Patents Assigned to Solutions
  • Electrical contact position assurance for electrical connector system
    Patent number: 12191609
    Abstract: A plug connector includes a plug housing having an outer wall forming a cavity. A portion of the plug connector is configured to be plugged into a header chamber of a header connector to mate plug contacts with corresponding header contacts. The plug connector includes an actuator coupled to the plug housing movable between an open position and a closed position. The actuator is configured to engage the header connector to provide mechanical mating assist of the plug connector with the header connector as the actuator is moved from the open position to the closed position. An eCPA assembly includes a shorting terminal operably coupled to the actuator and movable by the actuator between a mated position and an unmated position configured to be coupled to a first fixed terminal and a second fixed terminal to forms a position assurance circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventor: Galen M. Martin
  • Image forming apparatus with an interlocking mechanism for moving a heating unit
    Patent number: 12189328
    Abstract: An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a heating unit, a fixing unit, a first cover member, an opening portion, a second cover member, an interlocking mechanism, an operating portion, and an operation portion. The operating portion is provided on a side surface of the apparatus main body and operates to turn ON or OFF a power supply. The operation portion is provided on the first cover member and operates the operating portion in a state where the first cover member is arranged at a first closed position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: KYOCERA Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventor: Takuro Morita
  • Optical inspection method, non-transitory storage medium storing optical inspection program, processing device, and optical inspection apparatus
    Patent number: 12188876
    Abstract: According to the embodiment, an optical inspection method for a surface state of a subject includes acquiring and discriminating. The acquiring includes acquiring a color vector of a color corresponding to a wavelength spectrum in a color coordinate system of n dimensions (n is a natural number equal to or larger than 1), which is equal to or smaller than a number of a plurality of color channels of pixels of an image sensor, with optical imaging using a wavelength spectrum selection portion that selectively allows a plurality of wavelength spectra different from one another from a surface of the subject to pass. The discriminating includes discriminating the surface state of the subject based on a direction of the color vector in the color coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignees: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ohno, Hiroya Kano, Takahiro Kamikawa, Hideaki Okano, Akifumi Ohno, Akio Kawasaki, Toshihiro Kikkawa
  • Laundry appliances reservation systems and methods
    Patent number: 12188175
    Abstract: A method of operating a group of laundry appliances includes identifying a washing machine appliance from the group of laundry appliances which is accessed by a user. The method also includes determining a dryer appliance from the group of laundry appliances is available for use and is closest to the identified washing machine appliance and reserving the determined dryer appliance for the user. The method further includes activating the reserved dryer appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Haier US Appliance Solutions, Inc.
    Inventor: Myunggeon Chung
  • Determining the sequence of a double-stranded target nucleic acid by employing a terminal transferase, forming a linear joint molecule, and sequencing in one direction
    Patent number: 12188079
    Abstract: The invention is a novel method of making and using a template for nucleic acid sequencing. The templates include circular and linear templates with symmetric and asymmetric adaptors. The methods include utilizing the templates in an asymmetric fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Roche Sequencing Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Rui Chen, Toumy Guettouche, Loida Navarro, Aaron Richardson
  • Monolithic serial NOR flash with wide input-output bus
    Patent number: 12189547
    Abstract: A monolithic serial NOR Flash memory device includes a single semiconductor memory die with a wide input-output (IO) bus. More specifically, the monolithic serial NOR Flash memory device is configured with an input-output (IO) bus including N number of IO terminals, also referred herein as IO pins. The memory device of the present disclosure transfers commands through a subset of the N IO terminals while transferring data through all of the N IO terminals. In one example, the subset of IO terminals is N/2 IO terminals. In one example, the serial NOR Flash memory device is implemented as a serial octal (base 8) NOR flash memory device. As thus configured, the serial octal NOR flash memory device of the present disclosure transfers command though 8 IO pins, transfers address through 8 IO pins or 16 IO pins, and transfers data though 16 IO pins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Integrated Silicon Solution, (Cayman) Inc.
