Patents Examined by Christopher E Dunay
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Patent number: 12743061Abstract: The present technology relates to artificial intelligence assisted device configuration. In an implementation, an interface service of a device design application receives an input comprising an association between a device and a controller of an automation system design. The interface service then generates a first prompt requesting an application type associated with the device. The interface service next transmits the first prompt to a large language model and receives a first response to the first prompt from the large language model, wherein the first response includes the application type. The interface service then generates a second prompt requesting configuration settings for the device based on the system information and the application type. The interface service next transmits the second prompt to the large language model and receives a second response to the second prompt that includes configuration settings for the device. The interface service then displays the second response.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2023Date of Patent: September 22, 2026Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Anthony, Clark L. Case, Michael P. D'Amico, Taryl J. Jasper, Eryn Amara Danielle Manela, David C. Mazur, Jonathan A. Mills, Nathaniel S. Sandler, Kurt D. Sneen, David A. Snyder
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Patent number: 12742538Abstract: A light fixture assembly for assembly into a ceiling component channel includes an elongated tray with a base with a first side, a second side and a first opening. The base has first and second longitudinally extending walls extending from the second side. The first longitudinally extending wall has a first coupler. The second longitudinally extending wall has a second coupler extending inwardly toward the first longitudinally extending wall. A first adjustable bracket includes a first portion coupled to the first coupler and a second portion coupled to the second coupler. The first portion and the second portion couple the elongated tray to the ceiling component channel. The light fixture assembly further includes a light assembly. A coupling assembly couples the light assembly to the elongated tray. The coupling assembly is positioned around the first opening and adjacent to the second side of the base.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2025Date of Patent: September 22, 2026Assignee: Lucifer Lighting CompanyInventors: Brian Beck, Mark Knowles, Adam Olson
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Patent number: 12736278Abstract: A home appliance includes: a cabinet defining a storage space, and a door configured to open and close the storage space. The door includes a door body, and a panel assembly disposed at the door body and defining a front surface of the door. The panel assembly includes a panel defining the front surface of the door, a lighting device having a size corresponding to a size of the panel and comprising a plurality of light sources configured to emit light toward the panel, and a separation portion provided between the panel and the lighting device, where the separation portion is configured to, based on being contacted with a rear surface of the panel, be spaced apart from the light source.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2023Date of Patent: September 15, 2026Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.Inventors: Kyoungjoung Kim, Seungil Lee, Hophil Lee, Misun Park
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Patent number: 12737438Abstract: In various examples, robust trajectory predictions against adversarial attacks in autonomous machines and applications are described herein. Systems and methods are disclosed that perform adversarial training for trajectory predictions determined using a neural network(s). In order to improve the training, the systems and methods may devise a deterministic attack that creates a deterministic gradient path within a probabilistic model to generate adversarial samples for training. Additionally, the systems and methods may introduce a hybrid objective that interleaves the adversarial training and learning from clean data to anchor the output from the neural network(s) on stable, clean data distribution. Furthermore, the systems and methods may use a domain-specific data augmentation technique that generates diverse, realistic, and dynamically-feasible samples for additional training of the neural network(s).Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2023Date of Patent: September 15, 2026Assignee: NVIDIA CorporationInventors: Chaowei Xiao, Yulong Cao, Danfei Xu, Animashree Anandkumar, Marco Pavone, Xinshuo Weng
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Patent number: 12736203Abstract: A chain-shaped decorative lamp is provided, and aims to provide a chain-shaped decorative lamp with good installation flexibility. According to main points of technical solutions, the chain-shaped decorative lamp includes an annular body and a lamp string disposed in the annular body. The annular body includes an upper housing and a lower housing that are detachably connected to each other. A plurality of pairs of limited posts are disposed in the upper housing. Each pair of limited posts forms a clamping gap. A lamp strip on the lamp string is clamped into the clamping gap, so that a bead on the lamp string is fastened into the upper housing. A support column corresponding to each clamping gap is disposed in the lower housing.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2025Date of Patent: September 15, 2026Inventor: Haixia Qu
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Patent number: 12736614Abstract: A vehicle exterior component includes a cover, a housing, a flat substrate, a light emitter, and a lens. The cover and the housing are located frontward from a radar device in an electromagnetic wave transmission direction of the radar device. The radar device is installed in a vehicle. The flat substrate is arranged inside the housing. The light emitter is arranged on the substrate. The lens is arranged inside the housing. The housing extends over a surface of the cover facing the radar device. The light emitter emits light that illuminates an ornamental portion of the cover. The substrate is located outside an electromagnetic wave transmission range of the radar device. The lens reflects the light from the light emitter toward the ornamental portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2024Date of Patent: September 15, 2026Assignee: TOYODA GOSEI CO., LTD.Inventors: Shunsuke Aoyama, Keigo Kondo, Koji Okumura
