US09999984B2
A circular cutting blade is configured for cutting meat when turned about a rotation axis in a predetermined cutting direction. The cutting blade has a peripheral blade edge defined between the first and second sides and a plurality of circumferentially disposed cutting knives. Each cutting knife includes first and second knife sides and an arcuate knife edge that constitutes a portion of the peripheral blade edge. Each knife edge is titled and rises, relative to the rotation axis, between a first blade-edge location corresponding to a minor blade radius and a second blade-edge location corresponding to a major blade radius such that, when the circular blade is rotating in the predetermined cutting direction and cutting a work piece, the work piece first encounters the first blade-edge location of each cutting knife before encountering the second blade-edge location of that cutting knife.
US09999979B2
A method for the cutting of hair, in particular for the cutting of human head hair, wherein a slice of hair is taken up and is guided by a hand, namely the guide hand, with the slice of hair being pinched between two fingers, namely the guide fingers of the guide hand, and wherein the slice of hair is cut along the guide fingers using a cutting device that is actuated by another hand, namely the cutting hand. The guide hand is moved continuously or step-wise after the taking up of the slice of hair and the cutting of the slice of hair takes place at least partially during the movement of the guide hand or, in the case of step-wise movement, during and/or between the movement steps.
US09999978B2
The hairstyling scissors have a first scissor piece, a second scissor piece, and a pivot axis that connects the first and second scissor pieces, allowing those pieces to rotate mutually in an unimpeded fashion. The first scissor piece is a long narrow piece having a first blade section positioned ahead of the pivot axis, and a first handle section positioned on the gripping-side of the pivot axis with a first finger eyelet. The first handle section is bent over and beyond the pivot axis towards the first blade section. The second scissor piece is a long narrow piece having a second blade section positioned ahead of the pivot axis, and a second handle section positioned on the gripping-side of the pivot axis with a second finger eyelet. The second handle section is bent over and beyond the pivot axis into the side of the second blade section.
US09999970B2
A telescoping handle device may include an outer housing which may be slidably coupled to a shaft. The outer housing may have an elongated side wall, and the side wall may terminate in a first end and a second end. A cavity may be formed within the side wall, and the cavity may include a key channel and a lock groove. The shaft may be movable within the cavity, and the shaft may have an upper end and a lower end. A shaft key may be coupled to the shaft, and the shaft key may be slidably engaged within the key channel so that the shaft key is slidable between the first end and the second end. The shaft key may be rotatable out of the key channel and into the lock groove to prevent the shaft key from being slidable between the first end and the second end.
US09999967B2
A technique for making a handle vibration-proof while avoiding size increase is provided in an impact tool. The impact tool has a striking mechanism part for driving a tool bit in its axial direction, a motor for driving the striking mechanism part, a tool body housing the motor and striking mechanism part, an outer shell housing covering part of the tool body, a handle that is integrally formed with the outer shell housing and extends transversely to the axial direction, a first handle end portion formed on one extending end of the handle, a second handle end portion formed on the other extending end of the handle, a first elastic element that connects the first handle end portion and tool body for relative movement in the axial direction, and a second elastic element that connects the second handle end portion and tool body for relative movement in the axial direction.
US09999966B2
The invention relates to a torque wrench, which has a lever tube (3) having a handle (4) and has an indicating body (9) for indicating a set torque. The indicating body can be a scale housing or a scale sleeve. The handle (4) has a connecting piece (18), which points toward the indicating body (9) and which has a groove (19) on the outer periphery. Coupling segments directed toward the connecting piece (18) and having an abutment edge are provided on the indicating body (9). The handle (4) and the indicating body (9) are coupled by means of a locking ring (16). The locking ring (16) has blocking bodies for this purpose, which interact with the groove (19) on the connecting piece (18) and the abutment edges of the coupling segments in a locking manner. The torque wrench according to the invention is distinguished by the modular handle system thereof and enables economical production by means of structurally identical series together with simple assembly processes.
US09999963B2
A clamp apparatus includes a support body that projects in a sideways direction of a body, together with a clamp arm, which is disposed rotatably in facing relation to the support body. On the support body, a support member, which extends in a horizontal direction, is disposed detachably with respect to a coupling hole of the body, whereas a connecting body, which interconnects a pair of arm members, is disposed detachably on an end of the clamp arm. A clamp release mechanism, which releases a clamped state when the clamp arm is locked, is disposed in the body, and is configured to press a joint of a driving force transmission mechanism that is accommodated in the body toward the side of a drive unit.
US09999962B2
Methods of laser cutting polycrystalline diamond tables and polycrystalline diamond compacts are disclosed. Laser cutting of the polycrystalline diamond table provides an alternative to electrical-discharge machining (“EDM”), grinding with a diamond wheel, or lapping with a diamond wheel. Grinding or lapping with a diamond wheel is relatively slow and expensive, as diamond is used to remove a diamond material. EDM cutting of the polycrystalline diamond table is sometimes impractical or even impossible, particularly when the cobalt or other infiltrant or catalyst concentration within the polycrystalline diamond table is very low (e.g., in the case of a leached polycrystalline diamond table). As such, laser cutting provides a valuable alternative machining method that may be employed in various processes such as laser scribing, laser ablation, and laser lapping.
US09999956B2
A polishing device is provided to suppress deterioration in reproducibility of a polishing profile due to a variation or change with time of a shape of a retaining ring of a substrate holding member for each of retaining rings. The polishing device includes: a polishing head configured to press a substrate against a polishing pad and have a retainer ring surrounding the substrate pressed against the polishing pad; a measurement sensor configured to measure a surface shape of the retainer ring; and a controller configured to determine a polishing condition of the substrate based on the surface shape of the retainer ring measured by the measurement sensor.
US09999948B2
A method is provided for reconditioning a turbine blade. The turbine blade includes a blade airfoil which extends longitudinally and into the hollow inner space of which inserts can be inserted in the longitudinal direction of the blade for distribution and guiding cooling air which flows in the inner space. The inserts with a rib engage with sealing effect in a U-shaped sealing groove which is machined out on the inner wall of the blade airfoil and extend in the longitudinal direction of the blade. A damaged sealing groove is reconditioned by the sealing groove being removed from the inner wall of the blade airfoil, forming a slot, by an insertion strip, which is provided for sealing, being inserted into the slot, and by the insertion strip, which is seated in the slot, being connected in a materially bonding manner to the inner wall of the blade airfoil.
US09999924B2
This invention teaches a quality assurance system for additive manufacturing. This invention teaches a multi-sensor, real-time quality system including sensors, affiliated hardware, and data processing algorithms that are Lagrangian-Eulerian with respect to the reference frames of its associated input measurements. The quality system for Additive Manufacturing is capable of measuring true in-process state variables associated with an additive manufacturing process, i.e. those in-process variables that define a feasible process space within which the process is deemed nominal. The in-process state variables can also be correlated to the part structure or microstructure and can then be useful in identifying particular locations within the part likely to include defects.
