Patents Issued the Week of April 7-11

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U.S. Patent No. 12,270,237 entitled “Furniture Connecting Fitting” issued April 08, 2025 to Samet Kalip Ve Madeni Esya San Ve Tic. A.S. of Istanbul , Turkey. Invented by Artur Hirtsiefer of Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, Germany. Abstract: The invention relates to a furniture connecting fitting (10), in particular a hinge, preferably a hatch holder, which has a kinematic arrangement (30) with levers and links, and by means of which a door or a hatch can be moved from a closed position into an open position, at least some of the links (32.1, 32.2, 33.1, 34.2, 34.1, 35.1, 36.1) and the levers (31, 33, 34, 35, 36) form an roller chain which has at least one secured link (35.1, 36.1), the position of which remains unchanged when the roller chain is adjusted, wherein the roller chain has an attachment lever (31) which is connected directly or indirectly to the door or hatch, and wherein a holding device (40) is provided which is coupled to the roller chain with at least one spring element (43) to achieve a stable and compact design, provision is made in accordance with the invention that the retaining device (40) is coupled directly or indirectly to an actuator (37) via a swivel lever (42), and that an adjustment device (37.3) is provided, by means of which the force input point of the holding device (40) can be changed in a position of the roller chain by means of an adjustment element (37.4).

U.S. Patent No. 12,268,255 entitled “Device for Dynamic Fluid Pinning” issued April 08, 2025 to BVW Holding AG of Cham, China. Invented by Michael Milbocker of Holliston, Massachusetts and Lukas Bluecher of Eurasberg, Germany. Abstract: The present disclosure provides microstructured hydrophobic surfaces and devices for gripping wet deformable surfaces. The surfaces and devices disclosed herein utilize a split contact Wenzel-Cassie mechanism to develop multi-level Wenzel-Cassie structures. The Wenzel-Cassie structures are separated with a spatial period corresponding to at least one wrinkle eigenmode of a wet deformable surface to which the microstructure or device is designed to contact, allowing grip of the deformable surface without slippage. Microstructures of the present invention are specifically designed to prevent the formation of Shallamach waves when a shear force is applied to a deformable surface. The multi-level Wenzel-Cassie states of the present disclosure develop temporally, and accordingly are characterized by hierarchical fluid pinning, both in the instance of slippage, and more importantly in the instance of localization. This temporal aspect to the multi-level Wenzel-Cassie state delays or prevents the transition from a wrinkled eigenmode state in a deformable surface to a buckled state in a deformable surface.

U.S. Patent No. 12,270,930 entitled “Methods and Systems for Processing Radar Signals” issued April 08, 2025 to Deere & Company of Moline, Iowa. Invented by Theagenis J. Abatzoglou of Dana Point, California. Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods, systems, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer readable media for processing radar signals of a MIMO radar system. By dynamically accounting for environmental noise both spatially and temporally, systems of the present disclosure can make radar-based systems more accurate and robust against noised-induced false detections, especially with respect to the use of sparse-receivers. More precisely, systems of the present disclosure may first process MIMO radar return data to identify one or more range-Doppler-elevation (RDE) bins exceeding a candidate detection criteria. Each identified candidate detection RDE bin may then be processed by a second search procedure to identify any azimuth bins (of the particular candidate detection RDE bin) exceeding a confirmed detection criteria. Each identified azimuth bin indicates a confirmed detection of a scatterer (e.g., an object) whose azimuth, elevation, range, and Doppler-velocity indicated by the identified azimuth bin and its associated candidate detection RDE bin.