and Unicode alphabets in more than one typing methods in different layouts of the Ethiopic and other world glyphs is described.
US12260019B2
A virtual reality/augmented reality (VR/AR) wearable assembly is described herein. The VR/AR wearable assembly includes a wearable frame adapted to be worn over a patient's eyes, a pair of photosensor oculography (PSOG) assemblies mounted to the wearable frame with each PSOG assembly including a display and an eye tracking assembly, and a processor coupled to each PSOG assembly. The processor is configured to execute an algorithm to continuously calibrate the eye tracking assembly including the steps of rendering a sequence of images on a corresponding display and calibrating a corresponding eye tracking assembly by establishing a display coordinate system associated with the corresponding display, determining predicted fixation locations and estimated gaze position locations within the display coordinate system, and determining an offset gaze position value by mapping the estimated gaze position location to the predicted fixation location within the display coordinate system.
US12260018B2
Systems and methods are described for extended reality environment interaction. An extended reality environment including an object is generated for display, and an eye motion is detected. Based on the detecting, it is determined whether the object is in a field of view for at least a predetermined period of time, and in response to determining that the object is in the field of view for at least the predetermined period of time, one or more items related to the object are generated for display in the extended virtual reality environment.
US12260015B2
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for an immersive augmented reality (AR) experience using an eyewear device. A portable eyewear device includes a processor, a memory, and a display projected onto at least one lens assembly. The memory has programming stored therein that, when executed by the processor, captures information depicting an environment surrounding the device and identifies a match between objects in that information and predetermined objects in previously obtained information for the same environment. When the position of the eyewear device reaches a preselected location with respect to the matched objects, a physical output is provided to produce the immersive experience. The physical output changes as the position of the eyewear device moves to maintain the immersive experience.
US12260014B2
A virtual object display device comprises a display and a display control device configured to perform display control of the display. The display control device includes: a coordinate system calculation unit configured to detect movement and rotation of the virtual object display device in a real world, and use an inertial coordinate system in which a coordinate origin thereof follows the movement of the virtual object display device and an effective field of view of the display is rotated therein in accordance with the rotation of the virtual object display device so as to define an arrangement position of an inertial coordinate system virtual object; and a display control unit configured to, when the inertial coordinate system virtual object is included in the effective field of view of the display, display the inertial coordinate system virtual object within the effective field of view.
US12260008B2
A method includes displaying, by an electronic device, a first page, enabling, by the electronic device, a page content hiding function for the first page in response to a first preset input of a user, receiving, by the electronic device, a second preset input of marking a hidden area on the first page by the user after enabling the page content hiding function, and hiding, by the electronic device, display content in the hidden area in response to the second preset input.
US12260007B2
A computing device includes a non-volatile memory (NVM) interface and a processor. The NVM interface is to communicate with an NVM. The processor is to store in the NVM at least a Type-Length-Value (TLV) record including one or more encrypted fields and one or more non-encrypted fields, the non-encrypted fields including at least a validity indicator of the TLV record, to read the TLV record from the NVM, and to invalidate the TLV record by modifying the validity indicator stored in the non-encrypted fields, without decryption of any of the encrypted fields.
US12260004B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided herein for rendering secured content. For instance, a computing device may be utilized to view content that is to be displayed via a display device coupled thereto. However, rather than rendering the content, the computing device generates and/or provides a graphical representation of the content to a rendering device coupled between the computing device and the display device. The rendering device analyzes the graphical representation to determine characteristics of the graphical representation, characteristics of a display region of an application window in which the content is to be rendered, and a network address at which the actual content is located. The rendering device retrieves the content using the network address and renders the retrieved content over the display region of the application window in accordance with the characteristics determined for the graphical representation and the display region of the application window.
US12260001B2
A system for processing an account transfer between two banking infrastructures are described. The system may comprise a plurality of computing nodes. Each of the computing nodes may be associated with a corresponding source chain. The source chains may in combination store a distributed hash table with account information for clients associated with multiple computing nodes. The system may enable communication between the different computing nodes, either directly or indirectly, to process transfer of information.
US12260000B2
Systems and methods for restricting access and visibility to sensitive personal data during ingestion and storing within a data repository are disclosed. In one embodiment, a process for determining whether to grant access to protected data includes defining risk thresholds for predetermined data access patterns of a data repository, monitoring new data access patterns to build a security data profile based on quantifiable characteristics as risk factors, receiving a second request for data from a client device at the data repository, determining if any access control policies applies to the second request generating a risk score for the second request for data based on the security data profile, determining whether to grant access to the second request for data based upon at least one applicable access control policy and the risk score, and providing the requested data in response to the second request for data when access is granted.
US12259994B2
A consent block is a type of block that may be stored in a blockchain. Each consent block has an owner and may store an owner consent contract, i.e., a smart contract containing owner-specified access rules that determine who may access data assets that are stored in other blocks of the blockchain and owned by the same owner. The consent block may alternatively store a global consent contract containing global access rules that supersede owner-specified access rules. The consent block also stores a hash value determined from the consent contract and a previous hash value of the block immediately preceding the consent block. The consent contract and the position of the consent block in the blockchain are verifiable from the hash value. Each consent block, once added to the blockchain, becomes part of the immutable record of data stored in the blockchain, and therefore leaves an auditable trail.
US12259993B2
Provided is a process including: receiving one or more write requests to write a plurality of values to a plurality of fields in one or more tuples of a relational database, different ones of the values corresponding to different ones of the fields, detecting duplicates of the values with steps for expediting detection of duplicates, and selecting a first subset of the values based on the first subset of values corresponding to fields in a first subset of the fields, the first subset of fields being designated as higher-security fields than a second subset of fields among the plurality of fields.
US12259992B2
Methods for centralized access control for cloud relational database management system resources are performed by systems and devices. The methods utilize a central policy storage, managed externally to database servers, which stores external policies for access to internal database resources at up to fine granularity. Database servers in the processing system each receive external access policies that correspond to users of the system by push or pull operations from the central policy storage, and store the external access policies in a cache of the database servers for databases. For resource access, access conditions are determined via policy engines of database servers based on an external access policy in the cache that corresponds to a user, responsive to a resource access request from a device of the user specifying the internal resource. Data associated with the resource is provided to the user based on the access condition being met.
US12259989B2
The disclosure is directed to systems and methods for secure policies-based information governance. In various embodiments exemplary methods include displaying a Graphical User Interface (GUI), the graphical user interface receiving a business rule input from a business user; receiving a policy from a policy engine based on the business rule input, the policy engine generating a policy hierarchy; and defining a plurality of domain objects and a plurality of domain object representations in the Graphical User Interface (GUI) based on the policy and the policy hierarchy. Furthermore, exemplary methods include defining an extensible hierarchical domain model definition using the policy hierarchy, the extensible hierarchical domain model definition being modified using the plurality of domain object representations in the Graphical User Interface (GUI); and defining a Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) in an application based on the extensible hierarchical domain model definition.
US12259987B2
Managing access to data, including storing a database that includes fields; encrypting data of all or some fields of the database using an application encryption algorithm; receiving data indicating user-specific data access roles and user-specific data permissions for each of the user-specific data access roles, each of the user-specific data permissions defining a subset of the data of the database that the corresponding user-specific data access role has authorization for decrypting the subset of the data; receiving a user token representing credentials and user-specific data access roles of an authorized user, wherein the user token is generated by the access rights system; receiving a query for requested data stored by the database; comparing the user-specific data access role of the user token with the user-specific data access roles of the access rights system to identify user-specific data permissions for the user-specific data access role of the user token.
US12259986B2
Technologies are provided for detection and mitigation of high-risk online activity. The detection and mitigation can be implemented in real-time. In some embodiments, a computing system can determine that a risk assessment for an online activity is unavailable from an in-memory storage. The computing system can obtain the risk assessment for the online activity from a second computing system configured to apply a prediction model to data defining the online activity. The risk assessment can comprise a risk score and a risk category. The computing system can update the in-memory storage to incorporate the data and the risk assessment, and can determine that the risk assessment is indicative of the online activity being high-risk activity. The computing system can then cause denial of access to a computing platform to a user device associated with the online activity.
US12259985B2
An approach is provided for automated purpose limitation and compatibility verification on a data platform. The approach, for example, involves generating metadata that indicates a purpose that has been allowed for processing a dataset. The approach also involves storing the metadata in a metadata catalog to associate the purpose with the dataset. The approach further involves querying the metadata catalog to perform a verification of a compatibility of the purpose with a requested purpose for a new processing activity of the dataset, to perform a limitation of the new processing activity, or a combination thereof.
US12259984B2
Presented herein are systems and methods for obfuscating text data elements exchanged with deep learning architectures. A computing system may receive, from a computing device, a first input including a first plurality of data elements to be provided at least in part to a deep learning architecture. The computing system may parse the plurality of data elements of the first input to identify at least one first data element corresponding to an identifier type of a plurality of identifier types. The computing system may generate a second data element corresponding to the identifier type to replace the at least one first data element in the first input. The computing system may generate a first output from the first input by replacing the at least one first data element with the second data element. The computing system may transmit the first output for provision to a deep learning architecture.
US12259983B2
Testing software applications often requires a balancing of thoroughness versus the time and computing resources available to perform such tests. Certain data handling operations may potentially expose data to unauthorized parties. However, not all data is equal; some data requires a greater degree of protection than other data, which may be based on a security context (e.g., rule, law, policy, etc.). By generating rules determined by a particular context, extraneous tests on data outside of the context, may be omitted. Unnecessary tests may be omitted and the results of each analysis process correlated to identify actual vulnerabilities and omit false positives, such as vulnerabilities to data that does not require the same degree of care to avoid unauthorized exposure.
US12259979B2
A method and a computer system are disclosed for determining a threat score of an electronic document comprising the steps of: loading and rendering the electronic document in a document sandbox, controlling the document sandbox to simulate user interaction with the electronic document, while loading and rendering the electronic document and while controlling the document sandbox to simulate user interaction with the electronic document, monitoring the document sandbox for events triggered by the electronic document and belonging to one of at least two predefined event classes, recording each observed event together with a respective event class to which each observed event belongs, and determining a threat score of the electronic document based on predefined numerical weights associated with each of the predefined event classes to which the recorded events belong.
US12259974B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a processing method and apparatus for defending against shared storage side channel attacks, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium, and relate to the technical field of computers. In the embodiment of the present application, first time information is acquired by a clock thread, and the first time information is obfuscated to obtain second time information; and, the second time information is transmitted to an attack thread by a clock thread. Since the second time information acquired by the attack thread is obfuscated, that is, the second time information is inaccurate, the attack thread cannot successfully complete a side channel attack when it performs side channel attacks based on the inaccurate time information, so that the system can be protected.
US12259964B2
Method, systems, and computer-readable media for securely executing a script on a computer appliance are disclosed. A script payload is obtained from a requesting entity via an interface of the computer appliance, the script payload comprising the script and script security data. Multiple authentication factors for the script are obtained from the script security data, the multiple authentication factors comprising at least some nested authentication factors, wherein a first one of the authentication factors is encapsulated within a second one of the authentication factors. A first validation is performed to authenticate the script and the first authentication factor based on the second authentication factor and to generate a validated first authentication factor. A second validation is performed to authenticate the script based on the validated first authentication factor. Responsive to the script being authenticated by the first and second validations, the script is executed on the computer appliance.
US12259957B1
A remote audio signal-based method and system of performing an authentication of video of a person in order to authorize access to a secured resource. An audio security token with a first set of features is generated and stored for each user. During subsequent sessions, the system and method are configured to cause a remote computing device to play a specific audio signal while collecting audio data from a microphone of the same device. The audio data is evaluated to determine if the same features are present as in the first set of features. If the features are present, the system determines the image is authentic and can verify an identity of the person, and can further be configured to automatically grant the person access to one or more services, features, or information for which he or she is authorized.
US12259950B2
Disclosed examples include an automated online experimentation mechanism that can perform model selection from a large pool of models with a relatively small number of online experiments. The probability distribution of the metric of interest that contains the model uncertainty is derived from a Bayesian surrogate model trained using historical logs. Disclosed techniques can be applied to identify a superior model by sequentially selecting and deploying a list of models from the candidate set that balance exploration-exploitation.
US12259948B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for retrieving three dimensional part models. Two-dimensional (2D) image data representing an object with at least a first part and a second part may be received. A first machine learning model may be used to generate a first shape embedding representing the first part and a second shape embedding representing the second part. A first 3D model stored in a non-transitory computer-readable memory that represents the first part may be determined based at least in part on the first shape embedding. A second 3D model stored in the non-transitory computer-readable memory that represents the second part may be determined based at least in part on the second shape embedding.
US12259944B1
One disclosed example method for simulated medical images using GANs includes receiving, by a generative adversarial network (“GAN”), a plurality of training images, the training images associated with an affliction and depicting different stages of progression for the affliction; generating, using the GAN, a latent space based on the training images, the latent space comprising a first set of data points indicating parameters associated with the training images; generating, using the GAN, a second set of data points in the latent space based on simulated images generated from the latent space, the simulated images based at least in part on the first set of data points; after generating the second set of data points: receiving a request for a first simulated image associated with the affliction; and generating and outputting, by the GAN, the first simulated image based on the latent space.
US12259940B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for providing a plurality of data description models corresponding to a plurality of websites to a machine learning process; providing ontology data concerning the plurality of websites to the machine learning process; providing target website data concerning a target website to the machine learning process; and processing the plurality of data description models, ontology data and target website data using the machine learning process to generate a data description model for the target web site.
US12259938B2
A system and method generate answers to user queries by providing natural language responses containing direct citations to primary sources. The system comprises a data collection pipeline that ingests, processes, and organizes data from multiple sources, and a retrieval mechanism that processes user queries, identifies relevant data, and employs a machine learning model, such as a Large Language Model (LLM), to generate natural language responses based on the retrieved data. The generated responses are augmented with direct references to the primary sources, ensuring accurate attribution and up-to-date information. This system combines the natural language capabilities of LLMs with the direct connections to primary sources provided by traditional search engines, delivering real-time, dynamic processing of resources without incurring high re-training costs.
US12259934B2
Machine-learning-aided automatic taxonomy for web data. In an embodiment, a training dataset of annotated features is used to train a model to predict a class in a taxonomy of web-based activities. The features may be derived from a uniform resource locator (URL) of an online resource and associated metadata. During operation, the features may be extracted from the URL and metadata of each activity record in web data. The trained model may be applied to the extracted features for each activity record to predict a class within the taxonomy. The predicted taxonomic class may be stored in association with the URL that was extracted from the activity record to produce a taxonomized URL.
US12259933B2
A user device can be used to generate medical term expressions, which represent medical terms of a health record. The user device can identify a medical concept present in the health record based on a medical term expression. The user device can generate a node in a personalized relational graph that corresponds to the medical concept. One or more sub-nodes can be added to the node. Responsive to a request, a user interface is presented that identifies the medical concept and some of the additional information.
US12259909B2
A multi-column index is generated based on an interleaving of data bits for selectivity for efficient processing of data in a relational database system. Two or more columns may be identified for inclusion in the multi-column index for a relational database table. Based, at least in part, on the interleaving of data bits for selectivity from the identified columns, a multi-column index is generated for the relational database table that provides a respective index value for each entry in the relational database table. The entries of the relational database table may then be stored according to the index values of the multi-column index.
US12259907B2
A system and method for aggregating account data, and more specifically, a system and method for aggregation of financial account data that provides enhanced privacy and security protections to a user by enabling the user to maintain custody of his or her login credentials. A syncing agent in coordination with a system add-on coordinates log-in to a remote system and storage of session information. Syncing agent utilizes the session agent to retrieve additional information on behalf of the user or perform other tasks on the remote server.
US12259903B2
Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods for direct data transfer. An example method comprises transferring data between a first device and a second device, wherein the first device is a bit vector operation device, and transforming the data using a data transform engine (DTE) by rearranging the data to enable the data to be stored on the first device when transferring the data between the second device and first memory device.
US12259896B1
A method includes generating a new user query embedding for a new user query received from a user, obtaining an indexed user query matching the new user query from a search engine index, a vector index corresponding to the indexed user query, and a relevancy score corresponding to the indexed user query. The method further includes selecting a vector structure corresponding to the vector index from a plurality of vector structures in a vector store, obtaining, from the vector structure, a result embedding matching the new user query embedding, transmitting, by a user query answer service to an answer generation model, the result embedding and receiving, by the user query answer service, an answer to the new user query from the answer generation model.
US12259893B2
The present disclosure provides various systems and methods for indexing digital (electronic) documents and providing various error reporting and identification functions. The systems and methods may utilize various software, hardware, and firmware modules to identify notations, such as sheet names, anchors, and anchor references on construction documents. Various algorithms and methods may be employed to identify errors, erroneous notations, missing sheets, missing details, and/or the like to aid in the correction of construction documents. Identified notations are indexed and used to create hyperlinked pages that are easily navigable. In some embodiments, the hyperlinked pages may include previous- and next-sheet hyperlinks that allow for direct navigation within a set of pages, according to an order provided in an index sheet (e.g., a table of contents sheet).
US12259890B2
A method is described which includes receiving a time series of radio data (S1). The method includes, for each of a plurality of buffer periods, at the end of a most recently elapsed buffer period, analysing the radio data of that buffer period to detect signals (S2). The method also includes, in response to detecting one or more signals ending within that buffer period (S4|Yes), determining a start time and an end time of that signal, and one or more signal properties corresponding to that signal, the signal properties including at least a duration, and storing (S5) that signal to a detailed database (DD) and a summary database (SD). Methods of querying the summary database (SD) and detailed database (AD) are also described, along with apparatuses for carrying out the methods.
US12259888B2
Methods and systems searching data exchanges and assets with non-homogenous functionality and non-standardized data descriptions using credentials corresponding to users. The method includes receiving, from a user, a request to access a data exchange, retrieving a user profile for the user, wherein the user profile provides a credential for the user, and receiving a search string. The method includes determining a first search input for searching the data exchange based on the search string and the credential, performing, a first comparison of a first search input portion to respective first set of attributes for the plurality of asset types, and performing a second comparison of a second search input portion to respective second set of attributes for the plurality of asset types. The method includes generating for display a search result for the search string based on the first comparison and the second comparison.
US12259883B2
A database system is operable to execute a row dispersal operator, in conjunction with execution of a query operator execution flow for a corresponding query, to disperse a plurality of input rows across the set of parallelized operations based on determining a plurality of input data blocks that collectively includes the plurality of input rows, where each input data block in the plurality of input data blocks a corresponding proper subset of the plurality of input rows. Each data block of the plurality of input data blocks is assigned to a corresponding one of the set of parallelized operations for processing in accordance with a uniform assignment scheme, and each data block is forwarded to the corresponding one of the set of parallelized operations by reference.