    Inventor: SungJin Han
  • Redundant printed circuit board with built in isolation
    Patent number: 12193161
    Abstract: An apparatus for an electronic power steering system includes a printed circuit board and a first sensor. The printed circuit board comprising: a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a first processor section extending in a first direction on the first surface; a second processor section extending in a second direction opposite the first direction on the second surface; and a void disposed between the first surface and the second surface, the first processor section and the second processor section being separated by the void.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation
    Inventors: Steven J. Collier-Hallman, Daniel J. Klenk, Ryan D. Yaklin
  • Optical transmitter for passive optical networks
    Patent number: 12191913
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an optical PSK transmitter configured to output carrier-suppressed optical signal phase-modulated according to a M-PSK constellation without substantial amplitude modulation. The apparatus includes an optical phase modulator, a driver configured to drive the modulator with a PAM-N electrical signal, N>M, and a signal encoder configured to map an input bit stream to the PAM-N electrical signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy
    Inventors: Patrick Iannone, Roland Ryf, Rene-Jean Essiambre
  • Method and device for positioning components on a cable
    Patent number: 12188587
    Abstract: A device and method of positioning a component on a cable. The method includes: moving a collet into position on the component; engaging the component with the collet; moving the collet with the component positioned thereon into alignment with an end of the cable; securing the collet to the end of the cable; moving the component from the collet to the cable; and removing the collet from the end of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: David Alan College, Mark Andrew Ondo
  • Systems and methods for acid mixing
    Patent number: 12186720
    Abstract: A system for mixing acid and water can include a tank for holding acid, an acid pump for pumping acid out of the tank, an acid flow meter, an acid control valve, a water pump for pumping water, a water flow meter, a water control valve, a flush valve to selectively flush the system with water, and a controller to monitor the flow meters and control the pumps and the valves. The acid control valve and/or the water control valve can be an electronically controlled valve. The flush valve can be an electronically controlled valve to selectively permit water to flow from downstream of the water pump to upstream of the acid pump. The acid control valve, the water control valve, the flush valve, or any combination thereof can be throttled by the controller to control flow therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Texas Integrity Acid Solutions, LLC
    Inventors: Britton Siegert, Gregory Johnson
  • Control system for actuating lifting function
    Patent number: 12188493
    Abstract: A hydraulic control system for linear actuation that provides a bypass flow during startup of a lifting command, provides a split flow between a cylinder and a reservoir once a minimum operating speed of a pump has been reached, and provides complete flow to a cylinder after the minimum operating speed of the pump has been reached. This is achieved through control of a flow control valve and a proportional flow control valve by a processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Danfoss Power Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron Darnell, Zhekang Du, Simon Nielsen
  • Methods and systems for software based prefetching for low buffer depth sequential read traffic
    Patent number: 12189986
    Abstract: A system and related method, including storage circuitry and a control circuitry, which while executing a storage device driver, is to receive at least one instruction of a stream of instructions for the storage device. The control circuitry determines that a hardware buffer of the storage device is storing less than two instructions. In response to the determination that the hardware buffer of the storage device is storing less than two instructions, the control circuitry accesses data associated with an address of the memory of the storage device, wherein the address is predicted based on analysis of the stream of instructions and causes to be stored the data in a buffer of a plurality of buffers. The control circuitry executes an instruction of the stream of instructions using at least the data stored in the buffer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: SK Hynix NAND Product Solutions Corp.
