US09522391B2
The first object is to increase the life of a selective CO methanation catalyst, and the second object is to enhance the CO removal rate of a selective CO methanation catalyst to reduce the outlet CO concentration in a wide temperature range. Provided a selective CO methanation catalyst including a supported metal catalyst which selectively methanizes CO in a hydrogen-rich gas containing CO and CO2 and a coating layer which covers a surface of the supported metal catalyst, has many pores, and is configured to reduce a CO concentration on the surface of the supported metal catalyst.
US09522382B2
Methods for making designed carbohydrate affinity columns and lectin columns are provided. Reducing sugar of choice is dissolved in pH 6.0 acetate buffer and injected onto a primary amino group functionality column. The column is washed with pH 6.0 acetate buffer and the column effluent monitored with a variable wavelength UV detector. Lectin columns are made by injecting appropriate lectin to the designed carbohydrate and the lectin binds to this scaffold. The lectin column is formed.
US09522380B2
A precision volumetric liquid dispensing instrument is disclosed that includes two pressure sensors and a fluid passageway with a defined volume portion in communication with the two sensors for receiving and distributing liquid in relatively small volumes. One of the pressure sensors is positioned to measure pressure at one portion of the defined volume portion of the fluid passageway and the other of the gas pressure sensors is positioned to measure gas pressure at a different portion of the defined volume portion of the passageway. At least one valve is in communication with the passageway for moving fluids into or out of the defined volume portion of the fluid passageway, and a processor carries out a step selected from the group consisting of (i) calculating the volume of the liquid based upon the measured pressure and (ii) metering a liquid into the defined volume portion of the fluid passageway until the measured pressure indicates that a desired volume of fluid is in the fluid passageway.
US09522371B2
A self-regulating gas generator that, in response to gas demand, supplies and automatically adjusts the amount of gas (e.g., hydrogen or oxygen) catalytically generated in a chemical supply chamber from an appropriate chemical supply, such as a chemical solution, gas dissolved in liquid, or mixture. In some embodiments, the gas generator may employ a piston, rotating rod, or other element(s) to expose the chemical supply to the catalyst in controlled amounts. In another embodiment, the self-regulating gas generator uses bang-bang control, with the element(s) exposing a catalyst, contained within the chemical supply chamber, to the chemical supply in ON and OFF states according to a self-adjusting duty cycle, thereby generating and outputting the gas in an orientation-independent manner. The gas generator may be used to provide gas for various gas consuming devices, such as a fuel cell, torch, or oxygen respiratory devices.
US09522369B2
The present disclosure is directed to compositions having lecithin and an organic acid and related methods. The disclosed compositions may also include one or more co-surfactants such as anionic surfactants and/or non-ionic surfactants, and may be used as a dispersant.
US09522347B2
A vapor recovery apparatus has a first vessel forming a column with upper and lower ends. Liquid, such as oil containing gas enters the bottom of the first column and flows up to a liquid outlet. Heat is applied to the rising oil, wherein the oil foams. Gas escapes into the upper end. The foam flows into a second column and along a roughened surface. The bubbles in the foam break apart, releasing the gas. The oil flows down the second column to an outlet. A compressor may be used to withdraw the gas and provide hot compressed gas to heat the rising oil in the first column.
US09522345B2
A device for a cleaning unit for hydraulic oil or lubricating oil circulating in connection with a drive unit, wherein the cleaning unit comprises a cleaning tank provided with an oil inlet for untreated oil, means arranged to spread the untreated oil over a substantial portion of the cleaning tank cross-section, an inlet for introducing gas into the untreated oil, and an outlet for evacuation of gas and water vapor, and also a means having a large surface area arranged downstream of the spreader means, wherein the means having a large surface area is provided as a plurality of bodies arranged to be able to float on the treated oil.
US09522339B2
A slot car comprises a chassis (110), a motor mounted on the chassis (110) for driving the slot car and a plurality of conductive elements (101, 102) exposed on the chassis (110) which is electrically connected to the motor for driving the slot car. The slot car further comprises a cover (100) covering at least a portion of the conductive elements (101, 102) and which is adapted to restrict the conductive elements (101, 102) from bending and dislocating. The conductive elements (101, 102) may be in form of metal brush (101, 102). The cover (100) is formed with a slanted surface so that the angle between the chassis (110) and the conducting elements (101, 102) does not exceed 7 degree and is further provided with guide members (106, 107). Such guide members (106, 107) restrict the lateral displacements of the conductive elements (101, 102). Moreover, the cover (100) may be integrally formed with the chassis (110), or may be provided with fastening means (103, 104) for attached removably to the chassis (110).
US09522338B1
Provided is an assembly type block module for water playing, including: a plurality of unit assembly blocks including: a body; an inner passage formed in the interior of the body such that fluid flows through the inner passage; and coupling parts detachably coupled to corresponding coupling parts of other unit assembly blocks such that the inner passages thereof are communicated with each other at any one of opposite ends of the body, wherein the unit assembly blocks have different shapes of the bodies and different forms of inner passages, fluid is supplied from an external fluid supply source while the unit assembly blocks are assembled, and the supplied fluid is discharged to the outside through the inner passage of the unit assembly block located at the extreme end after flowing through the inner passages of the unit assembly blocks.
US09522337B2
An example controller device includes a housing, and a grip portion formed lopsided with respect to a center of a predetermined surface of the housing. An information processing system calculates an attitude of the controller device, and determines the orientation of the grip portion with respect to the center based on the attitude of the controller device. For example, the information processing system determines whether the grip portion is facing right or facing left with respect to the center. Thus, the information processing system can precisely determine the mode of use in which the controller device is used.
US09522335B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for executing an online game. One method includes an operation for executing a first game board for a first user and a second game board for a second user. The first game board is created when the first user plays the game for the first time and the second game board is created when the second user plays the game for the first time. The method further includes operations for detecting a visit by the second user to the first game board, and for detecting a request by the second user to place a game asset in the first game board. The game asset is installed in the first game board when the first user approves the request, and the second user obtains one or more game rewards when the first user interacts with the game asset while playing the online game.
US09522333B2
A game control system and method compute a finger contact area of at least one finger of a user when the user touches a touch-input unit to play a game. An age range of the user corresponding to the obtained finger contact area is determined according to the obtained finger contact area and a relationship between finger contact areas and age ranges of the users. A difficulty setting of the game is adjusted according to the determined age range of the user and a relationship between age ranges and difficulty settings of the game. An electronic device is also provided.
US09522332B2
A video gaming system and related network interfaces with an online fantasy sports game. The video game play is enhanced using various features of a fantasy sports game. Similarly, the fantasy sports game can be enhanced using various features of the video game play. In one aspect of the invention the video game system acquires a team roster of the fantasy sport game and the team roster is used to define the sports video game team. The sports video game also acquires sports video game parameters that are associated with real-life attributes of video game team members that are associated with the real-life team members. The video game play changes frequently over a sports season due to the changing video game parameters and fantasy sports settings being used to define video game play.
US09522331B2
A game control method used in a computer executing a game, includes storing a possessed point possessed by a player for executing an event in the game and a recovery point or a recovery item possessed by the player for recovering the possessed point, executing the event under a condition where the possessed point is at least a predetermined value and consuming the predetermined value from the possessed point, and automatically recovering the possessed point using the recovery point or the recovery item when the possessed point is less than the predetermined value.
US09522327B2
A game system has plural game devices and a storage device that stores attribute information and location information of a pet in association with a player ID. Each game device obtains a player ID of a player who plays at the game device, and obtains attribute information corresponding to location information identifying a game device identified by the obtained player ID, and controls a game to cause the game device to display a pet according to the obtained attribute information. In a case in which location information stored in association with a player ID of a first player who plays at a first game device is changed to that which identifies a second game device identified by a player ID of a second player, the first game device does not display a pet of the first player, but the second game device displays the pet of the first player.
US09522322B2
A method and a system for a game are disclosed. The method includes steps displaying a determination region in at least one section distinguished by neighboring points, on a virtual passage formed by a plurality of points sequentially connected with each other. The method also includes displaying an object moving along the virtual passage on a screen, and determining an accuracy or success/failure of a user input based on a position of the object at a time when the user input is detected and a position of the determination region.
US09522321B2
A toy bow assembly that is used to launch toy projectiles. The toy bow assembly includes a bow structure having a first arm section and a second arm section. Both the first arm section and the second arm section contain at least one translucent area. Lights are disposed within both the first arm section and the second arm section. The lights internally illuminate the translucent areas of the first arm section and second arm section when activated. An activation switch is disposed on the bow structure for selectively activating and deactivating the lights.
US09522315B2
The present invention relates to a combination of at least one stick (10) and a ring device (30) configured for throwing and catching the ring device with the stick, wherein: —the stick comprises: —a main section (12) configured to be held by the hands of a user, a ring launching member (14) provided at one end (25) of the stick and configured to launch and catch the ring device, —the ring device comprises a central opening (72) and is constructed to fit on the ring launching member and be launched from the ring launching. At take-off, the ring device is launched in a rotary manner.
US09522310B2
A hollow golf club head has a crown portion extending from a face portion and configured so as to generate good ball hitting sound. The crown portion is provided with a first region having a first thickness, a second region having a second thickness and a third region having a third thickness, wherein the third thickness is less than the second thickness which is less than the first thickness. The first region is disposed in a face portion side of the crown portion and extending in the toe-heel direction. The third region is disposed backward of the first region. The second region surrounds the third region.
US09522303B2
Disclosed is a swimming assistance apparatus, which is worn on a user's both feet to provide the user with buoyancy, such that the user can float on water and swim in a good swimming style while repeatedly moving the waist from side to side like a fish, thereby reinforcing the user's waist muscles. Persons who have knee joint arthralgia or backache or persons who have disability in the lower body can use the swimming assistance apparatus for medical purposes, such as pain relief or treatment.
US09522301B2
A curl-up device includes a base; and a counter arrangement. The base defines a foot placement indicator, a first start position indicator, and optionally a second start position indicator. The counter arrangement includes a button disposed between the foot placement indicator and the start position indicators. The counter arrangement also includes an electronic counter that tracks depression of the button. In use, a user touches the button while performing a curl-up to track the number of curl-ups performed.
US09522291B2
The present invention provides a fire extinguishing apparatus being inexpensive in manufacturing cost, easy to handle, and it enables a storage tank to be refilled with fire extinguishing sand during a fire extinguishing. A fire extinguishing apparatus of the present invention includes a sand container having fire extinguishing sand a nitrogen gas cylinder, and an ejector provided nitrogen gas taken out via a decompression valve from the nitrogen gas cylinder. The ejector is connected to a suction tube sucking the fire extinguishing sand from the sand container using negative pressure generated by a nitrogen gas stream and a delivery tube delivering the sucked fire extinguishing sand and the nitrogen gas. The sand container has a lid plate provided with a sand inlet enabling opening and closing, which enables the sand container to be refilled with the fire extinguishing sand during a fire extinguishing.
US09522277B2
Techniques for performing a lead integrity test in response to, e.g., during or after saturation of a sensed signal, e.g., a cardiac electrogram (EGM) signal, are described. A lead integrity test may comprise one or more impedance measurements for one or more leads. Possible causes of saturation of a sensed signal include lead conductor or connector issues, or other lead related conditions. A lead integrity test triggered in response to the saturation may be able to detect any lead related condition causing the saturation. A lead integrity test triggered in response to the saturation may advantageously be able to detect an intermittent lead related condition, due to the temporal proximity of the test to the saturation.
US09522270B2
An integrated circuit includes: a radio-frequency (RF) to direct current (DC) rectifying circuit coupled to one or more antenna on an implantable wirelessly powered device, the rectifying circuit configured to: rectify an input RF signal received at the one or more antennas and from an external controller through electric radiative coupling; and extract DC electric power and configuration data from the input RF signal; a logic control circuit connected to the rectifying circuit and a driving circuit, the logic control circuit configured to: generate a current for the driving circuit solely using the extracted DC electrical power; in accordance with the extracted configuration data, set polarity state information for each electrode; and a driving circuit coupled to one or more electrode, the driving circuit comprising current mirrors and being configured to: steer, to each electrode and via the current mirrors, a stimulating current solely from the generated current.
US09522269B2
A lead adapted to be steerable during insertion into an animal body includes the following. A structure substantially defining at least one principal planar surface, the structure having a proximate end and a distal end. The structure includes a tip portion on the distal end, and a body portion, with the tip portion being flexible in directions substantially parallel to said at least one principal planar surface. A shape of the tip portion is changeable, and an end of the tip portion traces a path within a plane substantially parallel with the at least one principal planar surface. At least one electrode is connected with said structure.
US09522263B2
Disclosed are devices for delivering a rheumatoid arthritis drug across a dermal barrier. The devices include microneedles for penetrating the stratum corneum and also include structures fabricated on a surface of the microneedles to form a nanotopography. A random or non-random pattern of structures may be fabricated such as a complex pattern including structures of differing sizes and/or shapes. The pattern of structures on the surface of the microneedles may include nano-sized structures.
US09522257B2
A controlled pressure inflation-deflation device inflates a balloon to occlude a blood vessel by moving a large plunger to provide incremental pressure increases within a syringe. A releasable latch moves a second plunger, positioned within a syringe formed by an inner columnar opening in the large plunger, between an occlusion position and a perfusion position. A three-position switch has a release position to allow the large plunger to move freely, an adjust position to provide the incremental pressure increases, and a lock position to lock the location of the plunger. Pressures at which various balloons (e.g., folded balloons) achieve or nearly achieve a substantially circular cross-section may be extrapolated by inflating balloons with pressures equal and/or greater than the first occlusion pressure. Balloons may be pre-inflated up to or below the first occlusion pressure to achieve a substantially circular cross-section, prior to increasing the balloon to an occlusion pressure.
US09522255B2
The present invention discloses a catheter instrument (1000) comprising a needle tip shielding device (100), a needle (303), a needle carrying unit, and a catheter unit, said catheter unit comprising a catheter hub (200) and a catheter (201), and said needle tip shielding device (100) and said catheter hub (200) being separable from one another, wherein said needle tip shielding device (100) is kept in contact with said catheter unit upon withdrawal of said needle (303) via at least one interface surface between said needle tip shielding device (100) and said catheter unit, and wherein said at least one interface surface of said needle tip shielding device (100) being at least partly of a first polymeric material and said at least one interface surface of said catheter unit being at least partly of a second polymeric material.
US09522254B2
Intravenous access is achieved by introducing a catheter having a guidewire safety tip at its distal end. The safety tip can be advanced and retracted using a slider disposed over an access needle which is initially present in the catheter. After the catheter has been properly positioned, the access needle and guidewire may be removed so that the catheter is available for use.
US09522250B2
The objective of the present invention is to allow a hydrogen gas which has a gas mixture concentration of over 4% to be breathed in safely, and to reduce the amount of use of hydrogen gas, which is dangerous, and increase utilization efficiency of the hydrogen gas. The objective of the present invention is also to impart an auxiliary role to a device in the treatment of patients suffering from viral or bacterial pneumonia using hydrogen gas. A hydrogen gas mixture breathing device and a related system employ an intrinsically safe structure and a safety system which prevent occurrence of explosions. A detonation flame arrester, etc. are installed where necessary to provide against electrostatic explosions, etc., and to protect a user's lung function from explosion flames. In addition, a device for supplying aerosol in which a hydroxyl radical is dissolved is also installed, and operating time and volume are appropriately adjusted under the supervision of a professional. Depending on the circumstances, the content of the aerosol is changed to microdroplets that comprise a bivalent iron ion or monovalent copper ion. Suction of a hydrogen-rich gas mixture and suction of the aerosol take place alternatively according to a program and not simultaneously.
US09522241B2
A controlled release nanoparticulate matter delivery system includes a plurality of thermoresponsive modules containing a respective nanoparticulate matter. Each thermoresponsive module is selectively operable in at least one of a heating mode that releases the nanoparticulate matter and a cooling mode that inhibits release of the nanoparticulate matter. A control module is in electrical communication with the plurality of thermoresponsive modules. The control module is configured to determine a temperature of each thermoresponsive module and to select the at least one heating mode and cooling mode based on the temperature. The heating and cooling mode may be selected in response to a desired dosing profile and/or a biometric condition.
US09522240B2
A visualization apparatus for the vein according to the present disclosure includes a near-infrared ray irradiating unit for irradiating near-infrared rays below the skin of a target area, an infrared camera unit for photographing the target area, an image processing unit for receiving and processing image information of a portion below the skin of the target area, photographed by the infrared camera unit, and providing the processed image information to a display device, and a display device located near the target area to display the image information provided from the image processing unit.
US09522227B2
A method for manufacturing a structural part with a cannula for the subcutaneous administration of an active substance is disclosed. A loose cannula is threaded on a piercing means to form a ready-to-use cannula piercing unit and subsequently, a cannula housing is injection-molded onto the cannula. Embodiments for the cannula as well as the structural part, an application part, an insertion head, and an insertion device which includes the cannula are also disclosed.
US09522226B2
An infusion pump assembly includes a reservoir assembly configured to contain an infusible fluid. A motor assembly is configured to act upon the reservoir assembly and dispense at least a portion of the infusible fluid contained within the reservoir assembly. Processing logic is configured to control the motor assembly. The processing logic includes a primary microprocessor configured to execute one or more primary applications written in a first computer language; and a safety microprocessor configured to execute one or more safety applications written in a second computer language.
US09522222B2
An application arrangement for a medicinal substance fluid includes an application syringe with a plastic container, wherein the plastic container is filled with an oxygen-sensitive medicinal substance fluid and an oxygen-tight cover which surrounds the application syringe in oxygen-tight manner.
US09522219B2
The present invention is directed to stents made of a magnesium alloy degradable under physiological conditions and an outer polymeric coating. Herein, the stents according to the invention can be additionally coated with at least one anti-inflammatory, antiproliferative, antiangiogenic, antirestenotic and/or antithrombogenic active agent.
US09522207B1
A product for reducing an odor profile of an object includes a base layer and a combination of materials coupled to the base layer. The combination of materials includes a first odor-controlling material and a second odor-controlling material. The combination of materials is configured to adsorb a percentage of odors that engage the base layer.
US09522206B2
There are provided methods for treating a fluid having an undesirable odor. The methods comprise contacting the fluid with a H2O2 basic aqueous oxidizing composition and/or with a H2O2 acidic aqueous oxidizing composition. Optionally, the fluid can be further treated by contacting it with activated carbon and/or by submitting the fluid and the composition to UV radiation when they are contacting together.
US09522205B2
In a low temperature hydrogen peroxide gas plasma sterilizer, the accurate control of concentration of the hydrogen peroxide sterilant is an important factor in determining reliability and sterilization efficacy of the sterilization process. The present application describes sterilizers, and sterilization methods, which use a novel injector-concentrator arrangement which allows accurate concentration of the sterilant performed concurrently with the sterilization process. This process enables the device to sterilize wide range of sensitive equipment within a shorter sterilization cycle.
US09522201B2
The present invention provides an apparatus for disinfecting and/or sterilizing medical or laboratory apparel or accessories, comprising: a cabinet, a disinfecting system housed within the cabinet, wherein the disinfecting system comprises at least one disinfecting agent, and an embedded computer or a programmable logic controller (PLC) housed within the cabinet, wherein the embedded computer or the PLC controls one or more systems of the apparatus. The cabinet has advanced tracking features (e.g., RFID readers) that can track the apparel or accessories being disinfected. The embedded computer or PLC has the capabilities to send electronic messages to users or additional computers for further transmission of information at regular intervals. Methods for disinfecting and/or sterilizing medical or laboratory apparel or accessories are also provided.
US09522194B2
Auristatin peptide analogs of MeVal-Val-Dil-Dap-Phe (MMAF) having a carboxylic acid equivalent at the C-terminal phenylalanine were prepared and attached to ligands through various linkers, including maleimidocaproyl-val-cit-PAB. The resulting ligand-drug conjugates were active in vitro and in vivo in inhibiting cell proliferation and are represented by the general structure of Lv-[(LU)0-1-(D)1-4]p wherein L- is Ligand unit; LU is a Linker unit (LU); v is 1; p is an number ranging from about 1 to about 20; and D is a drug moiety having the formula: wherein the moiety —N(R9)Z1 is a phenylalanine bioisostere, wherein Z1 is —CH(R10)Z2 so that the phenylalanine bioisostere has the structure of Formula A: and wherein the substituents R2-R10, X1 and Z2 are as defined.
US09522188B2
The present invention relates to a solid pharmaceutical dosage form for abusable drug delivery with reduced illicit abuse potential. The dosage form is presented as a bioerodable transmucosal delivery device that includes an abusable drug and an antagonist to the abusable drug associated with an abuse-resistant matrix. The devices of the invention may be in the form of a layered film or a tablet. Upon application in a non-abusive manner, the device adheres to the mucosal surface, providing transmucosal drug delivery of the drug with minimal absorption of the antagonist into systemic circulation.
US09522180B2
The present invention provides compositions comprising peptide-coupled biodegradable poly(lactide-co-glycolide) (PLG) particles In particular, PLG particles are surface-functionalized to allow for coupling of peptide molecules to the surface of the particles (e.g., for use in eliciting induction of immunological tolerance).
US09522175B2
Disclosed are compositions and methods for increasing diabetes resolution in a diabetic patient having undergone gastric restrictive surgery, entailing use of active agent that produces an incretin-like effect in the patient.
US09522174B2
Liquid interferon compositions having a pH between 4.0 and 7.2 are described. The compositions comprise interferon-beta and a stabilizing agent at between about 0.3% and 5% by weight which is an amino acid selected from the group consisting of acidic amino acids, arginine and glycine. If needed, salt is added to provide sufficient ionic strength. The liquid composition has not been previously lyophilized or previously cavitated. The liquid is preferably contained within a vessel having at least one surface in contract with the liquid that is coated with a material inert to adsorption of interferon-beta. A kit for parenteral administration of a liquid interferon formulation and a method for stabilizing liquid interferon compositions are also described.
US09522170B2
A method involves screening a candidate compound for activity in the treatment of a condition associated with formation of amyloid protein fibrils in a mammal, such as Alzheimer's disease. It is determined whether the trimer/monomer ratio of a chaperone protein is decreased in the presence of the candidate compound. The chaperone protein is or has a high identity to the Brichos domains of Bri2, Bri3 or proSP-C from human. Monomers of the chaperone proteins and/or compounds that promote formation of these monomers are useful for medical treatment of the condition.
US09522167B2
The invention provides extracts of the microalga Aphanizomenon Flos Aquae Aquae Ralfs ex Born. & Flah. Var. flos aquae (AFA Klamath) and purified components thereof useful for the prevention or treatment of neurological, neurodegenerative and mood conditions or diseases.
US09522161B2
An aqueous composition specifically adapted for supporting physical performance. The liquid composition comprises, consists of, or consists essentially of ribose, a saccharide such as glucose or dextrose, coenzyme Q10, ATP, caffeine, and D-pinitol in conjunction with minerals and electrolytes. The orally-consumed liquid composition may be sold as a shelf-stable ready-to-drink liquid, or as a liquid concentrate or in solid form, such as a powder, granulate, or tablet to be added to water or other fluid. The liquid composition physiologically enhances essential energy stores and provides a supply of ingredients which support physiological generation and regeneration of ATP.
US09522155B2
Bile acids and related compositions and methods of synthesis and use. More specifically, deoxycholic acid and related compositions, said compositions being free of all moieties of animal origin and free of pyrogenic moieties.
US09522145B2
Compounds of the present invention, and pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof, are useful as modulators of ATP-Binding. Cassette (“ABC”) transporters or fragments thereof, including. Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (“CFTR”). The present invention also relates to methods of treating ABC transporter mediated diseases using compounds of the present invention.
US09522143B2
Pharmaceutical compositions are provided that are useful in treating diabetes. The compositions comprise a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and an effective therapeutic or prophylactic amount of a nitroxide antioxidant that alters the expression of genes related to diabetes. Methods are also provided for the use of the pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment or prevention of diabetes. In a preferred embodiment, the nitroxide antioxidant is Tempol (4-hydroxy-2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl).
US09522141B2
This invention relates to indazole compounds of the structural formula: (structure represented) or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, wherein the variable are defined herein. The inventive compounds selectively inhibit aldosterone synthase. This invention also provides for pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of Formula I or their salts as well as potentially to methods for the treatment or amelioration of conditions that could be treated by inhibiting aldosterone synthase.
US09522136B2
Provided herein are compounds according to formula (I): provided herein is also a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound according to formula (I) and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and a method for providing anesthesia in a subject by administering such a pharmaceutical composition.
US09522135B2
The present invention relates to methods for producing particles of indomethacin using dry milling processes as well as compositions comprising indomethacin, medicaments produced using indomethacin in particulate form and/or compositions, and to methods of treatment of an animal, including man, using a therapeutically effective amount of indomethacin administered by way of said medicaments.
US09522122B2
A novel backing construction for a transdermal drug delivery system is disclosed. In particular, the invention relates to a system and method for labeling a transdermal drug delivery system, wherein the backing layer contains a writable medium capable of inkless printing.
US09522114B1
Specific drug delivery to tumor cells without affecting normal cells is a major challenge in cancer treatment. The present invention incorporates embedding nonionic surfactant vesicles (niosomes) containing an anti-cancer therapeutic agent with chlorotoxin into a thermosensitive chitosan hydrogel network. Chitosan has mucoadhesive property which can be used in the targeting of the tumor cells with the mucin over expression. Chlorotoxin is a 36 amino acid peptide obtained from Leiurus quinquestriatus scorpion venom which binds preferentially to tumor cells of neuroectodermal origin but not to normal cells. The incorporation of chlorotoxin along with niosomes in the chitosan hydrogel is used as the second targeting strategy to further improve the specific delivery of drugs to tumor cells such as glioma.
US09522112B2
A kit for preparing a customized cosmetic includes at least one of five cosmetic bases. Each of the five cosmetic bases correspond to at least one of a plurality of primary categories. The kit additionally includes at least one cosmetic active ingredient for admixing with the at least one cosmetic base. The at least one cosmetic active ingredient corresponds to at least one of the plurality of primary categories or at least one of the plurality of secondary categories.
US09522108B2
A composition is disclosed that includes pure silk fibroin-based protein fragments that are substantially devoid of sericin, wherein the composition has an average weight average molecular weight ranging from about 17 kDa to about 38 kDa, wherein the composition has a polydispersity of between about 1.5 and about 3.0, wherein the composition is substantially homogeneous, wherein the composition between 0 ppm to about 500 ppm of inorganic residuals, and wherein the composition includes between 0 ppm to about 500 ppm of organic residuals.
US09522107B2
A composition is disclosed that includes pure silk fibroin-based protein fragments that are substantially devoid of sericin, wherein the composition has an average weight average molecular weight ranging from about 17 kDa to about 38 kDa, wherein the composition has a polydispersity of between about 1.5 and about 3.0, wherein the composition is substantially homogeneous, wherein the composition between 0 ppm to about 500 ppm of inorganic residuals, and wherein the composition includes between 0 ppm to about 500 ppm of organic residuals.
US09522101B2
A micro electromechanical ink jet printing system that has a cartridge having a body that defines a core, and a die that contains one or more nozzles. There is a treatment composition contained within the cartridge core. The system further includes a CPU that is programmable and can control the application of the treatment composition from within the cartridge core, through the one or more nozzles to human skin. Typically, the treatment composition will contain a skin treatment ingredient selected from the group consisting of particles, vitamins, yeast and yeast extracts, skin care actives, dyes, colorants and mixtures thereof. There may optionally be provided a bladder or foam block disposed within the cartridge core for suspending and regulating the flow of the treatment composition. The systems of this invention may include an applicator having an applicator head having one or more applicator nozzles which may be in a array. The applicator has a sensor that takes an image of at least 10 μm2 of skin, the CPU analyzes the image to calculate one or more localized L values of individual pixels or group of pixels of the skin. Then the CPU compares the local L value to a predetermined background L value to identify skin deviations. A skin deviation occurs where the difference between the background L value and the local L value is greater than a predetermined ΔLS value.
US09522100B2
The invention relates to a dental restorative material on the basis of at least one compound of one of the Formulae The invention also relates to the use of the dental restorative materials according to the invention for preparing dental composites, preferably composite blanks, which are suitable in particular for mechanical processing by means of computer-aided processing techniques such as milling and grinding processes, and which are suitable above all for preparing dental restoration materials such as inlays, onlays, crowns, bridges or veneering materials.
US09522099B2
A self-cure, dual-cure or tri-cure polymerizable dental composition is provided with at least one functional chemical. The dental composition is divided into a three-part composition to avoid stability issues caused by degradation and/or loss of function of one component in the extended presence of another component, and the three parts are packaged in a tri-barrel syringe or cartridge delivery system to avoid premature chemical interaction between the functional chemical, redox initiator and/or acid/base.
US09522087B2
A method of manufacturing a tampon includes transporting a web of material in a machine direction. The web of material has a base web and an absorbent web. The absorbent web has a free end and a bonded end wherein the bonded end is bonded to the base web. The free end of the absorbent web is moved in spaced relationship with the base web. The base web is bonded to a substrate.
US09522084B2
A sleep shield apparatus that can provide privacy, peacefulness, and protection in a public environment such as an airplane, airport, bus, or train is provided.
US09522077B1
A spinal orthosis is provided that includes a cervical section, a lumbar section, a thoracic section and a tensioner. The cervical section has one or more pads configured for placement at a clavicle of a wearer. The lumbar section is connected to the cervical section and has an abdominal Para-umbilical buttress configured for an anterior region of a lumbar spine. The buttress is further configured to provide compression and gripping of the spine. The lumbar section includes one or more digits with a gripping portion at around ribs and/or iliac crest of the wearer. The thoracic section is connected to the cervical section. The tensioner connects the lumbar section to the thoracic section.
US09522071B2
An implanting apparatus and an operating method thereof are provided. An implanting apparatus used for implanting an intervertebral cage into a location between two adjacent vertebral bodies, wherein the implanting apparatus comprises a sleeve and an extension member. The extension member has a rod and a coupling column, wherein the rod is screwed inside the sleeve, the coupling column is connected to one end of the rod and exposed outside the sleeve, and the axial direction of the coupling column is substantially perpendicular to that of the rod. When one end of the coupling column is disposed on an inner arc surface of a connecting portion of the intervertebral cage and the rod is rotated with respect to the sleeve, the distance between the coupling column and the sleeve is decreased so as to clamp the connecting portion of the intervertebral cage between the coupling column and the sleeve.
US09522064B2
A delivery device usable to deliver an inverting implant is provided that includes a positioning mechanism that automatically initiates the inversion process once a predetermined length of the implant has exited a delivery catheter. The positioning mechanism allows the implant to be safely and accurately deployed with reduced operator experience and in a greater variety of target locations.