US12259874B2
A method and/or system of managing metadata are disclosed that include connecting a source data storage system (DSS) that stores both data and metadata to a metadata management platform (MMP); scanning metadata records onto the MMP from the DSS; storing metadata attributes for at least one of the group consisting of directories and buckets on the DSS in a look-up table on the MMP; and adding updated metadata attributes to the look-up table on the MMP for each subsequent scan of the DSS.
US12259871B2
A method and system for processing signals from a plurality of groups of sensors are described. Each group includes a first sensor and at least one additional sensor. A first sensor identifier and first sensor data are received from the first sensor. At least one additional sensor identifier and additional sensor data are also received from the additional sensor(s). The first sensor and the additional sensor(s) of each group are co-located. The first sensor identifier is associated with the additional sensor identifier(s) for each group. Calibration information for the first sensor is obtained based on the first sensor identifier and the additional sensor identifier(s). The calibration information is specific to the first sensor having the first sensor identifier. Corrected first sensor data for each of the groups is provided based on the first sensor data, the additional sensor data and the calibration information.
US12259870B2
A method for checking a processing of payload data. The method includes: ascertaining, for each one of multiple sequences of data processing blocks, reference result data that result when predetermined meta data are processed by the sequence of the data processing blocks; receiving payload data result data and meta data result data for a data processing of the payload data and of the meta data; checking whether the meta data result data for at least one sequence of the sequences admissible for the data processing of the payload data agree with reference result data ascertained for the sequence; and triggering a safety measure if the meta data result data for no sequence of the sequences admissible for the data processing agree with the reference result data ascertained for the sequence.
US12259868B1
In one example, a system can receive, from application code including an analysis operation performed on a set of data, an indication to access the set of data included in a tabular data structure using an application programming interface (API), in which the tabular data structure is associated with a memory allocation and a type. The system can determine that the type of the tabular data structure is the native type, the native type characterizing data structures that are accessed using a first programming language and a second programming language. The system can identify a proxy data table that shares the memory allocation, the proxy data table accessed using the API based on the second programming language. The system can issue one or more read commands to the proxy data table to cause the set of data to be read from the tabular data structure.
US12259865B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for sampling from a dataset. The technique includes determining a plurality of embeddings for a plurality of data points included in the dataset. The technique also includes populating a tree structure with the plurality of embeddings by generating a first node that stores a first set of embeddings included in the plurality of embeddings and generating a first plurality of nodes as children of the first node, where each node in the first plurality of nodes stores a different subset of embeddings in the first set of embeddings. The technique further includes sampling a subset of embeddings from the plurality of embeddings via a traversal of the tree structure, and generating a sampled dataset that includes a subset of data points corresponding to the subset of embeddings.
US12259862B2
A method for facilitating automated management of computing metrics is disclosed. The method includes aggregating, via an application programming interface, unstructured data from various computing components, the unstructured data including application log data; parsing the unstructured data to generate structured data sets, each of the structured data sets including textual data; extracting time series data from the structured data sets, the time series data relating to performance metrics of the computing components; generating, by using a model, a summary of the textual data in the structured data sets; correlating, by using the model, the summary of the textual data with the time series data; and determining, by using the model, a characteristic for each of the performance metrics based on a result of the correlating, the characteristic including a criticality characteristic.
US12259849B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for use with a data analytics or other computing environment, for on-demand fetching of backend server logs into a frontend environment, such as for example a browser. Such on-demand log fetching can be specific to the working context that is for current session and current request; and can be accomplished by appending a parameter or flag to a current request. For each step associated with an instruction being performed, the method can create a timestamp within one or more log files associated with the instruction; and fetch the one or more log files associated with the instruction. Performance logs are then included with a dashboard response, and logged into the browser's console.
US12259846B2
A computing device and a computing system are provided. The computing device comprises: a plurality of computing modules; and serial communication paths between/among the plurality of computing modules. Each computing module comprises: an internal circuit for performing an operation on a signal received from a corresponding serial communication path; and an extension circuit for receiving a signal from the internal circuit as an input signal. The extension circuit comprises: a delay module for delaying the input signal, the delay module comprising one or more delay units; one or more extension select modules for selectively performing a level extension on the input signal through the signal delayed by corresponding one or more delay units to generate one or more respective level-extended signals; and an output module for outputting one or more of the one or more level-extended signals.
US12259845B2
A technique of managing message between chassis includes forming a first message by a computing node in a first chassis. The first message complies with a first communications protocol and provides an instruction directed to a controller in a second chassis to manage one or more hardware functions of the second chassis. The controller operates in accordance with a second communications protocol that is different from the first communications protocol. The technique further includes transmitting both the first message and a set of I/O requests from the first chassis to the second chassis over a communications link configured to carry messages complying with the first communications protocol. The technique further includes converting, in the second chassis, the first message complying with the first communications protocol into a second message complying with the second communications protocol, the second message including the instruction directed to the controller.
US12259840B1
A system and method checks packetized data retrieved from a bus that is ordinarily considered reliable that was already error checked and/or corrected before being placed on the bus by applying a hash or checksum or other function to each packet to produce a packet checksum and then applying another function to the ordered packet checksums and comparing the result to one sent by the device that checked and/or corrected, and sent, the data packets.
US12259836B2
Universal Serial Bus (USB) Power Delivery is augmented by allowing devices that attach to the USB to include and/or have access to an enhanced device policy manager (eDPM) so that device information such as status, state, or requirements, such as power requirements, may be at least be shared by the eDPMs between, for example, a host device on the bus, a secondary device providing power to devices on the bus, and a new device attaching to the bus. Sharing device information facilitates the host having contextual awareness for the attaching device and assists with determining whether the attaching device may be enumerated on the bus. If not, such as due to insufficient power available from the secondary device, the host and/or secondary device may seek to influence bus devices to change an operating mode to accommodate the attaching device.
US12259831B2
Configuration information is sent from a configuration controller to a processor module in a System On Chip (SOC) and associated with firmware. In response to receiving the configuration information, context switching associated with an interrupt pin in the processor module is disabled. Hardware state information is sent from a hardware functional module in the SOC to the interrupt pin. In response to receiving the hardware state information, the processor module determines, based at least in part on the hardware state information and after completing any active firmware operations per the disabled context switching, a response. The response is received at a responding module and the responding module performs a process associated with the response.
US12259824B2
An input/output memory management unit (IOMMU) can assign input/output virtual addresses (IOVA) using a predetermined randomness algorithm according to some examples. For instance, the IOMMU can determine an input/output virtual address (IOVA) using the pre-defined randomness algorithm. Then, the IOMMU can store, in a translation table, an entry which maps the IOVA to a physical memory address of a storage device. Subsequent to storing the entry in the translation table the IOMMU can receive a request from an input/output (IO) device, where the request is to access data at the IOVA. In response to receiving the request, the IOMMU can identify the physical memory address that is mapped to the IOVA in the entry. The IOMMU can then allow the IO device to access the data at the physical memory address.
US12259823B2
The present disclosure discloses a virtual memory management method and apparatus supporting physical addresses larger than virtual addresses. The method comprises steps of: determining a target virtual address corresponding to an instruction fetch address or a load storage address in any one of a user mode, a supervisor mode, or a machine mode; determining a target physical address corresponding to the target virtual address by accessing a virtual memory management unit, the virtual memory management unit being internally provided with page table entries that map virtual addresses to physical addresses, the bit width of the target virtual address being possibly less than or equal to that of the target physical address, particularly in a many-core application field; and finally, returning the target physical address to a corresponding instruction fetch unit or load memory unit, thereby ensuring the correctness and validity.
US12259822B2
A method of GPU virtualization comprises allocating each virtual machine (or operating system running on a VM) an identifier by the hypervisor and then this identifier is used to tag every transaction deriving from a GPU workload operating within a given VM context (i.e. every GPU transaction on the system bus which interconnects the CPU, GPU and other peripherals). Additionally, dedicated portions of a memory resource (which may be GPU registers or RAM) are provided for each VM and whilst each VM can only see their allocated portion of the memory, a microprocessor within the GPU can see all of the memory. Access control is achieved using root memory management units which are configured by the hypervisor and which map guest physical addresses to actual memory addresses based on the identifier associated with the transaction.
US12259810B2
An example method for visual testing and issue communication of programmed display of content includes obtaining a workflow of test scenarios for visual testing a display. The content displayed on the display is controlled by a set-top box (STB) device executing target instructions. The example method further includes identifying a visual testing issue associated with executing the test scenarios, and communicating the workflow and issue to a remote device for reproduction of the issue.
US12259786B2
A method of operating a storage device may include determining a fault condition of the storage device, selecting a fault resilient mode based on the fault condition of the storage device, and operating the storage device in the selected fault resilient mode. The selected fault resilient mode may include one of a power cycle mode, a reformat mode, a reduced capacity read-only mode, a reduced capacity mode, a reduced performance mode, a read-only mode, a partial read-only mode, a temporary read-only mode, a temporary partial read-only mode, or a vulnerable mode. The storage device may be configured to perform a namespace capacity management command received from the host. The namespace capacity management command may include a resize subcommand and/or a zero-size namespace subcommand. The storage device may report the selected fault resilient mode to a host.
US12259785B2
A method may include operating a first storage device and a second storage device as a redundant array configured to use parity information to recover information from a faulty storage device, operating the first storage device in a fault resilient mode with at least partial read capability based on a fault condition of the first storage device, and rebuilding information from the first storage device in a parity space of the second storage device. Rebuilding the information from the first storage device in the parity space of the second storage device may include copying the information from the first storage device to the parity space of the second storage device. The method may further include copying the rebuilt information from the parity space of the second storage device to a replacement storage device.
US12259780B2
Certain example embodiments detect and correct errors in services defining an integration of disparate computing components in an integration platform-as-a-service environment. The services are iterated through to identify reference mappings therein. For each identified reference mapping in each of the services, a determination is made regarding whether a reference corresponding to the respective mapping is valid. For each reference determined to be not valid, an error type associated with the respective reference is identified, and an aspect of the reference is automatically replaced if the respective error type is a reference-related error. A user may be prompted to create an element of the integration if the error type determined for the respective reference is an asset-related error involving a missing integration element. Configuration-related errors also are detectable. A health score for a given service may be calculated based on a number of the configuration-, asset-, and reference-related errors detected.
US12259779B2
A quantum computing system for determining diagnostic solutions for detected faults in computing devices using at least quantum annealing is described. The quantum computing system takes advantage of superposition and entanglement properties of qubits. A plurality of qubits is initialized into states representing historical data associated with historical faults and historical diagnostic solutions. Couplers entangle the plurality of qubits together based on the detected fault, generating a set of states in uniform superposition. Biases influence the energy levels of the set of states based on the detected fault. The quantum computing system measures a state with the lowest energy level within the set of states to determine diagnostic solutions to the detected fault. The system may further leverage a blockchain ledger for securely storing and accessing historical data associated with historical faults and historical diagnostic solutions.
US12259777B2
A system can predict memory device failure through identification of correctable error patterns based on the memory architecture. The failure prediction can thus account for the circuit-level of the memory rather than the mere number or frequency of correctable errors. A failure prediction engine correlates hardware configuration of the memory device with correctable errors (CEs) detected in data of the memory device to predict an uncorrectable error (UE) based on the correlation.
US12259770B2
A method is presented for selectively throttling subsystems of a battery-powered computing device. The method comprises determining an amount of power consumed a plurality of rest-of-platform (ROP) subsystems of the battery-powered computing device. A total amount of power consumed by subsystems of a battery-powered computing device is determined. The subsystems including at least a system on a chip (SOC) and the plurality of ROP subsystems. Responsive to recognizing a condition where the amount of power consumed by the plurality of ROP subsystems is above an ROP power threshold, and where the total amount of power consumed increases above a first throttling threshold, one or more ROP subsystems are throttled.
US12259746B1
A method of transferring data from a first circuit block to a second circuit block, includes, in part, sampling the data using a first clock signal during a first cycle, compressing the sampled data at the first circuit block and using a compression ratio. In response to a determination that the compression ratio is equal to or less than a threshold value, selecting the compressed data for transmission to the second circuit block, and selecting a second clock signal for sampling the data during a second cycle. The phase of the second clock signal relative to a phase of the first clock signal is determined in accordance with the compression ratio.
US12259741B2
One or more aspects of the techniques and designs described herein may be implemented to provide (e.g., to design, produce, etc.) improved voltage dividers (e.g., more accurate and efficient resistor voltage divider networks). For example, the present disclosure may enable voltage dividers (e.g., resistor voltage divider networks) with a high ratio, such as with a voltage divider ratio K on the order of 100 or more, using a plurality of nominally-identical resistor elements (e.g., such that a significant portion of non-ideal behaviors cancel out and remaining non-ideal behaviors are reduced by statistical averaging). For instance, accurate resistor voltage divider networks may be designed and built using an input resistor having N nominally-identical resistor elements in series and an output resistor having M such resistor elements in parallel. In some examples, an operational amplifier may also be coupled in parallel to the multiplicity of M resistor element strings.
US12259738B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing a pulse control to a ball valve to reduce the amount of torque required to adjust the position of the ball valve. In an aspect, the technology relates to a method for reducing resistance of a ball valve. The method includes generating a pulse having a duration and a polarity; providing the pulse to an actuator configured to rotate a ball of the ball valve; and rotating, by the actuator, the ball of the ball valve by an amount based on the duration of the pulse and a direction based on the polarity of the pulse, wherein the ball valve does not change state after rotation of the ball.
US12259734B2
A device and method for controlling platooning mode of a vehicle based on a IoT device and camera is disclosed. The method includes receiving beacon signals including unique identification information from a surrounding vehicle; determining that the surrounding vehicle is a platooning eligible vehicle included in the platooning group when the unique identification information corresponds to pre-stored platooning eligibility information; and activating the platooning mode of the vehicle based on whether at least one of intensities of the beacon signals or a reception time interval in which the beacon signals are received satisfies a predefined first condition.
US12259727B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a method of managing a fleet of autonomous vehicles providing trip services. The method includes receiving information identifying an intermediate destination and a final destination for a trip. In this example, the intermediate destination is a destination where an autonomous vehicle will drop off and wait for a passenger in order to continue the trip, and the final destination is a destination where the trip ends. The method also includes determining an amount of waiting time the vehicle is likely to be waiting for the passenger at the intermediate destination, determining how a vehicle of the fleet of autonomous vehicles should spend the amount of waiting time, and sending an instruction to the vehicle, based on the determination of how the vehicle should spend the amount of waiting time.
US12259722B2
A system and a method for predicting failure in a power system in real-time. The method comprises obtaining, by a processing unit, state estimation data corresponding to electrical quantities of the power system received from one or more sources in real-time, extracting a feature vector from the received state estimation data based on contingency analysis information using a trained machine learning model, wherein the feature vector corresponds to one or more parameters pertaining to the power system in real-time, determining a security index for the received state estimation data based on the extracted feature vector using the trained machine learning model and, predicting a failure of the power system based on the determined security index.
US12259711B2
An example monitoring system for data collection includes a data collector including a plurality of sensor. The system includes a data storage to store a collector route template for the plurality of sensors with a sensor collection routine defining how the plurality of sensors. The system includes a data acquisition and analysis circuit to receive detection signals and evaluate the detection values with respect to a rule, and further, based on the evaluation of the detection values with respect to the rule, to modify the sensor collection routine.
US12259700B2
An AI-based platform for enabling intelligent orchestration and management of power and energy is disclosed. The platform includes a digital twin system having a digital twin of a mining environment. The digital twin includes at least one parameter that is detected by a sensor of the mining environment. In some disclosed embodiments, the at least one parameter is associated with one or more of an unmined portion of the mining environment a mining of materials from the mining environment, a smart container event involving a smart container associated with the mining environment, a physiological status of a miner associated with the mining environment, a transaction-related event associated with the mining environment, and a compliance of the mining environment with one or more contractual, regulatory, and/or legal policies.
US12259699B2
A method includes determining a test drive script (TDS) to perform while a tool monitors an electronic system in a mobile machine during a test drive of the mobile machine. The TDS includes an ordered sequence of drive cycle procedures (DCPs). The ordered sequence of DCPs begins with an initial DCP and ends with a final DCP. Each DCP is indicative of a respective mobile machine state. The TDS includes a first particular DCP associated with both a first particular mobile machine state and a first condition pertaining to the first particular mobile machine state. The method also includes outputting a representation of at least a portion of the TDS. Additionally, the method includes determining and outputting one or more of: status information corresponding to achieving the first particular mobile machine state or status information corresponding to achieving the first condition pertaining to the first particular mobile machine state.
US12259697B2
Modifications made by multiple controller devices to an environment model describing a shared automated environment can be coordinated. One of the controller devices can be designated as a coordinator, and any controller device other than the coordinator can send an update request to the coordinator. The coordinator can determine whether to accept or reject the requested modification and can report its determination to the requesting controller device. If the coordinator accepts the request, the coordinator can instigate operations to update the environment model across all controller devices of all users. If the coordinator rejects the request, the environment model is not updated. The controller device that made the request can update its local copy of the environment model and roll back the update if the request is rejected.
US12259690B2
An electronic device, such as a watch, has an input mechanism, such as a crown, that may receive translational inputs, rotational inputs, and/or touch inputs. Inputs received at the crown may result in changes in operation of the electronic device and/or outputs, such as graphical outputs, provided by the electronic device. In various embodiments, the crown includes a retainer that couples an outer crown body to an inner crown body and secures an isolator between the outer crown body and the inner crown body. The embodiments of the crown described herein provide a simple and robust input mechanism for receiving rotational, translational, and touch inputs as described above, while simplifying part alignment, ensuring consistent rotation, and allowing for efficient manufacturing.
US12259689B2
A rotary wheel set system of a horological movement with a rotary wheel set a first and a second bearing for a first and a second pivot of the arbor of the rotary wheel set, the wheel set including a mass center in a position of its arbor, the first bearing including an endstone including a main body equipped with a conical cavity configured to receive the first pivot of the arbor of the rotary wheel set, the first pivot being capable of cooperating with the cavity of the endstone to rotate in the cavity, at least one contact zone between the first pivot and the cavity being generated, the normals of the contact zone forming a minimum contact angle relating to the plane perpendicular to the arbor of the pivot, the minimum contact angle being less than or equal to 30°, preferably less than or equal to arctan (½).
