Patents Examined by Manish S. Shah
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Patent number: 11971259Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, devices and methods for contextualizing objects relative to a vehicle horizon. In one embodiment, a method is provided including identifying a vehicle horizon based on vehicle trajectory and roadway data relative to the vehicle position and vehicle trajectory. The vehicle horizon is identified to determine at least one roadway segment. Objects relative to the vehicle may be identified and assigned to a roadway segment. Objects may be contextualized by assigning only objects that are associated with the vehicles horizon. Each object assigned to a roadway segment is assigned based on the vehicle horizon. The method may include monitoring each object assigned to a roadway segment associated with the vehicle horizon. By monitoring assigned objects, objects of little to no consequence to the vehicle can be ignored and computing resources of the vehicle may not be wasted on tracking objects of no interest.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2024Assignee: HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATEDInventor: Gustavo Adolfo Fortmann
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Patent number: 11965044Abstract: Pressure-responsive particles include pressure-responsive base particles and fatty acid metal salt particles, in which the pressure-responsive base particles contain a styrene-based resin which contains styrene and other vinyl monomers as polymerization components and a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based resin which contains at least two kinds of (meth)acrylic acid esters as polymerization components and in which amass ratio of the (meth)acrylic acid esters to all polymerization components is 90% by mass or higher, the pressure-responsive particles have at least two glass transition temperatures, and a difference between the lowest glass transition temperature and the highest glass transition temperature is 30° C. or higher.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2021Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.Inventors: Yoshifumi Iida, Takashi Hasegawa, Satomi Kashiwagi, Takako Kobayashi, Satoshi Inoue
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Patent number: 11960049Abstract: Systems and methods are for determining and/or forecasting local atmospheric stability and/or turbulence. This information can be used to inform decisions regarding crop spraying, such as whether the atmospheric conditions are sufficiently turbulent to avoid airborne spray fines drifting in an undesirable manner. For example, a spray drift hazard alert system can include a data logger. The data logger is configured to: receive local meteorological observation data from one or more sensors at a location, analyze the data to determine a local vertical turbulence characteristic indicative of a current level of vertical turbulence at the location, compare the vertical turbulence characteristic with a predetermined threshold of the vertical turbulence characteristic, and transmit information to a client device indicating whether local meteorological conditions are suitable for crop spraying based on the comparison between the vertical turbulence characteristic and the predetermined threshold.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignees: The Western Australian Agriculture Authority, Grains Research and Development CorporationInventors: Warwick Grace, Graeme Tepper, Amy Stidworthy, Martin Seaton, David Carruthers
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Patent number: 11958292Abstract: A composite photoresist material and method of making the composite photoresist material. The composite photoresist material includes: a photoresist layer devoid of a phenoxy resin, and a photoresist layer containing a phenoxy resin.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Funai Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Sean T. Weaver
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Patent number: 11952501Abstract: An ink set of radiation curable ink jet compositions, includes: an under layer ink; and an over layer ink, and the under layer ink contains, as a polymerizable compound, 80.0 percent by mass or more of a monofunctional polymerizable compound with respect to a total mass of polymerizable compounds and contains 55.0 percent by mass or more of a polymerizable compound having a nitrogen heterocyclic structure and/or a polymerizable compound having a hydroxy group in total with respect to the total mass of the polymerizable compounds.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2021Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Midori Sekine, Kyohei Tanaka, Kiyoshi Nakamura
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Patent number: 11951758Abstract: The object is to obtain a printed product excellent in fastness to washing. To achieve the object, a printing method is provided. The printing method includes a forming step of forming a solvent UV ink layer (2) on a printing target object (1), a drying step of drying the solvent UV ink layer (2), a decorating step of forming a decorative layer (3) on the dried solvent UV ink layer (2), and a curing step of curing the decorated solvent UV ink layer (2) by irradiating the same with ultraviolet.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: MIMAKI ENGINEERING CO., LTD.Inventor: Tomotaka Furuhata