US09999916B2
A method for working a functional part, which extends in a longitudinal direction and has a lateral surface that surrounds a longitudinal central axis of the functional part running in the longitudinal direction and has an end face bounding the functional part at a free end in the axial direction, may involve pressing a punch that can be moved in the longitudinal direction of the functional part against the end face of the functional part, while the functional part is initially located in a cavity of a tool, at least over a partial portion of its longitudinal extent that adjoins its free end, which cavity is bounded in the radial direction with respect to the longitudinal central axis by a wall surface surrounding the lateral surface and lying at least partially against the lateral surface, and pulling off the tool from the functional part over the free end of the functional part over a pulling-off travel, while the punch remains pressed against the end face of the functional part, at least over a partial travel of the pulling-off travel of the tool from the functional part. A material flow of material of the functional part is brought about by the tool during the pulling-off of the tool from the functional part.
US09999915B2
An enhanced multipurpose twist tie is formed with two helically disposed wires encased in a sheath having a polygon shaped cross section, a longitudinal ridges, and detachable end caps. The wires are defined by a longitudinal length and a pair of wire termini. The wires intertwine in a helical configuration along the length of the sheath. The helical configuration compresses the wires together and also allows for a greater concentration of wire to be fit into the sheath. The sheath is defined by an outer face having a plurality of longitudinal ridges that extend along the length of the sheath to provide a grip for facilitated twisting and tying of the twist tie. An inner face has a polygon shaped cross section that restricts longitudinal and rotational slippage by the wires. The end caps detachably attach at sheath termini to form a smooth surface over wire termini.
US09999914B2
The present invention proposes a crimping punch making it possible to obtain a crimping that is resistant to pulling out. To this end, the punch (20) for a crimping tool comprises a fixing part (21) for fixing to the tool and a punching part (22) consisting of a spike (23) connected to the fixing part by two crimping faces (24) that each exhibit a rectilinear primary profile (241), each crimping face also comprising a secondary profile (242), provided with four notches (243) having a radius of between 1 mm and 2.5 mm, preferably between 1.2 mm and 2 mm, advantageously 1.5 mm.
US09999912B2
A sheet metal dent repair hook exchange handle including a hand grip; and a handle element coupling, wherein the handle element coupling includes a receiver for a coupling element that is connectable or connected with a shaft of a sheet metal dent repair hook, and a locking arrangement for a disengageable support of the coupling element against an unintentional axial movement out of the handle element coupling, and an arresting arrangement for a disengage able support of the coupling element in an inner teething arranged in the handle element coupling. The locking arrangement includes locking devices that engage a recess in a portion of the cylindrical coupling element which portion is insertable into the handle element coupling.
US09999908B2
A ductless fume hood suitable for the removal of various chemical materials including toxic and non-toxic gases, vapors, particles, dust and unpleasant odors from a fluid stream. The ductless fume hood uses electronic devices and software to enable real time monitoring of gas levels in parts per million.
US09999906B2
A method and system for sorting workpieces, such as chicken nuggets. The sorting system includes a conveyor system that advances in a forward direction and one or more blow off bars positioned over the conveyor system. The blow off bars extend along the forward advancing direction. The blow off bars include one or more valved nozzles connected to a pressurized source of a fluid, and the nozzles are positioned to discharge the fluid across the conveyor system.
US09999905B2
Polymeric coatings and methods of forming polymeric coatings are described. In a method of forming a polymeric coating a first layer is deposited on a substrate. The first layer includes at least one highly soluble diamine component. A second layer is formed on the substrate to contact the first layer. The second layer includes paraformaldehyde and an aromatic diamine including two primary amine groups. Once formed, the first and second layers are heated. Heating causes the components of the first and second layers to cure. For example, the paraformaldehyde from the second layer diffuses into the first layer and reacts via hemiaminal-type chemistry with the high soluble diamine component. The coatings may be substantially homogenous or comprise a compositional gradient in thickness or along the substrate plane depending on deposition methods and other processing parameters.
US09999904B2
This coated metal plate is a chromate-free coated metal plate for exterior applications, which comprises a metal plate and a coating film that is arranged on the metal plate. The coating film contains 0.01-15% by volume of porous particles as a gloss control agent. If R (μm) is the number average particle diameter of the gloss control agent, T (μm) is the film thickness of the coating film, and σ is the standard deviation of the number-based particle size distribution of the gloss control agent, the coated metal plate satisfies the following formulae. (R+2σ)/T≤0.7 R≥2.0 9≤T≤19.
US09999899B2
A method of protecting an in-vivo sensor includes forming a sensing surface on a surface of the in-vivo sensor, the sensing surface including a functionalized monolayer that will bind to an analyte of interest; and coating the sensing surface of the sensor with a bioabsorbable polymeric coating including a bioabsorbable polymer; wherein the bioabsorbable polymeric coating is configured to protect the in-vivo sensor until needed for implantation.
US09999887B2
An apparatus for a test liquid includes an inlet device defining a chamber configured to receive the liquid, a preparation device defining a preparation chamber and including a preparation reagent to be reacted with the liquid, an analysis device defining an exposure chamber associated with the preparation chamber and including an analysis unit to be exposed to the prepared test liquid for indicating information on the test liquid, a housing defining a longitudinal axis, and a guiding device configured to guide the inlet device, the preparation device or the analysis device so as to limit the motion of the inlet device, the preparation device or the analysis device to a sequence of alternating rotational and axial movements, each axial movement of the inlet device, the preparation device or the analysis device requiring activation through a preceding rotational movement of the inlet device, the preparation device or the analysis device.
US09999878B2
A process for preparing a tin-containing zeolitic material having a BEA framework structure comprising providing a zeolitic material having a BEA framework structure having vacant tetrahedral framework sites, providing a tin-ion source in solid form, incorporating tin into the zeolitic material via solid-state ion exchange, calcining the zeolitic material, and treating the calcined zeolitic material with an aqueous solution having a pH of at most 5.
US09999877B2
The present invention relates to a catalyst, which may be used in selective catalytic reduction (SCR), said catalyst comprising one or more zeolites of the BEA structure type, one or more zeolites of the CHA structure type, and optionally one or more zeolites of the MFI structure type, wherein at least part of the one or more zeolites of the BEA structure type contain iron (Fe), wherein at least part of the one or more zeolites of the CHA structure type contain copper (Cu), and wherein at least part of the optional one or more zeolites of the MFI structure type contain iron (Fe). Furthermore, the present invention concerns an exhaust gas treatment system comprising said catalyst as well as a process for the treatment of a gas stream comprising NOx using said catalyst as well.
US09999871B2
A catalytic converter includes a substrate (1) and a catalyst layer (3). The catalyst layer includes a bottom catalyst layer (4), a first top catalyst layer (6) and a second top catalyst layer (7). The second top catalyst layer is provided on a downstream side relative to the first top catalyst layer. The first top catalyst layer is made of a ceria-free zirconia composite oxide support and rhodium. The second top catalyst layer is made of a ceria-containing zirconia composite oxide support and rhodium. The first top catalyst layer has a length that is X % of the entire length of the substrate. The second top catalyst layer has a length that is 100−X % of the entire length of the substrate. A ratio of a density of rhodium in the first top catalyst layer to a density of rhodium in the second top catalyst layer is at least 1 and at most 3.