US12259685B2
A holographic display device and a display method thereof. The holographic display device comprises a backlight module and two liquid crystal modules. The backlight module is used for providing coherent light; the two liquid crystal modules are located on the light exit side of the backlight module, and the two liquid crystal modules are stacked; one of the two liquid crystal modules is used for performing amplitude modulation on incident light, and the other one is used for performing phase modulation on incident light. In this way, the complex amplitude of exit light is adjusted, and the quality of a reconstructed image is improved.
US12259681B2
Provided are an electrophotographic photoconductor that is less likely to cause transfer ghosting even when mounted in an electrophotographic apparatus with high transfer voltage set for high-speed or cleanerless processes, as well as a method of manufacturing the electrophotographic photoconductor, and an electrophotographic apparatus. The electrophotographic photoconductor includes a conductive substrate; an undercoat layer provided on the conductive substrate, and a photosensitive layer provided on the undercoat layer. In the electrophotographic photoconductor, the undercoat layer contains a resin binder and a first filler; and the first filler contains zinc oxide particles that are surface-treated with an N-acylated amino acid or an N-acylated amino acid salt.
US12259668B2
The fixing device includes a fixing rotator rotatable in a rotation direction and forming a loop, a nip formation pad inside the loop, a pressure rotator pressed against the nip formation pad via the fixing rotator to form a fixing nip, a sliding sheet between the nip formation pad and the fixing rotator, and a holder. The sliding sheet covers the nip formation pad and has a nip entrance at an upstream end of the fixing nip in the rotation direction and a face contacting the fixing rotator. The holder holds an upstream end portion of the sliding sheet upstream from the nip formation pad in the rotation direction and includes a holding plate disposed on the face and separated from the nip entrance by 5 mm or more.
US12259665B2
An optical scanning device irradiates an image carrier with laser light to form an electrostatic latent image. The optical scanning device includes a casing, a transmissive member, a wire-shaped member, a driving portion, a guide rail, a cleaning holder, a cleaning member, and a stopper. The cleaning member is fixed to the cleaning holder and cleans the transmissive member by sliding with respect to the transmissive member along with movement of the cleaning holder. The stopper is disposed on one side of the guide rail in an extending direction of the guide rail and restricts the movement of the cleaning holder. Another side of the guide rail in the extending direction of the guide rail is open in the extending direction of the guide rail.
US12259664B2
A method of configuring a mark having a trench to be etched into a substrate, the method including: obtaining a relation between an extent of height variation across a surface of a probationary layer deposited on a probationary trench of a probationary depth and a thickness of the probationary layer; determining an extent of height variation across the surface of a layer deposited on the mark allowing a metrology system to determine a position of the mark; and configuring the mark by determining a depth of the trench based on the relation, the extent of height variation and the thickness of a process layer to be deposited on the mark.
US12259656B1
A structured membrane fabrication method begins with a membrane wafer on a substrate and at least one thin-film on the membrane wafer such that portions of the membrane wafer are exposed. The exposed portions of the membrane wafer and each thin-film are covered with an acetone-inert protectant. Portions of the protectant are etched through to the membrane wafer while each thin-film remains fully covered by the protectant. A handle is coupled to the protectant with a wax that dissolves in acetone. Portions of the substrate are then removed to define and expose a contiguous region of the membrane wafer adjacent to each thin-film and the portions of the protectant so-etched. The wax is exposed to acetone so that it dissolves. The contiguous region of the membrane wafer is then etched through at the portions of the protectant so-etched. The protectant is then removed.
US12259652B2
The present disclosure provides a photosensitive dry film enabling a photocured film being excellent in insulation reliability and resolution and having a frosted appearance to be obtained. A photosensitive dry film including a support film having a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, and a photosensitive resin layer provided on the first main surface, in which the first main surface has an irregular surface formed by chemical etching.
US12259649B2
In a method of cleaning a photo mask, the photo mask is placed on a support such that a pattered surface faces down, and an adhesive sheet is applied to edges of a backside surface of the photo mask.
US12259643B2
Camera heads having up to three axes of rotation (e.g., pan, tilt, roll). Each axis of rotation coincides with the rotational output of a PCB stator motor. PCB stator motors are used to prevent cogging and to reduce weight, while giving haptic feedback to a user that allows the camera head to mimic the physical properties of various mechanical camera heads. For example, despite being lightweight, an embodiment of the inventive subject matter can imitate the feel of a much heavier mechanical system.
US12259636B2
A camera module including a first camera module and a second camera module including a second side that faces a first side of the first camera module, wherein the first camera module includes a housing; a bobbin disposed inside the housing; a coil disposed on the bobbin; and a magnet arranged at a side of the housing and facing the coil, wherein the magnet is disposed biased toward a center line of the side of the housing.
US12259624B2
To provide a display device in which parasitic capacitance between wirings can be reduced while preventing increase in wiring resistance. To provide a display device with improved display quality. To provide a display device with low power consumption. A pixel of the liquid crystal display device includes a signal line, a scan line intersecting with the signal line, a first electrode projected from the signal line, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and a pixel electrode connected to the second electrode. Part of the scan line has a loop shape, and part of the first electrode is located in a region overlapped with an opening of the scan line. In other words, part of the first electrode is not overlapped with the scan line.
US12259622B2
The present application provides a liquid crystal display panel and a display device. The liquid crystal display panel includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of sub pixels. Wherein colors of the sub pixels in each column are same; polarities of the sub pixels in each column are changed every k rows, and polarities of two adjacent ones of the sub pixels in each row are opposite; and every two of the data lines transmitting data voltages with same polarities and electrically connected to the sub pixels of a same color are connected together, and k and n are integers greater than or equal to 1.
US12259619B2
The present disclosure provides a display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The display device includes a display module and a function module. The display module includes a first substrate and a plurality of light emitting units. The plurality of light emitting units are located on a side of the first substrate. A light emitting direction of the light emitting units are oriented towards the first substrate. The function module is located on a surface of the first substrate away from the light emitting units. The function module and the light emitting units share the first substrate. A surface of the function module close to the first substrate is in direct contact with the surface of the first substrate away from the light emitting units.
US12259616B1
A device includes a plurality of electrode layers. The device also includes a birefringent medium layer disposed between the plurality of electrode layers. The device also includes at least one alignment structure disposed at a surface of the birefringent medium layer. The birefringent medium layer includes liquid crystal molecules arranged in a plurality of helical twist structures having a helical axis. The plurality of electrode layers are configured to generate an electric field within the birefringent medium layer, and the liquid crystal molecules are aligned via the electric field to be titled with respect to the helical axis.
US12259601B2
Provided is a light shaping device including: an intensity modulation unit that modulates a spectrum intensity of an optical pulse that is input light, and outputs the optical pulse of which a temporal width is narrowed as output light. The intensity modulation unit modulates the spectrum intensity of the optical pulse with a mask expressed by a starting end wavelength from a central wavelength of the input light and a wavelength width.
US12259590B2
A fiber-optic apparatus is disclosed, comprising a base; an optical splitter portion disposed on the base and configured to retain an optical splitter; a first fiber splicing portion, the first fiber splicing portion disposed on the base and configured to retain a plurality of optical fiber splices connecting to an optical splitter; and wherein the first fiber splicing portion is configured to retain a plurality of optical fiber splices such that an end of at least a first optical fiber splice is offset from an end of at least a second optical fiber splice in the direction of the depth of the apparatus.
US12259588B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an optical structure, an optical coupling method, and a photonic integrated circuit chip. The optical structure includes: two optical coupling structures with different structures, that is, a first optical coupling structure and a second optical coupling structure. The first optical coupling structure includes a first optical transmission structure, and a first coupling port and a second coupling port both connected to the first optical transmission structure. The second optical coupling structure includes a second optical transmission structure, and a third coupling port and a photoelectric conversion structure both connected to the second optical transmission structure. When optical signals are provided in different methods or optical coupling is performed in different scenarios, optical signal coupling can be realized by using optical coupling structures of different structures in the abovementioned optical structure.
US12259587B2
An optical connector for a photonic circuit. The optical connector includes a first part, fixable to a photonic circuit, having at least one slab of optically transparent material, the at least one slab including a first lens. The optical connector includes a second part, movable between a connected position adjacent the first part and a disconnected position removed from the first part. The second part includes at least one slab of optically transparent material, the at least one slab including a second lens located to be in alignment with the first lens in the connected position. One or more guiding elements are arranged to direct light to the second lens. The second part is configured to connect the one or more guiding elements to an optical fiber.
US12259566B2
A removable lens stack includes a base layer and one or more removable lens layers. The base layer may include a substrate and moth eye coatings on first and second sides of the substrate. A first removable lens layer may include a substrate and an acrylic or fluoropolymer coating on a first side of the substrate and may be stacked on top of the base layer such that the second side of the substrate faces the first side of the substrate of the base layer. A second removable lens layer may include a substrate and an acrylic or fluoropolymer coating on a first side of the substrate and may be stacked on top of the first removable lens layer such that the second side of the substrate faces the first side of the substrate of the first removable lens layer. The acrylic or fluoropolymer coating may comprise a hard coat.
US12259565B2
An optical processor is presented for applying optical processing to a light field passing through a predetermined imaging lens unit. The optical processor comprises a pattern in the form of spaced apart regions of different optical properties. The pattern is configured to define a phase coder, and a dispersion profile coder. The phase coder affects profiles of Through Focus Modulation Transfer Function (TFMTF) for different wavelength components of the light field in accordance with a predetermined profile of an extended depth of focusing to be obtained by the imaging lens unit. The dispersion profile coder is configured in accordance with the imaging lens unit and the predetermined profile of the extended depth of focusing to provide a predetermined overlapping between said TFMTF profiles within said predetermined profile of the extended depth of focusing.
US12259560B2
A system may include an electronic device such as a head-mounted device and a handheld controller for controlling the electronic device. The handheld controller may have a housing with an elongated shaft extending between first and second tip portions. The handheld controller may have power receiving circuitry configured to receive power from a power source. The power source may be incorporated into an electronic device such as a wireless charging dock or stick, a battery case, or a head-mounted device. The power source may supply power through terminals that form ohmic contacts with mating terminals in the finger device or may transmit power wirelessly using capacitive coupling or inductive charging arrangements. Magnets may be used to hold and align the elongated shaft of the handheld controller on the power source.
US12259553B2
An illuminator for illuminating a display panel includes a lightguide with an array of buried slanted bulk reflectors that out-couple portions of the light beam propagating in the lightguide through one of the lightguide surfaces. Polarization beam-splitting slanted surfaces may be used to provide polarized output. Such an illuminator may be used with a reflective display panel operating by polarization. The beam-splitting slanted surfaces operate as a polarizer, providing polarized illuminating light. The light reflected by the reflective panel may propagate back through the illuminator, and the polarization beam-splitting slanted surfaces may operate also as analyzer.
US12259546B2
A micromirror array includes a substrate, a plurality of mirrors for reflecting incident radiation, and for each mirror of the plurality of mirrors, a respective post connecting the substrate to the respective mirror. The micromirror array further includes, for each mirror of the plurality of mirrors, one or more electrostatic actuators connected to the substrate for applying force to the respective post to displace the respective post relative to the substrate, thereby displacing the respective mirror. Also disclosed is a method of forming such a micromirror array. The micromirror array may be used in a programmable illuminator. The programmable illuminator may be used in a lithographic apparatus and/or in an inspection apparatus.
US12259541B2
A microscopy system includes a primary lens and a planar array of micro-cameras. Each micro-camera of the planar array of micro-cameras has a field of view at an intermediate plane that overlaps at least one other micro-camera's field of view at the intermediate plane in a direction. The primary lens is disposed in a light path between the array of micro-cameras and a target area. In some cases, an overlap amount in the direction of the field of view at the intermediate plane for each micro-camera is at least 50%. A method of microscopy imaging includes directing light to a target area and simultaneously capturing a first set of images of the target area while the light illuminates the target area via a planar array of micro-cameras having a field of view at an intermediate plane disposed between a primary lens and the planar array of micro-cameras.
US12259534B2
A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit having a negative refractive power, and a rear unit including a plurality of lens units. During zooming, a distance between adjacent lens units of the first, second and plurality of lens units changes. The rear unit includes an aperture stop and a negative lens unit disposed closest to an object among at least one lens unit having a negative refractive power on the image side of the aperture stop. The negative lens unit includes a positive lens. A predetermined conditions are satisfied.
US12259530B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed in numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system, wherein the first to seventh lenses are spaced apart from each other along the optical axis, and the optical imaging system satisfies 0.4
US12259525B2
A miniature wide-angle imaging lens has a miniaturization ratio, of a total track length from the center of a first surface to a focal plane by an image circle diameter, with a value less than 3.0. The imaging lens includes, starting from an object side of the lens, a first group of at least three optical elements, a second group including an aperture stop and an optical element immediately in front of or behind the aperture stop, and a third group of at least two optical elements.
US12259522B2
A dielectric multilayer film is composed of a plurality of layers on a substrate. The plurality of layers includes at least one low refractive index layer and at least one high refractive index layer. The uppermost layer farthest from the substrate is the low refractive index layer. The high refractive index layer disposed on a substrate side of the uppermost layer is a functional layer containing a metal oxide with a photocatalytic function. The uppermost layer is a hydrophilic layer containing a metal oxide with a hydrophilic function and has pores that partially expose a surface of the functional layer. The average width of the pores is equal to or greater than 5 nm.
US12259521B2
Provided are a method and system of analyzing ingredients of an artificial rainfall for verification of a cloud seeding effect. As the method and system, which can verify an effect of the artificial rainfall in such a manner that a seeding material becomes different according to each temperature of clouds at a seeding altitude, water sampling from precipitation is performed before and after seeding, and thus the ingredients of a water sample are analyzed using each of a method of analyzing a heavy metal component and a method of analyzing a water-soluble ion component according to a cool cloud and a warm cloud so that whether or not there is a change in each concentration of the ingredients can be determined, are provided, an experiment for the artificial rainfall can more effectively be performed.
US12259514B2
Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for determining relative productivity. A thorium-uranium ratio for a region of interest is determined by a diagenesis-calibrated rock quality (DCRQ) system using exploration and production (E&P) data. A percentage of siltstone in a lithology matrix for the region of interest is determined using the E&P data. A difference between a neutron porosity and a sandstone density porosity for the region of interest is determined using the E&P data. A rock testability index for the region of interest is determined. Relative productivity for the region of interest is determined using i) the thorium-uranium ratio, ii) the percentage of siltstone in the lithology matrix, iii) the difference between the neutron porosity and the sandstone density porosity, and iv) the rock testability index. Drilling parameters for use in upcoming drilling operations for wells in the region of interest are determined using the relative productivity.
US12259513B1
A sand shale formation lithology evaluation method and system for precise deep oil and gas navigation aims to solve the problem in the prior art, that is, the accuracy of the logging-while-drilling (LWD) azimuthal resistivity is insufficient due to an equipment or technology deficiency. The method includes: acquiring density distribution data, gamma distribution data, and resistivity distribution data of a target location; amplifying the data to acquire amplified logging distribution data; clustering the data to acquire clustered logging data; adding stratigraphic information to the clustered data; performing dimensionality reduction by a principal component analysis (PCA) method, and taking dimensionality-reduced data as a weight of azimuthal logging data to acquire an LWD feature dataset; predicting missing LWD photoelectric data through the LWD feature dataset; and acquiring a formation lithology evaluation result based on an LWD photoelectric data prediction curve. The method and system improves the accuracy of LWD lithology evaluation.
US12259499B2
According to one embodiment, a light detector includes pixels arranged in first and second directions in a pixel area, and a control section. The control section is configured to turn on a first subset of the pixels in a first partial area based on first coordinate information, and to turn on a second subset of the pixels in a second partial area based on second coordinate information different from the first coordinate information. A first tilt of the first partial pixel area differs from a second tilt of the second partial pixel area.
US12259494B1
Systems and methods are provided for generating a radar model for a target object. In embodiments, a target simulation model is received that represents one or more physical aspects of a target object, an environment simulation model is received that represents one or more physical aspects of an environment object, and a target distance parameter is received that identifies a reference distance between the target object and a radar system to be simulated. A simulation model is generated based, at least in part, on the target simulation model, the environment simulation model, and the reference distance, and further based on a target aspect angle that identifies an angular position of the target object in relation to the radar system. Interaction of the radar system with the target object and the environment object is simulated using the simulation model, and results of the simulation are used to generate a range profile for the target object at the target aspect angle, wherein the range profile identifies a radar return strength for the reference distance. The target aspect angle is then incremented, and the operations are repeated until range profiles are generated for the target object at a plurality of target angles amounting to a 360 degree rotation of the target object. The range profiles at the plurality of target angles are then accumulated to generate the radar model for the target object.
US12259488B2
A terminal device sends at least one piece of relative position information to a network side device, where the relative position information is information about a relative position between any two of a plurality of tags supported by the terminal device. The terminal device measures, by using the plurality of tags, a reference signal sent by the network side device, to obtain reference signal measurement information corresponding to the plurality of tags. The terminal device sends, to the network side device, the reference signal measurement information corresponding to the plurality of tags.
US12259482B2
A tracking device and system is provided. In one aspect the tracking device comprises more than one type of transceiver; a GPS receiver; a microcontroller which controls the transceivers and GPS receiver; a power source for providing power to the transceivers, GPS receiver and microcontroller; and a secure band for attachment to a wearer. The tracking system includes a tracking device comprising more than one type of transceiver and a GPS receiver; a user device configured to send a wakeup signal to the tracking device; and a communication channel for communication of a function command to the tracking device.
US12259459B2
A half-wave back-folding directional microwave detection antenna includes a half-wave oscillator and a reference ground. The half-wave oscillator has an electrical length greater than or equal to ½ wavelength and less than or equal to ¾ wavelength. The half-wave oscillator is folded back to form a feed point that a distance between two ends of the half-wave oscillator is greater than or equal to λ/128 and is lesser than or equal to λ/6. The two ends of the half-wave oscillator are spaced apart from the reference ground with a distance greater than or equal to λ/128. A distance between at least one end of the half-wave oscillator and the reference ground is lesser than or equal to λ/16. The two ends of the half-wave oscillator form a phase difference and are coupled to each other, wherein λ is wavelength parameter corresponding to frequency of the excitation signal.
US12259457B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first communication circuit, a second communication circuit, and at least one processor. The first communication circuit is configured to receive, in a first band, a first reflective signal reflected by an object, and obtain, based on the received first reflective signal, a first channel impulse response corresponding to the first reflective signal. The second communication circuit is configured to receive, in a second band, a second reflective signal reflected by the object, obtain, based on the received second reflective signal, a second channel impulse response corresponding to the second reflective signal, and obtain a third channel impulse response based on a first calculation using the second channel impulse response, a first central frequency of the first band and a second central frequency of the second band.
