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US11449729B2	Efficient convolutional neural networks The present disclosure advantageously provides a system and a method for convolving data in a quantized convolutional neural network (CNN). The method includes selecting a set of complex interpolation points, generating a set of complex transform matrices based, at least in part, on the set of complex interpolation points, receiving an input volume from a preceding layer of the quantized CNN, performing a complex Winograd convolution on the input volume and at least one filter, using the set of complex transform matrices, to generate an output volume, and sending the output volume to a subsequent layer of the quantized CNN.
US11449727B2	Method, storage medium and electronic device for detecting vehicle crashes The present disclosure relates to method, storage medium and electronic device for detecting vehicle crashes. The method comprises: acquiring state information of a target vehicle; and determining an event type of the target vehicle according to the state information and a trained convolutional neural network, the event type being any of the following types: a crash event, a near crash event and a baseline event. The event type of the vehicle is determined using the trained convolutional neural network in the present disclosure, so that the accuracy is high; and near crash events can be detected, thus, when a near crash event is detected, the driver can be further alerted or an evading operation is directly performed on the vehicle, so that the safety is improved and the safety of the driver and passengers is guaranteed.
US11449726B1	Tailored artificial intelligence A system and method determine a classification by simulating a human user. The system and method translate an input segment such as speech into an output segment such as text and represents the frequency of words and phrases in the textual segment as an input vector. The system and method process the input vector and generate a plurality of intents and a plurality of sub-entities. The processing of multiple intents and sub-entities generates a second multiple of intents and sub-entities that represent a species classification. The system and method select an instance of an evolutionary model as a result of the recognition of one or more predefined semantically relevant words and phrases detected in the input vector.
US11449717B2	System and method for identification and localization of images using triplet loss and predicted regions A method and system for classifying image features using a neural network is provided. The method includes training the neural network using triplet loss processes including receiving an anchor image, selecting a positive image and a negative image, generating a image embedding associated with each of the anchor image, the positive image, and the negative image, classifying image features extracted from the anchor image based on the image embedding of the anchor image, determining an image label location associated with the classified image features, extracting features associated with the determined image label location, and classifying the features associated with the determined image label location; and combining the multi-label loss with localized image classification loss and the triplet loss using a weighted loss sum.
US11449712B2	Anomaly detection and reporting for machine learning models In various embodiments of the present disclosure, output data generated by a deployed machine learning model may be received. An input data anomaly may be detected based at least in part on analyzing input data of the deployed machine learning model. An output data anomaly may further be detected based at least in part on analyzing the output data of the deployed machine learning model. A determination may be made that the input data anomaly contributed to the output data anomaly based at least in part on comparing the input data anomaly to the output data anomaly. A report may be generated that is indicative of the input data anomaly and the output data anomaly, and the report may be transmitted to a client device.
US11449705B2	Field theory based perception for autonomous vehicles Technology described in this document can be embodied in a method that includes generating, using one or more processing devices of a vehicle operating in an environment, a discretized representation of the environment, including a plurality of cells. The cells are occupied by particles representing at least one of: an object, or a free space in the environment. Sensor data indicative of a state of at least one particle is received, and an update to a time-varying particle density function associated with a location of the particle in the dynamic occupancy grid is calculated from the sensor data and one or more models. The method further includes generating a prediction of occupancy of at least one cell in the discretized representation based on the updated particle density function, and operating the vehicle, using a controller circuit of the vehicle, based at least in part on the prediction.
US11449703B2	Electronic apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable recording medium that stores image determination program An electronic apparatus includes a controller circuit being configured to detect a first input information, the first input information being information input in an input device by a user, create a first image and display the first image on a display device, the first image being an image created based on the first input information, obtain the first input information and the first image, detect, from the storage device, second input information being same as the first input information, determine a similarity degree between the first image created based on the first input information and a second image in association with the second input information detected from the storage device, and where the similarity degree between the first image and the second image is smaller than a threshold, output a result that the similarity degree is smaller than the threshold.
US11449700B2	Enhanced matrix symbol error correction method A system and method for error correction for machine-readable symbols having data codewords, and having error correction (EC) codewords derived from the data codewords and redundantly indicating the location and data contents of the data codewords. The symbols use Reed-Solomon (RS) error correction to retrieve damaged codewords. RS error correction normally requires two EC codewords to identify both the location and data contents of a data codeword. The present system and method perform optical contrast analysis on the codewords, identifying those codewords with the lowest contrast levels. Codewords with the lowest contrast levels are flagged as optically ambiguous, thereby marking, in the EC equations, the locations of the codewords most like to be in error. As a result, only a single EC codeword is required to retrieve the data for a flagged data codeword.
US11449699B2	Information code reading system An information code reading system including an information code display device and an information code reading device. The information code display device generates, corresponding to an information code to be displayed, multiple partial code images to be different from one another. A code area of the information code to be displayed includes multiple cells and each cell is included in at least one of the multiple partial code images. Each partial code image is generated by removing a part of the cells from the code area to be different from one another. The multiple partial code images are displayed on a display screen in a cyclic manner. The information code reading device captures, as an information code, an image of the display screen with an exposure time set to be longer than a cycle of cyclic display of the multiple partial code images, and decodes the captured information code.
US11449693B2	Systems and methods for locating tags Systems and methods for determining a physical location of a first Radio Frequency Identification (“RFID”) tag. The methods involve: analyzing timestamped tag read information acquired during multiple tag reads to determine a first physical location for the first RFID tag read by the mobile reader while moving through a facility; identifying second RFID tags from a plurality of RFID tags read by the mobile reader that are located in proximity to the first RFID tag and that are coupled to objects similar to an object to which the first RFID tag is coupled; selecting an RFID tag from the second RFID tags that has a first location confidence value associated therewith which is greater than second location confidence values associated with other RFID tags of the second RFID tags; and modifying the first physical location based on a second physical location of the RFID tag selected from the second RFID tags.
US11449692B2	Reading device According to one embodiment, a reading device is configured to read information from an RFID tag attached to a product. The reading device includes a housing, an antenna, an opening-and-closing lid, a detector, a reading unit, and an alert unit. The housing includes an opening portion, and therein a space for accommodating the product. The antenna is provided within the space. The opening-and-closing lid is opening and closing the opening portion. The detector is configured to detect an open or closed state of the opening-and-closing lid. The reading unit is configured to read the information from the RFID tag. The alert unit is configured to issue an alert on an operation method in accordance with the open or closed state of the opening-and-closing lid and an operation state of the reading unit.
US11449689B1	Current-mode analog multipliers for artificial intelligence Analog multipliers can perform signal processing with approximate precision asynchronously (clock free) and with low power consumptions, which can be advantageous including in emerging mobile and portable artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) applications near or at the edge and or near sensors. Based on low cost, mainstream, and purely digital Complementary-Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) manufacturing process, the present invention discloses embodiments of current-mode analog multipliers that can be utilized in multiply-accumulate (MAC) signal processing in end-application that require low cost, low power consumption, (clock free) and asynchronous operations.
US11449688B2	Processing of translation-resistant content in web application An engine interposed between an application translator and UI intercepts string templates populated with string variables and output by the translator. The engine determines translation-resistance of the string template. Such determination can be based upon an existing mark inserted by the translator, a number of string variables in the string template, a comment in the string template, user settings, or syntax rules. Frequently, translation-resistance of the string template is not indicated and the engine simply forwards on the string template to the user. Less frequently, the engine determines the string template to be resistant to translation. Then, the engine causes the string template to be processed according to a prefix and a suffix inserted thereto. The processing can comprise forwarding the string template for machine translation, and/or falling back to a simpler string variant. The modified content resulting from the processing is communicated by the engine to the user.
US11449686B1	Automated evaluation and selection of machine translation protocols Systems, devices, and methods are provided for using an automated assessment and evaluation of machine translations. A system may receive a request associated with translating first content from a first language to a second language. The system may translate the first content from the first language to the second language. The system may determine an attribute associated with the first content. The system may determine a translation score associated with second content translated from the first language to the second language and associated with the attribute, the translation score indicative of a machine translation accuracy. The system may determine, and based on the translation score, a translation protocol, and may execute the translation protocol.
US11449681B2	Data processing system and method for dynamic assessment, classification, and delivery of adaptive personalized recommendations A data processing system and method for delivering a personalized recommendation to an individual, using computerized, dynamic assessment and classification of communication interaction records, is described. The system and method comprises a machine learning application to (1) classify a persona based on communication processing of communication interaction records captured over time, and (2) generate an adaptive personalized recommendation for use within a coaching, advisory or other personalized service. The system and method allows for improved assessments and identification of factors affecting achievement of a goal or outcome, thereby allowing for adaptive, personalized recommendations, improving delivery of personalized support services, and improved success rates for achieving a defined outcome. The system and method may also be used to create a collection of persona analytics information that may be used to visualize and evaluate trends associated with an individual or within a given population.
US11449677B2	Cognitive hierarchical content distribution Embodiments relate to a system, program product, and method for use with an intelligent computer platform and cognitive processing and associated distribution. The embodiments support a mechanism for dynamically sharing critical and non-critical information responsive to a classification model, such that only relevant information or part of the information is shared. As the classification model is subject to modification, the dynamic sharing mechanism is dynamically updated to reflect such modification. Similarly, as an associated document or file is subject to modification, dynamic processing of the document or file takes place responsive to the classification model. The dynamic classification and document processing employ NLP and ML models to support the associated functionality.
US11449676B2	Systems and methods for automated document graphing Systems and methods for automated document graphing are disclosed. In one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor, a method for automated document graphing may include: (1) receiving, from a document repository, a plurality of source documents; (2) extracting text from each of the plurality of source documents; (3) cleaning the extracted text by removing unnecessary characters from the extracted text; (4) rewriting multi-word proper nouns in the extracted text; (5) converting a plurality of words in the extracted text to lemma form; (6) rewriting compound terms in the extracted text; (7) removing stop words from the extracted text; (8) representing each of the remaining words in the extracted text as a vector; and (9) storing the vectors in a library.
US11449670B2	Iterative development and/or scalable deployment of a spreadsheet-based formula algorithm Disclosed are a method, a device, a system and/or a manufacture of iterative development and/or scalable deployment of a spreadsheet-based formula algorithm. In one embodiment, a system for scalable application of a data model defined in a spreadsheet to a dataset includes a translation server and an execution server. The translation server receives a spreadsheet file including a formula algorithm. The formula algorithm includes one or more spreadsheet formulas stored in cells. The translation server generates an extrapolated algorithm expressed in a programming language based on the formula algorithm. The execution server receives the extrapolated algorithm and the dataset and verifies calculation independence when applied to a data entry. The extrapolated algorithm is applied against the dataset. An iteration engine may continuously reapply the extrapolated algorithm to update an output data as the dataset evolves and/or receive an update to the formula algorithm and reapply the extrapolated algorithm.
US11449668B2	Digital processing systems and methods for embedding a functioning application in a word processing document in collaborative work systems Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for embedding and running an electronic non-word processing application within an electronic word processing document are disclosed. The systems and methods may involve accessing the electronic word processing document; opening the electronic word processing document within an electronic word processing application; accessing the electronic non-word processing application; embedding the electronic non-word processing application within the electronic word processing application in a manner enabling non-word processing functionality to occur from within the electronic word processing application; while the electronic non-word processing application is displayed within the electronic word processing application, receiving at least one of the inputs; and in response to receiving at least one of the inputs, causing functionality of the electronic non-word processing application to be displayed within the electronic word processing document presented by the electronic word processing application.
US11449661B2	System and method for extended dynamic layout A website editor includes a database to store pages and components, the components predefined as one of: master components associated with at least one master page and regular components associated with at least one regular page; a displayer to display a composite page including master components and regular components; an editor to enable a user to select either the master components or the regular components for editing thereby generating selected components and non-selected components and a layout manager to dynamically create at least automatic anchors between parallel edges of affecting and affected selected components according to associated dynamic layout rules, the rules defining relationships at least between content and a containing component, between a component and a peer component in a primary direction, between bottom edges of the affecting and the affected selected components, and between horizontal and vertical edges of the affecting and the affected selected components.
US11449658B2	Methods of generating integrated circuit (IC) layout synthetic patterns and related computer program products A method can be executed by at least one processor of a computer to generate synthetic Integrated Circuit (IC) layout patterns, where the method can optionally include accessing attribute values of the IC layout pattern features generated using IC layout patterns from at least one at least one previous generation semiconductor fabrication technology node. A synthetic layout pattern can be generated for use in a new generation semiconductor fabrication technology node under development by the following operations (a) assigning a random location in a grid for placement of a feature or portion of a feature constrained by the feature or portion of the feature and an attribute value associated with the feature or the portion of the feature, to a provide a location for the feature or portion of the feature and the associated attribute value; (b) checking the location against design rules for the new generation semiconductor fabrication technology node; (c) changing the location to another random location if the location violates any design rule of the new generation semiconductor fabrication technology node, otherwise placing the feature or portion of the feature at the location that satisfies all design rules of the of the new generation semiconductor fabrication technology node; (d) selecting a next feature/next portion of the feature for placement and (e) performing operations (a) to (d) until determining that all features and portions of all features have been placed with all associated attribute values of the features and portions of the feature.
US11449655B2	Synthesis of a network-on-chip (NoC) using performance constraints and objectives Systems and methods are disclosed that implement a tool for executing performance-aware topology synthesis of a network, such as a network-on-chip (NoC). The tool is provided with network information. The tool uses the network information to automatically determine data width and clock speed for each element in the network that meet the network's constraints and performance requirements. The tool is able to provide the performance-aware topology synthesis rapidly, while honoring the objectives and the network's constraints.
US11449651B2	Enhanced component dimensioning A computer includes a processor and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor to generate an operation parameter histogram for each of a plurality of vehicle operation parameters, operate a test vehicle according to the operation parameter histograms, input each operation parameter histogram and a plurality of test vehicle environment data to a machine learning program, output from the machine learning program a classification for each operation parameter histogram from the machine learning program, input the classifications to a predictive damage model of a three-dimensional schematic of a vehicle component, and adjust one of a size or a shape of the three-dimensional schematic based the output of the predictive damage model. The operation parameter histograms are based on collected data about operation of a plurality of vehicles. Each operation parameter histogram includes an array of elements. Each element is a number of data points for one of the operation parameters that are within a specified range. Each classification represents a type of environment and a type of test vehicle use.
US11449648B2	Method of designing and forming a channel of flow-type thin-wall drip irrigation belt The present disclosure discloses design and forming method of a channel of flow-type thin wall drip irrigation belt. The method includes the steps of construction of a double-layer asymmetric channel structure, determination of a structure parameter control threshold and optimal value, design of water inlets and water outlets of the double-layer asymmetric channel structure, proposal of a machining method of a molding wheel matching the double-layer asymmetric structure and an optimization method of a flow-type drip irrigation belt molding process, material modification of a flow-type drip irrigation belt and design of a reasonable formulation, realization the stereotype production of the flow-type drip irrigation belt, etc.
US11449642B2	Attack protection by power signature blurring An electronic circuit includes a plurality of processing elements, a register bank, and a control circuit. The processing elements consume power by processing a plurality of operands to generate a plurality of result values. The register bank has a plurality of registers. The control circuit is configured to determine one or more unused processing elements among the processing elements by snooping one or more incoming operands and an instruction type, control routing of one or more random operands from the register bank to the unused processing elements, and control routing of a random result value generated by one of the unused processing elements into a trash register of the registers. The power consumed by the unused processing elements in the generation of the random result value and a write of the random result value into the trash register temporally blurs a total power consumed by the electronic circuit.
US11449640B1	Real-time feature level software security Systems and techniques for real-time feature level software security are described herein. A request may be received from a computing device for data from the feature of the software application. The request for data may include authorization information of a user of the computing device. It may be identified that the feature of the software application contains code containing a reference to a security configuration service. A security configuration may be determined for the feature of the software application by comparing a resource identifier and a feature identifier of the feature of the software application to a set of security configurations of the security configuration service. The security configuration may provide access rules for the feature of the software application. A response may be sent to the computing device based on a comparison of the received authorization information of the user of the computing device to the determined security configuration.
US11449638B2	Assisting a scanning session Examples herein disclose via use of a physical processor, detecting a specific application programming interface (API) call to interact with an application running on a production server. Based on the detection of the specific API call, die examples assist, using the physical processor, a scanning session based on the specific API call Using the physical processor, the examples identify a modification to the application based on the scanning session.
US11449637B1	Systems and methods for providing web tracking transparency to protect user data privacy The disclosed computer-implemented method for providing web tracking transparency to protect user data privacy may include (i) receiving a browser request for target websites during a browsing session, (ii) identifying a tracking type for website trackers utilized by the target websites, the tracking type including a direct tracking type or a tracking sharing type, (iii) extracting an information category for the target websites, (iv) detecting text patterns shared between the target websites in a common information category, (v) determining information collected about a user by the website trackers by combining the tracking type for the website trackers, the information category for the target websites, and the detected text patterns, and (v) performing a security action that protects against unsolicited website tracking in future browsing sessions by providing the information collected by the website trackers to the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US11449628B2	System and method for data security grading Systems and methods are provided for data security grading. An exemplary method for data security grading, implementable by a computer, may comprise receiving a request to access a query data field, searching for the query data field from a security level table, in response to finding the query data field from the security level table, obtaining from the security level table a security level corresponding to the query data field, and in response to not finding the query data field from the security level table, determining a security level corresponding to the query data field based at least on a lineage tree and the security level table. The lineage tree may trace the query data field to one or more source data fields, and the security data level table may comprise one or more security levels corresponding to the one or more source data fields.
US11449626B2	Security of paired storage drives Robust, computationally-efficient and secure systems, devices and automated processes are described for storing content on a disk drive or other storage device that is supplied to a media encoder or other host device. The user-supplied drive may be used, for example, to store content in a digital video recorder (DVR) or the like. The host device creates two separate digital identifiers that separately identify the host device and the user, respectively, so that subsequent pairing can be performed based upon either identifier. The two identifiers are stored on the storage device and rendered upon subsequent pairing for validation by the host device.
US11449623B2	File access control based on analysis of user behavior patterns Systems and methods for a machine-learning driven fine-grained file access control approach are provided. According to one embodiment, a server associated with an enterprise network can obtain and store information regarding historical user behavior of users of the enterprise network by observing file access requests initiated by the users. The server receives a file access request initiated by a user, which relates to a file stored within the enterprise network in encrypted form. In response to receipt of the file access request, the server determines a risk score for the user based on multiple factors, including information regarding historical user behavior, the file access request and observed data determined based on the file access request so that based on the risk score, access to the file is permitted by returning a decryption key for the file or denied by withholding the decryption key.
US11449619B2	System and method for creating and executing breach scenarios utilizing virtualized elements A system for analyzing a computing system for potential breach points, the system comprising a memory device having executable instructions stored therein, and a processing device, in response to the executable instructions, configured to parse a breach scenario file, the breach scenario file comprising a graph including action component nodes connected by edges, determine a root node from the action component nodes, execute the root node with breach point data, generate a root node return value based on the execution of the root node, the root node return value including a modified copy of the breach point data, determine children nodes from the action component nodes connected to the root node, execute the children nodes wherein each execution of the children nodes produces children node return values for a subsequent one of the children nodes, and return a final return value from the execution of the children nodes.
US11449606B1	Monitoring circuit including cascaded s-boxes for fault injection attack protection Systems on a chip (SoCs) include security logic configured to increase resistance to fault injection attacks (FIAs). The security logic includes a monitoring circuit and a cascaded series of substitution-boxes (S-Boxes) having a circuit delay that is designed to match (or most closely match) the computing device critical path length. The monitoring circuit monitors the number of iterations required for the cascaded series of S-Boxes to return to an initial value and generates an error signal if the monitored loop length is different from the expected loop length. In some examples, the error signal is received by a mitigation processor that executes one or more processes aimed at mitigating the attack.
US11449600B2	System and method for generating security profile of container instance An operation method of a system for generating a security profile of a security instance includes extracting executable code and a library file from a container, thereby identifying a target to be analyzed; performing binary static analysis for the executable code and the library file in order to generate a system call list; and generating a Secure Computing Mode (SECCOMP) security profile based on the system call list.
US11449584B1	Generating authenticable digital content A recording device, system, and method for generating digital content in which its content can be authenticated. The recording devices includes hardware that captures video data and digitally signs portions of the video data to generate a plurality of digital signatures. The digital signatures can be used to authenticate the video data in a manner that modification of a portion of the video data invalidates a respective digital signature. In addition, the digital signatures can be further used to authenticate a position of the portion of the video data relative to at least one other portion of the video data.
US11449579B2	File-based software application discovery A system may include a computational instance disposed within a remote network management platform and associated with a managed network, where the computational instance contains a configuration management database. The system may also include a software application disposed on a server device of the managed network and configured to perform operations comprising: obtaining, from the configuration management database, a list of directories, a list of file types, and a list of file names; remotely accessing a computing device of the managed network; for each respective directory in the list of directories, obtaining, from the computing device, information respectively related to discovered files that are: (i) disposed within the respective directory on the computing device, and (ii) specified by the list of file types or specified in the list of file names; and transmitting, to the configuration management database, the information related to the discovered files.
US11449572B2	Determining propensities to drive website target user activity Users may arrive at a website via different digital channels. Users may also arrive at the website on different entry pages of the website. A propensity analyzer can, based on website activity data associated with a website, determine propensities of one or more of the digital channels, and/or one or more of the entry pages, to drive users to perform a target user activity during visits to the website. The propensity analyzer can generate recommendations for revising digital channels and/or entry pages to increase their propensities to drive users to perform the target user activity.
US11449567B2	Method and apparatus for detecting regional event based on search engine, and storage medium The present disclosure provides a method, and an apparatus for detecting a regional event based on a search engine, a search engine, a computer device, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining key search data related to the regional event based on search data of the search engine; performing regional event detection based on the key search data related to the regional event; and when the regional event is detected, estimating a location of the detected regional event based on geographical distribution of the key search data related to the regional event.
US11449565B2	Secure resource allocation utilizing a learning engine Methods and systems are disclosed for securely granting access to physical resources. An encrypted communication is received from a client hosted on a user device requesting resource availability data for a resource configured to be shared amongst a plurality of physical resource users in a time displaced manner. Resource availability data for the resource is used to populate a resource availability interface presented by the client hosted on the user device. An encrypted communication is received from the client requesting access to the resource for a specified period of time. A category for the requested access to the resource is determined. An inference or learning artificial intelligence engine is used to determine whether access for the resource is to be granted to the user for the specified period of time. In response to determining that access is to be granted to the user an encrypted code is transmitted to the user device.
US11449558B2	Relationship network generation method and device, electronic apparatus, and storage medium A relationship network generation method and device, electronic apparatus, and a storage medium are provided, which are related to big data processing. In an implementation, at least one historical text data corresponding to N users within a preset duration is acquired, where N is an integer greater than or equal to 1; sampling is performed on at least one historical text data corresponding to the N users to obtain the sampled text data respectively corresponding to the N users; semantic vectors corresponding to the N users respectively are determined based on the sampled text data corresponding to the N users respectively, and a semantic relationship network involving the N users is generated based on the semantic vectors corresponding to the N users respectively.
US11449545B2	Deduplication of media file search results In a method for identifying visually similar media content items, perceptual hashes for video frames of media content items are received. The perceptual hashes are compared for at least a portion of video frames. Based on the comparing the perceptual hashes for at least a portion of video frames, it is determined whether media content items are matching. The media content items indicated as matching are grouped.
US11449534B2	Systems and methods for conducting legal research across multiple jurisdictions The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for conducting legal research across multiple jurisdictions, which comprises receiving a first user search query at a graphical user interface comprising one or more search terms, executing the first search query against a first jurisdictional database and identifying one or more search results that are responsive to the first search query. Upon receiving a selected search result, a modified search query is generated comprising the one or more search terms of the first search query and one or more relevant terms from the selected search result and is executed against a second jurisdictional database. One or more secondary search results that are responsive to the modified search query are identified and then presented at the graphical user interface.
US11449531B2	Networked aggregation of localized particulate air pollutant sensors Novel techniques are described for networked aggregation of distributed localized particulate air pollutant (LPAP) sensors. For example, a large number of sensors is distributed over a geographic region. Each sensor can detect local levels of one or more LPAPs, and can communicate the detected levels over one or more communications networks. A system can receive data samples for the LPAP levels from the sensors and can compute LPAP scores that are mapped to respective sub-regions of the geographic region. The computation can be a function of aggregating respective LPAP levels for at least those LPAP sensors in a particular sub-region of the geographic region, and also as a function of comparing the aggregation against an identified set of trigger thresholds for the LPAP of interest. In some cases, the computed and mapped LPAP scores can be output for display, for example, as a heat map, or the like.
US11449530B2	Determining attribute information of geographical locations Attribute features associated with a geographical location are obtained at a terminal device, and the plurality of attribute features are determined based on geographical and residential information data of the geographical location that is collected from one or more remote devices. For each particular attribute feature, a score value and a weight value corresponding to the particular attribute feature are determined. An attribute value for the geographical location that corresponds to each particular attribute feature is calculated using the score value and the weight value corresponding to the particular attribute feature. Display of the attribute value is initiated using a graphical user interface on a computer display device.
US11449527B2	Automated inquiry response systems A method of automated inquiry response includes forming clusters that represent a meaning. The method includes assigning a level of sophistication to the clusters and generating sub-clusters within the clusters that represent a sentiment or a level of sophistication. The method includes assigning responses to the sub-clusters that address the meaning of the cluster and are modified based on the sentiment or a level of sophistication. The method includes computing a substantive issue, a sentiment, and a level of sophistication of a received inquiry. The method includes identifying clusters to which the inquiry pertains and generating an order of the identified clusters based on the assigned level of sophistication. The method includes crowdsourcing a comparison of the substantive issue of the inquiry to meanings of the identified clusters. The method includes offering a response associated with one of the identified clusters and with the sub-cluster for the identified sentiment.
US11449523B2	Generating overlap estimations between high-volume digital data sets based on multiple sketch vector similarity estimators The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that estimate the overlap between sets of data samples. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize a sketch-based sampling routine and a flexible, accurate estimator to determine the overlap (e.g., the intersection) between sets of data samples. For example, in some implementations, the disclosed systems generate a sketch vector—such as a one permutation hashing vector—for each set of data samples. The disclosed systems further compare the sketch vectors to determine an equal bin similarity estimator, a lesser bin similarity estimator, and a greater bin similarity estimator. The disclosed systems utilize one or more of the determined similarity estimators in generating an overlap estimation for the sets of data samples.
US11449522B2	Systems and methods for recommending execution environment for analysing sensor observational data Sensor data (or IoT) analytics plays a critical role in taking business decisions for various entities (e.g., organizations, project owners, and the like). However, scaling of such analytical solutions beyond certain point requires adopting to various computing environments which seems to be challenging with the constrained resources available. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide system and method for analysing and executing sensor observational data in computing environments, wherein extract, transform, load (ETL) workflow pipeline created by users in the cloud, can be seamlessly deployed to job execution service available in cloud/edge without any changes in the code/config by end user. The configuration changes are internally handled by the system based on the selected computing environment and queries are executed either in distributed or non-distributed environments to output data frames. The data frames are further pre-processed in a desired computing environment and thereafter visualized accordingly.
US11449518B2	Neural network-based document searching system Systems for performing methods for searching documents are disclosed. The system may receive a first document comprising textual content, summarize the textual content using a first neural network, and translate the summarized textual content into translated content (e.g., content translated into Lojban) using a second neural network. The system may also conduct a fuzzy search of a database using the translated content for similar translated content from a plurality of documents and output results of the fuzzy search.
US11449516B2	Ranking of documents belonging to different domains based on comparison of descriptors thereof A solution is proposed for ranking documents belonging to two different domains. A corresponding method comprises generating a descriptor for each of the documents; the descriptor comprises corresponding values and confidence indexes of multiple properties (of the corresponding document); the documents of a domain are ranked with respect to a document of another domain according to a comparison of their descriptors. A computer program product for performing the method are also proposed. Moreover, a computing system for implementing the method is proposed.
US11449499B1	System and method for retrieving data A system and method uses a set of processors that each perform a logic function to identify portions of a data source meeting a criteria. Each logic function is performed against a row of a column of the data source, and a value that is derived from the criteria for that logic function, which is also derived from the criteria. The output of each of the logic functions is applied as an address to a table that has been configured to read true at the addresses corresponding to the criteria being met, and false otherwise. Data from the row of the database table having a table value of true are retrieved from the data source.
US11449497B1	Method and system for implementing dynamic stored procedures The invention relates to a creating a stored procedure that retrieves its queries from a database, e.g., a DB2 table, and then prepares and executes dynamic SQL based on parameters supplied by a calling program. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a computer implemented system implements a dynamic stored procedure tool and comprises: a memory interface that accesses a database table; an interactive interface that receives a user selection; a processor, coupled to the memory interface and the interactive interface, the processor configured to perform the steps comprising: retrieve input values from a calling program; retrieve a cursor from an external source, using the input values; determine whether one or more parameter substitutions are applicable; and execute the cursor dynamically.
US11449488B2	System and method for processing logs A system for processing logs comprising at least one computing device adapted to: receiving a plurality of historical logs each generated by at least one client computing device when executing at least one software object generated from at least one source code file, each of the plurality of historical logs is associated with one of a plurality of sessions and comprising log data and a location value identifying a location in the at least one source code file; generating a plurality of log clusters, each log cluster comprising a plurality of logs of the plurality of historical logs, each of the plurality of logs of the respective log cluster comprising a common location value; and in at least one of a plurality of iterations: receiving from the at least one client computing device, via at least one digital communication network interface connected to the at least one computing device.
US11449486B2	File indexing for virtual machine backups in a data storage management system An illustrative file indexing approach enhances what was previously possible with hypervisor-free live browsing of virtual machine (VM) block-level backup copies. Capabilities are described for indexing files discovered in VM block-level backup copies, including file content. The illustrative file indexing functionality activates a live-browse session to discover files present within VM block-level backup copies and indexes file names and directory structures as created by an original source VM, resulting in an illustrative file index. The illustrative file indexing functionality optionally indexes file contents within VM block-level backup copies, resulting in an illustrative content index. The file index and content index are retained in persistent data structure(s) stored apart from the VM block-level backup copies. The indexes are searchable without mounting or live-browsing the VM block-level backup copies. In some embodiments the file index and the content index are consolidated. An enhanced storage manager is also disclosed.
US11449485B1	Sequence invalidation consolidation in a storage system A method for tracking valid and invalid sequence numbers in a storage system, performed by a processor, is provided. The method includes establishing a table as a key value store in memory in the storage system. The table has sequence numbers as keys and represents valid sequence numbers and invalidated sequence numbers of an open-ended sequence relating to storage of data or metadata in the storage system. The method includes adding to the table an entry that records a first plurality of consecutive sequence numbers, as a first range-valued key associated with a first value indicating the first plurality of consecutive sequence numbers is valid. The method includes adding to the table an entry that records a deletion of a second plurality of consecutive sequence numbers, as a second range-valued key associated with a second value indicating the second plurality of consecutive sequence numbers is invalid.
US11449483B1	Request processing using dynamic item data structures Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for request processing using dynamic item data structures are provided herein. An example method includes an item data structure comprising an item identifier for a given item and a plurality of global identifiers, wherein a given one of the global identifiers is indicative of a corresponding one of a plurality of different variations of the given item based on a particular combination of values associated with the given global identifier, wherein the particular combination of values is specified for a set of parameters associated with the given item; dynamically identifying one of the global identifiers in the item data structure based at least in part on one or more user inputs indicative of a value for at least one of the parameters; and processing a request for the given item based at least in part on the identified global identifier.
US11449480B2	Similarity hash for binary data pages Techniques for data processing may include: receiving a page P having a binary representation; determining a plurality of features for the page P; determining a plurality of feature hashes for the plurality of features, wherein each of the plurality of feature hashes corresponds to a different one of the plurality of features, wherein said each feature hash is determined using a hash function and in accordance with said different one of the plurality of features and an index associated with said different one of the plurality of features; and determining, in accordance with the plurality of feature hashes for the plurality of features, a similarity hash for the page P.
US11449476B2	Extracting data from a blockchain network The invention relates to a method for a model-driven extraction of event data representing an event occurring on a blockchain network by a computational device with access to the blockchain network. The computational device is configured as an ETL-device for executing an ETL-code to modify a data content of an external data structure external of the blockchain network using the extracted event data. The method comprising detecting the event, determining an event schema, providing and executing a the ETL-code. The ETL-code comprises machine-executable instructions for extracting the event data representing the detected event, transforming the extracted event data using the event schema to comply with a data model defining a logical structure of the external data structure and loading the transformed data to the external data structure to modify the data content of the external data structure.
US11449475B2	Approaches for encoding environmental information Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can access a plurality of schema-based encodings providing a structured representation of an environment captured by one or more sensors associated with a plurality of vehicles traveling through the environment. The plurality of schema-based encodings can be clustered into one or more clusters of schema-based encodings. At least one scenario associated with the environment can be determined based at least in part on the one or more clusters of schema-based encodings.
US11449473B2	Distribution history management system, distribution history management device, method, and program A data tracking unit 80 includes a distribution history storage unit 81 that stores a distribution history of data, a tracking tag adding unit 82 that adds a tracking tag used to identify tracking data, a first transmission unit 83 that transmits data to which the tracking tag is added to the component 90, and a distribution history registration unit 84 that registers a distribution history of the data to which the tracking tag is added, in the distribution history storage unit 81. The component 90 includes a second transmission unit 91 that transmits data to which the same tracking tag as a tracking tag added to the received data is added to another component 90 or the data tracking unit 80. The history registration unit 84 registers a result of tracking of data associated with the same tracking tag, as a distribution history of the data, in the distribution history storage unit 81.
US11449471B2	Sharing a modified file A method can include, in response to receiving sharing input from a local user into a local computing device, sending a file from the local computing device to a recipient, in response to sending the file, storing a sharing record on the local computing device, the sharing record identifying the file and the recipient, in response to receiving modification input from the local user into the local computing device to modify the file, determining that the sharing record identifies the file and the recipient, and based on determining that the sharing record identifies the file and the recipient, initiating sending at least a portion of the file to the recipient.