US09999868B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a superabsorbent polymer including a) preparing a hydrogel phase polymer by thermopolymerizing or photopolymerizing a monomer composition including a water-soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer and a polymerization initiator; b) adding particles having properties of the following i) and ii) to the hydrogel phase polymer, i) BET specific surface area of 300 m2/g to 1500 m2/g and ii) porosity of 50% or greater; c) chopping the particle-added hydrogel phase polymer; d) drying the hydrogel phase polymer; e) milling the dried hydrogel phase polymer; f) adding a surface crosslinking agent to the milled hydrogel phase polymer; and g) carrying out a surface crosslinking reaction.
US09999866B2
The invention relates to methods of generating templates for a nucleic acid sequencing reaction which comprise: providing at least one double-stranded nucleic acid molecule, wherein both strands of the double-stranded nucleic acid molecule are attached to a solid support at the 5′ end, cleaving one or both strands of the double-stranded nucleic acid molecule, and subjecting the cleaved strand(s) to denaturing conditions to remove the portion of the cleaved strand(s) not attached to the solid support, thereby generating a partially or substantially single-stranded template for a nucleic acid sequencing reaction.
US09999865B2
Disclosed is a method for making a colloidal suspension of precious metal nanoparticles. The method comprises providing a target material comprising a precious metal in a liquid dispersion medium in an ablation container. The dispersion medium has an electrical conductivity within a predetermined conductivity range. Laser pulses are used to generate the nanoparticles from the target in the container. While generating the nanoparticles the electrical conductivity of the dispersion medium is monitored and maintained within the predetermined range and thereby the generated nanoparticles are produced within a predetermined size range. The generated nanoparticles are used to form a colloidal suspension.
US09999863B2
Provided is a refrigerator including: a main body; a storage compartment formed in the main body; a door that opens/closes the storage compartment; a general water tank in which general water supplied from an external water supply source is stored; a mixing tank in which general water supplied from the general water tank is mixed with carbon dioxide (CO2) so that carbonated water is made and stored; a dispenser that provides general water supplied from the general water tank to an outside and provides carbonated water supplied from the mixing tank to the outside of the refrigerator; and an ice-making machine that makes general ice by receiving general water from the external water supply source or the general water tank and makes carbonated ice by receiving carbonated water from the mixing tank, thereby providing general water, carbonated water, general ice, and carbonated ice through the dispenser.
US09999859B2
With the subject invention, a method is provided for preparing a filter membrane including the steps of dispersing a liquid which is generally hydrophobic into the pores of a porous membrane, and applying a solution containing lipids onto at least a first surface of the porous membrane containing the liquid. Advantageously, the subject invention allows for filter membranes to be prepared which can be stored for periods of time without degradation in performance. The subject invention may have applicability in various contexts, but is well-suited for preparing filter membranes for permeability screening, particularly Parallel Artificial Membrane Permeability Assay (PAMPA).
US09999851B2
A filter mounting structure, includes a casing including upper, lower, front, back, left and right side panels and a filter unit. The filter unit includes a filter, a first support frame located at a front end of the filter, and a second support frame located at a side of the filter. The filter is mounted on the first and second support frames. A first mounting port is provided in the front side panel and a second mounting port is provided in any one of the left and right side panels. A mounting space is included in the casing and extends toward the first and second mounting ports respectively. The first support frame is mounted on the front side panel of the casing through the first mounting port and the second support frame is mounted on the left or right side panel of the casing through the second mounting port.
US09999842B2
A hybrid Contact tray for a mass transfer column is provided. The tray has a deck for passage of liquid along a liquid flow path thereon. The deck also has a plurality of orifices for passage of ascending vapor through the tray deck. The contact tray includes a cross-current vapor-liquid mixing section having a first portion of the plurality of orifices and a co-current vapor-liquid mixing section having at least one co-current mixing device associated with a second portion of the plurality of orifices. The co-current mixing device includes a conduit having: a vapor inlet in fluid communication with one or more of the second portion of orifices; a froth inlet in fluid communication with the liquid flow path; a fluid outlet; and a packing material within a co-current flow path of vapor and liquid within the conduit disposed after the vapor and froth inlets and before the fluid outlet.
US09999833B2
There is provided a hand-held controller for a virtual-reality system. The hand-held controller includes a user-input surface and a grip coupled to the user-input surface. The user-input surface includes a first user-input key situated on the user-input surface. The first user-input key includes a first capacitive touch sensor to detect a finger of a user hovering above the first user-input key and contacting the first user-input key.
US09999832B2
A first game execution unit executes a first game. A second game execution unit executes a second game. The second game execution unit sets particular first game data or a first game mode which is accessible in the first game so as to be inaccessible in the second game when an execution result of the first game does not satisfy a predetermined condition, and sets the particular first game data or the first game mode so as to be accessible also in the second game in response to the execution result of the first game having satisfied the predetermined condition.
US09999829B1
A game system may comprise a board comprising a plurality of pegs extending from the board, wherein the pegs may be disposed in rows; at least one deflector configured to be coupled to at least two pegs aligned with one another; at least one ball configured to move on the board between and/or along the pegs and deflector(s) from a start end to a goal end of the board; at least one goal configured to be coupled to at least two pegs in a goal row of the rows of pegs, wherein the goal is configured to receive a ball; and a plurality of play selectors which determine a play for each player during a turn of a game. The goal of the game may be to get a ball into a goal by navigating across the board having the pegs and deflectors as obstacles to movement of the ball.
US09999828B1
The disclosed invention includes all embodiments for a mechanical shuffler comprising a generally planar base and a platform that is sized to receive a deck of unshuffled cards, the stack of unshuffled cards moves relative to a slot where the slot is sized to permit passage of a single card. With movement of a platform relative to a slot, a discrete burst of air is delivered to a stack of unshuffled cards, thereby pushing a single card through the slot and into an area where shuffled cards are to be delivered. It is contemplated that embodiments of the invention will include means for the delivery of a discrete amount of air in response to a computer signal, it is further contemplated that embodiments of the invention may include rollers that are engaged to spin and grip a card that is pushed through a slot by air. It is contemplated that embodiments of the invention may include a set of perforated guiding members that include a plurality of perforations that are sized to permit and diffuse a predetermined amount of air by volume and pressure.
US09999826B2
Disclosed herein are a virtual golf simulation device and method for providing stereophonic sound for weather conditions configured such that it is possible for a user to visually and aurally recognize a weather condition, such as wind, when the user plays a round of virtual golf on a virtual golf course using the virtual golf simulation device, and, in particular, the direction or intensity of the wind is expressed via multi-channel stereophonic sound, whereby it is possible to provide a high level of realism even without actually blowing air.
US09999817B2
A device in connection with exercise, includes a base body (1) and elements (11) for applying the base body (1) in the fold of the knee of a user. The base body (1) includes two supporting surfaces (5, 7) that form an intermediate angle (α) that is in the interval 70°<α<110°, and that the elements to apply the base body (1) on a user (A) include at least one band (11) that may form or forms a closed loop relative to the base body (1).
