Patents Issued in December 17, 2024
  • Patent number: 12169198
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for processing or analyzing a sample. Methods may include generating supports (e.g., beads) comprising barcode molecules coupled thereto. A support comprising barcode molecules may be useful for analyzing or processing one or more analytes such as nucleic acid molecules, proteins, and/or perturbation agents.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: 10X GENOMICS, INC.
    Inventors: Andrew D. Price, Christopher Hindson
  • Patent number: 12169199
    Abstract: The present application provides methods and systems for identifying host cell protein impurities which have enzymatic activities in biopharmaceutical products and in samples during manufacturing processes. The present application provides various activity-based probes to characterize different enzyme classes of host cell protein impurities including probes containing functionalized molecules with reporter or affinity-based tags.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Haibo Qiu, Rosalynn Molden
  • Patent number: 12169200
    Abstract: The invention provides a lateral flow device and methods for the detection of antibodies to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in a sample of bodily fluid of an animal or human. The test methods include contacting the sample with a conjugate comprising a recombinant SARS-CoV-2 spike protein antigen that has been conjugated to a detection agent, wherein an antigen-antibody complex is formed between the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein antigen conjugate and SARS-CoV-2 antibodies present in the sample; capturing the formed antigen-antibody complex with an Fc-binding molecule; and detecting the captured complex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Zoetis Services LLC
    Inventors: Joshua T. Lizer, Jason J. Workman, James P. Gillies, Eric T. Baima, Rajesh K. Mehra
  • Patent number: 12169201
    Abstract: A method for evaluating a biological material for unassociated virus-size particles having a particular epitope uses a fluorescent antibody stain specific for binding with the epitope and a fluid sample with the virus-size particles and fluorescent antibody stain is subjected to flow cytometry with identification of fluorescent emission detection events indicative of passage through a flow cell of a flow cytometer of unassociated labeled particles of virus size including such a virus-size particle and fluorescent antibody stain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Sartorious BioAnalytical Instruments, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Artinger, Francis Kevin Kohlmeier, Michael W. Olszowy, Tyler Donald Gates
  • Patent number: 12169202
    Abstract: The present invention includes a method of identifying 2-hydroxygluterate (2-hg) metabolites in a sample comprising: obtaining the sample from a patient; extracting the 2-hydroxygluterate (2-hg) metabolites from the sample without modifying a chiral center of the 2-hg metabolites; separating the one or more 2-hg metabolites in the sample using a chiral gas chromatography capillary column; and quantitating an amount of 2-hg metabolites in the sample using mass spectrometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Mark R. Emmett, Shinji K. Strain, Morris D. Groves
  • Patent number: 12169203
    Abstract: Methods for detecting and/or discriminating between post-translational modification variants of an antibody of interest in a sample. The methods including: contacting a sample comprising one or more antibodies of interest with a protease to digest the sample into antibody fragments; separating antibody fragments by molecular weight and/or charge in one or more capillaries using capillary electrophoresis; eluting separated antibody fragments from the one or more capillaries; and determining the mass of the eluted antibody fragments by mass spec analysis, thereby detecting and/or discriminating between post-translational modification variants of the antibody of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Hongxia Wang, Haibo Qiu, Ning Li
  • Patent number: 12169204
    Abstract: The present invention provides rapid, sensitive high-throughput methods and systems for characterizing peptides or proteins using hydrophobic interaction chromatography-coupled native mass spectrometry to improve manufacturing process of biopharmaceutical products, such as identifying impurities during antibody purification, monitoring post-translational modification variants during production, or characterizing drug-to-antibody ratio of antibody-drug conjugates. The separation profiles of the peptides or proteins are generated and compared to identify or qualify the peptides or proteins.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuetian Yan, Shunhai Wang