US11449469B2	Embedded content object collaboration Systems and methods for embedded content object collaboration. A server of a cloud-based content management system hosts an access point to a set of executable code. The executable code is configured to facilitate interaction with a user. The user initiates operations that are performed either at the cloud-based content management system or at the at least one user device, or both. The operations include (1) user interactions with a shared content object, (2) user selection of at least one embedded content object within the shared content object, (3) editing the embedded content object at the at least one user device, (4) replicating one or more changes performed on the embedded content object to a remotely-stored instance of the embedded content object, and (5) downloading at least a portion of the updated, remotely-stored instance of the embedded content object to the user device.
US11449468B1	Enforcing minimum space guarantees in thinly-provisioned file systems A technique for managing storage space includes establishing an MSR (minimum space reservation) of a thin file system built upon a storage pool. In response to a set of storage requests to the file system to store new data, the method further includes obtaining an additional space guarantee from the storage pool. After deleting data from the file system such that the size of the file system falls below the MSR, the technique further includes performing a space reclaim operation, the space reclaim operation (i) compacting the file system to a size less than the MSR, (ii) canceling the additional space guarantee such that the storage pool no longer guarantees the additional space for the file system, and (iii) continuing to reserve the full MSR of the file system, even though the size of the file system is smaller than the MSR.
US11449467B2	Warming up index files The present disclosure provides a method, an apparatus and a search node for warming up index files during a search service. The search service is provided by at least one search node in a search system. A first index file is stored in a disk in the search node, and a first group of pages from the first index file is stored in a cache in the search node. A second index file is stored into the disk in the search node. A plurality of queries is received during the search service. At least one warm-up query is determined from the plurality of queries. A warm-up search is performed based on the second index file in response to the at least one warm-up query. A second group of pages in the second index file is stored into the cache based on a result of the warm-up search.
US11449460B2	System and method for capturing and sharing a location based experience A system and method for capturing a location based experience at an event including a plurality of mobile devices having a camera employed near a point of interest to capture random, crowdsourced images and associated metadata near said point of interest. In a preferred form, the images include depth camera information from prepositioned devices around the point of interest during the event. A network communicates images, depth information, and metadata to build a 3D model of the region, preferably with the location of contributors known. Users connect to this experience platform to view the 3D model from a user selected location and orientation and to participate in experiences with, for example, a social network.
US11449448B2	Device and method for controlling a transfer of information from a plurality of electronic components through a communication bus to a host device A device for controlling a transfer of information from a plurality of electronic components through a communication bus to a host device, comprising a chain of processing blocks connected to the electronic components, each of the processing blocks associated with one, or a set, of the electronic components, which processing blocks are arranged such that during the transfer of information an authorization signal propagates through the chain of processing blocks and, when the authorization signal encounters a processing block associated with one of the electronic components or one of the sets of electronic components which contains an information value to be transferred, effecting the transfer of the information value through the communication bus to the host device. The processing blocks are arranged to coordinate their processing in accordance with a clock signal generated independent of a propagation status of the authorization signal within the chain of processing blocks.
US11449443B2	Identification and classification of write stream priority Increases in efficiency of storage device operation may be realized if the limited number of available high-priority communication channels are better optimized and assigned among hosts that may best utilize them. This assignment can occur in response to an evaluation of the overall zone usage or by received metadata and/or indicia from the host. The storage device may periodically, or in response to a command, reevaluate the assigned priority status of each communication channel and associated host/zone pair. For example, the storage device may demote or remove a communication channel from high-priority to low-priority. This process can be continued during a preconfigured time window which can be adjusted before, during, or after priority evaluation. The continuous operation of this process can allow for adjustments being made to priority levels within the storage device that may further increase total operational efficiency.
US11449439B1	Fragmented periodic timing calibration Periodic signal timing calibration is implemented in time-distributed fragments executed concurrently with occasional system-idling maintenance operations to maintain reliable synchronous communication between interconnected system components without impacting system availability.
US11449411B2	Application-specific log routing Implementations for application-specific log routing are described. An example method may include receiving, by an application server, a log message; responsive to determining that a log router associated with the application server is enabled, identifying a thread context associated with an execution thread that created the log message; responsive to identifying a logger associated with the thread context, forwarding the log message to the logger; and processing the log message by the logger.
US11449408B2	Method, device, and computer program product for obtaining diagnostic information Techniques may involve determining, according to determination that a received system alarm corresponds to a predefined to-be-monitored alarm, the received system alarm as a target system alarm. The techniques may further involve determining a system module corresponding to the target system alarm based on a predefined mapping relationship between the system alarm and the system module. In addition, the techniques may further involve acquiring the system diagnostic information of the system module which is associated with the target system alarm. In this way, time for collecting system diagnostic information can be reduced and user experience can be improved.
US11449406B2	Controlling a storage system based on available power Techniques to control a storage system involve: determining whether available power capable of being supplied by a supplying apparatus of the storage system is less than power required by the storage system; and in response to a determination that the available power is less than the power required by the storage system, adjusting an operation parameter of the storage system based on the available power so as to match the power required by the storage system with the available power. In this way, the performance of the storage system can be at a higher level while the performance of the storage system can remain stable in a case where power of a processor is limited.
US11449403B2	Apparatus and method for diagnosing faults in a fieldbus interface module A method and system for detecting faults in a communication interface is disclosed. The communication interface is connected to a field device and a device bus comprising generating periodic diagnostic pulse by a programing unit. The programming unit is communicatively connected to the controller and a controller interface and provides the diagnostic pulse to a multiplexer to periodically apply the diagnostic pulses from the programming unit to a first winding of a transformer. The programming unit provides the diagnostic pulse to the isolation unit. A sensing unit senses a voltage drop across a sense resistor, the sensing unit having an input connected to the sense resistor and an output connected to the programming unit. The sensing unit communicates a sense signal based on the comparison to the programming unit, and switches from a primary or a secondary module to the other based on the sense signal.
US11449401B2	Moving a consistency group having a replication relationship One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for moving a consistency group having a replication relation. For example, a first consistency group of storage objects (e.g., files, logical unit numbers (LUNs), etc.) within first storage may have a replication relationship with a second consistency group within second storage (e.g., the second consistency group is maintained as a synchronously replicated copy of the first consistency group). A volume copy operation, a single file move on demand command, a single file restore command, or other functionality is used to move the first consistency group from the first storage to third storage, such as for load balancing, to create a moved first consistency group within the third storage. A new replication relationship is established between the moved first consistency group and the second consistency group, and the moved first consistency group and the second consistency group are resynchronized.
US11449399B2	Mitigating real node failure of a doubly mapped redundant array of independent nodes Mitigating the effects of a real node failure in a doubly mapped redundant array of independent nodes, e.g., doubly mapped cluster is disclosed. In response to a change in an accessibility to data stored on an extent of a real storage device of a real node of a real cluster, wherein the extent of the real storage device corresponds to a portion of a mapped storage device of a mapped node of a doubly mapped cluster, substituting a reserved extent of a real storage device for the extent of the real storage device. The substituting the reserved extent of the real storage device can correspond to a change in a topology of the doubly mapped cluster, wherein the change in the topology comprises replacing the portion of the mapped storage device with a substitute portion of a mapped storage device that corresponds to the replacement extent of the real storage device. The changed topology can enable writing of data to the substituted portion of a mapped storage device that can cause writing of corresponding data to the reserved extent of the real storage device.
US11449396B2	Failover support within a SoC via standby domain In various embodiments, an apparatus includes a system-on-chip (SoC) to be disposed in a vehicle having a plurality of cores; a hypervisor arranged to partition the cores into at least two domains, an operational domain and a failover domain; a first operating system (OS) arranged to manage execution of at least a first application in the operational domain to provide a first plurality of functions for the vehicle; a second OS arranged to manage execution of at least a second application in the failover domain to provide a second plurality of functions for the vehicle, on occurrence of a failure of the first application. The second functions comprise a subset of the first functions or less embellished versions of some of the first functions, and the second OS has less capabilities than the first OS. Other embodiments, including storage media and methods, are also described and claimed.
US11449378B2	Information processing apparatus and log control method An information processing apparatus includes: a memory and a processor. The processor, coupled to the memory, is configured to: determine, for each task of a plurality of tasks executed in a distributed stream data processing platform, a log score based on an indication associated with easiness of occurrence of a failure; and output a log message for each task of the plurality of tasks at an output frequency based on a log score of each task and a log score of at least one of an upstream task located upstream of each task and a downstream task located downstream of each task.
US11449373B2	Techniques for performing resynchronization on a clustered system Various embodiments are generally directed an apparatus and method for receiving information to write on a clustered system comprising at least a first cluster and a second cluster, determining that a failure event has occurred on the clustered system creating unsynchronized information, the unsynchronized information comprising at least one of inflight information and dirty region information, and performing a resynchronization operation to synchronize the unsynchronized information on the first cluster and the second cluster based on log information in at least one of an inflight tracker log for the inflight information and a dirty region log for the dirty region information.
US11449372B1	System for enforcing use of schemas and interfaces To ensure that clients use the most current versions of schemas and provide requests to particular Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) in a desired order, identifiers associated with resources may be used to determine client requests that comply with desired schemas and API interactions. When a request to access a first resource is received, a link to a second resource and an identifier may be provided. When a request to access the second resource is received, if the identifier associated with the request is absent or does not match the expected identifier, the request may be denied without using computational resources to process the request. Identifiers may include strings included in Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) or query parameters. Identifiers may also include modified field names, arrangements, or other characteristics of schemas associated with the requests. Schemas of received requests may be converted to standard schemas to prepare a response.
US11449368B2	Systems and methods for calendar synchronization with enterprise web applications The described technology relates to integrating events electronically scheduled in enterprise web applications and other event management applications. An improved capability is provided for an event management application like, for example, Microsoft's Outlook™ to provide the user with additional useful information and/or resources associated with scheduled events such as, but not limited to, meetings. Improved capabilities are provided to the enterprise web application clients based upon integration with event applications such as Outlook. Embodiments use a unique identifier generated for an event scheduled in one application for associating corresponding event information in the second application, such that the scheduled event calendars in the first and second applications can be synchronized without duplicating the event information between the two applications.
US11449365B2	Ubiquitous and elastic workload orchestration architecture of hybrid applications/services on hybrid cloud Systems and methods for deploying computer application workload elements among a plurality of computing resources are described. An elastic workload orchestration architecture includes a workload queue that is configured to receive application workload elements for processing using one or more distributed hybrid application services. The workload elements are evaluated to confirm whether they are properly formatted for deployment among the distributed hybrid application services and, if such confirmation cannot be made, the workload elements are adapted into a proper format. An elastic workload operator then deploys the workload elements to the distributed hybrid application services.
US11449358B2	Cross-device task registration and resumption Systems and methods are disclosed for cross-device task registration and resumption. In one implementation, a task can be received from a task registration service of a first device associated with a user. Such a task can include an application identifier that identifies an application that executes on the device. A notification that the user has accessed a second device can be received. In response to the notification, the task can be provided to a task resumption service of the second device.
US11449355B2	Non-volatile memory (NVM) based method for performance acceleration of containers The present disclosure discloses a NVM-based method for performance acceleration of containers. The method comprises classifying each image layer of mirror images as either an LAL (Layer above LDL) or an LBL (Layer below LDL) during deployment of containers; storing the LALs into a non-volatile memory and selectively storing each said LBL into one of the non-volatile memory and a hard drive; acquiring hot image files required by the containers during startup and/or operation of the containers and storing the hot image files required by the containers into the non-volatile memory; and sorting the mirror images in terms of access frequency according to at least numbers of times of access to the hot image files so as to release the non-volatile memory currently occupied by the mirror image having the lowest access frequency when the non-volatile memory is short of storage space.
US11449351B2	History aware interfaces The disclosed implementations can provide a state-based history based on capture, representation, and navigation of a user's exploratory interactions with a user interface of an application. States may be represented in a history board, and one or more states may form a path. As a user explores an application's user interface, the user may branch from a given path and/or return to a prior state. Displaying a visual indication of states and a relationship of those states within a given path to states in other paths, provides a much improved user experience.
US11449337B1	Pseudorandom keephot instructions to mitigate large load steps during hardware emulation A pseudorandom logic circuit may be embedded as a hardware within an emulation system, which may generate pseudorandom keephot instructions. A masking logic may mask out portions in each pseudorandom keephot instruction, which may change state elements during execution. A cluster of emulation processors may execute masked pseudorandom keephot instructions to consume power when not executing mission instructions. The cluster of emulation processors may run keephot cycles, during which the cluster of emulation processors may execute the pseudorandom keephot instructions causing the cluster of emulation processors to continue consuming a roughly constant amount of power, either at a same or different voltage level, but supposed outputs of the pseudorandom keephot instructions may have no impact upon inputs and outputs generated during mission cycles.
US11449334B2	Software rewriting device A software rewriting device, configured to rewrite software of a moving body, includes: a rewriting processing unit configured to execute a rewriting process of rewriting the software; and a communication unit configured to communicate with an accommodation area management device managing an accommodation area for accommodating the moving body. When the moving body executes the rewriting process in the accommodation area, the communication unit notifies execution of the rewriting process to the accommodation area management device.
US11449317B2	Detection of semantic equivalence of program source codes Implementations of the disclosure provide systems and methods for identifying, in view of a first control flow graph associated with a first code fragment and a second control flow graph associated with a second code fragment, a first set of sections of the first code fragment and a second set of sections of the second code fragment, such that each section of the first set of sections has a corresponding section of the second set of sections. A first section of the first set of sections is identified, where the first section is not syntactically equivalent to a corresponding second section of the second set of sections. Responsive to determining that the first section is not syntactically equivalent to the corresponding second section, it is found that the first code fragment is not semantically equivalent to the second code fragment.
US11449316B2	Method and system for generating and executing client/server applications There is provided an improvement for developing an application between an application server and one of multiple client devices where the application server is disposed remotely of the one of multiple client devices. In one example, an application behavior model (ABM) is produced and stored at the application server. Using an output corresponding with the one of multiple devices, program code for a client application is produced from a selected one of several configurable templates. Selected input, generated with the ABM and the program code, is received at the application server to cause a sequence of processing steps to be performed with the application server. In another example, the ABM is received at the one of multiple client devices, the one of multiple client devices including a user interface (UI). The ABM and client application are used to render a first page at the UI for providing an action identifier. The action identifier is sent to the application server for causing a sequence of processing steps to be performed with the application server. Pursuant to performing the sequence of processing steps, the ABM and client application conjunctively cause a second page to be rendered on the UI.
US11449315B2	Systems and methods for utilizing machine learning to identify non-technical loss Various embodiments of the present disclosure can include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to select a set of signals relating to a plurality of energy usage conditions. Signal values for the set of signals can be determined. Machine learning can be applied to the signal values to identify energy usage conditions associated with non-technical loss.
US11449311B2	Random number generator A method for generating random numbers includes initializing a pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) having a state of 2048 bits comprising inner bits and outer bits, the inner bits comprising the first 128 bits of the 2048 bits and the outer bits comprising the remaining bits of the 2048 bits. The method also includes retrieving AES round keys from a key source, and for a threshold number of times, executing a round function using the AES round keys by XOR'ing odd-numbered branches of a Feistel network having 16 branches of 128 bits with a function of corresponding even-numbered neighbor branches of the Feistel network, and shuffling each branch of 128 bits into a prescribed order. The method also includes executing an XOR of the inner bits of the permuted state with the inner bits of a previous state.
US11449308B2	Condensed spoken utterances for automated assistant control of an intricate application GUI Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that can control graphical user interface (GUI) elements via voice input using natural language understanding of GUI content in order to resolve ambiguity and allow for condensed GUI voice input requests. When a user is accessing an application that is rendering various GUI elements at a display interface, the automated assistant can operate to process actionable data corresponding to the GUI elements. The actionable data can be processed in order to determine a correspondence between GUI voice input requests to the automated assistant and at least one of the GUI elements rendered at the display interface. When a particular spoken utterance from the user is determined to correspond to multiple GUI elements, an indication of ambiguity can be rendered at the display interface in order to encourage the user to provide a more specific spoken utterance.
US11449307B2	Remote controller for controlling an external device using voice recognition and method thereof A remote controller for controlling an external device by using voice recognition. The remote controller includes a microphone, at least one sensor, a communication interface, and a processor for controlling the microphone, the at least one sensor, and the communication interface. The controller identifies a user utterance intention based on utterance intention information of the remote controller and utterance intention information of the external device. The controller controls whether to supply power to the microphone according to a result of an identification of the user utterance intention, and controls the communication interface to transmit an electrical signal corresponding to a voice of user received through the microphone to a display device.
US11449301B1	Interactive personalized audio This disclosure is directed to methods, apparatuses, and systems for providing content streams with highly targeted, interactive content in a personalized manner. A content producer can generate a user-generic content stream associated with one or more user-specific content flags, which can describe how the user-specific content can be presented along with the content stream. A content-provider can purchase or otherwise acquire the rights to insert their user-specific content into another content provider's user-generic content. Both the user-specific and user-generic content can be provided to the user by means of a voice-controlled device associated with a cloud-based profile of the user. A user can interact with the personalized content to receive supplemental information.
US11449300B2	Audio output device, electronic device, and audio processing system device An audio output device includes a first communication interface configured to receive a first digital signal from an electronic device and transmit a second digital signal to the electronic device; at least one processor configured to convert the received first digital signal into a first analog signal and convert a second analog signal into the second digital signal; and a frequency modulation (FM) antenna configured to obtain FM signals to output the FM signals to the electronic device through the first communication interface. A ground terminal of the at least one processor is connected to a first terminal of the first communication interface, the FM antenna is connected to a second terminal of the first communication interface, and the FM signals are transmitted from the FM antenna to the second terminal of the first communication interface.
US11449288B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and information processing method An information processing apparatus includes a first controller that performs control that does not depend on hardware; a second controller that is connected to the first controller through a communication path and performs control that depends on the hardware; and a memory in which first attribute information reflecting a first attribute of the first controller and second attribute information reflecting a second attribute of the second controller are stored. The first controller acquires a first control program for the first controller that is associated with a combination of the first attribute information and the second attribute information and performs control on a basis of the first control program, and the second controller acquires a second control program for the second controller that is associated with a combination of the first attribute information and the second attribute information and performs control on a basis of the second control program.
US11449279B1	Performance of a multi-core storage system Techniques are used for improving performance of a storage system. The techniques may be used to provide, among other things, a set of counters for an object. Each counter corresponds to a unique processor in a multi-processor storage system. The state of a gate governing the object is determined. If the state of the gate is open, the counter corresponding to the first processor is incremented. The state of the gate for the object is re-determined. If the state of the gate remains open, the object is read and the counter corresponding to the first storage processor is decremented.
US11449272B1	Operation based on consolidated memory region description data Various embodiments enable a memory sub-system to perform a read operation based on consolidated memory region description data, which can be generated based on a memory region description data (e.g., SGL) provided by a host system for the read operation.
US11449271B2	Implementing fault tolerant page stripes on low density memory systems An example memory sub-system comprises: a memory device; and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device. The processing device is configured to: receive a first host data item; store the first host data item in a first page of a first logical unit of a memory device, wherein the first page is associated with a fault tolerant stripe; receive a second host data item; store the second host data item in a second page of the first logical unit of the memory device, wherein the second page is associated with the fault tolerant stripe, and wherein the second page is separated from the first page by one or more wordlines including a dummy wordline storing no host data; and store, in a third page of a second logical unit of the memory device, redundancy metadata associated with the fault tolerant stripe.
US11449260B2	Persistent hole reservation Techniques are provided for persistent hole reservation. For example, hole reservation flags of operations targeting a first storage object of a first node are replicated into replication operations targeting a second storage object of a second node during a transition operation to transition the first storage object and the second storage object from an asynchronous replication state to a synchronous replication state. In another example, the second storage object is grown to a size of a replication punch hole operation that failed due to targeting a file block number greater than an end of size of the second storage object.
US11449259B2	Memory controller and operating method thereof There are provided a memory controller and an operating method thereof. The memory controller includes: a meta data storage for storing meta data including mapping information of data stored in a memory device and valid data information representing whether the data stored in the memory device is valid data; and a migration controller for controlling the memory device to perform a migration operation of moving, to a target memory block, valid data stored in a plurality of source memory blocks included in the memory device, based on the meta data. The migration controller controls the memory device to read a second valid data stored in the second die before reading a first valid data stored in the first die, based on a comparison result between a reference time and a delay time required until before the first valid data is read.
US11449254B1	Managed bulk memory A system and method for providing a set of data transfer instructions for converting one or more tensors between two different layouts. A first layout is used for storage of the data in host memory. A second layout is used for storage of the data in external memory accessible to a subsystem. The subsystem acts as a work accelerator to the host, and reads the external memory and processes the data read from the external memory. The first layout may be a logical representation of the tensor. The second layout is optimised for transfer to and processing by the subsystem. The data transfer instructions for converting between the two layouts are generated in dependence upon an analysis of the instructions to be executed by the subsystem.
US11449252B2	Method of writing and reading data in an NVM using Lpage identification headers A method includes the steps of storing non-header data into a plurality of logical pages (“Lpages”) of a non-volatile memory (“NVM”), each Lpage including a number of read units, wherein at least one of the read units is a spanning read unit that spans Lpage boundaries and includes a first byte of at least one Lpage starting in the read unit, storing, in each of the at least one spanning read units that include the first byte of the at least one Lpage starting in the read unit, an Lpage identification header per each of the at least one Lpages starting in the spanning read unit, each Lpage identification header identifying a location of the first byte of the respective Lpage starting within the respective spanning read unit, and locating an Lpage of data stored in the NVM by referring to an entry stored a flash memory controller map table.
US11449246B2	Memory module capable of reducing power consumption and semiconductor system including the same A memory module may include a power source, a memory device, and a power controller. The power source provides at least one power supply voltage. The memory device operates by being supplied with at least one memory power supply voltage. The power controller supplies the at least one memory power supply voltage by changing a voltage level of the at least one power supply voltage based on operation modes of the memory device.
US11449242B2	Shared storage space access method, device and system and storage medium The invention relates to a shared storage space access method, device and system and a storage medium. The product comprises a control module. The control module comprises an instruction cache unit, an instruction processing unit and a storage queue unit. The instruction caching unit is used for storing a calculation instruction associated with the artificial neural network operation; the instruction processing unit is used for analyzing the calculation instruction to obtain a plurality of operation instructions; the storage queue unit is used for storing an instruction queue, and the instruction queue comprises a plurality of operation instructions or calculation instructions to be executed according to the front-back sequence of the queue. Through the method or the product, the access efficiency of the storage space can be improved.
US11449228B2	Recording control apparatus and control method thereof A recording control apparatus that records data on a recording medium includes a position recording unit configured to perform control so that, upon completion of recording of data, a recording start position for next recording of data is recorded on the recording medium, an initialization unit configured to initialize the recording medium, and a control unit configured to perform control in such a manner that in a case where the initialization unit executes first initialization processing, the first initialization processing and clear processing for clearing the recording start position recorded on the recording medium are executed, and in a case where the initialization unit executes second initialization processing, the second initialization processing is executed without executing the clear processing.
US11449220B2	Electronic device including touch sensitive display and method for managing the display A method for operating an electronic device including a touch sensitive display is provided. The method includes displaying at least two application execution screens on the touch sensitive display not to be superposed on one another, receiving a touch input or a hovering input through the touch sensitive display, selecting at least one application execution screen among the at least two application execution screens at least partially in response to the reception of the touch input or the hovering input, and displaying the selected application execution screen to be superposed on at least a portion of a non-selected application execution screen among the at least two application execution screens.
US11449213B1	Host to client drag-and-drop operation A computer system is provided. The computer system includes a memory, a user interface, and a processor coupled to the memory and the user interface. The at least one processor is configured to render, via the user interface, a first representation of the computer system and a second representation of a remote computer system distinct from the computer system; receive, via the user interface, input initiating a drag-and-drop operation of a digital resource provided by the remote computer system; detect entry of a cursor effectuating the drag-and-drop operation into the first representation; confine the cursor to a portion of the first representation; move a target proxy window to encompass the portion of the first representation; and free the cursor to continue effectuation of the drag-and-drop operation.
US11449211B2	Systems and methods for data loading The disclosure relates to a method and system for data loading. The method may include obtaining primary data related to an object. The method may also include generating a primary indicator related to the primary data for display in a first region of a user interface. The method may also include receiving a primary user instruction related to a moving operation applied on the primary indicator that moves the primary data from the first region to a second region of the user interface. The method may also include determining a primary data loading command based on the moving operation. The method may also include generating secondary data for display in the second region of the user interface based on the primary data and the primary data loading command.
US11449201B1	Predictive answers based on context modeling A system and a method of displaying a predictive answer in a conversation window within a webpage, are described. The method includes displaying the conversation window and presenting the predictive answer within the conversation window prior to receiving an entry of a character in a character entry field of the conversation window. The predictive answer is determined based on a current context of a device displaying the webpage. The current context is at least partly defined by a Uniform Resources Locator (URL) of the webpage, and a URL shape of the URL is mapped to the predictive answer in a context model.
US11449194B2	Portable electronic device with interface reconfiguration mode A portable electronic device displays a plurality of icons (e.g., graphical objects) in a region in a touch-sensitive display; detects a predefined user action, with respect to the touch-sensitive display, for initiating a predefined user interface reconfiguration process; and varies positions of one or more icons in the plurality of icons in response to detecting the predefined user action. The varying includes varying the positions of the one or more icons about respective average positions.
US11449191B2	Digital treatment planning by modeling inter-arch collisions Orthodontic devices such as aligners, palatal expanders, retainers, and dental implants can be used to adjust the position of teeth and to treat various dental irregularities. To help the clinician or doctor (i.e., orthodontist) design and plan the subject's treatment plan, a 3D digital model of the subject's teeth, dentition, and gingiva can be constructed from a 3D scan of the subject's mouth, teeth, dentition, and gingiva. The 3D model of the subject's teeth and dentition can be displayed graphically to the doctor on a display using a computing system with memory and software.
US11449190B2	User tailored of experience feeds In a method of sharing an experience between a tapper and a content provider is provided, a feed aggregation engine receives a first interaction with a user interface, wherein the user interface is configured to deliver captured media associated with a first event of the content provider. The feed aggregation engine analyzes user data, wherein the user data includes data associated with the first interaction between the user and the user interface, wherein the first interaction is associated with a substantially real-time event. The feed aggregation engine further contemplates determining whether at least one pattern exists in the user data, and, responsive to determining that the at least one pattern exists associated with the user data, updating an experience policy associated with a user. The feed aggregation engine receives a second interaction with the user interface and applies the updated experience policy to a second event associated with the second interaction.
US11449187B2	Lockscreen display control method and device, and storage medium A lockscreen display control method can be applied to an electronic device and include: when the electronic device has a bright screen in a lockscreen state, a transparent lockscreen window is drawn by using a lockscreen service, and a lockscreen wallpaper process is launched; an activity instance of the lockscreen wallpaper process is created, and an attribute of the activity instance is set to be always on top; a device orientation of the electronic device is monitored by using the activity instance to acquire an orientation parameter; and according to the orientation parameter, a wallpaper displayed under the lockscreen window is adjusted, and the wallpaper is controlled to dynamically display under the lockscreen window.
US11449186B2	System and method for optimized generation of a single page application for multi-page applications A system and method for optimized generation of a single page application for multi-page applications is provided. A shell application is fetched for hosting a user interface (UI) associated with one or more child applications. The shell application is associated with multiple pre-defined frames. The shell application maintains a bi-directional communication with the child application until the UI associated with the child application remains hosted in the shell application. Further, UI extensions associated with the UI of the child applications are fetched. The UI extensions are in the form of one or more pre-defined UI visualization formats. Each of the fetched UI extensions are discrete UI extensions functioning independently of the other. Lastly, the UI extensions are deployed in the pre-defined frames associated with the shell application to generate a single page application.
US11449180B2	Method for manufacturing substrate equipped with wiring electrode, and substrate equipped with wiring electrode The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a substrate equipped with a wiring electrode which has a fine pattern and is excellent in conductivity and in which an opaque wiring electrode is hardly visible. Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a substrate equipped with a wiring electrode including the steps of forming an opaque wiring electrode on at least one side of a transparent substrate, applying a positive photosensitive composition on one side of the transparent substrate, and exposing and developing the positive photosensitive composition using the opaque wiring electrode as a mask to form a functional layer at a portion corresponding to the opaque wiring electrode.
US11449179B2	Display device A display device includes a display module, a first supporter under the display module, a second supporter under the display module, the first and second supporters being arranged in a first direction with a space therebetween, and a digitizer module under the first and second supporters and including a first opening extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and second openings respectively extending along the first direction from both ends of the first opening. The first opening overlaps with the space between the first supporter and the second supporter.
US11449171B2	Touch system and touch sensitive processing apparatus and method thereof for detecting whether touch panel is partially submerged in conductive liquid The present invention provides a touch sensitive processing method for detecting a liquid line when a touch panel half submerged in conductive liquid, wherein the touch panel comprises multiple parallel first electrodes and multiple parallel second electrodes, the touch sensitive processing method comprising: determining whether a liquid line piece group touches two sides of the touch panel if the liquid line piece group does exists; calculating two averaged values of sensing information with regard to two parts of the touch panel separated by the liquid line piece group if it touches two sides of the touch panel; determining a part of the touch panel having a larger averaged value is above the conductive liquid and another part of the touch panel is below the conductive liquid; and determining a liquid line according to a surface between the part above the conductive liquid and the liquid line piece group.
US11449167B2	Systems using dual touch and sound control, and methods thereof The present teachings relate to solving a problem of quickly and accurately controlling devices, such as in a vehicle. The teachings herein solve the problems by employing both touch and sound inputs for controlling one or more functions of a user-controlled device, and to methods of controlling a device using both a touch command and a verbal command. The touch commands are preferably entered on a touch device capable of identifying multiple simultaneous contacts, such as from the simultaneous contact of multiple fingers on the touch device.
US11449166B2	Method and apparatus for displaying operation interface and touchscreen terminal The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for displaying an operation interface, and a touchscreen terminal, where the method includes: receiving a touch operation that is input by a user in a first set area on a touchscreen; and when it is detected that the touch operation ends in a second set area, displaying, on the touchscreen, a second operation interface corresponding to the second set area. According to this solution, a needed operation interface can be obtained by means of one touch operation, and complex operation steps do not need to be performed to switch between operation interfaces.
US11449163B2	Display device A display device includes: a display panel having a display area and a non-display area at least partially disposed around the display area; and a touch sensor disposed on the display panel and including a touch sensor area and a touch pad area adjacent to the touch sensor area, wherein the touch sensor includes a plurality of touch electrodes disposed in the touch sensor area, a plurality of touch pads disposed in the touch pad area, and a plurality of touch signal lines electrically connecting the touch electrodes with the touch pads, respectively. The touch signal lines include first line portions overlapping with the touch pads and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and the second line portions being angled relative to the respective first line portions extending in the first direction and connected to the touch electrodes, and the first line portion of the touch signal line has a first length in the second direction different from a second length in the second direction of a first line portion of an adjacent touch signal line.
US11449142B2	Apparatus and method for generating image using brain wave An apparatus for generating an image using brain wave signals includes a sensor configured to collect brain wave signals of at least one passenger in a mobility from a plurality of channels for a predetermined time, and a controller configured to generate a first image from the brain wave signals collected from the plurality of channels using an artificial intelligence model, to select at least one second image included in a predetermined list based on the generated first image, and to control the mobility as a response to the selected second image.
US11449139B2	Eye tracking calibration for a surgical robotic system A method for passively calibrating and verifying eye tracking in a surgical robotic system. The gaze of a user facing a user display of a user console of a surgical robotic system is tracked while the user is using a user interface device (UID). When a user interaction to the UID is detected, an expected gaze position on the display of the user console is determined without instructing the user to look at the expected gaze position. The latter becomes a reference gaze point of the user at the time of detected user action. The measured gaze point of the user is compared with an acceptable threshold of the reference gaze point, and in response to a determination of a mismatch, calibration parameters used by the tracking are adjusted according to the reference gaze point. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US11449131B2	Obfuscated control interfaces for extended reality Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for generating obfuscated control interfaces for extended reality (XR) experiences. An example method can include determining a pose of an XR device within a mapped scene of a physical environment associated with the XR device; rendering a virtual control interface within the mapped scene according to a configuration including a first size, a first position relative to the pose of the XR device, a first ordering of input elements, and/or a first number of input elements; and adjusting the configuration of the virtual control interface based on a privacy characteristic of data associated with the virtual control interface and/or characteristics of the physical environment associated with the XR device, the adjusted configuration including a second size, a second ordering of input elements, a second number of input elements, and/or a second position relative to the pose of the XR device and/or first position.
US11449129B2	Multisensory case and immersive device The invention relates to a multisensory case comprising at least one odor-diffusing device consisting of at least one odor-diffusing support and a ventilator as well as a device for generating an air flow. The odor-diffusing device and the device for generating an air flow are arranged one above the other. The invention also relates to an immersive device comprising a screen and at least two multisensory cases, each case comprising at least one device for generating air flows and a sound-generating device, and to a control device designed to manage the emission of sound and air by independently controlling each of the cases.
US11449122B2	Peak power management for multi-die operations A method of peak power management (PPM) is provided for two NAND memory dies. Each NAND memory die comprises a PPM circuit having a PPM contact pad held at an electric potential common between the two NAND memory dies. The method includes the following steps: detecting the electric potential during a first peak power check (PPC) routine for the first NAND memory die; driving the electric potential to a second voltage level if the detected electric potential is at a first voltage level higher than the second voltage level; generating a pausing signal in the electric potential to pause a second PPC routine for the second NAND memory die if no pausing signal is detected; and generating a resuming signal in the electric potential to resume the second PPC routine for the second NAND memory die after the first NAND memory die completes a first peak power operation.
US11449116B2	Power grid porosity techniques Various implementations described herein refer to a method for providing a cell layout with a power grid distribution network. The method may include analyzing porosity of the cell layout to identify blocked tracks and unblocked tracks. The method may include marking the unblocked tracks as available sites for stitching power rails of the cell layout to the power grid distribution network. The method may include generating a porosity report for the cell layout, and the porosity report may list the available sites as modifiable to enhance power grid porosity of the cell layout.
US11449114B2	Voice activated device with integrated heatsink and speaker Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for voice activated devices with integrated heatsinks and speakers. In one embodiment, an example voice activated device may include a housing having an upper portion and a lower portion, a speaker housing coupled to the lower portion, where the speaker housing and the lower portion together form a sealed chamber, a heatsink coupled to the lower portion and disposed in the sealed chamber, and a first speaker coupled to the speaker housing and partially disposed within the sealed chamber, where the first speaker is oriented to output audio towards the upper portion of the housing.