US09522057B2
An implant insertion system includes an implant, such as a surgical mesh, having a first end and a second end, a first insertion aid spaced from and connected with the first end of the implant via a first link, such as a first flexible filament, and a second insertion aid spaced from and connected with the second end of the implant via a second link, such as a second flexible filament. The system includes an insertion device for implanting the implant in tissue. The insertion device has a handle at a proximal end thereof, an actuator mounted on the handle, a shaft extending from a distal end of the handle toward a distal end of the insertion device, and a cutting element disposed within the shaft. The shaft has an outer wall including an opening that is adapted to receive the first and second insertion aids for connecting the implant with the insertion device. The actuator is engageable for moving the cutting element from a first position to a second position for severing one of the links for breaking the connection between one of the first and second insertion aids and the surgical implant.
US09522056B2
An apparatus and method including a toothbrush head; toothbrush bristles fixed to the toothbrush head; and means for moving the toothbrush head in up and down directions and for simultaneously rotating the tooth brush head in a plane which is perpendicular to the up and down directions. The means for moving the toothbrush head in the up and down directions and for simultaneously rotating the tooth brush head in the plane which is perpendicular to the up and down directions may include a motor, a motor shaft, a disk, a swing arm, a post, and a pin. The apparatus may be configured so that the motor rotates the motor shaft causing the disk to rotate causing the pin to move in the up and down directions and causing the swing arm to rotate in the plane which is perpendicular to the up and down directions.
US09522050B2
In one aspect the present disclosure relates to a process for producing a dental article comprising at least two parts, Part A (e.g. coping) and Part B (e.g. veneer), Part A and Part B each having a 3-dim. structure and an outer and an inner surface, the outer surface of Part A having a shape which essentially corresponds to the shape of the inner surface of Part B, Part B comprising a material with a porous section and being produced with the aid of a rapid-prototyping technique, the process comprising a first heating step, wherein Part A is serving as support structure for Part B during said heating step.
US09522032B2
A circuit for discharging stored energy in an electrosurgical generator includes a pulse width modulator for controlling a high voltage power supply, an error signal generating circuit configured for delivering an error signal as a difference between an output signal voltage and a feedback voltage generated by the high voltage power supply. The circuit further includes a switching circuit configured to switch in a load in parallel with an output of the high voltage power supply when the error signal is less than a first predetermined threshold to discharge the output.
US09522031B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure provide method and apparatus for effecting (e.g., lightening) an appearance of skin by cooling or freezing small separated surface regions of the skin to produce regions of local hypopigmentation. The width of the regions can be, for example, smaller than about 1 mm or 0.5 mm, and a distance between these frozen regions can be greater than about 3 times the width of the regions. An exemplary apparatus can be provided that includes a plurality of spatially-separated thermally conductive arrangements that can be affixed or otherwise coupled to a base. For example, the conductive arrangements can be regions of conductive material provided in or proximal to a thermal insulator, or thermally conductive protrusions affixed to the base. The conductive arrangements can be cooled and then contacted with the skin surface to produce the small regions of hypopigmentation.
US09522029B2
In various embodiments, a cordless instrument for cutting and coagulating tissue is provided. The cordless instrument comprises a handle comprising a power supply system, wherein the power supply system comprises a battery, an oscillator, and an amplifier. The cordless instrument further comprises an end effector comprising a battery-powered electrode and a moveable cutting member. The cordless instrument further comprises a conductor extending between the power supply system and the battery-powered electrode.
US09522025B2
The present invention relates to a device for fixation of bone fragments at bone fractures. The device comprises at least two fixation means (5, 6) and a securing plate (4). With the object of preventing or counteracting re-dislocation, the respective fixation means (5, 6) each have a first fixing portion (19) for fixing the fixation means in an inner bone fragment (3), a second fixing portion (21) for locking the fixation means to the securing plate (4) which is disposed on the outside of an outer bone fragment (2) and allows movement of the outer bone fragment relative to it, so that the fixation means are prevented from changing their angular position relative to the securing plate and relative to one another, and a middle portion (22) which is situated between the fixing portions and runs through the outer bone fragment, along which middle portion the outer bone fragment can slide inwards towards the inner bone fragment in which the fixation means is fixed.
US09522023B2
An orthopedic plate comprising, a frame portion and a bearing rotatably coupled with the frame portion, wherein the bearing defines an opening configured to receive a fastener for fastening the orthopedic plate to a body, wherein the bearing includes an outer surface that is eccentric to the opening such that a position of the opening with respect to the frame portion is adjustable as the bearing rotates.
US09522021B2
A polyaxial bone screw assembly includes a threaded shank body having an integral upper portion receivable in an integral receiver, the receiver having an upper channel for receiving a longitudinal connecting member and a lower cavity cooperating with a lower opening. A down-loadable compression insert having a sub-structure, a down-loadable friction fit split retaining ring having inner and outer tangs and an up-loadable shank upper portion cooperate to provide for pop- or snap-on assembly of the shank with the receiver either prior to or after implantation of the shank into a vertebra. The shank and receiver once assembled cannot be disassembled.
US09522020B2
A bone screw, which can be a pedicle screw, is generally tulip-shaped. A bore in the bottom of the tulip permits a threaded shaft to be partially inserted into the open interior of the tulip. A seat is formed on the threaded shaft and receives the bottom of the tulip, and prevents the threaded shaft from being inserted too far into the tulip. A saddle is positioned in the interior of the tulip and receives the end of the threaded shaft on one end and can include a trough on its opposite face which can receive a rod that connects together two or more such assemblies. A retaining screw threads into the upper interior surface of the tulip to hold the subcomponents together.
US09522016B2
A device for allowing passage of a guidewire from a primary blood vessel to an adjacent secondary blood vessel includes a main body having a primary lumen and a secondary lumen, and a piercing member disposed in the secondary lumen, and configured to be moved distally out of the secondary lumen, and to pierce through tissue while being distally moved. A third lumen located within the piercing member is configured to allow placement of a guidewire from the primary blood vessel to the adjacent secondary blood vessel. In one embodiment, the secondary lumen is configured to allow articulation of the distal end of the piercing element. The piercing member has a sharp point on one end to facilitate cutting a small communicating aperture from the primary blood vessel to the secondary blood vessel.
US09522013B2
Basket type grasping forceps includes sheath, main body section which has distal and proximal end inserted through sheath, and manipulation sections fixed to sheath which proximal end of main body section is attached. Main body section includes basket section provided at distal side of main body section, and is configured to hold foreign substance, first wire provided at proximal side of basket section and is fixed to basket section, and removal mechanism attached to basket section and moves foreign substance in basket section. Basket section includes plurality of basket wires and fixing member. Removal mechanism includes slide sleeve and second wire. Slide sleeve is disposed at distal end of basket section in state which plurality of basket wires are spread, and foreign substance captured by basket section is discharged from opening formed at proximal side, by moving slide sleeve to proximal side and reducing a diameter of basket section.
US09521997B2
Methods and devices are provided for retracting tissue. In one exemplary embodiment, a retractor is provided that includes a base, a plurality of blades extending from the base, and an actuator coupled to the base and operatively connected to the blades. The actuator can be configured to be actuated to move the blades relative to the base, thereby allowing the blades to retract tissue. The actuator can be self-locking so as to allow the blades to be freely movable within their entire range of motion relative to the base through actuation of the actuator without using another mechanism to lock the blades in a fixed position and to unlock the blades from the fixed position. The retractor can be formed from one or more radiolucent materials.
US09521986B2
A portable radiographic imaging system includes an FPD cassette and a portable console, each of which is configured to wirelessly communicate with a portable relay unit. The relay unit prohibits a radiation generator from emitting radiation when judging that a wireless communication connection has not been established between the relay unit and the radiation generator, and allows the radiation generator to emit radiation when judging that the wireless communication connection has not been established between the relay unit and the radiation generator after an interlock release signal is transferred from the console or the like to the radiation generator.
US09521983B2
An X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray detecting device, an accommodation unit configured to accommodate the X-ray detecting device, and a bucky tray configured to be accommodated in and discharged from the accommodation unit. The bucky tray includes a base and a first plate on which the X-ray detecting device is mounted and which is configured to rotate with respect to the base.
US09521979B2
This disclosure describes techniques for controlling spectral aggressors in a sensing device that uses a chopper amplifier to amplify an input signal prior to sampling the signal. In some examples, the techniques for controlling spectral aggressors may include generating a chopper-stabilized amplified version of an input signal based on a chopper frequency, sampling the chopper-stabilized amplified version of the input signal at a sampling rate to generate a sampled signal, and analyzing a target frequency band of the sampled signal. The chopper frequency and the sampling rate may cause spectral interference that is generated due to the chopper frequency to occur in the sampled signal at one or more frequencies that are outside of the target frequency band of the sampled signal. The techniques for controlling spectral aggressors may reduce the noise caused by the chopper frequency in the resulting sampled signal, thereby improving the quality of the signal.
US09521978B2
A method of analyzing a physiological (e.g., an ECG) signal during application of chest compressions. The method includes acquiring a physiological signal during application of chest compressions; acquiring the output of a sensor from which information on the velocity of chest compressions can be determined; and using the information on the velocity to reduce at least one signal artifact in the physiological signal resulting from the chest compressions.
US09521977B2
Methods and devices for chest compression depth measurement for CPR.
US09521976B2
A biofeedback system and method enables biofeedback training to be accomplished during normal interaction by an individual with the individual's environment, for example while reading, playing video games, watching TV, participating in sports activities, or at work. Physiologic data is processed and used to generate one or more control signals based on the physiologic data. The control signals may be proportional to a result of the data processing, or based on comparison of the processing results with at least one fixed or adaptive threshold. The control signal is supplied to a wearable device through which the individual receives sensory information from the individual's environment, and serves to interrupt or modify the sensory information. The wearable device may be an eyeglass device including a dynamic lens display, with the control signal being supplied to the dynamic lens display to modulate visual information received through the eyeglass device by obscuring, distorting, or otherwise affecting the clarity of the visual information. Feedback may also be provided in the form of auditory or tactile feedback.
US09521971B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to pulse oximetry. An exemplary pulse oximeter comprises a probe that is adapted to be attached to a body part of a patient to create a signal indicative of an oxygen saturation of blood of the patient, and a processor that is adapted to receive the signal produced by the probe, to calculate an SPO2 value based on the signal, to detect a plurality of pattern types of SPO2 indicative of pathophysiologic events, and to produce an output indicative of a detected one of the plurality of pattern types.
US09521967B2
A physical activity monitoring method and system in one embodiment includes a wearable sensor device configured to generate physiologic data associated with a sensed physiologic condition of a wearer, and to generate audio context data associated with a sensed audio context of the wearer, a memory including program instructions stored therein, a computer configured to receive the physiologic data and the audio context data and to execute the program instructions to distinguish between dynamic and static activities of the wearer based upon the physiologic data, and to generate activity data by differentiating between different classes of distinguished dynamic and static activities based upon the audio context data, and a user interface operably connected to the computer for rendering the activity data.
US09521965B2
An unmet need of orthopedic practitioners is a clinically-relevant measurement device and technique to objectively quantify joint (e.g., knee) stability, including rotational stability. An apparatus and method is disclosed for performing a mechanical joint movement test, such as a knee pivot shift test, through the application of standardized dynamic loads (e.g., using a constant-tension spring or other mechanism). When used for knee evaluation, this test reliably induces the characteristic “pivot” tibial subluxation/reduction event in an ACL-deficient knee, allowing for more sensitive detection of deficiencies in rotational knee stability, quantification of the relative importance of knee stabilizers, and comparison of the performance of contemporary ACL reconstruction techniques. The test allows for better understanding joint biomechanics and for defining unique kinematic and kinetic signatures for common joint injuries, such as knee injuries, that will be valuable for diagnostic purposes.
US09521959B2
A method of retraining brainwave patterns using direct electrical stimulation feedback comprises: securing two or more electrodes to a subject's scalp and/or ears; acquiring EEG signal(s) on at least one channel; amplifying the EEG signal or signals via differential amplifier means; digitizing said EEG signal or signals via Analog-to-Digital converter means; selecting at least one of said channels from which to derive feedback; creating at least one digital-domain representation of said selected EEG signal or signals; creating a signal or signals representing at least one time-domain “distortion” of said digital domain representation or representations by time distortion means; differentiating said time distorted signal or signals; and introducing said differentiated signal or signals back onto the pairs of input leads via coupling means, wherein said differentiated signal or signals are thus input directly to the brain and nervous system, bypassing the normal systems of perception.
US09521956B2
In general, techniques and systems for detecting acoustic signals and generating phonocardiograms are described. In one example, a system may include an acoustic sensor configured to detect an acoustic signal from a heart of a patient. The system may also include a sensing module configured to detect an electrical signal from the heart of the patient via two or more electrodes and at least one processor configured to generate a composite phonocardiogram based the acoustic signal and the electrical signal detected over a plurality of cardiac cycles of the heart, wherein the composite phonocardiogram is generated for a representative cardiac cycle. The system may be provided in a single device or multiple devices configured to transmit information between the devices.
US09521942B2
An apparatus according to one embodiment includes an endoscope tip including a housing that is monolithically formed of a transparent material. At least one optical component is at least partially encased within the housing. The optical component can be, for example, a light source, a fiber optic, an imaging sensor, a lens, a reflector or a light shield. In another embodiment, an apparatus includes an endoscope having a distal end portion that includes a housing. The housing is monolithically formed with a transparent material and a light source is at least partially encased within the housing. The housing also includes a micro-defects portion within the transparent material of the housing. The micro-defects portion is configured to provide a selected output shape of a beam of light produced by the light source.
US09521937B2
A surface treating appliance includes cyclonic separating apparatus having a plurality of cyclones arranged in parallel and a dust collector arranged to receive dust from each of the plurality of cyclones. Each cyclone has a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. The plurality of cyclones is divided into at least a first set of cyclones and a second set of cyclones. The fluid inlets of the first set of cyclones are located in a first plane and the fluid inlets of the second set of cyclones are located in a second plane spaced from the first plane. This enables the separating apparatus to have a compact appearance.
US09521920B2
A device for extracting zest from a fruit includes a body, a carrier coupled to the body, and a blade coupled to the body. The carrier moves the fruit relative to the blade and holds the fruit as the blade separates a portion of the flavedo from the pith of the fruit's peel to extract zest from the fruit. The device also includes an arm that urges the blade against the fruit's peel to generate contact pressure as the carrier moves the fruit relative to the blade, and that allows the blade to move toward and away from the carrier to accommodate the contour of the fruit's peel, which is often curved. The blade includes a plurality of teeth, each configured to cut a portion of the fruit's flavedo from the fruit's pith without separating the pith from the berry. To allow one to extract flavedo in any desired form, such as small and short shavings, or thicker and longer chips, or still longer strings, the blade and carrier are releasably coupled to the body, and the amount of force that the arm exerts on the blade to urge the blade against the fruit's peel is adjustable.
US09521918B2
An openable and closeable lid assembly is provided for a beverage container. The lid assembly comprises a lid housing, an actuator and a seal. The lid housing has an upper surface with a drink aperture and an actuator aperture extending therethrough. The actuator extends through the actuator aperture and is positionable in an open position, where liquid can pass through the drink aperture, and a closed position, where the drink aperture is closed. A seal is provided adjacent the actuator aperture. The seal seals against the actuator and the lid housing to prevent liquid from escaping out the actuator aperture.
US09521913B2
Quick-load retail merchandising product pusher systems and methods dispense retail products, wherein the systems and methods have a fixed portion having a front end, a rear end located opposite with respect to the front end of the fixed portion, a top side and a bottom side located opposite with respect to the top side of the fixed portion. Further, the systems and methods have a movable track movably connected to the top side of the fixed portion, wherein the movable track has a front end, a rear end located opposite with respect to the front end of the movable track, a top side and a bottom side located opposite with respect to the top side of the movable track. Still further, the systems and methods have a pusher paddle configured to move one or more retail product forward away from the rear side of the movable track and front retainer teeth connecting the fixed portion and the movable track, wherein the front retainer teeth are provided on the top side and at the front end of the fixed portion and extend outwardly with respect to the top side of the fixed portion. The movable track is movable to a closed position or to an extended position, wherein, when the movable track is moved to the extended position, forward movement of the pusher paddle is restricted by the front retainer teeth.
US09521912B2
An infant carrier contains: a front carrying bag, a neck support pad, and an auxiliary support cushion. The auxiliary support cushion is used for supporting a carrier's back above the carrier's lumbar, and the front carrying bag includes a first carrying strap and a second carrying strap which are in connection with two sides of an upper end of the front carrying bag and the neck support pad. The neck support pad includes an adjustable belt formed on a bottom rim thereof and connecting with an upper rim of the auxiliary support cushion. The front carrying bag also includes a first waist strap and a second waist strap which are fixed on two sides of the front carrying bag to correspond to the carrier's waist and are coupled with two sides of the auxiliary support cushion adjacent to the carrier's waist.
US09521911B2
A furniture system for optimizing sound levels and acoustics in a learning environment. The system includes a plurality of pieces selected from a toy shelf, a bridge/tunnel structure, a sandwich board shelf unit, a tunnel with interior shelves, a toy box with leaning bendable posts, a bench/tunnel with combination seat, tunnel, and shelf, a listening center, a stealth chair/cave structure, stealth leaning surface/cave, a multifunctional zigzag chair, and a multipurpose chair/easel.
US09521905B1
A drawer chest system wherein the drawer rails are secure within the system via minimal bolting and merely resting on the drawer chest walls. This allows for higher drawer mobility and reduces the chances of drawers getting stuck within a chest due to clearance issues or inadequate manufacturing tolerances. Furthermore, lower production price accompanies this loosened tolerance.
US09521901B2
Exercise devices, and related components and methods are provided. In one embodiment, an exercise device is provided having a frame, treadmill deck and a desk. The treadmill deck is movably coupled with the frame and selectively positionable between a first position wherein a user may run or walk on the treadmill deck, and a second position wherein the deck is placed in a stored position. The deck defines a running path when in the first position. The desk may move between multiple positions, including a first position wherein the desk is placed toward a front portion of the running path, and may even be positioned over a portion of the running path (or at least over a portion of the deck), and a second position where the desk is moved out of the running path. The desk may be adjusted as to height and inclination also.
US09521899B1
A swing-triggered flashing toothbrush comprises a hollow brush handle having a movement space; a transparent patterned layer formed on the surface of the hollow brush handle and having a press button and an operable grip coupled to the press button; a control circuit board arranged inside the hollow brush handle, and a metallic ball arranged inside the operable grip. The press button controls the operable grip to hold the metallic ball or release the metallic ball to the movement space. Once the metallic ball is released, a swing movement drives the metallic ball to hit the interior of an electric-connection chute of the control circuit board. Thus, the control circuit board is triggered to control a battery assembly to power light emitting elements. Thereby, the light emitting elements project light outwards through the transparent patterned layer.
US09521896B2
A retractable and extendable tether device that attaches to a hand-held electronic device and selectively replaceably attaches the hand-held electronic device to a user. The retractable and extendable tether device includes a retractor, a retainer, and a tether. The retractor replaceably attaches to the user. The retainer attaches to the hand-held electronic device. The tether retracts into, and extends from, the retractor and attaches to the retainer so as to selectively replaceably attach the hand-held electronic device to the user.
US09521893B2
A liquid cosmetic container wherein the operation portion is provided on side surface of the container body 1. When the operation portion is pressed from the outside, the valve body 5 seating on the valve seat portion 6a is moved in the axial direction by the valve pressing portion 6h and seats away from the valve seat portion 6a, so that the flow path, in which the liquid cosmetic flows, is opened and then, the liquid cosmetic is supplied to the application body 4. Thus, it is not necessary to push the application body into the container 1. Further, the opening/closing of the flow path are performed by moving the valve body 5 in the axial direction by pressing the operation portions from the outside, so that the diameter of the container body 1 can be reduced, comparing with the conventional container.
US09521891B2
A hair styling tool includes a body, a cylinder extending from the body, the cylinder rotatable relative to the body, a motor for rotating the cylinder, a heater to heat the cylinder, and a styling arm pivotally attached to the body. The hair styling tool may have a generally clam shell configuration, wherein the styling arm is movable between an open position in which the styling arm is distant the cylinder and a closed position in which the styling arm is proximate to the cylinder, such as contacting the cylinder. The styling arm may also include a brush head with fixed or retractable bristles and/or a smoothing plate.
US09521886B2
An attachment device for attaching a wearable electronic apparatus to a part of the body of an operator. The attachment device includes a support member, which includes an assembly zone on which the wearable electronic apparatus is located and an attachment element, which clamps the support member to the part of the body of the operator. Attachment/detachment structure, which is selectively releasable, is provided in association with the assembly zone in order to cooperate with corresponding attachment portions of the wearable electronic apparatus.
US09521885B2
A woven fabric includes light transmissive fibers woven into the fabric to provide a visual display. The fabric may be used as a tether to releasably connect a portable electronic device to a user. The light transmissive fibers may transmit light to convey information to the user. The fabric may also be used as part of the housing of an electronic device.
US09521871B2
A hospital gown including separable portions is provided. The hospital gown includes a one piece back panel, a two piece front panel, and left and right shoulder panels which cooperatively define a neck opening and left and right arm openings. The hospital gown includes an apron adapted to extend over at least a portion of the two piece front panel. The apron includes a left edge and a right edge detachably connected to the back panel or to the front panel. The shoulder panels include a plurality of fasteners to detachably connect the shoulder panels to the two piece front panel. The two piece front panel includes a right panel and a left panel and a telemetry pocket included thereon.
US09521870B2
An article of apparel may include a base component and an attachment component. The base component may be formed from a plurality of joined material elements, with at least one of the material elements including a first part of a hook-and-loop fastening system. The attachment component may include (a) a cover layer, (b) a plurality of pad elements, and (c) a plurality of securing elements. Each of the pad elements are joined to the cover layer, and each of the securing elements are joined to at least one of the pad elements opposite the cover layer, with the securing elements including a second part of the hook-and-loop fastening system. Moreover, the first part of the hook-and-loop fastening system is joinable to the second part of the hook-and-loop fastening system to secure the attachment component to the base component.
US09521869B2
The present invention is directed to a human body protecting element for use with and attachment to an article of clothing, such as sports apparel, to protect a wearer from impact and frictional forces, such as road rash. One exemplary body protecting element includes a first part having a first locking member. The first part is for placement along an inner surface of the article of clothing. The body protecting element also includes a second part having a second locking member that is complementary to the first locking member and results in a mechanical coupling (e.g., a snap-fit attachment) between the first and second parts when the first and second locking members engage one another. The second part is for placement along an outer surface of the article of clothing and includes an outer ground contacting contoured surface. The ground contacting surface provides a high impact surface that is contoured so that if the wearer contacts and/or slides across the ground, the ground contacting surface protects the wearer by shielding the wearer's body from the abrasive ground surface.
US09521866B2
A cigarette paper pack includes a removal opening and a spring element comprising at least one spring. The spring element is configured to feed cigarette rolling papers in a direction of the removal opening.
US09521848B2
A tetrazolinone compound represented by formula (1): wherein R1 and R2 are the same or different and represent a hydrogen atom, etc.; R3 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group, etc.; R4, R5, and R6 are the same or different and represent a hydrogen atom, etc.; A represents a C6-C10 aryl group optionally having one or more atoms or groups selected from Group P1, etc.; Q represents the following group Q1; and X represents an oxygen atom, has excellent control activity against pests.
US09521847B2
Disclosed herein are herbicidal compositions comprising a herbicidally effective amount of (a) a pyridine carboxylic acid herbicide or an agriculturally acceptable N-oxide, salt or ester thereof, and (b) a synthetic auxin herbicide, an auxin transport inhibitor, agriculturally acceptable salts or esters thereof, or combinations thereof. Also disclosed herein are methods of controlling undesirable vegetation which comprise applying to vegetation or an area adjacent the vegetation or applying to soil or water to prevent the emergence or growth of vegetation (a) a pyridine carboxylic acid herbicide or an agriculturally acceptable N-oxide, salt or ester thereof, and (b) a synthetic auxin herbicide, an auxin transport inhibitor, agriculturally acceptable salts or esters thereof, or combinations thereof, wherein (a) and (b) are each added in an amount sufficient to provide a herbicidal effect.
US09521846B2
Template-fixed β-hairpin peptidomimetics of the general formula wherein Z is a template-fixed chain of 12 α-amino acid residues which, depending on their positions in the chain (counted starting from the N-terminal amino acid) are Gly, or Pro, or of certain types which, as the remaining symbols in the above formula, are defined in the description and the claims, and salts thereof, have the property to selectively inhibit the growth of or to kill microorganisms such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa. They can be used as disinfectants for foodstuffs, cosmetics, medicaments or other nutrient-containing materials, or as medicaments to treat or prevent infections. These β-hairpin peptidomimetics can be manufactured by processes which are based on a mixed solid- and solution phase synthetic strategy.
US09521845B2
The present invention relates to specific beta-lactone compounds and compositions thereof for the treatment of infections, such as, e.g., infections with bacteria or infections with protozoa, in particular infections with Gram-positive and/or Gram-negative bacteria and of infectious diseases caused by or related to Gram-positive and/or Gram-negative bacteria, and to the modulation of virulence of Gram-positive and/or Gram-negative bacteria or of protozoa by specific beta-lactone compounds. The invention further relates to the use of the compounds or compositions for preventing or eliminating biofilms.
US09521840B2
A film-shaped tissue storage transport container and storage transport method. The storage transport container includes: an external container; a coupling mechanism which couples a container main body and a lid member of the external container; an internal container which is positioned within the external container; an interposed unit having elasticity and which is sandwiched between the internal container and the lid member; and a storage fluid with which the internal container is filled. A film-shaped tissue is present in a floating state in the storage fluid with which the internal container is filled.
US09521833B2
A level winding mechanism includes a worm shaft, an engagement member, a sliding member, and a lid member. The lid member includes lid portion and a retaining portion. The lid portion covers one end of a first through-hole. The retaining portion is tubular shaped and is housed inside the first through-hole. Additionally, the retaining portion is disposed between an inner perimeter surface of the first through-hole and an outer perimeter surface of the engagement member. The retaining portion is capable of slidably and rotatably retaining the engagement member.
US09521827B2
An electric fence insulator is formed as a flexible band of material with an opening along a lateral periphery. The band is flexed to position around the perimeter of a fence post along a length of the fence post as determined by the length of the insulator. The insulator provides electrical insulation between an electrically energized fence wire and a point of contact of the wire with a grounded fence post. The insulator includes a fastener at the opening to close to a secure position using a simple clipping motion after the insulating band is positioned on the fence post at a selected height. The insulator forms a minimal lever arm between the fence post and the energized wire. The insulator may be retrofitted to existing installations with fence wire already installed without a need to access the fence post from the top to the section requiring electrical insulation.
US09521817B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01045769. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01045769. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01045769 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01045769 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09521816B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01051547. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01051547. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01051547 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01051547 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US09521797B2
An agricultural implement is provided that includes a ground engaging tool configured to engage soil in a working position and to disengage the soil in a non-working position. The agricultural implement also includes an actuating cylinder coupled to the ground engaging tool and configured to transition the ground engaging tool between the working position and the non-working position based on a flow of fluid from a fluid supply system. In addition, the agricultural implement includes at least one sensor configured to output a signal indicative of a fluid pressure within the fluid supply system, and a controller configured to determine whether the ground engaging tool is in the working position or the non-working position based on the first signal.
US09521796B2
A seeding implement is provided that includes a depth adjustment mechanism configured to facilitate rapid reconfiguration of a ground engaging tool for varying penetration depths. In an exemplary embodiment, the seeding implement includes a ground engaging tool and a packer arm pivotally coupled to a packer support structure. The seeding implement also includes a packer wheel rotatably coupled to the packer arm, and configured to rotate across a soil surface to limit a penetration depth of the ground engaging tool into the soil. The seeding implement further includes a depth adjustment assembly including a slot within the packer support structure, a corresponding slot within the packer arm, and a fastener disposed through the slots. In this configuration, the penetration depth of the ground engaging tool is varied by adjusting a position of the fastener within the slots.
US09526189B2
An exemplary power-electronic switching system has a plurality of switching units, wherein each switching unit includes a housing and at least one switching module which is arranged within the housing. A mounting unit has a holding apparatus, on which the housings of the switching units are arranged. The holding apparatus includes an insulation material for electrically insulating the holding apparatus from the housings of the switching units and the housings of the switching units from one another. The insulation material allows the housings of the switching units of the switching system to have different voltage potentials from one another and additionally can be realized in a simple and space-saving manner and easily be assembled. In addition, the housing of each switching unit includes a material for at least partially shielding an electric and magnetic field.
US09526188B2
An electronic device package box includes a first base unit including a first base and multiple first connecting pins, and a second base unit including a second base and multiple second connecting pins inserted into the first and second bases. The first base has a first abutment surface and a first pin-protruding surface. Each of the first connecting pins has a first wire-connecting portion projecting from the first pin-protruding surface. The second base has a second abutment surface abutting against the first abutment surface, and a second pin-protruding surface. Each of the second connecting pins has a second wire-connecting portion projecting from the second pin-protruding surface and a protrusion portion projecting from the first pin-protruding surface.
US09526175B2
The present description relates to the field of fabricating microelectronic structures. The microelectronic structure may include a microelectronic substrate have an opening, wherein the opening may be formed through the microelectronic substrate or may be a recess formed in the microelectronic substrate. A microelectronic package may be attached to the microelectronic substrate, wherein the microelectronic package may include an interposer having a first surface and an opposing second surface. A microelectronic device may be attached to the interposer first surface and the interposer may be attached to the microelectronic substrate by the interposer first surface such that the microelectronic device extends into the opening. At least one secondary microelectronic device may be attached to the interposer second surface.
US09526172B2
A wiring substrate includes an insulating substrate having a quadrangular planar outline; a quadrangular frame positioned on the surface of the insulating substrate along the periphery, and including an upper surface, a corner portion, and an adjacent portion, the corner portion including a width-expanded portion defining a via hole extending through the frame, the width-expanded portion including an inner wall surface having a rectilinear edge in a plan view, the adjacent portion including an inner wall surface, the inner wall surface of the width-expanded portion forming an obtuse angle with the inner wall surface of the adjacent portion; a via conductor filling the via hole and not exposed from the inner wall surface of the width-expanded portion; and a sealing metallization layer formed on the upper surface of the frame and electrically connected to the via conductor.
US09526166B2
A bezel structure for a display device includes a first resin layer capable of being cured by ultraviolet radiation, an ink layer including a non-volatile solvent disposed on the first resin layer, a second resin layer disposed in the ink layer, and an upper structure disposed on the ink layer. The second resin layer prevents an uncured portion of the first resin layer from permeating into a cavity in the ink layer.
US09526159B2
A rotational antenna and a semiconductor manufacturing device provided with the same are disclosed. The rotational antenna includes a plurality of coils connected in parallel to a high frequency power source and arranged at a regular interval around an axis in a symmetrical relationship with respect to the axis, wherein an electromagnetic field for generating inductively coupled plasma is uniformly formed when the coils are rotated about the axis.
US09526158B1
A laser sustained plasma light source having a cell with a gas volume contained within the cell. At least one laser is directed into the gas volume, for sustaining a plasma within the gas volume, which plasma produces a light. Means are provided for continuously providing the gas volume to the plasma in a laminar flow. A reflector collects the light and provides the light to a desired location.
