Patents Examined by Minh A
  • Patent number: 12185473
    Abstract: A catheter for canceling magnetic interference is disclosed. The catheter includes a catheter shaft having a distal end with sensors and a handle with electronics and non-magnetic sensors. Inside the catheter shaft is at least one flexible substrate having conductive traces. Another flexible substrate is wrapped around a component in the catheter shaft. The catheter further includes a plurality of connectors. A first connector connects the sensors to one end of the at least one flexible substrate. A third connector connects the non-magnetic sensors to one end of the other flexible substrate. A second connector and a fourth connector both connect the electronics to another end of the at least one flexible substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
    Inventors: Shemer Shmaryau Berkowitz, Sharona Ben Shoshan, Eden Kidishman
  • Patent number: 12185445
    Abstract: A multiple location dimming system may include a smart dimmer (e.g., a main load control device) and one or more remote dimmers (e.g., accessory devices) for controlling the amount of power delivered to a lighting load. The multiple location dimming system may be installed in place of a multiple location switch system (e.g., having three, four, or more multi-way switches), and may not require a neutral connection at any of the control devices of the multiple location dimming system. The main load control device and the accessory devices of the multiple location dimming system may be configured to display a present intensity level of a lighting load on one or more visual indicators. The accessory devices may have the same or different user interfaces as the main load control device, and may provide additional functionality over that which the main load control device offers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Lutron Technology Company LLC
    Inventor: Daniel C. Raneri
  • Patent number: 12185478
    Abstract: The disclosure pertains to a method for the bonding of a component embedded into a printed circuit board. The methods include provisions of a core exhibiting at least one insulating layer and at least one conductor layer applied to the insulating layer. Methods may also include embedding at least one component into a recess of the insulating layer, wherein the contacts of the component are essentially situated in the plane of an outer surface of the core exhibiting the at least one conductor layer. Methods may also include application of a photoimageable resist onto the one outer surface of the core on which the component is arranged, while filling the spaces between the contacts of the component. Methods may also include clearing of end faces of the contacts and of the areas of the conductor layer covered by the photoimageable resist by exposing and developing the photoimageable resist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gerald Weidinger, Andreas Zluc, Johannes Stahr
  • Patent number: 12183971
    Abstract: Provided is an antenna reception device including an antenna, a board including three or more electrodes, and two connectors that respectively connect two of the electrodes to the antenna. The electrodes include a first electrode that is connected to a ground and a second electrode that is connected to a feed point. The board includes a first signal line between the ground and the first electrode and a second signal line between the feed point and the second electrode. The electrodes include two or more first electrodes and/or two or more second electrodes, and the board includes two or more respective first signal lines with different lengths and/or two or more respective second signal lines with different lengths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Takeshi Matsue
  • Patent number: 12183545
    Abstract: Provided is a plasma reactor including a reactor body having a gas inlet at a side thereof, a gas outlet at another side thereof, and an annular loop space therein, a magnetic core provided in a shape surrounding a portion of the reactor body, and wound with a primary coil for receiving power from a power unit, so as to generate plasma by exciting a gas in the annular loop space, and a control unit for determining whether the plasma is in an off state, by comparing, to a reference value, an electrical parameter related to an output of the primary coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: NEW POWER PLASMA CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Soon Im Wi, Sung Joong Kim, Yoon Jae Kim, Je Hyeong Yoo
  • Patent number: 12184131
    Abstract: An interlocking tool for a for forming stator end turns includes a first member including a first base having a first surface. A first ring extends from the first surface and a second ring extends from the first surface radially outwardly of the first ring. The second ring is spaced from the first ring by a first gap. A second member includes a second base having a first surface portion. A first ring element extends from the first surface portion and a second ring element extends from the first surface portion radially inwardly of the first ring element. The second ring element is spaced from the first ring element by a second gap. The second ring is positioned in the second gap, and the second ring element is positioned in the first gap. The first member is rotatable relative to the second member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Mark A. Smith, Ante Tony Lausic, John S. Agapiou
  • Patent number: 12182455
    Abstract: Examples herein relate to a solid state drive that includes a media, first circuitry, and second circuitry. In some examples, the first circuitry is to execute one or more commands. In some examples, the second circuitry is to receive a configuration of at one type of command, where the configuration is to define an amount of media bandwidth allocated for the at one type of command; receive a command; and assign the received command to the first circuitry for execution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Nilesh N. Shah, Chetan Chauhan, Shigeki Tomishima, Nahid Hassan, Andrew Chaang Ling
