Patents Issued in June 25, 2024
  • Patent number: 12017142
    Abstract: An Augmented Reality (AR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) based interactive virtual try-on solution that facilitates trying on, fitting, and modularizing a virtual apparel in real-time—as if a consumer were wearing the apparel. A user with a mobile device defines retail adjustment operations on the virtual apparel using an AR-based visual interface. The user can interact with the virtual apparel for identifying, defining, and changing the look, fit, and design of the apparel on the user's body. The real-time interaction is with the same virtual apparel. The system defines operations based on user's features, sartorial measurements, intent, gestures, position, pressure values received from a controller operated by the user, and the sensed motion of the user to translate into a set of machine learning inference models that predict a series of states that visually generate the outcome the user anticipates based on the user's interaction with the virtual clothing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventor: Pritesh Kanani
  • Patent number: 12017143
    Abstract: A method and device for selecting a game object and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: in response to an object selection operation acting on a first display area on a graphical user interface, selecting multiple game objects in a game scene; and displaying an object selection control in a second display area of the graphical user interface. Multiple game objects are selected by an object selection operation. A first game object indicator and/or a second game object indicator is further displayed in an object selection control, and respectively corresponds to different game objects or types of game objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: NETEASE (HANGZHOU) NETWORK CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Feng Rao
  • Patent number: 12017144
    Abstract: A region adjustment method, a storage medium, and an electronic apparatus are provided. The region adjustment method includes: determining a region allowing a target object to move in a map, the region comprising a first region that allows the target object to move without being harmed and participate in a target task in the map; determining scene objects set in the map; obtaining object types of the scene objects in a plurality of sub-regions of the first region; based on a sub-region among the plurality of sub-regions in which an object type of a scene object meeting a target condition in the first region, determining the sub-region in which the object type meets the target condition as a second region; and switching the region allowing the target object to move from the first region to the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Xin Sun
  • Patent number: 12017145
    Abstract: A method and a system of automatically generating animations imports Json data exported from a Spine tool into a Unity3d tool, parses the Json data into an animation data format by the Unity3d tool, obtains key frame information from the animation data format and stores the key frame information as an animation file of the Unity3d tool, and runs the animation file to play an animation. The present invention does not need to remake the Spine key frame in the Unity3d tool, and the key frame can be automatically generated. The animation key frame effects of the Spine tool can be reproduced, such as displacement, zooming, rotation, and color change, and the animation made by the artist in the Spine tool can be accurately restored, which reduces repetitive work and greatly improves the efficiency of game development.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI BILIBILI TECHNOLOGY CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Jie Li, Biao Yan, Simin Chen
  • Patent number: 12017146
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application disclose a data processing method, performed by a computer device, and including: obtaining an associated virtual object associated with a main virtual object and obtaining a variable pertaining to a first update frequency type among character variables of the associated virtual object as a first-type variable; compressing the first-type variable to obtain compressed data and encapsulating the compressed data to obtain first change data of the main virtual object; and transmitting the first change data of the main virtual object to a target client where the main virtual object is located, so that the target client performs frame image update and display based on the first change data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED
    Inventor: Huan He
  • Patent number: 12017147
    Abstract: A video game may include a virtual representation of a game player created object. The game player created object may be imaged by an imaging device of a smartphone, with the smartphone determining a virtual representation for use in the video game based on information of the image. In some embodiments the game player may control the virtual representation during game play. In some embodiments the game player created object may be an origami object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Activision Publishing, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremy Noah Anderson, Jack James Kleckner, Todd Leonard Mueller, Misty Alexandrea Yousser Noor, Benjamin Scott Perry
  • Patent number: 12017148