  • Patent number: 12169205
    Abstract: The disclosure provides anti-myostatin antibodies and methods of making and using the same. Nucleic acids encoding the anti-myostatin antibodies and host cells comprising the nucleic acids are also provided. The anti-myostatin antibodies have uses that include treating a muscle wasting disease, reducing body fat accumulation, and increasing mass and strength of muscle tissue. The disclosure also provides polypeptides containing a variant Fc region and methods of making and using the same. Nucleic acids encoding the polypeptides and host cells comprising the nucleic acids are also provided. The polypeptides have uses that include suppressing the activation of immune cells; treating an immunological inflammatory disease, autoimmune disease, or viral infection; and increasing muscle mass and strength or reducing body fat accumulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: CHUGAI SEIYAKU KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yoshinao Ruike, Taichi Kuramochi, Hiroyasu Muramatsu, Atsunori Ueyama, Tomoyuki Igawa, Hitoshi Katada, Yuji Hori
  • Patent number: 12169206
    Abstract: A method of handling laboratory sample containers is presented. The method comprises moving a laboratory sample container to a target position. The target position is a position at which the laboratory sample container is inserted into a corresponding orifice of a laboratory sample container rack provided that the laboratory sample container rack is placed at an intended position. The laboratory sample container is prevented from moving horizontally more than a predetermined horizontal distance if inserted into the corresponding orifice of the laboratory sample container rack. The method also comprises applying a force in a horizontal direction (xy) to the laboratory sample container, determining if the laboratory sample container moves in the horizontal direction (xy) more than the predetermined horizontal distance, and performing an error procedure if it is determined that the laboratory sample container moves in the horizontal direction (xy) more than the predetermined horizontal distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Raul Baltasar Badaya, Julian Baumgart
  • Patent number: 12169207
    Abstract: A sample introduction system is described that provides temperature-controlled handling and transfer of a sample from an autosampler, through a transfer line, to a heated environment proximate an analytical device. A system embodiment includes, but is not limited to, an autosampler including a temperature-controlled deck to support one or more sample containers; a heating unit including one or more heating elements to one or more fluids to be introduced to a sample removed from the one or more sample containers; a transfer line fluidically coupled with the autosampler and including a heating element configured to transfer heat to fluid flowing through the transfer line; and a sample handling system fluidically coupled with the transfer line and configured to fluidically couple with an analysis device, the sample handling system including a housing and a heating element configured to control a temperature of an environment defined by the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Elemental Scientific, Inc.
    Inventors: Jeremiah Meints, Maurice Reijnen
  • Patent number: 12169208
    Abstract: An automated system for controlling a conductive probe of a nanoprober system in situ to a charged particle beam (CPB) imaging system can include a nanoprober comprising an actuator and a conductive probe; signal measurement circuitry electrically coupled to the conductive probe and to receive an electrical signal from the conductive probe; and a hardware processor to execute operations. The operations can include activating a CPB within a first reference frame, the first reference frame associated with the CPB; causing, by a computerized control system, the CPB and the conductive probe to intersect; measuring an electrical response from the intersection of the CPB with the conductive probe; and determining a location of the conductive probe in a second reference frame based on the electric response from the intersection of the CPB with the conductive probe, the second reference frame associated with the conductive probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Innovatum Instruments Inc.