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Patent number: 11945960Abstract: The present invention relates to [1] an aqueous composition for ink-jet printing, containing a carbodiimide compound, a polyester resin and water; [2] a ink set for ink-jet printing containing an aqueous composition a containing a carbodiimide compound and water, and an aqueous composition b containing a polyester resin; [3] an ink set for ink-jet printing, containing the aforementioned aqueous composition for ink-jet printing and a water-based ink containing a colorant; and [4] an ink-jet printing method including the step 1 of ejecting a carbodiimide compound, a polyester resin, a colorant and water onto a surface of a printing medium by an ink-jetting method to print characters or images thereon; and the step 2 of subjecting the resulting printed characters or images to heat treatment at a temperature of 50 to 200° C. According to the aqueous composition of the present invention, it is possible to obtain a printed material that is excellent in rub fatness.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: KAO CORPORATIONInventors: Tomohiko Nagano, Teruyuki Fukuda, Takahiro Maeda
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Patent number: 11945959Abstract: The present invention relates to a method of printing an image on a fibrous substrate by inkjet printing, wherein the method comprises applying a water-based ink composition onto the substrate, wherein the ink composition comprises a carboxylic or sulfonic acid functional co-polymer having an acid number of ?225 mg KOH/g, a pigment, water and at least one organic co-solvent. The present invention also relates to use of said water-based ink composition for printing an image on a fibrous substrate by inkjet printing.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2021Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: SUN CHEMICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Paul Wallace, James Matthews
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Patent number: 11945961Abstract: A print material includes a vinylic molecule, a vinylic cross-linker molecule having a plurality of vinyl groups, a quantum dot, a light-scattering particle having a surface composition, and a dispersant having a chemical affinity matched to the surface composition. Methods of making and using such print materials are also described.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Kateeva, Inc.Inventors: Elena Rogojina, Inna Gurevitch, Teresa A. Ramos, Siddharth Harikrishna-Mohan, Robert Richard Roth, Noa Cohen, Elena Sheina
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Patent number: 11940333Abstract: A heat flux sensor including two temperature sensors is used to obtain time-series data of a core temperature of a living body, and a blood flow rate in a vicinity of the heat flux sensor is measured by a blood flow sensor. In an arithmetic circuit, a delay time until a fluctuation of the core temperature of the living body is reflected on an epidermis temperature is calculated on the basis of the blood flow rate measured by the blood flow sensor and a previously prepared relation between the blood flow rate and the delay time until the fluctuation of the core temperature of the living body is reflected on the epidermis temperature, and a time corresponding to the core temperature of the living body on the basis of the delay time is corrected.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone CorporationInventors: Michiko Seyama, Daichi Matsunaga, Yujiro Tanaka
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Patent number: 11940384Abstract: Devices and methods for determining the cumulative distribution of a polymer property in a reactor without physical separation of reaction subcomponents. The device includes a means of measuring an instantaneous property of the polymers being produced in a reaction vessel a plurality of times during a polymerization reaction as well as a means of determining the corresponding change in polymer concentration in the reaction vessel between measurements of the instantaneous polymer property. The device also includes a means of computing a statistical distribution appropriate to the polymer characteristic and applying the statistical distribution to a recently measured instantaneous value of the polymer property so as to have an instantaneous distribution of the polymer property and a means of adding together the instantaneous distributions of the polymer property in order to obtain the cumulative distribution of the polymer property in the reactor.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignees: Yokogawa Fluence Analytics, Inc., THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUNDInventors: Wayne Frederick Reed, Rick D. Montgomery, Michael Felix Drenski, Aide Wu
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Patent number: 11938734Abstract: A cleaning solution containing a compound represented by formula (1), a compound represented by formula (2), and water; and an inkjet printer cleaning method using the same. R1—O(EO)m(PO)nH??(1) R2—O(EO)LH??(2) In formula (1), R1 represents a linear or branched C1-C30 alkyl group. EO represents an ethyleneoxy group, and PO represents a propyleneoxy group. m and n each independently represent an integer of 1-5. m:n, which is the ratio between m and n, is at least 1:2 and smaller than 3:2. In formula (2), R2 represents a linear or branched C1-C30 alkyl group, or an aryl group. EO represents an ethyleneoxy group. L represents an integer of at least 10. Formula (1): R1—O(EO)m(PO)nH. Formula (2): R2—O(EO)LH.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: NIPPON KAYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Hirotoshi Takahashi, Ha Sai, Toru Ishii
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Patent number: 11932767Abstract: To provide an active energy ray-curable ink composition that contains high rates of raw materials derived from biomass and can maintain basic characteristics, such as compatibility. Provided is an active energy ray-curable ink composition containing a pigment, a compound having ethylenically unsaturated bonds, and a rosin-modified alkyd resin, wherein the rosin-modified alkyd resin is a condensed polymer of an acid ingredient containing a resin acid, a fatty acid, and a polybasic acid with a polyhydric alcohol, and has a solubility parameter (sp) value of 9.0 to 11.0 (cal/cm3)1/2 as measured by turbidimetric titration and an acid value of 1 to 50 mg KOH/g.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SAKATA INX CORPORATIONInventors: Keishiro Hishinuma, Naoki Omi, Yoshihiro Hisanaga, Aika Nishimoto