US09999811B2
A ball striking device, such as a golf club head, has a head that includes a face configured for striking a ball and a body connected to the face, the body being adapted for connection of a shaft proximate a heel thereof. The face has a thickened portion including an annular tapered area that tapers in thickness between an upper boundary and a lower boundary and encloses an elevated area bounded by the upper boundary. The upper and/or lower boundary defines a shape having two lobes, each with an outer edge with a convex profile, and a connecting portion extending between the lobes, such that the connecting portion is defined by two outer edges extending between the outer edges of the lobes, wherein at least one of the outer edges of the connecting portion has a concave outer profile.
US09999806B2
Activities, actions and events during user performance of physical activity may be detected using various algorithms and templates. Templates may include an arrangement of one or more states that may identify particular event types and timing between events. Templates may be specific to a particular type of activity (e.g., types of sports, drills, events, etc.), user, terrain, time of day and the like.
US09999805B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for capturing, over the course of a sports match, gaze data for each participant on a team, identifying a team-level key performance indicator (KPI) associated with a sports domain to which the sports match corresponds, and generating KPI data corresponding to the KPI. A graph may then be constructed based at least in part on the KPI data, where each node in the graph may represent a player on the team or an object of interest, and each edge connecting adjacent nodes may be weighted to indicate a degree of interaction between the nodes connected by the edge. KPI data may be aggregated across multiple sports domain KPIs and analyzed to assess team performance characteristics during the sports match. Report data indicative of team performance for different game scenarios, and optionally including recommendations for improving team performance in such scenarios, may be generated.
US09999800B2
A multi-mode squat rack includes a frame, a support unit and a handle unit. The frame includes two struts pivotally connected to each other, two stepping boards connected to one of the struts, and a mount pivotally connected to the first strut. The support unit includes a seat post pivotally connected to the first strut, a seat supported on the seat post, a pair of ears supported on a side of the seat post near the first strut, at least one fin supported on an opposite side of the seat post, and an elastic unit arranged between the mount and the fin. The handle unit includes a stem pivotally connected to the first strut, a connection rod formed with an end pivotally connected to the stem and another end pivotally connected to the first strut or the pair of ears, and a handle connected to the stem.
US09999795B1
A motorized rotational dance pole assembly is provided. The dance pole can be rotated by an adjustable and controllable motor assembly to provide controlled rotation of the pole at varying speeds. Further, the pole may have a fixed non-rotating mode, as well as a free rotational mode. Operation of the motorized rotational dance pole may be controlled by a remote wireless controller which may be programmable and reprogrammable to adjust operation of the dance pole.
US09999785B2
Unactivated stem cells are activated by treating them with an amplitude modulated laser beam having a wavelength lying in the range of 405 to 980 nanometers. The laser beam is modulated within a range of 8 to 12 MHz. Using the activated stem cells, tissue can be repaired and regenerated by preparing the unactivated stem cells, treating the unactivated stem cells with an amplitude modulated laser beam having a pre-determined frequency for obtaining activated stem cells, administering the activated stem cells into a body containing the tissue, and using a homing beam to guide the activated stem cells within the body to the location of the tissue.
US09999781B2
One aspect of the present disclosure relates a system that can employ micromagnetic stimulation to activate and/or suppress conduction in at least a portion of a peripheral nerve. The system can include a stimulator to provide a time-varying stimulus. The system can also include a microcoil that can be operatively coupled to the stimulator to receive the time-varying stimulus. Based on the time-varying stimulus, the microcoil can provide an electromagnetic induction to the peripheral nerve to activate and/or suppress conduction.
US09999777B2
One aspect generally relates to a composite, having a layer sequence. The layer sequence includes as layers a first layer, including a first ceramic, and first layer surface, a second layer, including a second ceramic, superimposing the first layer surface. The layer sequence includes a hole, connecting through each layer of the layer sequence; and a cermet. The cermet includes a first part and a second part. The first part is included by the hole. The second part is included between the first layer and the second layer. The cermet is in one piece.
US09999775B2
An implantable medical device system operates in an atrial synchronized ventricular pacing mode and switches to an atrial-asynchronous pacing mode when pacing mode switching criteria are met. A control circuit of the system detects a cycle length change between two atrial cycle lengths determined from a cardiac signal that includes far-field atrial events. If the cycle length change is greater than a change, threshold the control circuit determines if the pacing mode switching criteria are satisfied subsequent to detecting the cycle length change.
US09999767B2
System for generating a distally traveling synthetic esophageal motion within a subject's esophagus. Includes: elongated member sized and configured for nasal or oral placement into the esophagus; series of stimulators mounted/mountable on and distributed along a length of elongated member, for stimulating portions along an esophageal length spanning between esophagus LES and UES, and include at least two longitudinally spaced electrodes, chargeable to opposite polarities; and signal generator for generating and sending sequences of stimulating signals to stimulators, to evoke a plurality of local esophageal contractions as distally traveling synthetic esophageal motion along the esophageal length. Also disclosed is an implant suitable for use in generating a distally traveling synthetic esophageal motion within a subject's esophagus, for example, suitable for use in the disclosed system. Exemplary applications include for treating an esophagus exhibiting different physiological conditions or/and characteristics, for example, of suspended esophageal peristaltic motility.
US09999756B2
Systems and methods for delivering a gaseous contrast agent to the lungs of a subject.
US09999748B2
The present disclosure provides a strong, flexible catheter shaft for use in a catheter system. The flexible catheter shaft includes a nitinol tube having one or more sets of cuts therein in combination with one or more outer jacket layers. The flexible catheter shaft provides a shaft having sufficient stiffness and kink resistance to allow an operator to advance an electrode basket connected to the flexible catheter shaft through a guide catheter to a target ablation site without causing vessel trauma. The distal tip of the flexible catheter shaft is designed to have sufficient flexibility to reduce any risk of kicking out a guide catheter when tracking the electrode basket around turns in the vasculature of a patient.
US09999747B2
A sphenocath including a sheath assembly including a sheath hub with a sheath tube extending therefrom with a passage extending from a proximal end of the sheath hub to a distal end of the sheath tube; a catheter assembly including a catheter hub with a catheter tube extending therefrom with a passage extending from a proximal end of the catheter hub to a distal end of the catheter tube; wherein the catheter assembly passes through the sheath assembly with a portion of the catheter hub engaging a portion of the sheath hub to limit relative rotation between the hubs while permitting relative axial movement such that in an initial non-extended position the distal end of the catheter tube is proximate to the distal end of the sheath tube. A system further including a guidewire is also provided.
US09999739B2
A patient interface device includes an elastomeric contacting portion that is structured to directly engage the skin of the user. The contacting portion has an engineered surface that includes a plurality of non-random, predesigned surface features designed to reduce friction and improve user comfort. In one implementation, the pitch between each immediately adjacent pair of the surface features is less than or equal to a predetermined maximum pitch value, and the height of each of the surface features is less than or equal to a predetermined maximum height value.
US09999729B2
A reservoir assembly comprising a reservoir housing, a piston, and a locking plug, both movably arranged inside the reservoir housing; wherein the volume between the piston and the locking plug defines a reservoir cavity. The reservoir assembly further comprising a reservoir outlet; and an actuator configured to act on the piston; wherein the locking plug is configured to be movable from a first position to a second position; wherein in the first position the reservoir outlet is not in fluid communication with the reservoir cavity. The reservoir assembly further comprising an interlock configured to prevent movement of at least one of the locking plug and the piston; wherein the interlock having a locked position and an unlocked position.
