Systems and methods for soft model assertions
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242931
Systems and methods are provided for implementing soft model assertions (SMA) system and techniques designed to monitor and improve Machine Learning (ML) model quality by to detecting errors within the one or more ML models. SMA techniques and systems are distinctly designed to leverage: 1) a user's ability to specify features over data; and 2) large, existing datasets of organizations, in a manner that can improve the accuracy and quality of predicting potential errors in Machine…
Lid body and sealed battery
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12244026
Provided is a lid body including: a terminal member being mainly made up of a first metal; a sealing plate mainly made up of a second metal; and a sealing material. The sealing plate has a mounting hole for attaching the terminal member. The terminal member is inserted into the mounting hole and is attached to the sealing plate in a state where the sealing material is joined to a peripheral edge portion of the mounting hole. With as ?S a coefficient of linear expansion at 25° C. of the…
Positive electrode material of secondary battery, and secondary battery using same
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12244008
Provided is a positive electrode material which can impart a secondary battery with excellent low temperature output characteristics, excellent high temperature cycle characteristics and excellent durability against high voltage. A positive electrode material of a secondary battery disclosed here includes a positive electrode active substance particle and a coating containing a titanium-containing compound at the surface of the positive electrode active substance particle. A layer having…
Sound absorbing devices and acoustic resonators decorated with fabric
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12243506
A sound absorbing device includes an acoustic resonator with an opening and at least one fabric layer extending across the opening. The at least one fabric layer includes reversible actuatable liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) fibers such that an average pore size of the at least one fabric layer increases with decreasing temperature and decreases with increasing temperature. The sound absorbing device also includes at least one of a heater configured to heat the at least one fabric layer…
Hierarchical transfer learning system
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12243422
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to improving the performance of a device in different geographic locations by using transfer learning to provide a customized learning model for the different locations. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving segments of a model from separate members in a geographic hierarchy and assembling the segments into the model. The segments include at least a first segment, a second segment, and a third segment. The method…
Information processing device, information processing method, and storage medium
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12243360
An information processing device includes: a specification unit for specifying a reaction of a driver of a vehicle to evaluation information that evaluates driving of the driver and that is output from an output unit while the vehicle is being driven; an estimation unit for estimating an output method of the evaluation information that is appropriate for the driver based on the reaction of the driver, the reaction being the reaction specified by the specification unit; and a changing…
Apparatus, method, and computer program for detecting hand region
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12243343
An apparatus for detecting a hand region includes a processor configured to: calculate a confidence score indicating a probability that a hand is represented for each pixel of a target image, determine, for each of predetermined points on an edge of the image, a probability that a hand extends outside the image at the predetermined point, set a lower hand region detection threshold at a predetermined point having a higher probability that a hand extends outside the image, set a hand…
Self-calibration for decoration based sensor fusion method
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12243325
A method for self-calibrating alignment between image data and point cloud data utilizing a machine learning model includes receiving, with an electronic control unit, image data from a vision sensor and point cloud data from a depth sensor, implementing, with the electronic control unit, a machine learning model trained to: align the point cloud data and the image data based on a current calibration, detect a difference in alignment of the point cloud data and the image data, adjust the…
Apparatus and method for estimating distance and non-transitory computer-readable medium containing computer program for estimating distance
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12243262
An apparatus for estimating distance according to the present disclosure extracts feature maps from respective images including a reference image and a source image; projects a source feature map extracted from the source image onto hypothetical planes to generate a cost volume; sets sampling points on a ray extending from the viewpoint of the reference image in a direction corresponding to a target pixel in the reference image; interpolates features of the respective sampling points,…
Producing a depth map from a monocular two-dimensional image
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12243260
A system for producing a depth map can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store a neural network. The neural network can include an encoding portion module, a multi-frame feature matching portion module, and a decoding portion module. The encoding portion module can include instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to encode an image to produce single-frame features. The multi-frame feature matching portion module can include instructions that,…
