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Patent number: 12147010Abstract: An article includes a substrate with a surface, and a coating disposed over the surface. The coating includes a binder material and a plurality of UV scattering porous polymer particles having pores with a light scattering effective pore size of no more than 100 nm. The coating has a scattering opacity of no more than 20% in the wavelength band from 500 to 3000 nm.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYInventors: Kevin D. Lofftus, John Leonard Muehlbauer, Mridula Nair, Cumar Sreekumar
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Patent number: 12144326Abstract: An aquarium includes a container defining a perimeter and an aquarium space that contains a fluid. A filter holder is coupled to the container and defines a filter space and a pump housing is coupled to the filter holder. A bypass outlet and a filter outlet each defined by one of the filter holder and the pump housing. A pump is disposed within the pump housing and is operable to draw a portion of the fluid from the aquarium space to produce a fluid flow. A spout is coupled to the filter holder and includes a spout outlet. The spout is movable between a first position in which the filter outlet is open and the fluid flow passes from the pump to the spout outlet and the bypass outlet is blocked such that the fluid flow does not pass through the bypass outlet, and a second position in which the filter outlet is blocked and the bypass outlet is open such that the fluid flow passes through the bypass outlet.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Central Garden & Pet CompanyInventors: Brad Mihlbauer, Ernie Katris
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Patent number: 12147294Abstract: The disclosed technology is directed to a computing device for triggering an alert to a user about an occurrence of overcurrent at a first USB port of the computing device. In some examples, the computing device includes a USB interface circuit, a system processor and a host controller. Responsive to detecting the occurrence of overcurrent at the first USB port, the USB interface circuit transmits an alert signal to the system processor through a control bus without communicating directly with the host controller. The system processor determines the alert signal indicates the occurrence of overcurrent at the first USB port and sets an overcurrent register at the host controller to a first value to indicate the occurrence of overcurrent at the first USB port. The host controller triggers the alert to the user responsive to the overcurrent register being set to the first value.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Kathleen E Lenz, Jeanette M Calvert Coffren, Michael A Miller, Jean-Claude Sessou
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Patent number: 12145820Abstract: An elevator system includes an elevator car, a pressure sensor, and a controller. The car is adapted to move vertically within a hoistway and defines a passenger compartment adapted to be occupied by at least one passenger. The sensor is configured to measure air pressure in the passenger compartment. The controller is configured to control travel of the elevator car, receive a plurality of pressure signals from the sensor indicative of changing air pressure in the passenger compartment over a prescribed time period, and execute a preprogrammed application configured to apply a current car velocity and the changing air pressure to a preprogrammed ear pressure table. Upon application, the controller outputs a command to reduce the current car velocity if application of the preprogrammed ear pressure table determines a differential ear pressure would otherwise exceed a preprogrammed threshold.Type: GrantFiled: November 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANYInventor: Randy Roberts
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Patent number: 12147784Abstract: A compute-in-memory (CIM) device has a memory array with a plurality of memory cells arranged in rows and columns. The plurality of memory cells includes a first memory cell in a first row and a first column of the memory array and a second memory cell in the first row and a second column of the memory array. The first and second memory cells are configured to store respective first and second weight signals. An input driver provides a plurality of input signals. A first logic circuit is coupled to the first memory cell to provide a first output signal based on a first input signal from the input driver and the first weight signal. A second logic circuit is coupled to the second memory cell to provide a second output signal based on a second input signal from the input driver and the second weight signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Po-Hao Lee, Chia-Fu Lee, Yi-Chun Shih, Yu-Der Chih, Hidehiro Fujiwara, Haruki Mori, Wei-Chang Zhao
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Patent number: 12145656Abstract: A vehicle body member includes a first cell portion including a first negative pole portion and a first positive pole portion disposed to be in contact with a surface of the first negative pole portion, a second cell portion including a second negative pole portion and a second positive pole portion disposed to be in contact with a surface of the second negative pole portion, an insulating layer disposed between the first cell portion and the second cell portion, a series connector connecting the first negative pole portion of the first cell portion and the second positive pole portion of the second cell portion in series, a positive pole current collector connected to the first positive pole portion of the first cell portion, and a negative pole current collector connected to the second negative pole portion of the second cell portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Won Ki Song