US12259454B1
A new method for calibrating slide screw tuners allows straightening the reflection factor phase response (anti-skewing); it uses a new scaling method and a new coordinate system of tuning probe control. The method is agnostic and self-regulating, it treats the tuner as a black box and depends on the test frequency. The method improve mathematical interpolation and tuning results using reduced number of calibration points and allows higher calibration speed.
US12259453B2
A method of de-embedding a feed line is shown. The method includes measuring network parameters of a multilayered planar substrate and obtaining network parameters of a feed line using a short-open-calibration (SOC) according to an ABCD-matrix. An “a” block of the ABCD-matrix includes a first matrix multiplied by a transpose of a first short-circuit current. The first matrix is an inverse of a difference of an open-circuit current and a second short-circuit current. A “c” block of the ABCD-matrix includes the open-circuit current multiplied by the “a” block. The method includes de-embedding the network parameters of the feed line from the network parameters of the multilayered planar substrate to obtain microwave circuit network parameters and, responsive to the microwave circuit network parameters being within or not within a specified range, respectively approving or rejecting customer shipment of the microwave circuit.
US12259449B2
The present disclosure provides a system. The system may include a medical device, a couch, one or more imaging devices, and a control device. The medical device may include a cavity. The couch may be configured to support a subject. The one or more imaging devices may be configured to acquire image data. The image data may indicate at least one of a target portion of the subject or posture information of a user. The control device may be configured to control a movement of the couch based on at least one of position information of the target portion of the subject or the posture information of the user.
US12259445B2
An integrated circuit (IC) package comprises a semiconductor die having a first surface with a Hall-effect sensor circuit and a second surface. A plurality of through substrate vias (TSV) each having a metal layer extend from the first surface of the semiconductor die to the second surface. The IC package includes a portion of a leadframe having a first set of leads and a second set of leads. The first set of leads provide a field generating current path for directing a magnetic field toward the Hall-effect sensor circuit. The second set of leads are attached to bond pads on the semiconductor die. A first side of an insulator is attached to the leadframe using a die attach material, and a second side of the insulator is attached to the first side of the semiconductor die using a bonding material.
US12259435B2
A battery management system and method for performing a battery state and, optionally, health parameter observation is disclosed, in particular, cell state-of-charge (SOC) observation, with two redundant, independent and dissimilar lanes. Specifically, a SOC determination in a first one of the lanes is based on Coulomb Counting. The other lane employs a different algorithm than Coulomb Counting. In some embodiments, a battery health observation is further performed independently by the two lanes, wherein the first lane employs an aging model and the other lane a different (dissimilar) algorithm. On the basis of state and health observation, state (state of function) of the battery system can be predicted to determine a range of flight in accordance with a predetermined flight profile.
US12259434B2
A motor malfunction monitoring device for monitoring a malfunction of a drive motor, includes: vibration sensors for detecting for one or more components of the drive motor transverse vibration in a direction parallel to a mounting plane of the drive motor and perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the drive motor or longitudinal vibration in a direction perpendicular to both the mounting plane and the longitudinal direction of the drive motor; a voltage sensor for detecting a voltage of the drive motor or a current sensor for detecting a current of the drive motor; and a data storage storing a database of normal operation spectrums of one of the transverse vibration or the longitudinal vibration during a normal operation of the drive motor, and of one of the voltage or the current during a normal operation of the drive motor.
US12259433B2
A motor commutation testing circuit is provided. When a commutation testing circuit determines that the motor commutation testing circuit enters a test mode, a selector circuit selects a commutation signal generating circuit and provides a simulated commutation signal generated by the commutation signal generating circuit to a control circuit. When the testing circuit determines that the motor commutation testing circuit enters a rotation detection mode, the selector circuit selects a motor rotation detecting circuit and provides a commutation signal of a motor that is detected by the motor rotation detecting circuit to the control circuit.
US12259431B2
A power supply processing device includes three electric control valve groups, a positive output terminal and a conversion control switch group. The conversion control switch group includes a selection switch group configured to selectively connect the current valve control components in each electric control valve group to the positive output terminal or the phase output terminal, and a connection switch group configured to connect or disconnect a current path between two electric control valve groups connected one another. In such a way, both AC experiments and DC experiments of high voltage and large capacity may be performed to the connectors without changing experimental site and experimental equipment, thereby effectively reducing the experimental cost.
US12259430B1
Technologies for on-circuit board de-embedding are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, several micromechanical relays on a circuit board can connect a trace on the circuit board to an open circuit, a closed circuit, a load circuit, or a through circuit. For the through circuit, the trace is connected to an integrated circuit component mounted on the circuit board. A cable is connected to the trace, allowing for signals to be sent to any of the four circuits without any probes connected to the circuit board. The transmitted and/or reflected signals can be measured, which can be used to de-embed the integrated circuit component.
US12259427B2
Disclosed herein are thermal heads and corresponding test systems for independently controlling a one or more components while testing one or more devices under test. In some embodiments, a thermal head comprises a plurality of adapters, one or more heaters, and one or more thermal controllers for independently controlling temperatures of the components. The thermal controllers may control the temperatures of at least some of the components independently such that thermal control of one component does not affect the thermal control of the other component. In some embodiments, the thermal control is by way of one or more cold plates, and the thermal head comprises one or more cold plates. Embodiments of the disclosure further include independent control of one or more forces using one or more force mechanisms.
US12259421B2
The present application proposes an airborne electromagnetic signal observation device and a system carried by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The device includes an inner frame, an outer frame and a flexible support that are connected to each other. The device and the system can enhance the stability of the sensor in flight and greatly suppress motion noise.
US12259419B2
A test device for testing a substrate is provided. The device comprises: a mounting table for test on which the substrate under test is mounted; a transportation mechanism to transport the substrate under test; a mounting table for polishing on which a polishing substrate is mounted; a first forward or backward movement mechanism to move the mounting table for test with respect to a probe; and a second forward or backward movement mechanism to move the mounting table for polishing with respect to the probe, wherein the mounting table for polishing is provided separately from the mounting table for test, a retreat region of the mounting table for test is opposite to a retreat region of the mounting table for polishing, and the second forward or backward movement mechanism is configured such that a portion of the polishing substrate overlaps the probe while the other portion of the polishing substrate does not overlap the probe.
US12259418B2
A transmission measurement system for a guided surface wave transmitted by a guided surface waveguide probe, wherein the transmission measurement system includes at least one mobile metering device configured with a mobile 3-axis antenna and a plurality of sensing subsystems to continuously sense and measure a plurality of meter measurement data while being conveyed by a ground-based or airborne vehicle, the plurality of meter measurement data include but is not limited to the electromagnetic field strength of the guided surface wave, the weather and atmospheric conditions local to the mobile metering device, and soil sigma measurements selected from at least estimated soil sigma measurements and direct soil sigma measurements along the path of the mobile metering device.
US12259408B2
A semiconductor laser device (2) is placed on a first heating-cooling device (1). A probe holder (4) is attached on a second heating-cooling device (3), A measurement probe (8) is fixed to a distal end of the probe holder (4). A fine movement table (9) moves the second heating-cooling device (3) and the probe holder (4) so that a distal end of the measurement probe (8) contacts the semiconductor laser device (2). An inspection apparatus (10) inputs an inspection signal to the semiconductor laser device (2) through the measurement probe (8).
US12259406B2
An elastic electrical contact device and a contact conductor are introduced. The elastic electrical contact device includes two contact conductors. Each contact conductor includes a head and an electrical contact portion integrally connected with each other. The electrical contact portion has a cross section shaped as a curved bend and has a guide groove formed thereon. The electrical contact portion is bilaterally symmetrical along a second central axis, wherein a first central axis and the second central axis are parallel to each other and non-coaxial. The electrical contact portions of the two contact conductors are disposed to have openings thereof face each other and are mutually connected in respective guide grooves, are mutually slidable to extend and retract relative to each other, and are sleeved by an elastic reset member to enable the two contact conductors to be elastically reset when extending and retracting relative to each other.
US12259405B2
An adjustment control device for precise measurement that controls an inspection equipment for inspecting an inspected object to perform precise measurement includes a lowering control unit that lowers the inspection equipment with respect to the inspected object, a rotation control unit that is coupled to the lowering control unit and that controls the lowering control unit to rotate the inspection equipment at a predetermined angle in left and right directions when viewed from a frontal point of view, and a forward and backward control unit that is disposed above the rotation control unit and that transmit a moving force to the rotation control unit to move the inspection equipment forward or forward on the inspected object.
US12259401B2
Accelerometer for measuring acceleration along a measurement direction including a moving mass which is moving with respect to a frame member only along the measurement direction, a suspension system for suspending the moving mass in the frame member while substantially limiting movement of the moving mass along only the measurement direction, and an optical fibre that is connected at a fibre connection point that is coupled to the movable mass. The optical fibre is arranged between the moving mass and the frame member and includes a measurement section for measuring the movement of the moving mass along the measurement direction.
US12259400B2
An information processing device includes at least one processor, in which the at least one processor acquires first information related to a first movement state of at least one of an arm and a leg of a user performing a movement, the first movement state on which a movement state of a torso of the user is superimposed, acquires second information related to a second movement state of the torso of the user performing the movement, and generates third information related to a third movement state of the at least one of the arm and the leg of the user based on the first information and the second information.
US12259393B2
“The present disclosure provides methods and systems for sequencing proteins. One or more methods disclosed herein may use linkers having an amino acid-reactive group and an additional reactive moiety that may be used to couple a polymerizable molecule. The linker may couple to a polymerizable molecule and an amino acid of a peptide and a capture moiety via the polymerizable molecule, followed by cleavage of the amino acid from the peptide. Further processing and analysis may be conducted using, for example, nanopores or nanogaps. ”
US12259391B2
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 methods of obtaining data during a degradation process of a polypeptide, and outputting a sequence representative of the polypeptide. In some aspects, the application provides amino acid recognition molecules having a shielding element that enhances photostability in polypeptide sequencing reactions.
US12259390B2
The presently disclosed subject matter provides methods and compositions for treating myeloid disorders (e.g., acute myeloid leukemia (AML)). It relates to immunoresponsive cells bearing antigen recognizing receptors (e.g., chimeric antigen receptors (CARs)) targeting AML-specific antigens.
US12259388B2
A major immune dysfunction persisting in chronic diseases such as HIV infection and cancer is the impairment of T cell motility and migration to tissues. Therapeutics such as antiretroviral therapy or cancer therapy frequently do not fully restore T cell motility for tissue migration and infiltration. Cofilin is an actin-depolymerizing factor that regulates actin dynamics for T cell migration. Here we demonstrate that the levels of cofilin phosphorylation in blood T cells (CD4 or CD8), macrophages, B cells, natural killer (NK) cells, and/or cancer cells can be used to quantify the immune damages caused by chronic viral infection and cancer, and to predict the recovery of T cells following treatment.
US12259382B2
A kit for detecting an antigen from which false positive signals are removed is provided. The kit includes a substrate; a capture antibody attachable onto the substrate and having a capture strand labeled with a fluorescent material; a detection antibody having a detection strand labeled with a fluorescent material and complementary to some or all of a base sequence of the capture strand; and a blocking strand having a base sequence capable of complementary binding to the capture strand or the detection strand to prevent the detection strand and the capture strand from complementary binding to each other.
US12259377B2
An apparatus includes a plate and a micro-protrusion baffle. The plate defines a microfluidic channel that is configured to flow a sample of lubrication oil. The microfluidic channel has an inlet for receiving the sample of lubrication oil. The microfluidic channel has an outlet for discharging the sample of lubrication oil. The plate defines walls of the microfluidic channel. The walls extend from the inlet to the outlet. The micro-protrusion baffle is located within the microfluidic channel between the inlet and the outlet. The micro-protrusion baffle extends from any of the walls. The micro-protrusion baffle includes a cyclic olefin copolymer. Dissolution of at least a portion of the micro-protrusion baffle in response to the sample of lubrication oil flowing through the microfluidic channel indicates a presence of hydrocarbon fuel in the sample of lubrication oil.
US12259373B2
Disclosed are methods for improving compound detection and characterization. Methods for characterizing a sample are disclosed. The methods can include providing a sample to a liquid chromatography system capable of sample separation to generate sample components; analyzing sample components by multiplexed targeted selected ion monitoring (SIM) to generate an inclusion list; and performing iterative mass spectral data-dependent acquisition (DDA) from the inclusion list, to identify individual sample components thereby characterizing the sample. In one example, multiplexed targeted SIMs and iterative MS2 DDA acquisition is used to increase robust compound identification for cell culture medium analysis.
US12259360B2
The invention relates to a method for determining the total volume and/or the true volume and the porosity of objects, wherein a gas chamber of a closed measurement chamber is compressed or expanded, this volume change ΔV in the measurement chamber causes a movement change of a membrane of a transducer, wherein the movement of this membrane of the transducer correlates linearly with the volume change ΔV in the measurement chamber, the mechanical movement of said membrane of the transducer being triggered by at least one frequency, as a function of the volume of an object in a measurement chamber, and the movement change of the membrane being measured by a sensor head. The invention also relates to a device suitable for the method.
US12259354B2
A sensor may include a sensing element retained within a storage compartment filled with a storage medium, which may also be used as a calibration medium. The sensing element can include a sensing surface located away from the distal end of the sensing element, such that an inactive section of the sensing element can cooperate with a sealing member such as an O-ring to form part of the seal retaining the storage/calibration medium. The sensing element can be extended and retracted from the storage compartment to expose the sensing surface to a process medium, while preserving the storage medium within the storage compartment for post-measurement validation.
US12259346B2
A system and a method for gas sensing while correcting for an interferent condition around a gas sensor. The gas sensor provides dielectric excitation of a gas sensing element and an interferent-compensating sensing element arranged as a single electrical circuit at a set of frequencies, measures impedance responses of the gas sensing element and the interferent-compensating sensing element to the dielectric excitation at the set of frequencies, determines, based on the impedance responses of the gas sensing element and the interferent-compensating sensing element to the dielectric excitation the identities, the respective concentrations, or a combination thereof, of at least one analyte gas of the monitored environment, corrected for one or more sensed interferent conditions of the ambient environment.
US12259338B2
Optical measurement of a sample that includes a structure-of-interest (SOI) optically coupled to an unknown structure is optically measured by extracting from the resulting spectral signal the spectral variation that is correlated to key parameters associated with the SOI and removing the spectral variation from unknown structure that is irrelevant to the key parameters. An offline process is used to generate a physics-based model from a number of calibration measurements using reconstructed spectral signals after removing the spectral variation from the spectral signals that is irrelevant to the key parameters. A machine learning model may be additionally generated using at least the spectral variations correlated to key parameters associated with the SOI. In an in-line process, a sample is measured by filtering the spectral signals from a sample to remove spectral effects from the unknown structure and using the physics-based model or using the trained machine learning model.
US12259331B2
According to various embodiments, there is provided an electronic device including a first housing having a bottom surface formed to be disposed on a specific portion of a top surface of a toilet, a second housing connected to one side of the first housing, a third housing connected to another side of the first housing and having a shape extending from a point connected to the first housing by a specific length in a direction associated with a first curvature, and a detection unit having a shape of a second curvature corresponding to the first curvature, and the detection unit is rotatably coupled to at least a portion of the third housing.
US12259325B2
The invention relates generally to compositions and methods for the detection of zinc. Provided herein is a class of zinc-responsive probes with tunable photophysical properties that can be modified for coupling to a solid support or other chemical moieties. In particular, modifications to the 5-position of the BODIPY core allows for alteration of probe properties and functionalities.
US12259319B2
A gas sensing device for detecting a to-be-detected substance in a respiratory gas exhaled by a user includes a housing permitting entrance of the respiratory gas, and a sensing module disposed in the housing. The sensing module includes a light chamber permitting the respiratory gas to pass therethrough, a light source unit emitting light into the light chamber, first and second light sensing units outputting respectively first and second detected signals indicating first and second detected intensities respectively of first and second portions of the light whose wavelengths fall within first and second wavelength ranges, respectively, and a processing unit electrically connected to the first and second light sensing units and determining, based on the first and second detected signals, that the to-be-detected substance exists in the respiratory gas when a difference occurs in each of the first and second detected intensities over time.
US12259314B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving one or more articles at an inspection station that includes an inspection processor, inspecting the one or more articles in view of at least one repairability criterion presented via one or more graphical elements, and updating an inspection database if the one or more articles fails the at least one repairability criterion. The method includes inspecting the one or more articles in view of at least one local repair criterion presented via one or more graphical elements, inspecting the one or more articles in view of at least one inspector-driven criterion presented via one or more graphical elements, the action type including at least one of determining an inspection failure or a passed inspection, and updating inspection history data stored in an inspection database in communication with the inspection processor based on the at least one repairability criterion, local repair criterion, or inspector-driven criterion.
US12259313B1
The disclosure relates to a rapid and comprehensive method for evaluating pitting resistance of stainless steel pipe welds. Weld samples are collected from different positions of one or more welds on the stainless steel pipe to obtain the surface oxide inclusion density and critical pitting temperature of each weld sample, the surface oxidation inclusion density is taken as an independent variable and the critical pitting temperature is taken as a dependent variable to obtain a fitting function formula between the surface oxidation inclusion density and the critical pitting temperature. The surface oxide inclusion density obtained by adopting the same welding process on the stainless steel pipe to be tested is substituted into the fitting function formula to obtain a standard critical pitting temperature of the weld to be tested. The pitting resistance of the weld of the stainless steel pipe to be tested can be evaluated rapidly, accurately, and comprehensively.
US12259312B2
A system for monitoring internal corrosion of a pipeline based on radio-frequency identification (RFID), including a magnetizing device, a RFID tag sensor, and a reader. The magnetizing device is placed on the pipeline, and includes an armature, a first permanent magnet, a first pole shoe, a second permanent magnet and a second pole shoe. The RFID tag sensor is placed on the pipeline, and at the same side with the magnetizing device. The reader is in wireless communication connection with the RFID tag sensor through a reader antenna.
US12259304B2
Methods and techniques for controlled printing of a cell sample for karyotyping are provided. The methods can involve matrix printing using on-the-fly printing or dispensing to accurately spread cells within at least one cell sample on a surface in preparation for karyotyping, and further analysis. Advantageously, the methods result in a uniform distribution of chromosomes of the cell suspension or sample on the surface of a substrate which can be substantially discretely identified, and also provide for efficiency in a subsequent staining process and any further analysis of the stained chromosomes using a microscope or other imaging device.