US09999727B2
A drive mechanism having integrated status indication includes a drive housing, a status switch interconnect, a drive biasing member, a piston, and a drug container having a cap, a pierceable seal, a barrel, and a plunger seal, wherein the drive biasing member is configured to bear upon an interface surface of the piston. Drive mechanism may include an incremental status stem having a stem interconnect, wherein the stem resides within the drive housing and the piston, and wherein the stem has an interconnect which engages one or more contacts on the piston to provide incremental feedback. A drug delivery pump with integrated status indication includes a housing and an assembly platform, upon which an activation mechanism, an insertion mechanism, a fluid pathway connection, a power and control system, and the drive mechanism having a drug container may be mounted.
US09999722B2
A device for delivering fluid into the body is provided. The device may comprise a reservoir including at least one wall for retaining fluid and a plunger (400), wherein the plunger is articulated with a drive screw (300) having a distal end (304) that rotates within the plunger and displaces the plunger in a linear direction. The device may further comprise a reusable part having a motor, one or more gears and a receiving portion, and also a disposable part having a reservoir, a plunger and a drive screw having a proximal end capable of engaging with the receiving portion upon connecting the reusable part and the disposable part
US09999714B2
A catheter (20), which can be part of an intravascular blood pump, possesses a kink sensor which extends over the total length of the catheter and comprises an optical fiber (28A). The optical fiber is attached to an evaluation device (100) which evaluates a preset light quantity transmitted through the optical fiber as to whether a part of the light quantity is coupled out of the optical fiber along the length of the optical fiber. This is interpreted as a kink event and displayed. The optical fiber preferably utilized for the kink sensor is the optical fiber of an optical pressure sensor.
US09999710B2
A tissue removal device includes a rigid aspiration cannula, a valve communicating with the aspiration cannula in a fluid-sealed manner, and a pneumatically-driven actuator configured for moving the valve between an open position and a closed position, wherein at the open position the valve defines an aspiration path through the aspiration cannula and the valve, and at the closed position the valve prevents vacuum from being applied at the distal tip.
US09999707B2
Methods of decellularization of tissue, such as mammalian tissue, through use of cyclical pressure changes are provided, along with methods of making an extracellular matrix (ECM) preparation.
US09999702B2
According to an illustrative embodiment a method to promote healing of a wound is provided comprising contacting the wound with a biologically active composition comprising a lipoic acid derivative and gelatin. In another embodiment a wound dressing is provided comprising a scaffold coated with a biologically active composition comprising a lipoic acid derivative. In a further embodiment, a system is provided for treating a tissue site of a patient, the system comprising a reduced-pressure source to supply reduced pressure, a manifold to distribute reduced pressure to a tissue site and a scaffold coated with a biologically active composition comprising a lipoic acid derivative. Methods for producing such a system and scaffold are also disclosed.
US09999691B2
The present invention provides methods for detecting an enzymatic activity, the method including combining at least one magnetic particle to an enzyme substrate to form a magnetically modified substrate, reacting the magnetically modified substrate with at least one enzyme; and detecting a change in a magnetic property of the magnetically modified substrate or its cleavage products, thereby detecting an activity of said at least one enzyme, wherein the method may be applied to a human subject to detect a disease selected from the group consisting of rheumatitis, arthritis, an injury, Dupuytren's disease, Peyronie's disease, a collagen related disease, steatosis, fibrosis, cirrhosis, metastasis, tissue regeneration, cancer, coronary disease, a liver disease, a metabolic condition, an infection and an inflammatory disease.
US09999689B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods based on peptide-detectable agent conjugates that are useful for imaging beta cell mass.
US09999687B2
Provided is a family of intramolecularly quenched imaging agents for use in both in vivo and in vitro imaging that contain at least one enzymatically cleavable oligopeptide and two fluorophores or a fluorophore and a quencher. When subjected to proteolytic cleavage, at least one fluorophore is unquenched and becomes capable of producing a fluorescent signal upon excitation with light of an appropriate wavelength. Also provided are in vivo and in vitro imaging methods using such imaging agents.
US09999683B2
Nucleic acid sequences encoding improved Herpes Simplex Virus Thymidine Kinases are provided, including their use in diagnostic and therapeutic applications. The thymidine kinases may be mutated using conservative mutations, non-conservative mutations, or both. Also provided are gene therapeutic systems, including viral and retroviral particles.
US09999675B2
Disclosed herein is a delivery composition for administering a hydrophobic active agent. In one embodiment, a delivery composition for local administration of a hydrophobic active agent to a tissue or organ of a patient is disclosed. In one embodiment, the delivery composition includes a cationic delivery agent, a therapeutically effective amount of a hydrophobic active agent and a pharmaceutically acceptable aqueous carrier. In one embodiment, the cationic delivery agent includes polyethyleneimine (PEI). In a more specific embodiment, the cationic delivery agent includes branched PEI. Methods of making the delivery composition, as well as kits and methods of use are also disclosed.
US09999661B2
The present disclosure teaches generally in the field of vaccination and disease control in cattle and bovine animals. A recombinant bovine herpesvirus 1 (BoHV-1) vaccine vector is provided for efficient control of one or more bovine pathogens such as those associated with bovine respiratory disease complex, such as bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), and which ameliorates disease conditions caused thereby. Protocols for the management of confined or herded bovine animals are also enabled herein.
US09999647B2
The invention relates to a method for obtaining a composition from a plant extract, to assist in the treatment or prevention of disorders or diseases related to neovascularisation.
US09999645B2
A method of making longan seed extract is provided with choosing an extraction solvent; heating the extraction solvent to a first predetermined temperature; adding pulverized longan seed to the extraction solvent to prepare a solution; maintaining the solution at a second temperature for a predetermined period of time to obtain an extracted substance; filtering the extracted substance; and drying and cooling the filtered extracted substance to produce an extract.
US09999628B2
Osteoclast inhibitors, such as neridronic acid, in an acid or a salt form can be used to treat or alleviate pain or related conditions, such as complex regional pain syndrome.
US09999626B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula I and related compositions and methods.
US09999617B2
The present invention is antibiotic compositions having the ability to disrupt a MazEF complex in S. aureus. The compositions also have the ability to inhibit growth of S. aureus and as such are useful as antibiotic compounds.
US09999616B2
The invention relates to substituted bicyclic compounds, which are useful for inhibition of BET protein function by binding to bromodomains, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, and use of the compounds and compositions in therapy.
US09999615B2
Described herein are compounds that are autotaxin inhibitors, methods of making such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds in the treatment of conditions, diseases, or disorders associated with autotaxin activity.
US09999610B2
The present invention is directed to a method of treating an inflammatory skin disease or disorder, such as dermatitis, psoriasis, acne, or rosacea. The method comprises administering to the subject 3-benzylsulfonylpropionitrile, in an amount effective to reduce or eliminate the symptoms of the inflammatory skin disease or disorder. Topical administration and oral administration are preferred route of administration.