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Patent number: 12148250Abstract: An artificial intelligence (AI)-based face recognition method includes: obtaining n groups of input video frames, at least one group of video frames including a color video frame and a depth video frame of a target face, n being a positive integer; invoking an interactive liveness detection function to recognize the color video frames in the n groups of video frames; invoking a second three-dimensional (3D) structured-light liveness detection function to recognize the depth video frames in the n groups of video frames; and determining, in response to both detection results of the interactive liveness detection function and the 3D structured-light liveness detection function indicating that a type of the target face being a liveness type, that the target face is a live target face.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company LimitedInventors: Yuan Gao, Zhifeng Li, Wei Liu
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Patent number: 12148913Abstract: A method of manufacturing an electrode for an all-solid-state battery is performed in a dry manner using first and second rollers. An electrode for an all-solid-state battery having an electrode layer with a desired thickness and a desired density of a mixture material may be manufactured by adjusting conditions of the first and the second rollers. The manufacturing speed may be accelerated, because there is no drying process, so that the efficiency of the manufacturing is improved. The process of thickening an electrode is realized by using the method and the porosity of the electrode for an all-solid-state battery manufactured thereby is excellent.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignees: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA CORPORATIONInventors: Kyung Yup Song, Dae Yang Oh
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Patent number: 12147180Abstract: A heating device includes a pair of rotators, a heater, a temperature sensor, a conductor, a conductor support, and a component supporting the conductor. The pair of rotators is in contact with each other to form a nip through which a sheet passes. The heater heats at least one of the pair of rotators. The temperature sensor detects a temperature of the heater. The conductor has flexibility and is coupled to the temperature sensor. The conductor support supports the conductor such that a distance from the conductor to at least one position of the heater outside a predetermined region of the heater in a width direction of the sheet is larger than a distance from the conductor to a position of the heater inside the predetermined region in the width direction. The component has a first side facing the heater and a second side opposite the first side.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Ricoh Company, Ltd.Inventors: Yuusuke Furuichi, Yukimichi Someya, Shigeo Nanno
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Patent number: 12146906Abstract: A thin-film transistor (TFT) panel and a test method are disclosed. The TFT panel includes: m×n bonding pads, where m and n are both natural numbers greater than or equal to 1, and the m×n bonding pads are arranged correspondingly to and electrically connected to TFT units in a TFT active area; a TFT test area including m drive pads, n test pads, and m×n TFT devices, where the m×n TFT devices are divided into n groups, each of which includes m TFT devices. the m TFT devices in each group corresponding to and are electrically connected to the m drive pads and m bonding pads respectively, and the m TFT devices in each group are electrically connected to a same test pad of the n test pads. The m×n bonding pads that were originally bonded by pressure once are tested in m sessions.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2019Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: IRAY TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITEDInventors: Chongyu Zhu, Libo Jin, Huan Yue
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Patent number: 12147427Abstract: A computer-implemented method for efficiently estimating the number of unique elements in a collection of elements comprises generating, via hash logic, hash values associated with the elements. The hash values specify bit positions within an array of bits. Hash values output from the hash logic conform to a geometric distribution such that bit positions of the array of bits corresponding to lower orders bits are more likely to be generated than bit positions corresponding to higher-order bits. Bits of the array of bits corresponding to the bit positions are set. The number of bits of the array of bits that are set is counted. Estimation logic estimates the number of unique elements of the collection of elements as a function of the number of bits of the array of bits that are set.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: The Nielsen Company (US), LLCInventors: Michael Sheppard, Edward Murphy, Jonathan Sullivan
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Patent number: 12148694Abstract: Semiconductor devices and methods of formation are provided herein. A semiconductor device includes a first inductor, a patterned ground shielding (PGS) proximate the first inductor comprising one or more portions and a first switch configured to couple a first portion of the PGS to a second portion of the PGS. The semiconductor device also has a configuration including a first inductor on a first side of the PGS, a second inductor on a second side of the PGS and a first switch configured to couple a first portion of the PGS to a second portion of the PGS. Selective coupling of portions of the PGS by activating or deactivating switches alters the behavior of the first inductor, or the behavior and interaction between the first inductor and the second inductor. A mechanism is thus provided for selectively configuring a PGS to control inductive or other properties of a circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company LimitedInventors: Hsiao-Tsung Yen, Chin-Wei Kuo, Cheng-Wei Luo, Kung-Hao Liang
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Patent number: 12145149Abstract: A disposable microfluidic cassette can include a substrate and an engagement feature associated with the substrate to removably join the cassette with a cassette-receiver of an analytical system. A microfluidic network can be carried by the substrate. The microfluidic network can include a fluid inlet, a fluid outlet, and a sample manipulation portion fluidly coupling the fluid inlet to the fluid outlet. An ejector can be associated with the microfluidic network to move fluid out of the disposable microfluidic cassette via the fluid outlet.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2019Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.Inventors: Diane R. Hammerstad, Alexander Govyadinov