    Abstract: A user interface (UI), for analyzing model training runs, tracking and visualizing various aspects of machine learning experiments, can be used when training an artificial intelligent agent in, for example, a racing game environment. The UI can be web-based and can allow researchers to easily see the status of their experiments. The UI can include an experiment synchronized event viewer that can synchronizes visualizations, videos, and timeline/metrics graphs in the experiment. This viewer allows researchers to see how experiments unfold in great detail. The UI can further include experiment event annotations that can generate event annotations. These annotations can be displayed via the synchronized event viewer. The UI can be used to consider consolidated results across experiments and can further consider videos. For example, the UI can provide a reusable dashboard that can capture and compare metrics across multiple experiments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Rory Douglas, Dion Whitehead, Leon Barrett, Piyush Khandelwal, Thomas Walsh, Samuel Barrett, Kaushik Subramanian, James MacGlashan, Leilani Gilpin, Peter Wurman
  • Patent number: 12017149
    Abstract: Sets of magnet assemblies coupled to the undercarriage of an amusement kart are provided. Each of the magnet assemblies can include: a suspension component coupled to the undercarriage; magnetic material coupled to the suspension component; and a rotating component coupled to the suspension component. Other sets of magnet assemblies can include a skid component coupled to the suspension component. Amusement park attractions are provided that can include: an amusement kart having one or more magnet assemblies coupled to an undercarriage of the amusement kart; and a track comprising iron plating sufficient to magnetically engage the one or more magnet assemblies. Amusement karts are also provided that can include: a frame supported by front and rear wheels; and complimentary side rails extending along both sides of the frame and between the front and rear wheels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventor: Brandon Paul
  • Patent number: 12017150
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for operating an amusement park (1) for at least one visitor (5) and having at least one attraction (2), wherein at least one exoskeleton unit (30) comprising at least one movement device (32) is provided for the at least one visitor (5) and the at least one exoskeleton unit (30) forces at least one movement or stance upon the at least one visitor (5). In addition, the present invention relates to an amusement park.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: MACK RIDES GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Maximilian Roeser
  • Patent number: 12017151
    Abstract: A quadcopter toy is provided, including a fuselage main body, four rotor units, and a circular decorative ring, wherein the circular decorative ring is fixedly connected to a horizontal rotating shaft; the horizontal rotating shaft passes through the fuselage main body; two locating pieces are arranged at an eccentric position of one of the transmission gears; a pawl that cooperates with the two locating pieces is mounted in the fuselage main body; and the pawl does not block clockwise rotation of the locating pieces around a central axis of the transmission gear, but blocks anticlockwise rotation of the locating pieces around the central axis of the transmission gear. The circular decorative ring is provided with a light-emitting diode (LED) strip. The LED strip of the present disclosure can rotate and can stop at fixed points, which improves the fun of the toy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventor: Xukun Wu
  • Patent number: 12017152
    Abstract: An air amplifier utilizes a high-pressure input stream of air to accelerate a low-velocity input stream of air to provide a high-velocity, high-volume output stream of air. A coupled air amplifier array includes multiple air amplifiers which couple their respective output streams of air to one another to form a single collective output stream of air. Multiple coupled air amplifier arrays can be utilized to form coupled air amplifier array systems to provide multiple collective output streams of air which can be focused toward to an audience within a venue. The coupled air amplifier array system can be implemented within atmospheric effects systems to provide atmospheric effects, such as wind, scent, and/or temperature to provide some examples, relating to an event. These atmospheric effects systems can present these atmospheric effects to the audience to enhance the immersion of the audience as they are viewing the event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: CSC Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Robert Anderson, Stuart Elby, Erik Hockman, Michael Allen Rives, Jeffery Lynn Wertz, Darik Wade Beaver, Jason David Adams, Joshua Richard Anderson, Brian Andrew Maier, Richard Neal Fleming, Tony Leonard Oxford
  • Patent number: 12017153
    Abstract: These liquid-liquid extractors are adapted to very low fluid flow rates passing through them. In order to reduce the influence of capillarity and air phenomena that may make the flow irregular, the outlet ducts comprise, downstream of the settling cell where the heavy and light phases separate, overflows of the phases the edge of which is irregular in height, for example serrated. The circulation channels of the phases are advantageously open to also reduce the risks of blocking by air bubbles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT À L'ÉNERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ÉNERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Hervé Roussel, Frank Dutilh