    Inventors: Richard E Stallcup, II, Michael Berkmyre, Ronen Benzion, Carlo Floresca
  • Patent number: 12169209
    Abstract: A sensing probe may be formed of a diamond material comprising one or more spin defects that are configured to emit fluorescent light and are located no more than 50 nm from a sensing surface of the sensing probe. The sensing probe may include an optical outcoupling structure formed by the diamond material and configured to optically guide the fluorescent light toward an output end of the optical outcoupling structure. An optical detector may detect the fluorescent light that is emitted from the spin defects and that exits through the output end of the optical outcoupling structure after being optically guided therethrough. A mounting system may hold the sensing probe and control a distance between the sensing surface of the sensing probe and a surface of a sample while permitting relative motion between the sensing surface and the sample surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Michael S. Grinolds, Sungkun Hong, Patrick Maletinsky, Amir Yacoby
  • Patent number: 12169210
    Abstract: A probe tip for connecting a test instrument to a device under test (DUT) includes a rigid frame configured to attach to a stable base; a connector assembly attached to or integrated with the rigid frame; and a flexible tip portion removably connected at a proximal end to the connector assembly. The flexible tip portion includes multiple DUT contacts at a distal end and multiple electrical leads respectively connected to the multiple DUT contacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: KEYSIGHT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventors: Nicholas Fernandez, Ashley Yang
  • Patent number: 12169211
    Abstract: A vertical probe pin that includes: an elastic beam part which is disposed between a lower contact portion in contact with a device to be tested and an upper contact point spaced apart at a predetermined distance from the lower contact point and in contact with a test device. The vertical probe pin is composed of a pair of elastic beams having a predetermined gap in order to be elastically deformed by an external force; and a separation prevention protrusion part provided with separation prevention protrusions protruding from at least one of the pair of elastic beams in order to prevent the elastic beam part from being separated through an upper guide hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: TSE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seok Ho Son, Young Hun Ju
  • Patent number: 12169212
    Abstract: Proposed are a probe head for testing, through a probe, a pattern formed on a wafer, and a probe card having the same. More particularly, proposed are a probe head in which formation of a guide hole into which a probe is inserted and insertion of the probe therein are facilitated, and a probe card having the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: POINT ENGINEERING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Bum Mo Ahn, Sung Hyun Byun, Dong Hyeok Seo
  • Patent number: 12169213
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for measuring a power consumption of a hot pluggable solid-state drives are described. An example method for measuring a power consumption of a solid-state drive communicatively coupled to a server backplane within a server chassis includes performing, by an adaptor, a power measurement to generate a value corresponding to the power consumption of the solid-state drive, and transmitting, using a wireless transceiver of the adaptor, the value to a recording unit, where a first end of the adaptor is coupled to the solid-state drive and a second end of the adaptor is coupled to the server backplane, and where the wireless transceiver, communicatively coupled to an antenna, is configured to operate using at least one wireless protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SK HYNIX INC.
    Inventors: Xiaofang Chen, Wenwei Wang
  • Patent number: 12169214
    Abstract: An electromagnetic apparatus (EMA) for measuring electromagnetic properties of an electrical conductor such as a power cord is provided. Methods of using the EMA are also provided. The EMA includes a plurality of electromagnetic sensors (EMSs) disposed in an array along a length and a width of the EMA. The EMA further includes circuitry such as a microprocessor, communication circuitry, and power circuitry. The circuitry is in electrical communication with the EMSs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Elemental Machines, Inc.
    Inventors: Alex Nichols, Casey Peters, Lauren Lisle, John Sakalowsky, Ian Harding, Sridhar Iyengar
  • Patent number: 12169215
    Abstract: A method of detecting a fault in a power distribution system includes placing a signal on the system at a frequency F1 and then detecting a change in the signal due to a change in the impedence of the system as a result of a fault wherein the change is one of a change in phase, a change in signal tone, or a change in voltage level at the load. In one embodiment, band reject filters can be used to diminish the signal at the load or source. In another embodiment, the power source can be a periodic pulsed power source and the signal can be placed on the system during an idle phase of the periodic pulsed power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Panduit Corp.