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Patent number: 12145494Abstract: An article management system utilizes an electric cart which may autonomously move, automatically and easily managing articles and ensuring the convenience of delivery service by the automation of article delivery.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia CorporationInventors: Sang Heon Lee, Dong Eun Cha, Jin Ho Hwang
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Patent number: 12146660Abstract: A combustor for a gas turbine engine, the gas turbine engine defining a longitudinal centerline extending in a longitudinal direction, a radial direction extending orthogonally outward from the longitudinal centerline, and a circumferential direction extending concentrically around the longitudinal centerline, the combustor including: a liner at least partially defining a combustion chamber, the liner further defining a gap; and an intermediate member disposed at least partially within the gap of the liner and in fluid communication with the combustion chamber, wherein the intermediate member is retained at a relatively fixed position with respect to the liner by a support extending between the intermediate member and a case of the gas turbine engine.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Ravindra Shankar Ganiger, Hiranya Kumar Nath, Daniel J. Kirtley, Shai Birmaher, Veeraraju Vanapalli, Karthikeyan Sampath, Deepak Ghiya, Perumallu Vukanti, Rajendra Mahadeorao Wankhade, Pradeep Naik
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Patent number: 12146383Abstract: A rig site may include a rotary table within a rig floor above a wellbore. A fabric sheet rolled into two symmetrical rolls is disposed on the rig floor. A pre-cut center hole of the fabric sheet is coaxial with the rotary table. A casing string, to be lowered in the wellbore, includes a first casing joint at a bottom of the casing string is a modified float joint. The pre-cut center hole of the fabric sheet is attached to a sleeve of the modified float joint. Union units are provided above the rotary table. The union units close the fabric sheet around the casing string to form a fabric-nested casing string within the wellbore. A cement slurry is pumped down the casing string and into a space between the fabric sheet and the casing string to cement the fabric-nested casing string to the wellbore.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANYInventors: Amjad Shaarawi, Mohammad Aljubran, Mohammed Alsheikh, Abdulwahab Aljohar, Timothy Eric Moellendick, Ossama Sehsah
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Patent number: 12145854Abstract: Disclosed herein are amine functionalized zeolites and methods for making amine functionalized zeolites. In one or more embodiments disclosed herein, an amine functionalized zeolite may include a microporous framework including a plurality of micropores having diameters of less than or equal to 2 nm. The microporous framework may include at least silicon atoms and oxygen atoms. The amine functionalized zeolite may further include a plurality of mesopores having diameters of greater than 2 nm and less than or equal to 50 nm and one or more of isolated terminal primary amine functionalities bonded to silicon atoms of the microporous framework or silazane functionalities, where the nitrogen atom of the silazane bridges two silicon atoms of the microporous framework.Type: GrantFiled: April 14, 2021Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignees: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyInventors: Robert Peter Hodgkins, Omer Refa Koseoglu, Jean-Marie Maurice Basset, Kuo-Wei Huang, Anissa Bendjeriou Sedjerari, Sathiyamoorthy Murugesan, Rajesh Parsapur
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Patent number: 12146904Abstract: A method for identifying a location of a fault in an electrical power distribution network that includes identifying an impedance of an electrical line between each pair of adjacent utility poles, measuring a voltage and a current of the power signal at a switching device during the fault, and estimating a voltage at each of the utility poles downstream of the switching device using the impedance of the electrical line between the utility poles and the measured voltage and current during the fault. The method calculates a reactive power value at each of the utility poles using the estimated voltages, where calculating a reactive power value includes compensating for distributed loads along the electrical line that consume reactive power during the fault, and determines the location of the fault based on where the reactive power goes to zero along the electrical line.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2022Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: S&C Electric CompanyInventor: Yoav Sharon
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Patent number: 12144709Abstract: An absorbent article comprises first and second substrates and one or more elastic elements disposed at least partially intermediate the substrates. The second substrate is attached to the first substrate and/or to portions of the elastic elements. The absorbent article comprises an adhesive having a first and second pattern of elements disposed on first substrate, and first and second texture zones. The first texture zone comprises a first portion of the substrates, a first portion of the elastic elements, and the first pattern of elements of the adhesive and forms a background pattern in the first portion of the substrates. The second texture zone comprises a second portion of the substrates, a second portion of the one or more elastic elements, and the second pattern of elements of the adhesive and forms a macro pattern in the second portion of the substrates.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: The Procter & Gamble CompanyInventors: Ronald Joseph Zink, Sarah Marie Wade, Tina Marie Glahn, Rachael Eden Walther, Gary Dean LaVon, Nicholas Paul Goyette, Kaoru Ishihara, Amanda Margaret Bicking, Diana Juratovac
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Patent number: D1052185Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2023Date of Patent: November 19, 2024Assignee: Colgate-Palmolive CompanyInventor: Claudia Daniela Macias Mejia