US09526155B2
Systems and methods of the disclosed subject matter provide a first light source, a second light source, and a controller communicatively coupled to the first light source and the second light source, the controller to control a first operation of the first light source according to an input received by the controller for at first period of time, and to control a second operation of the second light source when the input received by the controller is for a second period of time that is greater than the first period of time.
US09526151B2
Mechanisms for light management include a light emitting diode (LED) light bulb. The LED light bulb includes multiple light emitting diodes (LEDs) configured for illumination in the LED light bulb and includes a battery. A base is configured to fit a standard socket designed for an incandescent light bulb, and the base is configured to operatively connect to an electrical power source. A module is operative to detect a residual voltage of the power source when a control for powering the LED light bulb is powered off. The module is configured to determine that a power outage occurred and operative to switch to battery power from the battery in response to not detecting the residual voltage of the power source.
US09526143B1
The present disclosure provides systems for generating tunable white light. The systems include a plurality of LED strings that generate light with color points that fall within blue, yellow/green, red, and cyan color ranges, with each LED string being driven with a separately controllable drive current in order to tune the generated light output.
US09526142B2
Described herein is a luminaire controller for a luminaire in which dimming signals can be provided to control the operation of the luminaire. The controller also includes an energy measurement module connected to a mains supply, a sensor module, a power switch, a central processing module and a ZigBee transceiver module. The controller, in addition to providing dimming signals in accordance with ambient lighting conditions sensed by a photocell in the sensor module, provides efficient energy metering. In one embodiment, the luminaire controller is directly mountable on a luminaire for control thereof.
US09526139B2
A load driving device disclosed in the specification includes a power supply circuit for supplying to a load an output voltage converted from an input voltage, a detection voltage generation circuit for generating a detection voltage which varies depending on a magnitude of a voltage drop which across the load, and a control circuit for controlling the power supply circuit so that it performs output feedback control of the output voltage, on the basis of the detection voltage.
US09526138B2
A load driving device disclosed in the specification includes a power supply circuit for supplying to a load an output voltage converted from an input voltage, a detection voltage generation circuit for generating a detection voltage which varies depending on a magnitude of a voltage drop which across the load, and a control circuit for controlling the power supply circuit so that it performs output feedback control of the output voltage, on the basis of the detection voltage.
US09526135B2
The present invention relates to a driver device (50a-50e) and a corresponding driving method for driving a load (22), in particular an LED unit comprising a power input unit (52) for receiving an input voltage (V20) from an external power supply and for providing a rectified supply voltage (V52), a power conversion unit (54) for converting said supply voltage (V52) to a load current (154) for powering the load (22), a charge capacitor (56) for storing a charge and powering the load (22) when insufficient energy for powering the load (22) and/or the power conversion unit (54) is drawn from said external power supply (20) at a given time, and a control unit (58) for controlling the charging of said charge capacitor (56) by said supply voltage (V52) to a capacitor voltage (V56) that can be substantially higher than the peak voltage (V52) of said supply voltage and for powering the load (22).
US09526131B2
A microwave oven having a hood is provided. The microwave oven may more efficiently suction air containing contaminants, thereby more efficiently preventing diffusion of air containing contaminants. In addition, the microwave oven may tilt a tilting hood using a simplified construction.
US09526127B1
A device may determine whether a user is facing a display screen associated with the device; and present feedback to the user. When presenting the feedback, the device may present visual information, that is based on the feedback, when determining that the user is facing the display screen associated with the device, and present audio information, that is based on the feedback, when determining that the user is not facing the display screen associated with the device. At least a portion of the audio information might not be presented when the visual information is presented when the user is facing the display screen associated with the device.
US09526115B1
A base device may work in conjunction one or more peripheral devices to capture audio from different locations within a room. The peripheral devices may include a companion device and an accessory device, either or both of which may be present in a given situation or deployment. The base device is configured to communicate with the companion device using a first wireless communications protocol and with the accessory device using a second wireless communications protocol. When both of the companion and accessory devices are present, however, the companion and accessory devices communicate with each other using the second wireless communications protocol and the companion device relays communications between the base device and the accessory device. This avoids the need for the base device to use the second wireless communications protocol and reduces contention for shared resources by the base device.
US09526110B2
A technique is provided for receiving a resource request by a first base station (BS) of a first Radio Access Technology (RAT) from one or more user devices, selecting resources, from a group of resources shared by BSs of a plurality of different RATs, to be scheduled for the one or more requesting user devices, scheduling, by the first BS, the selected resources for the one or more user devices, and sending, from the first BS, a resource scheduling announcement identifying the scheduled resources to one or more other BSs including at least a second BS of a second RAT. Another example technique may include receiving a resource scheduling request from a first base station (BS) implementing a first RAT, confirming an availability of the requested resources, and sending a first resource scheduling announcement to one or more BSs implementing other RATs.
US09526108B2
There is provided a method for removing interference between a femto-cell and a macro-cell, comprising: allocating communication resources to a plurality of femto-cell user devices; receiving uplink signals between a plurality of the macro-cell user devices and a macro-cell base station from the plurality of the macro-cell user devices; detecting a high interference indicator (HII) from the uplink signals; deciding a macro-cell user device, which has transmitted the high interference indicator, as an interference subject user device; extracting channel state information (CSI) from the uplink signal received from the interference subject user device; and changing and allocating the communication resource allocated to the femto-cell user device based on the extracted channel state information.
US09526107B2
An apparatus, system and method for managing radio resources are disclosed. The apparatus for managing radio resources includes a media independent services (MIS) user unit, a link layer unit, and a media independent services function (MISF) unit. The link layer unit outputs its own link status and radio resource allocation status. The MISF unit receives a report on the link status and radio resource allocation status from the link layer unit, receives a report on link status of a terminal from the corresponding terminal, receives a report on link status and radio resource allocation status of a neighboring Point of Attachment (PoA) from the corresponding neighboring PoA, and receives network configuration information from a network configuration information server. The MIS user unit determines to change radio resource allocation based on information from any one of the link layer unit, the terminal, the neighboring PoA and the network configuration information server.
US09526098B2
A method for determining information about access barring includes the steps of: receiving a message set transmitted via a radio interface to a user equipment, the message set including at least a starting message that is a paging message; obtaining at least a first bit of a bit set from the starting message, wherein the bit set includes at least two bits and is intended for access barring; determining information of the bit set; the information at least disclosing whether the access barring is on or off; and receiving a system information block transmitted via the radio interface to the user equipment, the system information block comprising a scheduling information list that lists a further system information block that contains access barring parameters.
US09526092B2
The present disclosure proposes a method of allocating resources for a scheduling request (SR), a user equipment using the same method, and a control node using the same method, which is related to dynamically adjusting a dedicated SR (D-SR) period which is a semi-persistently configured D-SR resource used to transmit a SR. The method, the user equipment, and the control node would perform functions including establishing a connection between the user equipment and the control node in order to transmit uplink data, the user equipment transmitting through the connection an assisting information to the control node after establishing the connection to adjust the D-SR period, and the user equipment obtaining a second D-SR period after transmitting the assisting information to the control node.
US09526091B2
A network management device and method for coordination of self-optimization functions in a wireless network. A network management device for coordination of self-optimization functions includes one or more processors and an interface. The interface communicates with a plurality of enhanced node Bs (eNodeBs). The interface is arranged to receive a request to change a coverage or a capacity of an enhanced node B (eNodeB). The interface is further arranged to transmit a query to the eNodeB to obtain a self-optimizing network (SON) coordination state of the eNodeB. The one or more processors are arranged to determine whether to grant or deny the request based on a coordination policy and the SON coordination state.
US09526077B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting a power headroom (PH) report by a terminal in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation are provided. The method includes determining a first maximum transmission power for a first serving cell of multiple activated serving cells based on uplink transmission of at least one other serving cell if the first serving cell transmits a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), determining a second maximum transmission power for a first serving cell of the multiple activated serving cells without consideration of uplink transmission of at least one other serving cell if the first serving cell does not transmit a PUSCH, calculating a PH for the first serving cell based on the first maximum transmission power or the second maximum transmission power, and transmitting, to a base station, an extended PH report including respective calculated PHs of the multiple activated serving cells on one of the multiple activated serving cells.
US09526068B2
A mobile communications system transmitting/receiving data to/from communications devices includes one or more base stations, each including a transmitter and receiver. The transmitter and receiver provide a wireless access interface communicating data to/from the communications devices. The wireless access interface provides plural communications resource elements across a first frequency range and within a second frequency range within and smaller than the first frequency range. The wireless access interface includes plural time divided sub-frames, at least one of the sub-frames including a first wideband control channel in a first part of each sub-frame communicating first signalling information, and a second narrow band control channel in a second part of each sub-frame. The base stations transmit a sleep indication signal to one or more of the communications devices, to realize a power saving to the communications devices which are not to receive the second signalling information for one or more sub-frames.
US09526058B2
Systems and methods for determining when to switch wireless access points from a current wireless access point to a new wireless access point are disclosed. In various embodiments the systems and methods monitor a signal strength received from the current wireless access point, monitor a signal strength received from the new wireless access point and compare the signal strength received from the wireless access points. Switching from the current wireless access point to the new wireless access point can occur, for example, when the signal strength received from the new wireless access point is greater than the signal strength received from the current wireless access point by a first pre-determined value.
US09526054B2
A method and network elements for obtaining a subscriber identity of a User Equipment (105) being served by a LTE cell (104) exploits a conventional handover procedure by generating a “fake” handover request at the LTE (source) cell (104) designating a 3G cell (102) as the target. The target 3G cell is arranged to forward the subscriber identity which is included in a relocation request message received from a core network (107) to the LTE cell and to send a relocation failure message back to the core network.
US09526051B2
Examples are disclosed that facilitate using enhanced cell global identifier to effectively manage the handover of cellular communication services for a mobile device in an LTE network from a source, or serving, evolved Node B (eNB) to a target home evolved Node B (HeNB). The increased use of HeNBs to provide service to mobile devices creates issues for the management of tracking area identifiers associated with the eNB and HeNBs and may increase tracking area update (TAU) signaling in the cellular network. The handover of a mobile device moving from an eNB coverage area to a neighboring HeNB coverage area is managed without use of a tracking area identifier by using enhanced cell global identifiers assigned to the respective HeNB. The following provides examples for minimizing the burden on the network devices to manage the administration of TAIs and that may reduce TAU signaling in the cellular network.
US09526050B2
The client terminals in a mobile wireless communication system typically continually search and keep track of the neighbor cells surrounding the cell from which it may be receiving service. Keeping track of neighbor cells by the client terminal may require periodic measurements on the neighbor cells and these measurements contribute to power consumption in the client terminal. The power consumption for neighbor cell measurements is an important factor when the client terminal either actively receiving service from the network or in standby mode when the client terminal is not actively receiving service from the network. A method and apparatus are presented that enable the client terminal to keep track of the neighbor cells with reduced measurements and thereby with reduced power consumption.
US09526048B2
A method of handling measurement gap configuration for a network in a wireless communication system comprising a mobile device capable of receiving and/or transmitting on a plurality of component carriers is disclosed. The method comprises configuring at least a measurement gap configuration each for at least a component carrier of the plurality of component carriers, to the mobile device.
US09526037B2
A method for providing indication of an SRVCC handover is disclosed. The method can include a first wireless communication device participating in a voice call with a second wireless communication device via a connection between the first wireless communication device and a first network. The method can further include the first wireless communication device determining a condition indicative of an impending SRVCC handover of the first wireless communication device from the first network to a legacy network. In response to the condition, the method can additionally include the first wireless communication device formatting a message including an indication that the first wireless communication device is going to perform the SRVCC handover and sending the message to the second wireless communication device prior to performance of the SRVCC handover.
US09526032B2
Client devices with wireless functionality, but without wide area network or cellular network functionality, can obtain network access via a host device, where the host device has network access. Such network access can be obtained when a client device of a user is in local range of a host device, e.g., of a different user. The host device may enable network bandwidth sharing with settings that specify a threshold of resource usage (e.g., battery or bandwidth limit). An authentication process can confirm that either one or both of a client device and a host device are registered for the network bandwidth sharing. A server can monitor the amount of resources shared by the host device, and manage incentives to the user of the host device.
US09526031B2
The present disclosure relates to a method in a measuring node and a measuring node for handling measurements performed on signals received over a wireless interface in a wireless communication system. The method comprises performing (202) measurements on the received signals according to a first measurement configuration, detecting (204) that a change from the first measurement configuration to a second measurement configuration has occurred, performing (206) measurements on the received signals according to the second measurement configuration, and using (210) the measurements performed according to the first measurement configuration and the measurements performed according to the second measurement configuration for radio resource management tasks. At least one of the first measurement configuration and the second measurement configuration comprises a signal activity pattern.
US09526028B2
A system and method of communicating efficiently and reliably between a sensor unit and a master unit, especially in a wireless system, is provided. The disclosed techniques require only minimal processing by the sensor unit for communications purposes and as such, the described system and method can be implemented in systems with tight constraints on the sensor unit side in terms of required memory, power consumption, and cost, such as in wearable sensor systems.
US09526027B2
Systems, devices, and configurations to implement trusted connections within wireless networks and associated devices and systems are generally disclosed herein. In some examples, a wireless local area network (WLAN) may be attached to a 3GPP evolved packet core (EPC) as a trusted access network, without use of an evolved packet data gateway (ePDG) and overhead from related tunneling and encryption. Information to create the trusted attachment between a mobile device and a WLAN may be exchanged using Access Network Query Protocol (ANQP) extensions defined by IEEE standard 802.11u-2011, or using other protocols or standards such as DHCP or EAP. A trusted WLAN container with defined data structure fields may be transferred in the ANQP elements to exchange information used in the establishment and operation of the trusted attachment.
US09526025B2
The present invention relates to a method for managing cell informations received from neighbor cells for MDT (Minimization of Drive Test) in the 3GPP system and terminal for performing the method, the terminal including a transceiver which receives cell informations transmitted by at least one neighbor base station; a controller which checks at least one cell information for generating location prediction information to check current location of the terminal among the cell informations received by the transceiver; and a memory which stores the at least one cell information for generating the location prediction information as Minimization of Drive Test (MDT) measurement sample for reporting radio environment under the control of the controller. The terminal is capable of logging the neighbor cell measurement information efficiently depending on whether the terminal logs RF fingerprint information in the idle mode.
US09526024B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for personal virtual core networks. A processor executing a network access service can determine if the user device should be isolated from a core network that provides devices at a location with connectivity. If the processor determines that the user device should be isolated, the processor can identify resources supporting the connectivity. The resources can include network resources and the core network. The processor can create a virtual core network to support the connectivity, and activate the virtual core network.
US09526020B2
Monitoring non-supported wireless spectrum within a coverage area of a distributed antenna system (DAS) in which a listening module connected to a remote unit of the DAS monitors non-supported wireless frequencies (i.e., frequencies that are outside the frequency ranges supported by the downlink and uplink signals of the DAS), via one or more antennas. The listening module also transmits the wireless frequencies to a monitoring module connected to head-end equipment (HEE) of the DAS. In that manner, a monitoring module can use an existing DAS infrastructure to monitor non-supported portions of the wireless spectrum at remote locations. In addition to avoiding the need to run a parallel DAS infrastructure, the disclosed arrangements are also useful in shared spectrum environments and other environments where efficient spectrum utilization is desired.
US09526013B2
The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for processing network configuration, and a radio network controller. The method includes: establishing a neighboring cell relationship between a macro cell and a generic access network cell, where the neighboring cell relationship is a neighboring cell mapping relationship between a radio network controller of the macro cell and a generic access network controller of the generic access network cell, and more than two generic access network cells share one generic access network controller; and when a handover of a user equipment from the macro cell to the generic access network cell occurs, sending a measurement control message to the user equipment according to the neighboring cell relationship between the macro cell and the generic access network cell.
US09526008B2
A telecommunications system is provided, including a plurality of different cellular telecommunications networks, an identity module registrable on the plurality of different networks and containing multiple unique identifiers, each unique identifier being associated with a respective network; and, a device, operative in accordance with the identity module, to communicate with the networks when the identity module is registered on that network. The identity module includes a common security key associated with at least two of the unique identifiers such that the identity module is registrable on each one of the plurality of networks when a unique identifier of the identity module and its associated security key are authenticated for that network.
US09526003B2
The present invention is related to a method, apparatus, and computer program product, in which a password-based digest access authentication procedure is used for performing authentication between a client and a server, wherein the authentication procedure is secured by at least one of modifying a digest-response parameter with a user password and generating a bootstrapped key based on the user password and at least one fresh parameter not used in a previous protocol run between the client and the server.
US09526002B2
A communication system is described in which user plane communication and control plane communication for a particular mobile communication device can be split between a base station that operates a small cell and a macro base station. Appropriate security for the user plane and control plane communications is safeguarded by ensuring that each base station is able to obtain or derive the correct security parameters for protecting the user plane or control plane communication for which it is responsible.
US09525996B2
A terminal, network entity, system, method and computer program product enable communications to be established with an available system that is on a priority list and that has a desired service available. Communications may be established automatically with the system that is highest on the priority list and that has the desired service available. Alternatively, all of the systems that are on the priority list and that have the desired service available may be displayed to a user, such that the user may select one of the displayed systems and communications may be established with the selected system.
US09525990B2
Disclosed is cordless telephone equipment allowing various kinds of data stored in a mobile telephone to be stored in a cordless handset in a state usable therein, without provision of a new device thereto. A handset transfer-data conversion section that executes a predetermined conversion process according to a type of handset transfer-data stored in a storage section. Specifically, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an audio format of ringtone data according to a use CODEC of a cordless handset. In addition, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an image size of wallpaper data into a size reproducible in the cordless handset. Further, the handset transfer-data conversion section converts an image size of image data of the other party included in telephone directory data into a size reproducible in the cordless handset.
US09525980B2
The disclosure discloses a method for triggering a terminal group, including that a network side sending a group triggering message to each terminal of the terminal group, wherein the group triggering message is used for indicating each terminal of the terminal group to connect to the network, and each terminal of the terminal group establishing connection with the network according to the group triggering message. The disclosure also discloses a system for triggering a terminal group, which realizes to synchronously trigger all the terminals of one terminal group, and makes the operator network better optimize the message volume of the terminal group which needs to receive the same messages when the Group Based Addressing characteristic of the terminal group is activated.
US09525979B2
A process for remote control of audio streams, including capturing and digitizing a broadcasted audio stream for an event, sending the captured audio stream of the event to a server based program, providing control functions to users for processing the audio stream according to user preferences, providing Internet appliance applications to users for accessing the control functions on the server, and authenticating users to the server who are authorized to use the control functions on the server on the captured audio stream for the event.
US09525975B2
A process for detecting and connecting a GPS-enabled device to available in-range wireless local area networks (WLANs), particularly while the device is in motion. Once connected, the GPS enabled device sends and receives data and other information from a web service or software application. The process includes detecting relative movement speed of the GPS device and repeatedly attempts connections with new WLAN access points when in motion, particularly in excess of five miles per hour and/or twenty-five miles per hour.
US09525973B2
A method in a radio network node is disclosed for handling positioning data in a radio communications network, which radio network node serves a user equipment in a cell. The radio network node obtains positioning data from the user equipment, which positioning data is associated with a positioning measurement for positioning the user equipment. The radio network node associates the obtained positioning data with an on-going trace session of the user equipment. The radio network node then sends a trace record to a network management node, which trace record includes information associated with the positioning data.
US09525971B1
The communication between a tracking device and a secondary device that tracks the tracking device can be severed. On detecting a loss of connection, the secondary device retrieves a last known location of the tracking device from the tracking server. On receiving the last known location, the secondary device activates location detection functionality to determine a current location of the secondary device. If the current location is further than a predetermined threshold distance from the last known location of the tracking device, a notification is displayed by the secondary device indicating that the connection to the tracking device is lost. If the secondary device is within the predetermined threshold distance from the tracking device's last known location, the secondary device waits for a predetermined interval of time to elapse, and if the tracking device is not detected during this interval, a notification is displayed by the secondary device.
US09525965B2
A method of generating location information in a terminal device (200) operative in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The terminal device receives (248) from a first network node (210) a location configuration message. As a result, the terminal device prepares (252) location information but refrains (254) from causing transmission of the location information to the first network node. Instead, the terminal device may transmit the prepared location information to a location information receiving network node (230) different from the first network node (210), to a location information receiving function within the terminal device, or to a location information receiving device (152), operative in the wireless communication network and different from the terminal device (200).
US09525964B2
Methods, apparatuses and computer-readable storage media for displaying at a first user equipment a first marker a location wherein the location is defined remotely at a second user equipment; displaying at the second user equipment a current geographic location and a current vantage point for the first user equipment; displaying at the second user equipment a second marker; accepting at the second user equipment an input for adjusting the second marker from a first position to a second position, wherein the second position is indicative of a target geographic location in a first virtual view of the current geographic location of the first user equipment as displayed on the second user equipment; and in response to the adjusting, displaying at the first user equipment the first marker at the target geographic location in a second virtual view of the current geographic location.
US09525956B2
A method and device are disclosed for determining an inter-channel time difference of a multi-channel audio signal having at least two channels. A determination is made at a number of consecutive time instances, inter-channel correlation based on a cross-correlation function involving at least two different channels of the multi-channel audio signal. Each value of the inter-channel correlation is associated with a corresponding value of the inter-channel time difference. An adaptive inter-channel correlation threshold is adaptively determined based on adaptive smoothing of the inter-channel correlation in time. A current value of the inter-channel correlation is then evaluated in relation to the adaptive inter-channel correlation threshold to determine whether the corresponding current value of the inter-channel time difference is relevant. Based on the result of this evaluation, an updated value of the inter-channel time difference is determined.
US09525942B2
A mobile apparatus and control method thereof are provided, which includes an audio data signal input unit arranged to receive an audio data signal. An audio output unit is arranged to output an audio signal according to the received audio data signal within a first reproduction frequency. A balanced armature is arranged to output an audio signal according to the received audio data signal within a second reproduction frequency band. The second reproduction frequency band is different from the first reproduction frequency band. An audio signal processor is arranged to adjust the first reproduction frequency band and the second reproduction frequency band such that a combination of the first reproduction frequency band and the second reproduction frequency band is wider than the first reproduction frequency band and the second reproduction frequency band individually.
US09525941B2
An ear jack for preventing the generation of popup noise, and an electronic device including the same are provided. The ear jack includes a body including a passage into which an earphone is inserted. On an inside of the passage is disposed a microphone terminal to which a capacitor is connected, the microphone terminal for receiving microphone bias power when the earphone is connected to the ear jack, a ground terminal, a right sound terminal for outputting right sounds, a left sound terminal for outputting left sounds, and a detection terminal for detecting insertion of the earphone. The ground terminal includes a first ground terminal, according to a standard of the ear jack; and a second ground terminal for discharging an electric power of the capacitor, which is charged by the microphone bias power when the earphone is removed.
US09525939B2
The present invention relates in one aspect to a voice coil temperature protector for electrodynamic loudspeakers. The voice coil temperature protector comprises an audio signal input for receipt of an audio signal supplied by an audio signal source and a probe signal source for generation of a low-frequency probe signal. A signal combiner is configured to combine the audio signal with the low-frequency probe signal to provide a composite loudspeaker drive signal comprising an audio signal component and a probe signal component. The voice coil temperature protector comprises a current detector configured for detecting a level of a probe current component flowing through the voice coil in response to the composite loudspeaker drive signal and a current comparator which is configured to comparing the detected level of the probe current component with a predetermined probe current threshold. The predetermined probe current threshold corresponds to a predetermined voice coil temperature via a known temperature dependency of a voice coil resistance. The voice coil temperature protector further comprises a signal controller configured for attenuating a level of the audio signal in response to the probe current component falls below the predetermined probe current threshold.
US09525938B2
An audio device may use the audio detected at two opposite facing, front and rear omnidirectional microphones to determine the angular directional location of a user's voice while the device in speaker mode or audio command input mode. The angular directional location may be determined to be at front, side and rear locations of the device during the period of time by calculating an energy ratio of audio signals output by the front and rear microphones during the period. Comparing the ratio to experimental data for sound received from different directions around the device may provide the location of the user's voice. Based on the determination, audio beamforming input settings may be adjusted for user voice beamforming. As a result, the device can perform better beamforming to combine the signals captured by the microphones and generate a single output that isolates the user's voice from background noise.
US09525937B2
A circuit for suppressing audio output noise and an audio output circuit are provided. The circuit for suppressing audio output noise includes: a detecting circuit, configured to detect output voltages of output stages of an audio power amplifier; a control circuit, configured to output at least one control signal, the control signal is related to detection results of the detecting circuit; and a compensating circuit, configured to compensate at least one output stage of the audio power amplifier which includes a differential circuit based on the at least one control signal output by the control circuit, to make parameters of the differential circuit symmetrical or approach symmetrical. Based on detection results of the output stage voltages, the differential circuit in the output stages of the audio power amplifier is compensated. The circuit for suppressing audio output noise has a wider application scope and it is easy to design the circuit.
US09525935B2
A system may configure at least a low power engine (LPE) and network interface circuitry when transitioning from an active state to a low-power state. The network interface circuitry may be configured to receive information from a network and to store any received information containing audio information into a memory location. The LPE may be configured to monitor the memory location, to retrieve the stored information from the memory location, to generate audio information based on the stored information and to provide the audio information to audio circuitry for playback. It is also possible for the LPE to receive audio information from the audio circuitry, to generate information for transmission based on the audio information and to store the information into a second memory location. The network interface circuitry may then retrieve the stored information from the second memory location and transmit the information to the network.
US09525926B2
An acoustic camera for using a MEMS microphone array comprises: an acoustic sensor apparatus (30) comprising a print circuit board (20) on which the plural of MEMS microphone (10) are mounted, to send signals for the detected sound to a data collection unit (40); a data collection unit (40) connected to the acoustic sensor apparatus (30), which samples analog signals related to sound transmitted from the acoustic sensor apparatus (30) to transform into digital signals and transmit them to the central processing unit (40); a central processing unit (50) connected to the data collection unit (40), which calculates noise level based on digital signals related to sound transmitted from the data collection unit (40); and a display unit (60) which is connected to the central processing unit (50), which displays in color the noise level calculated at the central processing unit.
US09525925B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided wherein a sensor which comprises at least two electrodes and a movable part is alternately biased with at least two different voltages.
US09525914B2
A media recording system may be provided. The recording system may include features for reducing recording cut-off of a particular media event due to changes in the start time and end time of what is scheduled to be recorded. The recording system may provide a user with an opportunity to select a program by for example, selecting a listing, to have that program automatically recorded at a scheduled time for presentation to viewers. Changes in the schedule of programs may be compensated manually or automatically when the recording system receives information about actual or predicted time changes. In a manual mode, a user may adjust start or end times based on time change information that is displayed. For an automatic mode, the recording system may automatically compensate for predicted or actual time changes that are known by automatically adjusting the start and end times of recording.
US09525912B1
Systems and methods are provided herein for selectively triggering biometric measurement from an appropriate biometric instrument of a plurality of biometric instruments to determine biometric responses that are relevant to presently consumed media content. These systems and methods may be used to ensure efficient use of biometric instruments. This efficient use may ensure that energy use is efficiently managed, that noise from irrelevant biometric measurements is avoided, and the like.
US09525909B2
A set-top box with enhanced content and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, a wireless transceiver is located within a housing, which also interconnectively includes a television input, television output, a processor, and memory. The set-top box may establish a pairing with a proximate wireless-enabled interactive programmable device having a display. Content, such as the Internet, movies, music, or games, for example, may be imported from the programmable device and reformatted at the set-top box for display on a television via the television output, thereby creating an experience on the television parallel to the experience on the programmable device. Virtual remote control functionality may then be provided by a spoken sequence of words.
US09525906B2
A display device is connected in communication with a mobile electronic device. The display control device detects a movement information of a control object in a first two-dimensional space, and the mobile electronic device detects a movement information of the control object in a second two-dimensional space. The display control device works out at a current three-dimensional coordinates of the control object according to the movement information of the control object in the first two-dimensional space, and a movement information of the control object in the second two-dimensional space and the initial three-dimensional coordinates of the control object.
US09525899B2
Methods and systems are described herein for a media guidance application that prevents a user from terminating a service by broadening criteria used for user recommendations in response to determining that a user is getting bored of the media content already consumed through the service. For example, the media guidance application may determine that the rate at which a user consumes media assets (e.g., through a service) is declining (e.g., indicating the user is losing interest). In response, the media guidance application recommends new media assets with characteristics (e.g., genre, subject matter, media asset series affiliation) that differs from the media assets previously consumed by the user.
US09525888B2
There are provided methods and apparatus for multi-view video coding. A video encoder includes an encoder for encoding a block in a picture by choosing between temporal prediction and cross-view prediction to enable a prediction for the block. The picture is one of a set of pictures corresponding to multi-view video content and having different view points with respect to a same or similar scene. The picture represents one of the different view points. A high-level syntax is used to indicate the use of cross-view prediction for the block.
US09525887B2
In processing and compressing three-dimensional video data, a first color macroblock (MB) and a first depth MB is acquired from a frame. The first depth MB is down-sampled to obtain a second depth MB. Depth information of the second depth MB is embedded to the first color MB, to create a second color MB. The second color MB is compressed and entropy encoded, to obtain video encoding data. The video encoding data is entropy decoded and decompressed, to obtain a third color MB. Depth information, brightness information, and chroma information are acquired from the third color MB, to create a third depth MB and a fourth color MB. A fifth color MB is created according to up-sampled third depth MB and the fourth color MB. The fourth color MB and the fifth color MB are synthesized into the three-dimensional video data.
US09525868B2
A determining apparatus of the present invention includes: a feature extracting section configured to extract, as a feature from at least one captured image, at least one piece of information on the at least one captured image out of (i) a piece of information on a blur, (ii) a piece of information on a skew, and (iii) a piece of information on an image type; and a captured image determining section configured to determine whether or not the at least one captured image is suitable for conversion into a compressed image in a platform independent file format, by determining whether or not the extracted feature satisfies a given condition.
US09525866B1
A method of identifying a digital camera is disclosed. First and second digital images generated by the camera have dimensions that are not equal. The method includes calculating noise residuals and normalized cross-correlations (NCCs) between the noise residuals corresponding to candidate translations. The method further includes calculating a noise floor and identifying first and second peak values corresponding to translations. The method further includes calculating a peak ratio, determining that the peak ratio exceeds an alignment threshold and calculating a digital camera fingerprint for the digital camera based on the noise residuals and the first translation. The method further includes receiving a digital image, calculating a noise residual of the digital image, and determining that the image was generated by the digital camera based on the noise residual and the fingerprint and generating a record associating the image with the camera.
US09525864B2
Provided herein is a display apparatus including a display; a renderer configured to render a multi-view image; and a controller configured to, in response to a cover being closed, determine an extent by which the closed cover is twisted with respect to the display apparatus, control the renderer to render the multi-view image corresponding to the extent by which the closed cover is twisted, and control the display to display the rendered multi-view image.