    Inventors: Ronald A Nordin, Masud Bolouri-Saransar, Paul W. Wachtel
  • Patent number: 12169216
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor element having an element main surface and first and second electrodes arranged on the element main surface; a first lead mounting the semiconductor element thereon; a second lead electrically connected to the first electrode; a third lead electrically connected to the second electrode; first connecting portions bonded to the first electrode and the second lead; and a sealing resin covering the semiconductor element, wherein the sealing resin includes a resin main surface facing the same side as the element main surface and a resin side surface connected to the resin main surface, the second lead includes a portion exposed from the sealing resin, the third lead includes a portion exposed from the sealing resin, and the exposed portion of the second lead includes a portion located on a side of the resin main surface with respect to the exposed portion of the third lead.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: ROHM CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Tsuyoshi Tachi
  • Patent number: 12169217
    Abstract: A tester apparatus is described. Various components contribute to the functionality of the tester apparatus, including an insertion and removal apparatus, thermal posts, independent gimbaling, the inclusion of a photo detector, a combination of thermal control methods, a detect circuitry in a socket lid, through posts with stand-offs, and a voltage retargeting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: AEHR TEST SYSTEMS
    Inventors: Jovan Jovanovic, Kenneth W. Deboe, Steven C. Steps, Scott E. Lindsey
  • Patent number: 12169218
    Abstract: Circuitry, systems, and methods for fault detection and reporting comprise a fault detection circuit configured to detect one or more fault conditions that cause a state change in a fault pin voltage representative of a transceiver failure. Once the state of the fault pin voltage changes, a transceiver input generates a fault detection code. In embodiments, in response to the transceiver input receiving a first signal, the fault detection code is shifted to a transceiver output that may communicate the fault detection code to a controller. Once the transceiver input receives a second signal, the fault pin voltage may be reset to clear the fault detection code before resuming operations, including detecting additional fault conditions as they arise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Ling Liu, Robert Gee
  • Patent number: 12169219
    Abstract: An apparatus for testing a semiconductor package, in which a second test circuit board, which is disposed on an upper socket assembly to form a vacuum line in the related art, is removed, and a vacuum guide including two components disposed between an upper socket and an upper package. The vacuum guide including a conductive guide member made of an inelastic insulating material disposed on a conductive region part to prevent an electrical short circuit, and a peripheral guide member made of a metallic material having rigidity and disposed on a peripheral region portion to prevent deformation of a vacuum line, such that a length of a signal path is significantly decreased, high-speed signal transmission is possible. The stable vacuum line is ensured in the upper socket assembly, and vacuum pressure from a vacuum generation device is smoothly applied to a vacuum picker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: TSE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Min Cheol Kim, Sol Lee
  • Patent number: 12169220
    Abstract: Apparatus for cooperating with a stationary integrated circuit test board. The apparatus includes a frame for positioning relative to a stationary integrated circuit test board, where the test board is for coupling to an integrated circuit device under test. The apparatus also includes a probe having a tip, and a processor-controlled actuator apparatus coupled to the frame and for moving the probe tip to selectively electrically contact a test point on the integrated circuit test board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: William Joshua Bush, Neeraj Bhardwaj, Erfan Shirazian, Madhusudan Sampath, James Scott Mason, Yazdi Contractor, Pavinkumar Ramasamy
  • Patent number: 12169221
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an adaptive body biasing or voltage regulation circuit for a circuit region, comprising: a first delay module configured to delay a local clock signal to generate first and second output signals delayed by first and second delays; a multiplexer configured to select one of the first and second output signals; a first slack monitor circuit configured to generate a first detection signal indicating when a slack time of the first and second output signals is less than a first threshold; a voltage generation circuit configured to generate a supply voltage for the circuit region, or at least one biasing voltage for biasing wells of transistors in the circuit region, using a further control loop comprising a process, voltage and/or temperature sensor; and a control circuit configured to adjust a gain of the further control loop based on the first detection signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Dolphin Design
    Inventors: Sebastien Genevey, Mathieu Louvat, Lionel Jure
  • Patent number: 12169222
    Abstract: A delay measurement system and a measurement method are provided. The delay measurement system includes a delay control device and a comparator. The delay control device is configured to generate a second signal in response to a first signal, wherein a rising edge of the second signal delays a first delay time with respect to a rising edge of the first signal, and the first delay time is controlled in response to an output signal of a comparator. The comparator is configured to compare the first delay time with a second delay time and output the output signal, wherein a rising edge of a third signal delays the second delay time with respect to the rising edge of the first signal, and the third signal is generated by a device under test (DUT) in response to the first signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD.