US11449113B2	Power supply combination having heterogeneous power supplies A power supply combination comprises two multi-voltage power sources having respective power rails delivering power at a first voltage and respective power rails delivering power at a second voltage. The power supply combination also comprises two single-voltage power sources having respective power rails delivering power at the first voltage. A first power combining circuit is electrically connected to the first voltage power rails of two multi-voltage power sources and to the two single-voltage power sources and delivers power at the first voltage to a first voltage input of a load. A second power combining circuit is electrically connected to the second voltage power rails of the two multi-voltage power sources and delivers power at the second voltage to a second voltage input of the load. A power supply network may connect a plurality of power supply combinations to a power management unit for reporting failures of the power sources.
US11449096B2	Foldable display device A foldable display device is provided, which includes a foldable body, a flexible display panel, and a keyboard film. The keyboard film is housed on one side of the foldable body when not in use, and it can be flipped to one side of the flexible display panel away from the foldable body to match a virtual keyboard area to realize a function of simulating a feel of an external physical keyboard. Therefore, work efficiency of the foldable display device in a notebook mode as well as portability are improved.
US11449080B2	UAV flight management planner A computing system obtains asset information, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) information, and regulation information, and determines, based on the obtained information, a 3-D global asset-inspection plan including a plurality of UAV route segments and respective UAV launch locations.
US11449077B2	Method and computing system for identifying incorrect aircraft alignment A method, computing system and computer program product are provided to identify the alignment of an aircraft with an incorrect surface, such as a taxiway or a runway that is closed or unsuited for current conditions. In a method, the trajectory of an aircraft approaching an airport is determined. Based upon the trajectory and information regarding a configuration of the airport, the method determines whether the aircraft is approaching the incorrect surface. If the aircraft is approaching the incorrect surface, the method interacts via an interface to cause an alert to be issued. If the aircraft is approaching a correct surface, the method determines whether the trajectory of the aircraft is consistent with predefined procedures of the airport. If the trajectory of the aircraft is inconsistent with predefined procedures of the airport, the method interacts via the interface to cause the alert to be issued.
US11449075B2	Apparatus for controlling platooning of vehicle, system including the same, and method thereof An apparatus for controlling platooning of a vehicle includes a processor configured to share platoon line information between platooning groups, determine whether it is necessary to overtake a forward platooning group, calculate an expected time taken to overtake, and adjust and share vehicle speeds of the forward platooning group to be overtaken and a platooning group to overtake, based on the expected time taken to overtake and a storage storing the platoon line information.
US11449071B2	System and method of robot control A system includes: a receiving unit configured to wirelessly receive a modulated electromagnetic signal leaked by a mains power line, the mains power line carrying a modulated alternating current signal, a demodulator configured to demodulate the modulated electromagnetic signal and extract one or more data signals from the demodulated electromagnetic signal, a processor configured to generate control data based on the one or more data signals, a control unit configured to control one or more actuators based on the control data, a processor configured to generate control data for controlling one or more actuators, and a modulator configured to modulate an alternating current signal of a mains power line using the generated control data to create a modulated alternating current signal, thereby causing the mains power line to leak a modulated electromagnetic signal comprising the control data that is wirelessly detectable.
US11449069B2	Apparatus and method for beam scanner A beam scanner for use in conjunction with the operational guidance system of a vehicle. The beam scanner can be used as part of an electromagnetic signal transmit module or an electromagnetic signal receive module in either a transmissive or reflective mode. The beam scanner is a substantially transparent and partially conductive substrate plate having at least one generally planar face thereon with a series of particles affixed with said plate, each of said particles of an arbitrary size, and each of said particles possessing an induced dipole moment, and each of said particles in electrical contact with said partially conductive substrate plate.
US11449068B2	Mobile work machine state detection and visualization system A mobile work machine includes an operator compartment having an operator interface mechanism configured to receive operator input, a control system configured to generate a control signal to control the mobile work machine in an unmanned operation mode, a machine state detection system configured to detect a machine state of the mobile work machine in the unmanned operation mode, and a visualization system configured to control a visual indicator mechanism in the operator compartment to generate a visual indication of the detected machine state.
US11449063B1	Obstacle recognition method for autonomous robots A method for identifying objects for autonomous robots, including: capturing, with an image sensor disposed on an autonomous robot, images of a workspace, wherein a field of view of the image sensor captures at least an area in front of the autonomous robot; obtaining, with a processing unit disposed on the autonomous robot, the images; generating, with the processing unit, a feature vector from the images; comparing, with the processing unit, at least one object captured in the images to objects in an object dictionary; identifying, with the processing unit, a class to which the at least one object belongs; and executing, with the autonomous robot, instructions based on the class of the at least one object identified.
US11449062B1	Data processing systems and methods for providing relocation alerts A data processing and relocation alerts system for processing data and provided relocation alerts is provided. The data processing and relocation alerts system includes at least one processor in communication with at least one database. The at least one processor is programmed to: (i) store profile data for registered users including at least a user identifier, contact data, at least one asset identifier, and an asset location; (ii) receive geographical location data for an impact area; (iii) store the impact area location data in the database; (iv) compare the impact area location data to the registered user profile data to identify the at least one registered asset located within the impact area; (v) retrieve contact information of impacted registered users based on the comparison; (vi) identify at least one safe area for relocation of the at least one registered asset; (vii) transmit a relocation alert using the contact information.
US11449060B2	Vehicle, apparatus for controlling same, and control method therefor A control apparatus for performing travel control of a vehicle comprises a sensor configured to detect a state around the vehicle, and a travel controller configured to perform travel control for automated driving based on a detection result of the sensor. The travel controller is configured to, in a case where a predetermined condition is satisfied, select a target stop position located in a latitudinal direction with respect to a direction in which the vehicle moves, according to selection criteria, and to stop the vehicle at the target stop position. The selection criteria include a comparison between a speed of the vehicle and a threshold speed.
US11449059B2	Obstacle detection for a mobile automation apparatus Obstacle detection for a mobile automation apparatus is provided. The mobile automation apparatus includes a structured light camera positioned on a support structure to detect at least a top of a shopping cart in a region adjacent to the mobile automation apparatus. The mobile automation apparatus can include other structured light cameras. Furthermore, one or more ultrasound arrays are used as secondary obstacle detector such that when the one or more ultrasound arrays detect an object, and at least one structured light camera simultaneously does not detect the object, an obstacle avoidance protocol is implemented.
US11449058B2	Traveling track determination processing and automated drive device A traveling track determination device includes an ECU. The ECU calculates a second course target point, and determines a future traveling track for the vehicle at right/left turn using a first straight line that extends from the vehicle through an intersection in a forward direction, a second straight line that extends along a second course through the second course target point and intersects with the first straight line in the intersection, and a curved track configured of a quadratic Bézier curve.
US11449047B2	Systems and methods for retraining a model a target variable in a tiered framework A method for operating an industrial automation system may involve receiving, via a first module of a plurality of modules in a control system, an indication that an error between a measurement associated with a target variable that corresponds with at least a portion of the industrial automation system and a modeled value for the target variable. The method may then involve determining, via the first module, whether the error is within a first range of values and retraining a model used to generate the modeled value for the target variable based on a portion of a plurality of sets of data points acquired via a plurality of sensors disposed in the industrial automation system in response to the error being within the first range of values.
US11449044B2	Successive maximum error reduction A real-time control system includes a fault detection training technique to implement a data-driven fault detection function that provides an operator with information that enables a higher level of situational awareness of the current and likely future operating conditions of the process plant. The fault detection training technique enables an operator to recognize when a process plant component is behaving abnormally to potentially take action, in a current time step, to alleviate the underlying cause of the problem, thus reducing the likelihood of or preventing a stall of the process control system or a failure of the process plant component.
US11449040B2	Cleaning device for display panel A cleaning device for a display panel is configured with a sensor corresponding to a water jet nozzle, and a control switch which suspends an operation of the device when the water jet nozzle is detected as working abnormally, thereby preventing abnormal products from being produced due to the failure of finding an abnormal condition of the water jet nozzle in time, ensuring the normal process of the product, and preventing the nonessential economic loss.
US11449035B2	Information processing device and information processing method An information processing device is connected to a measurement device provided in the vicinity of a machine tool for machining a workpiece using a tool and a numerical control device configured to control the machine tool. The information processing device includes: a display unit configured to display information; a first acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the measurement device, measurement information measured by the measurement device; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire, from the numerical control device, state information indicating a state of the machine tool; and a display control unit configured to cause the display unit to display the measurement information and the state information.
US11449034B2	MIMO different-factor compact-form model-free control The invention discloses a MIMO different-factor compact-form model-free control method. In view of the limitations of the existing MIMO compact-form model-free control method with the same-factor structure, namely, at time k, different control inputs in the control input vector can only use the same values of penalty factor and step-size factor, the invention proposes a MIMO compact-form model-free control method with the different-factor structure, namely, at time k, different control inputs in the control input vector can use different values of penalty factors and/or step-size factors, which can solve control problems of strongly nonlinear MIMO systems with different characteristics between control channels widely existing in complex plants. Compared with the existing control method, the inventive method has higher control accuracy, stronger stability and wider applicability.
US11449030B2	Solid shape information generation system, solid shape forming apparatus, solid shape information generation method and program There is provided a solid shape information generation system to form a solid shape object suitable to cultivate a plant. The solid shape information generation system includes a forming information generator that generates forming information to form a solid shape object used to cultivate a plant using a first material and a second material based on information representing the solid shape object and form an area where at least the plant is sown using the first material whose tensile strength is lower than that of the second material; and an output unit that outputs the forming information for a solid shape forming unit to form the solid shape object.
US11449025B2	Unique UDTs to exploit the power of the connected enterprise Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating message sessions. In one implementation, a method for building a type-based reporting model associated with an industrial automation environment includes interrogating a system control to acquire a data structure programmed therein, wherein the data structure includes properties of a component of the industrial automation environment. The method also includes correlating the data structure to a type package object, and generating a model object based on the correlation of the data structure to the type package object, the model object configured to visually display the properties of the component on a report.
US11449022B2	Building management system with integration of data into smart entities A building management system includes an entity database, a software defined gateway, and an entity service. The entity database stores a plurality of interconnected smart entities including object entities representing a plurality of physical devices, people, or spaces and data entities representing data associated with the plurality of physical devices, people, or spaces. The smart entities are interconnected by relational objects indicating relationships between the object entities and the data entities. The software defined gateway is configured to receive information technology (IT) data and operational technology (OT) data from a plurality of different data sources. The entity service is configured to create a new smart entity in the entity database or update an existing smart entity in the entity database using the IT data and the OT data. The new or existing smart entity includes one or more first attributes having values derived from the IT data and one or more second attributes having values derived from the OT data.
US11449020B2	Ceiling fan that controls thermostat based on presence information A ceiling fan comprising an image capture device. The image capture device operable to capture one or more images depicting at least a portion of a room or area in which the ceiling fan is located.
US11449015B2	Building management system with artificial intelligence for unified agent based control of building subsystems A building management system with artificial intelligence based control of a building includes data collectors are configured to receive data and generate data streams for subsystems of the building. The system includes a learning engine configured to identify a building state of the building by correlating data of the data streams for the subsystems and provide the identified building state to cognitive agents. The system includes the cognitive agents, each of the cognitive agents configured to receive the identified building state from the learning engine, generate a control decision based on the received building state, and operate at least one of the plurality of subsystems of the building to control a physical condition of the building based on the control decision.
US11449011B2	Optical device for a timepiece A timepiece glass, in particular a watch glass, wherein it comprises an optical device comprising at least one lens intended to enlarge an indication supplied by a timepiece, said lens comprising at least one aspherical face comprising at least one section passing through a vertical plane comprising an optical axis of vertical direction z, of which at least one outline can be defined by the following equation: z ⁡ ( r ) = r 2 R ⁡ ( 1 + 1 - ( 1 - κ ) ⁢ ⁢ r 2 R 2 ) + α 4 ⁢ r 4 + α 6 ⁢ r 6 + … in which R is the nominal radius of curvature, k is the constant of conicity, and α(4,6, . . . ) is or are coefficient(s) of asphericity, and in which at least the constant of conicity k and/or at least one coefficient of asphericity is different from zero.
US11449007B2	Wearable device with bezel ring to enable motion in multiple degrees of freedom A wearable device and a method for performing one or more actions using a wearable device are disclosed. The wearable device includes a bezel ring, a watch dial a flexible ring, and a plurality of springs. The bezel ring includes a plurality of holes along a circumference of the bezel ring for placement of a plurality of magnets. The watch dial includes an outer periphery with another plurality of holes at a uniform distance. The watch dial also includes an inner periphery to house inertial sensors at a predetermined position. The flexible ring placed in between an inner surface of the bezel ring and the watch dial. A plurality of springs are placed within the other plurality of holes of the outer periphery of the watch dial. The bezel ring is configured to support at least one of tilting, shifting and rotation over the watch dial.
US11449003B2	Position adjustment in holographic sight A holographic sight comprises a base, a support member attached to the base and extending upward therefrom, and a unitary optical component carrier formed with the support member. The support member is flexible and the unitary optical component carrier moveable in horizontal and vertical directions relative to the base. A bridge is attached to the base and forms an opening into which a portion of the unitary optical component carrier extends. A projection is coupled with the bridge and protrudes into the opening to abut the unitary optical component carrier. Extending the projection into the opening increases pressure applied by the projection to the optical component carrier. The increased pressure causes the unitary optical component carrier to be displaced.
US11449002B2	Image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a heating device including a heater, a developing device, and an airflow generation device. The heater includes a base, a heat generator, an electrode portion, and conductive portions. The conductive portions are disposed on one side and another side in a longitudinal direction in a heat generation region and spaced apart in a lateral direction intersecting the longitudinal direction. A maximum total value among total values of squares of current flowing in the conductive portions at longitudinal positions on the one side is larger than that on said another side. The developing device includes a rotating member and sliding portions. A sliding portion having highest temperature in operation is disposed on one side of the developing device being same as the one side of the heater in the longitudinal direction. The airflow generation device generates an airflow toward the one side of the developing device.
US11448991B2	Image forming apparatus that obtains color misregistration amount using detection result of test image An image forming apparatus includes a detecting unit configured to detect a test image formed on an image carrier; and an obtaining unit configured to obtain a color misregistration amount using a detection result of the test image by the detecting unit. The test image includes one or more basic patterns; each one of the one or more basic patterns includes a first pattern group and a second pattern group disposed at different positions with respect to a conveyance direction of the image carrier; the first pattern group and the second pattern group each include a plurality of V-shaped patterns; and the V-shaped patterns of the first pattern group and the second pattern group have an axisymmetrical shape about an axis corresponding to a width direction orthogonal to the conveyance direction.
US11448990B2	Image forming apparatus, method of controlling same, and storage medium An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device to form an image on a sheet, and an image reading device to read an image from the sheet. A processing unit causes the image forming device to perform a predetermined image formation to form a first image for position correction of an output image and a second image for tone correction. A value of the position correction is obtained, based on a read image, and a tone correction value is obtained based on a read image from a second image sheet.
US11448979B2	Discharge device, particle manufacturing apparatus, and particle A discharge device is provided. The discharge device includes a liquid feed-discharger, and the liquid feed-discharger includes a feed unit configured to feed a liquid and a discharge unit having discharge holes configured to discharge the liquid fed by the feed unit. A ratio (X/Y) of a maximum cross-sectional area X (mm2) to a minimum cross-sectional area Y (mm2) of the liquid feed-discharger in a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the liquid feed-discharger is from 1 to 5.
US11448978B2	Contamination handling for semiconductor apparatus The present disclosure describes a lithography apparatus comprising a photoresist coating unit configured to perform one or more coating processes on a substrate. The lithography apparatus further comprises a detection unit configured to determine a contamination level of a contaminant from the one or more coating processes adheres on a sidewall of the lithography apparatus. The lithography apparatus further comprises a controller unit configured to adjust one or more operations of the lithography apparatus based on a comparison between the contamination level and a baseline cleanliness requirement of the lithography apparatus.
US11448976B2	Substrate holder for use in a lithographic apparatus A substrate holder, for a lithographic apparatus, having a main body, a plurality of support elements to support a substrate and a seal unit. The seal unit may include a first seal positioned outward of and surrounding the plurality of support elements. A position of a substrate contact region of an upper surface of the first seal may be arranged at a distance from the plurality of support elements sufficient enough such that during the loading/unloading of the substrate, a force applied to the first seal by the substrate is greater than a force applied to the plurality of support elements by the substrate. A profile of the contact region, in a cross section through the seal, may have a shape which is configured such that during the loading/unloading of the substrate, the substrate contacts the seal via at least two different points of the profile.
US11448974B2	Metrology parameter determination and metrology recipe selection A method of determining a patterning process parameter from a metrology target, the method including: obtaining a plurality of values of diffraction radiation from the metrology target, each value of the plurality of values corresponding to a different illumination condition of a plurality of illumination conditions of illumination radiation for the target; and using the combination of values to determine a same value of the patterning process parameter for the target.
US11448969B2	Illumination optical system, exposure apparatus, and article manufacturing method An illumination optical system of the present invention includes a first lens array FE including a plurality of lens cells dividing a light flux emitted from a light source into a plurality of light fluxes, a second lens array MLAi including lens cells on which spot lights exiting from the lens cells included in the first lens array FE are condensed, and a first optical member IL3 imaging the spot light, which has been condensed on the lens cell included in the second lens array MLAi, on one of optical modulation elements constituting an optical modulation unit.
US11448967B2	Target formation apparatus A system for an extreme ultraviolet light source includes a capillary tube, the capillary tube including a sidewall extending from a first end to a second end, the sidewall including an exterior wall and an interior wall, the interior wall defining a passage that extends from the first end to the second end; an actuator configured to be positioned at the exterior wall of the capillary tube; and an adhesive between the exterior wall and the actuator, the adhesive being configured to mechanically couple the actuator and the capillary tube, wherein the adhesive occupies a volume that remains substantially the same or expands as a result of curing.
US11448961B2	Iodonium salt, resist composition, and pattern forming process A novel carboxylic acid iodonium salt and a resist composition comprising the same as a quencher are provided. When resist composition is processed by photolithography using KrF or ArF excimer laser, EB or EUV, there is formed a resist pattern which is improved in rectangularity, MEF, LWR, and CDU.
US11448957B2	Pellicle transfer apparatus and method A pellicle transfer apparatus includes; a base including supporting a target plate, a pellicle and a flexible plate sequentially stacked on the base, and a roller unit laterally movable in a first direction across the base and including a lower roller extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and an upper roller above the lower roller and extending in the second direction, wherein the lower roller compresses the flexible plate while the roller unit laterally moves in the first direction across the base to bond the pellicle to the target plate, as the pellicle is separated from the flexible plate, and the flexible plate moves upward to wrap around the lower roller, and the upper roller contacts the flexible plate as it wraps around the lower roller.
US11448955B2	Mask for lithography process and method for manufacturing the same A mask includes a substrate, a light-reflecting structure, a patterned layer, and a plurality of bumps. The substrate has a first surface and a second surface. The light-reflecting structure is located on the first surface of the substrate. The patterned layer is located on the light-reflecting structure. The bumps are located on the second surface of the substrate. The bumps define a plurality of voids therebetween and protrude in a direction away from the second surface of the substrate.
US11448946B2	Mounted projection system An interaction module includes a housing for holding a projector to project an image onto a working surface and an optical scanning device for scanning a gesture in the region of the image, and a mounting plate configured for fastening to an underside of an object attached above the working surface. The mounting plate is configured for attachment of the housing on a side of the mounting plate which side faces away from the object.
US11448940B1	Filter holder device and kit A filter holder device for a camera is disclosed that includes a frame having a first side surface, a second side surface, and an opening generally located in the center of the frame, a first filter housing present on the first side surface of the frame opening, and a second filter housing present on the second side surface of the frame opening. The first filter housing may include two housing sections configured to create one or more paired parallel slots. Each of the one or more paired parallel slots may be configured to hold in place a filter that is quadrilateral in shape. Each of the one or more paired parallel slots may include a tension spring.
US11448939B2	Efficient spectrum-spanning terahertz frequency synthesis via dielectric structure with nonlinear medium It remains a challenge to generate coherent radiation in the spectral range of 0.1-10 THz (“the THz gap”), a band for applications ranging from spectroscopy to security and high-speed wireless communications. Here, we disclose how to produce coherent radiation spanning the THz gap using efficient second-harmonic generation (SHG) in low-loss dielectric structures, starting from an electronic oscillator (EO) that generates coherent radiation at frequencies of about 100 GHz. The EO is coupled to cascaded, hybrid THz-band dielectric cavities that combine (1) extreme field concentration in high-quality-factor resonators with (2) nonlinear materials enhanced by phonon resonances. These cavities convert the input radiation into higher-frequency coherent radiation at conversion efficiencies of >103%/W, making it possible to bridge the THz gap with 1 W of input power. This approach enables efficient, cascaded parametric frequency converters, representing a new generation of light sources extensible into the mid-IR spectrum and beyond.
US11448928B2	Display panel and method of manufacturing the same A display panel includes a first base substrate, a second base substrate facing the first base substrate, an insulating structure including a non-pad portion having an end aligned with a side surface of the second base substrate and a pad portion having an end laterally recessed from the side surface of the second base substrate, a pixel overlapping a display area and disposed between the first and second base substrates, a signal line on the first base substrate and connected to the pixel, and a connection pad including a portion disposed in a connection region defined between the side surface of the second base substrate and the end of the pad portion. The signal line overlaps the pad portion. The connection pad is in contact with the signal line. The insulating structure is disposed between the first and second base substrates and overlaps a non-display area outside the display area.
US11448924B2	Light control device comprising a transparent adhesive layer covering a sheet edge face of a light control sheet and method for producing the same A light control device includes a first transparent coating substrate having a first bonding surface, a second transparent coating substrate having a second bonding surface, a light control sheet located between the first and second bonding surfaces, and a transparent adhesive layer that joins the first and second bonding surfaces together around the light control sheet. The light control sheet includes a first transparent electrode film, a second transparent electrode film, and a liquid crystal layer including a liquid crystal composition that fills space between the first transparent electrode film and the second transparent electrode film. The light control sheet has a sheet edge face, and the transparent adhesive layer covers the sheet edge face and has a water absorption rate of 2% or less in accordance with a method of JIS K 7209:2000 A.
US11448922B2	Polymer stabilized vertical alignment liquid crystal display panel and method of manufacturing same A polymer stabilized vertical alignment liquid crystal display (PS-VA LCD) panel and a method of manufacturing same. The PS-VA LCD panel includes a first substrate; a second substrate; a crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a plurality of vesicles disposed around the crystal layer, wherein the vesicles includes a plurality of free radical inhibitors; and a sealant using for encapsulating the liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US11448918B2	Grating device, screen including the grating device, method of manufacturing the screen and display apparatus for augmented reality and/or virtual reality including the screen Provided are a grating device, a screen including the grating device, a method of manufacturing the screen, and a display apparatus including the screen. The grating device includes a transparent substrate and a diffraction grating arranged on the transparent substrate, the diffraction grating includes a plurality of meta-diffraction patterns, and each meta-diffraction pattern has a curved shape with a center of curvature provided in a direction parallel to the substrate. The screen includes a first polarizer, a second polarizer arranged next to the first polarizer, and a diffraction grating that is transparent to polarized light that has passed through the second polarizer and reflects polarized light having a polarization direction perpendicular to the polarized light, wherein the diffraction grating includes a plurality of meta-diffraction patterns, each meta-diffraction pattern having a curved shape with a center of curvature positioned in a travelling direction of incident light.
US11448917B2	Liquid crystal display device The liquid crystal display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal panel; a light control layer; and a surface light source device, wherein the liquid crystal panel includes: a liquid crystal cell; a viewer-side polarizing plate; and a back surface-side polarizing plate, wherein the light control layer includes a first transparent substrate; a first transparent electrode layer; a composite layer of a polymer matrix and a liquid crystal compound; a second transparent electrode layer; and a second transparent substrate, wherein the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate each independently have a thickness of 70 μm or less, wherein the first transparent substrate and the second transparent substrate each independently have a front retardation at a wavelength of 590 nm of 100 nm or less, wherein the surface light source device is configured to emit light which has directivity in an approximately normal direction of the light emitting surface.
US11448916B2	Smart glass and light adjusting method thereof, light adjusting device and non-transitory computer storage medium The present disclosure provides a smart glass and a light adjusting method, a light adjusting device and a non-transitory computer storage medium. The smart glass includes a first glass module, a touch control layer and a control unit. The first glass module includes a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to each other, and a first light adjusting layer between the first and second substrates. The light transmittance of the first light adjusting layer is adjusted by an electric field between the first substrate and the second substrate. The touch control layer is provided in at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate. The control unit is electrically coupled to the touch control layer to receive a touch control signal output by the touch control layer and adjust the electric field between the first substrate and the second substrate according to the touch control signal.
US11448914B2	Method of manufacturing electronic module, method of manufacturing optical module, electronic module, optical module, and device A method of manufacturing an electronic module that comprises preparing an electronic device in which a first substrate and a second substrate have been joined and coupling the electronic device to a package member. The first substrate includes a front surface, a back surface on an opposite side of the front surface, and a first side surface between an edge portion of the front surface and an edge portion of the back surface. The package member includes a first portion that includes an opening and a second portion that is arranged at a position which does not overlap the opening. The coupling includes bringing the first side surface into contact with the second portion in a state in which the second substrate is positioned between the first portion and the first substrate, and fixing the package member and the electronic device.
US11448907B2	Bonded bodies for optical modulators, optical modulators and a method of producing bonded bodies for optical modulators A bonded body for an optical modulator includes a supporting substrate, an optical waveguide material provided on the supporting substrate and composed of lithium niobate, lithium tantalate and lithium niobate-lithium tantalate, and an optical waveguide in the optical waveguide material. The supporting substrate is composed of a material selected from the group consisting of magnesium oxide and a magnesium-silicon composite oxide.
US11448905B2	Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing semiconductor device A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a substrate, an active layer provided on the substrate, a cladding layer provided on the active layer, a contact layer provided on the cladding layer, the contact layer having an upper surface, a back surface which is a surface on an opposite side to the upper surface, and a side surface connecting the upper surface and the back surface, the contact layer is larger in width than the cladding layer; and an electrode that is in contact with the upper surface of the contact layer and the side surface of the contact layer from an upper end to a lower end of the side surface of the contact layer.
US11448903B2	Method for correcting centering parameters and/or an axial position and corresponding computer program and methods Methods and devices for correcting centering parameters and/or an axial position of a spherocylindrical refraction on the basis of a habitual head position are disclosed. A representation of the head of a user in a head posture or a representation of the head with a spectacle frame in a spectacle frame alignment are displayed. To correct the spectacle parameter based on a corrected head posture and/or a corrected spectacle frame alignment, the corrected head posture and/or the corrected spectacle frame alignment is determined by at least partially manually correcting a head posture in the displayed representation of the head and/or of the spectacle frame alignment in the displayed representation of the head with the spectacle frame. A representation of the head of a user is shown on a display, thereby allowing intuitive adjustment of a habitual head position.
US11448894B2	Imaging device including shake correction mechanism, and operation method and operation program thereof A lens interchangeable digital camera includes an image sensor in which a subject image is formed on an imaging surface through an imaging optical system including a zoom lens and a sensor movement type shake correction mechanism that performs a sensor movement operation of moving the image sensor in a direction to cancel a shake. A zoom operation determination unit determines whether or not a zoom operation in which the zoom lens moves is being performed. In a case where the zoom operation determination unit determines that the zoom operation is being performed, an operation deciding unit prohibits a shift operation which is at least a part of a sensor movement operation which is allowed while the zoom operation is stopped.
US11448893B2	Zoom optical system, optical apparatus and method for manufacturing the zoom optical system A zoom optical system (ZL) includes: a first lens group (G1) having negative refractive power; a second lens group (G2) having positive refractive power, the second lens group (G2) being disposed further toward an image than the first lens group (G1); and a succeeding lens group (GL) having a vibration-isolating group (GVRb) that moves so as to have a displacement component in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis, the succeeding lens group (GL) being disposed further toward the image than the second lens group (G2), a distance between the first lens group (G1) and the second lens group (G2) changing and a distance between the second lens group (G2) and the succeeding lens group (GL) changing upon zooming, and the following conditional expression being satisfied: 4.899≤\|f1VRaw/fw\|<1000.000 where f1VRaw is a composite focal length in a wide-angle end state of a lens disposed further toward the object than the vibration-isolating group, and fw is a focal length of the whole system in the wide-angle end state.
US11448890B1	Common aperture optical system and selective imaging method The present disclosure provides an optical system. In one aspect, the optical system includes a plurality of imagers configured to emit an electromagnetic radiation, a plurality of optical sensors configured to receive the electromagnetic radiation from the imagers, and a beam splitting device disposed at an optical path between the imagers and the optical sensors. In one example, the beam splitting device is a multi-way beam splitter configured to receive the electromagnetic radiation from one of the imagers and separate the received electromagnetic radiation into a plurality of portions, each separated portion of the received electromagnetic radiation being directed to one of the optical sensors.
US11448876B2	Method of manufacturing a height-modulated optical diffractive grating The invention concerns a method of manufacturing a height-modulated optically diffractive grating. The method comprises providing a substrate and manufacturing a plurality of temporary elements of first material onto the substrate, the elements being separated by gaps and arranged as a periodic structure comprising at least two periods having different element heights. A coating layer of second material is deposited on the plurality of temporary elements such that the coating layer fills said gaps and covers said temporary elements. Then, a uniform layer of the second material is removed in order to expose said temporary elements and the first material is removed in order to form a height modulated pattern of the second material onto the substrate as the optically diffractive grating. The invention relaxes manufacturing constraints when manufacturing gratings with locally varying diffraction efficiency.
US11448871B2	Micromechanical device having a structure tiltable by a quasi-static piezoelectric actuation and having stiffening elements A micromechanical device includes a fixed structure, a mobile portion rotatable about a first rotation axis, and a first actuation structure arranged between the fixed structure and the mobile portion to enable rotation of the mobile portion about the first rotation axis. The mobile portion includes a supporting structure, a tiltable platform rotatable about a second rotation axis, transverse to the first rotation axis, and a second actuation structure coupled between the tiltable platform and the supporting structure. Stiffening elements are arranged between the supporting structure and the fixed structure. The micromechanical device may be used within a pico-projector.
US11448869B2	Wafer A wafer includes a substrate layer, a first mirror layer having a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged first mirror portions, and a second mirror layer having a plurality of two-dimensionally arranged second mirror portions. A plurality of Fabry-Perot interference filter portions are formed in an effective area, in each of the plurality of Fabry-Perot interference filter portions a gap is formed between the first mirror portion and the second mirror portion. A plurality of dummy filter portions are formed in a dummy area disposed along an outer edge of the substrate layer and surrounding the effective area, in each of the plurality of dummy filter portions an intermediate layer is provided between the first mirror portion and the second mirror portion. At least the second mirror portion is surrounded by the first groove in each of the plurality of Fabry-Perot interference filter portions and the plurality of dummy filter portions.
US11448862B2	Zoom lens and imaging apparatus including the same A zoom lens L0 includes a first lens unit L1 having a positive refractive power, a second lens unit L2 having a negative refractive power, a third lens unit L3 having a positive refractive power, an intermediate lens group LM including a plurality of lens units, and a last lens unit LR having a negative refractive power. An interval between the adjacent lens units changes during zooming. The zoom lens L0 includes an aperture stop SP. The intermediate lens group LM includes a negative lens unit LN having a negative refractive power. Both the negative lens unit LN and the last lens unit LR move to an object side during zooming from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end. The zoom lens L0 satisfies predetermined conditional inequalities.
US11448856B2	Converter lens, interchangeable lens, and image pickup apparatus A converter lens includes three or more negative lenses and increases the focal length of an entire system, in which an average refractive index Ndave at the d-line (wavelength of 587.56 nm) of a material of all the negative lenses included in the converter lens is defined.
US11448853B2	Shape memory alloy actuators and methods thereof SMA actuators and related methods are described. One embodiment of an actuator includes a base; a plurality of buckle arms; and at least a first shape memory alloy wire coupled with a pair of buckle arms of the plurality of buckle arms. Another embodiment of an actuator includes a base and at least one bimorph actuator including a shape memory alloy material. The bimorph actuator attached to the base.
US11448852B2	Optical element driving mechanism An optical element driving mechanism includes a fixed portion, a movable portion, a moving portion, a first driving assembly and a second driving assembly. The movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion. The moving portion is connected to an optical element having an optical axis, and is movable relative to the movable portion. The first driving assembly drives the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion; and the second driving assembly drives the moving portion to move relative to the movable portion.
US11448851B2	Lens driving device, camera device and electronic apparatus A lens driving device is described that includes a housing, a spacer, a lens supporting body, a coil, a magnet, and a base. The lens supporting body is disposed on the base, the spacer is disposed within the housing, and the housing covers the spacer, the lens supporting body, the coil and the magnet, and is connected to the base. The lens driving device further includes at least three elastic pieces. The at least three elastic pieces are respectively disposed on the base and the spacer and are connected to the base and the lens supporting body.
US11448846B2	Fiber routing systems The present disclosure relates to structures and configurations for breaking out fibers from cables and/or securing the ends of protective mesh sleeves to other structures such as brackets, cables and trays/cassettes. The mesh sleeves can be adapted to protect optical fibers that pass therethrough. In one example, a mesh sleeve can be secured to another structure by an anchor including a reinforcing insert that fits in the mesh sleeve and a clamping housing that mounts over the mesh sleeve.
US11448844B2	Frame assemblies for optical fiber distribution elements A mounting system for latching a cable management structure to a telecommunications fixture includes a first locking feature on the management structure defining first and second hook-like members separated apart, each defining a vertical slide portion and a larger vertical retention portion, the first locking feature including an elastically flexible latch between the first and second hook-like members. A second locking feature defining first and second slots is located on a planar wall of the telecommunications fixture, wherein the first and second slots define a receiver portion and a retention portion, the receiver portion for accommodating the retention portion of the hook-like members and the retention portion for accommodating the slide portion of the hook-like members, the second locking feature also defining a latch opening. The cable management structure also defines curvature that provides bend radius protection along at least two perpendicular planes.
