Abstract: A method is provided for controlling virtual units in a virtual scene at a computing device. The method includes, in response to receiving a first user input, displaying, on a display device, a first user interface (UI) that includes a plurality of command elements, the plurality of command elements comprising a union set of virtual unit actions performable by each user controllable virtual unit available to a user in the virtual scene. The method also includes receiving a second user input indicating a selection of a command element among the plurality of command elements in the first UI. The method further includes controlling one or more virtual units in the virtual scene to execute an action corresponding to the selected command element, the one or more virtual units being selected according to the first user input.
Abstract: Systems, methods, articles of manufacture for authentication of payment cards. A server may assign, in a database, an expected card identifier to a contactless card, the contactless card associated with an account. The server may receive, from a client device, a request comprising a uniform resource locator (URL), a parameter of the URL comprising a card identifier, wherein the URL is transmitted by the contactless card to the client device. The server may extract the card identifier from the URL and compare the extracted card identifier to the expected card identifier in the database. The server may determine, based on the comparison, that the extracted card identifier matches the expected card identifier. The server may authenticate the request based on the extracted card identifier matching the expected card identifier, and transmit, to the client device, an indication specifying that the request was authenticated.
Abstract: A method of manufacturing a shaving razor. A circuit board is positioned within a handle. A first end of a flexible electrical bridge is connected to the circuit board. A second end of the flexible electrical bridge is connected to an energy emitting device. A loop is formed in the flexible electrical bridge by bending the flexible electrical bridge.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
January 5, 2022
Date of Patent:
April 22, 2025
Assignee:
The Gillette Company LLC
Inventors:
Norbert Broemse, Klaus Heubach, Maurice Schirmer, Jannik Loeper
Abstract: An agricultural vehicle includes a feederhouse having a first output shaft that is configured to be connected to a header, and a second output shaft that is also configured to be connected to the header. The first and second output shafts are configured to be operated at different rotational speeds on the feederhouse for driving different header drives on the header at different speeds.
Abstract: The present inventors have developed antigen-binding reagents and antigen-binding conjugates that recognize a cancer-specific glycan (carbohydrate) modification on the human Periostin protein. Various in vitro and in vivo diagnostic and/or therapeutic methods using these compositions are also disclosed herein specifically for treating cancers that have amplification of the Mgat3 gene.
Abstract: A bicycle crank may include a first lug, a second lug and a transition region. The first lug is for connecting a spindle. The second lug is for connecting a pedal. The transition region interconnects the first lug and the second lug, and is formed from a fiber reinforced thermoplastic material that includes a fiber component and a thermoplastic component.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 27, 2022
Date of Patent:
April 22, 2025
Assignee:
SRAM, LLC
Inventors:
Hong-Chou Lee, Chen-Hsiung Chen, En-Chieh Chen, Joachim Stuermer
Abstract: An infrared detection camera for the inspection of coated substrates. A corrosion sensing instrument is handheld, portable, battery powered, compact and lightweight. The camera performs nondestructive, real time imaging of corrosion and defects beneath painted metal or plastics or composite surfaces. The device includes a user-friendly computer interface for real time imaging and image storage capability and is typically used for detecting early stage corrosion beneath painted aircraft aluminum surfaces. The handheld device has a front “open air” imaging port which is designed to be placed in soft contact against the painted surface to be inspected by the instrument. The device includes an infrared camera and infrared lighting to capture an image of the surface. The captured image is transferred to a computer and analyzed to locate imperfections below a coating on a surface.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 10, 2022
Date of Patent:
April 22, 2025
Assignee:
LASER & PLASMA TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
Inventors:
Mool C. Gupta, Alexander C. Edrington, James I. Harp, Waverley D. Marsh, Guoqing Paul Shen
Abstract: Apparatus and method for interfacing an ophthalmic surgical laser system with a patient's eye using a single-piece patient interface (PI). The PI includes a hollow shell, with an applanation lens and a flexible skirt at its lower end. Through channels are formed around the applanation lens to connect the spaces above and below the lens. When the PI is coupled to the laser system and the eye, the upper rim of the shell forms a seal with the laser system and the flexible skirt forms a seal with the eye. A vacuum is applied to the interior of the shell via a vacuum port on the laser system, and the vacuum is communicated to the space enclosed by the applanation lens, the skirt and the eye through the channels around the lens. A magnetic mechanism is also provided to hold the PI shell to the laser system.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 17, 2023
Date of Patent:
April 22, 2025
Assignee:
AMO Development, LLC
Inventors:
Jose L. Garcia, Roger W. Accurso, Daryl Wong, Zenon Witowski
Abstract: In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful for ordering and securely delivering products. In some embodiments, a system for ordering and securely delivering products comprises an inventory system associated with a retailer, a system controller, and a storage container. The storage container includes a housing that enclosing a product cavity, a locking door configured to enable access to the product cavity, a user interface coupled to the housing, a wireless communication device, and a container control circuit configured to receive, via the user interface, an electronic purchase order for products from the retailer, transmit to the inventory system the electronic purchase order, receive from the system controller a signal instructing the container control circuit to unlock the door, and perform an electronic unlocking function causing the door to unlock.