US12259295B2
A method for providing a visual aid to guide a driver when executing a test cycle includes controlling an electronic display to display a graph including a target trace indicating a target speed of a vehicle during the test cycle and a first visual indicator of an actual speed of the vehicle during the test cycle, scroll the target trace from a first side of the graph to a second side of the graph during a time-based portion of the test cycle to indicate the target vehicle speed with respect to an amount of time elapsed since a start of the test cycle, and scroll the target trace from the first side of the graph to the second side of the graph during a distance-based portion of the test cycle to indicate the target vehicle speed with respect to a distance travelled by the vehicle during the test cycle.
US12259289B2
Header construction and techniques are disclosed that utilize header layers that provide support for electrical interconnections. A sensor header assembly includes: an upper header layer having upper through holes arranged in a first configuration; a lower header layer having lower through holes arranged in a second configuration axially offset relative to the first configuration; depressions extending from the lower header layer top surface and partially through the lower header layer, each depression defining a footprint corresponding to the first configuration of the corresponding upper through holes of the upper header layer; upper header pins extending through the corresponding upper through holes and at least partially into the corresponding lower level depressions; and lower header pins extending through the corresponding lower through holes and in electrical communication with the corresponding upper header pins. The depressions form support surfaces for supporting at least the corresponding upper header pins during high-pressure operation.
US12259287B2
A sensing structure and a method of fabricating a sensing structure for a compressive-type pressure sensor. The method comprises the steps of providing an elastic micropatterned substrate defining a plurality of 3-dimensional microstructures, each microstructure comprising a tip portion pointing away from the substrate in a first direction; forming a conductive film on the elastic micropatterned substrate such that the 3-dimensional microstructures are substantially covered by the conductive film; and forming cracks in the conductive film in areas on 3-dimensional microstructures.
US12259284B2
Disclosed is a technique for characterizing a product utilizing novel measurements based on the reactive and resistive signals exhibited by the product in an electromagnetic field.
US12259281B2
A non-invasive analyte sensor includes a receive side with a superheterodyne circuit. The superheterodyne circuit include a mixer with an input that is electrically connected to a receive antenna, and a radio frequency generator connected to another input of the mixer and that is configured to generate a radio frequency signal. The mixer outputs a signal that is based on a frequency of a signal received by the receive antenna and the frequency of the signal generated by the radio frequency generator.
US12259279B1
An electromagnetic wave measuring apparatus includes: a light source unit configured to output a first laser beam whose frequency is settable, and a second laser beam; an electro-optic probe configured to receive the first laser beam of a frequency that is set in the frequency range, the second laser beam, and a detection-target electromagnetic wave; an optical filter; and a light-receiving element configured to convert a light beam that has passed through the optical filter into an electrical signal. The electro-optic probe outputs the first laser beam, the second laser beam, a first sideband beam, and a second sideband beam. The optical filter attenuates at least one of a frequency component of the first laser beam and a frequency component of the second sideband beam, or at least one of a frequency component of the second laser beam and a frequency component of the first sideband beam.
US12259278B2
A method, applied to an electronic device comprising a camera and a temperature sensor, wherein the method comprises displaying a temperature measurement interface, receiving, from a user, a temperature measurement operation, measuring, in response to the temperature measurement operation and using the temperature sensor, a first temperature of a measured object, collecting, using the camera, a picture of the measured object, determining, based on the picture, a type of the measured object, matching, based on the type, a first temperature algorithm for the measured object, and determining, based on the first temperature and first algorithm, a second temperature of the measured object.
US12259276B2
A spectrometer device includes: a substrate including multiple light detector elements; a first filter layer on the substrate, in which the first filter layer includes multiple groups of filter stacks, each filter stack in the first filter layer including multiple dielectric films of alternating refractive index; and a second filter layer on the first filter layer, in which the second filter layer includes multiple groups of filter stacks, each filter stack in the second filter layer including multiple dielectric films of alternating refractive index, in which each filter stack in the second filter layer is aligned with both a corresponding filter stack in the first filter layer and a corresponding light detector element to define a respective photodetector channel, and in which each photodetector channel includes a different optical transmission spectrum.
US12259274B2
A system is provided for producing an output photon having a predefined frequency. A pump module produces a plurality of pump fields at a plurality of pump frequencies. A photon pair source module generates frequency-correlated photon pairs. A detector module generates a heralding signal subsequent to detecting a first photon of a photon pair, the heralding signal indicative of a frequency of the second photon of the pair. A non-linear photonic element is arranged to (1) receive the heralded second photon and a complementary selected pump field, and (2) to produce an output photon having the predefined frequency. A pump field selector is configured to (1) receive a heralding signal and (2) select, based on the received heralding signal, a pump field of the plurality of pump fields for provision to the non-linear element. Methods, controllers and computer-readable media are also described herein.
US12259273B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor having pixels, each pixel having photodiodes having each a terminal coupled to a first node associated with the photodiode; and an amplifier having a first part and, for each photodiode, a second part associated with the photodiode. The first part includes an output of the amplifier and a first MOS transistor of a differential pair. Each second part includes a second MOS transistor of the differential pair having its gate coupled to the first node associated with the photodiode the second part is associated with; a first switch coupling a source of the second transistor to the first part of the amplifier; and a second switch coupling a drain of the second transistor to the first part of the amplifier.
US12259268B2
The disclosure relates to systems, devices, and methods for sensing the volume of liquid in a container, such as within a medical device. The systems, devices, and methods can measure the properties of a signal sent across a container using non-intrusive components that remain outside the container. The measured properties can be used to determine the volume of liquid in the container, as well as changes to the volume of liquid representing flow into and out of the container.
US12259262B2
Disclosed is a method for diagnosing a speed/position sensor of an internal combustion engine, of the type including a toothed wheel, which rotates as one with a shaft, and a matter detector, which is arranged so as to be fixed opposite the toothed wheel and controls a base of a transistor. The method includes: detecting a short circuit between an output of the speed/position sensor and a power supply; and testing for excess current consumption by a power supply of the speed/position sensor when the transistor is activated. If the test is positive, the short circuit is identified between the power supply of the speed/position sensor and the output of the speed/position sensor. Alternatively, if the test is negative, the short circuit is identified between another power supply and the output of the speed/position sensor.
US12259260B1
A rain-resistant, drainless, heated air data probe assembly may comprise a probe having a central channel, one or more peripheral channels, and a heating element. In addition, inner surfaces of the channels may include hydrophilic surfaces, and the outer surface of the probe may include hydrophobic surfaces. The hydrophobic outer surface may reduce water ingress into the channels of the probe, and the hydrophilic inner surfaces may cause dispersion of water that has entered the channels. The heating element may further cause evaporation or running off of water on the outer surface, and may cause evaporation of dispersed water within the channels, which may further eliminate the need for a drain at a terminal end of the probe assembly.
US12259258B1
An asset management mapping system including a microphone recording the audio of the asset inspector and a condition signal generator generating an condition signal based on asset inspector input from a keypad including condition selectors recorded into a global positioning system recorder that associates the audio, condition signal, and video with a gps location to create a pavement condition database. The database is interpreted to generate a condition output map of the areas inspected and provide associated video of each location on the map.
US12259244B2
An adjuster performs simultaneous irradiation of M laser beams to an atomic beam, where M is a predetermined integer satisfying 3≤M. The course of each of the M laser beams intersects with an approach path of the atomic beam. A component, in a direction perpendicular to the approach path of the atomic beam, of the sum of radiation pressure vectors that the M laser beams respectively have is non-zero. A component, in a direction of the approach path of the atomic beam, of the sum of the radiation pressure vectors that the M laser beams respectively have is negative for atoms having speeds greater than the predetermined speed, and positive for the atoms having speeds smaller than the predetermined speed.
US12259239B2
A sheet detection device includes: a magnetic sensing element disposed on a sheet guide, wherein the sheet guide brings the magnetic sensing element to move to a first position or a second position; a first magnetic element disposed on a sheet tray corresponding to the first position; a second magnetic element disposed on the sheet tray corresponding to the second position and in spaced with the first magnetic element; a processing element electrically connected with the magnetic sensing element. When the magnetic sensing element outputs a first voltage signal, the processing element determines the sheet guide is located at the first position according to the first voltage signal. When the magnetic sensing element outputs a second voltage signal, the processing element determines the sheet guide is located at the second position according to the second voltage signal. The first voltage signal is different from the second voltage signal.
US12259236B2
A support assembly for a measuring device may include a first retention body, a second retention body, and a wire member having a foot portion, legs and engagement members. The foot portion may extend between distal ends of the legs, and the engagement members may extend from respective proximal ends of the legs. The first and second retention bodies may each include a retaining channel extending at least partially therethrough to receive respective ones of the engagement members. The wire member may be operably coupled to the first and second retention bodies to be transitioned between a retracted state and a deployed state in which the foot member is configured to engage ground upon which the measuring device is operable adjacent to a wheel of the support assembly. The legs and the foot portion may be operably coupled to each other such that tension is increased when the wire member is transitioned between the retracted state and deployed state and is lower in one or both of the retracted state and the deployed state.
US12259233B2
A method for aligning a calibration device with a vehicle based on a wheel aligner and a calibration system are provided. The wheel aligner includes an image sensor and a computer. The computer controls at least one image sensor to image a vehicle-mounted target on a vehicle, and processes the obtained image to determine a position of the vehicle. The computer controls the at least one image sensor to image a reference target on a calibration device, and processes the obtained image to determine a position of the calibration device. The computer determines an adjusting mode of the calibration device according to the position of the vehicle and the position of the calibration device, so that the calibration device is aligned with the vehicle according to an anticipated position or direction. The method can guide an operator to accurately align the calibration device with the vehicle.
US12259229B1
Systems, techniques, and devices for performing long range depth estimation are described. Multiple images of a scene are captured via at least three imaging sensors of a camera device. A first imaging sensor is separated from a second imaging sensor by a first baseline, and a third imaging sensor is separated from the first imaging sensor by a second baseline larger than the first baseline. A first point cloud is generated based on a first image and a second image captured by the first imaging sensor and the second imaging sensor, respectively. A second point cloud is generated based on the first image and a third image captured by the first imaging sensor and the third imaging sensor, respectively. Depth information of the scene is generated based on the first point cloud and the second point cloud.
US12259220B2
Method and device for steering a convoy (1) having a follower vehicle (2) to be protected and a weight-based decoy system (4), this method and these device being relative to the following steps: steering a controller of yaw-wise direction of the weight-based decoy system (4) depending on a route to follow, the weight-based decoy system (4) defining a safe track that is made so by passage of at least one axle-and-wheels assembly (5) suitable for exerting pressure on the ground; steering the follower vehicle (2) so that its wheels follow a path that falls on the safe track defined by the weight-based decoy system (4).
US12259199B2
Provided are an operation control system and an operation control method for a chiller cooling tower. The operation control system includes a water chilling unit, a first temperature sensor, a second temperature sensor, a programmable logic controller, and an artificial intelligence controller.
US12259198B2
A finned tube heat exchanger includes a plurality of tube arrays, each of which includes a plurality of heat transfer tubes that each extend parallel to one another and are disposed at a predetermined pitch in a first direction that intersects a flow direction of heat exchanging air, in a second direction that intersects the first direction, any closest two of the plurality of tube arrays having a predetermined distance therebetween. One closest two tube arrays includes first and second tube arrays that respectively include a plurality of first heat transfer tubes and a plurality of second heat transfer tubes. When seen from the flow direction, each first heat transfer tube is disposed closer to one of an adjacent two second heat transfer tubes that is closest to said each first heat transfer tube, than to the other one of the adjacent two second heat transfer tubes.
US12259194B2
A gas turbine engine is provided. The gas turbine engine includes: a thermal management system having a thermal fluid member having a flow of thermal fluid therethrough during operation of the gas turbine engine and a heat exchanger assembly, the heat exchanger assembly including: a core section comprising a plurality of heat exchange members; and a heat exchange manifold including a first direction pressure vessel in fluid communication with the thermal fluid member and a second direction pressure vessel extending from the first direction pressure vessel, the first and second direction pressure vessels each extending in a reference plane, the second direction pressure vessel in fluid communication with the first direction pressure vessel and with at least one of the plurality of heat exchange members.
US12259192B2
A mobile phase-change heat and cold storage device include heat transfer plates, a bracket, a casing, a main tube, a storage tank, and a phase-change working medium. Heat is stored and released by the phase-change working medium, and the main tube and casing provide an interface between the heat and cold storage device and the outside world. In the process of heat storage, vapor flows through the heat transfer plates via the main tube; heat is transferred to the phase-change working medium via the heat transfer plates, and is transported in a box body to a designated position; cold water flows through the heat transfer plates via the casing; heat is transferred from the phase-change working medium to the cold water via the heat transfer plates to obtain hot water; the phase-change working medium can release heat by exothermic solidification. The process of cold storage is similar thereto.
US12259190B2
A heat pipe and a geothermal energy collecting device. The heat pipe includes a sealing member which is provided with channels; a first pipe body, one end of the first pipe body has an opening, and an other end of the first pipe body is sealed by the sealing member, which has a first chamber, first heat transfer members which are connected to the sealing member and located at one side of the sealing member, each of the first heat transfer members has a first cavity; and second heat transfer members which are connected to the sealing member and located at an other side of the sealing member, each of second heat transfer members has a second cavity configured to communicate with the first cavity of a corresponding one of the first heat transfer members via a respective one of the channels.
US12259188B2
A heat exchanger includes an inlet header in which a first inlet space and a second inlet space are formed, a plurality of first inlet-side heat exchanger tubes that are connected to the first inlet space, a plurality of second inlet-side heat exchanger tubes that are connected to the second inlet space, a return header in which a plurality of first return spaces connected to the first inlet-side heat exchanger tubes, respectively, and a plurality of second return spaces connected to the second inlet-side heat exchanger tubes, respectively, are formed, and a plurality of outlet-side heat exchanger tubes that are connected to the first and second return spaces, respectively, wherein a communication path that enables a first return space on a bottom side among the first return spaces and a second return space on a top side among the second return spaces to communicate is formed in the return header.
US12259181B2
The present application discloses a temperature control plate and a Measurement method for the temperature control plate for cold-chain transportation. The temperature control plate for cold-chain transportation comprises a phase-change gel, a vacuum-sealing bag, a sealed plastic box, and an RFID passive temperature sensor tag. The phase-change gel is filled in the vacuum-sealing bag, and a supporting frame is embedded in the phase-change gel. The RFID passive temperature sensor tag is embedded in the phase-change gel. The vacuum-sealing bag is packed in the sealed plastic box, and the sealed plastic box is externally labeled with a tag identifier. The vacuum-sealing bag is a PET vacuum-sealing bag, and the sealed plastic box is a PET sealed plastic box. The Measurement method for the temperature control plate for cold-chain transportation is to detect the temperature of the temperature control plate for cold-chain transportation using a RFID reader, and the RFID reader transmits the temperature data to a data terminal. The present application solves the technical problems that the internal temperature of a temperature control plate for cold-chain transportation cannot be measured accurately, and achieves quick and effective measurement of the temperature of a phase-change material inside the temperature control plate for cold-chain transportation.
US12259147B1
Methods and related systems for controlling an indoor air temperature for a heat pump system are disclosed. The method includes (a) determining an outdoor coil temperature of an outdoor heat exchanger and a speed of a compressor of a heat pump system, (b) determining a target indoor coil temperature of the indoor coil based on the outdoor coil temperature and the speed of the compressor, and (c) adjusting a speed of air flowing across the indoor coil based on a difference between a current indoor coil temperature and the target indoor coil temperature to reduce the difference between the current indoor coil temperature and the target indoor coil temperature.
US12259139B2
A heating cooking apparatus (100) includes a housing (1), a lid portion (21), a moving member (25), at least two connecting members (60), and a pivoting mechanism (30). The housing (1) includes an opening and a first face disposed on an outer periphery of the opening. The lid portion (21) includes a second face (21B) facing the first face, and a fixing member (26) fixed to the second face (2B). The moving member (25) moves along a first direction (D1) with respect to the housing (1). At least two connecting members (60) connect the housing (1) and the lid portion (21) when the lid portion (21) is placed at a position where the lid portion (21) covers the opening. The pivoting mechanism (30) couples the fixing member (26) of the lid portion (21) and the moving member (25) such that the lid portion (21) pivots about a rotation axis extending along a second direction intersecting with the first direction (D1).
US12259135B2
A combustor includes a liner and an air fuel mixing body in a wall of the liner. A fuel supply passage provides fuel into the mixing body. The fuel then is injected through radial distribution passages into a mixing plenum. The mixing plenum receives a cellular material. Air supply passages deliver air into the mixing plenum. Downstream extending passages lead from the mixing plenum to an inner face of the mixing body for delivery of mixed fuel and air into a combustion chamber.
US12259131B1
An industrial furnace burner block assembly is presented herein. The assembly includes a mounting plate defining a fire tube extending there from. A plurality of tabs extend from the mounting plate and engage a corresponding groove or slot formed on a refractory burner block. The burner block includes four block sections that each allow for independent thermal growth during operation. The burner block also defines a center aperture collectively formed by corresponding internal surfaces of the independent block sections. A sealing ring is mounted within a groove in the burner aperture and is disposed in a sealing relation with an external surface of the firing tube. A tongue-and-groove connection assembly is formed on mating surfaces between adjacent burner block sections. The tongue-and-groove connection assembly and the sealing ring each provide a gas-tight seal that restricts gas bypassing.
US12259127B2
A device to induce a fire tornado with a swirling vortex of flames rising into the air. The device includes a flame element and a series of nozzles that deliver the flow of air into the area of the flame element. The air flow is such that eddy currents are created, which along with the heat of the flames, results in inducing the fire tornado.
US12259126B2
Methods and apparatus for vaporizing liquid into the surrounding environment, including directing liquid from a liquid source to a vaporization port where the vaporization port has lateral dimensions varying from 10 um to 300 um, applying heat to the liquid in the vaporization port with an at least one heating element located in thermal communication to the vaporization port, and releasing vaporized liquid from the vaporization port into the surrounding environment so that fluid is transported through the depth of the structure.
US12259114B1
Disclosed is a floor lamp with a light-emitting lamp pole, including: a top light source assembly; a lamp pole, where one end of the lamp pole is connected to the top light source assembly, the other end of the lamp pole is connected to a base, and a groove is formed on a surface of the lamp pole; a lamp strip detachably mounted in the groove of the lamp pole; a controller, where the controller is electrically connected to a power line and electrical interfaces for power supply and control of the floor lamp; and an electrical interface is arranged at both ends of the groove respectively, the two electrical interfaces are electrically connected to the controller and the top light source assembly respectively, and a power supply circuit and a control circuit of the top light source assembly and the lamp strip are communicated with the controller.