  • Patent number: 12017154
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for the determination of impurities in polyalkylene ethers and polyalkylene amines comprising the steps i) introducing polyalkylene ethers or polyalkylene amines as an analyte into a chromatography column containing monolithic silica gel as a stationary phase, ii) eluting the analyte with a liquid elution agent having such a polarity that the analyte is in adsorptive equilibrium with the stationary phase during chromatography, iii) detecting the components of the analyte at the exit-side end of the chromatography column, receiving a chromatogram, which shows different components of the analyte and its qualitative amount depending on the elution time of the individual components, and iv) identifying bands in the chromatogram having a low height or area compared to the band with the largest height or area as an indication of the presence of impurities in the analyte. The method allows in an easy manner to identify impurities in the sample.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITAET JENA
    Inventors: Ulrich Sigmar Schubert, Ivo Nischang, Michaela Brunzel
  • Patent number: 12017155
    Abstract: Provided herein are phase separation devices and methods for performing phase separation of an aqueous mixture. Said devices and methods may include a cavitation component for cavitating the aqueous mixture to produce a cavitated aqueous mixture; and an electrosorption component for performing an electrosorptive phase separation of the cavitated aqueous mixture. Such devices and methods may be used for phase separation of aqueous mixtures including algal aqueous mixtures and/or mining or waste water aqueous mixtures, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: National Research Council of Canada
    Inventor: Deepak M. Kirpalani
  • Patent number: 12017156
    Abstract: Deaerator (1) for the removal and evacuation of gases in heating systems or the like, comprising air expulsion means (2; 4), a container body (10) provided with a cavity (100) inside which a heat transfer fluid passes and circulates, the container body (10) comprising at least one degassing chamber (101), at least one inlet duct (11), wherethrough the heat transfer fluid enters, at least one outlet duct (12), wherethrough the heat transfer fluid exits, the inlet (11) and outlet (12) ducts being in fluid communication with the cavity (100), characterised in that: it comprises, inside the cavity (100), at least one flow diverter adapted to divide the flow (F) of the heat transfer fluid into a primary flow (Fp) and into a secondary flow (Fs); the flow diverter (14) being positioned in the cavity (100) so as to define, in cooperation with the walls of the cavity (100) and/or of the container body (10), at least the degassing chamber (101), inside which the secondary flow (Fs) passes, and at least one passage
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Ariston S.P.A.
    Inventors: Claudio Spuri Silvestrini, Flavio Chiavetti, Antonio Lopez
  • Patent number: 12017157
    Abstract: The de-aerator can be used to separate air from oil in an aircraft engine lubrication system. The de-aerator can include a swirler cavity extending circumferentially around axis and axially between a proximal wall and a distal wall, a separation path dividing within the swirler cavity into a radially outer oil segment leading to an oil outlet and a radially inner air segment leading to an air outlet, and a swirling conduit portion having a length turning around the axis upstream of an opening in the proximal wall along the separation path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: PRATT & WHITNEY CANADA CORP.
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Caron, Ivan Sidorovich Paradiso
  • Patent number: 12017158
    Abstract: Provided are degasification devices and methods of degasifying a liquid. Methods of degasifying a liquid can include filling a liquid chamber with a liquid; increasing an internal volume of the liquid chamber to generate a vacuum within the liquid chamber; applying one or more pressure waves to the liquid in the liquid chamber to accelerate the formation of a plurality of gas bubbles which rise to the surface of the liquid and release gas within the plurality of gas bubbles into a space above the liquid in the liquid chamber; and decreasing the internal volume of the liquid chamber to force the gas through a vapor outlet of the liquid chamber, wherein a degassed liquid remains in the liquid chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Kazadi Enterprises Ltd.
    Inventor: Sanza T. Kazadi
  • Patent number: 12017159
    Abstract: A feedwell is provided for an inclined plate separator having a separation chamber containing parallel plates defining separation passages. The feedwell includes a plenum defining a plenum chamber external to the separation chamber, an upward-facing deflector surface in the plenum chamber, an inlet for discharging influent fluid onto a receiving region of the deflector surface, and an outlet for discharging the influent fluid out of the plenum and transversely into the separation chamber. The feedwell also includes parallel fins. The fins define between them plenum passages that extend from a fin end to outlet. The fin ends are disposed between the outlet and the receiving region, and are arranged in a horizontal semi-elliptical path defining a center that horizontally coincides with the receiving region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Syncrude Canada Ltd.