    Inventors: Shang Hsien Yang, Chung-Chieh Yang, Yung-Chow Peng, Chih-Chiang Chang
  • Patent number: 12169223
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present application provide a method and an apparatus for battery SOC correction, and a battery management system, which relate to the technical field of batteries. The method includes: acquiring a voltage-SOC variation curve of a battery during a charging process; generating a voltage differential curve of the battery according to the voltage-SOC variation curve, the voltage differential curve being a variation curve of a differential value with SOC, the differential value being a ratio of a voltage variation to a SOC variation corresponding to the voltage variation during the charging process; determining a peak point on the voltage differential curve, the peak point being between any two adjacent plateaus on the voltage-SOC variation curve and not located on the any two adjacent plateaus; performing SOC correction on the basis of the peak point. This method is used to improve the SOC estimation accuracy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: JIANGSU CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
    Inventors: Shan Huang, Shichao Li, Mingshu Du, Guangyu Xu
  • Patent number: 12169224
    Abstract: Determining an energy storage device plan includes determining a benefit gradient associated with charging or discharging of an energy storage. It further includes determining, using an energy storage lifetime model, a cost gradient associated with a degradation of the energy storage due to charging or discharging. It further includes applying a threshold to the benefit gradient and the cost gradient. It further includes facilitating charging or discharging of the energy storage based at least in part on the threshold being met or exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Lunar Energy, Inc.
    Inventor: Conrad Xavier Murphy
  • Patent number: 12169225
    Abstract: Provided is a secondary battery inspection device capable of improving inspection accuracy while simplifying the inspection of a secondary battery. Value of a model parameter of a secondary battery model is identitied based on a sampling period T. In the secondary battery model, impedance of internal resistance of a secondary battery 200 is expressed by an IIR transfer function and an FIR transfer function. When impulse current I(t) is input to a specified model as the secondary battery model the value of the model parameter of which is identified, a model output voltage as a voltage change form output from the specified model is estimated. The performance of the secondary battery 200 according to the sampling period T is evaluated based on the measurement result of the voltage of the secondary battery 200 when the impulse current I(t) flows into the secondary battery 200, and the specified model output voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: TOYO SYSTEM CO., LTD
    Inventors: Ichiro Munakata, Satoshi Tanno, Hideki Shoji
  • Patent number: 12169226
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and methods including a first drive winding wound on a first core, where the first drive winding may be driven with a first input signal; a second drive winding wound on a second core, where the second drive winding may be driven with a second input signal, and where the second input signal has an opposite polarity of the first input signal; a first comparator configured to receive a first drive signal from the first drive winding; a second comparator configured to receive a second drive signal from the second drive winding; and a processor configured to receive the output signals from the first comparator and the second comparator, determine a saturation status of the first core and the second core, and determine a potential leakage signal based said saturation status of the first core and the second core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Inventor: Peter Gabrielsson
  • Patent number: 12169227
    Abstract: A power converter to be tested is supplied with arm current from a hysteresis converter in a state in which it is connected to an auxiliary converter through a line. In the power converter and the auxiliary converter, a circulation operation is performed in which a current path bypassing power storage elements is formed between an output terminal of the power converter and an output terminal of the auxiliary converter, after the start of output of arm current in accordance with a reference current command value in which an AC component and a DC component are superimposed, until a DC component of arm current reaches a predetermined level. After execution of the circulation operation, in the power converter and the auxiliary converter, voltage control of the power storage elements and the output terminals is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akito Nakayama, Yuki Ishii, Takuya Kajiyama
  • Patent number: 12169228
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a magnetic isolator, including a substrate, a magnetic field generating unit, a magnetic field sensing unit, a shielding layer, and an isolation dielectric, where the magnetic field generating unit includes a current conductor, the current conductor is arranged to extend along a first direction on one side of the substrate, the magnetic field sensing unit and the current conductor are arranged on the same side of the substrate, the magnetic field sensing unit is located on a lateral side of the current conductor, and a distance between the current conductor and the magnetic field sensing unit is greater than 0 along a second direction, where the first direction is perpendicular to the second direction; an isolation dielectric is arranged between the current conductor and the magnetic field sensing unit; and an isolation dielectric is arranged within the distance between the current conductor and the magnetic field sensing unit along the second direction, thereby playing a role