US11448837B2	Anti-cross-lighting structure The present disclosure discloses an anti-cross-lighting structure. The anti-cross-lighting structure includes a support frame, a plurality of light-guiding elements located beside the support frame, and a shielding piece mounted on the support frame. The light-guiding elements are arranged on a same side of the support frame and forms at least one group. The shielding piece wraps over the light-guiding elements. The shielding piece includes a number of middle blocking portions. Each middle blocking portion isolates the light-guiding elements which are adjacent to each other. The anti-cross-lighting structure of the present disclosure effectively avoids the cross-lighting phenomenon and also has a stable structure.
US11448836B2	Probe device and test device including the same comprising an optical fiber inserted into a hole of an intermediate substrate having a probe mirror A probe device includes an optical fiber array including an optical fiber to be in optical communication with an optical integrated circuit board, the optical integrated circuit board including an optical coupling element and a reflection mirror, a base substrate fixing the optical fiber, and an intermediate substrate including a hole into which the optical fiber is inserted, and a probe mirror to reflect an optical signal between the reflection mirror and the optical coupling element.
US11448835B2	Fiber optic connector with releasable pull/push tab with securing protrusions A fiber optic connector having a push/pull tab wherein the push/pull tab travel is limited by an internal stop to release a connector from a receptacle, and the push/pull tab is releasably secured from connector. The push/pull tab has a plural of securing protrusions that secure the tab to the connector housing.
US11448833B2	Angle polishing systems and methods for multi-ferrule optical connectors Systems and methods for angle polishing of the end faces of a plurality of optical connectors are provided. Systems are provided that include a connector defining a longitudinal axis, and at least two ferrules mounted with respect to the connector and arranged in a side-by-side orientation. The end faces of the connectors are movable relative to the connector and such movement facilitates lateral orientation of the angle polished end faces of the ferrules relative to the connector when in the mating position. Various mechanisms and methods for facilitating movement of the ferrules relative to the connector are disclosed to achieve the desired lateral polish orientation of the ferrule end faces.
US11448826B2	Wavelength demultiplexing device in particular for out-of-plane demultiplexing A wavelength demultiplexing device configured so as to spatially distributing the spectral contributions of an incident light beam, when in use, and which includes a linear waveguide and a planar waveguide, formed in a coplanar way and adapted to be optically coupled with one another along a coupling line, by evanescent coupling. Such a device may further include diffraction gratings located in the planar waveguide, to extract light out of the latter.
US11448825B2	Methods for forming side-pumped optical fiber combiners A method for forming a side-pumped optical fiber combiner includes ablating a cladding of a signal fiber to form an angled notch in the cladding. The signal fiber includes a core and the cladding surrounding the core. The method further includes inserting a cladding-free end of a pump fiber into the angled notch. The pump fiber includes a core and a cladding, the cladding-free end including the core of the pump fiber and free from the cladding of the pump fiber. The method further includes fusing the cladding-free end to the signal fiber.
US11448824B2	Devices with semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterials A hyperbolic metamaterial assembly comprising alternating one or more first layers and one or more second layers forming a hyperbolic metamaterial, the one or more first layers comprising an intrinsic or non-degenerate extrinsic semiconductor and the one or more second layers comprising a two-dimensional electron or hole gas, wherein one of in-plane or out-of-plane permittivity of the hyperbolic metamaterial assembly is negative and the other is positive.
US11448823B1	Method, system, and apparatus for a LiDAR sensor with a large grating A method and apparatus for scanning a scene.
US11448822B2	Silicon-on-insulator chip structure with substrate-embedded optical waveguide and method Disclosed is a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) chip structure with a substrate-embedded optical waveguide. Also disclosed is a method for forming the SOI chip structure. In the method, an optical waveguide is formed within a trench in a bulk substrate prior to a wafer bonding process that results in the SOI structure. Subsequently, front-end-of-the-line (FEOL) processing can be performed to form additional optical devices and/or electronic devices in and/or above the silicon layer. By embedding an optical waveguide within the substrate prior to wafer bonding as opposed to forming it during FEOL processing, strict limitations on the dimensions of the core layer of the optical waveguide are avoided. The core layer of the substrate-embedded optical waveguide can be relatively large such that the cut-off wavelength can be relatively long. Thus, such a substrate-embedded optical waveguide brings different functionality to the SOI chip structure as compared to FEOL optical waveguides.
US11448816B2	Optical systems including light-guide optical elements with two-dimensional expansion An optical system including a light-guide optical element (LOE) with first and second sets (204, 206) of mutually-parallel, partially-reflecting surfaces at different orientations. Both sets of partially-reflecting surfaces are located between parallel major external surfaces. A third set of at least partially-reflecting surfaces (202), deployed at the coupling-in region, receive image illumination injected from a projector (2) with an optical aperture having a first in-plane width and direct the image illumination via reflection of at least part of the image illumination at the third set of at least partially-reflective facets towards the first set of partially-reflective facets with an effective optical aperture having a second width larger than the first width.
US11448814B2	Light control film with turning film and lenticular diffuser for view enhancement in the horizontal plane An optical system comprises a turning film and a lenticular diffuser. The lenticular diffuser comprises a structured surface comprising a plurality of microstructures comprises a plurality of lenticular prisms separated by substantially flat land areas, the lenticular prisms having a rounded tip and two sides comprising a linear base section and a linear tip section connected by a polynomial blend section.
US11448805B2	Optical member, method of manufacturing optical member, and image display system An optical member includes a light-transmissive substrate, which includes a substrate surface, and reflecting surfaces located inside the substrate and configured to reflect at least a portion of incident light. At least a portion of the reflecting surfaces is inclined relative to the substrate surface so as to collect at least a portion of the incident light.
US11448795B2	Enhanced inversion imaging Data filtering and processing techniques for generating improved wellbore resistivity maps are contemplated. In some aspects, a process of the disclosed technology includes steps for receiving a plurality of measurement sets, wherein each measurement set includes electromagnetic field data associated with a geologic formation, performing an inversion on each of the plurality of measurement sets to generate a corresponding plurality of formation profiles, and applying a filter to each of the formation profiles to generate a plurality of profile clusters. In some aspects, the process can further include steps for selecting a representative cluster from among the profile clusters for use in generating a wellbore resistivity map. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US11448793B2	Method and apparatus for locating non-visible objects Non-visible objects which differ in their physical properties from their surroundings by association with a variable strength magnetic field may be detected by a suitable array of sensors which can be moved relative to the object in question. By analyzing the signals from the plurality of the sensors in the array, the position of the object can be deduced relative to the array and the array moved to enable a machining guide thereon to be aligned with the non-visible object. The system is of particular value in locating apertures in wing spars when attempting to fix the skin of the wing on to them where it is important to be able to locate the correct point at which to drill a hole through the skin to coincide with the hole in the spar. By defining a magnetic field in the vicinity of the hole to identify the hole magnetically and using an array of magnetic field sensors in a base with an aperture, it is possible to shift the array so that the aperture is precisely aligned with the non-visible hole.
US11448786B2	Anisotropic media for full transmission of obliquely incident elastic waves An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides an anisotropic medium for full transmission of obliquely incident elastic waves considering a longitudinal wave and a shear wave by using an anisotropic medium designed to fully transmit elastic waves in a desired mode when elastic waves are obliquely incident to a boundary of different media. The anisotropic medium for fully transmitting an obliquely incident elastic wave according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: an incident medium to which an incident elastic wave including a longitudinal wave and a shear wave, and being obliquely incident with a predetermined incidence angle, is incident and reflected; a transmission medium to which a transmitting elastic wave including a longitudinal wave and a shear wave is transmitted; and an anisotropic medium, installed between the incident medium and the transmission medium, for blocking reflection of a predetermined reflecting elastic wave as a predetermined full transmission condition is satisfied, and fully transmitting a transmitting elastic wave in a predetermined type of full transmission, wherein the full transmission condition includes a phase matching condition based on a wavenumber relationship of an eigenmode in the anisotropic medium, and a polarization matching condition based on a relationship between a polarization vector and an amplitude of the eigenmode.
US11448782B2	Radiation imaging apparatus, radiation imaging system, and control method for radiation imaging system A plurality of radiation imaging systems each comprises a radiation imaging apparatus and a control apparatus. The radiation imaging apparatus comprises a communication unit configured to transmit apparatus information for identifying an apparatus to the control apparatus of the radiation imaging system as a movement destination, a display unit configured to display a name and a state of the radiation imaging apparatus, and a display control unit configured to control the display unit. The control apparatus comprises a search unit configured to search for apparatus information usable in the radiation imaging system as the movement destination based on the transmitted apparatus information, a decision unit configured to decide, based on a result of the search, a name to be assigned to the radiation imaging apparatus, and a communication unit configured to transmit the name to the radiation imaging apparatus.
US11448778B2	Neural network-based corrector for photon counting detectors A neural network based corrector for photon counting detectors is described. A method for photon count correction includes receiving, by a trained artificial neural network (ANN), a detected photon count from a photon counting detector. The detected photon count corresponds to an attenuated energy spectrum. The attenuated energy spectrum is related to characteristics of an imaging object and is based, at least in part, on an incident energy spectrum. The method further includes correcting, by the trained ANN, the detected photon count to produce a corrected photon count. The method may include reconstructing, by image reconstruction circuitry, an image based, at least in part, on the corrected photon count.
US11448765B2	Adaptive filtering method of photon counting lidar for bathymetry An adaptive filtering method of photon counting Lidar for bathymetry is provided in this invention, which includes steps: step S1: adaptively acquiring parameters of elliptic filtering for water surface photon signals; step S2: determining a relationship between filter parameters and elevation of underwater photon signals, and obtaining parameters of the elliptic filtering for photon signal in water column; and step S3: filtering and fitting the water surface photon signals and the underwater photon signals to acquire continuous bathymetry results.
US11448763B2	Crosswind speed measurement by optical measurement of scintillation The present disclosure describes methods and systems for measuring crosswind speed by optical measurement of laser scintillation. One method includes projecting radiation into a medium, receiving, over time, with a photodetector receiver, a plurality of scintillation patterns of scattered radiation, comparing cumulative a radiation intensity for each received scintillation pattern of the received plurality of scintillation patterns, and measuring a cumulative weighted average cross-movement within the medium using the compared cumulative radiation intensities.
US11448757B2	Distance measuring device In a distance measuring device that measures a distance to an object using a round-trip time of light, a solid-state image sensor includes a plurality of pixel groups capable of being exposed independently, and causes each of the plurality of pixel groups to receive, at a different exposure time, reflected light from the object that is originally pulsed radiation light from a light emitter. A light emission and exposure controller cyclically and intermittently exposes each of the plurality of pixel groups of the solid-state image sensor at the different exposure time to obtain pixel signals of types corresponding to a time difference between the reflected light and the radiation light, and a signal processor obtains information about the distance to the object according to pixel signals of adjacent pixels exposed at different exposure times for each of the plurality of pixel groups.
US11448756B2	Application specific integrated circuits for LIDAR sensor and multi-type sensor systems The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for configuring architectures for a sensor, and more particularly for light detection and ranging (hereinafter, “LIDAR”) systems based on ASIC sensor architectures supporting autonomous navigation systems. Effective ASIC sensor architecture can enable an improved correlation between sensor data as well as configurability and responsiveness of the system to its surrounding environment and avoid any unnecessary delay within the decision-making process that may result in a failure of the autonomous driving system. It may be essential to integrated multiple functions within an electronic module and implement the functionality with one or more ASICs.
US11448750B2	Sensor cluster device and vehicle including the same A sensor cluster device including a radar sensor configured to emit electromagnetic waves onto an object and receive the electromagnetic waves reflected from the object so as to acquire information on the object, a lidar sensor configured to emit laser beams onto the object and receive the laser beams reflected from the object so as to acquire information on the object, a camera sensor configured to capture an image of surroundings of the object and acquire information from the captured image, and an infrared sensor configured to detect heat radiated from peripheral objects in the surroundings of the object to acquire the object and the peripheral objects.
US11448738B2	Light detection and ranging signal correction methods and systems A system and method for correcting a Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) return signal is disclosed. The LiDAR return signal is digitized by a converter. An exemplary signal correction system includes a signal processor configured to identify saturated samples from the LiDAR return signal, determine a correction parameter based on non-saturated samples in the LiDAR return signal and corresponding samples in a reference signal, and correct the saturated samples in the LiDAR return signal using the correction parameter.
US11448737B2	Miniature solid-state laser radar and data processing method therefor A miniature solid-state laser radar and a data processing method therefor. The miniature solid-state laser radar includes a laser emitter (1), an imaging lens (2), an imaging sensor (3), and a control and data processing apparatus (4). The laser emitter (1) is used to emit linear laser; the imaging lens (2) is used to collect reflected laser light and image same on the imaging sensor (3); the imaging sensor (3) receives light focused through the imaging lens and images the same; and the control and data processing apparatus (4) is used to control working of the laser emitter (1), receive imaging data from the imaging sensor (3), run a structural light algorithm, and finally acquire point cloud data in a space environment.
US11448736B2	Switchable coherent pixel array for frequency modulated continuous wave light detection and ranging A LIDAR transceiver includes an input port, optical antennas, an optical switch, splitters, and mixers. The optical switch switchably couples an input port to the optical antennas. For at least one optical path from the input port to one of the optical antennas, a splitter is coupled along the optical path. The splitter splits a received portion of a laser signal into a local oscillator signal and a transmit signal and outputs a return signal that is a portion of the reflected signal. The transmit signal is emitted through the optical antenna and a reflection of the transmit signal is received through the optical antenna as a reflected signal.
US11448735B2	LiDAR with malfunction detection In one embodiment a LIDAR can comprise two similar photodetector arrays and a malfunction indicator circuit operable to generate a malfunction signal when a measure of difference between range data from similar directions reported by each of the photodetectors exceeds a threshold value. A challenge associated with LIDARs is malfunction detection and failsafe operation in the event of a malfunction. Embodiments provide for two photodetectors in a shared remote ranging subassembly to address the challenges of malfunction detection. The two photodetector arrays can each receive light reflections from overlapping angular ranges in one or more FOVs (e.g. transferred using CFOBs) and thereby function to provide redundancy and confirmation of reflection distances. Within embodiments a reflection splitter can serve to uniformly distribute laser reflections from a common field of view among two photodetectors, thereby providing each with a half-resolution image for range comparison.
US11448728B2	Method, apparatus, and system for sound sensing based on wireless signals Methods, apparatus and systems for sound sensing based on radio signals are described. In one example, a described system comprises: a transmitter configured to transmit a first wireless signal through a wireless channel of a venue; a receiver configured to receive a second wireless signal through the wireless channel, wherein the second wireless signal comprises a reflection of the first wireless signal by at least one object in the venue; and a processor. The processor is configured for: obtaining a time series of channel information (CI) of the wireless channel based on the second wireless signal, determining a presence of a vibrating object in the venue based on the time series of CI (TSCI), extracting a sound signal from the TSCI, and reconstructing at least one speech based on the sound signal.
US11448722B2	Apparatus, system and method of communicating radar signals For example, an apparatus may include a radar antenna including at least one Transmit (Tx) antenna to transmit a Tx radar signal; and a plurality of Receive (Rx) antennas to receive Rx radar signals based on the Tx radar signal, wherein a distance between a first Rx antenna of the planarity of Rx antennas and a second Rx antenna of the plurality of Rx antennas, which is adjacent to the first Rx antenna, is at least ten times a wavelength of a central frequency of the Tx radar signal.
US11448715B2	Permanent magnet system and method of forming thereof There is provided a method of forming a permanent magnet system, the method including: determining one or more types of geometrical parameters for forming an array of magnet ring pairs including a first subarray of first magnet rings and a second subarray of second magnet rings spaced apart from the first subarray of the first magnet rings along a longitudinal axis; and forming the array of magnet ring pairs based on the determined one or more types of geometrical parameters, whereby the above-mentioned determining one or more types of geometrical parameters for forming the array of magnet ring pairs is based on a genetic algorithm. There is also provided a corresponding permanent magnet system, such as formed by the method.
US11448712B2	Multi-channel atomic magnetic detector Disclosed is a multi-channel atomic magnetic detector (100), including at least one detection assembly, with each detection assembly including a plurality of detection air chambers (130) in the same plane and a light-splitting member (110) for allocating polarized beams from a light source (180) to each detection air chamber (130) in the detection assembly, wherein the plurality of detection air chambers (130) of each detection assembly are arranged in a centrally symmetric manner or an axially symmetric manner relative to the light-splitting member (110). The multi-channel atomic magnetic detector (100) has a high detection density and is beneficial for noise reduction.
US11448704B2	Parameter estimation device, parameter estimation method, and computer program A parameter estimation device configured to estimate a parameter of an equivalent circuit model of a secondary battery includes: a voltage acquisition unit configured to acquire a voltage of the secondary battery in a time-series manner; a current acquisition unit configured to acquire a charge/discharge current of the secondary battery in a time-series manner; an estimation unit configured to estimate the parameter on the basis of the voltage acquired by the voltage acquisition unit and the charge/discharge current acquired by the current acquisition unit; and a prohibition unit configured to prohibit the estimation of the parameter performed by the estimation unit, on the basis of the charge/discharge current acquired by the current acquisition unit or the voltage acquired by the voltage acquisition unit.
US11448702B2	Charging method for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell and charging system for nonaqueous electrolyte secondary cell A method for charging a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a first charging step of charging a first capacity Q1st at a first constant current value I1st, the first capacity Q1st including a capacity range in which dQSi/dQ is more than or equal to a predetermined threshold value, a second charging step of charging a second capacity at a second constant current value more than the first constant current value, a detection step of acquiring at least one of dV/dQ and dQSi/dQ, and a changing step of changing at least one of the timing of switching between the first charging step and the second charging step and the first constant current value I1st on the basis of a change in time of dV/dQ or dQSi/dQ.
US11448690B2	Screening method and apparatus for detecting deep trench isolation and SOI defects A testing method and apparatus is disclosed for testing an integrated circuit device (100) which has a dedicated ground bias pad (121) connected across a high voltage electrostatic discharge clamp circuit (123) to a well-driving ground pad (122) by applying a first voltage to the dedicated ground bias pad to bias a wafer substrate (101) while simultaneously applying a second voltage to the well-driving ground pad to bias the well region (103), where the first and second voltage create a stressing voltage across a buried insulator layer (102, 105) in the integrated circuit device so that a screening test can be conducted to screen for a defect (106) in the buried insulator layer by measuring a leakage current.
US11448687B2	Method and apparatus for detecting an electrical fault in a printed circuit board A method and apparatus for detecting an electrical fault in a printed circuit board includes a first conductive layer interconnecting a set of electrical components, a second conductive layer connected to an electrical ground, a set of fuses arranged about the printed circuit board, and a fault detection circuit electrically connected to the printed circuit board.
US11448681B2	Insulation monitoring circuit for motor controller An insulation monitoring electric circuit of an electric-motor controller, includes: a first voltage sampling circuit and a second voltage sampling circuit; the first voltage sampling circuit is connected to an input anode (+VBUS) of a busbar, an input cathode (PGND) of the busbar and a busbar-voltage sampled-signal (HV_VDC) line, and a busbar-voltage sampled-signal (HV_VDC) line is connected to the electric-motor controller; the second voltage sampling circuit is connected to the input anode (+VBUS) of the busbar, the input cathode (PGND) of the busbar and an insulation-voltage sampled signal (HV_VDC) line, and an insulation-voltage sampled signal (HV_VISO) line is connected to the electric-motor controller; and the electric-motor controller is configured to compare a busbar-voltage value gathered by the first voltage sampling circuit and an insulation-voltage value gathered by the second voltage sampling circuit, and when the busbar-voltage value and the insulation-voltage value are different, emit an insulation monitoring alarming signal.
US11448679B2	System and method for testing a tractor trailer A system and method for testing a tractor trailer is disclosed. The system includes a housing having connections for establishing an electrical and pressure connection to the electrical system and ABS of a tractor trailer, respectively, a circuit board that generates electrical signals and pressure signals corresponding to the connections, an electronic device for displaying the electrical signals and pressure signals, a wireless transceiver for transmitting the electrical signals and pressure signals to the electronic device, and a memory for storing the transmitted electrical signals and pressure signals. The method includes connecting the tractor trailer electrical system and ABS connections to the housing, powering on the tractor trailer, querying an electrical signal and/or pressure signal of the electrical system and ABS, wirelessly transmitting the electrical signal and/or pressure signal to an electronic device, and displaying the electrical signal and/or pressure signal on the electronic device.
US11448676B2	Spin-based electrometry with solid-state defects Sensing the electric or strain field experienced by a sample containing a crystal host comprising of solid state defects under a zero-bias magnetic field can yield a very sensitive measurement. Sensing is based on the spin states of the solid-state defects. Upon absorption of suitable microwave (and optical) radiation, the solid-state defects emit fluorescence associated with hyperfine transitions. The fluorescence is sensitive to electric and/or strain fields and is used to determine the magnitude and/or direction of the field of interest. The present apparatus is configured to control and modulate the assembly of individual components to maintain a zero-bias magnetic field, generate an Optically Detected Magnetic Resonance (ODMR) spectrum (with or without optical excitation) using appropriate microwave radiation, detect signals based on the hyperfine state transitions that are sensitive to electric/strain fields, and to quantify the magnitude and direction of the field of interest.
US11448674B2	System and method for detection of contact with a test strip using capacitive sensing An analyte test meter that detects contact between a user and an electrochemical test strip includes a test strip port, a capacitive sensor positioned proximate to the test strip port, and a controller connected to the test strip port and the capacitive sensor. The controller is configured to identify insertion of the electrochemical test strip into the test strip port, apply a drive signal to the capacitive sensor, measure a first response to the drive signal from the capacitive sensor, identify dosing of a fluid sample on the electrochemical test strip, apply the drive signal to the capacitive sensor after the dosing, measure a second response to the drive signal from the capacitive sensor, and detect contact between a body of a user and at least one electrode in the electrochemical test strip in response to a difference between the first and second responses exceeding a predetermined threshold.
US11448672B2	Smart energy meter housing A meter case used with a utility meter is disclosed. The meter shell includes a plurality of snap fit joints assembled on the meter case arranged to engage a module cover to mount the module cover to the meter shell. The module cover further includes wire housing formed along an inner periphery of the module cover that houses a wire having a first end and a second end therein. A metal shield placed behind the meter shell is electrically coupled to a first connector. A terminal electrically connected to the metal shield is arranged to discharge current to ground. An electrical contact electrically coupled to the second end of the wire is arranged to engage the first connector to establish an electrical connection to the metal shield for the discharge to ground of electrostatic currents sensed by wire.
US11448664B2	Large radius probe A large radius probe for a surface analysis instrument such as an atomic force microscope (AFM). The probe is microfabricated to have a tip with a hemispherical distal end or apex. The radius of the apex is the range of about a micron making the probes particularly useful for nanoindentation analyses. The processes of the preferred embodiments allow such large radius probes to be batch fabricated to facilitate cost and robustness.
US11448662B2	Sensing device and sensing system for human-powered devices using the same A sensing device has a strain gauge device, an idler, and a connecting rod assembly. The sensing device receives a mechanical force to generate a deformation accordingly, and generates a sensing signal according to the deformation. The idler is a ring body which has a ring contracting portion contacting a transmission belt, so as to receive the mechanical force which the transmission belt applies on the idler. A first end of the connecting rod assembly is connected to the strain gauge device via a rod slot which is located on a side of the strain gauge device, and a second end of the connecting rod assembly is pivotally connected to the idler via a pivot connecting portion of the idler, such that the mechanical force which the idler suffers can be transmitted to the strain gauge device.
US11448660B2	Ferrite core coil device, sensor device for determining rotational speed of a rotatable object with such a ferrite core coil device and turbocharger with such a sensor device A ferrite core coil device as a sensing element for a sensor device determining a rotational speed of a metallic rotatable object includes a coil having a first sector and a second sector and a ferrite core holding the coil. The ferrite core has a shape of a disk lacking a disk sector and defined by a contour of the disk and a chord of the disk. The chord forms a bending edge of the ferrite core. The first sector of the coil is not arranged on a bed of the ferrite core and the second sector of the coil is arranged on the bed. The first sector is bent around the bending edge at a bending angle with respect to the second sector.
US11448659B2	AMR speed and direction sensor for use with magnetic targets A movement sensor comprises a multi-pole ring magnet, a semiconductor substrate, a first magnetic sensor formed on the semiconductor substrate, and a second magnetic sensor formed on the semiconductor substrate. The first magnetic sensor is configured to produce a first output signal in response to movement of the multi-pole ring magnet, and a centroid of the first and second magnetic sensors are separate and radially aligned on the semiconductor substrate relative to the multi-pole ring magnet. The second magnetic sensor is arranged at a predetermined angle with respect to the first magnetic sensor and is configured to produce a second output signal in response to the movement of the multi-pole ring magnet. The predetermined angle is between 0° and 90° exclusive and is configured to produce a difference in phase between the first and second output signals in response to the movement of the multi-pole ring magnet.
US11448657B2	Methods and kits for assessing Heparanase procoagulant activity, compositions comprising Heparanase, and methods for the treatment of coagulation-related disorders The present invention relates to an inhibitory peptide capable of disrupting a Heparanase/Tissue Factor complex. The invention further provides methods and kits for determining heparanase procoagulant activity in a biological sample. The invention also relates to diagnostic methods for the detection and/or monitoring of a coagulation-related pathologic disorder in a mammalian subject. The invention further relates to compositions comprising heparanase and at least one tissue factor, uses and methods based thereon in the treatment, amelioration and prevention of coagulation-related pathologic conditions. The invention still further relates to methods for screening a coagulation modulatory compound, methods and uses based thereon in the treatment, amelioration and prevention of coagulation-related pathologic conditions.
US11448654B2	Protein-protein interaction assessed by detecting localized coiled coil subunits The invention is a novel reporter system for measuring protein-protein interactions. The system uses a pair of functionalized coiled coil subunits that spontaneously form two separate homo-oligomers when expressed in cells. The coiled coil subunits are functionalized with fluorescent proteins and complementary interacting proteins. Upon an activation stimulus which promotes the protein-protein interaction, the interacting proteins drive the formation of multivalent aggregates of the homo-oligomers in phase-shifted droplets. The highly concentrated fluorescent proteins in these structures provide high brightness over background fluorescence and a readily observed, quantitative and dynamic indicator of the protein-protein interaction. The reporters and assay methods are amenable to cells and whole organisms.
US11448646B2	Isolating a target analyte from a body fluid The invention generally relates to using magnetic particles and magnets to isolate a target analyte from a body fluid sample. In certain embodiments, methods of the invention involve introducing magnetic particles including a target-specific binding moiety to a body fluid sample in order to create a mixture, incubating the mixture to allow the particles to bind to a target, applying a magnetic field to capture target/magnetic particle complexes on a surface, and washing with a wash solution that reduces particle aggregation, thereby isolating target/magnetic particle complexes.
US11448643B2	Methods to specifically profile protease activity at lymph nodes In some aspects, the disclosure provides compositions and methods for detecting and monitoring the activity of pro teases in vivo using affinity assays. The disclosure relates, in part, to the discovery that biomarker nanoparticles targeted to the lymph nodes of a subject are useful for the diagnosis and monitoring of certain medical conditions (e.g., metastatic cancer, infection with certain pathogenic agents).
US11448638B2	Current measurement device and current measurement method using nanopore Provided are a first tank; a second tank; a thin film having a nanopore, which communicates the first tank to the second tank, and disposed between the first and second tanks; a first electrode provided in the first tank; and a second electrode provided in the second tank. A wall surface of the nanopore has an ion adsorption preventing structure to prevent desorption/adsorption of an ion contained in a solution filling the first tank and/or the second tank, and a voltage is applied between the first and second electrodes to measure an ion current flowing through the nanopore.
US11448634B2	Analysis apparatus, stratum age estimation apparatus, analysis method, stratum age estimation method, and program An analysis apparatus (100) includes an image acquisition unit (110) and an analysis unit (120). The image acquisition unit (110) acquires image data of a microfossil in a sample collected from a stratum. The analysis unit (120) analyzes the image data acquired by the image acquisition unit (110) using a machine learning result to analyze a taxon or kind of the microfossil in the image data.
US11448631B2	Plant monitoring apparatus, plant monitoring method, and computer-readable recording medium A plant monitoring apparatus 100 includes: a soil state estimation unit 200 that estimates a state of soil by, with use of frequency association information calculated based on vibration measured via the soil, referencing soil state estimation information in which the frequency association information and information indicating states of the soil are associated with soil states; and a plant state estimation unit 300 that estimates a state of a plant by, with use of growth association information that was calculated based on vibration of the plant and indicates growth of the plant, referencing plant state estimation information in which the growth association information and information indicating states of the plant above a plant soil surface are associated with plant states above the plant soil surface.
US11448630B2	Plant fluorometer for remote detection of growth dynamics An apparatus for remote detection of plant growth dynamics is described. The apparatus includes an excitation LED (light emitting diode) module, a detection module and a controller module coupled to the excitation LED module and the detection module. The excitation LED module includes at least one LED. Each LED is configured to emit an excitation light in response to an excitation control signal. The excitation light has an emitted light spectrum. The detection module includes a photodetector configured to detect an initial chlorophyll a fluorescence (“ChlF”) light and an excited ChlF light from a plant species. The photodetector is further configured to convert the detected initial ChlF light into an initial detection electrical signal and the detected excited ChlF light into an excited detection electrical signal. The excited ChlF light is emitted from the plant species in response to receiving the excitation light. The controller module is configured to provide the excitation control signal to the excitation module, to capture the initial and excited detection electrical signals from the detection module and to determine chlorophyll fluorescence data based, at least in part, on the initial and excited detection electrical signals. The excitation LED module and the detection module are configured to be positioned remotely from the plant species. The chlorophyll fluorescence data represents a growth characteristic of the plant species.
US11448627B2	Device and method for characterizing catalytic processes Methods of catalytic process characterization using a reaction system having two or more reaction strands in a parallel arrangement, wherein each reaction strand has multiple series-connected reaction chambers or a single reaction chamber. Each reaction strand is supplied with a reactant stream subjected to process stages. Product streams discharged from the reaction strands are subjected to an analytical characterization, wherein the data achieved in the characterization are expressed in relative terms including the forming of a difference.
US11448624B2	Ionization probe connection jig, liquid chromatograph, and liquid chromatograph mass spectrometer An ionization probe connection jig used to connect an outlet-side flow path of a column 113 and an inlet-side flow path of an ionization probe 211 in a liquid chromatograph, the ionization probe connection jig includes: a first element fixture 10 fixed to a first element 113 that is one of the column 113 and the ionization probe 211; a second element fixture 20 fixed to a second element 211 that is the other; and a movement regulating tool 30 that permits the first element fixture 10 to advance in an axial direction of the first element 113 while regulating the first element 113 or the first element fixture 10 and the second element 211 or the second element fixture 20 such that flow paths of the first element 113 and the second element 211 are matched with each other, and regulates the second element fixture 20 such that the second element fixture 20 does not retreat beyond a predetermined position in a axial direction of the second element 211.
US11448615B2	Ion transport device, ion mobility spectrometer, and mass spectrometer The invention relates to an ion transport device which is designed to transport ions by means of an electric field. The ion transport device has an ion transport channel in which an ion transport chamber is formed. In order to generate the electric field, the ion transport device has a plurality of field generating electrodes which are arranged one behind the other along the length of the ion transport channel in order to move ions through the ion transport chamber in a transport direction. The invention additionally relates to an ion mobility spectrometer and to a mass spectrometer.
US11448608B2	Systems, tools, and methods for determining a fluid property based on EPR spectroscopy on an induced paramagntic response from a fluid In an embodiment is provided a method of determining at least one property of a fluid that includes inducing a paramagnetic response from at least one diamagnetic species flowing through a system, the fluid including the at least one diamagnetic species; performing electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy on at least a portion of the fluid to generate an EPR spectrum; and determining at least one property of the fluid based on the EPR spectrum. In another embodiment is provided a method of determining at least one property of a first fluid that includes introducing an inhibitor composition to a first fluid flowing through a system to form a second fluid; performing EPR spectroscopy on at least a portion of the second fluid to generate an EPR spectrum; and determining at least one property of the second fluid based on the EPR spectrum. Apparatus for determining fluid properties are also provided.
US11448604B2	System and method for inspecting fused plastic pipes A method and apparatus for testing a fuse between two plastic pipes without destroying the fuse is performed in the field. The method and apparatus include a source of X-ray radiation and a scanning plate that has pixels that change state when exposed to this radiation. The source of the X-ray radiation is positioned on one side of the fuse and the scanning plate is positioned on another side so that the x-ray radiation passes through the fuse. The x-ray image from the scanning plate makes visible internal voids, weak fuses, and evidence of movement after the plastic of the fitting/pipes melted and flowed together. With such, the quality of the fitting is evident without cutting or otherwise destroying the fitting and, therefore, only weak or otherwise compromised fittings need be cut and redone.
US11448601B2	Method and system for obtaining information from a sample A method and a system for obtaining information from a sample. The system may include (i) a spatial filter that includes a blocking element and an aperture; (ii) an illumination unit; and (iii) an optical unit that includes an optical objective assembly. The illumination unit may be configured to illuminate the optical objective assembly with oblique radiation. The optical objective assembly may be configured to (a) focus the oblique radiation onto the sample, (b) collect radiation from the sample to provide collected radiation, and (c) reflect the oblique radiation to provide back reflected radiation. The optical unit may be configured to (a) focus the collected radiation to provide focused collected radiation, (b) direct the focused collection radiation towards the aperture, (c) focus the back reflected radiation to provide focused back reflected radiation, and (d) direct the focused back reflected radiation towards the blocking element.
US11448600B1	Multi-camera pipe inspection apparatus, systems and methods Camera heads including multiple imaging elements with overlapping Fields of View (FOV) for inspecting pipes or cavities are disclosed.
US11448584B2	Quick release coupon holder system A quick release corrosion coupon holder system comprising a shaft and a clip configured to pivot between open and closed positions to securely hold an end of a corrosion coupon. Preferably, no nuts, bolts, or removable parts are required to install or remove a coupon from the holder. Preferably a spring is disposed between the shaft and clip with one or more attached legs or a separate pin configured to secure the clip to the shaft and act as a fulcrum. An optional inwardly extending projection may be inserted through an aperture on the coupon. An optional spacer creates a gap between the shaft and clip to accommodate the thickness of a coupon. Preferably a lip and shoulder pair on the clip and an opposing lip and shoulder pair on the shaft contact front and back surfaces of the coupon, limiting contact surface area between the holder and coupon.