US09525863B2
Imaging apparatus includes an image sensor, which acquires an image of a scene, and a scanner, which includes an optical transmitter, which emits a sequence of optical pulses toward the scene, and an optical receiver, which receives the optical pulses reflected from the scene and generates an output indicative of respective times of flight of the pulses. Scanning optics are configured to scan the optical pulses over the scene in a scan pattern that covers and is contained within a non-rectangular area within the scene. A processor identifies an object in the image of the scene, defines the non-rectangular area so as to contain the identified object, and processes the output of the optical receiver so as to extract a three-dimensional (3D) map of the object.
US09525855B2
Projection subsystems are described. More, particularly, projection subsystems that include a light source and a polarizing beam splitter are described. The polarizing beam splitters of the presently described projection subsystems are capable of avoiding performance degradation even after exposure to large doses of incident light.
US09525843B2
This application discloses a multimedia file playback method, a playback apparatus, and a system. The multimedia playback method includes: when a multimedia file is run for the first time, generating a media auxiliary file for the multimedia file and establishing a mapping relationship between the multimedia file and the media auxiliary file, where the media auxiliary file includes a correction parameter that is used to correct a parameter of the multimedia file; when the multimedia file is played again, searching for the media auxiliary file according to the mapping relationship, and correcting the multimedia file according to the correction parameter in the media auxiliary file.
US09525842B2
A data management device includes a converter and a storage unit. The converter, in response to an instruction to move image data of a first format generated by image capture by an image capture unit and stored in a predetermined first memory area to a second memory area, converts the image data from the first format to a second format. The storage unit stores the image data converted into the second format in the second memory area. The converter does not perform the conversion in the case in which the storage source of the image data to be moved is not the first memory area.
US09525838B2
Systems and methods are described for providing remote control of separate media sources over a network using, for example, pop-up windows graphically depicting remote control devices within corresponding tabbed windows of a web browser. A browser plug-in or add-on application provides a graphical depiction of a remote control device associated with each media source and receives a command from the viewer via interaction with the graphical depiction of the remote control device. The command is transmitted across the network to the placeshifting device to modify a media stream provided by the desired media source.
US09525836B2
Provided is an AD conversion apparatus including: a reference signal generating circuit configured to output a first reference signal and a second reference signal, whose voltages change with time; a comparison circuit configured to perform a comparison between a voltage of the analog signal and the voltage of the first reference signal; a control circuit configured to generate and output digital data based on the comparison; a digital-to-analog converter configured to generate, using the second reference signal, a signal whose voltage changes with time from a comparison base voltage, the comparison base voltage being based on the digital data, and configured to output the signal to the comparison circuit; and a counter configured to generate a count value by measuring an elapsed time. The comparison circuit is further configured to perform a comparison between the voltage of the analog signal and the signal output from the digital-to-analog converter.
US09525834B1
An optical detection system can include a set of photodetectors and a set of pixel processing circuits for processing pixel information provided by the set of photodetectors. A set of switches interposed between the set of photodetectors and the set of pixel processing circuits can be selectively activated to place the optical detection system in a first mode of operation that allows for optical detection using a subset of pixel processing circuits. The remaining pixel processing circuits that are not used during the first mode of operation can be placed in a power down condition for conserving power. The set of switches can then be re-activated as needed, to place the optical detection system in a second mode of operation that allows for optical detection using a larger number of pixel processing circuits than used during the first mode of operation.
US09525832B1
An image sensor device includes a base having a rectangular shape and comprising first contacts and a reference voltage contact extending along a first side thereof, a housing carried by the base, and an image sensor integrated circuit (IC) carried by the base within the housing and having an image sensing surface. A focus cell is within the housing, aligned with the image sensing surface, and includes second contacts. An electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) shield is carried by the housing and includes a top panel having an opening therein aligned with the focus cell, and side panels extending downwardly from the top panel. Conductive leads extend between one of the first contacts and a corresponding one of the second contacts. A reference conductive lead extends between the reference voltage contact and the EMC shield.
US09525826B2
An image pickup apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive a designation of an image pickup direction of an image pickup unit in relation to superimposition of a mask image on an picked-up image; and a setting unit configured to set, when the receiving unit receives the designation of the image pickup direction, a position of superimposition of the mask image in an image pickup range where the image pickup unit can pick up images, on the basis of the designated image pickup direction.
US09525821B2
Aspects of the technology described herein provide a method of editing video to improve the apparent stability of the video footage. In one aspect, the apparent stability of the video image is improved by adding a border around an image captured within individual video frames and adjusting the relative position of consecutive video frames according to a negative of a movement vector calculated between the two consecutive frames.
US09525813B2
A control device acquires a focus detection signal from a pixel portion of the imaging element so as to detect a focus state by phase difference detection. A camera control unit performs focus adjustment control by the drive control of a focus lens constituting an imaging optical system. The camera control unit performs exposure control for adjusting the brightness of an object in the focus area to an appropriate level, and determines whether or not the brightness level of the object in the focus area is saturated based on the focus detection signal. When the exposure state during a focus adjustment operation is not in an appropriate state, the camera control unit calculates an exposure correction value and determines whether or not the exposure correction value falls within the exposure control range. When the exposure correction value falls within the exposure control range, the exposure state is readjusted.
US09525799B2
If instruction information for a multi-address transmission for performing a FAX transmission to a plurality of destinations is transmitted, and if an acquired transmission result indicates failure of the FAX transmission to at least one of the destinations, a transmission result indicating failure of the multi-address transmission is displayed. After the instruction information for performing the FAX transmission again to a retransmission target destination to which FAX transmission has failed is transmitted to an image forming apparatus, a result of the FAX transmission performed based on the instruction information for performing the FAX transmission again to the retransmission target destination is acquired.
US09525798B2
Digital watermark encoding—and associated registry transactions—are made transparent to consumers—performed as built-in features of common image processing operations, such as taking a picture, or printing a picture. In one arrangement, a user particularly defines network experiences that a hardcopy image is to invoke. The user may interact with buttons and other controls of a graphical user interface on the touchscreen of a printer to author specific experiences that should be triggered by a hardcopy image—such as launching a related video, playing a recorded audio clip, displaying other images in a story narrative to which the hardcopy image relates, etc. These choices can be made at the time of printing, or the printer can be used as an interface to establish or adjust such network experiences after printing. The printer then attends to interactions with network infrastructure components needed to give the hardcopy print the user-desired functionality. In another arrangement, the content experience triggered by a printed image is authored automatically, e.g., by reference to data mined from the image's online context (e.g., Facebook photo album). A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US09525793B2
An imaging device includes: an imaging unit that captures page images; an operation unit configured to receives a command from outside to select a left page imaging mode in which left page images among the page images are sequentially captured in accordance with page turning, and a command from outside to select a right page imaging mode in which right page images among the page images are sequentially captured in accordance with page turning; a control unit that causes the imaging unit to perform imaging of the page images that correspond to the imaging mode selected via the operation unit; and an output unit that outputs the page images captured by the imaging unit.
US09525792B2
An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit that reads an image on a document, a document conveyance unit that conveys the document to the reading unit, a first identification unit that identifies a size of the document before the document begins to be conveyed, a reading control unit that controls the reading unit to read the document, based on the size identified by the first identification unit, and a second identification unit that identifies a size of the document after the document begins to be conveyed, wherein the reading control unit performs control to, in a case where the size identified by the first identification unit is smaller than the size identified by the second identification unit, cancel reading processing, and in a case where the size identified by the first identification unit is greater than the size identified by the second identification unit, continue the reading processing.
US09525791B2
In one embodiment, an image processing apparatus has a display, a memory and a processor. The display displays a plurality of objects. The memory stores display setting data for displaying the objects. When a move button which is added to the object detects an operation of a user, the processor edits the display setting data so that display positions of the relevant object and an object which is paired with the relevant object are exchanged.
US09525777B2
In one embodiment, a method of managing a live electronic communication session comprises receiving parameters from a user. The parameters are associated with at least one communication preference of the user. The method further comprises determining a first contact profile from a plurality of contact profiles using the one or more parameters. The first contact profile comprises a first set of information and a second set of information. The method further comprises permitting the user to access the first set of information and preventing the user from accessing the second set of information. The method connects the user and a first contact associated with the first contact profile to a live electronic communication session. The method further comprises determining a duration of the live electronic communication session, and determining, using the duration of the live electronic communication session, to permit the user to access the second set of information.
US09525774B2
Audible alerts are suppressed for subsequent calls from a calling address. An initial audible alert is processed for an initial call from the calling address. Subsequent audible alerts from the same calling address are suppressed, such that subsequent calls from the calling address may fail to alert. Visual alerts may still be processed.
US09525771B2
Techniques of category-based fence are described. A category-based fence can correspond to a group of signal sources instead of a point location fixed to latitude and longitude coordinates. The group of signal sources can represent a category of entities, e.g., a particular business chain. The signal sources can be distributed to multiple discrete locations. A category-based fence associated with the group, accordingly, can correspond to multiple locations instead of a single point location and a radius. Each signal source in the group can be associated with a category identifier unique to the group and uniform among signal sources in the group. The category identifier can be programmed into each signal source. A mobile device can enter the category-based fence by entering any of the discrete locations when the mobile device detects the signal identifier. The mobile device can then execute an application program associated with the category-based fence.
US09525762B2
A mobile terminal that can prevent radiation performance deterioration of an antenna is provided. The mobile terminal includes a circuit board in which an antenna and one or more key buttons are mounted, a housing mounted on the antenna and the circuit board, and a case for enclosing a periphery of the one or more key buttons and having a plurality of openings according to the quantity of the key buttons, wherein an antenna adjacent opening among the plurality of openings is extended through a slot toward an edge of the case to embody a loop antenna. Therefore, radiation deterioration of an antenna due to a case can be prevented. In addition, production costs can be minimized, and a desired external appearance of the mobile terminal is not compromised.
US09525757B2
An information processing apparatus which is capable of performing device connection control for connection to more devices than the maximum connectable devices defined by the device interface standard or the SDK. A device server communication module generates communication threads for controlling data communication with device servers according to requests from higher-layer software. Each communication thread generates a device stack for controlling a device via an associated device server connected thereto in such a manner as if the device were directly connected to the apparatus. When a connection notification indicative of connection with the device is received, the communication thread attempts to detect a device stack in a non-data transmission and reception state from the device stacks, and connects to the device server via the detected device stack to perform data transmission and reception.
US09525756B2
The present disclosure discloses an apparatus for calling content of a contact list, including: a determining unit configured to send a shortcut adding unit a determining result that a shortcut to a contact list can be added in an Input Method Editor IME system; the shortcut adding unit configured to add the shortcut to the contact list in the IME system of a shortcut responding unit when receiving the determining result that the shortcut to the contact list can be added in the IME system sent by the determining unit; and the shortcut responding unit configured to save in the IME system the shortcut to the contact list sent by the shortcut adding unit, and call the contact list according to an operation of selecting the shortcut to the contact list from the IME system. The present disclosure also discloses a method for calling content of a contact list. With the present disclosure the content of a contact list can be called promptly without being limited by a category of content to be acquired or by a device.
US09525746B2
Embodiments of the invention provide techniques for generating song playlists for use in an immersive virtual environment. Generally, playlists may be generated based on stored music preference data. The music preference data may be generated by storing user interactions with specific songs. The user interactions may be associated with characteristics of the user's situational context within the virtual world. The music preference data may be indexed by song name, and/or by musical properties. Subsequently, the music preference data may be used to generate a playlist adapted to the user's current situation within the virtual world.
US09525743B2
A system and method are presented for predictive live interaction offering and hosting. A mechanism may be provided for controlling outstanding offerings, or invitations, of communications with users through points of service. Offerings may include a live chat or a telephone callback request. In one embodiment, offerings may be optimized by analyzing factors such as agent history to predict when and how many agents will be available. Calculations may be continuously performed as invitations are accepted, declined, timed out, etc., to make certain more offers than can be handled are not extended.
US09525735B2
A client requests access to a resource (e.g., a file) via a node of a storage system. The resource is stored in a directory structure. A directory in the directory structure that includes the resource and that does not have any locks that conflict with the requested access to the resource is identified and selected. A revocable access privilege (e.g., a lock) on the selected directory is awarded to the node accessed by the client, and a directory-to-node association is established. Another association between the requested resource and the node is also established. If there is a subsequent request for the resource or for another resource within that directory, then a revoke notice for the directory access privilege is sent to the node.
US09525726B2
A method entails an efficient procedure, namely Compute followed by Network Load Balancing (CNLB), that first maps virtual nodes over physical nodes while balancing computational resources of different types, and finally, maps virtual links over physical routes while balancing network spectral resources.
US09525723B2
A method includes detecting, at a customer premise equipment management system, a trigger event associated with customer premise equipment data, the customer premise equipment data associated with a customer premise equipment device. The method also includes initiating a connection to the customer premise equipment device via an application program interface in response to the trigger event, where the application program interface is selected based on the customer premise equipment data. The method further includes sending, from the customer premise equipment management system, a customer premise equipment data request to the customer premise equipment device via the application program interface.
US09525720B2
Techniques for metadata-driven dynamic content serving. Metadata content is stored as a source instance. The metadata content is utilized to provide dynamically-constructed pages. The metadata content is published to runtime pods communicatively coupled to receive the metadata content. The source instance includes a metadata definition repository and is a primary source of dynamic data for serving pages in the runtime pods. The runtime pods are groups of multiple servers that act as a single entity to dynamically generate metadata-driven content in response to requests received from client devices. A request for content is received with a selected one of the runtime pods for a specific site. The specific site is mapped to a user identified by a user identifier. The user identifier is utilized to retrieve site metadata from a site metadata server. Content is provided in response to the request with the selected runtime pod utilizing the metadata content.
US09525717B2
A system and method for providing a Computer Telephony Integration Service Oriented Architecture is presented. The system and method may include providing one or more computer telephony integration servers in one or more clusters to deliver telephony events between agents and peripheral devices. The events may be solicited or unsolicited. The clusters may be stateless and scalable. The clusters may include dynamic message routing. The systems and methods may implement one or more recovery algorithms if one or more of the telephony integration servers experiences a failure event.
US09525711B2
A multi-media conferencing system that integrates visual, audio, independent data interaction and modification, collaboration of information, independent video and 3D model viewing and manipulation, and networking among all participants in the meeting. Each participant conference display typically shows two content sectors under the control of the presenter and a selectable number of other content sectors under the control of the participant. The presenter conference display selectively includes a presenter dashboard for managing the presentation. Each content sector on the participant and attendee conference displays may be enlarged to full screen or reduced to a sector display or an icon with a simple command. The system also includes geo-location display functionality, participant monitoring, attendee chat functionality, and a wide range of additional functionality under the control of the conference presenter and attendees.
US09525709B2
A method performed by a computing system includes maintaining a record of a terminated conversation, the conversation comprising a plurality of participants and a plurality of media types, wherein the media types used during the conversation changed during the conversation. The method further includes receiving a request from a client system associated with a participant of the terminated conversation, the request being to reestablish the terminated conversation. The method further includes, in response to the request, initiating reestablishment of the terminated conversation by attempting to reestablish the terminated conversation, wherein attempting to reestablish the terminated conversation includes a default setting of initiating communication sessions between a cumulative total of each of the participants using a cumulative total of each media type associated with the terminated conversation.
US09525707B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer-readable media related to an incident response tool using data exchange layer. In some embodiments, a data collector may be generated by an incident response server. The incident response server may transmit a data collector to multiple broker servers, where each broker server may transmit the data collector to multiple user devices associated with the broker server. The incident response server may receive data from the data collectors executing on the user devices and may analyze the received data.
US09525705B2
A system and method can support on-device operation management. A token issuer on a backend server, and/or a tool, can generate an authorization token, which is bound to a user of one or more devices using a unique identifier (ID) that is assigned to the user. The unique ID can be known and/or shared between the an on-device authorizing entity and the token issuer. Then, the on-device authorizing entity can verify the authorization token before granting an execution of one or more protected on-device operations. Furthermore, the on-device authorizing entity may not grant the execution of the one or more protected on-device operations, when the unique ID is erased from the device.
US09525701B2
According to certain non-limiting embodiments disclosed herein, the functionality of a server is extended with a mechanism for identifying connections with clients that have exhibited attack characteristics (for example, characteristics indicating a DoS attack), and for transitioning internal ownership of those connections such that server resources consumed by the connection are reduced, while keeping the connection open. The connection thus moves from a state of relatively high resource use to a state of relatively low server resource use. According to certain non-limiting embodiments disclosed herein, the functionality of a server is extended by enabling the server to determine that any of a client and a connection exhibits one or more attack characteristics (e.g., based on at least one of client attributes, connection attributes, and client behavior during the connection, or otherwise). As a result of the determination, the server changes its treatment of the connection.
US09525700B1
An Artificial Intelligence (AI) interface and engine is described that enables the monitoring and analysis of vehicle information to determine if the vehicle has had at least one of hardware and software maliciously changed, added, or removed. The AI interface may determine the presence of the maliciously changed, added, or removed hardware and/or software such as by receiving an emergency condition from at least one sensor that is in disagreement with another sensor.
US09525681B2
A terminal authentication method for vehicle network connection is disclosed. The terminal authentication method includes acquiring unique identification information of a terminal, generating a certificate of network authentication using the unique identification information, copying the generated certificate of network authentication in the terminal, and performing authentication of the terminal access to a network using a network authentication application in the terminal and the copied certificate of network authentication.
US09525679B2
A session token can be requested to be sent to a first computing service from a second computing service, and a first computing service can receive the requested session token from the second computing service. The first computing service can send a message that includes the session token through a passive client to the second computing service. The second computing service can receive the message that includes the session token from the passive client, and the second computing service can verify that the message is valid. This verification of the validity of the message can include verifying that the session token received back from the passive client matches the session token the second computing service sent to the first computing service.
US09525667B2
A method and system for roaming website accounts and passwords are provided. The method is operational on a first client and includes: authenticating website accounts and passwords that have been stored; obtaining the stored website addresses, accounts and passwords according to a success verification; encrypting the stored website addresses, accounts and passwords for generating encrypted information, and generating a first QR code to be obtained by a second client according to the encrypted information. The website accounts and passwords are roamed and synchronized to be shared. The synchronization process verifies the accounts and passwords, and would not need a third-party server. Risk of data lost in case that the third-party server is attacked would be eliminated, and the safety for the accounts and passwords is improved.
US09525657B2
A system that supports automatic blogging as well as social group interactions comprises a mobile device with a client application that is communicatively coupled over Internet to an interaction management server capable of facilitating message distribution to social groups as well as blogging of messages selectively. The client application of the mobile device comprises a message creation module that facilitates creation of a message by a user of the mobile device, a social group interaction module that communicates the message to a social group managed by the interaction management server coupled to the mobile device, and a blogging module that communicates the message as a first blog entry to blog page managed by the interaction management server.
US09525651B2
Multimedia communication systems and methods are disclosed. An exemplary system comprises a server adapted to communicate with two or more multimedia endpoints; and a MCU adapted to communicate with the at least one server and the multimedia endpoints, wherein the server contains a module for instructing the multimedia endpoints to call a dial number for the MCU to establish a multimedia conference in response to a requested list of multimedia endpoints received from one of the multimedia endpoints. An exemplary method for establishing a multimedia conference comprises receiving at a server from a first endpoint a requested list of second endpoints desired to participate in the multimedia session; reviewing at the server the status of the second endpoints; and if the status of a particular second endpoint is an available status, instructing at least some of the available second endpoints to call a dial number for a MCU to participate in the multimedia conference. A further exemplary method allows for a determination to be made whether a multipoint or point-to-point conference is required, and allows a user to leave a message for users who unavailable to participate in the conference.
US09525644B2
A method and a system share resources of a server among different clients. The system has a server which contains a maximum number m of resources among which a predetermined number w of the resources are initializable for being kept ready for use by the clients and forming a pool. A communication system communicates with the clients. A managing device manages the resources. The managing device contains at least a processor and a memory. The managing device is able to change the status of the resource of the pool in dependence on an assignment of the resource to the client or a release of the resource at a time T4, to add a new resource to the pool, and to terminate the resource of the pool.
US09525643B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for using templates to configure cloud resources. Embodiments of the invention include encapsulating cloud configuration information in an importable/exportable node template. Node templates can also be used to bind groups of nodes to different cloud subscriptions and cloud service accounts. Accordingly, managing the configuration of cloud based resources can be facilitated through an interface at a (e.g., high performance) computing component. Templates can also specify a schedule for starting/stopping instance running within a resource cloud.
US09525639B2
Transceiver architecture includes circuitry and a method to transmit and receive high speed WAP data over lower speed cabling such as Cat5e. The method begins by measuring quality of a wired bi-directional communications channel. The method continues by selecting a maximum possible data transmission rate over the wired bi-directional communications channel for the measured quality level and when the maximum possible data transmission rate is a reduced data transmission rate less than a maximum data transmission rate of the transceivers, proportionally adjusting clock rates of circuit elements of the first and second transceiver to transfer the data at the reduced data transmission rate. The method includes dividing data frames of the data to be transmitted N times, where N=number of layers of at least a portion of identical transceiver processing circuitry which is connected to twisted wiring pairs of the wired bi-directional communications channel.
US09525638B2
A deterministic approach for route selection in the Internet and other multi-homed networks is presented that is based upon a mathematical model that takes into consideration performance and costs while satisfying commitment constraints. The approach is expressed with a linear programming formulation that can be solved with conventional linear programming solver software. Performance metrics can be defined and combined in order to achieve the best route selection depending on requirements. Some of the potential benefits of the approach include: a global optimal solution for routing traffic (using metrics such as performance, cost, and other constraints), a dynamic weight assignment for performance metrics, and a flexible problem definition to add routing rules (e.g. static and restricted routes) to the model.
US09525635B2
In a network communication apparatus, transfer and discard processing is realized for each transfer frame having a priority, and a band limitation is carried out to prevent the congestion of a transfer destination apparatus. Specifically, a bucket is provided for every priority, and tokens of an amount determined based on the priority are supplemented. Moreover, before a bucket evaluation, one shared bucket is provided. All of the tokens existing in the bucket provided for every priority are transferred to the shared bucket for every constant period. The tokens overflowing beyond a capacity of the shared bucket are discarded. All of the frames are equally evaluated and transferred regardless of the priority of each of the frames, as far as the token exists in the shared bucket. When there is no token in the shared bucket, switching to the preferential band limitation is carried out and each priority bucket is evaluated. The bucket corresponding to the priority of the frame is checked and when the token exists, transfer processing of the frame is carried out. When there is no token, discard processing of the frame is carried out.
US09525622B2
Exemplary methods for creating label stacks include creating and sending a first SR label stack for a data packet, wherein the first SR label stack causes the data packet to be forwarded through the SR network using a first set of links, and wherein the first SR label stack includes a first service label that identifies a first service to be applied to the data packet by a second network device. In one embodiment, the methods include creating and sending a second SR label stack for an operations administration and maintenance (OAM) packet, wherein the second SR label stack causes the OAM packet to be forwarded through the SR network using the first set of links, and wherein the second SR label stack prevents the second network device from applying the first service to the OAM packet.
US09525620B2
A wide area network using the internet as a backbone utilizing specially selected ISX/ISP providers whose routers route packets of said wide area network along private tunnels through the internet comprised of high bandwidth, low hop-count data paths. Firewalls are provided at each end of each private tunnel which recognize IP packets addressed to devices at the other end of the tunnel and encapsulate these packets in other IP packets which have a header which includes as the destination address, the IP address of the untrusted side of the firewall at the other end of the tunnel. The payload sections of these packets are the original IP packets and are encrypted and decrypted at both ends of the private tunnel using the same encryption algorithm using the same key or keys.
US09525601B2
A method for managing connections using a dummy HTTP, the method comprising: upon receiving an HTTP request from a client, establishing, by a Web server, a connection to a Web application server to transmit the HTTP request to the Web application server over the connection; transmitting, by the Web server, an HTTP response received from the Web application server to the client; and continuing, by the Web server, the connection by exchanging a dummy HTTP request and a dummy HTTP response with the Web application server when a count of a duration time of the connection reaches a preset survival check time.
US09525598B1
A network testing device is provided in order to validate network topology information and test various other attributes of a network. The network testing device may, in response to a command, obtain connection information from a network indicated in the command. The connection information may be compared to network topology information corresponding to the network. The network topology information may indicate which interfaces of a network device should be to be connected to which interfaces of other network devices. The network testing device may then return, in response to the command, a result of the comparison. Furthermore, the network testing device may return result of other network test performed by the network testing device on the network device.
US09525595B2
Automated booting of a client for a subscriber is provided for clients that are for use in interactive user sessions that involve multimedia. A subscribe message is sent from the client to a proxy server. The proxy server authenticates the subscribe message, and sends the subscribe message to the configuration server. A notify message is sent to the client from the configuration server. The notify message is sent through the proxy server, and contains a location of a profile for the client. The profile is downloaded to the clients. This arrangement allows the persistence of profiles in a centralized place.
US09525588B2
In one example, a system includes an authentication server that is configured to receive an authentication request for a primary application, provide time-based authentication credentials for the primary application, receive an updated authentication request for the primary application, wherein the updated authentication request includes a client device identifier (ID) corresponding to a client device from which the authentication request is received, and transmit the client device ID; the system may further include a push server that is configured to receive the transmitted client device ID, and push an update to the client device having the client device ID.
US09525582B1
Methods, systems, and apparatuses can provide for prioritization of customer premise equipment configuration parameters. This can be facilitated by creating a hierarchical list of the different configuration methods (e.g., parameter sources) and applying parameter values from each of the parameter sources to the device in the order in which those parameter sources are included on the hierarchical list.
US09525581B2
In signal processing of the present disclosure, an abnormal correction value as a correction value for correcting a quadrature error that occurs in quadrature modulation is output in malfunction determining processing, and a normal correction value as the correction value is output in calibration processing. The presence or absence of malfunction in the signal processing is determined on the basis of the levels of carrier leak and image leak of the quadrature modulated signal.
US09525574B1
Methods and apparatus for transmitting data at a varying effective data rate (EDR) at a constant baud rate by encoding the data prior to transmission with a sequence. In embodiments, the sequence comprises a pseudo random number sequence, Barker sequence, and/or other sequence. Embodiments of a receiver decode the data transmitted at a varying effective data rate (EDR) at a constant baud rate by encoding the data prior to transmission with a sequence.
US09525571B2
A method for calibrating signal swing and a trip reference voltage. The signal swing of a system can be calibrated in a symmetric or asymmetric technique through adjustment of a drive parameter such as a supply voltage for a transmitter or a drive termination. The trip reference voltage of the system can also be calibrated in a symmetric or asymmetric technique through sampling of a data pattern to determine an ideal level of the trip reference voltage.
US09525562B2
A modular deterministic communication terminal and a method for transmitting user data between the modular deterministic communication terminal and a remote modular deterministic communication terminal are provided. The modular deterministic communication terminal includes at least one logic module including at least one deterministic hardware circuit configured to generate at least one data stream by combining user data of at least two data channels and to separately and independently transmit the at least one data stream via at least one communication link to at least one deterministic hardware circuit provided in the a remote modular deterministic communication terminal.
US09525560B2
A gateway receives a link state packet (LSP) that includes a network identifier of a Layer 2 virtual network and a multicast address and that is sent by each routing bridge (RB) that is on the Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL) network; separately performs calculation on the network identifier and the multicast address that are in each LSP, to obtain a calculation result corresponding to each combination of the network identifier and the multicast address; if the gateway determines that information preconfigured on the gateway matches a calculation result corresponding to a combination of the network identifier and the multicast address, sends a notification message including the network identifier and the multicast address that are in the matched combination to each RB; receives from at least one RB, a multicast packet corresponding to the multicast address in the matched combination, and forwards the multicast packet.
US09525559B2
Disclosed are a charging method and system for Machine-Type Communication (MTC), and a message processing entity. After receiving an MTC service request message or an MTC service requesting Short Message (SM), a message processing entity generates a charging request including MTC service type information, and sends the charging request to an online charging subsystem/offline charging subsystem; and after receiving the charging request, the online charging subsystem/offline charging subsystem performs a charging operation using a charging method corresponding to the MTC service type information, and returns a charging response to the message processing entity. With the disclosure, charging for different MTC services can be implemented, such that charging is performed more accurately.
US09525556B2
A method for issuing a certificate signing request (CSR) certificate in a vehicle-to-anything (V2X) communication environment includes: receiving, at a first server, a certificate issuance request message including vehicle identification information transmitted from a communication module of the vehicle; determining, by a second server, whether a CSR certificate corresponding to the vehicle identification information has already been issued with reference to a database; and determining, by the second server, whether to issue the corresponding CSR certificate or whether to generate an error message, based on the determination of whether the corresponding CSR certificate has already been issued.
US09525553B2
Provided are a system and method for providing a digital signature based on a mobile trusted module (MTM). The system includes a control unit configured to activate a mobile application and receive selection of one certificate in a previously set certificate list from a user through the activated mobile application, an MTM configured to generate based on the selected certificate a keypad image in which buttons are irregularly arranged, an MTM table for converting keypad touch information into an actual value, and a terminal table for converting keypad image coordinates into an area, and put a digital signature on the certificate using a certificate password input by the user based on the keypad image, the MTM table, and the terminal table to generate a digital signature value, and a communication unit configured to encrypt the generated digital signature value and transmit the encrypted digital signature to an authentication server.
US09525546B2
A cryptography apparatus includes multiple multiplication units and logic circuitry. The multiplication units are arranged in two or more multiplication levels, and are configured to operate in accordance with Galois-Field (GF) arithmetic over respective Galois fields. The logic circuitry is configured to receive input data whose word-size exceeds a maximal input word-size among the multiplication units, to hold a cryptographic key including multiple sub-keys whose number does not exceed a number of the multiplication units, and to perform a cryptographic operation on the input data by applying the sub-keys to the multiplication units.
US09525538B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and/or methods of communicating non-cellular access network information via a cellular network. For example, an Evolved Node B (eNB) may include a radio to transmit a control message over a cellular communication medium, the control message including access network information of at least one non-cellular network within a coverage area of the eNB.
US09525536B1
A base station or other entity in a wireless communication system detects high use of air interface resources and responsively identifies one or more served devices that have reported threshold similar coverage quality for the base station and for an adjacent base station. And the base station applies a limit to allocation of resources for each such identified device.
US09525529B2
An IS-OFDM system for ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless communications that suppresses narrow-band interference, comprising an in-premises base station (IBS) is described. The IBS further comprises an IS-OFDM transceiver for communicating with a plurality of in-premises terminals (ITs) without creating interference outside an in-premises perimeter. Further, a method for operating an IS-OFDM system for ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless communications that suppresses narrow-band interference and provides local area networking services, in-premises distribution of broadcast cable channels and in-premises wireless access and routing to external networks is described, without creating interference outside an in-premises perimeter.