    Inventors: Kevin Reid, Jonathan Spence, Parinaz Makhtoumi, Trevor Hilderman, Konstantin Pougatch
  • Patent number: 12017160
    Abstract: A water purification housing capable of purifying water and a rainwater purification system using the water purification housing are provided. The water purification housing filters treated water by filling filter media in a housing body and then passing the treated water through the filter media and removes residue caught in the filter media as a result of the use of the filter media by collecting the residue in a sediment discharge container positioned at a bottom portion of the housing body. The rainwater purification system includes an element that connects and installs several water purification housings and an additional filtration element including fiber filter and UV lamp which can filter materials that cannot be filtered only by the filter media at the end of the rainwater purification system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventor: Kwan Jung
  • Patent number: 12017161
    Abstract: The current technology relates to filter media configurations where the filter media has a surface with a treatment that increases the roll off angle of the surface for a 50 ?L water droplet when the surface is immersed in toluene. Some example filter media have a fluted configuration, and some example filter media have multiple layers. Filter media having multiple layers can be single facer media, for example, where one layer is planar and another layer is fluted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Aflal Rahmathullah, Andrew J. Dallas, Brian R. Tucker, Daniel E. Adamek, Paul A. Way, Scott A. Betcher, Vijay K. Kapoor, Colter A. Marcks, William S. Rossiter, Timothy O. Winters, Wijadi Jodi, Bradly G. Hauser, Davis B. Moravec, Matthew P. Goertz, Stephen K. Sontag, Stuti S. Rajgarhia, Charles S. Christ, Joseph M. Block
  • Patent number: 12017162
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a filter element for use in a fluid filter system is disclosed herein. The filter element comprises a filter medium having a longitudinal axis between a first end and a second end, and an end cap assembly attached to the first end of the filter medium. The end cap assembly includes a first end cap aligned with the longitudinal axis and proximate to the first end of the filter medium; a first member concentric with and disposed radially apart from the first end cap and the filter medium and axially between the first end cap and the second end of the filter medium; and a plurality of arms connecting the first end cap with the first member, each arm configured to align the filter element with respect to the container and base plate by absorbing alignment discrepancies between at least the base plate and container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.
    Inventors: Jon T. Immel, Darrell L Morehouse, III, Jeffrey R. Ries, Javier A. Rodriguez
  • Patent number: 12017163
    Abstract: A filter assembly that comprises a housing, an outer filter element, and an inner filter element. The outer filter element is positionable within the housing and comprises an outer filter media. The inner filter element is positionable within the outer filter element and comprises an inner filter media, a media support structure, an inner top endplate, and an inner bottom endplate. The inner top endplate comprising a top rib that extends continuously around a portion of a top surface of the inner top endplate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Filtration IP, Inc.
    Inventors: Manikandan Annamalai, Saurabh Saboo, Jayant Singh, Zemin Jiang, Prashant Ramesh Khedkar, Kevin C South
  • Patent number: 12017164
    Abstract: Water filter with self-rinsing capability that includes filter housing, hollow cartridge core, and mesh filter. The filter housing includes a hollow housing with top and drain openings, a top cover with inlet and outlet ports, a one-way pressure valve, and a drain tap that includes a rod, an opening and closing knob that is connected to the rod, and an opening and closing barrier with passageway that is connected to the rod. The cartridge comprises of a tube with inlet and outlet passageways, and spray pipes with spray nozzles, and enables water to flows from the tube into the spray pipes and outside into the filter housing through the nozzles. The mesh filter has a shape of a hollow cylinder that is worn on the tube in a gap between the tube and the spray pipes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventor: Yigal Tsabari
  • Patent number: 12017165
    Abstract: This disclosure describes one or more trays for use in distillation columns. The trays include a plate having a plurality of through holes that extend between a first surface of the plate and a second surface of the plate. The plurality of through holes include a first set of through holes each having substantially a first diameter and a second set of through holes each having substantially a second diameter that is different from the first diameter. The trays also include a weir coupled to the plate and extending from the first surface. The weir is positioned between the first set of through holes and the second set of through holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SABIC GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES B.V.
    Inventors: Vijay Dinkar Bodas, Mohammed Bismillah Ansari
  • Patent number: 12017166
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an insertion device for inserting at least one section of packing for a gas/liquid separation column into a cylindrical casing, characterized in that a deployment module comprises a main member centred about a main axis of the insertion device, and a plurality of peripheral members arranged circumferentially and uniformly around the main axis, each of the peripheral members comprising an attachment means configured to grasp hold of a packing section, the deployment module comprising a plurality of branches arranged as pairs of branches connecting the main member to one of the peripheral members, the deployment module being able to modify the dimension of the insertion device by modifying a radial distance between the main member and each of the peripheral members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
    Inventors: Cyrille Babinet, Eric Gallopin, Gilles Lebain
  • Patent number: 12017167
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a filter having a housing having first and second end surfaces and interior and exterior surfaces, a membrane disposed within the tubular housing, a first end cap sealed to the first end surface of the tubular housing and the first end surface of the membrane; a second end cap sealed to the second end surface of the tubular housing and the second end surface of the membrane; and a fluid channel formed in the interior surface of the housing in a helical pattern. The helical pattern has a helical pitch in an axial direction of the housing of less than or equal to about 60 mm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: ENTEGRIS, INC.