US11448582B2	Method and system for non-intrusively determining properties of deposit in a fluidic channel A method is provided for non-intrusively determining deposits of a fluidic channel. The method includes creating a pressure pulse in a fluidic channel. The method also includes sensing, by one or more sensors, reflections of the pressure pulse; and obtaining, from the one or more sensors, a measured pressure profile based on the sensed reflections of the pressure pulse. A processor then can determine one or more properties of the deposit in the fluidic channel based on the measured pressure profile.
US11448580B2	Biodetector based on interference effect of thin film with ordered porous nanostructures and method for using same to detect biomolecules The present invention discloses a biodetector based on an interference effect of a thin film with ordered porous nanostructures. The biodetector includes a detection cell, a sensing unit disposed in the detection cell, and an optical fiber spectrometer for detecting reflectometric interference spectra of the sensing unit, wherein the sensing unit is an ordered porous thin film provided with three-dimensional ordered nanopores, and diameters of the nanopores are 20 nm-500 nm. The present invention further discloses a method for using the biodetector to detect biomolecules.
US11448574B2	Sensor device detecting specific component in gas A sensor device is equipped with a housing having an element cover retaining a sensor element such that a detection section of the sensor element is positioned at the tip end of the sensor element. The element cover includes an inner cover provided with inner side holes and an inner tip face hole respectively provided therein, and an outer cover provided with outer side holes in a side thereof, with the tip position of the outer side holes located closer to the tip end than is the tip position of the inner cover. Between the outer surface of the inner cover and the inner surface of the outer cover there is a large clearance section at the tip end and a small clearance section at the base end, providing a flow path that is shaped for connecting the large clearance section and the small clearance section without a step.
US11448566B2	Apparatus and method for testing drive shaft joints A first shaft segment and a second shaft segment are joined by a first fastener and a second fastener to form a shaft test assembly. The first shaft segment and the second shaft segment are each curved between first and second circumferential ends. A method of testing a shaft includes displacing a first applicator part relative a second applicator part to exert a load on the shaft test assembly. The resulting shear stress on the shaft test assembly can be measured to determine material properties of the shaft. A first applicator part extends at least partially into the shaft test assembly and interfaces with the first shaft segment to apply a load. A second applicator part extends at least partially into the shaft test assembly and interfaces with the second shaft segment to apply a load.
US11448561B2	Overload inhibiting torque meter Embodiments are directed to a drive shaft apparatus comprising a first rotary member and a second rotary member arranged coaxially with said first rotary member. The rotary members are fixedly connected at a first end so that they rotate together. Each rotary member has a set of elements spaced apart around its circumference at a second end. The elements on the first rotary member are spaced apart from the elements on the second rotary member at rest. The first rotary member undergoes torsion when a load is applied during rotation, which causes the first rotary member elements to move closer to the second rotary member elements. The first elements engage the second elements when a torque load less than a yield torque is applied to the first rotary member, which transfers at least a portion of the torque load to the second rotary member.
US11448560B2	Strain gauge and sensor module A strain gauge includes a flexible substrate, and a plurality of resistors each formed of a Cr composite film, on or above the substrate. The substrate is attached to a flexure element, the plurality of resistors including two resistors disposed at locations at which the two resistors are opposite to each other, such that the flexure element is interposed between the two resistors.
US11448556B2	Temperature sensing device and temperature sensing method A temperature sensing device and a temperature sensing method are provided. The temperature sensing device includes a sensor and an analog-to-digital converter. The sensor generates a first sensing result corresponding to an ambient temperature based on a first condition and generates a second sensing result corresponding to the ambient temperature based on a second condition. The second sensing result is different from the first sensing result. The analog-to-digital divides the first sensing result and the second sensing result to obtain a quotient value and generates an output digital code value corresponding to the ambient temperature according to the quotient value.
US11448552B2	Common-path cube corner interferometer and interference technique The present disclosure relates to a common-path cube-corner retroreflector interferometer with a large optical path difference and high stability, and an interference technique thereof. The interferometer adopts an asymmetric common-path beam splitting structure using right-angled cube-corner retroreflectors, comprising a semi-transmissive and semi-reflective beam splitter, a plane mirror, a first right-angled cube-corner retroreflector, a second right-angled cube-corner retroreflector and an optical path difference element. The incident light is divided into a first transmitted beam and a second reflected beam, which are respectively reflected by the plane mirror and the right-angled cube-corner retroreflectors several times and then split again, two beams of which become interference outputs along directions perpendicular to an incident direction of the incident light, and the other two beams become interference outputs along directions parallel to the incident light. The present disclosure also provides an interference technique based on the interferometer described above.
US11448551B2	Optical arrangement for a spectroscopic imaging method and spectroscopic imaging method In an embodiment an optical arrangement includes a multicore fiber having at least a first fiber core configured to guide a first illumination light and a second fiber core configured to guide a second illumination light, wherein the multicore fiber comprises a fiber scanner configured to deflect the multicore fiber or the multicore fiber is followed by a mirror scanner; and a wavelength dispersive beam combiner configured to spatially superimpose the first illumination light and the second illumination light in an object space.
US11448541B2	Manually-operated granular substance dispenser A dispenser includes a housing having an upper and a lower portion. The upper portion includes a storage compartment having a floor and retaining a granular substance. The lower portion includes a spout. A first outlet extends through the floor. A manually rotatable upper disc is disposed below the floor, and has a second outlet therethrough. A manually rotatable lower disc is disposed between the upper disc and the lower portion. The lower disc includes a third outlet therethrough. Rotation of the upper disc aligns the second outlet with the first outlet and the granular substance passes through the first to the second outlet. Rotation of the lower disc through one or more positions permits a variable amount of the granular substance to pass from the second to the third outlet. Further rotation of the lower disc aligns the third outlet with the spout to dispense the granular substance.
US11448540B2	High resolution elliptical gear flowmeter A flow meter, includes a casing, having a central cavity flow communication with an inlet and an outlet conduit; first and second toothed intermeshing oval gears, respectively rotatably supported in the central cavity via a primary support shaft and a secondary support shaft. The first oval gear has an upper surface provided with a protrusion and a magnet, with at least a portion of the magnet arranged within said protrusion, said magnet centered with respect to an axis of rotation of the first gear, and rotating concentrically with respect to the axis of rotation of the first gear; The flowmeter further includes a top cap having an interior cavity; in which a sensor is arranged, so that when the cap is placed on the casing of the flowmeter, the sensor or encoder is situated above the magnet of the first gear. The cap has a bottom surface with a zone of reduced thickness defining a lower recess arranged below the inner cavity of the cap, so that the projection of the first gear is received in the lower recess, so as to aligning and bring the magnet in close proximity with the sensor or encoder thereby avoiding pressure flexing.
US11448537B2	Ultrasonic flowmeter with vibration-resistant operating mode An ultrasonic flowmeter (USM) includes a meter body including a pipe section for flowing a fluid therethrough including a first and second ultrasonic transducer, top-works including a housing and a PCB, a controller coupled to the ultrasonic transducers through a transmitter and/or receiver, and an accelerometer and/or an acoustic sensor for sensing a vibration on the pipe section and for providing an output signal coupled to the controller. The electronics are communicatively coupled to the meter body and the housing is mechanically coupled to the meter body. The controller analyzes the output signal to identify ≥1 vibration frequency and compares the vibration frequency to a predetermined sensitive frequency range for the USM. When the vibration frequency is determined to be within the predetermined frequency range, the controller implements an anti-vibration operating mode by increasing a measurement time when measuring the fluid flow and/or adding additional data processing task(s).
US11448536B2	Measuring component concentrations of nonhomogeneous immiscible mixtures in multiphase flows using near-infrared (NIR) filter photometry Near-Infrared (NIR) filter photometry is used to calculate component concentrations in multiphase flows. The disclosed methodology adapts the Beer-Lambert law for nonhomogeneous immiscible mixtures (such as oil and water) by modeling the fluid layer as a nonhomogeneous distribution of its components and deriving a mathematical relationship between measured absorbances, component path lengths, and non-homogeneity factors. The methodology is integrated into a multi-channel filter photometer to measure phase concentrations in oil-and-gas pipelines. The system is proven more accurate than current state of the art based on data from simulations, multiphase flow laboratories and field trials.
US11448535B2	Flow rate calculation system, flow rate calculation system program, flow rate calculation method, and flow rate calculation device In order to accurately calculate an estimated flow rate by a dynamic constant volume method, a flow rate calculation system including a tank into which fluid flows, an inflow line through which the fluid flows into the tank, and a pressure sensor that detects the pressure inside the tank is adapted to include: a pressure change data storage part that stores pressure change data indicating a temporal change in the pressure detected by the pressure sensor during an inflow period; a flow rate calculation part that calculates the estimated flow rate during the inflow period based on a pressure change rate; and a flow rate correction part that, on the basis of first pressure detected by the pressure sensor after a predetermined time has elapsed after the inflow period and second pressure included in the pressure change data and higher than the first pressure, corrects the estimated flow rate.
US11448515B2	Methods and systems for a motor vehicle Methods and systems are provided for emissions reduction in a vehicle. In one example, a method includes pre-emptively adjusting engine operating parameters in response to an anticipated emissions causal event. The emissions causal event lasting for less than a threshold period of time or less than a threshold distance.
US11448512B2	Systems and methods for verifying mapping information Systems and methods for verifying mapping information are provided. In some aspects, a method includes receiving control data acquired in an area of interest, the control data comprising a plurality of control points, and receiving mapping data associated with the area of interest, the mapping data comprising a plurality of mapping points that correspond to the plurality control points. The method also includes applying a localization algorithm to the control data to generate a control track, and applying the localization algorithm to the mapping data to generate a mapping track. The method further includes comparing the control track and the mapping track to determine a difference.
US11448502B2	Positive-lock clamp / adapter A wheel clamp attaches to a vehicle wheel for performing a wheel alignment on the vehicle. The wheel clamp has a mechanism to mount on the studs of the wheel and to securely mount on the flat surface of the rim. The wheel clamp may have a retractable mechanism that while mounted on the wheel's stud, can slide along the length of the stud without the need to turn it using the threads of the stud. Different methods may be used to attach to the stud, such as by means of treading a device, using a contraction mechanism or magnetic attraction. The wheel clamp has a crossbar and mechanism for supporting a measuring sensor, head or target and can be accommodated to different sizes, shapes and patterns of wheels and studs in the automotive industry.
US11448490B2	Two-piece primer insert for polymer ammunition The present invention provides a multi piece primer insert for ammunition comprising an upper primer insert portion connected to a lower primer insert portion, wherein the upper primer insert portion comprises an upper primer bottom surface; an upper primer aperture through the upper primer bottom surface, and a substantially cylindrical coupling element extending away from the upper primer bottom surface, wherein the lower primer insert portion comprises: a lower primer bottom surface opposite a lower primer top surface, a primer recess in the lower primer top surface that extends toward the lower primer bottom surface and adapted to fit a primer, a lower flash hole aperture through the lower primer bottom surface, wherein the lower flash hole aperture is about the same diameter as the upper primer aperture; a middle flash hole aperture positioned between the upper primer aperture and the lower flash hole aperture, wherein the middle flash hole aperture has a diameter greater than the lower flash hole aperture at the junction of the upper primer insert portion the lower primer insert portion.
US11448488B2	Metal injection molded ammunition cartridge The present invention provides a metal injection molded ammunition cartridge comprising a metal injection molded bottom portion comprising a primer recess in communication with a primer flash hole that extends into a propellant chamber and a metal injection molded body extending form the metal injection molded bottom portion.
US11448479B1	Protection device for limbs of crossbow A protection device of a crossbow includes a protection coat that is mounted to the limb. The flexibility of the protection coat greater than the flexibility of the limb so that the protection coat is deformed with the limb when the limb is deformed. The protection coat absorbs vibration from the limb when the limb bounces back so as to protect the limb from being broken by reducing the vibration amplitude.
US11448462B2	Vibrating portable drainage system for bulk granular materials A plurality of modular units are connected together on a slightly sloped drainage field with a perforated header pipe at the lower side conveying water away from the drainage system. An impermeable flexible liner cushioned on both sides is located below the modular units. The modular units are each made up of rigid boxes that have connecting cross slots at the bottom thereof and vertical perforations there through. The rigid boxes are lined with a drainage fabric that is site specific and have an expanded geosynthetic material therein, which is held in place when filled with porous granular material. High flexural strength mats are connected together over the tops of the modular units. An air inlet pipe connects air to the cross slots, down the sloped drainage field, to the header pipe to drain water from the bulk granular material resting on the high flexural strength mats. Some of the modular units have a pneumatic vibrator connected to a source of pressurized air. The entire system may be quickly disassembled, moved to a different location, and reassembled with the number of modular units being changed according to the circumstances.
US11448454B2	Refrigerator A refrigerator includes an evaporator inclined in a left-right direction and a defrosting water tray provided below the evaporator to collect defrosting water, and having inclined surfaces corresponding to a shape of the evaporator.
US11448446B2	Ice crushing device and refrigerator An ice crushing device and a refrigerator are provided, the ice crushing device includes a housing assembly including a housing and an ice bucket supported in the housing; a driver for driving the ice bucket to rotate; an ice crusher disposed in the ice bucket; wherein the ice crusher includes an ice cutter shaft fixed with respect to the housing, and several movable ice cutters and several fixed ice cutters disposed on the ice cutter shaft at an interval, each movable ice cutter includes three blades evenly distributed in the circumferential direction, the ice crusher further includes three ice agitating rods connected to the ice cutter shaft, the three ice-agitating rods are fixed corresponding one to one with the three blades, and at least one of the blades or one of the ice agitating rods is fixed relative to circumferential direction of the ice bucket.
US11448440B2	Refrigerant cycle apparatus having refrigerant leak detector used to control first and second shutoff valves Excessive specifications of a shutoff valve leads to increase in production cost. An air conditioner configured to circulate a lower flammability refrigerant in a refrigerant circuit includes a first shutoff valve and a second shutoff valve configured to inhibit refrigerant leakage into a predetermined space. Each of the first shutoff valve and the second shutoff valve in a shutoff state has a shutoff leakage rate, as an air leakage rate in a case where fluid is air at 20° C. and a differential pressure between upstream and downstream of the valve is 1 MPa, more than 300 (cm3/min) and less than 300×R (cm3/min). R satisfies R = ( ρ md × V md × A d ) ⁢ / ⁢ ( C r × ( 2 × Δ ⁢ ⁢ P r ⁢ / ⁢ ρ 1 ⁢ rl ) 0.5 × A v × ρ 1 ⁢ rl + A v × ( 2 ⁢ / ⁢ ( λ + 1 ) ) ( ( λ + 1 ) ⁢ / ⁢ 2 ⁢ ( λ - 1 ) ) × ( λ × P 1 ⁢ r × ρ 1 ⁢ rg ) 0.5 ) .
US11448430B2	Heat pump and water heater An embodiment of the instant disclosure comprises a reversible heat pump and water heating system for conditioning a space and heating water. The system comprises a refrigerant circuit that includes a compressor, a source heat exchanger, a space heat exchanger, and an expansion device. A 4-way reversing valve alternates between heating and cooling modes of operation. The system includes a heat exchanger for heating water in the water heating loop, and a 3-way valve that either actuates the refrigerant flow through the water heater heat exchanger or bypasses at least a portion of the refrigerant flow around the water heater heat exchanger. The heat pump system is operable in at least five modes—space heating only, space cooling only, water heating only, and either space heating or space cooling combined with water heating. Use of a modulating 3-way valve allows the amount of the refrigerant flow through the water heating heat exchanger to be adjusted to precisely match space conditioning and water heating demands and stable operation of the heat pump system. Either of the space and source heat exchangers may be bypassed and deactivated to reduce the heat pump system power consumption.
US11448416B2	Heating and cooling system A heating and cooling system or temperature control system is disclosed herein that generally stores very hot air and very cold air, and selectively disperses or releases the hot or cold air using a control assembly.
US11448412B2	Air conditioner with an artificial intelligence Discussed is an air conditioner disposed in an indoor space. The air conditioner includes a sensor, a memory configured to store a plurality of learning results respectively corresponding to a plurality of members, and a processor configured to identify at least one member that is present in the indoor space among the plurality of members by using data acquired by the sensor, control operation of at least one of a compressor, a fan motor, or a vane motor based on the learning result corresponding to an identified member so as to adjust a set value including at least one of a set temperature, an air volume, or a wind direction, and update the learning results by using feedback on the adjusted set value.
US11448408B2	Multi-type air conditioner A multi-type air conditioner is provided that includes an outdoor unit having a liquid pipe through which a liquid refrigerant flows, and a gas pipe through which a gas refrigerant flows; a plurality of indoor units including a first indoor unit and a second indoor unit each connected to the liquid pipe and the gas pipe to circulate a refrigerant; a gas pipe connecting tube connecting the gas pipe and the plurality of indoor units so that a gas refrigerant flows therethrough; and a liquid pipe connecting tube connecting the liquid pipe and the plurality of indoor units so that a liquid refrigerant flows therethrough.
US11448406B2	Local thermal energy consumer assembly and a local thermal energy generator assembly for a district thermal energy distribution system A local thermal energy consumer assembly and a local thermal energy generator assembly to be connected to a thermal energy circuit comprising a hot and a cold conduit. The local thermal energy consumer assembly is connected via a flow controller to the hot conduit. The local thermal energy generator assembly is connected via a flow controller to the cold conduit. The flow controller is selectively set in pumping mode or a flowing mode based on a local pressure difference between heat transfer liquid of the hot and cold conduits.
US11448404B2	Toaster oven An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a toaster oven including: a cooking chamber; an air passage; and a fan. The cooking chamber includes a side wall and a top wall. One of the side wall and the top wall is provided with an air inlet in communication with a cooking space of the cooking chamber. The other of the side wall and the top wall is provided with an air outlet in communication with the cooking space. The air passage between the air inlet and the air outlet is disposed outside the cooking chamber. The fan blows air from the air inlet to the air outlet through the air passage.
US11448396B2	Transformable wick device and corresponding combustion device A transformable wick device includes a plurality of bodies connected together. The plurality of bodies has flexible connections, and therefore positionable along a line of various types.
US11448394B2	Boiler feed tank energy recapture system An apparatus and method for recovery of waste heat in a boiler system, wherein heat from the low pressure steam in the feed water tank, which otherwise would be lost through dissipation, is used for other applications. Particularly, the waste heat energy recovered in the form of low pressure steam can be used to heat make-up water for the boiler system.
US11448392B2	Blade assembly and fan display having the same A blade assembly and a fan display including the same. The blade assembly includes a circuit substrate provided in an elongated shape, a lamination board provided in an elongated shape and bonded to the circuit substrate by a laminating glue, and a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) light emitting units. A mounting hole is defined in the lamination board and passes through a thickness of the lamination board. The circuit substrate has a first side attached to the lamination board, the first side and the mounting hole jointly defining a mounting cavity, in which plurality of LED light emitting units are hermetically disposed in the mounting cavity, and are arranged at intervals along a length of the circuit substrate.
US11448389B1	Luminaires with modular heat spreader panels The present disclosure is directed to examples of a single modular heat spreader piece. In one example, the single modular heat spreader piece includes a body portion, wherein the body portion comprises a curved outer surface and a flange member coupled to a first side of the body portion, wherein the flange member has a curved outer edge, a connection member coupled to a second side of the body portion, wherein the second side of the body portion is opposite the first side, and a heat spreader member coupled to the second side of the body portion and on an opposite end of the body portion from the connection member.
US11448388B2	Vertical illumination device with lamp modules having nano-optical lenses structure with light source pre-configured to uniformly illuminate horizontal areas below An illumination device includes a support section, a heatsink coupled above the support section and including a plurality of flat vertical exterior surfaces, a driver housing coupled above the heat sink, a plurality of light source modules coupled to the exterior surfaces of the heatsink, and a plurality of nano-optical lenses coupled to the light source modules to direct light from the light source modules to sub-fields of illumination disposed horizontally below. The illumination device is mounted above ground and configured for uniformly illuminating the sub-fields of illuminations without direct glare.
US11448385B1	Rotatable light fixture mount system A rotatable connection for securing a light module to a supporting structure is described herein. The light module directs light towards an illumination area. The light module is directable by rotating the light module using the rotatable connection. The rotatable connection includes an upper connector and a base. The upper connector and the base may secure together with a tool-less connection. the upper connector couples to the light module through a rotatable connection that enables rotation of the light module without use of tools and also resists rotation of the light module after the light module has been installed at a particular angle.
US11448380B2	Light-emitting assembly with transparent nanostructured electrochromic polymer color filter A light-emitting assembly configured to generate varied color light includes an assembly housing. The light-emitting assembly also includes a light filter element fixed relative to the assembly housing. The light filter element includes a plurality of transparent nanostructured ElectroChromic (TNEC) layers. When at least one of the plurality of TNEC layers is subjected to voltage, the subject TNEC layer(s) imparts a distinct reflective color to ambient light entering the light-emitting assembly. Such a light-emitting assembly may be specifically adapted for use on a motor vehicle.
US11448367B2	Mycelium storage medium for use in storing hydrogen A pressure vessel for storing hydrogen is described. The pressure vessel includes at least one chamber to store hydrogen atoms. The pressure vessel also includes a mycelium structure within the at least one chamber. The mycelium structure has a surface area of at least 800 m2/m3. At least some of the hydrogen atoms are attached to the mycelium structure at a pressure greater than ambient pressure. Methods of storing hydrogen and methods of constructing a hydrogen storage tank are also described.
US11448360B1	Case mounted stand A system for mounting an inspection device to a case are provided. The system can include a case including a mounting base configured on a side of the case. The system can also include an adjustable stand removably coupled to the case via the mounting base. The adjustable stand can include a receiving portion removably coupled to the mounting base. The adjustable stand can also include a telescopic structure. The telescopic structure can have a plurality of segments. At least one segment can extend longitudinally from a second segment via at least one adjustment mechanism configured on the second segment. The adjustable stand can also include a device holder removably coupled to the second end of the telescopic structure. The device holder can be configured to removably couple with an inspection device. Apparatus and methods of mounting an inspection device to a case are also provided.
US11448356B2	Rotatable lockdown merchandise security apparatus An apparatus for securely displaying a product includes a cradle assembly including a base plate and a plurality of plates slidably engaged with the base plate, each plate of the plurality of plates including an arm to engage a respective side of the product, and a post supporting the cradle assembly, the post including first and second sections, one of the first and second sections being fixedly connected to the base plate. The first section includes a projection, and the second section includes a guide in which the projection is disposed to control rotation of the first and second sections relative to one another and re-orient the cradle assembly.
US11448354B2	Polymer-lined fluid transmission line A polymer-lined fluid transmission line includes various structures, including a first polymer-lined pipe, a second polymer-lined pipe, and one or more sleeve retainers installed at a pipe junction between the polymer-lined pipes. Among other things, the sleeve retainers may include one or more protuberances to frictionally engage the polymer-lined pipes or a one or more portions that protrude into a space between the polymer-lined pipes to help retain and protect polymer sleeves.
US11448352B1	Plug assembly A pin and ring-type plug assembly for plugging a heat exchanger tube to provide a leak resistant seal is provided. The plug assembly is designed such that it can be used to form a high-pressure seal relative to a wide of range of tube inner diameters. The angle of taper of the pin varies along a length of the pin such that the angle of taper is steepest at or adjacent a nose section of the pin and is shallowest at or adjacent an end section of the pin.
US11448351B2	Pipe coupling seal assembly A pipe coupling assembly for coupling a first end portion of a first pipe with a second pipe includes a socket formed on an end of the second pipe and a locking ring. The socket includes a rim defining an end opening through which at least a portion of the first end portion is inserted, the rim including a rim sealing surface adapted to form a liquid-tight seal around the first end portion. The socket also includes a sleeve portion having an exterior surface and an interior surface defining an interior space for receiving the first end portion, the interior surface comprising at least two socket sealing surfaces adapted to form a liquid-tight seal around the first end portion. The locking ring is adapted to cause the rim sealing surface to compress to form a liquid-tight seal around the first end portion.
US11448340B1	Flanged conduit support with ganging mechanism A flanged conduit support for forming openings in a poured concrete structure. The flanged conduit support includes a flange and a hub with a socket. A ganging means on the flanged conduit support enables the joining and locking of two or more supports together in a spaced relationship. The ganging means includes a male snap member with a tab and a tapered end and the female snap member includes a receiving slot. The flanged conduit support provides a means for rapidly securing a first end of conduit to a form and capping the opposite ends of the conduit to prevent the entry of concrete during the concrete pour. A removable cap may be removed after the concrete cures to provide one or more open pathways for running electrical cables through the horizontal floors or vertical walls.
US11448323B2	Rotary valve with control element A rotary valve includes a valve body defining an inlet, an outlet, and a fluid flow path connecting the inlet and the outlet, and a valve shaft is disposed in the valve body. A control element includes a first side, a second side, and defines a pivot axis. The control element operatively connected to the valve shaft, disposed in the fluid flow path, and is rotatable by the valve shaft about the pivot axis between an open position, in which the control element permits fluid flow between the inlet and the outlet, and a closed position, in which the control element limits flow between the inlet and the outlet of the valve body. A portion of the control element includes a lattice structure including a plurality of connected lattice members. The lattice structure defines one or more channels extending across the first side of the control element.
US11448319B2	Composition for gas seal member and method of producing same, gas seal member for high-pressure hydrogen device, and high-pressure hydrogen device Provided is a composition for a gas seal member that can form a gas seal member for a high-pressure hydrogen device that is capable of sufficiently inhibiting both swelling destruction and blister destruction. The composition for a gas seal member is a composition for a gas seal member used in a high-pressure hydrogen environment and contains an elastomer and fibrous carbon nanostructures. The fibrous carbon nanostructures are contained in a proportion of not less than 1 part by mass and not more than 10 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the elastomer. An area fraction S (%) of aggregates of the fibrous carbon nanostructures in a cross-section of the composition for a gas seal member and a volume percentage V (volume %) of the fibrous carbon nanostructures in the composition for a gas seal member satisfy a relationship 0≤S/V≤2.0.
US11448314B2	Method of determining at least one shift parameter of a vehicle transmission The present disclosure relates to a method for determining at least one shift parameter of a vehicle transmission (3), the vehicle transmission (3) comprising a first clutching device (8a) and a first speed ratio (9a); a second clutching device (8b) and a second speed ratio (9b); an input; and an output, wherein the input and the output of the transmission are connectable by the engaging first clutching device (8a) or the second clutching device (8b). The method comprises the steps: performing a shift by disengaging the first clutching device (8a) and/or engaging the second clutching device (8b), wherein the first clutching device (8a) stops transferring torque through the transmission at a first time point, wherein the second clutching device (8b) starts transferring torque through the transmission at a second time point, and determining the shift parameter at the first time point and/or at the second time point.
US11448308B2	Wheel-hub gears and casings therefor A gear casing for a wheel-hub assembly comprises a gear housing comprising a drive-gear volume for accommodating therewithin a gearing assembly that is positioned to mediate between a drivetrain member and a wheel-hub member, the drive-gear volume being in fluid communication with opposing first and second openings formed in the gear housing for respective gearing-assembly connections therethrough with the drivetrain member and the wheel hub member; and a lubricant compartment radially displaced from the drive-gear volume and in fluid communication therewith exclusively via an array of one or more lubricant passages disposed circumferentially around a portion of the gear housing, the lubricant-passage array arranged for flow therethrough of a gearing-assembly lubricant between the lubricant compartment and the gear housing.
US11448305B2	Vehicle product line with multiple gear train assemblies A line of vehicle transmissions is provided. The vehicle line includes a first multi-stage gear train assembly with at least two stages, a second multi-stage gear train assembly with at least three stages, and a housing including a first section removably attached to a second section. The second housing section is configured to receive the first and second multi-stage gear train assemblies in different product arrangements.
US11448303B2	Gear component A gear component has an annular form, is made of a metal, and includes tooth portions and a support portion which supports the tooth portions. The tooth portions are provided on an outside of the support portion along an entire circumference thereof, and groove portions are provided along a width direction of the gear component evenly on an annular inner surface of the support portion. At least one groove portion is provided per one tooth portion or two or more adjacent tooth portions, and each groove portion is located to correspond to a position where one tooth portion is present on the support portion.
US11448300B1	Sealed planetary differential A differential is sealed such that it retains its own lubrication fluid supply. The carrier housing is formed from two carrier halves which are welded together. One carrier half has an inner axial extension which is radially inside an outer axial extension of the other half. A circumferential weld is placed between the outer axial extension and the first carrier half. One of the stub shafts has an end cap with a one-way valve to allow fluid to be added after the welding is completed.
US11448294B2	Linkage mechanism A linkage mechanism includes a pivoting assembly, a cam, a sliding assembly and at least one linkage. The cam pivots coaxially with the rotating axis of the pivoting assembly. A leaning element is located on one side of the cam. A sliding frame pivots the leaning element and has at least one limiting area. The linkage includes a main body portion, a first linkage portion protruded beyond the limiting area and a second linkage portion. When the pivoting assembly drives the cam to pivot from a first position to a second position, the cam pushes against the leaning element to slide the sliding frame in a first direction relative to a plate, and the limiting area interferes with the first linkage portion of the linkage to rotate the main body portion in a first clock direction to allow the second linkage portion to provide a thrust in a second direction.
US11448292B2	Tensioner To provide a tensioner that can keep the oil pressure in an oil pressure chamber stable and consistently generate suitable reaction force and damping force to impact loads to reduce looseness in the chain and noise. A piston is set such as to partition an inner space of a plunger into an adjustment space on the front side and the oil pressure chamber on the rear side, a piston restricting member restricting the movement of the piston toward the adjustment space. An oil relief mechanism is configured to cause the piston to move forward when oil pressure in the oil pressure chamber rises so as to discharge oil inside the oil pressure chamber to the outside. The piston restricting member has an orifice function that can control the amount of discharged oil.
US11448291B2	Power-shift multi-speed transmission The invention relates to a power-shift multi-speed transmission (10), comprising at least one stepped planet gear (20), which revolves around a first sun gear (18) and in a first ring gear (26). The first ring gear (26) is held on a lockable freewheel (28). A first planet gear step (22) of the stepped planet gear (20) revolves in the first ring gear (26), while a second planet gear step (24) revolves in a second ring gear (36), with which at least one brake (34) is associated.
US11448288B2	Leaf spring rotational vibration absorber A vibration damping device for use with a downhole tool having a tool axis and a drill string component (DSC), may comprise an inertia ring rotatably mounted on the DSC and including at least one cutout defining a chamber therein such that the DSC forms an end wall of the chamber, and a leaf spring disposed in the chamber, the leaf spring having first and second spring ends, the first end being attached to the inertia ring or the DSC such that relative rotation between the inertia ring and the DSC distorts the leaf spring. The second spring end may engage the other of the inertia ring or the DSC. A fluid may be included in the chamber and the spring may divide the chamber into two portions, so that relative rotation between the inertia ring and the DSC distorts the leaf spring and varies the volumes of the portions.
US11448285B2	Membrane and hydraulically damping mount A membrane for a hydraulically damping mount includes a first leg, a second leg and a base interconnecting the two legs. In embodiments, in an average thickness of one of the two legs is at least twice as thick as that of the other leg. A hydraulically damping mount with such a membrane is also disclosed.
US11448281B2	Superscattering of plate bending wave Devices for superscattering a plate bending wave include a solid plate, and a circular array of spring-mass resonators positioned on a surface of the plate. All resonators in the circular array have a resonance frequency that can be matched to a frequency of a target flexural wave. The circular array has a diameter that can further be matched to the wavelength of the target flexural wave. Scattering efficiencies can exceed several multiples of the theoretical limit.
US11448277B2	Friction material [Object] To provide a friction material, which is manufactured by forming a non-asbestos-organic (NAO) friction material composition, used for a disc brake assembled in such as a passenger car, which does not degrade the inhibitory effect of rusting and prevents seizure due to corrosion even if the automotive while the parking brake in operation is left under a high humidity state for a long period of time. [Means to Resolve] A friction material, which is manufactured by forming the NAO friction material composition including a binder, a fiber base material, a friction modifier, a lubricant, a pH adjuster, and a filler, where the friction material composition contains 2-6 weight % of alkali metal salt and/or alkaline earth metal salt as the pH adjuster relative to the total amount of the friction material composition, 1-7 weight % of fibrillated organic fiber as the fiber base material relative to the total amount of the friction material composition, and 0-0.5 weight % of water-repelling component relative to the total amount of the friction material composition.
US11448271B2	Lower pair arc stop-block overrunning clutch The invention discloses a lower pair arc stop-block overrunning clutch comprising an outer rotating element, an inner rotating element, a friction block assembly, a wedge assembly, a first propeller assembly, a first elastic element and a synchronized push-block assembly, wherein a plurality of friction blocks of the friction block assembly are connected end to end and arranged between a first rotating ring and a second rotating ring; an drive element drives the first propeller assembly to press the synchronized push-block assembly to achieve synchronization of the friction block assembly; the first propeller assembly is stationary relative to the friction block assembly, the friction block assembly is pushed to rotate reversely with a driven element; the wedge assembly is wedged to generate a radial pressure on the friction block assembly so that the friction block assembly can achieve lower pair arc stop, thereby achieving the transfer of torque.
US11448256B2	Slide bearing and method for manufacturing same A slide bearing is made of synthetic resin and has an upper case, a lower case combined with the upper case, and an annular center plate placed between the upper case and the lower case so as to allow relative rotation between the upper case and the lower case. The center plate is integrally formed with the lower case. A joining surface of the lower case that joins to the center plate has a grip part, and the joining surface of the center plate has a grasp on the grip part.
US11448253B2	Positive locking fastener The invention relates to a positive locking fastener comprising: a screw (1) having a radial hole (120) at a threaded portion (12); a nut (2) having a tightening portion (21); a cap (3); and a pin (4). The cap has a locking portion (31) intended to cover the threaded portion and a blocking portion (30) intended to engage with a tightening portion of the nut. The blocking portion comprises at least one pair of diametrically opposed openings (32) suitable for allowing a pair of openings to be aligned with the radial hole, in order to allow the pin to be inserted and thus lock the fastening regardless of the relative position of the nut with respect to the screw. The invention also relates to a method for implementing the fastener according to the invention.