US09999602B2
A composition is provided comprising: (i) menthol, and (ii) a carrier comprising a digestible edible oil, wherein said digestible edible oil is one that provides a composition which is a liquid at 20° C. after rising to that temperature from a lower temperature at which the oil was previously semisolid. The preferred edible oil is a medium-chain triglyceride oil, wherein the level of menthol in the composition is between 1-50% by total weight, so as to provide an menthol application rate of between 5 and 20 mg of menthol, and most preferably, about 10 mg menthol, in a single droplet of the composition. The composition can also include additional added vitamins and essential oils. A liquid method for administering menthol is provided.
US09999592B2
The invention relates to a method for contraception and for reducing menstrual problems and inducing amenorrhea, wherein an intrauterine delivery device is used for the controlled release of a combination of progestogen or a drug having a progestogenic activity and at least one therapeutically active substance capable of preventing or suppressing abnormal and/or irregular endometrial bleeding over a prolonged period of time.
US09999590B2
The subject invention provides improved diclofenac gel formulations.
US09999569B2
The invention is a needle valve and connectors for use in liquid transfer apparatuses. The needle valve of the invention is not the conventional type of needle valve known in the art that comprises a threaded valve stem, which allows very accurate control of the flow through the valve, and that uses elastic materials, such as rubber, as a sealing component. The needle valve of the invention comprises two components: the first component is a hollow needle having a smooth exterior surface and a port at the side of the cylindrical shaft, the second component is a seat made of rigid material e.g. plastic with low friction properties.
US09999568B2
The present invention is an alignment device for a bag containing one or more ports. The alignment device is attached to either the one or more ports or to the bag adjacent the one or more ports. The plate has an indicator or a unique outer edge shape that is designed to fit into a corresponding unique opening in a holder to ensure proper alignment of the bag and its port(s) in the holder. The plate is has a series of holes equal to and in alignment with the one or more ports of the bag and the port(s) extend through the holes of the plate.
US09999564B2
In a back massaging apparatus capable of projecting a massaging mechanism forward and returning the same to an original normal position, a motion amount is to be sufficient. The back massaging apparatus provided in a chair-type massaging machine includes: a massaging mechanism having: left and right paired massaging members each of which is provided with a treatment unit performing a massaging operation; and a drive unit transmitting a massaging operation to the massaging members; and a projection amount variable mechanism which moves the massaging members so that a projection amount of the treatment unit in the back and forth direction is varied.
US09999563B2
This massage device is configured to apply pressure to a human user's back, shoulders, or any distinct part of the musculoskeletal system. It can also be operated with a single arm and attaches to the user's forearm to apply pin-point or various pressure to target muscles. The massage device includes an arm plate that is configured to cover a forearm and a wrist of a human user. A hand grip is mechanically coupled to the arm plate and configured to accommodate the gripping of human fingers. A wrist bar is attached to the arm plate. A J-bar may be attached to the wrist bar. A tip is attached to the J-bar or directly to the short wrist bar. The tip is configured to provide variant pressure to the human user's back or shoulders or distal body part. Thereby duplicating mechanical pressure applied by a trained bodyworker by the untrained self at a much more reasonable price.
US09999551B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method of transferring discrete articles from or to a moving carrier member using a transfer assembly. The transfer assembly comprises a frame defining a rotation axis and a transfer member comprising a transfer surface configured to receive one of the discrete articles. The method comprises rotating the transfer member about the rotation axis and maintaining the transfer surface at a substantially constant minimum distance away from the moving carrier member at the point of discrete article transfer.
US09999548B2
A method for determining a size grid, the method comprising following steps: a) determination of N morphological parameters, N being ≥2; b) acquisition of a set of values of the parameters for a sample of a targeted population of individuals, each individual being associated with an individual point supplying, for each parameter, a value of the parameter; c) independently of steps a) and b), determination of rate of coverage of sample to be covered by the grid; d) determination of a set of coverage zones, each coverage zone being a set of individual points relating to a set of individuals for which a same orthesis according to the model is adapted and thus corresponding to a size adapted to set of individuals; the number of coverage zones being determined such that percentage of individual points included in at least one coverage zone is ≥ the desired coverage rate.
US09999538B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure include a dental appliance for treating/preventing sleep apnea and snoring. The dental appliance may be a wedge-shaped device designed to be positioned between the lower and upper jaw, wherein the device is thicker within a front area of the mouth and thinner within a back area of the mouth. The device may include upper and lower teeth channels to accommodate the teeth and a plurality of breathing ports positioned between the upper and lower teeth channels, the breathing ports being configured to allow a user to breathe through the ports while the appliance is in use. The appliance may force the mouth and airway into an unnaturally open position without requiring the lower jaw to be displaced forward. A tongue rest may extend through the device to support the tongue, while simultaneously providing slight upward pressure on the tongue to further open the airway.
US09999520B2
An osteoimplant is provided which comprises a coherent aggregate of elongate bone particles, the osteoimplant possessing predetermined dimensions and shape. The osteoimplant is highly absorbent and sponge-like in nature. Also provided herein are a method of fabricating the osteoimplant and a method of repairing and/or treating bone defects utilizing the osteoimplant.
US09999517B2
An intervertebral scaffolding system is provided having a laterovertically-expanding frame operable for a reversible collapse from an expanded state into a collapsed state, the laterovertically-expanding frame having a stabilizer that slidably engages with the distal region of the laterovertically-expanding frame and is configured for retaining the laterovertically-expanding frame from a lateral movement that exceeds the expanded state. The expanded state, for example, can be configured to have an open graft distribution window that at least substantially closes upon the reversible collapse.
US09999514B2
The invention relates to a wrist prosthesis (1), comprising a proximal prosthesis body (21) and a distal prosthesis body (11), wherein, at least in a deployed state of the wrist prosthesis, a portion of the proximal prosthesis body that faces away from the distal prosthesis body is provided with a convexly curved surface (22). Additionally, a portion of the distal prosthesis body that faces away from the proximal prosthesis body is furthermore provided with a convexly curved surface (12). Furthermore, the surfaces of the proximal prosthesis body and the distal prosthesis body that are facing each other are provided with complementary convex-concave curved surfaces (13, 23). The invention further relates to a set of components for such a wrist prosthesis, which allows the wrist prosthesis to be placed in a wrist, without anchoring means, and with a high degree of adaptation to the specific situation.
US09999512B2
The present invention provides a uni-compartmental knee joint prosthesis (1) which includes a tibial component (2) and a femoral component (3). The tibial component (2) has a fixation portion (10) adapted to be fixed to an upper end of a prepared tibia (T) in a patient, and a bearing portion (30) presenting an articulation surface (32) formed from a ceramic material, wherein the bearing portion (30) is adapted for movement relative to the fixation portion (10). The femoral component (3) is adapted to be fixed to a lower end of a prepared femur (F) in a patient, and comprises a body portion (50) presenting an articulation surface (56) formed from a ceramic material for engagement with the articulation surface (32) of the tibial component (2). The articulation surfaces (32, 56) of the tibial and femoral components are adapted for essentially congruent engagement over a full range of movement of the prosthesis.
US09999510B2
A method is provided for manufacturing a template, whereby a digital or physical model of the shape of at least a part of the jaw is generated. A desired shape for the jaw bone for positioning a bone superstructure is compared to the model and a bone part of the jaw bone is identified, which bone part is to be removed in order to approach the desired shape. A guide surface is provided on the template to guide a milling element in order to remove the identified bone part. A bone superstructure is also described.