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: MultiDimension Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Haiping Guo, Weifeng Shen, Songsheng Xue
  • Patent number: 12169229
    Abstract: An illumination insert for an NMR spectrometer, the illumination insert being shaped to receive a sample and comprising a light guide portion for guiding light from a light source, and a diffuser portion for diffusing light received from the light guide portion towards a sample received in the illumination insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
    Inventor: Alexander Golovanov
  • Patent number: 12169230
    Abstract: A method of producing a permanent magnet shim configured to improve a profile of a B0 magnetic field produced by a B0 magnet is provided. The method comprises determining deviation of the B0 magnetic field from a desired B0 magnetic field, determining a magnetic pattern that, when applied to magnetic material, produces a corrective magnetic field that corrects for at least some of the determined deviation, and applying the magnetic pattern to the magnetic material to produce the permanent magnet shim. According to some aspects, a permanent magnet shim for improving a profile of a B0 magnetic field produced by a B0 magnet is provided. The permanent magnet shim comprises magnetic material having a predetermined magnetic pattern applied thereto that produces a corrective magnetic field to improve the profile of the B0 magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Hyperfine Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Cedric Hugon, Michael Stephen Poole, Tyler S. Ralston
  • Patent number: 12169231
    Abstract: Computer simulation of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) medical imaging examination procedures by visually displaying, for user selection, MRI settings associated with third party MRI vendors. Critical questions are displayed relating to a user selected simulated MRI examination procedure. A user selected MRI examination procedure is simulated by generating resulting MRI images, which are displayed to the user. A deviation value is generated correlating to deviation of the generated resulting MRI images from acceptable MRI images relating to the user selected MRI examination procedure. A score value is determined for the user's simulated MRI examination procedure based upon the determined deviation value and the user's response to the one or more critical questions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: MediSim Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthew Hayes
  • Patent number: 12169232
    Abstract: A device for processing image data is disclosed. The device can obtain a radar point cloud and one or more frames of camera data. The device can determine depth estimates of one or more pixels of the one or more frames of camera data. The device can generate a pseudo lidar point cloud using the depth estimates of the one or more pixels of the one or more frames of camera data, wherein the pseudo lidar point cloud comprises a three-dimensional representation of at least one frame of the one or more frames of camera data. The device can determine one or more object bounding boxes based on the radar point cloud and the pseudo lidar point cloud.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Amin Ansari, Sundar Subramanian, Radhika Dilip Gowaikar, Ahmed Kamel Sadek, Makesh Pravin John Wilson, Volodimir Slobodyanyuk, Shantanu Chaisson Sanyal, Michael John Hamilton
  • Patent number: 12169233
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application generally disclose a communication method and apparatus. The method is applied to an intelligent device, and the intelligent device includes a plurality of sensors. The method includes determining N target sensors from a plurality of sensors, where N is an integer greater than 1. The method also includes, correcting to respective second moments of the N target sensors to a first moment of a first clock. According to embodiments of this application, time of different sensors in the intelligent device can be synchronized, to improve an accuracy for a fusion of data collected by the different sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Wei Zhou, Xiaoqing Liu
  • Patent number: 12169234
    Abstract: Provided are computer-implemented systems and methods for a device that includes at least one processor programmed or configured to receive one or more messages from a device in an transmit state, the one or more messages comprising a first message received at a first power level, the first message comprising data associated with a power level at which the first message was transmitted by the transmitting device, and a second messages received at a second power level, the second message comprising data associated with a power level at which the second message was transmitted by the transmitting device. The processor is further configured to determine a heading toward the transmitting device based on the first message and the second message; and output data associated with an indication of the heading toward the transmitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: MSA Technology, LLC