US09525525B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include coordinating a session transfer between first and second multi-band wireless communication devices capable of communicating over at least first and second wireless communication frequency bands, wherein at least one device uses the same medium access control (MAC) address in both the first and second wireless communication frequency bands. An information element may be used to convey information between the devices to assist in the transfer.
US09525523B2
One or more exemplary embodiments provide a TPC command timing by taking into consideration TDD-FDD CA and cross-carrier scheduling, and provide a PUSCH transmission power controlling method in a subframe i for an FDD-based scheduled cell, based on the TPC command timing. According to one or more exemplary embodiments, an uplink transmission power may be effectively controlled when TDD-FDD CA and cross-carrier scheduling is configured for a UE. A Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) transmission power control timing may be optimized.
US09525514B2
A method decodes a block of data received over a communication channel. The method determines an initial estimate of bits in the block using a QR decomposition (QRD-M) method decoding the bits in the block sequentially by reducing an accumulated distance between the initial estimate and the bits of the block. Then, the method determines the block using a likelihood ascent (LAS) method that iteratively updates the bits of the block starting from the initial estimate.
US09525507B2
A method of tuning a wavelength in a TWDM-PON which has a plurality of operable channels is provided. First, a second channel is added as an operating channel of the TWDM-PON in which at least a first channel is working, and then an OLT that is providing a service to an ONU through the first channel requests the ONU to tune to the second channel. In response to receiving the request, the ONU determines whether a downstream wavelength of the second channel has been recorded thereon. According to the determination result, the ONU sends to the OLT an ACK message that indicates that the ONU is able to perform wavelength tuning and then commences wavelength tuning to the second channel, or the ONU sends to the OLT a NACK message that indicates that the ONU is unable to perform wavelength tuning.
US09525487B2
A method of increasing modulation of a visible light signal. The method can include receiving a signal that corresponds to the visible light signal, where the visible light signal has a magnitude. The method can also include adjusting, by a controller and based on the signal, a dimmer level of a dimmer by an amount, where the amount is proportional to the magnitude of the visible light signal, and where the dimmer level adjusts an output of a driver circuit. The visible light signal and the output of the driver circuit can be combined into a power signal and sent to one or more light sources. The one or more light sources can use the power signal to generate a light output that includes a visible light communication signal that is received by a receiver.
US09525486B2
A network, a Visible Light Communications (VLC) controller, and a method relate to a network architecture splitting frame processing functionality between Light Fidelity (LiFi) Access Points (APs) and a VLC controller or virtualized controller. In such configurations, the LiFi APs are so-called thin devices that may be widely deployed through an infrastructure to concurrently provide illumination and network access via VLC protocols such as IEEE 802.15.7 or variants thereof.
US09525475B1
Systems and methods are presented for increasing throughput between mobile transmitters/receivers (e.g., between an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and a ground station) using orthogonally polarized transmission channels. The system may first calibrate the receiver and transmitter antenna pairs using pilot signals and then may update look up tables for feedforward correction. The system may decouple and predict the cross polarization interference due to relative dynamic movement between the transmitter and the receiver. The system may perform a closed-loop suboptimal estimation to generate refined corrections by minimizing a difference between a training vector and a pilot-signal feedback. Cross-polarization discrimination between the transmission and reception antennas may then be Cancelled to improve signal to noise and interference ratio and performance of the system.
US09525463B2
A contactless, electromagnetic (EM) replacement (substitute, alternative) for cabled (electric) Standards-based interfaces (such as, but not limited to USB) which effectively handles the data transfer requirements (such as bandwidth, speed, latency) associated with the Standard, and which is also capable of measuring and replicating relevant physical conditions (such as voltage levels) on data lines so as to function compatibly and transparently with the Standard. A contactless link may be provided between devices having transceivers. A non-conducting housing may enclose the devices. Some applications for the contactless (EM) interface are disclosed. A dielectric coupler facilitating communication between communications chips which are several meters apart. Conductive paths may provide power and ground for bus-powered devices.
US09525458B2
There is provided a wireless audio transmission system, in particular a wireless microphone system, for wireless audio transmission. The system has at least one wireless microphone unit for detecting audio signals and for wirelessly transmitting the detected audio signals, and a central unit. The central unit has a wireless receiving unit for receiving the wirelessly transmitted audio signals from the wireless microphone units, a pilot tone transmitting unit for transmitting a first pilot tone on a pilot channel, and a pilot tone receiving unit for receiving and processing a second pilot tone signal. The pilot tone signal has information in respect of the wireless transmission between the microphone units and the central unit.
US09525455B2
A simple and robust CTL is used for time tracking of multipath components of a spread spectrum signal transmitted over a wireless multipath fading channel. A digital code-tracking loop includes despreading early and late data samples by use of a pseudonoise sequence, an error signal output generated by the despreading, and adjustment for a plurality of on-time, early and late samples, a data rate of a control signal provided as a fractional proportion of a data rate of error signals.
US09525453B2
A transceiver device may include a transmit path that generates a modulated transmit signal based on a baseband signal, and a receive path that receives a receive signal, which is subject to third-order order distortion caused by intermodulation noise resulting from a continuous wave blocker intermodulating with transmit leakage from the transmit path. The transceiver may also include a compensation path that models portions of the transmit path and the receive path, and generates a replica signal representative of the third-order order distortion according to at least a specified function and the modeled portions of the transmit path and the receive path. The compensation path also filters the replica signal and subtracts the filtered replica signal from the receive signal to eliminate the third-order order distortion caused by the intermodulation noise. The filtering of the replica signal may be performed by programmable finite impulse response filters.
US09525448B2
An example embodiment includes a snap-mountable optoelectronic module. The module includes a frame, a cover, and a module latch. The frame includes two or more post blocks that each defines a module latch receiver. The cover is configured to at least partially enclose an inner assembly and includes a module latch recess. The module latch includes pivots and a latch portion. The pivots are received in the module latch receivers such that the module latch is configurable in an unlatched position and in a latched position. In the unlatched position, the latch portion is disengaged from the module latch recess. In the latched position, the latch portion is engaged with the module latch recess to retain the cover relative to the frame.
US09525447B1
Because of associated disadvantages of narrow-band off-chip radio-frequency (RF) filtering, a mixer-first receiver front-end designed to tolerate blockers with reduced gain compression and noise factor degradation is disclosed. The mixer-first receiver front-end includes two separate down-conversion paths that help to reduce added noise and voltage gain prior to baseband filtering, which are critical factors in eliminating narrow-band off-chip RF filtering. The mixer-first receiver front-end can be used to support down-conversion of multiple different communication signals (e.g., cellular, WLAN, and WPAN communication) with different center frequencies. In addition, where it is not possible to use a single, mixer-first receiver front-end to down-convert two different communication signals with potentially different center frequencies due to the need for both communication signals to be down-converted simultaneously, two mixer-first receiver front-ends can be efficiently used by sharing an antenna via a common RF port.
US09525443B1
An RF communications device may include a circuit board having a dielectric layer and conductive traces, one of the conductive traces defining a transmission line. The RF communications device may also include an RF transmitter carried by the circuit board and coupled to the transmission line, and RF switching circuits, each RF switching circuit including a substrate having a tapered proximal end coupled to the transmission line, and a distal end extending outwardly on the convex side of the transmission line. Each RF switching circuit may include a series diode, and a shunt diode coupled to the series diode, the series diode extending from the tapered proximal end and across an interior of the substrate.
US09525433B2
A method is provided for channel encoding in a communication system using a Low-Density Parity Check (LDPC) code. The method includes grouping information bits into a plurality of groups; determining an order of the plurality of groups to be shortened, based on whether a specific region in a frame is to be LDPC-encoded, where the specific region has a different ratio of a number of bits to be shortened to a number of bits to be punctured; determining a length of an information word to be obtained by shortening the plurality of groups; shortening the plurality of groups on a group basis in the determined order based on the determined length of the information word; and LDPC-encoding a shortened information word.
US09525430B1
The present invention relates to method and apparatus for full-wave rectification of AC delta-sigma modulated signals. It comprises of a delta-sigma modulator, rectifying encoder, and polarity detector. It offers “spike” free rectified signals at the lowest amplitudes of AC signals to be rectified.
US09525427B1
A test and measurement instrument, including a splitter configured to split an input signal having a particular bandwidth into a plurality of split signals, each split signal including substantially the entire bandwidth of the input signal, a plurality of harmonic mixers, each harmonic mixer configured to mix an associated split signal of the plurality of split signals with an associated harmonic signal to generate an associated mixed signal, a plurality of digitizers, each digitizer configured to digitize a mixed signal of an associated harmonic mixer of the plurality of harmonic mixers, and a linear time-periodic filter configured to receive the digitized mixed signal from each of the digitizers and output a time-interleaved signal. A first-order harmonic of at least one harmonic signal associated with the harmonic mixers is different from a sample rate of at least one of the digitizers.
US09525426B2
A switching component comprises a plurality of switches configured to receive a differential signal at an input and is configured to provide a non-inverted version of the differential signal at an output during a first phase of operation and an inverted version of the differential signal at an output during a second phase of operation. A driver amplifier component is configured to receive the non-inverted version of the differential signal at an input during the first phase of operation and the inverted version of the differential signal at an input during the second phase of operation. A sampling capacitor component is configured to sample the output of the driver amplifier component during the first phase of operation and the second phase of operation.
US09525419B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for segmented and direct routing in a programmable gate array. In one embodiment, the programmable gate array comprises a plurality of programmable tiles, including at least one SHLRT having: a block configurable as a logic function or a routing function; and one or more switching blocks coupled to programmable tiles in the plurality of programmable tiles for segmented routing.
US09525410B2
A power management chip and a power management device including the power management chip. The power management chip includes at least one power switch and a driver unit for generating a driving signal for driving the at least one power switch, the driver unit including one or more circuit units formed on a same substrate as the at least one power switch.
US09525409B2
A signal gate is provided where the gate can be low impedance to allow a signal to pass or be high impedance to block it. The signal gate has two output nodes arranged such that during the blocking mode spurious signals passing through the gate by way of parasitic components are presented as common mode signals at the output nodes.
US09525407B2
A power supply monitoring circuit for monitoring a voltage at a power supply node compared to a reference node, the power supply monitoring circuit comprising a first field effect transistor and first and second voltage dropping components arranged in current flow communication between the power supply node and the reference node and each having first and second nodes, and wherein a first node of the first voltage dropping component is connected to one of the first and second nodes of the field effect transistor, and a gate of the field effect transistor is connected to the second node of the first voltage dropping component, and an output signal is taken from a connection made with the first field effect transistor.
US09525406B2
An apparatus and method for compensating for duty signals are disclosed herein. The apparatus for compensating for duty signals includes a signal input unit, a signal control unit, a combined signal control unit, a determination unit, and a signal output unit. The signal input unit receives a first signal and a second signal. The signal control unit controls the timing of the first and second signals based on first and second control signals, and outputs a combined signal. The combined signal control unit outputs first and second logic operation signals. The determination unit generates the first and second control signals if the timing of the first signal does not match the timing of the second signal, outputs the generated first and second control signals, and applies a third control signal to the combined signal control unit. The signal output unit outputs the first and second signals.
US09525404B2
The input circuit includes a first switch control circuit that controls a first switch and a second switch. The first switch control circuit turns off the first switch and the second switch in a first period during which a first input signal and a second input signal are DC signals. The first switch control circuit turns on the first switch and the second switch in a second period during which the first input signal and the second input signal are AC signals.
US09525403B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a clock frequency modulation method and a clock frequency modulation apparatus. The method includes: determining N digital clocks according to a first digital clock of a system, where the N digital clocks includes a second digital clock and N-1 digital clocks except the second digital clock, and a sum of frequency ratios of the first digital clock to each of the N-1 digital clocks is equal to N-1 times a frequency ratio of the first digital clock to the second digital clock, where N is an integer greater than 2; and fitting, during a modulation period by using the N digital clocks, the first digital clock into the periodic second digital clock. The embodiments of the present invention use a clock frequency modulation technology to make energy concentrated in a frequency spread to a wider frequency range.
US09525402B1
A voltage mode transmitter is provided. The voltage mode transmitter includes a control unit and a resistor ladder circuit. The control unit receives a first signal and delays an inverse of the first signal for a time period to obtain a second signal. The resistor ladder circuit is configured to sum up products of the first signal or the second signal and a plurality of weights, thereby generating an output signal. The resistor ladder circuit includes an input terminal, multiple first resistors and a second resistor. The output terminal is configured to output the output signal. Each of the first resistors is coupled between the output terminal and the control unit and receives the first signal or the second signal. The resistances of the first resistors are 2R, 4R . . . and 2nR respectively, where R is a reference resistance. The resistance of the second resistor is 2nR.
US09525399B2
In a representative embodiment, a bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator, comprises: a cavity disposed in a substrate; a first electrode disposed over the cavity; a planarization layer disposed adjacent to the first electrode; a piezoelectric layer disposed over the first electrode; and a second electrode disposed over the piezoelectric layer.
US09525397B2
A solidly mounted resonator (SMR) device includes an acoustic reflector having stacked acoustic reflector layer pairs, each of which includes a low acoustic impedance layer formed of low acoustic impedance material stacked on a high acoustic impedance layer formed of high acoustic impedance material. The SMR device further includes a bottom electrode disposed on the acoustic reflector, a piezoelectric layer disposed on the bottom electrode, and a top electrode disposed on the piezoelectric layer. A collar is formed outside a main active region defined by an overlap between the top electrode, the piezoelectric layer and the bottom electrode, and at least one frame is disposed within the main active region. The collar has an inner edge substantially aligned with a boundary of or overlapping the main active region, and the at least one frame has an outer edge substantially aligned with the boundary of the main active region.
US09525392B2
Method of dynamically adapting playback volume on electronic device starts with processor receiving first user input and first portion of audio content. First user input signals to device to increase or decrease volume of sound output. Processor determines first loudness metric corresponding to first portion of audio content when first user input is received. First loudness metric is measure of loudness of first portion of audio content being outputted. Processor then stores in memory first loudness metric in association with first user input. Memory stores history of loudness metrics in association with user inputs. Processor then determines second loudness metric that is measure of loudness of second portion of audio content that is received and determines second user input associated with second loudness metric using history. Processor generates control signal to automatically control volume of sound output by device corresponding to second user input. Other embodiments are also described.
US09525377B2
A system and method for determining a rotor time constant of an AC induction machine is disclosed. During operation of the induction motor, a flux signal is injected into a rotor flux command so as to generate a time-variant rotor flux. A voltage-current flux observer determines amplitudes of rotor flux variations resulting from the time-variant rotor flux, with the amplitudes of the rotor flux variations comprising an amplitude of a rotor flux variation based on a current model of the voltage-current flux observer and an amplitude of a rotor flux variation based on a combined voltage-current model of the voltage-current flux observer. A rotor time constant of the induction motor is then estimated based on the determined amplitudes of the rotor flux variations.
US09525376B2
A brushless field exciter for wound synchronous machines that uses the resonance of the leakage inductance and a capacitor in a resonant field exciter to transfer energy to the rotating field winding. By resonating at frequencies greater than 50 kHz, this exciter reduces the overall size and weight of synchronous wound field motors at all power levels and extends the practical and economic power limits of synchronous wound field machines down to low integral and fractional HP applications, eliminating the permanent magnets now used in high efficiency motors and generators in that power range.
US09525375B2
Provided is a system for transporting an oil sand slurry, comprising a pump, upstream and downstream lines, a shaft connectable to the pump, a driving mechanism driving the pump and a regulator for regulating the torque applied to the shaft between positive and negative torque modes, to pump the slurry at higher or lower flow rates. Also provided is a method comprising pumping the slurry through a pipeline using a pump driven by a motorized shaft and adjusting the flow rate of the slurry by varying the torque applied to the motorized shaft between positive and negative torque modes. The oil sand slurry transportation system and method enable positive head (regular pump action) for normal and high flow rates and negative head (pump brake action) for low flow rates, which reduces system energy loss, pipeline wear, vapor breakout and sanding off.
US09525351B2
In a current mode switching power supply, current through the inductor needs to be sensed to control the peak current. The inductor current includes a DC component and an AC component containing switching noise. To reduce the switching noise, the actual inductor current is sensed to generate a signal, and a first AC component is attenuated by a first RC circuit while not attenuating a first DC component. A second AC component is derived by applying the rectangular wave switch voltage, which is at the duty cycle of the regulator, to a second RC filter, which blocks a second DC component. The second AC component is much larger than the first AC component and does not contain switching noise. The large second AC component, the smaller “noisy” first AC component, and the first DC component are applied to the first RC circuit to create a low-noise inductor current signal.
US09525349B1
A power supply decoupling circuit includes an operational amplifier, a capacitor, a source resistor, and a stabilization circuit. The operational amplifier has a positive input terminal coupled to a first reference voltage, a negative input terminal coupled to a common supply node, and an output terminal. The capacitor is coupled between the common supply node and the output terminal of the operational amplifier. The source resistor is coupled between a supply voltage and the common supply node. The stabilization circuit is coupled between the common supply node and a ground voltage. The stabilization circuit stabilizes a voltage level of the common supply node when the voltage level of the common supply node is below a second reference voltage. The common supply node is configured to drive external circuits with the supply voltage as power supply of the external circuits.
US09525346B2
A control device controls first and second direct-current power converter circuits so that a switching operation for at least one of a pair of first and second switching devices included in the first direct-current power converter circuit and a pair of first and third switching devices included in the second direct-current power converter circuit is performed. The control device controls a switching operation of the first switching device and the second switching device included in the first direct-current power converter circuit based on a first duty. In the switching operation, the first switching device and the second switching device are inverted and the alternative close and open (ON/OFF) switching operations of each first and second switching device are performed. The control device controls a switching operation of the first switching device and the third switching device included in the second direct-current power converter circuit based on a second duty.
US09525345B2
When generating a voltage Vout of a DC-to-DC converter for a load which is connected to the converter, it is necessary to monitor the quality of the voltage, in particular its amplitude. For this, provision is made for a comparator to be arranged between the output of the DC-to-DC converter and a control input of the control unit, with a first input of the comparator being connected to the output of the DC-to-DC converter (Vout), the second input of the comparator being connected to a reference voltage (Vrestore) and the output of the comparator being connected to the control input of the control unit of the DC-to-DC converter, for controlling the voltage Vout.
US09525343B2
A switching power supply is provided and connected between external voltage source and a device having high peak current characteristic, the switching power supply comprises boost converter, control circuit and energy storing element. An input end of boost converter is connected to external voltage source, and output end of boost converter is electrically connected to the device. A control circuit is connected to boost converter in parallel. A first predetermined voltage value and a predetermined current value is set in control circuit. When output current of external voltage source is larger than predetermined current value or output voltage of external voltage source is lower than first predetermined voltage value, output voltage of boost converter is reduced to be lower than the voltage of energy storing element by control circuit.
US09525341B2
Some embodiments include apparatuses having a switch regulator that includes a first circuit with a first comparator to compare an output of the switch regulator to a first reference voltage, and to provide a control signal to enable or disable a first pass element based on the comparison. The switch regulator includes at least a second circuit having a second comparator to compare an output of the switch regulator to a second reference voltage that is lower than the first reference voltage, and to provide a control signal to enable or disable a second pass element based on the comparison. The switch regulator does not include Miller compensation circuits. Other apparatuses and methods according to other embodiments are described.
US09525338B2
A voltage charge pump circuit with boost capacitor segments and boost delay chain structures are provided. The voltage charge pump circuit comprising a plurality of boost capacitor segments each of which is individually controlled by a respective signal line of a boost delay chain structure.
US09525334B2
A control circuit with multiple feedback loops configured for a switching power supply, can include: (i) a plurality of feedback circuits configured to receive a plurality of feedback signals of a power stage circuit, and to correspondingly generate a plurality of error signals; (ii) a plurality of switching circuits configured to transfer the error signals to a compensation circuit, where each switching circuit is correspondingly coupled to one of the feedback circuits, and where only one of the switching circuits is turned on to correspondingly transfer one of the error signals to the compensation circuit when in a steady status; (iii) the compensation circuit being configured to receive the error signals, and to generate a compensation signal; and (iv) a PWM control circuit configured to receive the compensation signal, and to generate a PWM control signal to control operation of a power switch in the power stage circuit.
US09525333B1
A power converter controller includes a storage time reference circuit to generate a storage time reference signal in response to an input voltage signal. A first comparator generates a collector off signal in response to a current sense signal of a BJT and a collector off reference threshold signal. A storage time regulator circuit generates a base off reference threshold signal in response to the storage time reference signal and the collector off signal. A second comparator generates a base off signal in response to the current sense signal and a base off reference threshold signal. A driver circuit controls switching of the BJT in response to an output voltage signal, discontinues charging a base terminal of the BJT in response to the base off signal, and starts discharging the base terminal of the BJT in response to the collector off signal during a switching cycle of the BJT.
US09525332B2
An electric generating device includes a motor having a rotary member, an electric generating mechanism having an engaging member, and a transmission device includes a primary gearing mechanism having a follower attached to a primary shaft and engaged with the rotary member of the motor, and another follower engaged with the engaging member of the electric generating mechanism for allowing the engaging member of the electric generating mechanism to be driven by the motor, and a secondary gearing mechanism includes another follower attached to a secondary shaft and engaged with the primary gearing mechanism for being driven by the primary gearing mechanism.
US09525329B2
A linear actuator that is configured such that a first tube and a second tube are relatively displaced in an axial direction, includes a rod that is provided in the first tube and whose one end is fixed to an end portion of the first tube, a plurality of permanent magnets that are held by the rod so as to be arranged in the axial direction, and a tubular coil holder that is provided in the second tube and holds a coil that faces the permanent magnets, wherein the first tube has a first linear guide portion with a cylindrical surface that extends in the axial direction around the coil holder, and the second tube has a second linear guide portion with a cylindrical surface that is faced to the first linear guide portion without a gap therebetween so as to be slidably fitted therewith.
US09525325B2
A liquid-cooled rotary electric machine including jacket defining a heat transfer surface in conductive thermal communication with a stator and having an axial end portion partially enclosing an interior volume. A heat source is in conductive thermal communication with a wall of the jacket axial end portion. A fluid channel traverses the heat transfer surface between opposite axial ends of the jacket, and a fluid passage in fluid communication with the fluid channel is defined by jacket axial end portion walls. A flow path of liquid coolant through the machine is defined by the fluid channel and the fluid passage between a machine coolant inlet and outlet, whereby at least a portion of heat transferable between the heat source and the fluid passage is convectively transferable between the jacket axial end portion walls and liquid coolant along the flow path. Also a method for liquid-cooling a rotary electric machine.
US09525323B1
An energy harvester system including a primary energy collector (PEC), a cam gear ring, multiple secondary energy collectors (SEC), and a central gear is provided. The PEC and the SECs harness ambient motion energy. The PEC is attached to a support base member. The cam gear ring is operably engaged to the PEC and rotated by the PEC. The SECs are positioned in a space defined by the cam gear ring and rotated on receiving ambient motion energy. One SEC is unclamped from the support base member and slides towards the central gear when the cam gear ring contacts the SEC, while the other SECs are clamped on the support base member. The central gear operably engages with the unclamped SEC that slid towards the central gear and rotates with the unclamped SEC. The rotating central gear can be coupled to different power generating devices for generating electrical energy.
US09525316B2
A method and system is provided to join the wire ends of a stator by placing a crimpable element on a wire end pair such that the wire ends of the wire end pair are surrounded by the crimpable element, and deforming the crimpable element using a crimping tool to form a crimped joint. The crimped joint is configured to provide an electrical connection between the wire ends of the wire end pair. The wire ends may be retained in substantial contact with each other by the crimpable element. The wire end portion of the stator may be immersed in a molten solder bath to form a solder joint joining the wire end pair comprising a crimped joint. The stator may be configured as a bar pin stator including a plurality of bar pins defining the wire ends.
US09525313B2
A stator back-iron or rotor back-iron of an electric motor, for receiving coil windings comprises a support (2) with a plurality of teeth (3) radially distributed about the support. The teeth are arranged to receive wire windings and are integrally formed with the support. The teeth and support are formed of laminations. The support further comprises a plurality of engagement means (5) formed between the teeth arranged to receive additional teeth (6) having wire windings mounted thereon. Preferably the engagement means are provided between adjacent teeth. The support and integral teeth provide a rigid structure while the spacing provided by using additional teeth makes it easier to wind coils.
US09525306B1
An emergency load control device includes a lighting relay that is coupled to a lighting load based on a relay control signal input. Further, the emergency load control device includes an emergency relay that is coupled to an emergency lighting load based on an emergency relay control signal input. Furthermore, the emergency load control device includes a power controller that is coupled to the lighting relay and the emergency relay. The power controller is configured to output the relay control signal input to the lighting relay and the emergency relay control signal input to the emergency relay to control the operation of the lighting load and the emergency lighting load respectively. In addition, the emergency load control device includes a dimmer control circuit coupled to the lighting load and the emergency lighting load. The dimmer control circuit controls dimming of the lighting load and the emergency lighting load.
US09525302B2
As an aspect of the present invention, a noncontact power feeding apparatus includes: a power transmission resonator; and a power reception resonator configured to be magnetically coupled with the power transmission resonator by magnetic field resonance. The power transmission resonator is magnetically coupled with the power reception resonator by the magnetic field resonance, whereby electric power is supplied from an electric power source to the power reception resonator through the power transmission resonator. One of the power transmission resonator and the power reception resonator has a predetermined single resonant frequency, and the other one of the power transmission resonator and the power reception resonator has multiple resonant frequencies inclusive of the predetermined single resonant frequency.
US09525294B2
A universal serial bus device includes: a core circuit having a first pin and a second pin, and having an input impedance looking into the core circuit from the first pin and the second pin; and a charging control circuit, coupled to the core circuit, arranged for selectively providing a voltage source to one of the first pin and the second pin; wherein the input impedance of the core circuit is configured to make the voltage source substantially intact when the voltage source is coupled to one of the first pin and the second pin.
US09525293B2
A charger (40; 240; 340) charges a battery pack (20) that is detachably attachable to a cordless power tool (12). The charger has at least a first side wall (44b) that at least partially defines a battery pack receiving hole (44; 244) shaped to receive and accommodate the battery pack. A charging output element (62; 362) supplies charging power to the battery pack. The battery pack receiving hole has a lateral cross sectional area that decreases downwardly in the vertical direction of the battery pack receiving hole such that gravity causes the battery pack to be guided to a prescribed position within the battery pack receiving hole. In addition, the charging output element is positioned so as to be proximal to a corresponding charging power input element of the battery pack when the battery pack is disposed in the prescribed position.
US09525290B2
A battery system may include a plurality of battery modules connected in series. A battery module of the plurality of battery modules may include a cell stack array, a first solid state switch and a second solid state switch arranged in a half bridge configuration and configured to operate in a complementary fashion, and a solid state driver connected to both gates of the first solid state switch and second solid state switch and configured to turn on and off the first solid state switch and the second solid state switch. Further, the cell stack array is configured to be active when the first solid state switch is on and the second solid state switch is off, and configured to be bypassed when the first solid state switch is off and the second solid state switch is on.
US09525289B2
A battery control unit (400) controls charge and discharge of battery cells (100) on the basis of temperatures measured by a temperature measurement unit (320) and voltages measured by the voltage and current measurement unit (340). In addition, the battery control unit (400) specifies a lowest temperature cell having the lowest temperature and a highest temperature cell having the highest temperature on the basis of the temperatures measured by the temperature measurement unit (320), when a current is greater than 0. In addition, the battery control unit (400) performs balance control for equalizing voltages of all the battery cells (100), on the basis of the voltages measured by the voltage and current measurement unit (340), when a first temperature condition in which a temperature difference ΔT between the highest temperature cell and the lowest temperature cell is equal to or greater than a reference value T1 is not satisfied. On the other hand, when the temperature difference ΔT satisfies the first temperature condition, the battery control unit (400) does not perform the balance control.
US09525288B2
Systems and methods and systems for wirelessly transmitting power between an industrial vehicle and an attachment.
US09525287B2
The disclosure relates to a method for operation of a photovoltaic installation for feeding electrical power into a medium-voltage power supply grid, with the photovoltaic installation having a plurality of photovoltaic modules, at least one inverter and at least one medium-voltage transformer, and with the primary side of the medium-voltage transformer being connected directly to an alternating-current (AC) low-voltage output of the inverter, and at least one direct-current (DC) switching member being arranged between the photovoltaic modules and a DC input of the inverter. When the electrical power produced by the photovoltaic modules in the photovoltaic installation is not sufficient for feeding electrical power into the supply grid, the photovoltaic modules are disconnected from an inverter on the DC voltage side while, in contrast, the inverter remains connected to the medium-voltage power supply grid on the AC voltage side by the medium-voltage transformer.
US09525286B2
A method and system is provided for achieving power shut down or disconnect at individual solar panel level for a DC solar power system. The system provides fail safe power disconnect for emergencies or electrical system maintenance. A high-frequency current source signal is transmitted over DC power lines to each junction box of a photovoltaic panel array. The high frequency signal is transmitted concurrently with the DC power, and is isolated from an inverter by an inductor. A communications receiver circuit controls the PV panel to short circuit the PV panel output terminals and disconnect the PV panel from the output terminals in response to the high-frequency signal.
US09525282B2
This document discusses, among other things, a self-test (ST) ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) monitor configured to generate a simulated ground fault starting in a first half-cycle of a first cycle of AC power and extending into a second half-cycle of the first cycle of AC power, wherein the first half-cycle of the first cycle of AC power precedes the second half-cycle of the first cycle of AC power. Further, the ST GFCI monitor can detect a response to the simulated ground fault.
US09525280B2
A plug for sealing a housing of an exhaust gas sensor, the plug having at least one axial through-channel for leading through a connecting cable, the plug having a main body which includes polytetrafluoroethylene, the plug further including at least one outer seal which is situated on the plug radially on the outside, the outer seal including at least one perfluoroalkoxy polymer or tetrafluoroethylene-perfluoropropylene or polychlorotrifluoroethylene or polyvinylidene fluoride.
US09525275B2
A stab assembly is for a switchgear assembly of a panelboard. The stab assembly includes: a bus bar having: a mounting portion located on a backpan, the mounting portion including a number of edges each defining an aperture, and a number of elongated extensions each extending from the mounting portion into a corresponding electrical switching apparatus, the elongated extensions including a plug-on elongated extension; and a number of line terminals including a twofold line terminal, the twofold line terminal having: a bolt-on portion engaging the mounting portion, the bolt-on portion having an edge defining a thru hole, the edge of the bolt-on portion substantially overlaying one of the edges of the mounting portion, and a plug-on portion extending from the bolt-on portion, the plug-on portion having an engaging portion. The engaging portion substantially overlays the plug-on elongated extension. The engaging portion engages the plug-on elongated extension.
US09525274B2
A corona discharge ignition system comprising a plurality of corona igniters is provided. The system includes a control and drive electronics unit for directing the energy from a power supply toward the corona igniters; and a single transformer disposed between the control and drive electronics unit and the plurality of corona igniters. A plurality of igniter switching units is connected to the control and drive electronics unit and each igniter switching unit is connected to a separate one of the corona igniters. Each igniter switching unit allows current to travel from the transformer to the one connected corona igniter when activated and prevents current from traveling from the transformer to the one connected corona igniter and from the one connected corona igniter toward the transformer when deactivated. Only one of the igniter switching units is activated at any given time during operation of the system.