US11448250B2	Connector with shaft and cylindrical base extending from flange The connector is configured to couple a first section and a second section of an e-vaping device, and the connector includes a flange with a first end and a second end, a shaft extending from the first end of the flange, an outer shelf being formed by a portion of the first end of the flange, a cylindrical base extending from the second end of the flange, and an inner shelf within the connector, the cylindrical base and the inner shelf at least partially defining a longitudinal opening, the flange defining at least one first notch, the at least one first notch at least partially along the second end of the flange.
US11448249B2	Panels comprising a mechanical locking device and an assembled product comprising the panels A set of panels includes a first panel having a first main plane and a second panel having a second main plane. The panels are provided with a mechanical locking device for locking a first edge of the first panel to a second edge of the second panel. The mechanical locking device includes an edge section groove at the first edge, wherein an edge section of the second edge is insertable into the edge section groove. A flexible tongue is arranged in an insertion groove provided in the edge section groove, and cooperates with a tongue groove provided at the edge section of the second panel. A first thickness of a core material between the edge section groove and the outermost surface of the first edge is greater than a minimum second thickness of a core material of the edge section of the second panel.
US11448246B2	Magnetic multiple axis mounts A multi-axis mount including: a baseplate, the baseplate including an indent, the indent including multiple sloped sides; a pivot, the pivot including a magnetizable, partial ovoidal body, the pivot contacting the baseplate at no less than two sloped sides of the indent and at no more than three sloped sides of the indent; and a magnet located opposite the baseplate from the pivot, the magnet to attract the pivot against the baseplate.
US11448233B2	Following blade impact load support A fan blade assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a blade extending from a blade root to a blade tip, and from a blade leading edge to a blade trailing edge. The blade includes a plurality of ribs defining a plurality of blade cavities. A pressure surface cover is affixed to the blade and at least partially defines a pressure surface of the fan blade. At least one rib of the plurality of ribs extends along a predicted impact path of a foreign object at the fan blade assembly, thereby supporting impact loads on the pressure surface cover.
US11448232B2	Propeller blade A propeller blade includes a body configured to extend radially from the hub of a propeller. The body can include a front surface, a back surface, a leading edge, and a trailing edge. The top of the body can form a tippet that generally transitions the front and back surfaces from extending in a generally radial direction to a generally axial direction. The tippet can reduce radial flow and force losses, redirect the radial flow in an axial direction, reduce the exit flow area of the propeller, and increase the inlet flow area of the propeller. The front surface of the blade can have a planar configuration that prevents or reduces the creation of low or negative pressure across the front surface of the blade and associated cavitation.
US11448224B2	Pump for immersion within a fluid reservoir A pump is provided for immersion in a fluid reservoir, such as a pit or lagoon containing liquid manure, from a position at an edge of the reservoir. The pump may be adapted for connection to a farm vehicle, such as a tractor, positioned at the edge of the reservoir. The pump comprises an extensible body, fluid conduit and drive means in order that a length of the pump may be varied in order to accommodate a variety of reservoir fluid heights. In addition, the pump may be pivotable relative to at least a portion of a frame in order that the entrance angle may be adjusted. The pump may comprise a housing with an inlet and an outlet, the outlet in fluid communication with the fluid conduit. An impeller within the housing may direct fluid from the inlet to the outlet in the housing.
US11448209B2	Breather assembly for a peristaltic pump A breather assembly for a peristaltic pump comprises a breather tube and a cap connected to the breather tube. The cap comprises a sealing portion. One of the breather tube and the cap comprises a guide track and the other of the breather tube and the cap comprises a protrusion. The guide track comprises first and second sections separated by a first formation. The second section is bounded at its distal end by a second formation. The protrusion can pass the first formation when a first force is applied to the cap. The protrusion can pass the second formation when a second force is applied to the cap. When the protrusion is located within the first section, the sealing portion of the cap seals against the breather tube. When the protrusion is located within the second section, the sealing portion of the cap is spaced from the breather tube.
US11448193B2	Self-aligning to wind facing floating platform supporting multi-wind turbines and solar for wind and solar power generation and the construction method thereon A self-aligning to the incoming wind floating platform supporting multiple wind turbines (17, 18) forms a wind power generation unit. Under horizontal wind, the wind load resultant passes the center of geometry (or “C.Geo”) of the wind load receiving areas of the floating platform, but not the turning axis (15). This results in a yaw moment about the turning axis (15) to turn the floating platform, until the wind load resultant simultaneously passes through the C.Geo and the turning axis (15). A wind park or wind farm may include at least one of these floating platforms that are capable of self-aligning to the incoming wind for electric power generation. The floating platform helps reduce the length of a submarine power cable (44) of the platform, hence reducing electric resistance and subsequently heat loss, thereby reducing the cost of the submarine power cable (44).
US11448189B2	Power generation and propulsion architecture using fluid flow A turbine system that harnesses energy from natural atmospheric wind and water currents for power generation and storage in a power storage mode, and in a reverse switched operation, sources current to the turbine system from storage power to function in a propulsion mode to propel an associated structure (e.g., boat, aircraft).
US11448188B2	Power converter control and operation Methods of operating a wind turbine (1) having a generator (10) and a power converter (60). The methods may comprise: determining a reduced first power setpoint (94) in response to an operational condition; reducing active power from a line-side converter (66) to an electrical grid (80) according to the reduced first power setpoint (94); determining a reduced power setpoint (92) for a machine-side converter (62); reducing a torque applied to the generator (10) by the machine-side converter (62) such that active power according to the reduced second power setpoint (92) is produced by the generator (10); and dissipating a power surplus in one or more resistive elements (68) as long as the second power setpoint is superior to the first power setpoint. Wind turbines configured for such methods are also provided.
US11448186B2	Power management system for wind turbine(s) being connected to a power supply with a limited capacity The invention relates to a power management system for one or more wind turbines where the one or more wind turbines are connected to a power supply with a limited capacity for providing power to a number of power consuming units, such as to an emergency power supply arranged for providing power in a grid loss situation. The power management system comprises a dispatcher connected to the power supply to access an available capacity of the power supply, and a requester connected to at least one power consuming unit, the requester being arranged to control the power consumption of the power consuming unit by either allows or deny the power consuming unit to consume power.
US11448183B2	Wind turbine blade comprising a noise reducing device This invention relates to a noise reducing device and a wind turbine blade comprises such a noise reducing device. The noise reducing device comprises noise reducing elements projecting from a base part towards a second end. Airflow modifying elements projects further from the base part towards a first end. The noise reducing elements and airflow modifying elements are arranged on opposite sides of the base part and preferably have different dimensions and/or shapes.
US11448180B2	Wave energy device with constricted tube and generator pod A wave energy converter utilizes a flotation module that rises and falls with the passage of waves, a submerged tube containing a constriction which multiplies the speed of the water passing therethrough, a turbine (or other hydrokinetic apparatus) positioned so as to extract energy from the accelerated flow of water within and/or through the tube, and a submerged gas- or liquid-filled chamber housing one or more energy conversion components (e.g. generators, transformers, rectifiers, inverters). By providing a chamber in proximity to the turbine, generators can be placed in closer proximity to the turbine that turns them, and the shared shaft can be shorter than if the generators were placed in the buoy adjacent to the surface.
US11448174B2	Electromagnetic valve driving device An electromagnetic valve driving device which drives a fuel injection valve having a solenoid coil, includes: a regenerative switching element disposed between a first end portion of the solenoid coil and the ground; and a control unit configured to control the regenerative switching element to be in an ON state or an OFF state, wherein the control unit includes: a voltage detection unit configured to detect a voltage of the first end portion of the solenoid coil; and an abnormality detection unit configured to detect an abnormality of the regenerative switching element on the basis of the voltage detected by the voltage detection unit.
US11448171B1	Hot-charge duct for turbocharger system A turbocharger system includes a compressor, an intercooler, and a hot-charge duct connecting an outlet of the compressor to an inlet of the intercooler. The hot-charge duct has a first end portion connected to the inlet, a second end portion connected to the outlet, and a central tubular portion extending from the first end portion to the second end portion. The central tubular portion is formed of a plurality of circumferentially interconnected semi-tubular sections that extend longitudinally.
US11448168B2	Exhaust gas recirculation system and engine An exhaust gas recirculation system includes a first turbocharger and a second turbocharger connected in series. An outlet of a turbine of the second turbocharger is connected to an exhaust pipe. An inlet of a compressor of the second turbocharger is connected to the exhaust pipe by means of an EGR gas collection pipe, and an outlet of the compressor of the second turbocharger is connected to an intake manifold by means of a low-pressure EGR exhaust pipe. The system employs energy of exhaust gas to drive turbines of a two-stage turbocharging system, thereby increasing utilization of the exhaust gas and improving the economic efficiency of an engine. An engine is also disclosed.
US11448167B2	Active purge system for hybrid vehicle and active purge method for hybrid vehicle The present disclosure relates to an active purge system and an active purge method for a hybrid vehicle, and changes a control method for the throughput of the evaporation gas according to the engine torque according to a change in an optimal operating line, the system efficiency, or the state of charge (SOC) condition of a battery using an active purge unit for pressing the evaporation gas generated by a fuel tank and supplying the pressed evaporation gas to an intake pipe, thereby efficiently purging the evaporation gas.
US11448166B2	Apparatus and method to improve vaporization of fuel in internal combustion engines A system and method to improve the efficiency of an internal combustion engine by delivering an air/fuel mixture to the combustion chamber in a pure gaseous state. The system accepts an air/fuel mixture from a carburetor or injector which is placed into a vaporized state before entering an expansion chamber and then the combustion chamber of the engine. An intake track capable of withstanding exhaust gas temperatures of an internal combustion engine is constructed and arranged to cause vaporization of fuel and inhibit the vaporization from condensing.
US11448155B2	Process for testing a plurality of components of an exhaust gas aftertreatment system A process for testing a plurality of components of an exhaust gas aftertreatment system (100) is disclosed, wherein the plurality of components comprises a first SCR catalyst and at least one further SCR catalyst arranged downstream of the first SCR catalyst in the flow direction of exhaust gas to be passed through the exhaust gas aftertreatment system, a first NOx sensor assigned to the first SCR catalyst and at least one further NOx sensor and a first DeNOx element assigned to the first SCR catalyst and at least one further DeNOx element and wherein the process comprises at least the following steps: conditioning the SCR catalysts, testing the NOx sensors, testing the DeNOx systems testing a storage capacity for the reductant of the SCR catalysts.
US11448154B2	Injection control device An injection control device of capable of correcting an energization time even in an S/N non-guaranteeable situation includes: an energization controller calculating an energization time correction amount based on an area correction performed by an energization time correction amount calculator regarding electric current flowing in a fuel injection valve when the fuel injection valve is electrically driven for injecting fuel; and an energization instruction time calculator correcting an energization instruction time for fuel injection in a next cycle and thereafter by using the energization instruction time correction amounts in or before a current cycle.
US11448143B2	Apparatus of controlling vehicle and method thereof An apparatus of controlling a vehicle and a method thereof are provided. The operating region of an engine is operated with theoretical air-fuel ratio. The apparatus includes a supercharger that supplies compressed air to a the combustion chamber of the engine and a spark plug that ignites mixed air supplied to the combustion chamber. An intake valve selectively opens and closes the combustion chamber for inflowing the mixed air therein. A variable valve apparatus adjusts an opening timing and closing timing of the intake valve and a controller adjusts an ignition timing of the spark plug and the closing timing of the intake valve through the variable valve apparatus based on the operating region of the engine.
US11448139B2	Fueldraulic air valve A valve assembly for a turbine engine includes a valve arranged in an air flow path. The valve has a shaft. The valve is movable between an open position and a closed position. A hydraulic actuator is coupled to the shaft. The hydraulic actuator is configured to utilize fuel as a working fluid. The hydraulic actuator is configured to move the valve between the open position and the closed position.
US11448138B2	Surge recovery systems and methods A surge control system includes a rotor system with at least one compressor section and at least one turbine section operably coupled to a shaft. The surge control system also includes sensors configured to collect sensor data from the rotor system, an electric motor operably coupled to the rotor system, and a controller. The controller is operable to detect surge event from the sensor data, determine an amount of power to apply to the rotor system, and increase the amount of power provided to the rotor system to recover from the surge event.
US11448135B2	Systems and methods of power allocation for turboprop and turboshaft aircraft Systems and method for an electrical system on an aircraft are provided. In example aspects, the electrical system can be for an aircraft having a turbine engine. The turbine engine having a high pressure (HP) spool and a low pressure (LP) spool. The HP spool can be configured to drive a first generator to provide a first electrical output. The LP spool can be configured to drive a second generator to provide a second electrical output. The first generator and the second generator can be coupled to an electrical power distribution bus that provides electrical power to multiple high power demand loads. A propulsion system and a multiple aircraft systems bus can both be coupled to the electrical power distribution bus. The electrical system can further include a control system configured to allocate power among the first generator, the second generator, and the propulsion system, and the secondary aircraft systems bus.
US11448128B2	Fluid additive system A lubrication system for a gas turbine engine includes a primary fluid tank to receive a primary fluid, at least one secondary fluid tank to receive at least one fluid additive, and a mixer. The mixer has at least a first inlet in fluid communication with the primary fluid tank and a second inlet in fluid communication with the at least one secondary fluid tank. The mixer has at least one outlet that delivers a mixture of the primary fluid and the at least one fluid additive to a gas turbine engine component.
US11448105B2	Valve mechanism, engine and vehicle A valve mechanism includes a valve, a camshaft, an intermediate swing arm located between a cam and the valve, a lift regulating mechanism and a roller assembly. The cam drives the valve to move by means of the intermediate swing arm. The roller assembly is supported by the cam, an eccentric wheel of the lift regulating mechanism and an intermediate swing arm roller. A peripheral surface of the eccentric wheel includes a lift regulating section having a start point and an end point, a maximum lift point of the lift regulating section is located between the start point and the end point, and the lift regulating section is divided into a first section which is convex and a second section having at least a part thereof concave.
US11448100B1	Combined cycle unit standby system with integrated auxiliary gas turbine generator Provided is a combined cycle (CC) unit standby system with integrated auxiliary gas turbine generator (Aux. GT), including: a plurality of first gas turbines, a plurality of heat recovery boilers, a steam turbine, a condenser, at least a second gas turbine generator and a control unit. As such, the present invention incorporates at least a second gas turbine generator of small capacity into the CC unit standby system, the pipelines and components of each unit are kept in a hot state, to facilitate the rapid load increase during restart process, to save energy during the standby period, accelerate the restart process and reduce the energy consumption during the starting phase, and also keep the unit in “House Load Operation” state, stay independent from the power grid to cope with the emergency situation of black start, improve the restart and energy efficiency in standby and shutdown states.
US11448098B2	Arrangement for converting thermal energy from lost heat of an internal combustion engine An arrangement for converting thermal energy from lost heat of an internal combustion engine into mechanical energy where a working circuit is provided for a working medium which can be heated and evaporated using the lost heat. An expansion machine for obtaining mechanical energy from the heat of the working medium is provided in the working circuit where the working circuit extends through a heat exchanger mounted upstream of the expansion engine in the flow direction of the working medium. The internal combustion engine includes a cylinder having a cylinder liner. A cooling duct is provided in the cylinder liner through which the working medium flows. The cylinder liner is formed by centrifugal casting where the cooling duct is introduced into one centrifugal mold as an insert prior to the centrifugal casting.
US11448096B2	Vane arc segment support platform with curved radial channel A support system for an airfoil piece in a gas turbine engine includes first and second support platforms for supporting the airfoil piece there between. Each of the support platforms defines a forward support platform side, an aft support platform side, a first support platform circumferential side, a second support platform circumferential side, an airfoil side, and a non-airfoil side. The airfoil side of at least one of the support platforms has a radial channel therein for receiving a complementary radial flange of the airfoil piece. Each radial channel includes a radial channel first leg portion extending adjacent the aft support platform side, a radial channel second leg portion that extends from the radial channel first leg portion and that curves toward the forward support platform side, and a radial channel third leg portion that extends from the second leg portion toward the forward support platform side.
US11448084B2	Reduction gear for turbomachine equipped with an electric generator A mechanical reduction gear for a turbomachine, in particular for an aircraft, including a first sun gear having a central axis forming a main axis of the reduction gear, a ring gear, planet gears, a planet carrier, and at least one electric generator, in which the electric generator has a first set of electromagnetic elements and a second set of electromagnetic elements, wherein one among the first and second set of electromagnetic elements is a first set of coils, each coil of this first set of coils being wound around a direction parallel to the main axis, and in which the other among the first and second set of electromagnetic elements is configured to induce a current in the first set of coils when it is driven with a relative movement with respect to the first set of coils.
US11448069B2	Tunnel boring machine A tunnel boring machine for boring a tunnel in rock including: locating means mounted to a frame for supporting and locating the frame in a disposition with respect to a tunnel axis and a boring face of the tunnel being bored; a first boring assembly operatively associated with said frame for boring into an annular face surrounding a core substantially coaxial with the tunnel axis, the annular face being a portion of the boring face; a core removal assembly operatively associated with said frame and disposed axially with respect to said first boring assembly away from the annular face, said core removal assembly being operable for removing at the core exposed by the first boring assembly transverse to the tunnel axis to expose the remainder of the boring face; and drive means operatively associated with said first boring assembly for driving said boring assembly into the annular face.
US11448067B2	Cutting tool for a tunnel boring machine and a tunnel boring machine A cutting tool for a tunnel boring machine, including a tool head equipped with a wear sensor detachably connectable to a tool holder. A line arrangement having a wireless, connector-free coupling module between the tool head and the tool holder is provided for connecting the wear sensors to an evaluation module. In the event of wear, a tool head to be replaced may be removed from the tool holder and a new tool head may be connected to the tool holder.
US11448058B2	Comprehensive structural health monitoring method for bottom hole assembly Conventional practice for determining a life expectancy of a drilling tool has been based on simple static bending moment evaluation and/or conservative past experience life limits. This archaic practice has often led to premature scrapping of the tools and has proven to be overly conservative and cost-ineffective. Introduced herein is a BHA condition monitoring technique that combines both field data and advanced models in one system. The introduced technique is based on a combination of system and component level models to monitor and evaluate the current health and life of BHA components. The introduced technique can apply to all directional drilling BHAs, including mud motors and rotary steerable systems, and can be used at different levels of the tool's life cycle to improve efficiency, reduce downhole failure incidents, and maximize assets' utilization.
US11448055B2	Subsea duplex pump, subsea pumping system, and subsea pumping method A subsea pump includes a liquid-gas inlet port for receiving liquid and gas into a first chamber, a plunger in a second chamber, a suction valve communicating the first chamber with a second chamber, a gas discharge conduit, a gas discharge valve communicating the first chamber with the gas discharge conduit, and a liquid discharge port for discharging liquid from the second chamber. The plunger retracts inwardly to create a vacuum in the second chamber that opens the suction valve and pulls liquid from the first chamber into the second chamber. The plunger extends outwardly against the suction to cause the suction valve to close and create a positive pressure that opens the gas discharge valve and forces the gas in the first chamber through the gas discharge valve into the gas discharge conduit. Liquid in the second chamber is discharged through the liquid discharge port via the positive pressure.
US11448050B1	Universal electric well service rig A mobile service rig includes an onboard rechargeable electric power storage system (e.g., a battery, supercapacitor, etc.) for powering the rig's hoist and other equipment used for repairing or servicing a well at a wellsite. In some examples, the rechargeable electric power storage system is recharged by an electrical power grid that is normally used for powering a pumping unit at the well. Some examples of the mobile service rig include a diesel powered charging generator for backup power. In some examples, an auxiliary braking generator coupled to the rig's hoist provides regenerative braking to help recharge the electric power storage system. Some examples of the mobile service rig comprise a trailer hitched to a diesel powered tractor.
US11448047B2	Internally adjustable flow control module An adjustable flow control device. In one aspect, the flow control device comprises a base pipe having one or more openings extending from an exterior to an interior of the base pipe; and a movable sleeve positioned along the interior of the base pipe, the movable sleeve having one or more associated openings extending from an exterior to an interior of the movable sleeve, and configured to rotate to a first position that aligns a first of the base pipe openings with a first of the movable sleeve openings.
US11448046B2	Smart completion maximum reservoir contact (MRC) well optimization model Systems and methods include a method for optimizing maximum reservoir contact wells. For each lateral of a multi-lateral well and using input data for the lateral, a lateral flowrate is determined for each opening position for different combinations of internal control valve (ICV) sizes and target flowing bottomhole pressures. Using a numerical model, an estimated total flowrate is determined for each lateral based on the lateral's flowrate. Options are provided for presentation to a user in a user interface for changing ICV settings of the multi-lateral well. Each option includes a predicted added value to production of the multi-lateral well. The predicted added value includes one or more of an individual lateral production contribution, an enhanced sweep efficiency for one or more laterals, or a water rate reduction. A selection by the user of an option is received. The option is implemented during production of the multi-lateral well.
US11448044B2	Universal plug and play perforating gun tandem A method and apparatus for providing a universal plug in cartridge detonator capability in box-by-box perforating guns.
US11448042B1	Expandable metal for junction locking and junction sealant applications Provided is a junction, a method for forming a junction, and a well system including a junction. The junction, in one aspect, includes a first threaded member, the first member formed of a first material, and a second threaded member threaded with the first threaded member, the second threaded member formed of a second material. In one or more aspects, the first and second threaded members define an overlapping space. In one or more other aspects, an expandable metal joint is located in at least a portion of the overlapping space, the expandable metal joint comprising a metal configured to expand in response to hydrolysis.
US11448034B2	Removable plugging method and apparatus A method and apparatus for removably plugging a wellbore. The wellbore leads to a reservoir having a reservoir temperature. The method includes: selecting a melting point of a metal alloy based on the reservoir temperature; sealing the metal alloy against an interior wall of a tubing, while the tubing is above a ground in which the wellbore is drilled, such that the metal alloy defines a fluid barrier plug against flow of any portion of the reservoir through the tubing when the tubing is disposed within the wellbore; and heating the metal alloy above the melting point while the tubing is disposed within the wellbore such that the metal alloy flows from the tubing and the fluid barrier plug is eliminated.
US11448030B2	Open water coiled tubing sealing device Dynamic/static sealing of coiled tubing subsea for pipeline and well access with hydrostatic conditions up to 10,000 feet water depth while maintaining wellbore or pipeline pressures up to 10,000 psi may be achieved using a system comprising a subsea fluid source which utilizes a riserless open water coiled tubing system and an open water coiled tubing sealer to control hydrostatic pressure and fluid container pressures. This comprises an upper well control assembly having a first geometric orientation and a lower well control assembly in fluid communication with the upper well control assembly aligned in a second geometric orientation substantially inverted to the first orientation; a quick disconnect connector in fluid communication with the upper well control assembly; one or more electrically powered subsea assist jacks operatively connected to the quick disconnect connector; a controller operatively in communication with the electrically powered subsea assist jacks; and a power connector operatively in communication with the source of electrical power, the controller, and the electrically powered subsea assist jack.
US11448028B2	Milling packers below restrictions in a wellbore casing Tools and methods are described for removing a packer beyond a restriction in a casing of a wellbore. A packer milling tool includes: a milling body with an outer diameter; milling blocks positioned at intervals around a circumference of the milling body, each milling block pivotably attached to the milling body and pivotable between a running position and a milling position; and a wash pipe extending from a downhole end of the milling body. The milling blocks have a rotational circumference with a rotational diameter that is less than the outer diameter of the milling body when in the running position and the rotational diameter is more than the outer diameter of the milling body and less than the inner diameter of the casing when in the milling position.
US11448024B2	Retrievable packer with delayed setting A downhole tool activation assembly for prevention of activation from rig heave on a floating rig comprising a block release with a release feature. The release feature includes a release chamber, an activation chamber, and a fluid stop that retains a traveling block in a first position. A traveling block comprised of a plurality of drag blocks and drag block springs is configured to retain the traveling block to a position along an inner surface of a casing. The block release moves to a release position when the release feature is activated. The traveling block moves axially along a block mandrel with a block lug traveling within a j-slot. The j-slot on the block mandrel includes a run-in slot, a motion slot, and an activating slot configured to transfer the block lug to the next slot. The activating slot is configured to move the traveling block to an activating position.
US11448021B2	Mitigating drilling circulation loss A drilling liner is configured to be positioned in a lost circulation zone of a subterranean formation in which a wellbore is being drilled. The drilling liner is configured to flow wellbore drilling fluids from a surface of the wellbore to the subterranean formation while avoiding the lost circulation zone. The drill head assembly is attached to a downhole end of the drilling liner, and is configured to drill the subterranean formation to form cuttings, receive the wellbore drilling fluids, and flow the cuttings and the wellbore drilling fluids into the drilling liner while avoiding the lost circulation zone and towards the surface of the wellbore.
US11448019B2	Interlock for a drill rig and method for operating a drill rig An interlock between a drawworks and a tong includes a sensor for sensing a position of the tong. An interlock signal is generated by the sensor for sensing the position of the tong that is reflective of the position of the tong. A lock operably connected to the drawworks receives the interlock signal and disables operation of the drawworks if the interlock signal meets a predetermined criterion. A method for operating a drill rig includes operating a drawworks to raise and lower a drill string and operating a tong to add or remove segments to the drill string. The method further includes sensing a position of the tong, generating an interlock signal that reflects the position of the tong, and disabling the drawworks if the interlock signal meets a predetermined criterion.
US11448015B2	Dampers for mitigation of downhole tool vibrations Systems and methods for damping torsional oscillations of downhole systems are described. The systems include a downhole string comprising a disintegration device and a damping system at least one of in and on the downhole string, the damping system configured to damp torsional oscillations of the downhole string. The methods include installing a damping system at least one of on and in the downhole system with the downhole system including a downhole string having a disintegration device and the damping system is configured to damp torsional oscillation of the downhole string.
US11448013B2	Method and apparatus for percussion drilling A method for maintaining a penetration rate of a drilling operation, where the drilling operation is carried out by a drilling rig having a hammer drill apparatus. A reference penetration rate for the hammer drill bit is chosen. A starting depth of cut is computed from the reference penetration rate, the measured hammer frequency, and the drill bit parameters. The system measures the actual penetration rate of the drill bit and computes an actual depth of cut. From the actual depth of cut a target bit rotation speed is computed. The target rotation speed is compared to the actual rotation speed, and the rotation speed is adjusted up or down to set the bit rotation speed at a value that will maintain the target rotation speed, notwithstanding changes in hammer frequency or ground conditions.
US11448009B2	Shading device A shading device including a first driving shaft that is rotatably supported within a headbox and may drive a first moving member and a second driving shaft that is rotatably supported within the headbox and may drive a second moving member, the shading device includes a first pulley that drives the first driving shaft, and a second pulley that is disposed at a position different from the first pulley in a longitudinal direction of the headbox and drives the second driving shaft.
US11448008B2	Curtain winding device A curtain winding device includes a beam, a power mechanism mounted to the beam, a transmission rod driven by the power mechanism to rotate, and two reels fitted about the transmission rod and relatively fixed with the transmission rod in a circumferential direction. Each reel is wound with a drawstring. A drawstring holder is disposed on the beam to guide the drawstring to be wound on the reel. The beam is fixed with a nut. Each reel includes a screw segment screwed to the nut, and a cone segment gradually increasing in an outer diameter along an extending direction. An end of the reel away from the screw segment is provided with a fixing portion for fixing a distal end of the drawstring, and a positioning portion protruding from an outer side surface of the reel to abut against the drawstring holder to position an initial position of the reel.
US11448005B2	Frame assembly splice A frame assembly supporting an overhead door has a horizontal header connected to upright columns or posts with splice assemblies. Fasteners mounted on the columns cooperate with retainers on the splice assemblies to position and connect the columns to the header. Hinge assemblies pivotally mount the door on the header for movement between open and closed positions.
US11448004B2	Floor guide A floor guide for sliding doors (19) is provided with a guide channel (1). A center piece (39) is arranged in the guide channel (1) and is detachably fastened to the floor of the guide channel (1) so that the profiled flange (21) at the lower edge of the sliding door (19) can be introduced and removed.
US11447994B2	Drive device for an element to be driven The invention relates to a drive device for driving an element, having the following: a toothed belt drive with a toothed belt, a frame element which forms two opposite connection plates and a connection wall that connects the two connection plates together, at least three elongated force driving elements which are secured to the toothed belt and are aligned parallel to the width (B) of the toothed belt and parallel to one another and which are arranged within the frame element, wherein a central force driving element is rotationally fixed to the two connection plates, and the end sections of each adjacent outer force driving element extend through curved elongated holes of the connection plate, whereby the outer force driving element can be pivoted and the end faces of the outer force driving elements have cylindrical projections, which are designed as axle stubs and each of which has a roller, outside of one of the connection plates, a toothed disc with tooth recesses for catching teeth of the toothed belt and force driving element recesses for catching the force driving elements, a non-linear guide path, at least some sections of which run parallel to the extension of the toothed belt and in which the rollers arranged on the outer force driving elements are guided, and a drive means which is connected to the frame element and is used to connect to the element to be driven.
US11447992B2	Pivot device with an interlocking lifting mechanism A pivot device with an interlocking lifting mechanism includes a first interlocking member to which first and second shafts and a second interlocking member are pivotably connected. A torque device is mounted around the first and second shafts. A third interlocking member is pivotably connected to the second interlocking member and includes a sliding groove. A fixing seat includes a pivotal member extending through the sliding groove. The second interlocking member is slidably received in a guiding groove of the guiding seat. When the first shaft pivots through a certain angle, the first interlocking member pivots about the second shaft and actuates the second interlocking member. The third interlocking member pivots relative to the fixing seat. The sliding groove slides relative to the pivotal member. The second distal end synchronously slides relative to the first guiding groove to lift an auxiliary screen unit connected to the third proximal end.
US11447976B2	Two-wheeler lock having an alarm function A lock having an alarm function for a two-wheeler comprises a lock body and a securing hoop movable relative to the lock body between a securing position for securing the two-wheeler and an open position for releasing the two-wheeler. The lock body has a locking mechanism to selectively lock the securing hoop to the lock body in the securing position, and further comprises an alarm device for outputting an alarm signal. The locking mechanism can selectively be moved into an unlocked position, a locked position, or an alarm activation position, with the securing hoop being released for a movement into the open position in the unlocked position, with the securing hoop located in the securing position being locked at the lock body in the locked position, and with the alarm device being activated or being able to be activated by moving the locking mechanism into the alarm activation position.
US11447973B2	Portable razor wire rapid deployment unit A razor wire rapid deployment unit (RDU)/barrier is disclosed. In some embodiments, the RDU includes an enclosure having a first section coupleable with a second section, the enclosure defining an interior area therein. The RDU may further include a razor wire disposed within the interior area of the enclosure, a first end of the razor wire directly coupled to the first section, and a second end of the razor wire directly coupled to the second section. The first and second sides of the enclosure may be separated from one another to deploy the razor wire from a compressed configuration to an expanded configuration.
US11447972B2	Storm avoiding buildings and structures A building sheltering structure is configured to facilitate the shielding of domicile or building into an underground foundation before an emergency environmental condition arises. The foundation includes a cover plate and/or a second plate that translate horizontally to occlude the at least one domicile upon retraction into a secure cavity of the foundation by a lift assembly in the foundation cavity. The cover plate and second plate offer optimal protection to the domicile thereunder for various extreme conditions. Mounted atop the lift assembly, the at least one domicile can be fully retracted into the foundation cavity and completely shielded. The operation of the lift assembly is commanded and powered by a supply system, of which a processor facilitates emergency warnings and panic transmissions to signal for help. Further, a plurality of solar panels mounted atop the at least one domicile keeps the system charged for the use in emergency.
US11447969B2	Spa structural support assembly A system for supporting the structure of a spa may include vertical supports, channel brackets that mate with vertical supports, and exterior brackets that mate with the channel brackets to hold spa exterior panels in place. The vertical supports may be formed of a first portion and a second portion, the first portion and second portion formed of contiguous hexagons having one open side. The first portion may be open on a first side, with the second portion open on a second side. The open sides of the hexagons may create a space or pocket to allow for additional structures, such as brackets, to mate with the hexagons of the vertical support. A channel bracket may include a hexagonal boss to mate with a vertical support, as well as a channel for receiving a projection of an exterior bracket to hold a spa side panel in place.
US11447967B2	Articulated boom with boom segments and method for producing a boom segment An articulated boom of a large manipulator includes a plurality of boom segments connected to one another via articulated joints. At least one of the boom segments has a welded assembly forming a box profile in which an upper belt and a lower belt are connected to one another via lateral web plates. At least one of the web plates, the upper belt, and/or the lower belt is formed at least by one sheet metal section, which has at least one bending running essentially in a longitudinal direction of the boom segment. The at least one bending ends at a distance from an end of the sheet metal section so that the end of the sheet metal section is unbent.
US11447966B2	Machine for removing formwork from ceiling structure A machine for removing formwork from underneath a cured concrete slab includes a wheeled base movable on and supported at a support structure, a raisable-and-lowerable structure disposed on the wheeled base, and a formwork-removal device attached to the raisable-and-lowerable structure. The formwork-removal device includes an arm extending from the raisable-and-lowerable structure, at least one wedge element disposed at a distal end of the arm, and a formwork-retaining mechanism. With the raisable-and-lowerable structure adjusted to raise the wedge element and the wedge element moved to engage the formwork and an underside of a concrete slab, the wedge element is further moved to apply a force separating part of the formwork from the concrete slab, the formwork-retaining mechanism is operated to grasp the formwork separated from the concrete slab, retaining the formwork. With the formwork grasped by the formwork-retaining mechanism, the raisable-and-lowerable structure is lowered, removing the formwork from the concrete slab.
US11447954B2	Systems, apparatus and methods for mounting panels upon, or to form, a pitched roof, wall or other structure At least first and second rows of panels may be mounted onto, or to form, at least part of a pitched roof, wall or other structure by mounting a panel support framework onto an underlying structure and arranging the panels so that each panel on the second row is offset upwardly relative to each panel on the first row in a stepped fashion.
US11447953B2	Roof, siding, or cladding, or ridge or hip member for a roof A ridge or hip member for a roof comprising a substantially flexible zone and a substantially rigid zone on each side of the flexible zone. The flexible zone adapted to allow the member to be bent by an installer by hand to conform the member to the ridge or hip of a roof, with the flexible zone located along a ridge or hip line of the roof. Each rigid zone being located on each side of the ridge or hip line.
US11447952B2	Construction panel having improved fixing strength A plasterboard comprises a gypsum matrix having a polymeric additive distributed therein in an amount of at least 1 wt % relative to the gypsum, the gypsum matrix further having a first group of fibres and a second group of fibres embedded therein, wherein the fibres of the first group of fibres have an average length that is at least three times the average length of the fibres of the second group of fibres.