US12259113B2
An LED light fixture assembly includes an LED light housing and an installation bracket. The LED light housing has a first side configured to convey light from an interior of the light housing to an exterior of the light housing. The first side defines a bottom side of the LED light housing when installed in a ceiling, and has a first width. The installation bracket is coupled to the LED light housing, and includes a first arm and a second arm. The first arm includes at least a portion flaring out from and extending downward from a first location of the LED light housing. The first arm is elastically deformable to facilitate insertion into an opening having a width that is less than a width between a first point on the first arm and a second point on the second arm on a same horizontal plane.
US12259110B1
The present disclosure provides an optical packaging structure and a backlight module with the optical packaging structure. The optical packaging structure includes a light-emitting chip, a packaging layer, a fluorescent layer, a lens structure, and a reflecting layer. The light-emitting chip includes a light-emitting surface, a connecting surface, and a side surface. The packaging layer covers the light-emitting surface and the first side surface. The connecting surface is exposed from the packaging layer. The fluorescent layer is disposed on the packaging layer, and covers on the light-emitting surface and the first side surface. The lens structure is disposed on a top surface of the fluorescent layer. A surface of the lens structure is recessed towards the light-emitting chip to form a curved surface. The reflecting layer is disposed on the curved surface.
US12259108B2
A light projector including a light source coupled to a base and a lens assembly. A sheath can be overmolded over the base and can form a locator sleeve. An aperture can be overmolded over the light source. The locator sleeve can fix the spatial relationship between the light source and the lens assembly. The lens assembly can include a spacer to fix the spatial relationship between two or more lenses in the lens assembly. A thermal management system can be coupled to the sheath to help reduce the temperature of the light projector.
US12259101B2
A vehicular lamp includes a light source, a reflector, and a projection lens. The vehicular lamp is configured to radiate, toward front of the lamp via the projection lens, light from the light source, the light being reflected by the reflector. A reflective surface of the reflector includes a reflective region configured to illuminate a short-distance road surface within 5 m in front of the lamp. A light diffusing treatment for diffusing and reflecting emitted light from the light source is applied to the reflective region.
US12259098B2
The invention provides an electrical connection assembly comprising a connector and a printed circuit board for a light module for motor vehicles, and a diagnostic method for checking the hold of a connector in a socket by means of a check electrical signal, using minimal electronic components.
US12259097B2
A portable lighting device control module configured to adjust lighting operations of a portable lighting device. In some examples, the control module may interpret real-time user gestures and external conditions of the portable lighting device to modifying lighting operations. The control module installed within a portable lighting device may be configured to permit automatic dimming of LEDs, enable a low power standby mode in absence of motion being detected, automatic mode adjustments in response to low battery determination, adjustment to lantern mode when a bump gesture is detected, continuous alternation between modes within lantern mode by detecting subsequent bump gestures, exiting lantern mode by detecting orientation, locking the lighting operation to a specific mode by determining orienting as either upwards or downwards, switching between modes by performing twist and return gestures, switching between modes by performing whip gestures, instantaneously dimming the light intensity by twisting the portable lighting device.
US12259096B2
A solid state lamp includes a connector and a bulb portion with multiple strips.
US12259095B2
Systems and methods are provided, which relate to identification, troubleshooting, and maintenance/repair of water systems and water devices within such systems. A given water device may include an identifier which may be captured by an installation device when attempting to install the water device and sent to a remote server. The remote server may identify the water device and provide installation support, registration, and/or configuration of the water device. Configuration of the water device may be performed based on configurations of other highly-performing water devices that are similar to the water device, as identified by the server. Problem signatures associated with known possible problems that may arise within a water device may be generated and stored in memory, then may be referenced against real-time device operation data and/or configuration data of the water device in order to diagnose and recommend remediation of problems with the water device.
US12259089B2
A control arrangement includes at least one sensor. The sensor is adapted to detect at least one object in an area of at least one predefined sector focused in an area between a control cabin and a boom end, and to detect at least one of: location information of the detected object at two different time instants, at least, and the speed of the detected object. The control arrangement additionally includes at least one control unit adapted to determine at least the direction of travel of the detected object in relation to the control cabin at two different time instants, at least, based on the detected location information and/or the detected speed of the object, and cause a change in the control of a forest machine responsive to the detected direction of movement of the detected object being directed towards the control cabin in the area of the sector.
US12259088B2
A ceiling mount support tool for temporarily mounting an electrical device, such as a ceiling fan to a ceiling bracket. The ceiling mount support tool has a shaft, a ball joint at the proximal end of the shaft, and a socket at the distal end of the shaft. The ceiling mount support tool is mounted to a ceiling flange, and the ceiling fan is mounted to the ceiling mount support tool. Thereafter, electrical wires can be connected, and then the ceiling fan and the ceiling mount support tool can be removed. The ceiling fan with the wires connected can then be mounted to the ceiling bracket.
US12259081B2
Thermal insulating sleeve liner for fluid flow device and fluid flow device incorporating such liner
A thermal insulating sleeve liner for fluid flow devices such as valves and piping used in severe industrial applications is preferably additively manufactured (e.g., by 3D printing) to fit into the bore of a protected fluid flow device. Internal interstices and/or external ribs provide added thermal insulation. An integrally formed end-lip or a separate end-cap secures and/or locates the sleeve liner within the protected fluid flow device between different diameter distal and proximal portions of the bore. If internal interstices are sealed they can be vacuumed or pressurized to enhance thermal insulating properties. Fitted dimensions are sufficiently small to prevent ingress of thermally conductive particles circulating in use within the flow path of the protected flow device. A pressure equalizing aperture can be provided on or through the sleeve if needed in some applications.
US12259074B2
Various embodiments provide a connector for the sterile transfer of a liquid medium from a container to a bioprocess engineering system. The connector has two coupling devices. The coupling devices each have a housing and a control element which is adjustably mounted in the housing interior and forms a channel. The channel extends from a control element inlet opening to a control element outlet opening. The housings are able to be mechanically connected to one another and have a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The fluid outlet of one housing and the fluid inlet of the other housing overlap. The control elements are each adjustable from a starting position, into an operating position, in which the control element inlet opening is fluidically connected to the fluid inlet and the control element outlet opening is fluidically connected to the fluid outlet.
US12259067B2
A pipe fitting having a first body and a second body that together at least partially define a fluid flow passage. The first body defines a first portion of the fluid flow passage that extends from a first end of the fluid flow passage to a first internal opening. The second body defines a second portion of the fluid flow passage that extends from a second internal opening to a second end of the fluid flow passage. The first body has a first interface surface that surrounds the first internal opening, the first interface surface having a plurality of anti-rotation grooves. The second body has a second interface surface that surrounds the second internal opening and engages with the first interface surface. The first internal opening is in fluid communication with the second internal opening. The second interface surface has a plurality of anti-rotation fingers that are each received by and engage with a corresponding one of the anti-rotation grooves. Rotation of the second body relative to the first body is resisted by the engagement of the anti-rotation fingers with the anti-rotation grooves.
US12259065B2
A pinch valve system includes a closing element arranged in an axial direction and includes a closing piece, a permanent magnetic holding device to hold the closing element by a permanent magnetic force in an open or closed position, without energy being supplied to the permanent magnetic holding device, an electromagnetic actuating device to carrying out a switching process, with which the closing element is configured to be moved from the open position to the closed position or from the closed position to the open position, an energy storage device to store an electrical energy which is sufficient to carry out the switching process, and a controller programmed with a predetermined rest position, which is the open or closed position, and the controller configured to trigger the switching process with which the closing element is brought to the rest position by the energy stored in the energy storage device.
US12259064B2
A valve for use in oil and gas production or similar applications may include a ball disposed in a cavity of a hollow valve body and a seat comprising a curved surface with a normal component and a normal surface with a surface area larger than a projected normal surface area of the normal component of the curved surface.
US12259063B2
An improved stopcock valve, including a valve body, the valve body having at least one inlet port and at least one outlet port, the valve body having an internal cavity in communication with the at least one inlet port and the at least one outlet port and, a rotatable interference body having a through-bore therein, the rotatable body having an external surface, the through-bore having a first opening to the surface and a second opening to the surface, the interference body positioned within the internal cavity of the valve body, the external surface including a first tapered groove in communication with the first opening and a second tapered groove in communication with the second opening, the grooves arranged to be in communication with the at least one inlet port and the at least one outlet port upon rotation of the body.
US12259062B2
A shower system includes a shower waterway and a fluid control valve. The shower waterway is configured to be coupled to a shower device. The fluid control valve is coupled to the shower waterway and comprises a valve body and a piston. The valve body includes a chamber and a reservoir. The piston is slidably coupled to the valve body and fluidly separates the chamber from the reservoir. The chamber includes a compressible gas. The piston is configured to slidably translate within the valve body to compress the compressible gas in response to a water pressure fluctuation in the shower waterway.
US12259055B2
A modular valve assembly includes a bonnetless main core, a first releasable connection, and a second releasable connection. A first inlet end connection includes a first inlet end flow passage. The first inlet end flow passage includes a curved portion that changes a direction of the first inlet end flow passage between 30 and 120 degrees. A second inlet end connection includes a second inlet end flow passage. The second inlet end connection passage is substantially straight. A first outlet end connection includes a first outlet end flow passage. The first outlet end flow passage includes an angled portion. A second outlet end connection passage includes a second outlet end flow passage. The first and second inlet end connections and the first and second outlet end connections are rapidly reconfigurable to form a variety of valve configurations.
US12259053B2
An exhaust valve includes a pipe body connecting an upstream pipe and a downstream pipe for exhaust, a valve plate disposed inside the pipe body in a state of being attached to a rotary shaft that rotates by drive of an actuator, the valve plate configured to rotate to open/close an exhaust flow path inside the pipe body, and a stopper fixed inside the pipe body and configured to come into contact with the valve plate in a closed state. In the stopper, at least one of an upstream contact surface at which the valve plate makes contact and a downstream contact surface at which the valve plate makes contact runs along an inner peripheral surface of the pipe body at a position closer to an upstream side or a downstream side of the exhaust than an outer periphery of the rotary shaft.
US12259051B2
One embodiment is a device comprising a first and second section of a housing connected by a connection region that uses a plurality of connection elements, an inlet connected to the first or the second section, an outlet connected to the first or the second section where a gas can exit the housing, and a valve connected to the outlet, the valve capable of withstanding a first pressure in the housing.
US12259043B2
There is provided a sliding component that supplies a sealed fluid to a leakage side in a gap between sliding surfaces to exhibit high lubricity and has a small leakage of the sealed fluid. A sliding component that has an annular shape and is disposed in a place where relative rotation is performed in a rotary machine, includes a plurality of dynamic pressure generating mechanisms provided in a sliding surface of the sliding component, each of the dynamic pressure generating mechanisms provided with a deep groove portion that communicates with a leakage side, and a shallow groove portion that communicates with the deep groove portion and extends in a circumferential direction.
US12259041B2
A shift track selection rod and a shifting element are provided which can be connected to one another without additional fastening elements. A system consists of the shift track selection rod and the shifting element. A transmission actuator includes the system. A transmission includes the system or the transmission actuator.
US12259040B1
Methods and systems for an actuator cartridge. The actuator cartridge includes an actuation assembly that is rotationally coupled to an actuation motor and a sleeve. The sleeve includes a shift device groove that circumferentially extends around the sleeve and is configured to axially capture a shift device and gaps that extend from an axial side of the sleeve to the shift device groove.
US12259039B2
A device for switching at least two partial gear mechanisms, namely a first partial gear mechanism and a second partial gear mechanism, each having at least two gear stages. The device comprising an actuator connected for drive purposes to a rotatable component, a first switching device for switching the first partial gear mechanism and a second switching device for switching the second partial gear mechanism both of which are arranged on the rotatable component, and an electric drive axle for a motor vehicle comprising a first drive wheel, a second drive wheel and such a device.
US12259036B2
A gas turbine engine includes a fan drive turbine, a fan rotor, and a gear reduction driven by the fan drive turbine and, in turn, to drive the fan rotor. A main oil supply system supplies oil to components within the gear reduction, and an auxiliary oil supply system. The auxiliary oil supply system includes a rotation sensor for sensing rotation of a component that will rotate with the fan rotor, a control, an auxiliary oil pump, and a main supply sensor for sensing operation of the main oil supply system. The control is programmed to supply oil from the auxiliary oil pump to the gear reduction when the rotation sensor senses the component is rotating. A determination is made that inadequate oil is being supplied from the main oil supply system based upon information from the main supply sensor.
US12259032B2
A strain wave gear device includes: an internal gear; a wave generator; a flex gear including an outer gear and a first annular portion integrally formed with the outer gear of the same material; and an outputter that rotates together with the flex gear and includes a second annular portion facing against the first annular portion in a radial direction centered on an axis. The second annular portion is provided with a transmission tooth protruding radially while the first annular portion is provided with a recess to receive the transmission tooth. The recess is circumferentially wider than the transmission tooth and tolerates relative circumferential displacement of the flex gear with respect to the outputter. Transmission pairs, each including the transmission tooth and the recess, are circumferentially arranged.
US12259025B2
A method is disclosed for setting an axial preload force of a roller screw drive rotatably mounted in a housing. The housing is split transversely into a first and a second housing part. The roller screw drive is inserted with two axially spaced bearings into the second housing part. An axial preload force is applied which is transmitted from the first bearing via the roller screw drive to the second bearing. An axial load spacing between the bearing supporting surface of the first bearing and a second housing edge of the second housing part is measured. An adjusting nut is screwed into the first housing part until an axial adjustable spacing is the same size as the measured axial load spacing. The adjusting nut is then secured in place in the first housing part, and the two housing parts are connected to one another.
US12259017B2
A suspension system (22) configured to minimize transmission of acoustic and vibrational energy in a device, comprising: (i) a rigid support (24); (ii) an operative element (16) positioned within the rigid support and comprising a drive frequency when the device is in operation; and (iii) a resilient element (26) engaging the rigid support and configured to create a resilient force against one or more degrees of freedom of vibrations generated by the operative element; wherein the natural frequency in one or more of the degrees of freedom of the suspension system, in the degrees of freedom of interest, are tuned into a narrow resonant frequency range by the suspension, and wherein the resonant frequency is less than the drive frequency.
US12259009B2
A tolerance ring (200) including a tolerance ring sidewall (404) including a plurality of waves (or bridges) (452) extending at least one of radially inward or outward and having first (416) and second end portions (420) terminating at first (417) and second ends (421), respectively, where the tolerance ring has a first radius of curvature Ri, measured at a point bisecting a circumferential length, LC, of the tolerance ring sidewall, and a second radius of curvature, R2, measured along one of the first and second end portions of the tolerance ring sidewall, and wherein at least one of: 1) Ri is greater than R2, or 2) wherein Ri is negative and R2 is positive.
US12258989B2
A connection lock for prefabricated components includes an auxiliary part and a main part which are each provided with a fixing structure for connecting with a prefabricated component in an anchoring fit manner. The auxiliary part includes an auxiliary part body, an auxiliary part transmission structure, and a lock pin structure which is movably mounted to the auxiliary part body. The auxiliary part transmission structure is in transmission fit with the lock pin structure. The main part includes a main part body, a main part transmission structure, and a locking structure. An inserting channel fitted with the lock pin structure is formed in the main part body. The locking structure is adjustably mounted in the main part body. The main part transmission structure is in transmission fit with the locking structure. It is rapid and convenient to operate, and the construction efficiency is higher than traditional construction methods.
US12258987B2
A fastener comprising: a) a body having: i) a first cylindrical portion with a first diameter, ii) a second cylindrical portion with a second diameter, iii) a shoulder part of the first cylindrical portion, iv) an exterior threaded portion, and v) a cylindrical hole extending along an axis of the body; b) a mandrel having: i) a shank, and ii) a mandrel head at an end of the shank; and c) a head having an opening defined by an interior threaded portion; wherein the mandrel shank at least partially occupies the cylindrical hole of the body; wherein the mandrel head is located outside of the body and opposite of the exterior threaded portion of the body; and wherein the exterior threaded portion of the body and the interior threaded portion of the head are engaged to removably secure the body to the head.
US12258975B2
An impeller for a centrifugal fan rotatable about a central axis extending in an axial direction includes a hub portion expanding radially outward about the central axis, and wings on a radially outer side of the hub portion. A cross-sectional shape of the wing in a circumferential direction is a wing shape.
US12258970B2
The centrifugal pump includes a flow measuring device (3) adapted to measure a delivery flow through the pump by means of a turbine wheel (32) including at least one permanent magnet (42). The flow measuring device includes at least one magnetic flux sensor (50, 51) arranged in a sensor housing (48) mounted in an outer wall of the pump casing (2). A rotatable disc (52) is fixed on a pump shaft and includes at least one permanent magnet (53). The flow measuring device is adapted to measure the delivery flow on the basis of a first measurement signal generated by the at least one magnetic flux sensor as a result of the rotation of the turbine wheel and to include in the measurement of the delivery flow a second measurement signal generated by the at least one magnetic flux sensor as a result of the rotation of the rotatable disc.
US12258961B2
A fault-rectification method for an eccentric screw pump of a conveying apparatus for conveying viscous construction materials, comprising the steps of monitoring a start of a conveying operation of the eccentric screw pump by way of a characteristic-variable-monitoring program of a control device of the conveying apparatus, wherein a working-free program is executed by the control device of the eccentric screw pump if, for one or more characteristic variables. The characteristic-variable-monitoring program acquires characteristic-variable values which are stored, alone or in combination with one another, as fault values that indicate jamming of a rotor/stator unit of the eccentric screw pump, and wherein otherwise a conveying operation is begun. The eccentric screw pump is operated in the working-free program in such a way that an electric motor of a drive unit of the conveying apparatus is multiply alternately switched on and switched off.
US12258956B2
A system can include one or more processors; memory; a data interface that receives data; a control interface that transmits control signals for control of pumps of a hydraulic fracturing operation; and one or more components that can include one or more of a modeling component that predicts pressure in a well fluidly coupled to at least one of the pumps, a pumping rate adjustment component that generates a pumping rate control signal for transmission via the control interface, a capacity component that estimates a real-time pumping capacity for each individual pump, and a control component that, for a target pumping rate for the pumps during the hydraulic fracturing operation, generates at least one of engine throttle and transmission gear settings for each of the individual pumps using an estimated real-time pumping capacity for each individual pump where the settings are transmissible via the control interface.
US12258955B2
A piston assembly for an unloader valve of an air compressor includes an unloader piston having an end portion with a first bore of a first bore diameter, an intermediate portion with a second bore of a second bore diameter and an opposite end portion with a third bore of a third bore diameter; a coil spring having a central opening, one end portion disposed in the second bore of the unloader piston and an opposite end portion extending into the first bore of the unloader piston; and a balance piston including a head portion having a diameter to be disposed in the first bore of the unloader piston, and a stem portion extending from the head portion into the central opening of the coil spring and having a diameter smaller than the diameter of the head portion. The diameter of the stem portion at an end portion facing away from the head portion substantially corresponds to an inner diameter of the central opening of the coil spring. The balance piston includes a heat protection element.