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Patent number: 12740199Abstract: Disclosed are an antioxidant, a backlight module and a manufacturing method thereof. The antioxidant includes a film-forming component and a volatilization-suppressing additive. The film-forming component includes at least one of a substituted or unsubstituted acrylic resin, isopropanolamine, and imidazoline, and a boiling point of the volatilization-suppressing additive is greater than that of the film-forming component.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2023Date of Patent: September 15, 2026Assignee: WUHAN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS SEMICONDUCTOR DISPLAY TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.Inventor: Hongzhao Deng
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Patent number: 12729838Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the field of lighting technologies and provides a ceiling lamp including a fixing plate including two arc-shaped openings that are a first arc-shaped opening and a second arc-shaped opening with a width smaller than that of the first arc-shaped opening, a body rotatably mounted on the fixing plate, a control board and a lighting member, two suspension members installed on the body and including a first portion and a second portion suspended on the fixing plate. A diameter of the first portion is adapted to a width of the second arc-shaped opening, a diameter of the second portion greater than the width of the second arc-shaped opening and less than the width of the first arc-shaped opening, a plurality of bulges arranged at intervals on the body and corresponding to the arc-shaped opening, an elastic member installed on the fixing plate and abutting against the body.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2025Date of Patent: September 8, 2026Assignee: SHENZHEN KOK TECHNOLOGY., LTDInventors: Binping Wang, Jinke Liu, Linlong Ruan
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Patent number: 12723721Abstract: A cold light source light-emission apparatus, a light-emission adjustment method, and an outdoor light-emission device. The cold light source light-emission apparatus includes a fluorescent component and an LED module, the fluorescent component includes a transparent body and a fluorescent layer, an interior of the transparent body is an accommodation cavity, the fluorescent layer is arranged inside the accommodation cavity, an interior of the fluorescent layer is arranged with fluorescent powder, a light-emission direction of the LED module is set towards the fluorescent component, when the LED module emits light towards the fluorescent component, the fluorescent powder absorbs the light for energy storage, and when the fluorescent powder absorbs sufficient light for energy storage, the fluorescent powder reaches an excited state and emits light.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2025Date of Patent: September 1, 2026Inventor: Wenjie Li
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Patent number: 12723722Abstract: The invention relates to an automotive vehicle headlamp module (2, 16) designated to illuminate a road, the headlamp module (2, 16) comprising lighting units (4?), each lighting unit (4?) comprising at least one lens (10, 26) configured to generate light, each lighting unit (4?) comprising a light exit area, the lens (10, 26) being disposed in the lighting unit (4?) in such a way that a height of the lens (10, 26) is greater than a width of the lens (10, 26).Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2025Date of Patent: September 1, 2026Assignee: PO Lighting Czech, s.r.o.Inventors: Petr Jaburek, Ivo Pavlik, Daniel Rapala, Jakub Cernoch
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Patent number: 12716568Abstract: A vehicle light is provided with a housing which partially delimits an interior and has an open side. A light source assembly is positioned inside the housing. An at least partially transparent outer lens is positioned on the open side of the housing. The outer lens is attached to the housing with a snap-fit assembly and a seal assembly to obtain a fluid-tight seal. The seal assembly contains a seal placed in a circumferential groove on the housing. The snap-fit assembly has a snap-fit component on the outer lens, which engages in the groove and is snapped onto the housing inside the groove. When fully assembled, the snap-fit component bears on the seal and the outer lens is releasably attached to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2025Date of Patent: August 25, 2026Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaAInventor: Vincent Vosloh
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Patent number: 12710154Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle is provided with an optical waveguide and a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board has an upper surface and an opposite, lower surface in the vertical direction (Z). The printed circuit board is populated with a first light source and second light source. The optical waveguide has: a light-emitting section forming a closed loop and propagates light along the light-emitting section based on total internal reflection, wherein the light-emitting section has light-emitting optics along the light-emitting section for emitting a portion of the light propagated along the light-emitting section; a first light-entry section; and a second light-entry section.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2025Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Thomas Brieskorn, Claudia Zens
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Patent number: 12710165Abstract: A track lighting system having a lighting unit includes a mounting track, which is shaped to follow a path curved at least in portions and which track system, along a longitudinal extension of the mounting track, is provided with at least one mounting slot. The lighting unit can be inserted into the mounting slot for electrical contacting of a conductor device of the mounting track. The lighting unit includes a lighting unit body, which is divided into two or more lighting unit segments along a longitudinal extension of the lighting unit body. In each case, the mutually adjacent lighting unit segments are connected to one another in a connecting region. The connecting region allows the lighting unit body to be flexibly bent about at least one bending axis, wherein the bending axis runs non-parallel to the longitudinal extension of the lighting unit body in each case.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2025Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: H4x e.U.Inventor: Andreas Hierzer