US11447949B2	Friction damper for a building structure A friction damper for attenuating vibrations of a structure. The friction damper includes a first connecting member configured to be attached to a first member of the structure, a second connecting member configured to be attached to a second member of the structure, a first slotted-bar interconnected between the first connecting member and the second connecting member, and a second slotted-bar interconnected between the first connecting member and the second connecting member. The first slotted-bar and the second-slotted bar are configured to allow horizontal and vertical movements of the first connecting member and the second connecting member relative to each other responsive to vibration of the structure.
US11447948B1	Veneer ties having asymmetrical transverse cross-sections and wall anchoring system utilizing the same The veneer tie having a first end portion for being disposed in an outer wythe. A first leg and second leg of the veneer tie are vertically arranged, and both the first leg and second leg have a first transverse cross section that are asymmetrical. A first arm and a second arm of the veneer tie are horizontally arranged. The first arm and the second arm include a second transverse cross section. The second transverse cross section is different than the first transverse cross section of the first leg and second leg. A first end of the first arm and a first end of the second arm is adjoined to the first end portion. A joint portion adjoins a second end of the first arm and a second end of the second arm to an upper end of the first leg and an upper end of the second leg, respectively.
US11447945B2	Panel system and support member for use with the same An end panel bracket useful with a building panel system is provided. The end panel bracket comprises a base, a middle portion extending from the base, a shelf extending from the middle portion, a notch, and a ledge.
US11447943B2	Pipe connector There is described a pipe connector for connecting first and second pipes slidably engageable one into the other, the pipe connector comprising: a side wall extending between a first end and a second end along a longitudinal axis and defining an interior space, the side wall being adapted to be inserted into a floor hole made into a floor; a floor flange extending laterally and outwardly from the first end of the side wall, the floor flange being adapted to rest on a floor surface when the side wall is inserted into the floor hole; and a guiding assembly secured to the side wall and comprising at least one resilient retaining finger for receiving the first pipe therebetween, the at least one resilient retaining finger being securable to the first pipe when the second pipe is engaged into the first pipe.
US11447939B2	Environmentally-friendly shower water recycling system An electric water-recycling shower system comprising a first heating element, a fresh water intake arranged to pass the first heating element, an intake valve to control the flow of water through the fresh water intake, a water output, and a shower waste, wherein during a normal mode of operation, the intake valve is configured to allow a flow of water from the fresh water intake to pass by the first heating element and out of the water output, characterised in that the system is adapted to switch between the normal mode and a recycle mode of operation, the recycle mode comprising a waste water intake, and a waste valve connected to the shower waste, wherein the waste valve is configured to close in order to allow collection of waste water for diversion of water through the waste water intake, past a heating element and out of the water output.
US11447938B2	Wear part removal system A wear part removal system includes a handle, a positioning system configured to control an approach angle of the wear part removal system to a wear part, a clamping system that includes a plurality of clamps and that is configured to clamp the wear part, a contact component configured to contact a portion of the wear part, and a vibrator device configured to generate a vibratory force that is to be transmitted to the wear part.
US11447932B2	Control system and method for work machine, and work machine A work machine includes a work implement. A control system for the work machine includes a controller. The controller acquires cliff position data. The cliff position data indicates a position of a cliff included in an actual topography of a work site. The controller determines a target design topography located below the actual topography. The controller determines an end position of work by the work implement from the cliff position data. The controller generates a command signal to move a work implement according to the end position and the target design topography.
US11447930B2	System and methods for cycle time management A hydraulic work system can include a continuously variable displacement hydraulic pump that is powered by an engine and is in communication with a hydraulic actuator. A run-time displacement of the hydraulic pump for movement of the hydraulic actuator can be controlled based on a speed of the engine.
US11447929B2	Construction machine The construction machine includes: an input interface which permits an input of a provisional target position of the attachment in a virtual space; a target position calculation part which calculates an actual target position that is a target position of the attachment in a real space from the provisional target position; an operational amount calculation part which calculates an operational amount required to make a current position of the attachment coincide with the actual target position of the attachment coincide with the actual target position with respect to at least one driven target selected from a lower traveling body, an upper slewing body, a working device, and the attachment; and a control part which controls an operation of one of the actuators for driving the driven target in accordance with the calculated target operational amount.
US11447928B2	Display system, display method, and remote control system A display system includes: an image data acquisition unit that acquires a front image and a side image captured by an imaging device mounted on a work machine having a swing body swinging about a swing axis and working equipment supported by the swing body, the front image including at least an image in a front direction with respect to the swing axis, the side image including at least an image in a lateral direction to the swing axis, the lateral direction being orthogonal to the front direction; and a display control unit that displays the front image and the side image acquired by the image data acquisition unit on a display device existing outside the work machine.
US11447922B2	Vibratory compactor A vibratory compactor is provided. The vibratory compactor may include a compactor plate, a frame coupled to the compactor plate, wherein the frame may include an inner space and a housing. The frame may include a plurality of mounting brackets coupled between a first side member and a second side member of the frame. The vibratory compactor may include a vibration generation device coupled to the compactor plate within the inner space of the frame. The vibratory compactor may include a plurality of isolators, each isolator coupled to one mounting bracket of the plurality of mounting brackets. The housing may be coupled to the plurality of isolators, wherein the housing may include couplers removably coupled to a top surface of the housing. The couplers may be configured for coupling the vibratory compactor to an excavator type vehicle.
US11447920B2	System and method for hemp reinforced ice bridge A system and method for the construction of a hemp mat having consistent density whereby the hemp fiber mat may be used to strengthen ice or other entities for any number of applications and different types of construction designed such that it may be sturdy enough to stay bonded when it is transported, unrolled, and soaked during ice road construction but loose enough to break apart during spring to reduce blockage and environmental damage to the waterway on which the ice road was constructed.
US11447917B2	Device for moving a tongue rail of a switch A device for moving a tongue rail of a railway switch, comprising at least two rollers arranged one behind the other and substantially parallel to the course of the rail, on which rollers the tongue rail can roll up from a lower abutting position on the stock rail and directly in front of the first roller onto the first roller, and can roll on to another roller until the tongue rail reaches an open switch remote, wherein at least one additional intermediate roller that is smaller than the rollers, is provided in the space between the rollers, and wherein the axis of rotation of the intermediate roller is arranged substantially parallel to the axes of rotation of the rollers.
US11447913B2	Fungal textile materials and leather analogs Textile compositions comprising at least one filamentous fungus are disclosed, as are methods for making and using such textile compositions. Embodiments of the textile compositions generally include at least one of a plasticizer, a polymer, and a crosslinker, in addition to the filamentous fungus. The disclosed textile compositions are particularly useful as analogs or substitutes for conventional textile compositions, including but not limited to leather.
US11447912B2	Complex fibers of cellulose fibers with inorganic particles and processes for preparing them The present invention aims to provide complex fibers of a cellulose fiber with inorganic particles exhibiting better drainage and retention when they are used as materials for forming sheets. In the complexes of the present invention, (1) the weight ratio B/A between the inorganic content (B) in the residue remaining on a 60-mesh sieve (having an opening of 250 μm) after an aqueous suspension of a complex fiber having a solids content of 0.1% is filtered through the sieve and the inorganic content (A) in the complex fiber before treatment is 0.3 or more; or (2) the weight ratio C/A between the inorganic content (C) in fractions corresponding to an effluent volume (L) of 16.00 to 18.50 and an elution time (sec) of 10.6 to 37.3 and the inorganic content (A) in the complex fiber before treatment is 0.3 or more when an aqueous suspension of the complex fiber having a solids content of 0.3% is classified using a fiber classification analyzer under the conditions of a flow rate of 5.7 L/min, a water temperature of 25±1° C., and a total effluent volume of 22 L.
US11447909B2	Laundry treatment apparatus A laundry treatment apparatus that includes a cabinet having an opening; a drawer dischargeable from the cabinet through the opening; a receiving unit provided in the drawer for receiving water and laundry; a drain pump for discharging water from the receiving unit; a drain channel extending through a reference point set to be higher than a highest level of water that can be stored in the receiving unit, the drain channel being located outside the cabinet; and a connection channel located in the cabinet for connecting the drain pump and the drain channel to each other, wherein at least a portion of the drain pump is located lower than a bottom surface of the receiving unit is disclosed.
US11447899B2	Upper including a knitted component and a tab element An upper for an article of footwear may include a knitted component that includes a first knitted zone, a second knitted zone, and a third knitted zone. Each of the first knitted zone, the second knitted zone, and the third knitted zone may extend from a collar area of the upper to a biteline of the upper, where the first knitted zone, the second knitted zone, and the third knitted zone are each located at least partially in a heel area of the upper, and where the second knitted zone is located between the first knitted zone and the third knitted zone such that the second knitted zone is located in a central portion of the heel area. The second knitted zone may include an elasticity that is greater than an elasticity of the first knitted zone and also greater than an elasticity of the third knitted zone.
US11447897B2	Puncture resistant material A method for making puncture resistant material is made by aggressively twisting high modulus continuous filament polypropylene yarns and weaving the twisted yarns into a tight weave. Batting materials are placed adjacent the woven layer (which may comprise one or more individual woven layers) to form a stack and the stack is needlepunched to form a consolidated material. The material is heat treated and calendared and the finished product may be used in applications where puncture resistance is required, such as in a shoe insole material.
US11447888B2	Crystal fiber manufacturing method Provided is a method for producing a crystal fiber which can suppress the occurrence of stress birefringence even while distributing a light emission center so as to concentrate on a cross-sectional middle portion. The method for producing a crystal fiber comprises the steps of: using, as a preform, the crystal fiber comprising a light emission center that volatilizes from a melted portion upon the melting of a crystal, and heating a portion or a plurality of portions of the side of the preform, whereby the portion or the plurality of portions of the preform are melted such that only a given amount of the inside of the portion or the plurality of portions of the preform is not melted, to form the melted portion; and sequentially transferring the melted portion in the longitudinal direction of the preform, and cooling the melted portion, whereby the melted portion is continuously recrystallized to form a recrystallized region.
US11447884B2	Method for electrolytically passivating a surface of silver, silver alloy, gold, or gold alloy A method for electrolytically passivating a surface of silver, silver alloy, gold, or gold alloy, the method comprising the steps of (i) providing a substrate comprising the surface, (ii) providing an aqueous passivation solution comprising trivalent chromium ions, and one or more than one species of carboxylic acid residue anions, (iii) contacting the substrate with the passivation solution and passing an electrical current between the substrate as a cathode and an anode such that a passivation layer is electrolytically deposited onto the surface, wherein the trivalent chromium ions with respect to all species of carboxylic acid residue anions form a molar ratio in the range from 1:10 to 1:400.
US11447869B2	Manufacturing method for solar cell, solar cell, and solar cell manufacturing apparatus A method includes: forming an n-type diffusion layer as a second-conductivity-type semiconductor layer on a first-conductivity-type crystalline semiconductor substrate; and forming an anti-reflective film by a CVD method to extend from a light receiving surface side to a side surface of the semiconductor substrate, by placing the semiconductor substrate on a mount in a film forming chamber with a back surface brought into contact with the mount, evacuating and decompressing the film forming chamber, and supplying source gas into the film forming chamber. In the film formation, a tray has a through hole, and the anti-reflective film is formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate excluding the contact surface by bringing the semiconductor substrate into close contact with the contact surface by causing the through hole to have a negative pressure relative to the pressure in the film forming chamber by the evacuation.
US11447866B2	High temperature chemical vapor deposition lid Process chamber lids, processing chambers and methods using the lids are described. The lid includes a pumping liner with a showerhead, blocker plate and gas funnel positioned therein. A liner heater is positioned on the pumping liner to control temperature in the pumping liner. Gas is flowed into the gas funnel using a dead-volume free one-way valve with a remote plasma source.
US11447863B2	Particle coating device A particle coating device includes a container having a powder supply port that supplies a powder, a first rotation introducer provided below the powder supply port, a second rotation introducer provided below the first rotation introducer, a first magnet roller coupled with the first rotation introducer, a second magnet roller coupled with the second rotation introducer, a first drive unit that rotates the first magnet roller, a second drive unit that rotates the second magnet roller, a control unit that controls an operation of the first drive unit and an operation of the second drive unit, and a film forming unit that supplies a coating material for coating particles in the powder into the container. A product r1ω12 of a rotation radius r1 and a square of a rotation speed ω1 per unit time of the first magnet roller is larger than a product r2ω22 of a rotation radius r2 and a square of a rotation speed ω2 per unit time of the second magnet roller.
US11447857B2	Methods and apparatus for reducing tungsten resistivity Method and apparatus that forms low resistivity tungsten film on substrates. In some embodiments, a method of reducing resistivity of tungsten includes generating a plasma in a processing volume of a physical vapor deposition (PVD) chamber with a process gas of krypton and using an RF power with a frequency of approximately 60 MHz and a magnetron, applying bias power at frequency of approximately 13.56 MHz to a substrate, and sputtering a tungsten target to deposit a tungsten thin film on the substrate. At least approximately 90% of the deposited tungsten thin film has a <110> crystalline orientation plane approximately parallel to a top surface of the substrate.
US11447852B2	High-strength galvanized steel sheet, high-strength member, and method for producing high-strength galvanized steel sheet A high-strength galvanized steel sheet having improved post-work impact resistance, a method for producing the high-strength galvanized steel sheet, and a high-strength member produced using the steel sheet. The high-strength galvanized steel sheet includes a steel sheet having a microstructure including ferrite and carbide-free bainite, martensite and carbide-containing bainite, and retained austenite, the total area fraction of ferrite and carbide-free bainite being 0% to 55%, the total area fraction of martensite and carbide-containing bainite being 45% to 100%, and the area fraction of retained austenite being 0% to 5%. Additionally, a galvanizing layer is disposed on the steel sheet. The density of gaps that cut across the entire thickness of the galvanizing layer in a cross section of the galvanizing layer, which is taken in the thickness direction so as to be perpendicular to the rolling direction, is 10 gaps/mm or more.
US11447847B2	Copper-zinc-nickel-manganese alloy A copper alloy having the following composition (in % by weight) Zn: 17 to 20.5%, Ni: 17 to 23%, Mn: 8 to 11.5%, optionally up to 4% Cr, optionally up to 5.5% Fe, optionally up to 0.5% Ti, optionally up to 0.15% B, optionally up to 0.1% Ca, optionally up to 1.0% Pb, balance copper and unavoidable impurities, wherein the proportion of copper is at least 45% by weight. Further, the ratio of the proportion of Ni to the proportion of Mn is at least 1.7 and the alloy has a microstructure which has inclusions of MnNi and MnNh precipitates.
US11447839B2	Air conditioner The present invention relates to an air conditioner. The air conditioner according to the present embodiment has a refrigeration capacity of 7 kW to 11 kW, inclusive, and uses a refrigerant R134a as a refrigerant, and since a refrigerant pipe therein is made of a ductile stainless steel material having 1% or less of a delta-ferrite matrix structure with respect to the grain size area thereof, and includes a suction pipe guiding the suction of the refrigerant into a compressor and having an outer diameter of 15.88 mm, the refrigerant pipe can maintain strength and hardness as good as or better than those of a copper pipe, while also maintaining good processability.
US11447831B2	Methods of stratifying patients for treatment with retinoic acid receptor-alpha agonists The invention provides methods that define cellular populations that are sensitive to RARA agonists and identify patient subgroups that will benefit from treatment with RARA agonists. The invention also provides packaged pharmaceutical compositions that comprise a RARA agonist and instructions for determining if such agonist is suitable for use in treatment.
US11447830B2	Gene signatures to predict drug response in cancer Methods for identifying and treating cancers that are DNA repair, such as homologous recombination (HR) repair, defective or sensitive to PARP inhibitors or platinum-based therapy. In some aspects, DNA repair, such as HR repair, defective cancers are treated with a PARP inhibitor therapy or cisplatin. Methods for sensitizing cancers to a PARP inhibitor therapy are also provided.
US11447822B2	Nucleic acid constructs and methods of use The present invention provides oligonucleotide constructs, sets of such oligonucleotide constructs, and methods of using such oligonucleotide constructs to provide validated sequences or sets of validated sequences corresponding to desired ROIs. Such validated ROIs and constructs containing these have a wide variety of uses, including in synthetic biology, quantitative nucleic acid analysis, polymorphism and/or mutation screening, and the like.
US11447820B2	Methods and compositions for determining ploidy The invention provides improved methods, compositions, and kits for detecting ploidy of chromosome regions, e.g. for detecting cancer or a chromosomal abnormality in a gestating fetus. The methods can utilize a set of more than 200 SNPs that are found within haploblocks and can include analyzing a series of target chromosomal regions related to cancer or a chromosomal abnormality in a gestating fetus. Finally the method may use knowledge about chromosome crossover locations or a best fit algorithm for the analysis. The compositions may comprise more than 200 primers located within haplotype blocks known to show CNV.
US11447817B2	Systems and methods for generation of emulsions with suitable clarity with applications of use The inventions cover systems and methods for generation of emulsions having suitable clarity without requiring refractive index matching between emulsion components. Systems can include: a substrate including a set of openings; a reservoir facing the substrate at a first side and containing a sample fluid configured for droplet formation upon interacting with the set of openings of the substrate; and a collecting container facing the substrate at a second side and containing a set of fluid layers configured with a density gradient and suitable immiscibility characteristics. One or more components of the system(s) can support methods for emulsion generation, in relation to enabling interactions between multiple continuous phases and a dispersed droplet phase to generate clear emulsions. Applications of the inventions(s) can include performance of droplet-based digital PCR in an improved manner (e.g., without requiring implementation of correction factors based upon Poisson statistics).
US11447808B2	Biosynthetic production of steviol glycoside rebaudioside I via variant enzymes The present invention relates, at least in part, to the production of steviol glycoside rebaudioside I through the use of variant UGT enzymes having activity to transfer a glucosyl group from UDP-glucose to rebaudioside A to produce rebaudioside I.
US11447801B2	Process for the cell-free enzymatic production of 10-hydroxystearic acid (10-HSA) from bio-based oils for lubricant formulation The present invention relates to an enzymatic process for the modification of free fatty acids (FFAs) derived from renewable feedstocks of bio-based oils. Specifically, the invention describes the hydrolysis of any bio-based oil, such as high oleic sunflower oil (HOSO), to FFAs, containing high amounts of oleic acid (OA), which is further hydrated to 10-hydroxystearic acid (10-HSA).
US11447797B2	AAV with unique capsid protein VP1 and methods of using for treatment The invention provides an adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector comprising a capsid comprising the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4 or SEQ ID NO: 9, wherein the AAV vector further comprises a heterologous nucleic acid sequence, and wherein the heterologous nucleic acid sequence can encode the NGF-PTH fusion polypeptide or methylmalonyl CoA mutase enzyme. The invention also provides a polypeptide comprising nerve growth factor (NGF) signal peptide and parathyroid hormone (PTH), wherein the polypeptide can comprise, consist essentially of, or consist of the amino acid sequences of SEQ ID NO: 1 and SEQ ID NO: 2. The invention provides a nucleic acid encoding the polypeptide, a vector comprising the nucleic acid, and a composition comprising the polypeptide, nucleic acid, or vector, as well as treatment methods comprising the polypeptide, nucleic acid, vector, or composition. The invention further provides a method of treating methylmalonic acidaemia (MMA) in a mammal comprising administering an AAV vector comprising a heterologous nucleic acid sequence encoding methylmalonyl CoA mutase enzyme to the mammal.
US11447796B2	Circular RNA for translation in eukaryotic cells Methods and constructs for engineering circular RNA are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods and constructs comprise a vector for making circular RNA, the vector comprising the following elements operably connected to each other and arranged in the following sequence: a.) a 5′ homology arm, b.) a 3′ group I intron fragment containing a 3′ splice site dinucleotide, c.) optionally, a 5′ spacer sequence, d.) a protein coding or noncoding region, e.) optionally, a 3′ spacer sequence, f) a 5′ Group I intron fragment containing a 5′ splice site dinucleotide, and g.) a 3′ homology arm, the vector allowing production of a circular RNA that is translatable or biologically active inside eukaryotic cells. Methods for purifying the circular RNA produced by the vector and the use of nucleoside modifications in circular RNA produced by the vector are also disclosed.
US11447775B2	Antisense oligonucleotides targeting alpha-synuclein and uses thereof The present disclosure relates to antisense oligonucleotides, which target SNCA mRNA (e.g., at an intron exon junction) in a cell, leading to reduced expression of SNCA protein. Reduction of SNCA protein expression is beneficial for the treatment of certain medical disorders, e.g., a neurological disorder.
US11447772B2	miRNA as biomarker for Parkinson's disease and diagnostic kit using same The present invention relates to a method for providing information on the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. The present invention also relates to a composition for preventing, ameliorating or treating Parkinson's disease. The present invention uses at least one miRNA whose expression is specifically down- or up-regulated in a Parkinson's disease model. Therefore, the use of the miRNA is effective in diagnosing and treating Parkinson's disease.
US11447759B2	Carbohydrate degrading polypeptide and uses thereof The invention relates to a polypeptide having hemicellulase activity which comprises the amino acid sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27, 32, 37, 42, 47, 52, 57, 62, 67 or 72 or an amino acid sequence encoded by the nucleotide sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1, 6, 11, 16, 21, 26, 31, 36, 41, 46, 51, 56, 61, 66 or 71, SEQ ID NO: 4, 9, 14, 19, 24, 29, 34, 39, 44, 49, 54, 59, 64, 69 or 74, or a variant polypeptide or variant polynucleotide thereof, wherein the variant polypeptide has at least 75% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27, 32, 37, 42, 47, 52, 57, 62, 67 or 72 or the variant polynucleotide encodes a polypeptide that has at least 75% sequence identity with the sequence set out in SEQ ID NO: 2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27, 32, 37, 42, 47, 52, 57, 62, 67 or 72. The invention features the full length coding sequence of the novel gene as well as the amino acid sequence of the full-length functional protein and functional equivalents of the gene or the amino acid sequence. The invention also relates to methods for using the polypeptide in industrial processes. Also included in the invention are cells transformed with a polynucleotide according to the invention suitable for producing these proteins.
US11447757B2	Methods for using phytase in ethanol production The present disclosure relates to methods for using one or more polypeptides with phytase activity in grain processing, ethanol, and biofuel production.
US11447752B2	In vitro model for blood-brain barrier and method for producing in vitro model for blood-brain barrier Disclosed is a method for producing an in vitro model for blood-brain barrier, including (a) a culturing conditionally immortalized astrocytes on one surface of a porous membrane and culturing conditionally immortalized brain pericytes on the other surface of the porous membrane, until both of the cells become a sheet; (b) culturing conditionally immortalized brain microvascular endothelial cells in a culture vessel, until the cells become a sheet; (c) peeling off the sheet of conditionally immortalized brain microvascular endothelial cells; (d) allowing the sheet of conditionally immortalized brain microvascular endothelial cells to come into contact with the sheet of conditionally immortalized brain pericytes, so that the sheets are arranged in layers; and (e) co-culturing a cell culture comprising three layers consisting of the sheet of conditionally immortalized brain microvascular endothelial cells, the sheet of conditionally immortalized brain pericytes, and the sheet of conditionally immortalized astrocytes.
US11447750B2	System and method for extraction and cryopreservation of bone marrow Methods are provided for extracting bone marrow cells from bone obtained from deceased donors, for preparing the bone marrow for cryopreservation and for obtaining desired cells from cryopreserved and fresh bone marrow.
US11447745B2	End-to-end cell therapy automation The present disclosure provides an automated method of producing genetically modified immune cells, including chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T) cells, utilizing a fully-enclosed cell engineering system.
US11447735B2	Ultrasonic cellular stimulation device An ultrasonic cellular stimulation device includes: an ultrasonic transducer for generating a vibration wave; an upper cap having a fixing portion disposed on a lateral surface thereof; and a lower cap having a first surface and a second surface, and including: a recess indenting the first surface; an abutment portion located at a bottom of the recess; and an opening formed in the second surface and being in communication with the recess. The upper cap is partially received in the recess. The ultrasonic transducer is clamped and fixed between the fixing portion and the first surface. A glass piece is disposed on the abutment portion and fixed between the upper cap and the lower cap, such that the vibration wave is conveyed from the first surface into the abutment portion and the glass piece and a uniform and controllable sound field is generated above the glass piece.
US11447724B2	Compositions that include siloxane compounds having pendant silyl ether moieties Consumer product compositions that include siloxane compounds having pendant silyl ether moieties, which may include perfume raw material fragments. Such siloxane compounds. Methods related to such compounds and compositions.
US11447720B2	Liquid detergent composition The present invention provides a liquid detergent composition comprising anionic surfactants, optionally one or more nonionic surfactants, polyethylene glycol, and water, and wherein the liquid detergent composition has a pH of 7.0 to 7.5, wherein the liquid detergent composition has a viscosity at 25° C. and 20 s−1 in the range of 5 to 100 mPa s−1, and wherein the liquid laundry composition has stable viscosity between a temperature range of 10 and 40° C., and wherein the composition is adapted for application with a hand-held dispensing device used for washing by hand. The liquid detergent composition has a low constant viscosity throughout the temperature range of normal use and produces a stable foamy lather.
US11447716B2	Apparatus and method for acquiring essential oils A system and method for extracting essential oils is provided. One embodiment comprises an extractor assembly with an extractor cover, an extractor container, and an extractor assembly base, wherein the extractor container is secured between the extractor cover and the extractor assembly base during an extraction process; a bowl cover assembly with a collection bowl, and a bowl cover assembly base, wherein the collection bowl is secured between the extractor assembly base and the bowl cover assembly base during the extraction process; and a canister compression holder assembly, wherein a cannister containing a solvent is secured within the canister compression holder assembly during the extraction process. A solvent that is released from the cannister passes into the extractor container that contains matter that is to have essential oils extracted therefrom. The extracted oils exits the extractor assembly base into the collection bowl that collects the solvent with the essential oils.
US11447710B2	Separation of sulfurous materials The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for separation of sulfurous material(s) from a multi-component feed stream. The systems and methods can comprise contacting the multi-component feed stream with a solvent in a contacting column so that at least a portion of the sulfurous material(s) is transferred from the multi-component feed stream to the solvent. A stream of a substantially purified gas can thus be provided along with a liquid stream comprising at least a majority of the sulfurous material. In particular, the solvent can comprise liquid carbon dioxide, which can be particularly beneficial for removing sulfurous materials from multi-component feed streams.
US11447709B2	Methods for controlling deposits A method for improving the deposit control performance of a fuel comprises combining an additive having a chemical structure comprising a 6-membered aromatic ring sharing two adjacent aromatic carbon atoms with a 6- or 7-membered saturated heterocyclic ring, the 6- or 7-membered saturated heterocyclic ring comprising a nitrogen atom directly bonded to one of the shared carbon atoms and an atom selected from oxygen or nitrogen directly bonded to the other shared carbon atom, the remaining atoms in the 6- or 7-membered heterocyclic ring being carbon with the fuel. The additive may also be used for controlling deposits in a system which comprises the fuel, such as in a spark-ignition internal combustion engine.
US11447708B2	Raffinate hydroconversion for production of high performance base stocks Systems and methods are provided for production of base stocks with a viscosity index of at least 120 and/or a sulfur content of 300 wppm or less and/or a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 3.0 cSt to 8.0 cSt by hydroconversion of a raffinate from aromatic extraction of a feed. The base stocks can further have a reduced content of 3+ ring naphthenes, such as 4.0 wt % or less, or 1.0 wt % or less. The base stocks can be produced by performing an elevated amount of feed conversion relative to 370° C. during hydroconversion of the raffinate, and optionally additional conversion during catalytic dewaxing of the hydroconverted raffinate. The base stocks can optionally be blended with additional base stocks and/or lubricant additives for production of lubricant compositions.
US11447705B2	Means and methods for managing ammonia, amine and normal salt fouling in oil production and refining Methods for use in treating hydrocarbon streams are provided. The methods of the present disclosure include; introducing one or more alcohols into a hydrocarbon stream that includes one or more hydrolyzable chloride compounds; allowing the one or more alcohols to interact with, the one or more hydrolyzable chloride compounds; and increasing: one of a solubility value or a dispersancy value of at least a portion of the hydrolyzable chloride compounds in the hydrocarbon steam.
US11447704B2	Oxygenate separation using a metal salt A process, a system, and an apparatus for separation of an oxygenate from a stream is provided. More specifically, a stream comprising the oxygenate is introduced to a quench tower along with a caustic outlet stream comprising a metal salt. Contact between the oxygenate and the metal salt results in conversion of a portion of the oxygenate into a derivative salt. The derivative salt and unconverted oxygenate are condensed by quenching and substantially removed from the quench tower as an oxygenate outlet stream. The gaseous components of the stream, minus a substantial portion of the oxygenate, are removed from the quench tower as a quench outlet stream.
US11447698B2	Fertilizer Interpolymers useful for mixing with a fertilizer for the purpose of enhancing the efficacy of fertilizer nutrients in agricultural applications; and methods of inhibiting the precipitation of, and/or dispersing, inorganic elements in the fertilizer.
US11447697B2	Substrate processing gas, storage container, and substrate processing method A substrate processing gas of the present invention contains IF5; and IF7, in which a content of the IF5 is equal to or more than 1 ppm and equal to or less than 2% on a volume basis with respect to a total amount of the IF5 and the IF7.
US11447694B2	Method for manufacturing wavelength conversion member A method for manufacturing a wavelength conversion member that offers a high emission intensity and a high light conversion efficiency is provided. The method for manufacturing a wavelength conversion member includes providing a green body containing an yttrium-aluminum-garnet phosphor with a composition represented by Formula (I) below and alumina particles with an alumina purity of 99.0% by mass or more, primary-sintering the green body to obtain a first sintered body, and secondary-sintering the first sintered body by applying a hot isostatic pressing (HIP) treatment to obtain a second sintered body. (Y1-a-bGdaCeb)3Al5O12 (I) wherein a and b satisfy 0≤a≤0.3 and 0≤b≤0.022.
US11447693B2	Oil field chemical-carrying material and process for making the same An oil field chemical-carrying material comprising polymeric particles and a process for making the same are disclosed. An oil field chemical is integrally incorporated into the granulated particle. The oil field chemical is in particular a tracer and the particle is in particular a proppant for use in hydraulic fracturing of a subterranean formation. Methods of delivering oil field chemicals, methods of monitoring subterranean formations, methods of tracing flow of fluid from hydrocarbon reservoirs and methods of hydraulic fracturing subterranean formations are also disclosed.
US11447692B2	Using synthetic acid compositions as alternatives to conventional acids in the oil and gas industry An aqueous synthetic acid composition is provided for use in oil industry activities. The composition comprises: lysine and hydrogen chloride in a molar ratio ranging from 1:3 to 1:12.5, preferably from more than 1:5 to 1:8.5. The composition may further comprise a metal iodide or iodate and an alcohol or derivative thereof. The composition demonstrates advantageous properties for synthetic acids at temperatures above 90° C. The composition is useful in various oil and gas industry operations. Preferred embodiments of the composition provide substantial advantages in matrix acidizing by increasing the effectiveness of wormholing.
US11447691B1	Methods of making and using a wellbore servicing fluid for iron mitigation A method of servicing a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation, including placing into the wellbore a wellbore servicing fluid including a friction reducer, an iron control agent, and an aqueous fluid. The iron control agent can include a compound according to Structure I, a salt of Structure I, or combinations thereof: wherein R1, R1a, R2, R2a, R3 and R3a are defined as set forth in the specification. The methods in this disclosure can be used for iron mitigation.
US11447682B2	Water-soluble or water-swellable polymers as water loss reducers in cement slurries This invention relates to water-soluble or water-swellable polymers, containing a) 25-35 mol. % of one or more recurrent structural units of formula (1), where R1 and R2 represent hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, A represents a linear or branched C1-C12-alkylene, and Q+ stands for NH4+, Li+, Na+, K+, ½ Ca++, ½ Mg++, ½ Zn++, ⅓ Al+++, or organic ammonium ions of the formula [HNR5R6R7]+, b) 3 to 8 mol. % of one or more recurrent structural units of formula (2), where R1 represents hydrogen, methyl, or ethyl, X+ stands for H+, NH4+, Li+, Na+, K+, ½ Ca++, ½ Mg++, ½ Zn++, ⅓ Al+++, or organic ammonium ions of the formula [HNR5R6R7]+, B is a linear or branched alkylene group with 1 to 6 carbon atoms, and n is a whole number between 0 and 5, and c) 57 to 72 mol. % of a (meth)acrylamide.
US11447678B2	Coolant composition and cooling system This disclosure provides a nonaqueous coolant composition that is excellent in insulation property and heat resistance and has improved heat transfer characteristics. The embodiment is a coolant composition that includes at least one ether compound having 6 or more carbon atoms as a nonaqueous base and is substantially free of water.
US11447676B2	Working fluid for heat cycle, composition for heat cycle system, and heat cycle system To provide a working fluid for heat cycle having a low global warming potential, which can replace R410A, a composition for a heat cycle system comprising it, and a heat cycle system employing the composition. A working fluid for heat cycle, which comprises trifluoroethylene and 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, wherein the total proportion of trifluoroethylene and 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene based on the entire amount of the working fluid is from 70 to 100 mass %, and the proportion of trifluoroethylene based on the total amount of trifluoroethylene and 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene is from 35 to 95 mass %, a composition for a heat cycle system comprising the working fluid for heat cycle, and a heat cycle system employing the composition.
US11447669B2	Water vapor-blocking adhesive compound having highly functionalized poly(meth)acrylate Single- or double-sided adhesive tapes and methods at least partly encapsulate an (opto)electronic structure. The tapes and method include a carrier and at least one layer of a curable adhesive composition having the following components: (A) 20% to 99.9% by weight (based on the entirety of the curable adhesive composition) of a (co)polymer functionalized with epoxy groups and having a weight-average molar mass of at least 5000 g/mol, based on more than 30% to 100% by weight, (based on the entirety of the parent monomers of the epoxy-functionalized (co)polymer) of at least one type of (meth)acrylic (co)monomer (a) functionalized with an epoxy group; and (B) 0.1% to 5% by weight (based on the entirety of the curable adhesive composition) of at least one curing agent configured to induce curing of the (co)polymer (A) with reaction of its epoxy groups by thermal means and/or by supply of UV radiation.