    Inventors: Barry L. Gregerson, Christopher P. Barck
  • Patent number: 12017168
    Abstract: An aqueous fluid filter assembly with aeration mitigation includes a cap, a bowl engaging the cap and defining a filter volume, and a filter element disposed in the filter volume. The filter element is sealed against an interior of the cap and an interior of the bowl to provide an unfiltered volume and a filtered volume. An inlet is in fluid communication with the unfiltered volume and an outlet is in fluid communication with the filtered volume via a pickup section. The pickup section has a pick-up section inlet extending into the filtered volume and an air-metering orifice, wherein the air-metering orifice has a diameter less than 30% of the diameter of the pick-up section inlet and the pick-up section inlet is located below the air-metering orifice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SHAW DEVELOPMENT, LLC
    Inventors: Bryan Kuieck, Patrick Greivell, Michael O'Hara, Eric Gress
  • Patent number: 12017169
    Abstract: Articles and methods involving filter media are generally provided. In certain embodiments, the filter media includes at least a first layer, a second layer, and an adhesive resin positioned between the first layer and the second layer. In some embodiments, the first layer may be a pre-filter layer or a support layer. The second layer may, for example, comprise fibers formed by a solution spinning process and/or may comprise fine fibers. In some embodiments, the adhesive resin may be present in a relatively low amount and/or may have a low glass transition temperature. The filter media as a whole may have one or more advantageous properties, including one or more of a high stiffness, a high bond strength between the first layer and the second layer, a high gamma, and/or a low increase in air resistance after being subjected to an IPA vapor discharge. The filter media may be, for example, a HEPA filter and/or an ULPA filter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Hollingsworth & Vose Company
    Inventors: Sudhakar Jaganathan, Douglas M. Guimond, Carrie Liu
  • Patent number: 12017170
    Abstract: Systems and methods of filtering particulate matter from a fluid are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a system for filtering particulate matter from a liquid comprises a filter having a filter housing, inlet and outlet ports, and compressible filter media with synthetic fibers. Further, the filter media is disposed in the housing between the inlet and outlet ports and is operable to filter particulate matter from the liquid. Also, a pressure difference between the inlet and outlet ports with the filter media disposed in the housing is no more than four pounds per square inch differential. In addition, the system includes a pump that is operationally coupled to the filter and operable to move the liquid through the filter media with a flux rate of at least eighteen gallons per minute per square foot of the filter media while operating at less than one electrical horsepower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Inventors: Kirk S. Morris, Chris Disher, Dylan Morris
  • Patent number: 12017171
    Abstract: A filter assembly comprises a filter element and a housing. The filter element comprises a filter media, and an alignment feature positioned on at least a portion of an outer surface of the filter media. The alignment feature comprises an alignment channel. The housing defines a housing internal volume. At least a portion of the filter element is positioned within the housing internal volume. The housing comprises an alignment protrusion extending axially from a housing inner surface towards the filter element so as to mate with the alignment channel. The alignment feature comprises a ring member positioned circumferentially around the filter media at a filter media first end proximate to the housing, and a filter baffle extending from the ring member. The filter baffle is circumferentially positioned on at least a portion of the outer surface of the filter media and defines the alignment channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Cummins Filtration Sarl
    Inventors: Ronan Corvec, Emmanuel Page
  • Patent number: 12017172
    Abstract: An air cleaning system can rapidly senses occurrence of local pollution, caused by fine dust, through a remote sensor hub and supplies purified air to a polluted area in a concentrated manner, thereby quickly purifying indoor air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Ji Eun Choi, Hyungho Park, Jinhee Noh, Dongryul Park, Seongman Jang
  • Patent number: 12017173
    Abstract: An air cleaner assembly includes a precleaner assembly. In one aspect, the precleaner assembly incudes a bypass arrangement that is operated to bypass a portion of air around the precleaner assembly. The bypass arrangement can be operated by a controller based on at least one input signal corresponding to one or more of a vehicle speed, a vehicle engine speed, a vehicle engine load, an operator input, a vehicle location, an air pressure drop across a filter element, an air pressure drop across the precleaner assembly, an acoustic level, a vibration level, a change or cleaning frequency of the filter element, a total number of filter element changes, an identity of the filter element, an identity of the engine, an identity of the vehicle, an air flow rate through the precleaner assembly or through the filter element, and a weather condition parameter identified through data received locally or from a weather service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Dan Little, Scott M. Brown
  • Patent number: 12017174