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Patent number: 12709220Abstract: A lighted steering wheel device is provided. The device is comprised of a steering wheel that integrates customizable and functional lighting features to enhance both safety and aesthetics. The steering wheel comprises various materials and configurations, with embedded flexible LED strips encased in impact-resistant, UV-protected casings, capable of displaying a wide range of static or dynamic light patterns. These patterns can be synchronized with vehicle systems, such as flashing red for emergency braking or reacting to turn signals, and brightness can adjust based on vehicle speed. The device includes a control interface embedded in the wheel and offers further customization via a mobile app, which provides remote access to light settings and synchronization features. Additionally, the device can generate safety alerts, utilizing proximity sensors, GPS integration, and haptic feedback for a multisensory driver experience, with an illuminated emblem adding a complementary design element.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2025Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Inventor: Charles Norwood
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Patent number: 12711395Abstract: The present technology discloses a federated learning network including a server and multiple client devices. The server receives a set of parameters of a local machine-learning model from each client device in a subset of the multiple client devices. The set of parameters are combined from each of the client devices in the subset to generate an integrated set of parameters. The server then calculates a parameter difference between the integrated set of parameters and the set of parameters for each client device in the subset. Feedback is sent by the server to each client device in the subset. The feedback is applied during backpropagation of the client. If the local parameters of a client are determined to be invalid for a number of times, the client will be set as an outlier.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2023Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yingxuan Zhu, Jialing Wu, Han Su
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Patent number: 12710158Abstract: The invention provides a light generating system (1000) comprising (a) a plurality of sets (150) of light generating devices (100) and (b) a luminescent material (200), wherein: the light generating devices (100) are configured in an array (40); the light generating devices (100) are configured to generate device light (101); wherein the light generating devices (100) comprise solid state light sources; the plurality of sets (150) of light generating devices (100) comprises at least three sets (50) of light generating devices (100), wherein the light generating devices (100) of different sets mutually differ in peak wavelengths (?p) of the device light (101), wherein at least one set (50) of light generating devices (100) is configured to generate device light (111) having a peak wavelength (?pb) in the blue wavelength range, wherein at least two different sets (50) of light generating devices (100) are configured to generate device light (101) comprising UV radiation with at least two different peak wavelengType: GrantFiled: October 24, 2023Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Ties Van Bommel, Rifat Ata Mustafa Hikmet
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Patent number: 12710161Abstract: The invention relates to an illumination device, comprising a base body, at least one light module and at least two functional units having different functionalities to one another, which are adapted to be optionally connected to the base body, each functional unit being adapted to be connected to and disconnected from the base body in a repeatable manner, so that, depending on the requirement, a predetermined functional unit can be inserted into the base body or replaced by another functional unit, each functional unit having a mechanical interface which is configured substantially in the same way across all functional units and which is adapted to engage with a matching receptacle on the base body such that the respective functional unit is secured to the base body.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2025Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: Dr. Mach GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Hansjörg Schösser, Adrian Fox, Kristian Kellner, Michael Bartesch
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Patent number: 12710152Abstract: The invention relates to a headlight for a motor vehicle. The headlight includes at least one light source and an optical system with a plurality of optical components to shape the light emitted by the at least one light source and to project it into the space outside the motor vehicle in such a way that a dipped beam distribution of the headlight, which has a light-dark boundary, is produced, and light portions located above this light-dark boundary in order to implement an OS function. The headlight further includes at least one refractive structure on at least one of the optical components and has a plurality of structural elements, the structure being set up to deflect light passing through the optical component into a region above the light-dark boundary in order to implement the OS function, at least one of the structural elements being of annular or partially annular design.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2023Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: HELLA GMBH & CO. KGAAInventors: Carmen Bungenstock, Gerhard Kloos, Philip Stroop, Benjamin Willeke
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Patent number: 12710166Abstract: A modular light emitting diode (LED) lamp device, includes: a lamp holder assembly comprising a heat sink, a lamp panel fixedly connected to the heat sink, a diffusion cover fixed to the heat sink through a pressure ring, a connector bracket mounted on the heat sink, and a wiring terminal provided in the connector bracket; a reflector cup assembly comprising a reflector cup platform for supporting the lamp holder assembly, and a reflector cup rim provided at a top of the reflector cup assembly, where a slot is formed in the reflector cup rim, and the slot is matched with a protrusion; and a power supply assembly, where a power supply module is built in the power supply assembly, a connecting terminal is provided on the power supply module, and the connecting terminal is connected to the wiring terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2025Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: Wuxi Seastar Lighting Co., Ltd.Inventors: Yun Liu, Xingchao Dou, Zhihui Huang, Jieping Zeng, Xinrong Sha, Jiyong Liu
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Patent number: 12710223Abstract: A refrigerator includes sequential interior lighting to dynamically vary the light level in a compartment of the refrigerator. At least one light of a plurality of lights in the compartment may be activated after activation of at least one other light of the plurality of lights upon opening of a door such that the brightness level in the compartment progressively increases after opening of the door, thereby enabling a user's eyes to better acclimate to the compartment illumination.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2025Date of Patent: August 18, 2026Assignee: MIDEA GROUP CO., LTD.Inventor: Michael Grant