US09999507B2
The present teachings provide devices and methods of treating a tricuspid valve regurgitation. Specifically, one aspect of the present teachings provides devices and methods for reshaping and resizing the right ventricle by reducing the distances between two papillary muscles. Another aspect of the present teachings provides devices and methods for reshaping and resizing the right ventricle by reducing the distances along the right ventricle wall. Another aspect of the present teachings provides devices and methods for reshaping and resizing the right ventricle by reducing the distance between the distance of right ventricle outflow track and the right ventricle wall. Another aspect of the present teachings provides devices and methods for reshaping and resizing the right ventricle by changing the right ventricle sphericity index. Another aspect of the present teachings provides devices and methods for reshaping and resizing the right ventricle by reducing the tricuspid valve tethering height.
US09999500B2
Disclosed herein are heart valves made from a polymeric material, such as silicone. Specifically exemplified are heart valve embodiments made from a one or two-pieces of material, or which have low thrombogenic potential. Also disclosed are methods of fabricating such valves. Furthermore, also disclosed are systems for testing performance of heart valves.
US09999464B2
Systems and methods for monitoring and performing tissue modulation are disclosed. An example system may include an elongate shaft having a distal end region and a proximal end and having at least one modulation element and one sensing electrode disposed adjacent to the distal end region. The sensing electrode may be used to determine and monitor changes in tissue adjacent to the modulation element.
US09999450B2
A surgical instrument includes a body, a securement arm, a clamp lock, and a tensioning assembly. The body defines a longitudinal axis and has proximal and distal portions. The distal portion defines a recess. The securement arm is coupled to the body and translatable along the body in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis between first and second position. The clamp lock is pivotally coupled to the distal portion of the body. The clamp lock is pivotable between secured and unsecured configurations. The tensioning assembly translatable in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis between proximal and distal position. The tensioning assembly configured to draw a flexible band to tension the flexible band about a bony element.
US09999449B2
An implant for repairing a joint between a first bone and a second bone includes a first section constructed of a substantially rigid material and a graft constructed of soft tissue having a first end and a second end. The first section has a first end surface configured for positioning against the first bone. The graft is configured for stabilizing the first section relative to the first bone. A first fastener is configured for mounting to the graft and the first section to anchor the graft to the first section. A second fastener is configured for mounting to the graft and the first bone to anchor the graft to the first bone.
US09999444B2
A precision depth guided instrument, such as a Jamshidi needle, is provided for use in various surgeries related to the vertebrae. The instrument includes an outer cannula, an inner cannula and a stylet. After the cortical bone of a vertebra is penetrated by the outer cannula of the instrument, the depth of penetration of the inner cannula is adjusted by rotation of the inner cannula. The inner cannula is then moved further into the vertebrae, and a stop mounted on the outer cannula controls the depth of penetration of the inner cannula. The correct depth of penetration is determined by radiography prior to the procedure.
US09999440B2
An apparatus for accessing the lumen of a vessel includes a handle providing a controller for operating the apparatus, an image capturing instrument secured to the handle, a display secured to the handle, wherein images captured by the image capturing instrument are displayed on the display, and a robotic platform coupled to the handle. The robotic platform includes a body, a first motor coupled to the body, wherein the first motor adjust the robotic platform to achieve a target insertion depth, and a cartridge carrier pivotally coupled to the body, wherein the robotic platform is adjustable to achieve the target insertion depth. The apparatus also includes a disposable cartridge attached to the cartridge carrier. The disposable cartridge includes a needle slideably coupled to the disposable cartridge, wherein the needle slides to extend to the target insertion depth, and a sheath slidably coupled to the disposable cartridge, wherein the sheath slides to extend to the target insertion depth.
US09999439B2
A laparoscopic scalpel includes a shaft and a recess disposed in a surface of the shaft proximal to a distal end of the shaft. A blade is attached to the shaft. The blade includes a cutting edge having a portion exposed by the recess and oriented outwardly from the recess. A proximal end of the portion of the cutting edge exposed by the recess is disposed further from the surface than is a distal end of the portion of the cutting edge exposed by the recess.
US09999437B2
An instrument comprises a shaft assembly. The shaft assembly comprises a first shaft member including a distal cutting feature, and a second shaft member. The first shaft member is slidable relative to the second shaft member. At least a distal portion of the shaft assembly is sized to fit through a nostril. The instrument further comprises a body. At least a portion of the shaft assembly extends distally relative to the body. The body comprises a grounding feature sized and positioned to engage one or more external anatomical structures adjacent to the nostril. The instrument further comprises a dampener. The dampener resists advancement of the first shaft member relative to the second shaft member.
US09999420B2
A member of a rigid flexible elastic material, the member including a body portion and an aperture portion with the member adapted for delivery through an axial longitudinal channel of a percutaneous delivery subsystem, the aperture portion including an expanded mode having a lateral dimension greater than an inner diameter of the channel when the aperture portion extends outside the channel and a collapsed mode wherein the lateral dimension is not greater than the inner diameter of the channel when the aperture portion is within the channel, the channel including a first axial opening and a second axial opening with the aperture portion transitioning from the expanded mode to the collapsed mode when inserted into the openings and the aperture transitioning from the collapsed mode to the expanded mode when exiting from the openings.
US09999414B2
Rib refraction devices and methods of its use and manufacture are disclosed. A retraction device may include a first frame portion and a second frame portion. The second frame portion may be attached to the first frame portion. The second frame portion may mechanically move between a first position and a second position with respect to the first frame portion. The retraction device may also include a first blade being pivotally attached to the first frame portion and comprising a flexible material. The retraction device may also include a second blade being pivotally attached to the second frame portion and comprising a flexible material.
US09999411B2
A vascular closure device, having an insertion sheath and a vascular closure implant positioned at least partially in the insertion sheath. The vascular closure implant may have an anchor element, the anchor element including an expandable material, a first puncture contact portion, a bend portion connected to the first puncture contact portion, the bend portion including a bend, and a second puncture contact portion connected to the bend portion. The vascular closure implant may also include a plug element coupled to the bend portion of the anchor element. The anchor element may be formed of an expandable material having the same or a different expansion rate than a material forming the plug element. The vascular closure device may additionally include a locator tube having a vessel locator positioned at least partially in the locator tube. The vessel locator may also have an elongated member that includes a superelastic material.
US09999409B2
An internal tissue puncture closure method and apparatus. The method and apparatus provide a locking device for compressing and holding an external component such as a collagen sponge at a puncture situs. The locking device facilitates compression of the external component in a first direction, but prevents or locks against retraction.
US09999400B2
Presented herein, in certain embodiments, are approaches for robust bone splitting and segmentation in the context of small animal imaging, for example, microCT imaging. In certain embodiments, a method for calculating and applying single and hybrid second-derivative splitting filters to gray-scale images and binary bone masks is described. These filters can accurately identify the split lines/planes of the bones even for low-resolution data, and hence accurately morphologically disconnect the individual bones. The split bones can then be used as seeds in region growing techniques such as marker-controlled watershed segmentation. With this approach, the bones can be segmented with much higher robustness and accuracy compared to prior art methods.