Cylinder head cover
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12241392
A cylinder head cover for a hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engine includes a head cover body and an outlet passage. The head cover body defines a main passage for blow-by gas that has leaked from a combustion chamber to a crankcase. The outlet passage is connected to a downstream end of the main passage and conducts the blow-by gas to an intake passage. The main passage includes a restriction in a middle of the main passage. The cylinder head cover further includes an auxiliary…
Management of transport software updates
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242843
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a software update at a transport of a subset of transports, validating the software update based on one or more of: a period of time when the software update is in use, and a number of utilizations of the software update by the subset of the transports, propagating the software update based on the validating, to a further subset of transports, wherein the further subset of the transports is larger than the subset of the…
Localization system, localization method, storage medium, and map generation device
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12242278
A localization system includes: a first data acquisition unit that acquires map data for map creation in a plurality of different time zones; a candidate creation unit that creates the maps based on the map data acquired by the first data acquisition unit, and combines the created maps to create a plurality of synthetic map candidates; a performance calculation unit that calculates a performance value of each of the synthetic map candidates created by the candidate creation unit; a…
High-pressure tank and manufacturing method of the same
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12241591
A high-pressure tank includes a liner that includes a body that is cylindrical in shape and a pair of dome portions each of which is provided at a respective end of the body in an axial direction, and a reinforcing layer provided on an outer circumferential face of the liner. The reinforcing layer includes a pair of resin rings each of which is provided encircling a respective end portion of an outer circumferential face of the body, a hoop layer that covers part of the outer…
Power transmission device
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12241535
A power transmission device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a first drive unit having a first drive source, a first transmission connected to the first drive source and the driving force to be transmitted, a second drive source, and a second transmission connected to the second drive source and the driving force to be transmitted, and includes a second drive unit arranged in parallel with the first drive unit, and a frictional differential limiting element…
Member for fastening and method of manufacturing same
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12241496
A method of manufacturing a member for fastening by joining a nut with a tubular joint portion extending from a main body formed with an internal thread to a panel with a mounting hole for the nut on an aluminum base material. The joint portion has a rotation-preventing portion with a concave and convex shaped outer peripheral surface and a guide portion extending from the rotation-preventing portion to one side. After the guide portion is inserted into the mounting hole, the nut is…
Artificial muscles comprising an electrode pair and artificial muscle assemblies including same
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12241490
An artificial muscle that includes a housing having an electrode region and an expandable fluid region and an electrode pair positioned in the electrode region, the electrode pair having a first electrode fixed to a first surface of the housing and a second electrode fixed to a second surface of the housing. The first and second electrodes each have two or more tab portions and two or more bridge portions. Each of the two or more bridge portions interconnects adjacent tab portions and at…
Scroll electric compressor
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12241468
A scroll electric compressor includes a housing, a rotary shaft, an electric motor, a fixed scroll, an orbiting scroll, a compression chamber, a discharge chamber, and an oil storage chamber. The housing has a discharge housing including an end wall, a first peripheral wall, a stepped portion, and a second peripheral wall. The fixed scroll has a flange in contact with the second peripheral wall. The stepped portion, the second peripheral wall, the flange, the outer peripheral wall…
Actuator with contracting member
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12241458
An actuator can include an outer body. At least a portion of the outer body can be configured to pivot. The actuator can include a contracting member, such as a shape memory material member. When an activation input is provided to the contracting member, the contracting member can contract. As a result, the actuator can be caused to morph into an activated configuration in which a dimension, such as the height, of the actuator increases.
Power generation device
Granted: March 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12241444
The power generation device disclosed in the present specification includes a first rotating body, a second rotating body, a differential device, and a generator. The first rotating body and the second rotating body convert energy of the fluid into rotational motion. The differential device is connected to the first rotating body via a first transmission path, and is connected to the second rotating body via a second transmission path, and combines and outputs the rotational motion of…