    Inventors: Clinton Sean Fleming, Jason Paul Eaton, Alec Cantor
  • Patent number: 12169235
    Abstract: A method for operating a synthetic aperture radar, SAR, mode, in an SAR instrument, wherein the method comprises the steps of: acquiring at least one subswath positioned in an across track direction of a movement of the SAR instrument, wherein the at least one subswath is acquired during at least one acquisition burst duration and/or at a predetermined radio frequency bandwidth; adjusting the at least one acquisition burst duration and/or the predetermined radio frequency bandwidth and/or a number of parallel simultaneous subswaths and/or an inserted burst duration for a further subswath based upon a predetermined parameter; constructing an SAR image based on the acquired at least one subswath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Voelker, Jung-Hyo Kim, Friedhelm Rostan
  • Patent number: 12169236
    Abstract: A radar receiver is operable to capture and process reflections from a nearby target, of relatively large size. Phase history data is extracted from the received reflection signal, the phase history data being transformed into range migration compensated data. The range migration compensated data is then processed, with reference to Doppler migration to produce Doppler migration compensated data. The Doppler migration compensated data is then mapped into a Cartesian reference frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
    Inventor: Seifallah Jardak
  • Patent number: 12169237
    Abstract: In an aspect, a vehicle apparatus monitors, via a set of sensors communicatively coupled to the vehicle apparatus, a field of view (FOV) of the vehicle apparatus. The vehicle apparatus transmits, based on the monitoring, a first message that requests sensor data from one or more neighboring devices and indicates at least one sensor data filtering condition for the requested sensor data. A communication device receives the first message, and determines whether sensor data is available at the communication device which satisfies the at least one sensor data filtering condition for the requested sensor data. If so, the communication device filters its sensor data based on the at least one sensor data filtering condition, and transmits, to the vehicle apparatus, a second message including the filtered sensor data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Gene Wesley Marsh, Dan Vassilovski
  • Patent number: 12169238
    Abstract: A system comprises a computer having a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to access sensor data of a sensor of a vehicle while an adaptive cruise control feature of the vehicle is active, detect, based on the sensor data, an object located along a path of travel of the vehicle, determine that the object is a moveable object based on a radar return of a radar reflector of the object, and responsive to the determination that the object is the moveable object, adjust, by the adaptive cruise control feature, the speed of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Xingping Chen, Jeremy Lerner, Danielle Rosenblatt, Andrew Edward Toy, Ali Abdallah
  • Patent number: 12169239
    Abstract: A radar system includes a set of transmitters and a processor coupled to the set of transmitters, which includes first, second, third and fourth transmitters. In operation, the processor generates a first chirp of a set of chirps, in which outputs of the first and second transmitters are modulated by a first phase and outputs of the third and fourth transmitters are modulated by a second phase; and generate a second chirp of the set of chirps, in which outputs of the first and fourth transmitters are modulated by the first phase and outputs of the second and third transmitters are modulated by the second phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Dan Wang, Sandeep Rao, Adeel Ahmad
  • Patent number: 12169240
    Abstract: Systems and methods for positioning objects in underwater environments are provided. The geolocation of a target for an object is determined, and a light source provided as part of a positioning system is operated to project a visible target at that location. The determination of the target location relative to the positioning system can include determining a location of the positioning system using information obtained from a laser system included in the positioning system. The light source used to project the visible target can be the same as a light source included in the laser system. A location of an object relative to the target location can be tracked by the laser system as the object is being moved towards the target location. The described methods and systems utilize one or more non-touch subsea optical systems, including but not limited to laser systems, for underwater infrastructure installation, measurements and monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: 3D at Depth, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl W. Embry, Neil Manning, Derek D. Pierce, Mark Hardy
  • Patent number: 12169241