US09525269B2
In various embodiments, wavelength beam combining laser systems incorporate etalons to establish external lasing cavities and/or to combine multiple input beams into a single output beam.
US09525263B2
A side pumped laser comprises an elongated gain medium (10) provided between an output coupler (20) and a counter reflector (15) and a pump source (65) configured to provide radiation to the gain medium (10) along a side axis of the gain medium, wherein the laser is configured such that radiation from the pump source is directly incident on the gain medium; and the pump source is provided proximate, adjacent or in contact with the gain medium. The laser material and compositions, geometries and dimensions are designed to both maximize laser performance and to permit the use of construction techniques commonplace in the production of equipment designed for optical telecoms systems to facilitate low cost high volume and miniaturization. The elongated gain medium (10) may have a polygonal cross-section with a non-coated side surface (55) receiving pump light emitted by a laser diode bar (65) while the other, non-emitting surfaces are coated with for example a gold coating (60) for pump light recycling and cooling of the gain medium by heat conduction. The counter reflector (15) may be provided on one facet of a passive Q-switch (30) and the output coupler (20) on a facet (50b) of the gain medium (10).
US09525259B2
An electrical contactor includes a first stationary contact bar with first and second contact surfaces, and a single moving contact bar with first and second contact surfaces. The first and second contact surfaces of the first stationary contact bar and the first contact surface of the single moving contact bar are configured such that, when the single moving contact bar travels towards the first stationary contact bar, the first contact surface of the single moving contact bar touches the first contact surface of the first stationary contact bar in a first contact point, and the second contact surface of the first stationary contact bar in a second contact point. At least one of the first and second contact surfaces of the first stationary contact bar or the first contact surface of the single moving contact bar have a convex shape to establish the first and second contact points.
US09525257B1
A device for selectively establishing an electrical connection between an array of electrical contacts of a connector of an ultrasound system and an electrical apparatus (e.g., testing apparatus). The device includes a tray including a floor and a wall extending away from and surrounding the floor to define a receptacle of the tray, a shaft non-movably fixed to the floor within the receptacle and including a longitudinal axis that extends away from the floor, and an electrical connection assembly rotatably secured about the shaft within the receptacle to selectively establish an electrical connection between the electrical contact array of the connector and the electrical apparatus. The device is configured to accept ultrasound connectors of a wide variety of shapes, sizes, electrical contact array configurations, and the like.
US09525254B2
An electrical power connector and a terminal assembly are disclosed. The electrical power connector includes a base and two terminal assemblies arranged up and down and being in a left-right staggered arrangement. Each terminal assembly includes a conductive terminal and two reinforcing terminals located on two sides of the conductive terminal. L-shaped pressing portions of the two reinforcing terminals together clamp arc protruding parts of the conductive terminal, so that the two terminal assemblies have high conductivity and good elastic to provide a better electrical performance and a long term reliable connection.
US09525250B2
The invention generally relates to intravascular imaging catheters and methods of making catheters for imaging systems. The invention provides a connector for an imaging catheter that includes a unitary body with very thin electrical contacts that are formed on the surface of the body. Due to the scale of the contacts, the connector operates essentially as a single unitary piece of material. Each of the leads may be less than about 100 μm wide and less than about 8 μm thick, and further the leads may be spaced apart by less than about 160 μm.
US09525244B1
An electrical connector comprises an insulating housing, several first and second conductive terminals, an inner grounding unit, and an outer grounding unit, which are disposed on the insulating housing. The first conductive terminals have a pair of first inside signal terminals and two pairs of first outside signal terminals respectively arranged at two opposite sides of the pair of first inside signal terminals. The inner grounding unit is arranged between the first conductive terminals and the second conductive terminals. The outer grounding unit has a first sheet portion covering the insulating housing and at least one first transverse shielding sheet electrically connected to the first sheet portion. The first transverse shielding sheet is arranged between the two pairs of first outside signal terminals and arranged at one of two opposite sides of the pair of first inside signal terminals.
US09525239B2
A connector device includes: a wire harness side connector including a first housing part disposing a female terminal; and a sensor side connector including a second housing part disposing a male terminal. The female and male terminals are connected together at the position where the fitting together of the first and second housing parts is complete. The wire harness side connector includes a third connector rotatably attached to the first housing part. The third connector includes a third housing part in which the orientation of a connector fitting part is varied by the rotating direction of the first housing part. The third housing part includes a rotation preventing rib. The first housing part includes a rotation enabling ring groove, rotation preventing walls provided at intervals farther in the direction of fitting than the rotation enabling ring groove, and rib fitting grooves formed in the gaps between adjacent rotation preventing walls.
US09525238B1
A low profile electrical connector includes a connector body having a top, a bottom and opposite sides. The connector body has a width defining a width profile and a height defining a height profile of the connector body. The electrical connector includes a latch extending from the connector body. The latch has a first latch, a second latch and an actuator operably connected to the latches. The first and second latches are positioned along the first and second sides. The actuator extends along the top and is actuated downward to deflect the first and second latches from latching positions to released positions. The first and second latches are positioned below the top and above the bottom such that the first and second latches are entirely contained within the height profile of the connector body.
US09525237B2
A connector configured to electrically connect an electric wire to a motor mounted on a vehicle, the connector including: a connector main body portion attached to one end portion of the electric wire, a bracket fixed to the motor in a state of holding the connector main body portion, and a cover placed over the bracket so as to cover the connector main body portion and fixed to the motor in a state of holding the electric wire.
US09525232B1
An indoor electrical wall outlet cover permitting functional use of an electrical wall outlet while fully concealing the plug contact openings of the outlet. The cover has a functional electrical plug that inserts into the wall outlet and is connected to an extended electrical cord having at its distal end one or more functional electrical receptacles for indirect use of the wall outlet. In one embodiment, the cover is essentially featureless in outward appearance, and when positioned over the wall outlet, the cover fully hides the wall outlet from view, including the perimeter dimension of the wall outlet. The functional electrical plug has electrical connection pins that are bent at an angle enabling the cover to function without extending any significant degree outward of the wall outlet, so that furniture may be positioned effectively flush against the wall in front of the covered wall outlet.
US09525226B2
An electrical connector is to be connected to a flat conductive member. The electrical connector includes a housing including a receiving portion for receiving the flat conductive member; terminals arranged in the housing in a terminal arrangement direction; and a movable member rotatable between an open position and a close position relative to the housing. The movable member includes an engaging portion for engaging an engaged portion when the movable member is situated at the close portion. The movable member includes a pressure receiving portion for abutting against the engaged portion when the movable member is situated at the open portion. The movable member includes a passing allowing space between the engaging portion and the pressure receiving portion for allowing the engaged portion to pass through. The engaged portion passes through the passing allowing space when the movable member is rotated toward the close position.
US09525224B1
An electrical connector includes an insulating housing and a plurality of terminals coupled to the insulating housing. The insulating housing includes a positioning body, a head portion extending from a first face of the positioning body, and a tail portion extending from a second face of the positioning body. Each terminal includes a first contact portion, a second contact portion, and a retaining portion between the first contact portion and the second contact portion. The retaining portion includes a first coupling portion coupled to the first contact portion and a second coupling portion between the first coupling portion and the second contact portion. The first coupling portion and the second coupling portion are noncoplanar. The first contact portion is coupled to the head portion, the second contact portion is coupled to the tail portion. The retaining portion extends from the head portion to the tail portion.
US09525216B2
A shift member fixing structure of electrical connection terminal includes an assembly of a terminal and a shift member to improve the shortcoming of the conventional terminal that the structure is complicated and the manufacturing cost is higher. The terminal includes a main body defining a chamber and a metal leaf spring disposed in the chamber for pressing a conductive wire or releasing the conductive wire in response to the operation of the shift member. A predetermined section of the shift member is formed with an insertion section and walls defining the insertion section. A part of the wall is removed to provide elastic effect for the insertion section. The removed part is repositioned on a surface of upper section of the main body to form an interference section. After the shift member is pressed down, the interference section is assembled with the insertion section.
US09525209B2
A power supply apparatus includes a supply unit that supplies power to an external apparatus wirelessly by using a quality factor that indicates the resonance characteristic of the power supply apparatus and a control unit that controls the quality factor.
US09525193B2
An RF asset tracking device for cargo containers that has an extended operational life, due to a power management system and multiple power sources. The device has a solar cell and high capacity supercapacitor as a principal power source and a rechargeable battery as an auxiliary power source. Control circuitries manage and regulate the usage of the primary and secondary sources. Together, these power sources provide sufficient power for the tracking device to operate for an extended period of time, thus increasing the period between needed maintenance and decreasing downtime and thus cost.
US09525189B2
An adhesive resin composition for a secondary battery for bonding a separator for a secondary battery and an electrode for a secondary battery, wherein the composition comprises an adhesive resin, the adhesive resin contains the following (A) and (B), and the phase composed of (A) and (B) has a core shell heterophase structure and/or a sea-island heterophase structure:(A) a resin having a glass transition temperature of −30° C. to +20° C.,(B) a resin having a glass transition temperature 20° C. to 200° C. higher than the glass transition temperature of (A).
US09525183B2
The invention relates to a fuel cell system comprising a first exothermally operated fuel cell stack and a second non-exothermally operated fuel cell stack, wherein anode waste gas containing water molecules from the first fuel cell stack can be supplied to the second fuel cell stack, and wherein hydrocarbons can be admixed to the anode waste gas by way of a feed line. According to the invention, it is contemplated that the anode waste gas of the first fuel cell stack can be supplied to the second fuel cell stack in an uncooled state. The invention further relates to a method for operating a fuel cell system.
US09525170B2
A negative active material and a lithium battery including the negative active material. The negative active material includes a non-carbonaceous nanoparticle capable of doping or undoping lithium; and a crystalline carbonaceous nano-sheet, wherein at least one of the non-carbonaceous nanoparticle and the crystalline carbonaceous nano-sheet includes a first amorphous carbonaceous coating layer on its surface, and thus an electrical conductivity thereof is improved. In addition, a lithium battery including the negative active material has an improved efficiency and lifetime.
US09525168B2
Dry process based energy storage device structures and methods for using a dry adhesive therein are disclosed.
US09525167B2
Disclosed is a high-energy lithium secondary battery including: a cathode including, as cathode active materials, a first cathode active material represented by Formula 1 below and having a layered structure and a second cathode active material represented by Formula 2 below and having a spinel structure, wherein the amount of the first cathode active material is between 40 and 100 wt % based on a total weight of the cathode active materials; an anode including amorphous carbon having a capacity of 300 mAh/g or more; and a separator.
US09525161B2
Disclosed is a rechargeable battery including a case, an electrode assembly accommodated in the case, a first terminal unit electrically coupled to the electrode assembly, and a first current collector including a first portion coupled with the electrode assembly, a second portion coupled with the first terminal unit, and a connection unit coupling the first portion and the second portion and having a thickness that is greater than the thickness of the first portion.
US09525154B2
A display device includes a first substrate having flexibility, a second substrate having flexibility arranged facing the first substrate, a light emitting element arranged in a display region of the first substrate, and a filling material covering the light emitting element and extending from the display region to an end part of the first substrate and the second substrate. The filling material is a solid and is provided on the inner side from the first substrate and second substrate.
US09525149B2
A light-emitting element which has low driving voltage and high emission efficiency is provided. The light-emitting element includes, between a pair of electrodes, a hole-transport layer and a light-emitting layer over the hole-transport layer. The light-emitting layer contains a first organic compound having an electron-transport property, a second organic compound having a hole-transport property, and a light-emitting third organic compound converting triplet excitation energy into light emission. A combination of the first organic compound and the second organic compound forms an exciplex. The hole-transport layer contains at least a fourth organic compound whose HOMO level is lower than or equal to that of the second organic compound and a fifth organic compound whose HOMO level is higher than that of the second organic compound.
US09525147B2
A method of arranging at least one carbon nanotube on a semiconductor substrate includes depositing the at least one carbon nanotube on a dielectric layer of the semiconductor device. The method further includes arranging the at least one carbon nanotube on the dielectric layer in response to applying a voltage potential to an electrically conductive electrode of the semiconductor device, and applying a ground potential to an electrically conductive semiconductor layer of the semiconductor device.
US09525143B2
A novel triarylamine compound having a bipolar property is provided. The triarylamine compound can be used for a hole-injection layer, a hole-transport layer, a light-emitting layer, or an electron-transport layer in a light-emitting element. The triarylamine compound can also be used as a host material with a light-emitting material which emits relatively short-wavelength light, in a structure where the host material and the guest material constitute a light-emitting layer. The triarylamine compound of the present invention is a fluorescent compound and therefore can also be used as a light-emitting substance of a light-emitting layer. A light-emitting element having high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting device, an electronic device, or a lighting device having low power consumption is provided.
US09525125B1
A technique relates to a linear magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) device. A linear magnetic tunnel junction structure includes a non-magnetic tunnel barrier on top of a reference layer and a free layer on top of the non-magnetic tunnel barrier, where the linear magnetic tunnel junction structure is in a line. Magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) devices are formed of the reference layer, the non-magnetic tunnel barrier, and the free layer, each of the MRAM devices are in the line. Self-aligned contacts are formed on top of the linear magnetic tunnel junction structure, and the self-aligned contacts individually define the MRAM devices. The self-aligned contacts are separated from one another in the line. Bottom conductive vias are underneath the linear magnetic tunnel junction structure. The bottom conductive vias abut the reference layer of the linear magnetic tunnel junction structure.
US09525121B2
An electromechanical transducer includes a first electrode; a silicon oxide film disposed on the first electrode; and a vibration film including a silicon nitride film disposed on the silicon oxide film with a space therebetween and a second electrode disposed on the silicon nitride film so as to oppose the first electrode.
US09525115B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate, metallization, a light emitting element, conducting wire, light reflective resin, and insulating material. The metallization is provided on a surface of the substrate that is made of insulating substance. The light emitting element is mounted on the substrate. The conducting wire electrically connects the metallization and the light emitting element. The light reflective resin is provided on the substrate to reflect light from the light emitting element. The insulating material covers at least part of metallization surfaces. The insulating material is established to come in contact with a side of the light emitting element.
US09525107B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device including a light-emitting semiconductor structure, a transparent dielectric pattern and an electrode pattern is provided. The light-emitting semiconductor structure includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer disposed opposite to the first semiconductor layer and a light-emitting layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer. The transparent dielectric pattern is disposed above at least one portion of the light-emitting semiconductor structure. The electrode pattern is disposed above the transparent dielectric pattern. At least one cave is formed between the transparent dielectric pattern and the light-emitting semiconductor structure. The cave is disposed opposite to the electrode pattern. Moreover, a fabricating method of the semiconductor light-emitting device is also provided.
US09525102B2
There is provided a method of manufacturing a nanostructure semiconductor light emitting device including providing a base layer formed of a first conductivity-type semiconductor, forming a mask including an etch stop layer on the base layer, forming a plurality of openings with regions of the base layer exposed therethrough, in the mask; forming a plurality of nanocores by growth of the first conductivity-type semiconductor on the exposed regions of the base layer to fill the plurality of openings, partially removing the mask using the etch stop layer to expose side portions of the plurality of nanocores, and sequentially growth of an active layer and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer on surfaces of the plurality of nanocores.
US09525098B2
A solar cell and a method of manufacturing a solar cell are disclosed. The solar cell includes forming a first doped region of a first conductive type and a second doped region of a second conductive type opposite the first conductive type on a semiconductor substrate of the first conductive type; forming a passivation layer on the semiconductor substrate to expose a portion of each of the first and second doped regions; and forming a first electrode electrically connected to the first doped region and a second electrode electrically connected to the second doped region, wherein the forming of the first and second electrodes includes forming a metal seed layer directly contacting the first doped region and a metal seed layer directly contacting the second doped region, and forming a conductive layer on the metal seed layer of each of the first and second electrodes.
US09525088B2
A fastening of a support rail for a photovoltaic module to a trapezoidal rib of a trapezoidal sheet. The support rail comprises an undercut groove with a groove opening. The trapezoidal rib comprises an upper side and a slanted side. The support rail is positioned transversely to the trapezoidal rib. The fastening includes at least one retaining element comprising a fastening section fastened to the slanted side of the trapezoidal rib, and an engaging extension non-detachably arranged thereon. The engaging extension engages the undercut groove in an engaging position. The engaging extension is insertable through the groove opening into the undercut groove of the support rail in a loose position that is rotated relative to the engaging position. The support rail is held down against the upper side of the trapezoidal rib by the engaging extension. The at least one retaining element is arranged either left or right of the trapezoidal rib.
US09525083B2
Methods of fabricating solar cell emitter regions with differentiated P-type and N-type architectures and incorporating a multi-purpose passivation and contact layer, and resulting solar cells, are described. In an example, a solar cell includes a substrate having a light-receiving surface and a back surface. A P-type emitter region is disposed on the back surface of the substrate. An N-type emitter region is disposed in a trench formed in the back surface of the substrate. An N-type passivation layer is disposed on the N-type emitter region. A first conductive contact structure is electrically connected to the P-type emitter region. A second conductive contact structure is electrically connected to the N-type emitter region and is in direct contact with the N-type passivation layer.
US09525069B2
A method for fabricating a FinFET device includes forming a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate having a semiconductor layer overlaying a buried oxide (BOX) layer; etching the semiconductor layer to form a plurality of fin structures and a semiconductor layer gap in between the plurality of fin structures and the BOX layer; depositing a sacrificial gate over at least one gate region, wherein the gate region separates a source and a drain region; disposing offset spacers on vertical sidewalls of the sacrificial gate; removing the sacrificial gate; removing the semiconductor layer gap in the gate region to prevent merging of the plurality of fin structures in the gate regions; and fabricating a high-k dielectric metal gate structure overlaying the fin structures in the gate region.
US09525047B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) substrate, an organic light-emitting display apparatus including the TFT substrate, and a method of manufacturing the TFT substrate that enable simple manufacturing processes and a decrease in the interference between a capacitor and other interconnections are disclosed. The TFT substrate may include a substrate, a TFT arranged on the substrate, the TFT including an active layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode, a pixel electrode electrically connected to one of the source electrode and the drain electrode, and a capacitor including a lower capacitor electrode and an upper capacitor electrode, the lower capacitor electrode formed from the same material as the active layer and arranged on the same layer as the active layer, and the upper capacitor electrode formed from the same material as the pixel electrode.
US09525044B2
A semiconductor device is manufactured by forming a plurality of trenches extending into a semiconductor material from a first main surface of the semiconductor material to form mesas of semiconductor material between the trenches. A trench fill material is disposed in the trenches, the trench fill material extending above the first main surface of the semiconductor material. Sacrificial spacers are formed on the semiconductor material adjacent opposing sides of the trench fill material, and gate electrodes are formed on the first main surface of the semiconductor material adjacent the sacrificial spacers. The gate electrodes have the same alignment with respect to the trenches and define lateral channel regions in the mesas under the gate electrodes. The sacrificial spacers are removed after formation of the gate electrodes. Source regions are formed in a region of the mesas, and a drain region is formed spaced apart from the source regions.
US09525042B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first region and a second region, a first gate dielectric layer, a first lower gate electrode, and a first upper gate electrode sequentially stacked on the first region, a second gate dielectric layer, a second lower gate electrode, and a second upper gate electrode sequentially stacked on the second region, a first spacer disposed on a sidewall of the first upper gate electrode, a second spacer disposed on a sidewall of the second upper gate electrode, a third spacer covering the first spacer on the sidewall of the first upper gate electrode, and a fourth spacer covering the second spacer on the sidewall of the second upper gate electrode. At least one of a first sidewall of the first lower gate electrode and a second sidewall of the first lower gate electrode is in contact with the third spacer.
US09525041B2
A semiconductor process for forming gates with different pitches includes the following steps. A gate layer is formed on a substrate. A first mandrel and a second mandrel are respectively formed on the gate layer. A first spacer material is formed to conformally cover the first mandrel but exposing the second mandrel. A second spacer material is formed to conformally cover the first spacer material and the second mandrel. The first spacer material and the second spacer material are etched to form a first spacer beside the first mandrel and a second spacer beside the second mandrel simultaneously. The first mandrel and the second mandrel are removed. Layouts of the first spacer and the second spacer are transferred to the gate layer, thereby a first gate and a second gate being formed. Moreover, a semiconductor process, which forms the first spacer and the second spacer separately, is also provided.
US09525040B2
A method includes providing a semiconductor substrate having an active region and forming an isolation structure to isolate the active region. First and second gate structures are formed over the active region. First and second doped regions are formed within the active region of the substrate, the first doped region has a first conductivity type, the second doped region has the second conductivity type. The first and second gate structures are interposed between the first and second doped regions.
US09525036B2
An semiconductor device is provided. A fin is disposed on a substrate, extending in a lengthwise direction. A first recess is disposed on a sidewall of the fin so that the fin and the first recess is arranged in a straight line along the lengthwise direction. A gate structure crosses the fin in the first direction crossing the lengthwise direction. A spacer is disposed on sidewalk of the gate structure. A source/drain region is disposed in the first recess. The source/drain region is formed under the spacer. A silicide layer is disposed on the source/drain region. The silicide layer and the source/drain region fill the first recess.
US09525034B2
An object is to reduce leakage current and parasitic capacitance of a transistor used for an LSI, a CPU, or a memory. A semiconductor integrated circuit such as an LSI, a CPU, or a memory is manufactured using a thin film transistor in which a channel formation region is formed using an oxide semiconductor which becomes an intrinsic or substantially intrinsic semiconductor by removing impurities which serve as electron donors (donors) from the oxide semiconductor and has larger energy gap than that of a silicon semiconductor. With use of a thin film transistor using a highly purified oxide semiconductor layer with sufficiently reduced hydrogen concentration, a semiconductor device with low power consumption due to leakage current can be realized.
US09525031B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an epitaxially grown replacement channel region within a transistor, which mitigates the variations within the channel of the transistor due to fluctuations in the manufacturing processes. The replacement channel region is formed by recessing source/drain and channel regions of the semiconductor substrate, and epitaxially growing a replacement channel region within the recess, which comprises epitaxially growing a lower epitaxial channel region over a bottom surface of the recess, and epitaxially growing an upper epitaxial channel region over a bottom surface of the recess. The lower epitaxial channel region retards dopant back diffusion from the upper epitaxial channel region, resulting in a steep retrograde dopant profile within the replacement channel region. The upper epitaxial channel region increases carrier mobility within the channel. The replacement channel region provides improved drive current, thereby enabling better performance and higher yield.
US09525021B2
High voltage integrated circuit capacitors are disclosed. In an example arrangement, A capacitor structure includes a semiconductor substrate; a bottom plate having a conductive layer overlying the semiconductor substrate; a capacitor dielectric layer deposited overlying at least a portion of the bottom plate and having a first thickness greater than about 6 um in a first region; a sloped transition region in the capacitor dielectric at an edge of the first region, the sloped transition region having an upper surface with a slope of greater than 5 degrees from a horizontal plane and extending from the first region to a second region of the capacitor dielectric layer having a second thickness lower than the first thickness; and a top plate conductor formed overlying at least a portion of the capacitor dielectric layer in the first region. Methods and additional apparatus arrangements are disclosed.
US09525020B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate having an isolation structure therein is disclosed. A capacitor is disposed on the isolation structure and includes a polysilicon electrode, an insulating layer disposed on the polysilicon electrode, and a metal electrode disposed on the insulating layer. A method for forming the semiconductor device is also disclosed.
US09525016B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a substrate including a plurality of pixel regions and a plurality of transparent regions, thin film transistors disposed in the pixel regions, an insulation layer disposed on the thin film transistors, first electrodes electrically contacting the thin film transistors, a pixel defining layer including a black material disposed on the first electrodes, organic light emitting structures disposed on the pixel defining layer, and a second electrode disposed on the organic light emitting structures. The pixel defining layer may define an asymmetrical configuration of adjacent transparent regions disposed on opposing sides of corresponding pixel regions.
US09525012B2
A curved display device including a display area and a non-display area is provided. The curved display device includes a first direction area configured to maintain a flat state and a bending area connected to the first direction area. A thin film transistor (TFT) layer, a passivation layer, a sealing layer, and an upper film are provided on a base substrate in an area where the display area overlaps the bending area, and the sealing layer and the upper film extend to an area where the non-display area overlaps the bending area.
US09525011B2
A flexible input and output device in which defects due to a crack is reduced. The input and output device includes a first flexible substrate, a second flexible substrate, a first buffer layer, a first crack inhibiting layer, an input device, and a light-emitting element. A first surface of the first flexible substrate faces a second surface of the second flexible substrate. The first buffer layer, the first crack inhibiting layer, and the input device are provided on the first surface side of the first flexible substrate. The first buffer layer includes a region overlapping with the first crack inhibiting layer. The first buffer layer is between the first crack inhibiting layer and the first surface. The input device includes a transistor and a sensor element. The light-emitting element is provided on the second surface side of the second flexible substrate.
US09525004B2
A solid-state imaging device has a sensor substrate having a pixel region on which photoelectric converters are arrayed; a driving circuit provided on a front face side that is opposite from a light receiving face as to the photoelectric converters on the sensor substrate; an insulation layer, provided on the light receiving face, and having a stepped construction wherein the film thickness of the pixel region is thinner than the film thickness in a periphery region provided on the outside of the pixel region; a wiring provided to the periphery region on the light receiving face side; and on-chip lenses provided to positions corresponding to the photoelectric converters on the insulation layer.
US09525003B2
The present disclosure provides a device having a doped active region disposed in a substrate. The doped active region having an elongate shape and extends in a first direction. The device also includes a plurality of first metal gates disposed over the active region such that the first metal gates each extend in a second direction different from the first direction. The plurality of first metal gates includes an outer-most first metal gate having a greater dimension measured in the second direction than the rest of the first metal gates. The device further includes a plurality of second metal gates disposed over the substrate but not over the doped active region. The second metal gates contain different materials than the first metal gates. The second metal gates each extend in the second direction and form a plurality of respective N/P boundaries with the first metal gates.
US09524992B2
A thin film transistor array panel and a manufacturing method thereof according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention form a contact hole in a second passivation layer formed of an organic insulator, protect a side of the contact hole by covering with a protection member formed of the same layer as the first field generating electrode and formed of a transparent conductive material, and etch the first passivation layer below the second passivation layer using the protection member as a mask. Therefore, it is possible to prevent the second passivation layer formed of an organic insulator from being overetched while etching the insulating layer below the second passivation layer so that the contact hole is prevented from being made excessively wide.
US09524980B2
A memory device, which can be configured as a 3D NAND flash memory, includes a plurality of stacks of conductive strips, including even stacks and odd stacks having sidewalls. Some of the conductive strips in the stacks are configured as word lines. Data storage structures are disposed on the sidewalls of the even and odd stacks. Active pillars between corresponding even and odd stacks of conductive strips include even and odd semiconductor films connected at the bottom of the trench between the stacks, and have outside surfaces and inside surfaces. The outside surfaces contact the data storage structures on the sidewalls of the corresponding even and odd stacks forming a 3D array of memory cells; the inside surfaces are separated by an insulating structure that can include a gap. The semiconductor films can be thin-films having a U-shaped current path.
US09524966B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device, which includes a compensation area which includes p-regions and n-regions, and a plurality of transistor cells on the compensation area. Each of the plurality of transistor cells includes a source region, a body region, a gate and an interlayer dielectric, and a source metallization layer arranged on the interlayer dielectric. The semiconductor device further includes an additional n-doping region that is provided on top of the n-regions between two neighboring body regions, and a source plug which fills a contact hole formed through the interlayer dielectric between the source and body region and the source metallization layer, so as to electrically connect the source and body region and the source metallization layer.
US09524965B2
Embodiments of a semiconductor device structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate and a first metal gate structure formed over the substrate. The first metal gate structure has a first width. The semiconductor device structure further includes a first contact formed adjacent to the first metal gate structure and a second metal gate structure formed over the substrate. The second metal gate structure has a second width smaller than the first width. The semiconductor device structure further includes an insulating layer formed over the second metal gate structure and a second contact self-aligned to the second metal gate structure.
US09524959B1
An embodiment method for forming a semiconductor package includes attaching a first die to a first carrier, depositing a first isolation material around the first die, and after depositing the first isolation material, bonding a second die to the first die. Bonding the second die to the first die includes forming a dielectric-to-dielectric bond. The method further includes removing the first carrier and forming fan-out redistribution layers (RDLs) on an opposing side of the first die as the second die. The fan-out RDLs are electrically connected to the first die and the second die.
US09524944B2
A package structure is disclosed, which includes a substrate having a body, a plurality of conductive pads formed on the body and a surface passivation layer formed on the body and having a plurality of openings for exposing the conductive pads; a plurality of conductive vias formed in the openings of the surface passivation layer and electrically connected to the conductive pads; a plurality of circuits formed on the surface passivation layer and electrically connected to the conductive vias, wherein the circuits have a plurality of electrical contacts; at least a pattern portion formed on the surface passivation layer and intersecting with the circuits; and a second passivation layer formed on the surface passivation layer, the circuits and the pattern portion d having a plurality of openings for exposing portions of the electrical contacts of the circuits, thereby strengthening the bonding between the circuits and the passivation layers.
US09524942B2
A method includes mounting a wafer-level package substrate over a carrier, and pre-cutting the wafer-level package substrate to form trenches extending from a top surface of the wafer-level package substrate into the wafer-level package substrate. A plurality of dies is bonded over the wafer-level package substrate. The plurality of dies is molded in a molding material to form a wafer-level package, with the wafer-level package including the wafer-level package substrate, the plurality of dies, and the molding material. The carrier is detached from the wafer-level package. The wafer-level package is sawed into a plurality of packages, with each of the plurality of packages including a portion of the wafer-level package substrate and one of the plurality of dies.
US09524940B2
According to various embodiments, a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device may include providing a semiconductor workpiece including a device region at a first side of the semiconductor workpiece, wherein a mechanical stability of the semiconductor workpiece is insufficient to resist at least one back end process without damage, and depositing at least one conductive layer over a second side of the semiconductor workpiece opposite the first side of the semiconductor workpiece, wherein the at least one conductive layer increases the mechanical stability of the semiconductor workpiece to be sufficient to resist the at least one back end process without damage.
US09524935B2
A methodology enabling filling of high aspect ratio cavities, with no voids or gaps, in an IC device and the resulting device are disclosed. Embodiments include providing active area and/or gate contacts in a first ILD; forming selective protective caps on upper surfaces of the contacts; forming a second ILD on upper surfaces of the protective caps and on an upper surface of the first ILD; forming a hard-mask stack on the second ILD; forming, in the second ILD and hard-mask stack, cavities exposing one or more protective caps; removing selective layers in the stack to decrease depths of the cavities; and filling the cavities with a metal layer, wherein the metal layer in one or more cavities connects to an upper surface of the one or more exposed protective caps.