    Abstract: The invention relates to a filter element for mounting in an air cleaner housing of a vehicle. The filter element comprises a circumferential filtering wall through which air is allowed to enter. The filter element also comprises a first end and an open second end for fluidly connecting the filter element to a turbo. The open second end is located opposite the first end. The circumferential filtering wall extends from the first end towards the open second end. The filter element further comprises a resonator. The entire resonator is encircled by the circumferential filtering wall such that air entering through the circumferential filtering wall passes on the outside of the resonator to and through the open second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Volvo Truck Corporation
    Inventors: Fabio Ribeiro, Carl Löwstedt, Torbjörn Ågren, Mikael Karlsson
  • Patent number: 12017175
    Abstract: A pleated air filter media is provided. The pleated air filter media comprises a plurality of upstream linear bridging filaments that are extrusion-bonded to at least some of a plurality of upstream pleat tips of a fibrous web, and a plurality of downstream continuous-contact filaments that are extrusion-bonded to a downstream face of the fibrous web. Methods of making and using the same are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Zhiqun Zhang, Nhat Ha Thi Nguyen, Jimmy M. Le, Glen O. Gregerson, Bryan L. Gerhardt, Philip D. Eitzman
  • Patent number: 12017176
    Abstract: A filtration media pack including a plurality of layers of filter media is disclosed. The media pack includes fluted sheets and a facing sheet, with a plurality of flutes extending between the fluted sheets and the facing sheets. In an embodiment, the fluted sheet includes a plurality of protrusions that contact the facing sheet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventor: Scott M. Brown
  • Patent number: 12017177
    Abstract: A filtration media pack is provided having a plurality of layers of single facer media. The layer of single facer media includes a fluted sheet, a facing sheet, and a plurality of flutes extending between the fluted sheet and the facing sheet and having a flute length extending from a first face to a second face of the filtration media pack. A first portion of the plurality of flutes are closed to unfiltered fluid flowing into the first portion of the plurality of flutes, and a second portion of the plurality of flutes are closed to unfiltered fluid flowing out of the second portion of the plurality of flutes so that fluid passing into one of the first face and the second face of the media pack and out the other face of the media pack passes through media to provide filtration of the fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Donaldson Company, Inc.
    Inventors: Gary J. Rocklitz, Robert M. Rogers, Daniel E. Adamek, Ming Ouyang, Anitha M. Mathew
  • Patent number: 12017178
    Abstract: An absorption solvent regeneration device includes: a regenerator for regenerating an absorption solvent by separating CO2 from the absorption solvent which has absorbed CO2; a main rich solvent line for supplying the absorption solvent which has absorbed CO2 to the regenerator; a regeneration reboiler for heating an absorption solvent extracted from the regenerator; a reboiler line configured to extract the absorption solvent stored in the regenerator and return the absorption solvent to the regenerator via the regeneration reboiler; a branch rich solvent line branching from the main rich solvent line and connected to a portion of the reboiler line downstream of the regeneration reboiler; and a heating part for heating the absorption solvent flowing through the branch rich solvent line, the heating part being disposed on the branch rich solvent line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Yoshiki Sorimachi, Takashi Kamijo, Shinya Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 12017179
    Abstract: In a general aspect, interfacial surface structures for removing carbon dioxide from a gaseous feed are presented. In some cases, a method of removing carbon dioxide gas from a gaseous feed includes wetting surfaces of an interfacial surface structure in a gas-liquid contactor with an alkaline capture solution. The gaseous feed containing the CO2 gas is passed across the wetted surfaces of the interfacial surface structure to dissolve the CO2 gas in the alkaline capture solution. A CO2-rich alkaline capture solution is collected from the gas-liquid contactor. The CO2-rich alkaline capture solution includes dissolved CO2 gas from the gaseous feed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: AirMyne, Inc.
    Inventors: Bart Ludo Scherpbier, Dominick Yaate Quaye, Flynn Corrigan Michael Legg, Joana Cabrera, Jun Seon Hong, Carlos Guillermo Ramirez, Derek Chase Popple, Ngoc The Pham, Mark Patrick Cyffka, Le-Xuan Diec, Aryan Johari, Sudip Mukhopadhyay
  • Patent number: 12017180
    Abstract: Methods and systems for recovering sulfur dioxide from a Claus unit process emissions stream are provided. The method comprises the steps of generating a process emissions stream from a thermal oxidizer or other combustion device, introducing the emissions stream to an SO2 removal system, introducing the SO2 rich stream from the SO2 removal system to a CO2 removal system, and introducing an enriched SO2 stream back to the Claus unit. The SO2 removal system can include one or more SO2 selective membranes. The CO2 removal system can include one or more CO2 selective membranes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignees: Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Membrane Technology and Research, Inc.