US12258951B2
A transmission assembly for a pump head of a six-cylinder opposed balanced diaphragm booster pump, a pump head of a diaphragm booster pump, and a diaphragm booster pump. The transmission assembly includes an eccentric assembly, a balance wheel assembly, a bearing and swing arms fixed to the balance wheel assembly. The eccentric assembly includes a motor shaft and eccentric wheels, wherein the movement of two eccentric wheels with a phase difference of 180° drives balance wheels of the balance wheel assembly to move oppositely. The eccentric assembly includes a first eccentric wheel, a second eccentric wheel and a third eccentric wheel in sequence, wherein the first eccentric wheel and the third eccentric wheel are similarly eccentric, and the second eccentric wheel is eccentric in an opposite manner to the first eccentric wheel and the third eccentric. The embodiments reduce noise caused by vibration of an existing diaphragm pump in operation.
US12258943B2
A lubrication system for a pitch bearing of a wind turbine includes a lubricant for lubricating contact surfaces between an outer race, an inner race, and a plurality of rolling elements of the pitch bearing. Further, the lubrication system includes a lubricant inlet formed into a first side of the inner race and an inlet seal for sealing the lubricant inlet so as to prevent the lubricant from leaking from the lubricant inlet. Moreover, the lubrication system includes a lubricant outlet formed into an opposing, second side of the inner race and a lubricant collection container arranged adjacent to and in fluid communication with the lubricant outlet and mounted to the inner race. Thus, during operation of the wind turbine, at least one of a slope of the pitch bearing, gravity, and a centrifugal effect cause the lubricant to flow throughout the pitch bearing to lubricate the contact surfaces without exiting a closed volume defined by the inlet seal(s) and the lubricant collection container(s).
US12258939B2
A method for monitoring damage of a slewing ring bearing of a wind turbine includes arranging at least one optical fiber sensor adjacent to or at least partially on at least one of an inner race or an outer race of the slewing ring bearing. Further, the method includes receiving, via a controller, signals from the at least one optical fiber sensor indicative of one or more changes associated with the slewing ring bearing. The method also includes comparing, via the controller, the one or more changes associated with the slewing ring bearing to a damage threshold. Moreover, the method includes implementing, via the controller, a control action when the one or more changes exceeds the damage threshold to prevent or minimize further damage from occurring to the slewing ring bearing.
US12258931B1
A wave power generator device that is designed specifically to generate electrical power from water currents. To accomplish this, the device includes multiple generator assemblies connected in series along an ocean shoreline. More specifically, each wave power generator includes a floating head and multiple flex points. A plurality of bidirectional rotary generators positioned at each flex point of each assembly helps in harvesting electricity from the oceans water currents that flow in different directions. The device further includes a support structure that provides solid support to the anchoring system of the device in the ocean bed. Furthermore, at least one signaling device such as buoys, LED lights, etc. float around the power generation assemblies on top of the water surface to signal the presence of the device under water, and thereby prevent boats and other near shore elements that may come in the path of the present invention.
US12258916B2
A method for controlling a two-stroke engine operatively connected to a turbocharger, the turbocharger being in fluid communication with the engine to provide a boost pressure thereto. The method includes determining an exhaust temperature representative of an actual temperature of exhaust gas being discharged by the engine; determining a temperature difference between the exhaust temperature and a threshold temperature; in response to the exhaust temperature being less than the corresponding threshold value: determining a corrective amount of boost pressure to add to the boost pressure of the turbocharger, the corrective amount of boost pressure being determined based on the temperature difference; and controlling the turbocharger to increase the boost pressure of the turbocharger by the corrective amount.
US12258910B2
The present disclosure relates to a geared gas turbine engine for an aircraft. Example embodiments include a gas turbine engine for an aircraft including: an engine core having a turbine, a compressor, and a core shaft connecting the turbine to the compressor; a fan located upstream of the engine core, the fan having a plurality of fan blades; and a gearbox that receives an input from the core shaft to drive the fan at a lower rotational speed than the core shaft, the gearbox having a gear ratio of around 3.4 or higher, wherein the gas turbine engine is configured such that a jet velocity ratio between a first jet velocity exiting from a bypass duct of the engine and a second jet velocity exiting from an exhaust nozzle of the engine core is within a range from around 0.75 to around 0.82.
US12258909B2
A gearbox assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a hollow gear. The hollow gear has one or more reservoirs configured to store a lubricant and one or more passages configured to supply the lubricant to one or more gear meshes in the gearbox assembly. The hollow gear provides a dampening system configured to absorb vibrations and loading experienced in the gearbox assembly and configured to provide impact resistance for the gearbox assembly.
US12258904B2
A passive auxiliary lubrication system for supplying lubricant to a gearbox assembly of an engine. The passive auxiliary lubrication system includes an auxiliary tank for storing lubricant. The auxiliary tank is passively pressurized. The passive auxiliary lubrication system also includes an auxiliary tank feed line fluidly coupled with the auxiliary tank and a primary lubrication system. The lubricant is supplied to the auxiliary tank from the primary lubrication system through the auxiliary tank feed line and the lubricant is passively pressurized in the auxiliary tank. The passive auxiliary lubrication system further includes an auxiliary supply line fluidly coupled with the auxiliary tank and the gearbox assembly. The lubricant in the auxiliary tank is supplied to the gearbox assembly through the auxiliary supply line.
US12258902B2
A gas turbine cogeneration system includes: a gas turbine; a first fuel supply facility for supplying a first fuel to the combustor; a second fuel supply facility for supplying a second fuel with a calorific value per mass lower than the first fuel; a heat recovery steam generator for generating steam using exhaust gas discharged from the turbine; a steam supply line for supplying steam discharged from the heat recovery steam generator to a steam consumer; a steam extraction line for supplying steam extracted from the steam supply line to both a head end side of the combustor and a turbine side of the combustor; and a fuel control part for controlling the first and second fuel supply facilities so that the amount of the first fuel decreases and the amount of the second fuel increases with a decrease in extraction amount of steam by the steam extraction line.
US12258897B2
A purification system for purifying exhaust gas from an engine includes a separation part that separates oxygen and nitrogen contained in air, an ozone generation part that generates ozone from oxygen separated by the separation part, and a supply part that supplies ozone generated by the ozone generation part to an intake pipe and an exhaust pipe of the engine. The purification system includes a supply control device that adjusts an amount of ozone supplied to the intake pipe and an amount of ozone supplied to the exhaust pipe according to a purification rate of exhaust gas of the engine.
US12258896B2
The present disclosure relates to a catalyst for the oxidation of NO, for the oxidation of ammonia and for the selective catalytic reduction of NOx, the catalyst comprising a flow-through substrate, a first coating comprising one or more of a vanadium oxide and a zeolitic material comprising one or more of copper and iron, a second coating comprising a platinum group metal component supported on a non-zeolitic oxidic material and further comprising one or more of a vanadium oxide and a zeolitic material comprising one or more of copper and iron and a third coating comprising a platinum group metal component supported on an oxidic material. The present disclosure further relates to an exhaust gas treatment system comprising said catalyst.
US12258891B2
An exhaust system for a snowmobile includes a muffler housing, the bottom end of the muffler housing including a muffler exhaust outlet configured to emit exhaust. The exhaust system includes a muffler housing cover spaced from the muffler housing to define an airflow channel therebetween, the muffler housing cover forming a bottom opening. The exhaust system also includes a gas combiner at least partially surrounding the muffler exhaust outlet on the bottom end of the muffler housing and extending through the bottom opening of the muffler housing cover. The gas combiner receives air from the airflow channel and the exhaust from the muffler exhaust outlet to emit a combined air-exhaust stream.
US12258888B2
Valve actuation system comprising hydraulic lash adjuster operating via a one-way coupling mechanism
A valve actuation system comprises a first rocker assembly operatively connected to a first valve actuation motion source and to a first engine valve, with a first lost motion component arranged in series between a first input rocker and a first output rocker. A second rocker assembly is operatively connected to a second valve actuation motion source and to a second engine valve, with a second lost motion component arranged in series between a second input rocker and a second output rocker. A one-way coupling mechanism is disposed such that the second valve actuation motions are transferred to the first output rocker, but the first valve actuation motions are not transferred to the second output rocker. Furthermore, a primary hydraulic lash adjuster is configured in the second rocker assembly such that the primary hydraulic lash adjuster operates upon the first output rocker via the one-way coupling mechanism.
US12258883B2
A system for using excess energy of a power generation system and an sCO2 (supercritical carbon dioxide) stream to store and generate power. An air separation unit uses the excess energy to cool and liquify ambient air into liquid nitrogen (L-N2) and liquid oxygen (L-O2). The L-O2 and L-N2 are stored until energy is desired. An L-O2 energy discharge path has an oxygen heat exchanger that vaporizes and heats the oxygen, a combustor that combusts the oxygen and fuel to produce exhaust, and a first turbine is driven by the exhaust to produce energy. An L-N2 energy discharge path has a nitrogen heat exchanger that vaporizes and heats the L-N2, thereby providing expanded nitrogen, and a second turbine is driven by the expanded nitrogen to produce energy. Heat for the heat exchangers on both discharge paths is provided by the sCO2 stream.
US12258882B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to generating electricity with a water engine. A water engine may include a boiler; a solar oven to retain heat with which the boiler is to heat a liquid to generate steam; a spout extending from the boiler to the liquid, through which the steam passes from the solar oven to the liquid and through which the liquid passes to the solar oven; a floating platform to float on the liquid; and a magnetic rotor operationally connected to the floating platform and to generate electricity by spinning in the liquid.
US12258880B1
A turbine shroud assembly comprising a first shroud segment, a second shroud segment, and a plurality of seals. The first shroud segment includes a first carrier segment and a first blade track segment having a first shroud wall that is formed to include a first recess that extends circumferentially into the first shroud wall. The second shroud segment includes a second carrier segment and a second blade track having a second shroud wall that is formed to include a second recess that extends circumferentially into the second shroud wall. The plurality of seals extend circumferentially into the first shroud segment and the second shroud segment to block gases from escaping the gas path radially between the first shroud segment and the second shroud segment.
US12258864B2
A tunnel excavation device includes a main body a frame and a workbench. The main body includes a front body section and a rear body section. The front body section includes a cutter head provided with a plurality of disk cutters. The rear body section is disposed behind the front body section and includes a gripper section for obtaining a reaction force when excavating. The frame is disposed continuously behind the main body. The workbench is disposed above the frame so as to be rotatable with respect to the frame.
US12258863B2
A control method for a tunnel excavation device is provided. While grippers of a rear body section protrude outward and the rear body section is secured to an inner wall of a tunnel, a plurality of thrust cylinders are controlled so that a front body section is made to move forward along a movement prediction line set based on a tunnel excavation plan line. While grippers of the front body section protrude outward and the front body section is secured to the inner wall of the tunnel, the plurality of thrust cylinders are controlled so that the rear body section is made to move forward along a movement prediction line set based on an actual result line.
US12258862B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of disaster model experiment of underground engineering, and more particularly to an experimental system for surrounding rock crack evolution and water inrush disaster change in a tunnel excavation of a near-covered karst cave. The experimental system includes a base, an upper crossbeam, standing columns, an experimental cabin, guide rails, a tunnel excavation device and an experimental control system. By setting a tunnel excavation device instead of the traditional manual excavation experimental system, the step-by-step excavation of the tunnel is realized. A camera inside the tunnel mold collects real-time images of the whole process of tunnel excavation. The front side plate is separated from the whole experimental cabin, such that the deformation and damage of the front side of the physical model can be directly observed.
US12258854B2
A method and system for ranging between two bottom hole assemblies (BHA). The method and system may include transmitting an electromagnetic field from a ranging device disposed on a first BHA, and measuring the electromagnetic field with a receiver disposed on a second BHA to form a measurement set. The method and system may further include an information handling system that may compare the measurement set to a decay rate of the electromagnetic field and identifying a distance between the ranging device and the receiver based at least in part on the decay rate.
US12258849B2
An arrangement for supporting one or more bearings of a crankshaft assembly of a hydraulic fracturing pump includes a frame and one or more bearing supports. The frame is of a first material and defines one or more bearing support profiles. The bearing supports are of a second material different from the first material of the frame. The bearing supports are cast-in-place within the corresponding bearing support profiles of the frame and are configured to be in contact with an outer race of the corresponding bearings of the crankshaft assembly. Compared to the first material of the frame, the second material of the bearing supports is more effective at preventing slippage of the bearings.
US12258845B2
Hydrogen foams may be used for placing and maintaining hydrogen in a subterranean location. For example, methods for introducing hydrogen to a subterranean location may include: placing a hydrogen foam in a subterranean location, in which the hydrogen foam comprises a continuous phase generated from a foamable composition comprising an aqueous fluid and a discontinuous phase comprising at least hydrogen gas; and maintaining the hydrogen foam in the subterranean location.
US12258842B1
Some implementations include an apparatus for washing a downhole tubular. The apparatus may include a head coupled to a rotatable shaft, the head including one or more jets configured to emit fluid to cause the head to rotate on the rotatable shaft and wash the downhole tubular. The apparatus may include one or more brakes coupled with the rotatable shaft and configured to control rotation of the head.
US12258835B1
A pressure containment device includes a separable lubricator housing, a lubricator rod with a polished section and a non-polished section, and a pressure valve. The separable lubricator housing includes a barrel and a yoke releasably connected to the barrel. The yoke has an aperture defining an axis and the barrel has an interior bore centered on the axis. The lubricator rod is slidably arranged on the axis and extends from a first end arranged in the interior bore to a second end extending out the aperture of the yoke. The non-polished section is arranged in the interior bore of the barrel. The pressure valve is mounted to the second end of the lubricator rod.
US12258830B1
Degradable downhole tools, including degradable frac plugs, for use in combination with degradable delivery devices. Certain degradable delivery device embodiments contain one or more chemical additives that promote the complete dissolution of the degradable downhole tool. Certain degradable delivery device embodiments additionally or alternatively contain flowable sensors designed to measure operational conditions (e.g., pressure, temperature, pH, among others) within the wellbore to monitor the dissolution treatment and wellbore conditions. Certain degradable delivery device embodiments may be inserted into cavities of the degradable downhole tool prior to the tool being deployed in the wellbore and/or flowed into position near the deployed degradable downhole tool. As such, the disclosed embodiments enable the complete dissolution of the degradable downhole tool in a predicable time window, obviating the need for complex and expensive milling operations and undesirable delays during oil and gas well completion.
US12258829B1
A slip subsystem, including a slip having wickers angled in a first direction and wickers angled in a second direction opposite the first direction, an engager disposed adjacent the slip to selectively engage the wickers, and a biaser to bias the engager into engagement with the wickers. An anchor including a housing having a slip ramp, a drive plate, a power spring to bias the drive plate, a slip subsystem operably connected with the housing. A method for setting an anchor in a borehole, including driving a drive plate into a slip, forcing the slip to climb a housing, engaging an activation block with the slip to prevent slip movement relative to the housing in an anti-setting direction. A borehole system, including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, and a slip subsystem disposed within or as a part of the string.
US12258812B1
An improved system, apparatus, and methods for a pet and child confinement gate providing enhanced safety and deterrence of climbing attempts. The confinement gate includes first and second brace portions with an innovative locking system. A drop-in catch engages with a metal sheath by lifting and lowering the gate, providing a primary locking feature. A rotatable knob, when turned, extends a sliding bolt into a receiver hole on the opposite brace, securing the gate against all directions of movement. The top of the gate features a free-spinning mechanism, which may include cylindrical rollers or ball-bearings, equipped with noise-making loose objects and sensors to deter and detect climbing attempts. The free-spinning mechanism can also trigger auditory deterrents via an audio device and send alerts through communication circuitry to a caretaker's device, further enhancing security measures.
US12258809B2
A first embodiment of an aluminium extrusion framing system comprises a first wedge member and a second wedge member made of resilient material for securing and sealing a panel in the framing system. The framing system also comprises an aluminium extrusion having a channel adapted to receive an edge of the panel therein. A first side wall is formed with a first elongate retention means extending the full length of the extrusion for receiving the first wedge member in connection therewith. A removable cover plate is adapted to be secured to the extrusion and received in close proximity to a top edge of the first side wall of the channel whereby, in use, when the panel is installed in the channel with the first wedge member received in connection with the first retention means, the first wedge member is substantially concealed when the removable cover plate is secured to the extrusion.
US12258805B2
The invention relates to a two-part hinge device for a door or a window, comprising a first housing part (20) and a second housing part (30), which in the assembled state form a door hinge housing (19), and a rod (15) which extends in the first housing part (20) and second housing part (30) along the axial direction (60) thereof, wherein the rod (15) has at least three successive—a first, a second and a third-rod sections (16, 17, 18). The first rod section (16) is supported in the first housing part (20) by a clamping element (50), and the third rod section (18) supports the second housing part (30). In the region of the second rod section (17), the rod (15) is adjustable relative to the first housing part (20) in two directions at an angle to each other and independently of each other, and the two directions at an angle to each other are arranged transversely to the axial direction (60) of the rod (15).
US12258790B2
In a locking assembly for a lockable cabinet system, a base supports an electronic lock for locking and unlocking the cabinet. The electronic lock may be releasably attachable to the base at a plurality of spaced apart positions. A one-piece release bar can be connected to an override toggle of the electronic lock. First and second electronic lock override devices may be connected to the release bar for independently overriding electronic actuation of the lock. The electronic lock may be supported on the base such that the electronic lock is separated from the wall of the cavity or the base by a gap. An externally adjustable cam lock can be provided to selectively override the electronic lock. Such cam lock can further inhibit removal of a cover of the locking assembly when locked and allow removal of the cover when unlocked, thereby providing tamper-resistance.
US12258785B2
A code changing structure for a key coded lock, including a lock base, a push rod, locking pieces, a knob, a linkage assembly, a position resetting assembly, and corresponding key springs, password keys, button springs and buttons. A press-rotating mechanism operable below a code changing height is provided between the buttons and key slots. When a correct password is entered, the knob rotate to a first angle or a second angle. When the knob rotates to the first angle, the key coded lock is in an unlocked state, the lock pieces move away from the knob and prevent the buttons to reach the code changing height. When the knob rotates to the second angle, the lock pieces move towards the knob and allow the buttons to be pressed down to the code changing height so as to drive the password keys to rotate to change the password.