US11447652B2	Polysaccharide coatings with oxygen barrier properties Disclosed herein are coated articles comprising a substrate having at least one surface, and a coating composition disposed in a substantially continuous layer on at least one surface of the substrate, wherein the coating composition is present in an amount sufficient to increase the oxygen barrier property of the substrate, and the coating composition comprises a polysaccharide derivative. The polysaccharide derivative can comprise a poly alpha-1,3-glucan ether compound, such as a quaternary ammonium alpha-1,3-glucan ether. Also disclosed is packaging comprising the coated article.
US11447641B2	Fibrous structured amorphous silica including precipitated calcium carbonate and compositions of matter made therewith A nano-composite structure. A synthetic nano-composite is described having a first component including a fibrous structured amorphous silica structure, and a second component including a precipitated calcium carbonate structure developed by pressure carbonation. The nano-composite may be useful for fillers in paints and coatings. Also, the nano-composite may be useful in coatings used in the manufacture of paper products.
US11447636B2	Bitumen solid at ambient temperature Granules of material usable as a road binder or sealing binder, including a core and a coating layer, where: the core is made of a first composition including at least one material chosen from: a bitumen base, pitch, and clear binder, and the coating layer is made of a second composition including: at least one viscosifying compound, at least one first anticaking agent selected from alkali and alkaline-earth metal silicates, and at least one second anti-caking agent distinct from the silicates. Also, a method for producing granules of material that can be used as a road binder or sealing binder, and the use thereof as a road binder, in particular for the production of coated materials. Also, a method for producing coated materials from granules of material that can be used as a road binder or as a sealing binder and a method for transporting and/or storing and/or handling granules.
US11447633B2	Method for producing a cold resisting and heat insulating composite glue composed of a hydrophobic aerogel and the related product thereof A method for producing a composite glue composed of a hydrophobic aerogel according to the present invention includes: (S1) mixing step; (S2) hydrolysis step; (S3) condensation step; (S4) aging step; (S5) high-temperature pulse washing step; (S6) drying step; and (S7) composition step. The obtained composite glue composed of a hydrophobic aerogel is high-viscosity glue made by blending the hydrophobic aerogel with an inorganic fiber, and the related product not only has good properties of cold resisting and heat insulating, but also is light and has appropriate strength, excellent flame retardancy, and excellent water repellency.
US11447623B2	Process for preparing a polypropylene composition The invention relates to a process for producing a polypropylene composition by sequential polymerization the polypropylene composition having an improved balanced combination of high flowability, high stiffness and impact, and high level of optical properties.
US11447619B2	Thermoplastic elastomer composition A thermoplastic elastomer composition and method of making the thermoplastic elastomer are disclosed. The thermoplastic elastomer may comprise a polymer blend. The polymer bland may comprise a non-crosslinked elastomer, oil, polyethylene, and antioxidant. The oil may be from about 15 wt. % to about 50 wt. % oil. The polyethylene may be from about 3 wt. % to about 30 wt. %. The antioxidant may be from about 0 to about 0.5 wt. %.
US11447618B2	Polymer composition, its use and a surface size The invention relates to a water-soluble polymer composition obtained by polymerizing in an aqueous polymerisation medium, which comprises degraded starch, at least following monomers: acrylamide and/or methacrylamide, and >2 mol-% of at least one unsaturated mono- or dicarboxylic acid(s) or salts thereof. The polymer composition has an anionic net charge at pH 7 and a dry solids content of >5 weight-%. The invention relates also to the use of the polymer composition for surface sizing of paper, board or the like as well as to a surface size composition comprising it.
US11447597B2	Toughened urethane acrylate compositions In various embodiments, a resin composition includes a urethane (meth)acrylate, a reactive diluent, and a urethane (meth)acrylate toughener. The urethane (meth)acrylate toughener includes at least one additional polyol having a number average molecular weight Mn of greater than 1,000 g/mol. Cured articles made from the resin composition have an average fracture toughness (KIc) value from 1 MPam1/2 to 3 MPam1/2 when measured in accordance with ASTM D5045. Processes for making the resin composition as well as processes using the resin composition are also provided.
US11447596B2	Polyurethane with improved tear strength The present invention relates to a thermoplastic polyurethane obtainable or obtained by reacting a polyisocyanate composition, a chain extender, and a polyol composition, wherein the polyol composition comprises a polyol (P1) which has a molecular weight Mw in the range from 1500 to 2500 g/mol and has at least one aromatic polyester block (B1). The present invention further relates to a process for producing a shaped body comprising such a thermoplastic polyurethane, and to shaped bodies obtainable or obtained by a process of the invention.
US11447594B2	Translucent polyurethane or polyisocyanurate foams The present invention relates to a process for producing translucent polyurethane and polyisocyanurate foams by reaction of a component A comprising A1 at least one polyol reactive with the component B; A2 optionally at least one amine; A3 water and optionally formic acid; A4 at least one foam stabilizer; A5 optionally auxiliary and/or additive substances; A6 optionally at least one flame retardant; A7 at least one catalyst; and a component B comprising B1 at least one aliphatic or cycloaliphatic polyisocyanate component or a combination thereof; and B2 optionally at least one hydrophilized isocyanate; and B3 less than 20 parts by weight of an aromatic polyisocyanate component, wherein the parts by weight of B3 are based on the sum of the parts by weight of B1 to B3 normalized to 100 parts by weight, characterized in that the reaction of the component A with the component B is carried out at an isocyanate index of at least 150, wherein the obtained translucent polyurethane and polyisocyanurate foams have a light transmission according to EN ISO 13468-2:2006 of at least 10% and a haze of at least 70%, determined according to ASTM D1003-13, in each case measured at a layer thickness of 20 mm. The present invention further relates to polyurethane and polyisocyanurate foams obtained by the process and to the use thereof as a construction element, as a wall element, as a floor element, in buildings, in vehicles or lamps.
US11447591B2	Multi-stage latex particles with peg in outer stage Disclosed herein is an aqueous latex composition comprising a substantially acrylic core-shell latex, wherein a water-retaining monomer is copolymerized to the shell. The Tg of the core ranges from about 0° C. to about 12° C., and the Tg of the shell ranges from about 13° C. to about 40° C. The mean volume average particle size of the latex ranges from about 125 nm to about 200 nm. The core-shell latex comprises at least one acrylic monomer having a solubility that ranges about 10 g/L to about 30 g/L at 30° C., and this at least one acrylic monomer is present in the shell polymer in an amount greater than about 50 wt. % of all monomers in the shell. Preferably, the at least one acrylic monomer is methyl methacrylate.
US11447589B2	Temperature-resistant and anti-collapse multi-branched polymer fluid loss reducer and preparation method thereof A main chain of a temperature-resistant and anti-collapse multi-branched polymer fluid loss reducer is composed of the following repeating unit (I): In the repeating unit (I): x:y:z=(20˜80):(20˜80):(2˜30); the R1 and R2 groups are alkylamines having a multi-branched structure. The beneficial effect of the multi-branched polymer fluid loss reducer is: introducing cheap acrylamide branch monomer into the polymer monomer system of acrylamide and 2-acrylamido-2-methylpropanesulfonic acid, the preparation process is simple, the reaction conditions are mild, and the production cost is significantly reduced.
US11447586B2	Olefin polymerization activators Embodiments of this disclosure include processes of polymerizing olefins, the process comprising contacting ethylene and a (C3-C40)alpha-olefin comonomer in the presence of a catalyst system, the catalyst system comprising a Group IV metal-ligand complex and an ionic metallic activator complex, the ionic metallic activator complex comprising an anion and a countercation, the anion having a structure according to formula (I):formula (I)
US11447579B2	Concrete flow improvers and water reducers The present invention relates to a process for preparing a poly(meth)acrylic acid, characterized in that a (meth)acrylic acid-containing process stream from (meth)acrolein synthesis is subjected to free-radical polymerization. The invention also relates to the esterification of the polymer obtained to give a homopolymer or copolymer ester, and to the use thereof as additive, flow improver and water reducer.
US11447576B2	Cellulose ester compositions derived from recycled plastic content syngas A process for preparing a recycle cellulose ester and a recycle cellulose ester composition and articles made with such recycle cellulose esters comprising at least one cellulose ester having at least one substituent on an anhydroglucose unit (AU) derived from recycled plastic content syngas are provided. The recycled plastic content syngas can be obtained by gasifying feedstocks containing a solid fossil fuel such as coal, a plastic, and water. The plastic can be post-consumer or postindustrial plastic.
US11447572B2	Anti-ceramide antibodies Monoclonal antibodies directed to ceramide that inhibit apoptosis are disclosed. Humanized and scFv versions of the antibodies are also disclosed. Methods for prevention or treatment of apoptosis in a subject by administration of the anti-ceramide antibodies are disclosed.
US11447562B2	RP215 chimeric antigen receptor construct and methods of making and using same A chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) having an antigen binding domain capable of binding to CA215. The antigen binding domain can have a binding affinity and specificity similar to the RP215 antibody. Methods of making and using such CARs are provided. The CARs can be used to treat cancer.
US11447551B2	Binding molecules specific for claudin 18.2, compositions and methods thereof, for the treatment of cancer and other diseases Compositions and methods of making isolated binding molecules (e.g. an antibodies) or antigen-binding fragment thereof useful as therapeutics for treating and/or preventing diseases associated with cells expressing claudin18.2, including tumor-related diseases such as gastric cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, ovarian cancer, colon cancer, hepatic cancer, head-neck cancer, and cancer of the gallbladder are described. Also, described are pharmaceutical formulations comprising the described compositions for the treatment of diseases either as single agent (e.g., naked antibodies) or as adjuvant therapy with other antigen-binding anticancer agents such as immune checkpoint inhibitors (e.g., anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1/PD-L1 monoclonal antibodies), and/or by combination therapies where the anti-claudin18.2 antibodies are administered before, after, or concurrently with chemotherapy.
US11447550B2	Peptides for molecular detection of PD-L1 This disclosure relates to synthetic ligands for detecting PD-L1 in a sample or subject. The ligand can be labeled with a variety of detectable labels allowing of visualization and quantification. The ligand provides an alternative PD-L1 binding molecule with advantages over current antibody technologies for detecting PD-L1.
US11447548B2	Immunotoxins, formulations thereof and their use in medicine The present invention provides a composition comprising a first antibody molecule that specifically recognizes CD3 and a second antibody molecule that specifically recognizes CD7, for use in a method of treatment, or preventative treatment of viral infection or viral reactivation in a mammalian subject undergoing immunomodulatory treatment, wherein the first and second antibody molecules are each provided with a toxic moiety. Also provided is a method of treating a mammalian subject having, or being at risk of developing, chronic Graft versus Host disease (cGVHD). Also provided is a related pharmaceutical composition.
US11447545B2	Combination therapy using antibody to human Siglec-9 and antibody to human NKG2A for treating cancer This invention relates to agents that bind human Siglecs having inhibitory activity in immune cells, and that neutralize the inhibitory activity of such Siglec. Such agents can be used for the treatment of cancers.
US11447543B2	Antibodies to S. aureus surface determinants Antibodies and antigen binding fragments thereof directed against Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) surface determinant antigens and secreted toxins are disclosed. Methods of detecting, diagnosing and treating S. aureus using the antibodies and antigen binding fragments thereof are also provided.
US11447529B2	Microcin MccY, and preparation method and use thereof The present disclosure discloses a Microcin MccY, and a preparation method and use thereof, wherein the amino acid sequence of the Microcin MccY is GGRGHIAEYFSGPITQVSFYG. Compared with Microcin MccJ25 that only has a bactericidal activity against a small part of serotypes of Salmonella such as Salmonella enteritidis, the Microcin MccY has bacteriostatic/bactericidal effects on Salmonella Pullorum, Salmonella typhimurium, Salmonella kentucky, Salmonella Infantis, Salmonella London, and Shigella sonnei, and can kill other serotypes of Salmonella that MccJ25 cannot kill. Especially, the Microcin MccY has an outstanding bactericidal effect on Salmonella typhimurium and Salmonella Pullorum which are common in livestock and poultry production, and meanwhile it also has bacteriostatic/bactericidal effects on Shigella sonnei. Therefore, the Microcin MccY overcomes the shortcoming of the narrow spectrum of the Microcin, has breakthrough significance, and has the potential as a substitute to antibiotics.
US11447518B2	Phosphoramidates for the treatment of hepatitis B virus Disclosed are compounds to the treatment of infectious diseases and methods of treating such diseases. The compounds are derivatives of clevudine.
US11447515B2	Triterpene saponins, methods of synthesis and uses thereof The present invention relates to triterpene glycoside saponin-derived adjuvants, syntheses thereof, intermediates thereto, and uses thereof. QS-7 is a potent immuno-adjuvant that is significantly less toxic than QS-21, a related saponin that is currently the favored adjuvant in anticancer and antiviral vaccines. Tedious isolation and purification protocols have hindered the clinical development of QS-7. A novel semi-synthetic method is provided wherein a hydrolyzed prosapogenin mixture is used to synthesize QS-7, QS-21, and related analogs, greatly facilitating access to QS-7 and QS-21 analogs for preclinical and clinical evaluation.
US11447514B2	(Thio)nicotinamide ribofuranoside salts and compositions, methods of making, and uses thereof The present invention relates to crystalline (thio)nicotinamide ribofuranoside salts, methods of making such crystalline salts, a pharmaceutical composition comprising same, and use of said crystalline salts as nutritional (dietary) supplements. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a composition comprising amorphous (thio)nicotinamide ribofuranoside salts and its use as nutritional (dietary) supplement.
US11447510B2	Preparation of psilocybin, different polymorphic forms, intermediates, formulations and their use This invention relates to the large-scale production of psilocybin for use in medicine. Move particularly, it relates to a method of obtaining high purity crystalline psilocybin, particularly, in the form of Polymorph A. It further relates to a method for the manufacture of psilocybin and intermediates in the production thereof and formulations containing psilocybin.
US11447506B2	Crystal forms of crisaborole in free form and preparation method and use thereof The present invention relates to four crystal forms of crisaborole in free form and the preparation method thereof. The present invention also relates to the pharmaceutical composition containing the crystal forms and the use thereof.
US11447504B2	Macrocyclic chlorine substituted indole derivatives The present invention relates to macrocyclic indole derivatives of general formula (I): in which R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, A and L are as defined herein, methods of preparing said compounds, intermediate compounds useful for preparing said compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and combinations comprising said compounds, and the use of said compounds for manufacturing pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular of hyperproliferative disorders, as a sole agent or in combination with other active ingredients.
US11447501B2	Biphenyl-containing diarylpyrimido compounds, pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, composition and preparation thereof A biphenyl-containing diarylpyrimido compound of formula (I), which is prepared by reacting a 4-chloropyrimidine derivative with a biphenyl derivative in a solvent in the presence of a base. A pharmaceutically-acceptable salt of the compound (I) and a pharmaceutical composition containing the compound (I) or a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt thereof are also provided.
US11447498B2	Fused tetracyclic compounds and uses thereof in medicine A fused tetracyclic compound and application thereof in medicine, especially as a medicament for the treatment and/or prevention of hepatitis B. A compound having Formula (I) or a stereoisomer, a tautomer, an N-oxide, a solvate, a metabolite, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a prodrug thereof, in medicine, especially as a medicament for the treatment and/or prevention of hepatitis B, wherein each variable is as defined in the specification.
US11447496B2	Nitrogen-containing fused heterocyclic ring compound and application thereof The present invention relates to a nitrogen-containing fused heterocyclic ring compound and application thereof. The compound has the structural formula (I): using the described compound, it is possible to fabricate a device having higher stability and a longer service life.
US11447489B2	Dihydropyrimidinylthiazole for the treatment and prophylaxis of hepatitis B virus infection The present invention provides novel compounds having the general formula: wherein R1, R2, X, Y and A are as described herein, compositions including the compounds and methods of using the compounds.
US11447481B2	Microbiocidal oxadiazole derivatives Compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, useful as pesticides, especially as fungicides.
US11447477B2	Indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase inhibitor, the preparative method and the use thereof Provided is a compound represented by formula (I). Also provided are a pharmaceutical composition containing the compound of formula (I) and use of the compound in preparing indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) inhibitor drugs. The compound or the pharmaceutical composition thereof can be used for preparing drugs for preventing and/or treating diseases having pathological features of IDO-mediated tryptophan metabolic pathways.
US11447469B2	Hetero ring-fused phenyl compounds for inhibiting TNIK and medical uses thereof The present disclosure provides the compound having inhibitory property against TNIK having a specific chemical structure or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt. The present disclosure also provides a composition comprising the compound or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt. The present disclosure also provides a medical use of the compound, its salt or the composition comprising the compound or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt for treating or preventing cancer. The present disclosure also provides a method of treatment or prevention of cancer comprising administering the compound, its salt or the composition comprising the compound or its salt to a subject in need of such treatment or prevention.
US11447455B2	Polymorphs of herbicidal sulfonamides Solid polymorphic forms of sulfentrazone are described. Particularly, a new polymorphic form of sulfentrazone is described herein as sulfentrazone-1, having surprising property advantages over technical sulfentrazone. Processes for the preparation of sulfentrazone-1, herbicidal compositions comprising sulfentrazone-1, and methods of its use are described.
US11447454B2	Synthesis of benzodiazepine derivatives The invention relates to processes for the synthesis of benzodiazepine derivatives of Formula I:
US11447453B2	Metabotropic glutamate receptor negative allosteric modulators (NAMs) and uses thereof Provided herein are small molecule active metabotropic glutamate subtype-2 and -3 receptor negative allosteric modulators (NAMs), compositions comprising the compounds, and methods of using the compounds and compositions.
US11447451B2	Solid supports and phosphoramidite building blocks for oligonucleotide conjugates Novel non-nucleoside solid supports and phosphoramidite building blocks for preparation of synthetic oligonucleotides containing at least one non-nucleosidic moiety conjugated to a ligand of practical interest and synthetic processes for making the same are disclosed. Furthermore, oligomeric compounds are prepared using said solid supports and phosphoramidite building blocks, preferably followed by removal of protecting groups to provide oligonucleotides conjugated to ligands of interest.
US11447446B2	Process of fluorinating inorganic or organic compounds by direct fluorination The invention relates to a use of a fluorination gas, and the elemental fluorine (F2) is present in a high concentration, for example, in a concentration of elemental fluorine (F2), especially of equal to much higher than 15 or even 20% by volume, and to a process for the manufacture of a fluorinated compound by direct fluorination employing a fluorination gas, wherein the elemental fluorine (F2) is present in a high concentration. The process of the invention is directed to the manufacture of a fluorinated compound, for the exception of fluorinated benzene, by direct fluorination. Especially the invention is of interest in the preparation of fluorinated organic compounds, final products and as well intermediates, for usage in agro-, pharma-, electronics-, catalyst, solvent and other functional chemical applications. The fluorination process of the invention may be performed batch-wise or in a continuous manner.
US11447441B2	Site-specific isotopic labeling of 1,4-diene systems Methods for preparing isotopically modified 1,4-diene systems from non-isotopically modified 1,4-dienes involve selective oxidation of one or more bis-allylic position(s), or the preparation of isotopically modified 1,4-diene systems via trapping pi-allylic complexes with a source of deuterium or tritium. Such methods are useful for preparing isotopically modified polyunsaturated lipid including polyunsaturated fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acid derivatives.
US11447433B2	Enhanced oxygen transfer agent systems for oxidative dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons Enhanced oxygen transfer agent systems and methods of use thereof are provided. According to one aspect, a method for producing olefins from a hydrocarbon feed includes the step of contacting a hydrocarbon feed comprised of one or more alkanes with an oxygen transfer agent at a temperature of 350° C. to 1000° C. The oxygen transfer agent includes an oxygen-donating chalcogen agent including at least one of S, Se, or Te and a reducible metal oxide. The chalcogen has an oxidation state greater than +2. A method for producing one or more olefins by partial combustion of a hydrocarbon feed is provided. The method includes partially combusting a hydrocarbon feed comprised of one or more alkanes by contacting the hydrocarbon feed with an oxygen transfer agent comprising CaSO4 at a temperature of 350° C. to 1000° C. to produce one or more olefins comprising ethylene and coproducing water.
US11447427B2	Methods for controlling pathogenic plant nematodes and for improving the health and/or performance of ruminant animals Methods for controlling pathogenic plant nematodes using organic soil amendments applied to soil and/or plants, methods of improving the performance and/or improving the health of a ruminant animal and methods of decreasing nematodes in a ruminant animal are described.
US11447426B2	Forming evaporite mineral products and their use as fertiliser A method for separating a particulate stream of an evaporite mineral feedstock, the method comprising passing the stream to an air classifier configured to separate the particulate stream into a fine component and a coarse component.
US11447423B2	Method for obtaining ceramic barbotine for the production of filaments for 3D-FDM printing, barbotine obtained using said method, and ceramic filaments The present invention is a method for obtaining a ceramic slurry for the production of filaments for 3D FDM printing, comprising adding a polysaccharide, a glycol or an ethanolamine as a gelling agent to a suspension of ceramic material in order to produce said ceramic slurry. The invention also comprises the green body obtained from said slurry and the ceramic filament extruded from the green body.
US11447421B2	Garnet compound, oxide sintered compact, oxide semiconductor thin film, thin film transistor, electronic device and image sensor A sintered oxide contains In element, Y element, and Ga element at respective atomic ratios as defined in formulae (1) to (3) below, 0.80≤In/(In+Y+Ga)≤0.96 (1), 0.02≤Y/(In+Y+Ga)≤0.10 (2), and 0.02≤Ga/(In+Y+Ga)≤0.10 (3), and Al element at an atomic ratio as defined in a formula (4) below, 0.005≤Al/(In+Y+Ga+Al)≤0.07 (4), where In, Y, Ga, and Al in the formulae represent the number of atoms of the In element, Y element, Ga element, and Al element in the sintered oxide, respectively.
US11447419B2	Lightweight aggregate ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) and preparation method thereof The disclosure relates to the technical field of building materials, and in particular, to lightweight aggregate ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) and a preparation method thereof. The lightweight aggregate UHPC provided in the disclosure is prepared from the following components in parts by weight: cement 220-260 parts; silica fume 100-120 parts; expanded perlite powder 120-160 parts; expanded perlite 230-260 parts; polycarboxylate superplasticizer 15-20 parts; steel fiber 76-93 parts; and water 140-160 parts, where a maximum particle size of the expanded perlite powder is 0.075 mm; and a particle size range of the expanded perlite is 0.075-0.6 mm. The lightweight UHPC prepared according to the design of the disclosure has excellent density performance, and can satisfy requirements of concrete components, etc. in service in super-long-span bridges, super high-rise buildings, and complex marine environments for lightweight, ultra-high strength, and ultra-high durability of cement-based materials, and has a relatively high promotion value.
US11447417B2	Enhanced ion exchange methods Methods of enhanced ion exchange (IOX) include exposing a substrate to a bath mixture that includes a second salt dissolved in a first salt, the second salt includes the same metal ion as the first salt with an anion different from the first salt. The first salts are conventional nitrate salts into which one or more second salts, for example, carbonate, sulfate, chloride, fluorine, borate, or phosphate salts are dissolved. The second salts remain at or below their solubility limits in the first salts. Any poisoning ions remain at or below their solubility limits in the bath mixture. Glass-based articles made therefrom and electronic devices incorporating the glass-based articles are also disclosed.
US11447415B2	Zircon compatible, ion exchangeable glass with high damage resistance Glasses having a high degree of resistance to damage cause by abrasion, scratching, indentation, and the like are disclosed. In embodiments, the glasses may include at least 50 mol % SiO2; 9 mol % to 22 mol % Al2O3; Na2O; Li2O; at least 10 mol % R2O, wherein R2O is the sum of alkali metal oxides in the glass; 2.7 mol % to 4.5 mol % B2O3; and greater than 0.1 mol % of MgO+ZnO, wherein (B2O3—(R2O—Al2O3)) is greater than or equal to 3.
US11447413B2	Continuous sol-gel process for producing silicate-containing glasses or glass ceramics A continuous sol-gel process for producing silicate-containing glasses and glass ceramics is proposed, comprising the following steps: (a) continuously feeding a silicon tetraalkoxide, a silicon alkoxide with at least one non-alcoholic functional group and an alcohol into a first reactor (R1), and at least partially hydrolyzing by the addition of a mineral acid to obtain a first product stream (A); (b) continuously providing a second product stream (B) in a second reactor (R2) by feeding a metal alkoxide component or continuously mixing an alcohol and a metal alkoxide component; (c) continuously mixing product streams (A) and (B) in a third reactor (R3) for producing a presol to obtain a third product stream (C); (d) continuously adding water or a diluted acid to the product stream (C) to obtain a sol (gelation); (e) continuously filling the emerging sol into molds to obtain an aquagel; (f) drying the aquagels to obtain xerogels; (g) sintering the xerogels to obtain silicate-containing glasses and glass ceramics.
US11447411B2	Methods and apparatuses for facilitating purification of sludge and tailing Disclosed herein is an apparatus for facilitating purification of sludge and tailing, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, a sedimentation unit receives sludge and tailing in a first tank, separates wastewater from the sludge and the tailing, and transfers the wastewater from the first tank to a second tank. Further, a centrifugal unit creates a vortex in the wastewater. Further, a thermal hydrolysis unit coagulates a second impurity of the wastewater using coagulants and transfers the wastewater from the second tank to a third tank. Further, a digesting unit digests a macromolecule of the wastewater into a compound and transfers the wastewater from the third tank to a fourth tank. Further, a nutrient removal unit filters the wastewater from the compound and transfers the wastewater from the fourth tank to a fifth tank. Further, a reservoir unit disinfects the wastewater and stores the wastewater in the fifth tank.
US11447399B2	Method for producing nickel lithium metal complex oxide powder of small particle size [Task] To provide a preparation method of a nickel-lithium metal composite oxide powder [Means for Resolution] In a preparation method of a nickel-lithium metal composite oxide powder having a small particle diameter, aggregation of particles and excessive crushing of particles do not occur, by performing the firing at a temperature equal to or lower than a melting point of lithium carbonate by using lithium carbonate as a lithium source, and therefore, a preparation method of a nickel-lithium metal composite oxide powder having a small particle diameter, in which fine powder or cracks of particles are not generated, is provided.
US11447385B2	Disposable beverage dispenser A novel disposable beverage dispenser is provided. The present invention provides a beverage dispenser that allows a user to easily serve several bagged beverages from a single container that is more convenient, presentable and pleasing for use in parties, meetings, and other social gatherings. The invention is particularly suited to serving wine and spirits. The invention presents multiple dispensing pockets and corresponding tap configurations for bagged beverages in a single, easy to carry container.
US11447376B2	Combined transporter and master transporter thereof A combined transporter and a master transporter thereof are provided. The combined transporter includes a master transporter and a sub-transporter. The master transporter includes: a vehicle transferring cart, including a bottom support and two side supports connected to two opposite sides of the bottom support; an elevating assembly, configured on the bottom support and between the two side supports, wherein the elevating assembly is slidably connected to the two side supports, and the elevating assembly is configured to elevate up and down along a direction perpendicular to a main surface of the bottom support and limited by the two side supports. The sub-transporter is configured to move out of or move into the elevating assembly along a passage defined by the two side supports, and the sub-transporter is configured to transfer a vehicle between the elevating assembly and a parking spot.
US11447369B2	Electrically heated elevator tension member An illustrative example embodiment of a method provides control over a temperature of a jacket on an elevator tension member that includes at least one electrically conductive cord that is at least partially covered by the jacket. The method includes determining an amount of electrical energy needed to achieve a desired temperature of the jacket and supplying the determined amount of electrical energy to the electrically conductive cord.
US11447364B2	Method for determining an absolute position of a moving travel unit of a stationary transport system Methods for determining an absolute position of a moving travel unit of a stationary transport system, the travel unit movable along a travel path inside the system. The travel unit is driven by at least one linear motor along the path. The linear motor is a synchronous motor including a plurality of stator units installed along the travel path configured to provide a magnetic field traveling along the travel path. At least one rotor unit is attached to the travel unit and is configured to be driven along the travel path by the traveling magnetic field. Wherein respectively by analysis of regulating parameters of a vector regulation of the linear motor an active stator unit is determined from the plurality, which presently provides the magnetic field driving the rotor unit and a relative position of the rotor unit in relation to the active stator unit is computed.
US11447363B2	Hose holder The present invention is directed to a hose holder that nests individual hose loops separately in grooves formed on (or forming) a sloped surface. The holder includes a series of arched grooves, each groove provided at a different position along the slope of the surface such that adjacent grooves are at different vertical heights when the holder is mounted for use. Grooves further from the mounting point are lower than those nearer. In general, each groove is wide enough to hold and guide a single loop of hose and is configured for easy deployment of the hose when the hose is pulled away from the hose holder.
US11447357B2	Recording device Provided is a recording device that includes a recording head that ejects a liquid, a discharge unit that discharges a recorded recording medium, a discharge tray that receives a discharged recording medium, a first blowing unit that is disposed above the discharge unit and blows air toward one surface of the recording medium to be discharged to the discharge tray, and a second blowing unit that is disposed between the discharge unit and the discharge tray and blows air toward the other surface of the recording medium to be discharged to the discharge tray, and a control unit that controls the first blowing unit and the second blowing unit, in which deformation of the recording medium to be discharged is suppressed by the wind of the first blowing unit and the second blowing unit and the recording medium is discharged.
US11447352B2	Sensor control apparatus, sensor system, and image forming apparatus Provided is a sensor control apparatus including a main board, a first sensor, a second sensor, and a third sensor, which are connected in series to the main board. The first sensor includes a diagnosis unit configured to perform a failure diagnosis of each of an LED, a phototransistor, and an LED controller. In a case where a failure is detected, the diagnosis unit electrically isolates the first sensor from the series connection, and supplies a power supply voltage to the second sensor.
US11447339B2	Manufacturing process for a reinforced conveyor belt and product thereby obtained The invention relates to a manufacturing process for a reinforced conveyor belt and product thereby obtained comprising a plurality of plastic modules wherein each module comprises at least one opening that houses a roller and is configured to rotate with respect to a shaft, which consists of a metal tube able to be filled with plastic material; and which comprises the stages of (i) inserting the shaft in an injection mold for a plastic module in the region corresponding to the opening; and (ii) a single stage of injecting the plastic module such that said injected plastic fills the inside of the shafts forming a single assembly or structure with the body of the module.
US11447336B2	Robotic cargo handling system and method A system and method for robotic container storage, handling, and transfer system and method includes a grid structure formed of two substantially perpendicular sets of rails above a portion of at least one transport network, a robotic load handling device operating on the grid structure, a vehicle means located on the at least one transport network below the grid structure configured to receive a container, the robotic load handling device being provided with an engaging means for engaging the container and a lifting means configured for lifting the container from the vehicle means for movement to an alternative location, wherein one or more portions of the rails above the vehicle means of the transport network are missing in a direction transverse to a direction of the transport network forming one or more open grid spaces enabling alignment of the robotic load handling device above the vehicle means.
US11447333B2	Trash bag retaining apparatus The present disclosure relates to a trash bag retaining apparatus and system that secures a trash bag inside a trash receptacle and enables a sliding motion for subsequent removal of the secured trash bag. In particular, the apparatus includes a proximal end insertable into a support arm of a trash receptacle. The distal end includes a slide stop in addition to an abutment face that abuts the support arm upon insertion of the proximal end into the support arm. The abutment face is sized and shaped to match a size and shape of the support arm. Further, the distal end also includes one or more surfaces defining an inlet, positioned between the slide stop and the abutment face, where the trash bag retaining apparatus can secure a portion of the trash bag to the support arm.
US11447330B2	Machine and methods for dispensing nutritional supplements and multi-serving cartridge therefor A granulated nutritional supplement dispensing machine extracts single-serving doses from a multi-serving supplements cartridge for delivery as a drinkable solution. A lead serving chamber is pierced so that its powered contents drain into a mixing cup together with a metered quantity of water from an integrated water tank. A vibrator unit assists drainage of the granulated materials from the lead serving chamber. The mixing cup is rotated at high speed to blend the water and supplements into a slurry. The supplements cartridge is indexed after (or before) use so that an unopened serving chamber is presented each time for extracting its supplements. This enables partially-used supplements cartridges to be used in the machine, as is conducive in multiple-user households. The supplements cartridge is configured with read-write data capability to indicate whether or not the contents of each serving chamber have been emptied.
US11447324B2	Container for microwave oven An object is to provide a microwave container configured to precisely discharge vapor from a vapor-discharging part to avoid any vapor discharge from the remaining portions, and the microwave container includes: a container main body having an opening in its upper portion; a flange part formed to extend outwardly from the opening of the container main body; and a heat-seal part in a rib shape formed over the entire periphery of an upper surface of the flange part and heat-sealed to a film-shaped lid member for sealing the opening, wherein the heat-seal part includes a first heat-seal part for discharging vapor generated in the container main body by breaking the heat seal with the lid member when the vapor reaches a predetermined pressure, and a second heat-seal part wider than the first heat-seal part.
US11447315B2	Co-extruded plasticized PVC-based packaging films and method for its production This invention relates to a method for the production of a co-extruded plasticized multi-layer PVC packaging film that consists of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC), a combination that consists of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) or other thermoplastics or elastomers that can be co-polymerized with PVC, having a plasticizer migration behavior from the film composite, which is reduced compared to comparable mono-layer plasticized PVC films and is maximally restricted to 40 mg/dm2. The invention also relates to a co-extruded plasticized multi-layer PVC packaging film that consists of polyvinyl chloride (PVC), polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC), a combination that consists of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) or other thermoplastics or elastomers that can be co-polymerized with PVC, having a plasticizer migration behavior from the film composite, which is reduced compared to comparable plasticized mono-layer PVC films and is maximally restricted to 40 mg/dm2.
US11447310B2	Container having child-resistant senior-friendly features and method of using and making same A container (600) includes a base (650) having a floor portion (651) and an outer wall (652) extending upwardly therefrom. A lid (600) includes a ceiling portion (611) and an outer wall (612) extending downwardly therefrom, the lid being movable with respect to the base between a closed position and an open position. In the closed position the combined lid and base define a cavity configured to enclose product. One of the base and the lid includes a first maintaining tab (656) extending upwardly from the floor portion or downwardly from the ceiling portion. The first maintaining tab being positioned inwardly of the outer wall of the one of the base and the lid. The other one of the base and the lid including a first opening (622) extending there through. At least a portion of the first maintaining tab extending through the first opening to maintaining the lid in the closed position.

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