  • Patent number: 12184733
    Abstract: Provided is a method for communication, which includes steps of: receiving a first information from a first node via a first connection with the first node; and transmitting a first information to at least one other node. A connection initiator of the first connection is the first node. The first information includes an address of the first node within a target network domain, the target network domain is a network domain in which the at least one other node is located, and the at least one other node is a node other than a second node in a network partition to be joined by the first node. The address of the first node within the target network domain is used by the first node to establish a connection with the at least one other node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: HANGZHOU QULIAN TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xuan Shang, Maifang Hu, Yuan Tao, Fanglei Huang, Kejie Zhang
  • Patent number: 12183555
    Abstract: Provided are a substrate processing apparatus and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using the same. The substrate processing apparatus includes a lower electrode assembly, an upper electrode assembly disposed on the lower electrode assembly, and a plasma processing region between the lower electrode assembly and the upper electrode assembly. The lower electrode assembly includes a substrate support supporting a substrate, a coupling ring assembly surrounding the substrate support, an edge ring on the coupling ring assembly, and at least one upper contact pad contacting a lower surface of the edge ring and contacting at least one of the substrate support and the coupling ring assembly, the at least one upper contact pad being conductive. The coupling ring assembly includes a coupling ring and a conductive side contact pad in contact with a side surface of the substrate support and an inner surface of the coupling ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seunghan Baek, Sangki Nam, Dongseok Han, Namkyun Kim, Kwonsang Seo, Kuihyun Yoon
  • Patent number: 12180039
    Abstract: A sliding guide shoe for guiding a counterweight includes a single-piece guide element made of a plastic material. The guide element has an engagement element that extends in the longitudinal direction and can be brought into interlocking engagement in a cutout formed in a yoke of a counterweight frame. The guide element further includes a collar engaging around the cutout and forming a stop for positionally securing the guide element, the collar adjoining the engagement element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Romeo Lo Jacono, Alessandro D'Apice
  • Patent number: 12181779
    Abstract: A camera retractor assembly for a furnace includes a faceplate configured to be attached to a furnace; a retractor carriage configured to be attached to the faceplate; a pneumatically operated retractor slidably supported by the retractor carriage; a camera enclosure attached to the retractor; a lens tube attached the camera enclosure; and at least one of a control panel, an air manifold or an air reservoir attached to the camera retractor assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Sullivan, Higgins, and Brion Power Plant Engineering, LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Kranda, Clay J Hammond, Daniel R Higgins
  • Patent number: 12179575
    Abstract: A valve device includes: a housing including a peripheral wall, a bottom wall, and a partition wall; and a float valve accommodated in a valve chamber to be able to ascend and descend, thereby opening and closing an opening portion. A slit extends continuously over the peripheral wall and the bottom wall, and a deflectable and deformable elastic piece is formed via the slit. The elastic piece has a free end on the bottom wall, and the free end is provided with a float valve support portion configured to support the float valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: PIOLAX, INC.
    Inventor: Kenta Mihara
  • Patent number: 12181100
    Abstract: A fluid draining system, for serving as an aid in emptying waste oil or other fluid from a fluid container to a fluid collection container, includes a main body, which may be made of injection molded plastic and may be at least partially transparent. The main body may have an opening for entrance of fluid from the fluid container, and a lower downward sloping chute for the exiting of the fluid towards the fluid collection container. A sleeve with one or more elastic seals may be provided at the main body to fluid-tightly yet operatively accommodate a socket extension or other tool for operating a drain plug of the fluid container. The fluid draining system may provide a unique hands free, confined fluid flow channel through which fluid will flow while draining from the fluid container, such as from an engine oil pan, crankcase, or transmission sump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Inventor: Bruce Crater
  • Patent number: 12181103
    Abstract: The invention relates to a safety valve comprising a valve body with a guide bore which defines a longitudinal axis, a first opening which is formed on a base of the guide bore, and a second opening which is formed at a distance to the base along the longitudinal axis and which extends along a radial direction extending transversely to the longitudinal axis; a valve needle which is movably mounted in the guide bore of the valve body in an axial direction and which comprises a seal surface facing the first opening; a compression spring device with a spring that is compressed by a deflection and thereby biases the valve needle along the longitudinal axis into a seal position, in which the seal surface of the valve needle seals the first opening; and a thermally activatable trigger unit which has an extension along the longitudinal axis, said extension being greater than the deflection, and which is designed to collapse when a trigger temperature is reached, wherein the compression spring device is supported aga