Abstract: Methods and apparatus are described for facilitating the extraction of cleaner biometric signals from biometric monitors. A motion reference signal is generated independently from a biometric signal and then the motion reference signal is used to remove motion artifacts from the biometric signal.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 17, 2020
Date of Patent:
April 22, 2025
Assignee:
Yukka Magic LLC
Inventors:
Jonathan T. Walter, Steven Matthew Just, Wolfgang Wagner, Steven Francis LeBoeuf, Jesse Berkley Tucker, Michael Edward Aumer, Lawrence Christopher Eschbach, Seth Long
Abstract: A waveguide display system include a waveguide, an input coupler configured to couple display light into the waveguide, a first pupil expander, and a second pupil expander. The first pupil expander is configured to deflect, at a first plurality of locations along a first direction, the display light towards the second pupil expander. The second pupil expander is configured to deflect, at a second plurality of locations along a second direction different from the first direction, the display light from the first pupil expander towards an eyebox of the waveguide display system. At least one of the input coupler, the first pupil expander, or the second pupil expander includes transflective mirrors that are tilted within the waveguide such that the transflective mirrors are inconspicuous when viewed from an oblique angle.
Abstract: An adjustable clamp has first and second handles that are pivotally joined together and first and second jaws that extend respectively from the first and second handles and end in first and second nose tips. Each of the first and second jaws has an inner portion that is housed within an outer portion in a manner to allow relative movement between the inner portion and the outer portion to move the first and second jaws between a retracted position and an extended position to decrease and increase a longitudinal length of the first and second jaws. A spring is associated with the first and second handles and exerts a biasing force to move the first and second handles away from each other and cause the first and second nose tips to apply a clamping force.
Abstract: A knit sock includes a foot portion having an upper instep area and a lower sole area integrally knit of a body yarn in circumferential courses and axial wales. The lower sole area defines inner and outer arch regions. The inner arch region incorporates a targeted compression zone adapted to reside generally adjacent an inner arch of a wearer's foot. The compression zone includes axially extending compression ridges of variable length spaced apart from a top of the compression zone to a bottom of the compression zone. When the sock is worn, a compression force applied by the foot portion within the targeted compression zone is greater than the compression force in directly adjacent areas of said foot portion.
Abstract: The invention contemplates a copolymer which is a graft or block copolymer useful to change wettability and surface characteristics of biological surfaces. Methods for use of these formulations and coatings to change wettability and sterically stabilize, and lubricate biological surfaces in a subject, for example, in the treatment of dry eye syndrome, and to prevent adherence of unwanted proteins, for example in the treatment of contact lens intolerance, are provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 17, 2023
Date of Patent:
April 22, 2025
Assignee:
Calm Water Therapeutics LLC
Inventors:
Eugene Rex Cooper, David Maxwell Kleinman, Andrew Loxley, Mark A. Mitchnick
Abstract: An improved method and apparatus for removing acid gases and other impurities from raw biogas streams, such as biogas from landfills or biogas from controlled anaerobic digestion, is disclosed. The method provides efficient generation of high-purity renewable natural gas from raw biogas. The biogas is treated in a multi-stage membrane system integrated with compression equipment. The membrane separation stages are integrated with high-pressure and low-pressure compressors with the low-pressure compressor operating in a defined pressure range. The combined system provides for efficient contaminant removal from raw biogas to generate high-purity methane products with reduced membrane area and compression energy consumption.
Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training neural networks through contrastive learning. In particular, the contrastive learning is modified to use a relative margin to adjust a training pair's contribution to optimization.
Abstract: A tubular running tool equipped with a mandrel having an elongated body with a longitudinal axis. The mandrel is configured with a plurality of offset stepped ramps. A plurality of slips are disposed on the mandrel with stepped ramps configured for complementary engagement with the mandrel offset ramps. The mandrel is configured for actuation to urge the slips radially outward for engagement of a gripping portion on the slips with an inner surface of a tubular. A method using the tool for running a tubular and providing a makeup torque.
Abstract: Biosensors for detection terephthalic acid (TPA) and methods of their use are provided. The biosensors include a nucleic acid encoding a TphR protein, a promoter regulated by TPA, and a reporter operably linked to the promoter. Vectors and host cells including the biosensors are also provided.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
February 10, 2021
Date of Patent:
April 22, 2025
Assignees:
TRIAD NATIONAL SECURITY, LLC, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC.
Inventors:
Ramesh K. Jha, Taraka T. Dale, Ryan E. Bermel, Ellen Lee Neidle
Abstract: A system and method of operating a vehicle includes determining a condition of the vehicle, changing a camber of at least one tire in response to the condition and changing a contact patch from a first portion of the at least one tire from a first portion to a second portion. The first portion has different rolling characteristics from the first portion.