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Patent number: 11932025Abstract: A recording method for performing recording on a recording medium includes a processing liquid attaching step of attaching a processing liquid including an aggregating agent to the recording medium, a white ink attaching step of attaching a white ink composition including a white coloring material to the recording medium, and a non-white ink attaching step of attaching a non-white ink composition including a non-white coloring material to the recording medium, in which attachment of the white ink composition and attachment of the non-white ink composition are performed by relative scanning of a recording head and the recording medium, and attachment of the white ink composition and attachment of the non-white ink composition are performed on a scanning region of the recording medium by a relative scanning.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Tadashi Watanabe, Ippei Okuda
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Patent number: 11927563Abstract: A smart acoustic information recognition-based welded weld impact quality determination method and system, comprising: controlling a tip of an ultrasonic impact gun (1) to perform impact treatment on a welded weld with different treatment pressures, treatment speeds, treatment angles and impact frequencies, obtaining acoustic signals during the impact treatment, calculating feature values of the acoustic signals, and constructing an acoustic signal sample set including various stress conditions; marking the acoustic signal sample set according to impact treatment quality assessment results for the welded weld; establishing a multi-weight neural network model, and using the marked acoustic signal sample set to train the multi-weight neural network model; obtaining feature values of welded weld impact treatment acoustic signals to be determined, inputting the feature values into the trained multi-weight neural network model, and outputting determination results for welded weld impact treatment quality to be detType: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: NANTONG UNIVERSITYInventors: Liang Hua, Ling Jiang, Juping Gu, Cheng Lu, Kun Zhang, Kecai Cao, Liangliang Shang, Qi Zhang, Shenfeng Wang, Yuxuan Ge, Zixi Ling, Jiawei Miao
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Patent number: 11920561Abstract: The invention relates to a device for monitoring mechanical connection points in an installation, in particular in a wind turbine, having: at least one optical imaging device, which is designed to digitally capture optical images of one or more connection points repeatedly, in particular regularly or continuously; and a comparison device for comparing images with reference images or for comparing parameters of the images with reference parameters and for generating an error signal relating to the connection point reproduced in an image as soon as the deviations of the image from a reference image or of a parameter from a reference parameter exceed a specified threshold during imaging. Monitoring of mechanical connection points can thus be automated and systematised, and maintenance costs can be reduced. Operation of the monitored installation is also made safer.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Arne Bartschat, Matthias Stammler
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Patent number: 11915798Abstract: An apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: determine a degree of similarity between a target material and a first material based on a structure and characteristic of each of the target material and the first material; predict a characteristic value of the target material based on a first value representing the characteristic of the first material; and output the predicted characteristic value.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventor: Hideyuki Jippo
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Patent number: 11912051Abstract: An ink jet method includes a step of adhering ink jet compositions containing colorants and polymerizable compounds to be cured with radioactive rays to a recording medium by one printing operation, and the ink jet compositions includes an orange ink composition and a red ink composition.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Chigusa Sato, Kyohei Tanaka, Haruya Koyama
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Patent number: 11912885Abstract: There is provided a set including: a water-based ink for ink-jet recording including a dye and water; and a treatment agent including a cationic polymer emulsion which includes a cationic polymer including a urethane structure. There is provided a recording method for recording on a recording medium which is fabric or recording paper by using the set.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventors: Shinpei Ito, Yasuhiro Taga
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Patent number: 11904615Abstract: A recording method for recording on a recording medium, which is a non-white recording medium, includes a white ink adhering step of adhering a white ink containing a white coloring material to the recording medium, and a non-white ink adhering step of adhering a non-white ink containing a non-white coloring material to the recording medium, in which the white ink adhering step and the non-white ink adhering step are performed by causing a recording head to scan the recording medium, the white ink adhering step and the non-white ink adhering step are performed on a region of the recording medium by a scan, and the white ink adhering step and the non-white ink adhering step are performed such that, in the region where the white ink and the non-white ink are adhered, the mass ratio (A/B) of an adhesion amount A of the white coloring material to an adhesion amount B of the non-white coloring material per unit area is 0.03 or more and 0.99 or less.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATIONInventors: Keigo Ando, Ippei Okuda