US09524933B2
A method for forming a semiconductor structure including providing a substrate; forming a dielectric layer covering a surface of the substrate; forming a plurality of first through holes exposing the surface of the substrate by etching the dielectric layer; forming first conductive vias by filling the plurality of first through holes using a first metal material and first conductive lines on the first conductive vias also using the first metal material; forming a plurality of second through holes exposing the surface of the substrate by etching the dielectric layer; and forming second conductive vias by filling the plurality of second through holes using a second metal material, different from the first metal material, and second conductive lines over the second conductive vias also using the second metal material, wherein the second metal material has a different anti-electromigration ability from the first metal material.
US09524924B2
An approach to creating a semiconductor structure for a dielectric layer over a void area includes determining a location of a void area of the topographical semiconductor feature. A second dielectric layer is deposited on a first dielectric layer and a top surface of a topographical semiconductor feature. The second dielectric layer is patterned to one or more portions, wherein at least one portion of the patterned second dielectric layer is over the location of the void area of the topographical semiconductor feature. A first metal layer is deposited over the second dielectric layer, at least one portion of the first dielectric layer, and a portion of the top surface of the topographical semiconductor feature. A chemical mechanical polish of the first metal layer is performed, wherein the chemical mechanical polish reaches the top surface of at least one of the one or more portions of the second dielectric layer.
US09524919B2
A semiconductor module includes a semiconductor element having a gate electrode and source electrode on the front surface, and a drain electrode on the rear surface, the drain electrode being electrically connected to the front surface of a drain plate; a laminated substrate having, on the front surface of an insulating plate, a first circuit plate to which the gate electrode is electrically connected, and a second circuit plate to which the source electrode is electrically connected, and which is disposed on the front surface of the drain plate; a gate terminal disposed on the first circuit plate; a source terminal disposed on the second circuit plate; and a cover disposed opposite to the front surface of the drain plate, and having an opening in which the gate terminal and the source terminal are positioned and a guide groove contacting the opening and extending to the outer peripheral portion.
US09524917B2
A semiconductor device that includes a semiconductor chip having a first silicon substrate with opposing first and second surfaces, a semiconductor device formed at or in the first surface, a plurality of first contact pads formed at the first surface which are electrically coupled to the semiconductor device, a layer of thermal conductive material on the second surface, and a plurality of first vias formed partially through the layer of thermal conductive material.
US09524915B2
A mask includes a substrate, an effective pixel formation region and a reference pattern formation region. A pixel pattern for forming a pixel component that constitutes a pixel is arranged in the effective pixel formation region. A reference pattern for indicating a reference position where pixel pattern should be arranged in the effective pixel formation region is arranged in the reference pattern formation region. Pixel pattern is arranged to be displaced from the reference position toward a center side of the effective pixel formation region.
US09524908B2
One illustrative method disclosed herein includes, among other things, forming a region of a sacrificial material in a semiconductor substrate at a location where the portion of the fin to be removed will be located, after forming the region of sacrificial material, performing at least one first etching process to form a plurality of fin-formation trenches that define the fin, wherein at least a portion of the fin is comprised of the sacrificial material, and performing at least one second etching process to selectively remove substantially all of the sacrificial material portion of the fin relative to the substrate.
US09524907B2
An integrated circuit structure includes a first vertical transistor and a second vertical transistor. The first vertical transistor includes a first semiconductor channel, a first top source/drain region over the first semiconductor channel, and a first top source/drain pad overlapping the first top source/drain region. The second vertical transistor includes a second semiconductor channel, a second top source/drain region over the second semiconductor channel, and a second top source/drain pad overlapping the second top source/drain region. A local interconnector interconnects the first top source/drain pad and the second top source/drain pad. The first top source/drain pad, the second top source/drain pad, and the local interconnector are portions of a continuous region, with no distinguishable interfaces between the first top source/drain pad, the second top source/drain pad, and the local interconnector.
US09524903B2
An interconnection structure may include insulating layers stacked stepwise and dielectric layers interposed between the insulating layers. The interconnection structure may include conductive layers interposed between the insulating layers and surrounding sidewalls of the dielectric layers, respectively. The interconnection structure may include contact plugs each coupled to one of the conductive layers. The contact plugs may at least partially pass through the dielectric layers.
US09524902B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) is disclosed. A dielectric layer is deposited over a substrate and a hard mask (HM) layer is deposited over the dielectric layer. A line-like opening is formed in the HM layer and a line-end opening are then formed in the HM layer to connect to the line-like opening at the end of the line-like opening. The dielectric layer is etched through the line-like opening and the line-end opening to form a dielectric trench and a conductive line is formed in the dielectric trench.
US09524901B2
A method of making multi-level contacts includes providing an in-process multilevel device having a device region and a contact region including a stack of alternating sacrificial layers and insulating layers located over a major surface of a substrate. A contact mask having contact mask openings is provided over the stack, and a first over mask having first over mask openings is provided over the contact mask. A subset of the contact mask openings is substantially aligned with the first over mask openings. Contact openings are formed through the stack, wherein each of the contact openings extends substantially perpendicular to the major surface of the substrate to a respective one of the sacrificial layers. A plurality of electrically conductive via contacts is formed in the plurality of the contact openings.
US09524896B2
There is described apparatus and methods for transporting and processing substrates including wafers as to efficiently produce at reasonable costs improved throughput as compared to systems in use today. A linear transport chamber includes linear tracks and robot arms riding on the linear tracks to linearly transfer substrates along the sides of processing chambers for feeding substrates into a controlled atmosphere through a load lock and then along a transport chamber as a way of reaching processing chambers.
US09524892B2
In an embodiment, the present invention discloses cleaned storage processes and systems for high level cleanliness articles, such as extreme ultraviolet (EUV) reticle carriers. A decontamination chamber can be used to clean the stored workpieces. A purge gas system can be used to prevent contamination of the articles stored within the workpieces. A robot can be used to detect the condition of the storage compartment before delivering the workpiece. A monitor device can be used to monitor the conditions of the stocker.
US09524888B2
A stage heater and a method of manufacturing a shaft capable of suppressing heat transfer from a heating substrate toward the shaft. The stage heater includes: a heating substrate made of aluminum or an alloy containing aluminum; and a shaft that is bonded to one surface of the heating substrate and supports the heating substrate. The shaft includes: a pipe made of a metal having a lower heat conductivity than a material of the heating substrate; and a bonding layer formed on a side of the pipe to be bonded to the heating substrate by accelerating a powder material of aluminum or a powder material of an alloy containing aluminum together with a gas and blowing the powder material while being maintained in a solid phase to the pipe so as to deposit thereon.
US09524886B2
A brush core for engaging and rotating a generally cylindrical brush having a hollow bore is provided. The brush core includes, but is not limited to, a body section forming an outer surface for engaging the hollow bore of the cylindrical brush. The outer surface of the body section includes three or more sides.
US09524883B2
A workpiece (120) has protruding conductive features (140) at least on a first side. The second side is processed while the workpiece is held from the first side by a holder (220H). To prevent damage to the protruding features and flatten the workpiece (which could be otherwise warped), a spacer (210) is inserted between the workpiece and the holder. The spacer has holes (250) receiving the protruding features. The workpiece can be held by forces generated by the holder such as vacuum or an electrostatic force, without an adhesive. Other features and advantages are provided.
US09524880B2
A mask may be used in a process for manufacturing a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device may include a source line, a first drain contact terminal, and a second drain contact terminal. The mask may include the following elements: a source-line corresponding light-transmitting portion, which corresponds to the source line; a first-drain-contact-terminal corresponding light-transmitting portion, which corresponds to the first drain contact terminal; a second-drain-contact-terminal corresponding light-transmitting portion, which corresponds to the second drain contact terminal; and a first light-blocking portion, which abuts at least one of the source-line corresponding light-transmitting portion, the first-drain-contact-terminal corresponding light-transmitting portion, and the second-drain-contact-terminal corresponding light-transmitting portion.
US09524871B2
A composition for forming a resist underlayer film for lithography, including: as a silane, a hydrolyzable organosilane, a hydrolysate of the hydrolyzable organosilane, or a hydrolysis-condensation product of the hydrolyzable organosilane, wherein the hydrolyzable organosilane is a compound of Formula (1): [(R1)aSi(R2)(3−a)]b(R3) Formula (1) [in Formula (1), R3 is an organic group having a sulfonyl group and a light-absorbing group and is bonded to a Si atom through a Si—C bond; R1 is an alkyl, aryl, aralkyl, halogenated alkyl, halogenated aryl, halogenated aralkyl, alkenyl, an organic group having an epoxy, acryloyl, methacryloyl, mercapto, alkoxyaryl, acyloxyaryl, isocyanurate, hydroxy, cyclic amino, or a cyano group, or a combination of any of these groups and is bonded to a Si atom through a Si—C bond; R2 is an alkoxy group, an acyloxy group, or a halogen group; a is an integer of 0 to 2; and b is an integer of 1 to 3].
US09524870B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming line patterns over a first region of an etch target layer and a pre-pad pattern over second and third regions of the etch target layer; forming pillars over the line patterns and a sacrificial pad pattern over the pre-pad pattern; forming first spacers over sidewalls of the pillars such that the first spacers contact one another and form first pre-openings therebetween; removing the pillars to form second pre-openings; cutting the line patterns through the first and second pre-openings, and forming cut patterns; etching the pre-pad pattern using the sacrificial pad pattern as an etch mask, and forming a pad pattern; and etching the etch target layer using the cut patterns and the pad pattern as an etch mask, to define first patterns and a second pattern over the first region and the second region, respectively.
US09524865B2
The present disclosure provides a method for forming a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a substrate and forming a dielectric layer on the substrate by a deposition process using reactant gases. The reactant gases include a silicon-source gas and an oxygen-source gas under a radio-frequency (RF) power. The deposition process performed for a total deposition time to form the dielectric layer is divided into a first time length, a second time length and a third time length. The RF power of the deposition process in the first time length is a first power, the first power gradually increases from the first power to a second power in the second time length, the RF power in the third time length is the second power, and the first power is less than the second power.
US09524864B2
A method of manufacture and fluid supply system for treating a substrate is provided. The fluid supply system for treating a substrate may include a substrate dry part supplying a dry fluid to dry a rinse solution doped on a substrate; a dry fluid separation part retrieving a mixed fluid that the dry fluid and the rinse solution are mixed with each other during a dry process of the substrate from the substrate dry part and separating the dry fluid from the mixed fluid; and a dry fluid supply part resupplying the dry fluid separated from the dry fluid separation part to the substrate dry part.
US09524863B2
The present invention provides a method for cleaning and drying a semiconductor substrate in which a semiconductor substrate onto which a pattern has been formed is cleaned and dried, which comprises steps of (1) cleaning the semiconductor substrate onto which a pattern has been formed with a cleaning solution, (2) substituting the cleaning solution with a composition solution containing a resin (A) which is decomposed by either or both of an acid and heat, and (3) decomposing and removing the resin (A) by either or both of an acid and heat. There can be provided a method for cleaning and drying a semiconductor substrate in which pattern falling or collapse occurring at the time of drying the cleaning solution after cleaning the substrate can be suppressed, and the cleaning solution can be efficiently removed, without using a specific apparatus which handles a supercritical state cleaning solution.
US09524861B2
An induction RF fluorescent lamp, comprising a vitreous envelope filled with a working gas mixture, a power coupler comprising at least one winding of an electrical conductor for receiving an alternating voltage and current to generate an alternating magnetic field and thereby induce an alternating electric field within the lamp envelope, an electronic ballast providing appropriate voltage and current to the power coupler and a main mercury amalgam having a vapor pressure at room temperature which is higher than the vapor pressure of the mercury amalgam formed on the flag.
US09524860B1
A method for identifying components of a sample includes providing a sample to an ion source and generating a plurality of ions from constituent components of the sample, applying a first RF waveform at a first RF amplitude to an ion trap with field resonances while directing the plurality of ions into the ion trap, and applying a second RF waveform at a second RF amplitude to the ion trap while focusing the plurality of ions towards the center of the ion trap along the longitudinal axis. The method further includes ejecting the plurality of ions from the ion trap into a mass analyzer, and using the mass analyzer to determine the mass-to-charge ratio of the ions.
US09524850B2
A holder assembly comprises a first and a separable second part, the first part detachable from the second part, the first part comprising a tube and an environmental cell interface and the second part comprising an electron microscope interface, as a result of which the first part can be cleaned at high temperatures without exposing the second part to said high temperature.By forming the holder assembly from detachable parts, one part can be cleaned by heating it to a high temperature of, for example, 1000° C., clogging in the tubes can be removed by reduction of carbon, while keeping the other part (often comprising mechanical fittings, ball bearing, sliders, or such like) cool. The cleaning can be enhanced by blowing, for example, oxygen or hydrogen through the tubes.
US09524846B2
In a target structure according to the present invention, a target is provided on a central area of an insulating substrate, and a first conductive member for supplying a voltage to the target is provided on a peripheral area of the insulating substrate which is exclusive of an area overlapping the target and is not covered by the target, so that the first conductive member is in contact with and electrically connected to the peripheral portion of the target. Consequently, it is possible to easily form a voltage supply line to the target without preventing diffusion of a heat generated in the target to the substrate and while suppressing emission of an unnecessary X-ray.
US09524843B2
The present invention relates to a control mechanism for the displacement of at least one moving contact of a low-voltage circuit-breaking device. The control mechanism comprises elastic means operatively connectable to the moving contact, at least a first element of which is operatively connected to a second element by means of pin-shaped connection means. The first and second elements each comprise a pair of facing lateral portions that are connected by a transverse portion. The pin-shaped connection means comprise a pair of pin-shaped ends, each of which emerges from one side of a lateral portion of the first element. Said pin-shaped means also comprise a pair of seats, each of which is defined on a lateral portion of the second element. Each pin-shaped end is inserted in a corresponding seat so as to configure an axis of mutual rotation between the first and the second elements. The elastic means are arranged so as to exert a retaining force on the pin-shaped ends sufficient to keep them coupled to the corresponding seats in which they are inserted.
US09524837B2
An electrical contact configuration includes a first contact piece with a contact socket and a second contact piece which can move relative to the first contact piece. The second contact piece has a complementary shape to the first contact piece. An auxiliary contact piece is guided in such a way that it can move in the contact socket of the first contact piece. The auxiliary contact piece is guided in an electrically isolated manner.
US09524828B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a ceramic body including dielectric layers and having first and second side surfaces opposing each other; a first capacitor part including a first internal electrode exposed to the first side surface and a second internal electrode exposed to the second side surface and a second capacitor part including a third internal electrode exposed to the first side surface and a fourth internal electrode exposed to the second side surface; first and second internal connection conductors exposed to the first and second side surfaces; and first to fourth external electrodes formed on the first and second side surfaces and electrically connected to the first to fourth internal electrodes and the first and second internal connection conductors, the first and second capacitor parts being connected in series with the first and second internal connection conductors, respectively.
US09524827B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor may include: a ceramic body in which dielectric layers having first via holes are stacked in a thickness direction; first internal electrodes having second via holes disposed in positions corresponding to those of the first via holes and exposed to at least one side surface of the ceramic body; second internal electrodes having third via holes disposed in positions corresponding to those of the first and second via holes; a via electrode passing through the first to third via holes to thereby be exposed to upper and lower surfaces of the ceramic body, and connected to the third via holes; and a first external electrode disposed on the at least one side surface of the ceramic body to be connected to a portion of the first internal electrode exposed to the exterior of the ceramic body.
US09524824B2
An auto-resonant driver for a transmitter inductor drives the inductor at an optimal frequency for maximum efficiency. The transmitter inductor is magnetically coupled, but not physically coupled, to a receiver inductor, and the current generated by the receiver inductor is used to power a load. The system may be used, for example, to remotely charge a battery (as part of the load) or provide power to motors or circuits. A feedback circuit is used to generate the resonant driving frequency. A detector in the transmit side wirelessly detects whether there is sufficient current being generated in the receiver side to achieve regulation by a voltage regulator powering the load. This point is achieved when the transmitter inductor peak voltage suddenly increases as the driving pulse width is ramped up. At that point, the pulse width is held constant for optimal efficiency.
US09524821B2
A reactor that is small and capable of adjusting a coupling coefficient is provided. A reactor includes a plurality of coils obtained by winding a winding wire and a core that magnetically couples the plurality of coils to each other. The plurality of coils is arranged parallel to each other such that the adjacent outer circumferential surfaces are opposed to each other. The core may include: (1) a plurality of magnetic leg portions around which the plurality of coils are respectively disposed and (2) a pair of coupling portions that are disposed at both end portions of the magnetic leg portions and that couple the end portions of the magnetic leg portions adjacent to each other. The reactor may further include a coupling coefficient adjustment means that adjusts a coupling coefficient between adjacent coils.
US09524820B2
An apparatus includes a coil assembly, a core, and at least one cooling channel. The coil assembly includes at least one winding configured to receive a varying electrical current. The core includes multiple segments, and the at least one winding is wound around portions of the segments and is configured to generate a magnetic flux. The at least one cooling channel is configured to transport coolant through the coil assembly or core in order to cool the coil assembly or core. Portions of the segments of the core can be separated from one another to form multiple cooling channels through the core, and the multiple cooling channels can be configured to transport coolant through the core. The coil assembly may include at least one insulative spacer having multiple cooling channels, and the multiple cooling channels may be configured to transport coolant through the coil assembly.
US09524819B2
A transformer device includes: a transformer that includes a magnetic body core and a winding; a case that houses the transformer; an external terminal that is provided in the case; a relay section that is provided in the case and to which an end portion of the winding of the transformer is connected; and a conducting wire of which one end is wound around the external terminal and bonded thereto, and another end is connected to the relay section.
US09524806B2
Illustrative embodiments of hybrid transparent conducting materials and applications thereof are disclosed. In one illustrative embodiment, a hybrid transparent conducting material may include a polycrystalline film and a plurality of conductive nanostructures randomly dispersed in the polycrystalline film. In another illustrative embodiment, a photovoltaic cell may include a transparent electrode comprising polycrystalline graphene that is percolation doped with metallic nanowires, where the metallic nanowires do not form a percolation network for charge carriers across the transparent electrode.
US09524801B2
Embodiments relate to pre-silicon device testing using a persistent command table. An aspect includes receiving a value for a persistent command parameter from a user. Another aspect includes determining whether the value of the persistent command parameter is greater than zero. Another aspect includes based on determining whether the value of the persistent command parameter is greater than zero, selecting a number of commands equal to the value of the persistent command parameter from a regular command table of a driver of a device under test. Another aspect includes adding the selected commands to the persistent command table of the driver. Another aspect includes performing testing of the device under test via the driver using only commands that are in the persistent command table of the driver.
US09524797B2
Disclosed herein is a shift register in which leakage of charges from a voltage at a set node is prevented to stabilize an output from a stage. The shift register includes a plurality of stages for sequentially outputting scan pulses. Each stage includes a node controller for controlling signal states of a set node and a reset node, and an output unit supplied with any one of a plurality of clock pulses having different phases. The output unit outputs the supplied clock pulse as a scan pulse through an output terminal thereof according to the signal states of the set node and reset node. The node controller includes a first discharging switching device which is turned on or off in response to a scan pulse from a downstream stage. The first discharging switching device is connected between any one of a plurality of clock transfer lines and the set node.
US09524792B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a plurality of string units, each of which includes a plurality of strings of memory cells connected in series, a controller configured to perform an erase operation on the string units, the erase operation including an erase verify operation that is performed per string unit, and a control circuit including a register that stores erase characteristic for at least one of the string units. The control circuit is configured to output the erase characteristic in response to a command from a memory controller.
US09524780B2
A memory cell including a drain, a channel, and a floating gate. The channel surrounds the drain and includes a first rounded closed curve structure around the drain. The floating gate is situated over the channel and includes a second rounded closed curve structure over the channel.
US09524779B2
A monolithic three dimensional NAND string including a stack of alternating first material layers and second material layers different from the first material layers over a major surface of a substrate. The first material layers include a plurality of control gate electrodes and the second material layers include an insulating material and the plurality of control gate electrodes extend in a first direction. The NAND string also includes a semiconductor channel, a blocking dielectric, and a plurality of vertically spaced apart floating gates. Each of the plurality of vertically spaced apart floating gates or each of the second material layers includes a first portion having a first thickness in the second direction, and a second portion adjacent to the first portion in the first direction and having a second thickness in the second direction which is different than the first thickness.
US09524777B1
A method of controlling a resistive switching memory cell can include: receiving a first command to be executed on the resistive switching memory cell; performing, in response to the first command, an erase operation to erase the resistive switching memory cell to an erased state; verifying the erased state of the resistive switching memory cell; performing a weak program operation to program the resistive switching memory cell to a first programmed state; and verifying the first programmed state of the resistive switching memory cell.
US09524771B2
A method of refreshing a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) includes detecting an open page of the DRAM at a row of a DRAM bank within an open sub-array of the DRAM bank. The method also includes delaying issuance of a refresh command to a target refresh row of the DRAM bank when the target refresh row of the DRAM bank is within the open sub-array of the DRAM bank.
US09524741B1
In one embodiment, a tape drive includes a controller including a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor. The logic is configured to obtain at least two periodic waveform components of a high density (HD) servo signal read by a servo reader from a HD pattern written on a servo band of a magnetic tape medium. The logic is also configured to filter the HD servo signal using a number of digital filters that are configurable to detect waveform components simultaneously read from the magnetic tape medium, each digital filter being configured to match waveform component parameters and tape velocity. Moreover, the logic is configured to compute a position error signal (PES) based on the filtering of the HD servo signal comprising the waveform components.
US09524740B2
A write head includes a near-field transducer near a media-facing surface of the write head and a waveguide. The waveguide includes a core that overlaps or is co-planer with the near-field transducer at a first region. The core has a second region extending away from the near-field transducer to an energy source. The core has a third region between the first and second regions. The third region has a third crosstrack width that is less than first and second crosstrack widths of the first and second regions.
US09524730B2
A system receives monaural sound which includes speech and background noises. The received sound is divided by frequency and time into time-frequency units (TFUs). Each TFU is classified as speech or non-speech by a processing unit. The processing unit for each frequency range includes at least one of a deep neural network (DNN) or a linear support vector machine (LSVM). The DNN extracts and classifies the features of the TFU and includes a pre-trained stack of Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBM), and each RBM includes a visible and a hidden layer. The LSVM classifies each TFU based on extracted features from the DNN, including those from the visible layer of the first RBM, and those from the hidden layer of the last RBM in the stack. The LSVM and DNN include training with a plurality of training noises. Each TFU classified as speech is output.
US09524726B2
An audio signal decoder includes a context-based spectral value decoder configured to decode a codeword describing one or more spectral values or at least a portion of a number representation thereof in dependence on a context state. The audio signal decoder also includes a context state determinator configured to determine a current context state in dependence on one or more previously decoded spectral values and a time warping frequency-domain-to-time-domain converter configured to provide a time-warped time-domain representation of a given audio frame on the basis of a set of decoded spectral values provided by the context-based spectral value decoder and in dependence on the time warp information. The context-state determinator is configured to adapt the determination of the context state to a change of a fundamental frequency between subsequent audio frames. An audio signal encoder applies a comparable concept.
US09524725B2
Between a method in which an integer signal code is obtained by using an encoding method based on periodicity and a method in which an integer signal code is obtained using an encoding method which is not based on periodicity using an index indicating a degree of periodicity of a sample sequence in a frequency domain, processing of a first coder is executed only in a method for which the number of bits of the integer signal code is expected to be reduced, and a gain obtained through the processing of the first coder in the method for which the number of bits of the integer signal code is expected to be reduced is utilized in a method for which the number of bits of the integer signal code is not expected to be reduced.
US09524704B2
Embodiments are disclosed that relate a stringed instrument having a fingerboard support disposed between a fingerboard and a neck base. For example, one disclosed embodiment comprises a body, and a neck structure extending from the body, the neck structure comprising a neck base, a fingerboard support coupled with the neck base, and a fingerboard coupled with the fingerboard support, wherein the fingerboard support comprises a support surface configured to contact an underside of the fingerboard and a raised side that at least partially covers a lateral side of the fingerboard.
US09524702B2
There is provided a display control device including a display controller configured to cause a display part to display a first captured image. In a case where a modification target region is detected from the first captured image, the display controller causes the display part to display a composite image in which a part or all of a second captured image is composited on the modification target region.
US09524695B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for display of a screen according to brightness intensity of ambient light. One or more characteristic values configuring display data is set to be higher than a preset color characteristic value when measured brightness intensity of ambient light is higher than preset brightness intensity of ambient light, and one of the set color characteristic values is converted to a contrast characteristic value and is displayed. Therefore, even when brightness intensity of ambient light is high, the user can accurately view a screen.
US09524694B2
A display may have an array of pixels. The display may be controlled using display driver circuitry. The display driver circuitry may analyze image data to be displayed on the array. When static content is detected, the rate at which the pixels are refreshed may be adjusted to conserve power. If a static image is detected, the gate lines may be asserted at a lower refresh rate than if moving content is detected. To avoid visible artifacts, the display driver circuitry may use temporal and spatial refresh rate buffers. Temporal buffers ensure that refresh rates are changed gradually as a function of time, thereby minimizing flicker. Spatial refresh rate buffers are used to provide a smooth transition between low refresh rate and high refresh rate regions in a display as a function of position.
US09524691B2
Output stage circuit is added to the gate driving circuit of the LCD. The output stage circuit moderates the falling slope of the gate driving signal so as to reduce the feed-through phenomenon. The output stage circuit includes a discharge unit, coupled to a gate line of the gate driving circuit for discharging the gate line to a first supply voltage; a first charge unit, coupled to the gate line of the gate driving circuit for charging the gate line with a second supply voltage; a second charge unit, coupled to the gate line of the gate driving circuit for charging the gate line with the second supply voltage; and a control circuit for controlling the first and the second charge units, and the discharge unit according to a timing controller of the LCD; wherein the control circuit sequentially turns on the first and the second charge units.
US09524682B2
In the dynamic gamut display systems, video input data is processed to extract metrics indicative of the gamut occupancy of the frame pixels. The extracted metrics are used to form a set of scale factors to be used by the display to synthesize an adapted gamut that matches the frame pixel color gamut from the native color primaries of the display. The generated gamut adaptation scale factors are used to convert the frame pixels' values to the adapted gamut which are provided to the display for modulation using the synthesized adapted gamut for each video frame or a sub-region of a video frame. The methods enable increased display brightness, reduced power consumption and reduced interface and processing bandwidth. Also disclosed is an adapted video frame data formatting method that maps the benefits of the adapted gamut into a reduced frame data size enabling bandwidth savings when used for video distribution.
US09524676B2
A display may receive image data to be displayed for a user of an electronic device. Display driver circuitry in the display may analyze the data to detect static data. The image data may contain static frames of data or static portions of a frame of data. In response to detection of static data, the display driver circuitry can take actions to avoid display damage due to burn-in effects. The display driver circuitry may reduce a peak luminance value associated with a peak luminance control algorithm, may reduce display brightness, may map image data to reduced brightness levels, or may take other actions to ensure that display pixels in the display are not damaged. Temperature information may be used in determining how to classify information as static data and in determining how significantly to reduce display pixel drive currents in response to the detection of static image data.
US09524668B2
An AMOLED driving circuit, a driving method and a display device, wherein a control unit is connected to a data line and a control line, and is connected to a driving unit via first, second and third nodes; a charging unit is connected to the driving unit via the first node, and is connected to a first power source; the driving unit is connected to one end of a light emitting device, and is connected to the first power source; the other end of the light emitting device is connected to a second power source. The control unit controls a current so as to charge the charging unit through the driving unit, and controls the charging unit so as to supply a voltage to the driving unit through the first node, so that the driving unit is driven by the voltage and drives the light emitting device to emit light.
US09524657B2
An apparatus and method for use in conducting an eruption reaction are disclosed. The apparatus includes a catalytic solids container with a mouth and fluid egress opening and a trigger device or mechanism that allows for the controlled release of a catalytic solid into an eruptible fluid. The catalytic solids container may be adapted to be coupled to a container for an eruptible fluid.
US09524653B1
Apparatus and methods relating to a motivational display device for a visor, such as the sun visor of a vehicle, are described herein. The motivational display device includes a casing for attaching to the visor, wherein the casing retains a motivational message board to which any of a variety of motivational messages may be affixed.
US09524650B2
An automated training system comprising a database containing audio files and a training script that defines a sequence of the audio files making up a training call. The system includes a training engine that automatically makes a call to an external system via a first communications connection, executes the training script and outputs audio data contained in the audio files to the external system via the first communications connection in accordance with the training script. The system has a response receiver that receives voice data from the external system, the voice data representing the voice responses of a user of the external system to the training call. A method for training an employee using the automated training system is also disclosed.
US09524645B2
A filtering device includes an evaluation value deriving module that derives, for a pair of images having mutual relevance, multiple evaluation values indicative of correlations between any one of blocks (reference block) that is extracted from one of the images (reference image) and multiple blocks (comparison blocks) extracted from the other image (comparison image), an evaluation range setting module that sets an evaluation range of the evaluation values, the evaluation range having one of boundaries at the evaluation value with the highest correlation among the multiple evaluation values, and a difference value determining module that determines whether the evaluation value with the highest correlation is valid as a difference value based on the multiple evaluation values and the evaluation range.
US09524641B2
Systems and methods for monitoring operating parameters of traffic lamps. A traffic lamp includes one or more memory modules and a controller. The controller receives data pertaining to one or more operating parameters of the traffic lamp and logs the one or more operating parameters to the one or more memory modules using the received data. The controller may log the one or more operating parameters to the one or more memory modules upon detection of a fault in the one or more operating parameters.
US09524634B2
Data is remotely collected from a plurality of fasteners in response to a query signal wirelessly transmitted by a reader. Each of the fasteners includes a sensor for measuring a parameter related to the stress on the fastener. A device adapted to be attached to each of the fasteners receives the query signal, activates the sensor to measure the parameter and wirelessly transmits the data including the parameter to the reader.
US09524627B2
A wallet for a carrier includes a receiving body formed to be folded along a direction of a length thereof and having a plurality of receiving parts at a side surface thereof, a fixing part attached to the receiving body to hold the receiving body in a folded position, and a coupling part attached to a side of the receiving body and having a coupling member fixed thereto, the coupling member coupled to a target for coupling.
US09524624B2
A method of generating a haptic effect on a linear resonance actuator (“LRA”) having a resonant frequency includes receiving a haptic effect signal for the haptic effect, where the haptic effect comprises a desired frequency that is off-resonant from the LRA. The method further includes generating a first sine wave at the desired frequency and generating a second sine wave at or near the resonant frequency. The method further includes combining the first sine wave and the second sine wave to generate a drive signal.
US09524613B2
A bonus and/or promotion system, such as for a casino or other retail location, includes one or more sensors for detecting the presence of one or more persons at a location and a bonus or promotion generator configured to generate and output bonuses or promotions based upon detected levels of persons in an area. The bonus or promotion generator may provide an output to existing audio and/or visual display devices of the location for announcing bonuses or promotions.