    Inventors: Milind Vaidya, Sebastien Duval, Feras Hamad, Richard Baker, Tim Merkel, Kaaeid Lokhandwala, Ahmad Bahamdan, Faisal Al-Otaibi
  • Patent number: 12017181
    Abstract: A compressed air drying system is provided for removing moisture from compressed air. The dryer operates in two modes in response to the demand for compressed air. In a first mode of operation, a refrigeration compressor runs continuously and the speed of a condenser fan is varied to maintain a constant cooling temperature. In a second mode of operation, the refrigeration compressor runs intermittently between on and off periods. As result, the cooling temperature fluctuates during the second mode of operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Ingersoll-Rand Industrial U.S., Inc.
    Inventors: Stefano Vezil, Paolo Depiero, Giovanni Battista Capellari
  • Patent number: 12017182
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a system for refining long chain dicarboxylic acid, comprising: a first membrane filtration unit, for a first membrane filtration of a long chain dicarboxylic acid fermentation broth or a treated liquid therefrom; a first decolorization unit, for carrying out a first decolorization treatment to the filtrate obtained after the membrane filtration; a first acidification/crystallization unit, for carrying out a first acidification/crystallization of a filtrate obtained after the membrane filtration to give a solid-liquid mixture; a first separation unit, for a solid-liquid separation of the solid-liquid mixture; a drying unit, for drying the solid separated by the separation unit to give a first solid. By using the refining system according to the present disclosure, the purity of the obtained product is high, and the disadvantages such as poor quality of the product obtained by crystallization from a solvent and environment pollution caused by a solvent can be overcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignees: Cathay Biotech Inc., CIBT America Inc., Cathay (Jinxiang) Biomaterial Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chen Yang, Bingbing Qin, Yufeng Yang, Kai Wang, Xiucai Liu
  • Patent number: 12017183
    Abstract: An electrochemical separation device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a cell stack including a plurality of sub-blocks each having alternating depleting compartments and concentrating compartments and each including frame and channel portions disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. An internal seal formed of a first material is disposed between and in contact with the channel portions between adjacent sub-blocks in the cell stack and configured to prevent leakage between depleting compartments and concentrating compartments in the adjacent sub-blocks. An external seal formed of a second material having at least one material parameter different from the first material is disposed between and in contact with the frames of the adjacent sub-blocks in the cell stack and configured to prevent leakage from an internal volume of the electrochemical separation device to outside of the electrochemical separation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Evoqua Water Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Michael J. Muse, Joshua Griffis, Li-Shiang Liang, Michael Shaw, Simon P. Dukes
  • Patent number: 12017184
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method use permeate to flush a reverse osmosis filter membrane in the same flow direction as when fluid is being filtered through the membrane. The apparatus includes a housing having a membrane positioned therein. The membrane has an interior surface and an exterior surface. The housing has an inlet port located outward of the exterior surface of the membrane and first and second outlet ports. The first outlet port is located outward of the exterior surface of the membrane and the second outlet port is located inward of the interior surface of the membrane. A first pump is used to route pressurized, untreated fluid from a fluid source through the membrane to produce permeate. A second pump is used to route permeate to a desired function while also routing some permeate at low pressure to the housing to flush the membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Sonny's Water Systems LLC
    Inventors: Paul Philip Kalscheur, Michael Aaron Huiting, Clint Jeffrey Griesbach, Theodore Paul LaVigne, Jay Scott Dayak
  • Patent number: 12017185
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for the production of a porous polymer membrane suitable for liquid filtration or analyte capture, comprising the steps of: providing a flowable composition (100) on a substrate (220) the composition including at least: photo-activatable monomer molecules, photo activation initiator molecules and photo-activation quencher molecules; providing one or more pulses (L) of laser light at at least one focal point in the composition of sufficient energy to locally polymerise the composition; moving the or each focal point relative to the previously polymerised composition in a continuous or stepwise predetermined manner to a multiplicity of further positions; and repeating the pulse(s) at those further positions such that a three dimensional matrix of the composition is polymerised leaving unpolymerized areas of a size equivalent to conventional polymer membrane pores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: GLOBAL LIFE SCIENCES SOLUTIONS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Stuart Swinburne, Klaus Gebauer
  • Patent number: 12017186