US12258783B2
A method is provided to protect a padlock from the environment, where the padlock comprises a padlock body comprising a cavity and an opening connecting the cavity with the environment, by using a covering device comprising a sealing device and a locking device, and by placing the sealing device against a first end of the padlock body by pivoting the sealing device in correlation to and towards the padlock body and placing the locking device to cover the sealing device and bringing the locking device into locking cooperation with the padlock body by pivoting the locking device in correlation to and towards the sealing device and towards the padlock body. Also described is a padlock body, a padlock, and a cover device.
US12258780B1
A storm shelter or kit for a storm shelter having a plurality of removable frames and a plurality of removable skins removably receivable on or within the removable frames and secured together by removable fasteners that are not bolted in place. A hollow tube fastener, having a hollow tube guide and a removeable pin receivable therethrough, is configured on a surface of the removable skins to hold the removable skins in assembled configuration with the removable frames. The removable skins are securable from the interior of the shelter, allowing the occupant to remove the skins from within the interior by removing the pins from the fasteners. The storm shelter provides a door with hinges that may be removed from the exterior by rescue personnel. The storm shelter is approximately the size of a garage workbench and can be sold as a kit and assembled using minimal construction skills.
US12258779B1
A pool drain cover including a cover assembly and a wires assembly. The cover assembly includes a cover and a bump, wherein the bump is a bubble-shaped portion integrally formed on the cover. The cover is placed over the pool drain cover to prevent collecting worms into the main drain pool system, thereby the cover may sink into the water and be positioned by means of a rope and a plurality of ropes included in the wires assembly. The user may handle the rope until reaching a predetermined position over the pool drain cover and pulling the rope to remove the cover from the pool drain cover when the user may consider appropriate.
US12258762B2
The present invention discloses an assembly structure for a tent and a variously expandable outdoor tent. The assembly structure includes stand columns (1) and ring beams (2), where the stand column (1) and the ring beam (2) are each provided with an assembly slot (4), and the stand columns (1) and the ring beams (2) can be assembled by using first connection components to form a tent frame (7); further includes a canopy (3) configured to be cooperatively mounted with the tent frame (7), where the tent frame (7) includes at least one tent frame unit (71), and a single canopy (3) is cooperatively disposed in a single tent frame unit (71); and further includes at least one expansion unit (8), where the expansion unit (8) is cooperatively mounted with an assembly slot (4) by using a third connection component (9). In the present invention, the assembly slot (4) structures are optimally designed, and are combined on the stand columns (1) and the ring beams (2). In addition, by using different connection components and cooperation relationships with the assembly slots (4), the stand columns (1) and the ring beams (2) can be combined and mounted quickly, the ring beam (2) components can also be docked and mounted, and different expansion units (8) can be combined and mounted, to assemble tents with different functions.
US12258750B2
A building panel is provided. The building panel includes an exterior wall portion, an interior wall portion, a pair of opposing sidewalls, a first end portion and an opposite second end portion. The pair of opposing sidewalls spacing apart the interior wall portion from the exterior wall portion to define a cavity therebetween. The exterior wall portion, the interior wall portion and the pair of opposing sidewalls are arcuate in shape to define the building panel. The first end portion has a slip lock slot extending between the pair of opposing sidewalls. The second end portion has a slip lock tab member extending between the pair of opposing sidewalls. The slip lock slot of the building panel is configured to receive the slip lock tab member of a second building panel to adjoin the first and second building panels in a continuous fashion.
US12258744B2
The present invention is a flush water tank device including a flush water tank main body, a water supply valve, and a discharge valve, in which during a flush of the flush toilet, the discharge valve is opened until a water level in the flush water tank main body is lowered from a predetermined full water level to a predetermined dead water level, a lowering speed of the water level in the flush water tank main body changes at a predetermined inflection water level between the full water level and the dead water level, and the lowering speed of the water level between the inflection water level and the dead water level is faster than the lowering speed of the water level between the full water level and the inflection water level.
US12258742B2
A liquid dispenser sensing distance self-learning method includes in response to a self-learning request, entering a self-learning mode. The method also includes, in the self-learning mode, determining a shortest distance between a reference object and a sensing component; determining and storing a sensing distance based on the shortest distance; and identifying, by a first indication device, a state of the self-learning mode. The method also includes, in response to a sensing request, entering a sensing mode; obtaining a detected distance between the reference object and the sensing component; comparing the detected distance with the sensing distance; and identifying, by a second indication device, a comparison result of the detected distance and the sensing distance.
US12258734B2
A working control device comprises a hydraulic actuator such as the boom cylinder 36, the bucket cylinder 38, the operation device 160 that is operated by an operator to drive the hydraulic actuator, a hydraulic oil supply source consisting of the electric motor M1 and the hydraulic pump P1 that delivers hydraulic oil required to drive the hydraulic actuator; and a delivery oil amount control device (the controller for controlling rotation of the electric motor) that controls an amount of oil to be delivered from the hydraulic oil supply source in response to an operation of the operation device. The delivery oil amount control device is configured to perform a supplying oil amount control to deliver from the hydraulic oil supply source a required amount of oil for the hydraulic actuator to have a working speed corresponding to the operation of the operation device.
US12258732B2
Implementations of the present disclosure are generally directed to activating features in power machines. More particularly, implementations of the present disclosure are directed to remote activation of features in power machines. Implementations include, methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for transmitting a request for an initialization indicator for a software package from an initialization system of a power machine comprising hardware physically capable of executing at least one function, the request being transmitted, by a communication link of the initialization system, from a machine controller of the initialization system to a remote system, communicating, by the communication link, the initialization indicator from the remote system to the machine controller, and in response to receiving the initialization indicator: storing, by the machine controller, the initialization indicator, and executing, by the machine controller, the software package to control the at least one function.
US12258727B2
A shovel includes a plurality of driven elements, a plurality of actuators configured to drive the plurality of driven elements, and a hardware processor configured to, in response to detecting that two or more actuators of the plurality of actuators are synchronously moved, prohibit a motion of another actuator of the plurality of actuators that is different from the two or more actuators of the plurality of actuators.
US12258725B2
A front bucket loader apparatus for operating in low overhead space environments comprises a front bucket with a bottom plate with a front edge, an opposing back edge, a left edge and an opposing right edge. The front bucket further has a left side wall attached to the left side of the bottom plate and a right side wall attached to the right side of the bottom plate. Further, it is configured with a top support bracket attached to the left side wall and to the right side wall. Further, the front bucket has a pivotable serpentine back wall, the pivotable serpentine back wall having an upper portion and a lower portion, the upper portion being supported by the top support bracket and the lower portion of the pivotable serpentine back wall configured for engaging the bottom plate of the front bucket. Lastly the front bucket has a slatted rear mount directly opposing the pivotable serpentine back wall. The front bucket loader further comprises a hydraulic assembly attached to the slatted rear mount of the front bucket and operatively connected to the pivotable serpentine back wall of the front bucket.
US12258722B2
A feedstock processing apparatus for applying, distributing, and compacting feedstock in defined layer heights, including a chassis with a traction drive and a first and second undercarriage. A frame structure connects the two undercarriages over a span width of the feedstock processing apparatus. A material feeding device is coupled to the frame structure. A material distributing device is coupled to the material feeding device and is displaceable in certain sections over the span width and configured to apply the feedstock in layers on soil in different, predefinable height positions between the undercarriages. A compacting device is displaceably mounted on the frame structure and/or the material distributing device. The compacting device and the material distributing device can be displaced in a manner dependent on one another respectively along a predefinable movement path.
US12258721B2
Various aspects include devices, systems, and methods for securing an anchoring element to a seafloor. The methods may use a subsea anchorage installation system that may include a subsea grout supply assembly. The subsea grout supply assembly may include a variable volume grout storage chamber, a paddle, and a subsea grout pump. The variable volume grout storage chamber may be configured to transport dry grout to a seafloor. The variable volume grout storage chamber may include a water injection port configured to receive water for mixing with the dry grout on the seafloor. The variable volume grout storage chamber may also be configured to expand from a collapsed configuration as water is injected.
US12258716B2
The present invention provides an embossed multi-ply tissue product that is visually pleasing and has improved physical attributes. For example, the inventive multi-ply tissue products have reduced stiffness, such as a GM Flexural Rigidity less than about 600 mg*cm, improved absorbency, such as a Residual Water (WResidual) value less than about 0.15 g, and improved wet resiliency, such as a wet elastic strain ratio greater than about 32 percent.
US12258712B2
A sheet manufacturing system includes a coarsely crushing apparatus that coarsely crushes a paper; a sheet manufacturing apparatus that generates a sheet-shaped recycled paper using coarsely crushed pieces of the paper as a raw material; and a server that is connected to the coarsely crushing apparatus and the sheet manufacturing apparatus via a network, in which the sheet manufacturing apparatus has a reserving section that reserves the coarsely crushed pieces, a remaining amount detector that detects a remaining amount of the coarsely crushed pieces in the reserving section, a calculation section that calculates an allowable filling amount of the coarsely crushed pieces in the reserving section based on a detection result of the remaining amount detector, and an output section that transmits information related to the calculated allowable filling amount to the server, and the coarsely crushing apparatus has an integration section that integrates the coarsely crushed pieces, an input section that acquires the information related to the allowable filling amount from the server, a display information generation section that generates display information related to the allowable filling amount based on the information acquired by the input section, and a display section that displays the display information.
US12258708B2
The present specification discloses papermaking additive compositions, articles of manufacture, containers or kits comprising such compositions, and methods and uses to increase separation of cellulose fibers from a pulp, to remove one or more impurities and/or one or more contaminates from a pulp and/or a paper material and to remove an ink from a pulp and/or a paper material.
US12258705B2
A non-solvent two-component polyurethane artificial leather composition is provided. The polyurethane composition comprises (A) a polyurethane-prepolymer component, comprising one or more polyurethane-prepolymers prepared by reacting at least one polyisocyanate compound with at least one first polyol, wherein the polyurethane-prepolymer comprises at least two free isocyanate groups; and (B) a polyol component, comprising at least one second polyol; wherein the polyol component further comprises an encapsulated foaming agent comprising at least one foaming core phase encapsulated within an outer shell. The polyurethane leather product derived from the polyurethane composition exhibits enhanced stability, mild bubble generation and improved cost effectiveness. A polyurethane leather product prepared with said composition and the method for preparing the same are also provided.
US12258701B2
A method of operating a dryer appliance includes predicting a removal point at which a laundry load will be removed from the tub of the dryer, the removal point being a certain amount of time after the completion of a main drying operation, determining a length of time required to perform a conditioning operation on the laundry load, determining a start time for the conditioning operation, and implementing a responsive action at the start time.
US12258697B2
Gasket (1) for washing machines (9), which comprises at least one annular body (2) of deformable material and is provided with at least one first perimetric lip (3), wherein the gasket (1) comprises at least one perimetric canal (6) which extends at least partially along the annular body (2) and is adapted to house at least partially an elongated sensor (12). The present description also relates to a washing machine (9) in which said gasket (1) is applied around an access opening (8) of the drum of the washing machine (9), which is provided with a door (10) suitable for closing this access opening (8). The present description also relates to a method for controlling this washing machine (9).
US12258691B2
Systems and methods for forming a tubular braid are disclosed herein. A braiding system configured in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include, for example, an upper drive unit, a lower drive unit, a mandrel coaxial with the upper and lower drive units, and a plurality of tubes extending between the upper drive unit and the lower drive unit. Each tube can be configured to receive individual filaments for forming the tubular braid, and the upper drive unit and the lower drive unit can act against the tubes in synchronization to cross the filaments over and under one another to form the tubular braid on the mandrel.
US12258682B2
The present invention belongs to the field of functional fibrous materials, and discloses a magnetic fibrous material and a preparation method and application thereof. A polymer and a magnetic load raw material are dissolved in a solvent to obtain a uniform spinning solution; a solute component that reacts with the magnetic load raw material is added into a coagulation bath solvent to obtain a reactive coagulation bath solution; the spinning solution is electrospun, and the produced fiber is collected with the reactive coagulation bath solution, so that the magnetic load raw material in the fiber reacts in situ with the solute in the reactive coagulation bath solution to obtain the magnetic fibrous material.
US12258674B2
A production apparatus for a metal oxide single crystal according to the present invention includes a crucible for housing a crystal raw material and a seed crystal, which has a first end and a second end, and in which the crystal raw material is disposed on a first end side, and the seed crystal is disposed on a second end side, a heater that heats the crucible, and a cooling rod, which has a third end and a fourth end, and in which the third end is provided in contact with or in proximity to the second end of the crucible so as to cool the second end by depriving the second end of heat.
US12258672B2
Various embodiments utilize selective sulfidation and/or desulfidation for such things as ore and concentrate cracking, metal separation, compound production, and recycling. Selective sulfidation can be used to selectively convert an oxide or other material in a feedstock to a sulfide or other sulfur-containing material, and selective desulfidation can be used to selectively convert a sulfide or other sulfur-containing material in a feedstock to an oxide or other material. In some cases, the material produced by such selective sulfidation/desulfidation of the feedstock can itself be novel and/or commercially valuable, while in other cases, such selective sulfidation/desulfidation can be followed by one or more processes to extract, isolate, or concentrate the converted material.
US12258668B2
A method for fabricating a chemical composition containing an aromatic polymer, including the steps of: providing an anodic region and a cathodic region; providing an arene precursor; providing an electrochemical potential between the anodic region and the cathodic region; reacting the arene precursor via the electrochemical potential to form the composition, which further includes the step of conducting a cathodic reaction. A chemical composition containing an aromatic polymer prepared according to the method.
US12258650B2
In embodiments, pressurized fluid containing reagents of formulated mixtures of solids, liquids and gasses are delivered into a cased well then into the heap or pile to open or stimulate new horizontal and vertical fluid pathways, channels, plus drains from the open bottom of the well to the bottom of the heap or pile for fluid collection. This delivery method may also drain any fluids that are retained and pooled in the heap or pile. The removal of pooled fluids will increase the inter-particle cohesion and friction in the heap or pile, thus adding geotechnical stability and resistance to movement of the heap or pile. The cased wells may also add shear strength to the collective to retard movement of the heap or pile.
US12258647B2
A steel sheet according to the present invention has a specific chemical composition and a steel microstructure including, in terms of area fraction, ferrite: 40% or more and 70% or less, a total of bainite and tempered martensite: 5% or more and 30% or less, retained austenite: 4% or more and 18% or less, fresh martensite: 8% or more and 35% or less, and the remainder: 5% or less. Cementite particles are present in the retained austenite, a ratio of an area fraction of the cementite particles in the retained austenite to an area fraction of the retained austenite is 5% or more and 25% or less, and the steel sheet has a tensile strength of 780 MPa or more and less than 980 MPa.
US12258646B2
A high-strength steel sheet comprises: a chemical composition containing C, Si, Mn, P, S, Al, N, Mo, Cr, Ca, and Sb with a balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein [% Si], [% Mn], [% P], [% Mo], and [% Cr] satisfy a predetermined relationship; a steel microstructure that contains ferrite, hard phase, and retained austenite and in which a carbon concentration in the retained austenite is 0.55% or more and 1.10% or less, an amount of diffusible hydrogen in the steel sheet is 0.80 mass ppm or less, a surface layer softening thickness is 5 μm or more and 150 μm or less, and a corresponding grain boundary frequency in a surface layer of the steel sheet after a high-temperature tensile test is 0.45 or less; and a tensile strength of 980 MPa or more.
US12258645B2
A high-strength steel sheet having a low yield ratio and a method for producing the same. The high-strength steel sheet has a specified chemical composition and a microstructure in which ferrite is present as a major phase, and martensite is present in an area fraction of 10% or greater and less than 50% relative to an entire area of the microstructure. The martensite has an average grain diameter of 3.0 μm or less, in an entirety of the martensite, a proportion of martensite having an aspect ratio of 3 or less is 60% or greater, and the martensite having an aspect ratio of 3 or less has a carbon concentration of 0.30% or greater and 0.90% or less in mass %.
US12258642B2
A method of induction hardening a bearing ring includes positioning first and second inductors at a start zone on the bearing ring and a preheat inductor in an end zone on the bearing ring spaced one hundred eighty degrees from the start zone. A first traversing element moves the first inductor circumferentially from the start zone toward the end zone along a first half of the bearing ring circumference while the first inductor heats the bearing ring, and a second traversing element moves the second inductor circumferentially from the start zone toward the end zone along a second half of the bearing ring circumference while the second inductor heats the bearing ring. A third traversing element moves the preheat inductor circumferentially within the end zone so as to traverse a portion of each half of the bearing ring circumference while the preheat inductor heats the end zone.
US12258634B2
Fragmentation of cell-free DNA molecules is measured and used for various purposes, including determining methylation, e.g., at a particular site of a DNA molecule, at a particular genomic site in a reference genome for a biological sample (e.g., plasma, serum, urine, saliva) of cell-free DNA of a subject, or for a particular region in the reference genome for the biological sample (also just referred to as a sample). Various types of fragmentation measurements can be used, e.g., end motifs and cleavage profiles. Another purpose is determining a fractional concentration of DNA of a particular tissue type (e.g., clinically-relevant DNA). Another purpose is determining a pathology of a subject using a biological sample including cell-free DNA. The cell-free DNA can be of the subject or of a pathogen (e.g., a virus) in the subject's sample. Sites/regions that are hypermethylated, hypomethylated, 5hmC-enriched, and 5hmC-depleted for a particular tissue type can be used.
US12258628B2
This disclosure provides systems and methods for sample processing and data analysis. Sample processing may include nucleic acid sample processing and subsequent sequencing. Some or all of a nucleic acid sample may be sequenced to provide sequence information, which may be stored or otherwise maintained in an electronic storage location. The sequence information may be analyzed with the aid of a computer processor, and the analyzed sequence information may be stored in an electronic storage location that may include a pool or collection of sequence information and analyzed sequence information generated from the nucleic acid sample. Methods and systems of the present disclosure can be used, for example, for the analysis of a nucleic acid sample, for producing one or more libraries, and for producing biomedical reports. Methods and systems of the disclosure can aid in the diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, and prevention of one or more diseases and conditions.
US12258618B2
A method for introducing a foreign gene into a cell according to an embodiment of the present disclosure can easily identify foreign gene introduction by detecting whether there is fluorescent emission or not, and can reduce influence of additional elements other than a target gene since any reporter gene or selectable marker is not required. Further, the inventive method does not need an additional sampling process and therefore may implement a relatively accurate and simple screening process.
US12258612B2
Compositions comprise statistically random heteropolymers complexed with active proteins, and are formulated and used in stimuli-responsive materials and nanoreactors composed of proteins and synthetic materials.