    Inventors: Arun Athreya, Mariusz Dolny, Bartosz Kot, Michał Mamczyński, Shivashekar Muralishankar, Shankar Natarajan, Yihua Zhang
  • Patch correction for light steering projector
    Patent number: 12192684
    Abstract: Example embodiments provide systems and methods for correcting non-uniformities of a light beam generated by a multi-emitter light source. In some embodiments a phase modulator displays patch lenses to correct for the non-uniformities. In some embodiments each region of the phase modulator is illuminated by a beam generated by one emitter of the multi-emitter light source. Such region of the phase modulator may display a patch lens for correcting non-uniformities in the corresponding beam which illuminates the region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Barco Visual Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Samuel Melamed, Martin Gregory Beckett, Raveen Kumaran, Weicheng Yan
  • Methods and printing system using raster image processors configured for processing a job
    Patent number: 12190182
    Abstract: A raster image processor (RIP) system is used in a printing system to process a variety of different jobs. A front end receives the jobs and determines the job type. The job types include a print job, a preview job, and an estimation job. Depending on the type of job, the front end configures the RIPs within RIP system accordingly to process the job. The RIPs may process the job in parallel, with a high performance RIP processing the first page of the job. If the job is not processed in parallel, then the front end assigns the job to a very high performance RIP. The front end also assigns the preview job to a preview RIP and the estimation job to an estimation RIP. The front end configures RIPs as needed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Kyocera Document Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Jayant Bhatt, Arturo Becerra, Robert T. Cunningham, Edwin Philip Lockwood, Javier A. Morales
  • Lottery ticket dispensing system including lottery ticket vending machine and a lottery ticket vending machine side car
    Patent number: 12190687
    Abstract: A lottery ticket dispensing system including a lottery ticket vending machine and a lottery ticket vending machine side car including a housing, a physical connection assembly, an electrical connection and communication assembly, and at least one of a paper bet slip receiver assembly, a currency receiver assembly, and a coin receiver assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: IGT Global Solutions Corporation
    Inventor: Apostolos D. Kallis
  • Network inventory management system
    Patent number: 12192063
    Abstract: A system and associated methods document and visualize complicated networks having circuits and circuit paths. The relationships between the circuits also are provided. The data regarding the circuits is preprocessed to be stored in a network resource database. When a network diagram is generated, the network resource database is queried to obtain the data and determine the different segments, devices, and relationships to model the network circuit. An intermediate table is generated to provide additional processing of queries back to the network resource database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Network Capacity Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Steven Garvey, Gabriel Venturi
  • Method of cleaning trays used for handling semiconductor packages
    Patent number: 12186784
    Abstract: An automated method of cleaning trays used in handling circuit device packages includes the steps of: placing a plurality of trays on a tray loading station of an automated tray cleaning machine; lowering in an automated manner a first tray of the plurality of trays onto a conveyor; conveying in an automated manner the first tray from the tray loading station into a cleaning chamber; automatically applying pressurized air in the cleaning chamber to one or more surfaces of the first tray to remove debris from the first tray; conveying in an automated manner the first tray out of the cleaning chamber and to a tray unloading station; and raising in an automated manner the first tray above the conveyor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel Orozco Mariscal, Raul Jacobo Cazares, Edgar Antonio Martinez Silva, Josue Roberto Garcia Ayala
  • Low pressure surface supplied air system and method
    Patent number: 12187393
    Abstract: Methods and systems to provide breathing air to underwater divers in response to the divers' respiration at pressures less than 25 psi above atmospheric pressure during inspiration while delivering no or minimal air during exhalation, by controlling the actions of a pump during the time course of breathing. Methods and systems that sense a diver's need for breathing air, determine inhalation demand or exhalation state, and control the operation of a pump which delivers breathing gas to the diver via a tube. An integrated system for the same which incorporates at least an energy source, pump, air tube, breathing aperture, sensor, and logic processor is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Setaysha Technical Solutions LLC
    Inventor: John Craig Colborn
  • Electrical connector and method of making an electrical connection
    Patent number: 12191596
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes: a male connector comprising a wire connection portion configured to be connected to a wire, and a pin connection portion configured to contact a conductor pin in an electrically conductive manner; a collar comprising a collar cylindrical body portion and a collar outer flange having a first surface and a second surface; a nut comprising a nut cylindrical body portion and a nut inner flange having a first surface that faces the second surface of the collar outer flange; a first seal that surrounds the collar cylindrical body portion and is positioned between the second surface of the collar outer flange and the first surface of the nut inner flange; and a second seal that surrounds the pin connection portion of the male connector and is positioned between an end surface of the nut cylindrical body portion and a first surface of the wire connection portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Cummins Emission Solutions Inc.
    Inventors: Ryan M. Johnson, Colin L. Norris
  • Hoist for loading and transport
    Patent number: D1057346
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Ulstein Design & Solutions AS
    Inventor: Øyvind Gjerde Kamsvåg