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods of fabricating a zeolite-like metal-organic framework with an ana-topology (ana-ZMOF) thin film membrane, the methods comprising: (1) modifying a substrate with ana-ZMOF crystal precursors in the presence of polyvinylpyrrolidone; and (2) intergrowing the ana-ZMOF crystal precursors in the presence of polyvinylpyrrolidone to form a continuous defect-free thin film of an ana-ZMOF intergrown on the substrate. Embodiments further include methods of separating chemical species comprising contacting an ana-ZMOF thin film membrane with a fluid composition containing one or more chemical species and separating at least one of the chemical species.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: King Abdullah University of Science & Technology
    Inventors: Mohamed Eddaoudi, Valeriya Chernikova, Osama Shekhah, Youssef Belmabkhout
  • Patent number: 12017187
    Abstract: A method for in situ production of antimicrobial filtration membranes that uses self-assembly of surfactants such as block copolymers as a template. The mesophase structure (for example hexagonal or lamellar) can be determined, and membrane pore size can be controlled in the nanometer range, by changing the block copolymer and the amounts of the components such as the block copolymer, aqueous solution, monomer, crosslinker, and initiator. The monomer phase cures in the template and there is no need for organic solvents and coagulation bath or other post-modification. As-synthesized membranes were found to have pore sizes with a narrow size distribution in the range of 3-4 nm with a molecular weight cutoff of 1500 g/mol and displayed both excellent fouling resistance and high permeance of water, vastly outperforming a conventional NIPS UF membrane. The monomer can comprise a quaternary ammonium group so that the membrane is antibacterial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Arrowhead Center, Inc.
    Inventors: Sahar Qavi, Reza Foudazi, Aaron Lindsay
  • Patent number: 12017188
    Abstract: Described herein are mixed matrix filtration membranes and related, dendrimers, dendrimer particles, compositions, methods and systems and in particular mixed matrix filtration membranes with an embedded dendrimer particles and related compositions, methods, and systems wherein each dendrimer particle comprises at least two dendrimers each having at least two core chemical moieties having a core multiplicity Nc; branch cell units attached to the core chemical moiety or one to another, with the branch cell units attached one to another having a branch cells multiplicity Nb; and a number of surface functional groups Z presented on terminal branch cell units, wherein Z=NcNbG with G?3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignees: CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Mamadou S. Diallo, Madhusudhana Rao Kotte, Alex Kuvarega
  • Patent number: 12017189
    Abstract: Water-filtration compositions, membranes, devices, and manufacturing processes including graphene oxide with hydrophilic functional groups. Disclosed are a composition comprising graphene oxide with an average particle diameter of no more than about 1 ?m and has an oxygen atomic percentage of at least about 30%, a membrane comprising the composition, a water-permeable device comprising the membrane, a method of making the membrane using the composition, and several methods of generating the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI TETRELS MATERIAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunzhou Li, Zisong Nie
  • Patent number: 12017190
    Abstract: Composite hollow fiber gas separation membranes with improved permeance and separation layer adhesion are manufactured by providing dipping a hollow fiber membrane substrate in a pre-coat layer coating composition followed by drying to thereby provide a pre-coated substrate and dipping the pre-coated substrate in a separation layer coating composition followed by drying to thereby provide the composite hollow fiber gas separation membranes. The pre-coating composition includes a first polymer dissolved in a first solvent and the separation layer composition includes a second polymer dissolved in a second solvent. The first and second polymers are the same or different, each of the first and second polymers is at least 1 wt % soluble in a same third solvent, the first and second solvents are the same or different, the first and third solvents are the same or different, and the second and third solvent are the same or different.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: L'Air Liquide, Société Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procédés Georges Claude
    Inventors: Junyi Liu, Sudhir Kulkarni, Raja Swaidan, Megha Sharma
  • Patent number: 12017191
    Abstract: A mixing cartridge delivery system, which mixes additive with base liquid flowing through it, utilizes a dispensing closure valve to achieve improved flow of mixed liquid from the cartridge. A closure base may include a tethered lid. A flexible valve, such as a slit valve, is supported on a valve supporting end of the closure base and retained thereon with a valve retainer that interlocks with the closure base. The system may include a one-way valve for base liquid and a mixing section defined in the cartridge. The dispensing closure valve achieves improved flow characteristics in combination with the base liquid valve. The dispensing closure valve also prevents leakage and inadvertent discharge from the cartridge system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Cirkul, Inc.
    Inventors: Garrett Waggoner, Andrew Gay, Philip McKeating, Thomas Urbanik, Cole Houston, John Green