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Muehleder, Raed Hamada
  • Patent number: 12182547
    Abstract: Systems and methods for code repository embedding using attention mechanism for tagging and summarization are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for code repository embedding may include: (1) extracting, by a computer program executed by an electronic device, docstring embeddings, code embeddings, and dependency embeddings from scripts in a repository (2) applying, by the computer program, a machine learning algorithm to each of the docstring embeddings, code embeddings, and dependency embeddings; (3) concatenating, by the computer program, outputs of the machine learning algorithm; (4) weighting, by the computer program, the concatenated outputs of the machine learning algorithm using an attention mechanism, resulting in a repository representation comprising an abstract vector; and (5) tagging or summarizing, by the computer program, the script using its repository representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
    Inventors: Shaltiel Eloul, Agathe Lhérondelle, Sean Moran, Fanny Silavong, Yash Satsangi
  • Patent number: 12181138
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a luminaire having at least one illuminant (6), a luminaire housing (1), and at least one operating device (4), arranged in the luminaire housing (1), for the at least one illuminant (6), wherein the operating device (4) has an antenna (5) for transmitting and receiving a radio signal, and the luminaire housing (1) has at least one slot antenna (2) that is coupled to the antenna (5) of the operating device (4) by means of radiation coupling, a waveguide, or a cavity resonator in order to transmit the radio signal to outside the luminaire housing (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Tridonic GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Patrik Yves Koch, Frank Lochmann, Markus Schertler, Patrick Schnell, Lukas Simma, Patrick Walch, Markus Mayrhofer, Thomas Zengerle
  • Patent number: 12181534
    Abstract: A method and a device for testing a battery state determines if a battery is faulty. A first impedance test is conducted to determine the internal resistance of the battery, wherein the battery is energized with an electrical current flow with a certain frequency and a resulting voltage response of the battery is measured. A load high-current test of the battery with a test pulse HRD test is conducted next. Then, a second impedance test is conducted. The measurement results of the tests are recorded and stored, and then evaluated by arranging such results offset in relation to one another, in such a way that the battery state can be derived therefrom, in particular whether the battery is faulty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: CMWTEC Technologie GmbH
    Inventors: Mohammed Radhi Ali-Ogalli, Michael Jacobs, Erik Zinger
  • Patent number: 12181297
    Abstract: A method for enabling a route for automated driving operation of a vehicle involves enabling a route ahead of the vehicle for automated driving operation of the vehicle if it is determined, using a digital map, which is used during automated driving operation for landmark-based localization of the vehicle, that there are landmarks present along the route which, with regard to their suitability for longitudinal and transverse localization of the vehicle, fulfil requirements which are predefined according to a course of the route.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG
    Inventors: Mario Aleksic, Stefan Maisenbacher
  • Patent number: 12181101
    Abstract: A system for a motor vehicle may include a reservoir, a plurality of lubricant paths extending through the reservoir, a plurality of coolant paths extending through the reservoir, a plurality of delivery devices attached to the reservoir, and a plurality of coolers attached to the reservoir. The reservoir may include two sumps for lubricant. The reservoir may include (i) a plurality of reservoir lubricant inlet connections and a plurality of reservoir lubricant outlet connections through which the lubricant paths extend, (ii) a plurality of reservoir coolant inlet connections and a plurality of reservoir coolant outlet connections through which the coolant paths extend, (iii) a plurality of fluidic pump connections fluidically connected to the plurality of delivery devices, and (iv) a plurality of reservoir lubricant outlets, a plurality of reservoir lubricant inlets, a plurality of reservoir coolant outlets, and a plurality of reservoir coolant inlets fluidically connected to the coolers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Jauss, Hans-Martin Ruppert, Josef Rutha, Kai-Torsten Schmiedl
  • Patent number: RE50254
    Abstract: Disclosed is an electrode assembly in which a plurality of electrode plates are stacked so that a separator is interposed between a positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate, wherein each of the electrode plates includes an electrode tab protruding outwards at one side thereof for coupling with an electrode lead, wherein at least one electrode plate of the positive electrode plate and the negative electrode plate extends relatively longer than the separator at one end of the electrode plate where the electrode tab is located to form the electrode plate extension protruding out of the separator, and wherein the electrode plate extensions of the same polarity are coupled to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: LG Energy Solution, Ltd.
    Inventors: Su-Han Park, Min-Suk Kang, In-Jung Kim, Han Kim, Yong-Tae Lee