    Abstract: Techniques, systems, and devices are disclosed for spatial and temporal encoding of transmission in full synthetic transmit aperture imaging to achieve optimal spatial and contrast resolution and large signal-to-noise ratio for medical imaging applications with fewer signal transmissions, which can be equal to or less than the number of array elements within the aperture. In some aspects, a method of signal transmission is disclosed that includes a sequence of one or more sets of transmissions on a plurality of elements with unique, random, and/or optimized combinations of waveforms using amplitude and phase, and/or delay encoding. Sets of echoes corresponding to the sequence are beamformed such that fewer transmissions are needed than the number of array elements within the aperture, while maintaining complete spatial sampling of the aperture as if sampled according to a full set of synthetic transmit aperture transmissions on the same aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: DECISION SCIENCES MEDICAL COMPANY, LLC
    Inventor: Dustin E. Kruse
  • Patent number: 12169242
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an FMCW-LiDAR distance measurement apparatus in which a light source, in particular a laser, generates a frequency modulated transmission light beam as a transmission signal having a predetermined frequency deviation and transmits said frequency modulated transmission light beam into a measurement zone; a light receiver receives light reflected by objects in the measurement zone as a reception signal; a mixer mixes at least a portion of the transmission signal with the reception signal and with an oscillator frequency to generate a mixed signal; and the oscillator frequency is adapted to a desired measurement zone to achieve a high measurement accuracy in the desired measurement zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SICK AG
    Inventors: Frank Blöhbaum, Christoph Menzel
  • Patent number: 12169243
    Abstract: An apparatus provides independent precise positioning for a reference station including a GNSS antenna and a GNSS receiver. The GNSS receiver generates GNSS data based on a plurality of GNSS signals received at the GNSS antenna, including GNSS signals having augmentation information. The apparatus includes a positioning processor, a signal processor, and a signal transmitter. The positioning processor calculates a current position of the reference station based on GNSS observation data and GNSS augmentation data obtained from the augmentation information included in the received GNSS signals, without using position information of another reference station, whereby the reference station is independently installed at a desirable location without surveying or measuring the desirable location. The signal processor generates error correction information including the current position of the reference station in a predetermined data format such as RTCM or CMR, based on the GNSS augmentation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Magellan Systems Japan, Inc.
    Inventor: Nobuhiro Kishimoto
  • Patent number: 12169244
    Abstract: The influence of multipath on the positioning calculation based on positioning signals transmitted from satellites is reduced. A self-position is estimated using a positioning calculation result based on a positioning signal transmitted from a satellite. Movement of a mobile body is controlled on the basis of the estimated self-position. A multipath reduction action signal is output when the mobile body is in a multipath environment. The mobile body is controlled so as to take a multipath reduction action when the mobile body is in a predetermined movement state and the multipath reduction action signal is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yusuke Takahashi, Masataka Toyoura, Ryo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 12169245
    Abstract: Disclosed are a device, computer program and method, for determining a range to a target, the device comprising a global positioning system (GPS) receiver, a pressure sensor, a temperature sensor, a controller; wherein the method comprises determining the device's geographic location based on coordinates from the GPS receiver and the device's elevation based on pressure and temperature data from the sensors; obtaining a location and elevation of a landmark based on GPS coordinates from a database; determining a distance between the device and the landmark using GPS coordinates; applying a slope compensation based on the difference in elevation between the device's elevation and the landmark; and converting the distance to a signal perceptible to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Bushnell Inc.
    Inventors: Scott Nyhart, William Flood
  • Patent number: 12169246
    Abstract: An information handling system is disclosed and includes a processor, a memory, a power management unit (PMU), at least two antennas, and a wireless interface operatively coupled to the at least two antennas. The processor may execute code instructions for a distance and direction detection module therein configured to enable phase-based ranging with narrow band tone exchange, to add at least one constant tone duration to a wireless data signal frame, to monitor for nearby peripheral devices, and to measure at least two distances between each of the at least two antennas at the information handling system and a nearby peripheral device using switching between the at least two antennas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS LP
    Inventors: Harpreet S. Narula, Suresh K. Ramasamy, Liam B. Quinn
  • Patent number: 12169247
    Abstract: Disclosed herein A UAV and/or UAV operator detector (1) configured to be mounted to an aircraft (2). The detector comprises an array of multiple Directional Radio Frequency (RF) antennae spaced apart from one another over two or three dimensions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignee: Metis Aerospace Ltd
    Inventors: Anthony Michael Burnell, Lee Carter, Alexander Cruickshanks