US09524612B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to gaming systems that allow customers to wager, or “trade-in” an object of value or winning situation for a chance to win an even more valuable award. The chance for valuable award may be a bonus game or chance to win a bonus game. Bonus awards are “funded” by the savings achieved from the players trading in their wins in the base game, which would otherwise be paid. Players who do not trade-in see no changes from the base game paytable, while those players who participate in the trade-in bonus have a different gaming experience.
US09524601B1
A wireless access control system may include a remote access wireless communications device and a lock assembly. The lock assembly may include a lock switchable between locked and unlocked positions, a door position sensor, interior and exterior directional antennas, lock wireless communications circuitry coupled to the interior and exterior directional antennas, a touch sensor, and a lock controller. The lock controller may unlock the lock based upon the touch sensor, determine when the door is closed after being opened based upon the door position sensor, and determine whether the remote access wireless device is in an interior or an exterior area based upon directional antennas. The lock controller may also switch the lock to the locked position when the door is closed and when the remote access wireless device is in the interior area, and not switch the lock to the locked position when the door is open.
US09524599B2
A vehicle key system includes a transmitting device issuing optical signals and a receiving device. The transmitting device includes a light source module. An optical signal with predetermined Identification (ID) information is generated by the light source module and the optical signal is converted into an electrical signal. A signal receiving module of the receiving device verifies the electrical signal and controls a vehicle to unlock. An electronic energy is converted into an electromagnetic signal and the electromagnetic signal is broadcast. A wireless charging receiver of the transmitting device receives the electromagnetic signal and generates the electronic energy. The present disclosure also provides a method for using the vehicle key system.
US09524596B2
There is provided a keyless entry control system for a plurality of outboard motors attached to a body of a ship. A plurality of engine control modules are provided in the plurality of outboard motors. A detector is connected to all of the plurality of engine control modules. In response to a detection result of the detector, use permission authentication on the plurality of engine control modules is performed.
US09524593B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for transmitting telematics data from a vehicle. The systems include a smartphone holder that provides a communications link between a smartphone and a vehicle computer, through the smartphone dataport and the vehicle onboard diagnostics (OBD) port. The smartphone holder is configured to keep the smartphone in a stable, known position and orientation with respect to the vehicle, such that data from an accelerometer in the smartphone can be calibrated. The smartphone accelerometer data and telematics data from vehicle telematics sensors is then transmitted via the smartphone or stored locally.
US09524592B2
Embodiments of techniques or systems for customization of, diagnostic assistance, and driving analytics related to snapshot data of a vehicle are provided herein. For example, a snapshot can be taken. The snapshot can be based on a snapshot package customized according to symptoms experienced by a driver of a vehicle, and analyzed individually or in conjunction with other snapshots to determine a trend. Additionally, the snapshot can be based on a configuration of a vehicle. In this scenario, the snapshot and the configuration of the vehicle can be used to provide an enhanced troubleshooting guide by removing non-suspect areas from consideration, thereby mitigating troubleshooting time. The snapshot can be setup to record parameters related to wear and tear on components of the vehicle. Suggestions can be made to a driver of the vehicle to reduce or mitigate actions that negatively impact wear and tear.
US09524590B1
A method, apparatus and system for, in a computing system, modeling a subsurface structure at a time period when the structure was originally formed. A memory may store a first model having a plurality of non-planar horizons representing a current state of the subsurface structure. A processor may compute a vector field based on the non-planar geometry of the horizons of the first model. The vector field may be a non-uniform vector field (e.g., the axe and/or co-axe vector field) or a uniform vector field (e.g., a global axis). Using the vector field, the processor may transform geographic coordinates of the first model to paleo-geographic coordinates of a second model representing a predicted state of the subsurface structure at a time period when the subsurface structure was originally formed, where the non-planar horizons in the first model are transformed to planar horizons in the second model. A display may display the first model.
US09524585B2
Embodiments related to efficiently constructing an augmented reality environment with global illumination effects are disclosed. For example, one disclosed embodiment provides a method of displaying an augmented reality image via a display device. The method includes receiving image data, the image data capturing an image of a local environment of the display device, and identifying a physical feature of the local environment via the image data. The method further includes constructing an augmented reality image of a virtual structure for display over the physical feature in spatial registration with the physical feature from a viewpoint of a user, the augmented reality image comprising a plurality of modular virtual structure segments arranged in adjacent locations to form the virtual structure feature, each modular virtual structure segment comprising a pre-computed global illumination effect, and outputting the augmented reality image to the display device.
US09524581B2
In some embodiments, a synthetic (virtual) orthopedic treatment device (e.g. a virtual external fixator representing a physical fixator attachable to a patient's anatomic structure) is displayed concurrently in two views (e.g. anterior-posterior and lateral) along corresponding digital medical images (e.g. X-rays), and rotation/translation user input received along one of the images is used to concurrently control both displays of the orthopedic treatment device to reflect the rotation/translation user input.
US09524580B2
A virtual reality (VR) console receives slow calibration data from an imaging device and fast calibration data from an inertial measurement unit on a virtual reality headset. Using a model of the VR headset, the VR console identifies model locators corresponding to locators on the VR headset and generates estimated positions for locators included in slow calibration data. The VR console adjusts calibration parameters so a relative distance between estimated positions of the locators and positions of their corresponding model locators is less than a threshold value. From the estimated positions, the VR console generates calibrated positions of a reference point on the VR headset associated with images from the slow calibration data. The VR console determines predicted positions of the reference point from the calibrated positions and adjusts calibration parameters so intermediate estimated positions of the reference point are within a threshold distance of the predicted positions.
US09524566B2
Each block of texture data elements is encoded as a block of texture data that includes: data indicating how to generate a set of data values to be used to generate data values for a set of the texture data elements that the block represents; data indicating a set of integer values to be used to generate the set of data values to be used to generate data values for a set of the texture data elements that the block represents; data indicating a set of index values indicating how to use the generated set of data values to generate data values for texture data elements of the set of texture data elements that the generated set of data values is to be used for; and data indicating the indexing scheme that has been used for the block.
US09524554B2
A control device includes a housing. The control device also includes a wireless communicator interior the housing. The wireless communicator wirelessly sends commands for controlling an electronic device, such as a game console. The control device also includes a reflector positioned to reflect light directed at the housing.
US09524544B2
An information processing apparatus includes a comparing target image acquisition unit that acquires a comparing target image that is to be compared with an original image, a difference detection unit that detects one or more difference information items by comparing the original image and the comparing target image, and an original image updating unit that updates the original image by reflecting a difference information item that is selected by a user among the difference information items, which are detected.
US09524539B2
Disclosed is a method for edge-directed adaptive image interpolation and a VLSI implementation device thereof. The method comprises: computing gradient magnitude and gradient direction of source image, obtaining edge information by comparing gradient magnitude and local adaptive threshold value, edge direction is vertical direction of the gradient direction; classifying edge direction, and filtering using edge information, so that an image is divided into regular edge region and non-edge region. Regular edge region interpolation is conducted along edge direction, methods of improved bicubic interpolation, parallelogram bicubic interpolation and parallelogram bilinear interpolation based on local gradient information are adopted according to classification of edge information; non-edge region image interpolation is conducted by adopting improved bicubic interpolation method based on local gradient information. The device of the present invention comprises edge information extracting module, adaptive interpolation module, input line field synchronous control module and scaling line field synchronous control module.
US09524534B2
A tiling unit is arranged to process a sequence of primitive blocks using multiple parallel tiling engine pipes. Each tiling engine pipe processes a respective primitive block, and determines priorities for regions of the respective primitive block based on whether the primitive block overlaps with any of the other primitive blocks currently being processed in the parallel tiling engine pipes. Each tiling engine pipe processes the regions of its primitive block in a tile-order based on the priorities of the regions. The submission order of the primitives should be maintained when primitive identifiers are written into display lists. Therefore, the priority of a region of a first primitive block is increased (or decreased) if it overlaps with another primitive block which has a higher (or lower) sequence number and which is currently being processed in another tiling engine pipe. This reduces the time that the tiling engine pipes are idle.
US09524532B2
The present invention relates to a system and method for integrating player tracking and cash access in a casino or other gaming environment. One aspect of the invention allows for fund access and management wherein gaming machines, such as slot machines or on-line virtual gaming machines, receive playable credits directly from a patron's banking or credit card account. Another aspect of the present invention relates to integrating player tracking and cash access transactions by allowing the players to provide a player tracking card for each financial transaction conducted in a gaming environment. In return, the casino issues gaming or bonus points to the players for allowing their transactions to be tracked. Yet another aspect of the present invention consolidates the players' financial account information into a single casino database. Players can subsequently credit or debit cash from the players' financial accounts using any associated customer identification cards or otherwise receive such credits in other forms that permit negotiations, including quasi-cash documents.
US09524529B2
A system and method for analyzing energy savings for a building is provided. The method includes receiving a schedule of occupied days, an occupancy behavior profile and historical energy usage data from which an hourly interval usage is determined. A set of occupancy thresholds is determined by season. Occupied days are determined from the set of occupancy thresholds and the hourly interval usage. The hourly interval usage is analyzed to determine occupied energy consumption in hourly intervals, occupied start and stop time savings, mechanical equipment savings and temperature setpoint savings during an occupied day. The hourly interval usage is also analyzed to determine unoccupied energy consumption in the hourly intervals and refrigeration savings, mechanical equipment savings, computer equipment savings, parking lot lighting savings, hallway lighting savings and temperature setpoint savings during an unoccupied day. Energy consumption, energy savings, operational comparisons and monetary savings are reported.
US09524528B2
A management apparatus receives image data corresponding to item numbers of the JGAP criteria or foods from each training support apparatus. The management apparatus generates, for each item number, an image data group of image data having been rearranged based on their priorities. The management apparatus notifies the image data groups to each training support apparatus. The training support apparatus performs display control of respective image data associated with each item number, based on the image data groups notified from the management apparatus.
US09524527B2
Determined seed groups herein improve content dissemination across a communication network connecting a plurality of users. Probabilities of each user in the plurality influencing remaining users in the plurality to observe the content are identified to select a first influential user from the plurality. The seed group size is established and a user of the plurality with a probability proximate to the probability of the first influential user is identified. Based on the seed group size, the probabilities of the remaining users in the plurality are unified with the probability of the first influential user to determine new probabilities of the remaining users, and another user of the plurality with a probability proximate to the probability of the first influential user is identified. The method then provides for selecting the users identified as having probabilities proximate to the probability of the first influential user to establish the seed group.
US09524525B2
A method, computer system, and graphical user interface for presenting an interactive hierarchy and indicating entry of information therein is disclosed. An interactive hierarchy is used to organize information using nodes arranged in multiple levels, where the interactive hierarchy may also be used to select a node to operate on. The interactive hierarchy may provide sense-of-place by depicting the organization of the nodes and indicating which node a user is operating on. An indicator is also provided which indicates whether one or more types of information have been entered for a given node, level of nodes, etc., thereby providing sense-of-task by enabling a user to determine which types of information have already been entered, which types of information have yet to be entered, etc. Further, a task indicator may be provided for stepping users through various information entry and/or management tasks, thereby further improving sense-of-task.
US09524520B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for training a classification model to predict categories. In one implementation, a method identifies category mappings generated for dominant queries associated with a query log. The method identifies mappings between a first set of queries and categories shown for the first set of queries, and identifies mappings between a second set of queries and clicked products for the second set of queries. A classification model is trained based on the mappings generated for dominant queries, the mappings between queries and the shown categories, and the mappings between queries and the clicked products.
US09524513B2
A system and method of advertising for use on an internet and/or digital networking capable device, wherein the system allows advertisers to use a loading space generated during the initiation of a process on the device to post any media and/or advertising content during the time between when a program or web page is requested and when it actually loads.
US09524512B2
An advertisement delivery management apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a prediction information storage unit, an acquisition unit and an allocation unit. The prediction information storage unit stores information including user attributes of a plurality of delivery target users predicted as future advertisement delivery destinations. The acquisition unit acquires a plurality of order requests designating user attributes and the numbers of deliveries. The allocation unit allocates the delivery target users to the plurality of order requests, on the basis of the user attributes and the numbers of deliveries designated by the plurality of order requests, such that the number of predetermined user attributes of the delivery target users who have not been allocated to the order requests is the maximum.
US09524505B2
Providing an end-to-end citizen engagement, in one aspect, may comprise obtaining data of multiple disintegrated sources from one or more of communication and social computing channels via one or more adapters. Data refactoring and management, integration and process orchestration of the data according to a data model as data attributes of the data model may be provided. One or more analytics may be performed based on the data attributes stored according to the data model and input specified to the one or more analytics. One or more results computed by performing the one or more analytics may be provided. One or more application logics supporting one or more front-end applications may be produced. One or more front-end applications for automated sensing of user activities and sensor-based personal assistant capability may be provided.
US09524504B2
A method for generating microsegments includes retrieving a first set of information including activities attributable to a first plurality of entities and first entity identifiers; retrieving a second set of information including characteristics attributable to the first plurality of entities and second entity identifiers; combining the first and second sets of information using the first and second entity identifiers to obtain a combined set of information, the combined set of information not including personally identifiable information; generating a plurality of microsegments based on selected activities and/or characteristics criteria from the combined set of information; receiving a third set of information including characteristics attributable to a second plurality of entities; and matching characteristics in respective microsegments to characteristics of entities in the second plurality of entities to identify an audience of entities that have a propensity to carry out certain activities based on the selected activities and/or characteristics.
US09524503B2
A game exposing method and system is provided. The game exposing method includes displaying a game web site in a first folder of a file manager application of a user terminal; and displaying a game provided from the game web site in a second folder of the file manager application. Accordingly, it is possible to easily access the game portal web site and the game pages to play the games while operating in the file manager application.
US09524502B2
Providing for management of a dynamic mobile coupon (DMC) at a mobile device is described herein. Particularly, dynamic characteristics associated with the DMC, such as a redeemable value, can be utilized to browse, sort, search, recall, or redeem the DMC utilizing a user interface of the mobile device. In other aspects, a DMC management application can interact with server components to backup and store DMC data, synchronize dynamic information (e.g., a dynamic redeemable value), access or manage a user profile, interface with other mobile devices to accomplish sharing, trading, exchanging, selling the DMC, and so on. Accordingly, provided is an efficient and personable way to manage mobile coupons in a mobile operating environment and provide increased value and utility for a user of such coupons.
US09524497B2
A system and method for registering a mobile computing device for a data service on a wireless network is described. The method comprises receiving a request from a user to initiate a program on the mobile computing device which requires a network connection for a data service. The method comprises checking if a wireless account for the data service has been activated for the mobile computing device, and, if a wireless account for the data service has not been activated, transmitting to a network node a serial number of the mobile computing device and a key which is based on an encryption of the serial number. The method further comprises receiving a message indicating a wireless network connection is granted.
US09524485B1
Pattern information may be associated with an item in an inventory to facilitate identification of the item from among other items in the inventory. The pattern information may represent a feature extrinsic to the physical appearance of the item and may be assigned to the item deterministically, randomly, or pseudo-randomly. An indicator of the pattern information, such as a tag or sticker, may be applied to the item or to its packaging to provide a visual aid to distinguish the item from other items in the same inventory or the item may be enclosed in additional packaging comprising an indicator of the assigned pattern information. Pattern information assigned to the item may comprise a single color, shape, pattern, or other attribute and may include other secondary pattern information. Different amounts of pattern information may be associated with different items or with the same item when co-located with other different items.
US09524483B2
A system for converting contaminated water, such as produced water, frack flow back water, and other contaminated water from industrial sources into fresh, non-contaminated, or potable water includes a registration and verification unit for registering intake water loads and verifying their content; a receiving system for temporarily isolating each load; an equalization basin for creating an homogenized water source; an electro-coagulation unit in which one or more of the voltage, current, pulse frequency and application time are variable and controlled by one or more of a conductivity sensor; a pH sensor; a level sensor; an ultrafiltration unit for removing organics; a nanofiltration unit; a reverse osmosis unit, and an electrodyalisis unit. The processed concentrate remaining after the water is converted is dewatered via a forward osmosis unit.
US09524479B2
A system, method and non-transitory storage medium to manage and process golf game data, golf player data, handicap data, golf team data, and golf course data so as to organize and manage team-based groups or golf leagues of extended duration where asynchronous golf game play during some periods and synchronous game play during other periods on real golf courses and potentially different golf courses is possible. Extensive grouping, scoring, and ranking of golf teams as well as qualification-based tournaments are provided so as to create previously unseen effects of creating a strong community of interest in golfing and increasing the enjoyment and frequency of golf play.
US09524469B1
An individual having a plurality of first features and a second characteristic is identified. A plurality of second features associated with a second characteristic is determined. For each first feature among the plurality of first features, a respective probability distribution indicating, for each respective second feature, a probability that a person having the respective second feature has the first feature, is determined, thereby generating a plurality of probability distributions. A probabilistic classifier is used to combine the plurality of probability distributions, thereby generating a merged probability distribution. A Monte Carlo method is used to generate a prediction set based on the merged probability distribution, the prediction set including a plurality of prediction values for the second characteristic of the individual, each respective prediction value being associated with one of the plurality of second features. The prediction set is stored in a memory. The probabilistic classifier may include a Naïve-Bayes method. Prediction sets may be generated for each of a plurality of individuals, and used to predict a feature associated with a group. For example, an advertisement may be selected and displayed based on the predicted feature.
US09524464B2
Computerized contextual analysis systems and methods suitable for monitoring situations, regions, and groups characterized by volatility and uncertainty are provided. Via use of exemplary systems and methods, decision makers, for example politicians, warfighters, and analysts can gain insight into the cultures, attitudes, events, and relationships that may impact their missions.
US09524458B2
Shielding is associated with RFID tags to achieve new systems and methods having various advantages. These systems include containers configured to store RFID enabled identity documents, the use of RFID tags to monitor the state of a container, and the inclusion of shielding in identity devices. Disclosed are shielded passports, driver's licenses, and the like. Some embodiments further including reading systems for reading identity devices comprising shielding and RFID tags. Further, various switchable RFID devices are disclosed. These switchable RFID devices may include one or more RFID tags and one or more switches. Some of these one or more switches are optionally wireless. In various embodiments, the switchable RFID devices include identity devices, financial devices, remote controls, and the like.
US09524457B2
A preferred embodiment of the invention includes: an identification device (1) for receiving a first signal and transmitting a second signal, the device including: a receiving means (35) for receiving the first signal to generate a voltage; an integrated circuit (37) having a state selection means (41) for selecting whether the device (1) is in a. first state or a second state; a connection (39) between the receiving means (35) and the integrated circuit (37); a transmission means (45) for generating the second signal. The invention also includes a. system (50) that includes an interrogator (43) for interrogating a, plurality of the identification devices (1).
US09524456B1
Methods for manufacturing a supply item for an imaging device having a helical physical unclonable function are disclosed. The helical physical unclonable function may be used to authenticate a supply item for an imaging device. Measurements of the magnetic field above a helical flight are stored in a non-volatile memory to be used by an imaging device to authenticate the supply item. Other systems and methods are disclosed.
US09524455B2
A protective stripe for a bank card includes several layers interconnected with one another, as the first of the layers is an adhesive layer, a protective stripe is fixed to the bank card, a second layer is protective and bearing layer made of at least one of paper, plastic and foil, and a third layer is the carrier of ex officio information necessary for the operation of ATMs.
US09524448B2
Disclosed herein are a method, system, and computer program product for determining a correspondence between a first object (713) tracked in a first field of view and a second object tracked (753) in a second field of view. The method determines a first area (711) in the first field of view, based on the location and size of the first object (713). The method utilizes a predetermined area relationship between the first area (711) in the first field of view and at least one area (751) in the second field of view to determine a second area (751) in the second field of view. In one embodiment, the method determines the second area (751) in the second field of view by comparing predetermined area relationships between the first area (711) and any areas (751) in the second field to determine a best match. The method determines a correspondence between the first object (713) and the second object (753), based on a comparison between a first object signature associated with the first object (713) and a second object signature associated with the second object (753).
US09524447B2
A reference 2D data is provided. The reference 2D data comprises a first plurality of pixels defined in 2D coordinates. The reference 2D data is transformed into a reference 1D data having a first 1D size. The reference 1D data comprises the first plurality of pixels in a transformed 1D order. A plurality of input 2D data are also provided. An input 2D data comprises a second plurality of pixels defined in 2D coordinates. The plurality of input 2D data are transformed into a plurality of input 1D data, which comprises transforming the input 2D data into an input 1D data. Transforming the input 2D data into the input 1D data is the same as transforming the reference 2D data into the reference 1D data. Finally, a transformed input 1D data from the plurality of input 1D data that matches the transformed reference 1D data is searched.
US09524445B2
Aspects of the present invention are related to systems, methods and apparatus for boundary detection, in an image, by suppression of contours resulting from background textures and text in the image.
US09524444B2
A method of determining a contour segment for an object in an image captured by a camera is disclosed. A plurality of corner points located on a part of an object in the image is determined. Pairs of corner points are selected from the determined corner points. A path for at least one of the pairs of corner points is determined, the path connecting the corner points of the at least one pair of corner points along the boundary of the object. The contour segment is determined for the object using the determined path.
US09524440B2
A system and method that is able to recognize a user's natural superimposed handwriting without any explicit separation between characters. The system and method is able to process single-stroke and multi-stroke characters. It can also process cursive handwriting. Further, the method and system can determine the boundaries of input words either by the use of a specific user input gesture or by detecting the word boundaries based on language characteristics and properties. The system and method analyzes the handwriting input through the processes of segmentation, character recognition, and language modeling. These three processes occur concurrently through the use of dynamic programming.
US09524437B2
The automatic generation (702) of one or more secondary video streams based on an input primary video stream (701) may use analytics performed on the video to provide information on targets, events, and/or areas of interest to permit the one or more secondary video streams (703) to concentrate on one or more targets, events, and/or areas of interest.
US09524433B2
In accordance with one embodiment, an information processing apparatus comprises an image capturing module configured to photograph a commodity to capture the image of the commodity, an acquisition module configured to acquire the image captured by the image capturing module, a recognition module configured to recognize a commodity as a candidate of the commodity from standard commodities based on the image of the commodity captured by the image capturing module, a clock module configured to count an elapsed time until the recognition module recognizes the commodity, and a notification module configured to give a notification if the elapsed time reaches a given time.
US09524432B1
The subject technology provides embodiments for performing fast corner detection in a given image for augmented reality applications. Embodiments disclose a high-speed test that examines intensities of pairs of pixels around a candidate center pixel. In one example, the examined pairs are comprised of pixels that are diametrically opposite ends of a circle formed with the candidate center pixel. Further, a pyramid of images including four rings of surrounding pixels is generated. An orientation of the pixels from the four rings are determined and a vector of discrete values of the pixels are provided. Next, a forest of trees are generated for the vector of discrete values corresponding to a descriptor for a first image. For a second image including a set of descriptors, approximate nearest neighbors are determined from the forest of tree representing closest matching descriptors from the first image.
US09524422B2
A method, system and computer program product for validating a facial image-bearing identity document from the face pictured thereon, in which an image of a presented facial image-bearing identity document is compared with images of the faces of persons previously linked with the handling of an illegitimate document. In the event that a match is found, an alert message is transmitted and displayed to an operator and if no match is found a clearance message is transmitted to the operator.
US09524417B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described for providing a monitor or treatment device configured to, for example, detect hemozoin, as well as to monitor or treat a malarial infection.
US09524416B1
There is provided a fingerprint sensing device comprising: a sensing chip comprising an array of sensing elements, the sensing elements being configured to be connected to readout circuitry for detecting a capacitive coupling between each of the sensing elements and a finger placed on a sensing surface of the sensing device; a cover layer arranged vertically above the sensing elements to cover at least a portions of the sensing elements, wherein an outer surface of the cover layer form the sensing surface of the sensing device; wherein the cover layer comprises a three-dimensional pattern configured to reduce the amount of reflected light within a predetermined sub-range of the visible range. There is also provided a method for manufacturing a fingerprint sensing device.
US09524415B2
Techniques for testing ultrasonic fingerprint sensors include operating a fingerprint impress simulator that may cyclically press a contact pad of the simulator against a platen of an ultrasonic sensor under test. A control electronics arrangement may operate the ultrasonic sensor under test and the fingerprint impress simulator, and may receive ultrasonic image data from the ultrasonic sensor under test. The ultrasonic sensor may include an ultrasonic transmitter and an ultrasonic sensor array disposed between the ultrasonic transmitter and the platen. The control electronics arrangement may cause the ultrasonic transmitter to emit an ultrasonic pulse, and may receive ultrasonic image data from the ultrasonic sensor array, the ultrasonic image data being converted from a detected portion of the ultrasonic pulse.
US09524414B2
An electronic device comprises a display module for displaying images, an identify module and a substrate where the display module and the identify module located on. When an object is pressed against the electronic device, the identify module obtains a grayscale image of the object pressed against the electronic device to identify the object. The identify module comprise a first thin film transistor (TFT) array. The display module comprises a second TFT array integrated with the first TFT array to form a TFT substrate arranged on the substrate.
US09524412B2
Disclosed are a lighting apparatus, a lighting system and a method of registering a lighting apparatus to easily and conveniently register the lighting apparatus. The lighting system includes a lighting apparatus in which identification information to identify a unique address is recorded on an outer surface of a body of the lighting apparatus; and a lighting registering apparatus which reads out the identification information recorded on the outer surface of the body of the lighting apparatus to obtain the unique address information of the lighting apparatus, and matches the obtained unique address information with location information of the lighting apparatus to perform a register of the lighting apparatus.
US09524402B2
A display apparatus is provided that including a display configured to display content. The display apparatus also includes a main controller configured to control operation of the display, a power supplier configured to supply power to operate the display and the main controller, a power measurer configured to measure the power supplied by the power supplier, a storage configured to store information regarding a third power range which is between a first power range that the display apparatus consumes in a sleep state and a second power range that the display apparatus consumes in a normal state, and a power controller configured to cut off the power supplied by the power supplier in response to the measured power being within the third power range.
US09524400B2
A virtual security coprocessor is created in a first processing system. The virtual security coprocessor is then transferred to a second processing system, for use by the second processing system. For instance, the second processing system may use the virtual security coprocessor to provide attestation for the second processing system. In an alternative embodiment, a virtual security coprocessor from a first processing system is received at a second processing system. After receiving the virtual security coprocessor from the first processing system, the second processing system uses the virtual security coprocessor. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09524399B1
A system includes a plurality of data input ports, each port corresponding to one of a plurality of different levels of security classification; a security device, configured for cryptographic processing, coupled to receive incoming data from each of the plurality of input ports, wherein the incoming data includes first data having a first classification level; a key manager configured to select and tag-identified first set of keys from a plurality of key sets, each of the key sets corresponding to one of the different levels of security classification, wherein the first set of keys is used by the security device to encrypt the first data; and a common encrypted data storage, coupled to receive the encrypted first data from the security device for storage.
US09524394B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for securing user input and/or output on a mobile endpoint device. For example, the method receives an input on the mobile endpoint device, encrypts and authenticates the input in a trusted domain of the mobile endpoint device executing an application and sends the input that is encrypted and authenticated to an untrusted domain of the mobile endpoint device over a secure channel.
US09524390B2
A first firmware volume of a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) compliant information handling system is accessed. Authentication information is retrieved from the first firmware volume using a UEFI Secure Architecture Protocol. Based on the authentication information, it is determined if the first firmware volume is a first type of firmware volume. If the first firmware volume is the first type of firmware volume, the first firmware volume is authenticated using the first authentication information and an authentication procedure other than Secure Boot authentication. If the first firmware volume is a second type of firmware volume, the second type different than the first type, the first firmware volume is authenticated using the first authentication information and the Secure Boot authentication.
US09524389B1
A system and method for capturing forensic snapshots of virtual machines prior to terminating the virtual machine, the system and method including obtaining a configuration that specifies an event and running a virtual machine in accordance with the configuration. Upon detection of an occurrence of the specified event, the system and method further includes determining a state of the virtual machine, storing information based at least in part on the determined state of the virtual machine, the information usable at least in part to recreate the state of the virtual machine, terminating the virtual machine, and running another virtual machine in accordance with the configuration.
US09524386B2
A method and apparatus are provided for processing a document in a touch-sensitive device by performing a document locking function in order not to expose a specific portion that contains significant content requiring security or confidentiality in a document, and by unlocking a locked portion of a document. In the method, when a document locking input is detected from a displayed document, the displayed document is folded in a direction of a first drag input. Thereafter, when the first drag input is removed, the displayed document is locked by completing the folding of the displayed document.
US09524384B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, an image output apparatus for outputting an output target image acquired from an external storage device which stores the output target image and which is externally connected to the image output apparatus includes a receiving unit configured to receive an access request requesting to access the external storage device, an authentication-information storage unit with authentication information stored therein, an authentication unit configured to perform authentication of the access request using the authentication information, and a control unit configured to control access to the external storage device based on a result of the authentication.
US09524381B2
A method in a multimedia device (130) including obtaining protected content having a limited exercisable right associated therewith, obtaining an extension of the limited exercisable right when a condition is satisfied, for example, when the device enters a DRM system different than the DRM system from which the protected content originated, wherein the extension of the limited exercisable right is obtained from an entity other than the multimedia device, for example, from an anomaly detector.
US09524376B2
A computer-based apparatus for labeling medications, including: a processor for a computer configured to: calculate a configuration of a first medication package using a first digital image of the first medication package; create, using the configuration, a package template; receive first prescription information including a name of a patient, a name of a medication, a dosage of the medication, an amount of the medication, and a schedule for taking the medication; create a first custom label, using the package template and the first prescription information, the first custom label including a first plurality of data fields including the first prescription information and a configuration for the first custom label; and transmit first data, including the first custom label with the first prescription information entered in the first plurality of data fields, to a printer.
US09524374B2
An electronic 3D model of at least a portion of a maxillary arch of a patient is displayed. Inputs indicating a tip of a mesiobuccal cusp of a maxillary first molar are received for both the patient's right and left sides. In addition, an electronic 3D model of at least a portion of a mandibular arch of a patient is displayed. Inputs indicating relevant points on the mandibular first molar are received for both the patient's right and left sides. Side scores are generated for the patient's right and left sides based on the indicated points. A final occlusion score for the patient is displayed. The final occlusion score is based on the side score for the right side and the side score for the left side.
US09524372B2
A system and method for augmenting or adding to the information used by an in-vitro diagnostic or other diagnostic device to generate results of a test is disclosed. A diagnostic device is capable of generating test results based on a sample, such as a sample provided by a patient, and is also capable of receiving additional information to enhance the results providable by the device. For example, an in-vitro diagnostic device is configured to read a lateral flow assay test, and is configured to receive additional diagnostic, network, test identification, or environmental information over a network. Using both the result of the diagnostic test and the additional information, the disclosed device provides more thorough, accurate, and reliable diagnostic information. The results generated by the device may be communicated to an appropriate remote device to enhance the results obtainable by such tests.