US09999395B2
Provided is an apparatus and method for detecting a user activity using a mobile terminal. The apparatus includes a sensing data collection unit to collect sensing data, a location determination unit to determine a location of the mobile terminal using the sensed data, and an action determination unit to determine an activity of a user that is using the mobile terminal based on the collected sensing data and the determined location of the mobile terminal.
US09999392B1
An equine performance tracking and monitoring system having real-time feedback may include a heart rate monitoring strap having a wireless transmitter, a wearable device, and a portable electronic device. Different components of the system may be connected by and/or information may be stored in a network. To measure the horse's heart rate, the disclosed systems may utilize a discrete-length heart rate monitoring strap having electrodes, one of which is positioned behind the left elbow of the horse. The horse's heart rate may be transmitted to the wearable device by the transmitter. The wearable device may include a sensor configured to measure the heart rate of the rider. The heart rate of the horse and the heart rate of the rider may each be presented to the rider, for example, via a display of the wearable device.
US09999386B2
Methods and system to diagnose central sleep apnea of a patient employ a relatively short test, combining few breathing parameters. The test is short in comparison to commonly used time-consuming and complex multi-parameter sleep studies. The patient uses a positive airway pressure device, and follows breathing cues. The occurrence of a central apnea during the delivery of breathing cues may support a diagnosis of central sleep apnea.
US09999380B1
A variety of wearable magnetic assemblies are provided that are configured to produce magnetic fields having high field magnitudes and/or high field gradients. Such magnetic assemblies include a plurality of magnetic segments arranged in a linear array. Individual magnetic segments of the magnetic array can each include multiple magnetic elements. An individual magnetic segment can include elements that have similar shape, size, composition, and relative location to elements of neighboring magnetic segments while having magnetic moments that are antiparallel to the magnetic moments of corresponding elements of the neighboring magnetic segments. These wearable magnetic assemblies are configured to exert forces on magnetic particles disposed in a portion of subsurface vasculature to attract, slow, speed, separate, or otherwise influence the magnetic particles in various applications. The magnetic particles can be configured to bind to an analyte of interest.
US09999365B2
A mapping ablation catheter is provided comprising: a catheter conduit having a hollow inner space in which a guide member is disposed; a monitoring electrode unit arranged to surround the outer circumferential surface of the distal portion of the catheter conduit and perform a mapping on the lesion region by being in side-contact with a cardiac organ; an ablation electrode unit arranged to be spaced apart from the monitoring electrode unit and surround the outer circumferential surface of the distal portion of the catheter conduit and which removes the lesion region; a plurality of liquid discharge holes arranged on the outer circumferential surface of the ablation electrode; a current application unit which applies current to the monitoring electrode unit and the ablation electrode unit; and a liquid supply unit having a liquid supply tube, one end of the liquid-supply tube connected to the liquid discharge holes in the catheter conduit.
US09999353B2
A medical device is presented for use in tissue characterization and treatment. The device comprises a tissue characterization probe comprising an elongated carrier carrying an array of tissue characterization sensors which are arranged in a spaced-apart relationship on at least a part of the carrier with known distances between them along a longitudinal axis of the carrier and along at least part of a circumference of the carrier, such that during progression of the probe through a tissue mass each of the sensors generates tissue characterization signals from successive locations thereof within the tissue mass enabling to locate an abnormal tissue inside said tissue mass, thereby enabling consequent treatment of the abnormal tissue. Several movement mechanisms are described for enabling relative movement between the carrier and a treatment tool passing therethrough.
US09999350B2
Devices, systems, and methods for glare reduction in surgical microscopy are provided. A method of operating a surgical microscope may include: receiving light reflected from the surgical field at an image sensor; processing the received light to generate image data; identifying portions of the image data representative of glare; and controlling an optical element to limit the transmission of light associated with the glare. A surgical microscope may include: an image sensor configured to receive light reflected from the surgical field, a computing device, and an optical element. The computing device may be configured to: identify portions of the light received at the image sensor associated with glare and generate a control signal to limit the transmission of the light associated with the glare. The optical element may be configured to selectively limit the transmission of the light associated with the glare in response to the control signal.
US09999347B2
An apparatus for covering eyes of a human includes: an eye piece configured for covering one of the eyes of the human; and an eye patch configured for covering the other one of the eyes of the human; wherein the eye piece and the eye patch are configured for preventing transmission of visible light; and wherein the eye piece comprises a region that is transparent for electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength range outside a visible range.
US09999345B2
An illumination system for adjustably positioning an illuminator in a surgical field in a patient includes an anchor element and an illumination element. The anchor element is configured to be releasably coupled with the patient, and the illumination element is coupled to the anchor element. The anchor element or the illumination element is configured to be coupled, uncoupled, and recoupled with the patient or adjacent surgical equipment. This allows repositioning of the illumination element at a plurality of positions in the surgical field without interfering with adjacent surgical instruments, and further permits adjustment of illumination in the surgical field.
US09999337B2
A dishwasher may include a closure element, such as a door, a user interface on the closure element, and a controller. A data communication link having a first data connector may be coupled to the controller, and a second data connector may be coupled to the user interface. The first and second data connectors may communicatively couple when the closure element is in the closed condition to establish data communication between the controller and the user interface. The communication link may also form a power link to provide power to the user interface across an electrical link.
US09999333B2
A pivoting and swiveling floor treatment appliance includes a lock-prevention member that prevents a body from becoming pivotally locked in a forward/backward direction when a portion of the body is in a swiveled position. The lock-prevention member may move relative to an appliance head and to a portion of the body that swivels. In some embodiments, components of the lock-prevention member contribute to locking the swivel of the body when the body is pivotally locked.
US09999331B2
A domestic appliance such as a cyclonic vacuum cleaner includes a component such as separating apparatus, carried by a chassis. A catch is provided and is operable to release the component from the chassis. The component and the chassis are able to move slightly with respect to each other. When the appliance is lifted, lugs on the separating apparatus move into slots on the chassis so as to inhibit release of the catch when the appliance is lifted. Thus, accidental release of the separating apparatus from the chassis is avoided.
US09999330B2
A roller brush assembly comprises a roller and a brush set on the roller. The roller contains an interior cavity constituted by at least two barrel bodies. Each portion of the barrel body edge is serrated shaped, and the adjacent serrated-shaped portions of the barrel both form a blade slot for positioning the serrated-shaped blade, and the blade edge corresponds to the teeth on the serrated shaped edge. A driver unit is installed in the interior cavity to make the blade move along the roller axially to cut the wrapped in the tooth groove automatically when the roller brush is turned on and off.
US09999326B2
Some example product dispensers that accommodate two full paper towel rolls are provided herein. The product dispenser may employ separate dispensing mechanisms for each product roll and may include roll holders that articulate out from the housing to facilitate easy loading and access to replacement and loading of the other product roll. A roll partition may be utilized to separate the web paths of the two product rolls and enable rotation of front roll holders. Example funnel covers and nip covers can aid with intuitive installation. Example roll holders with retention mechanisms help prevent unintentional dropping of the installed product roll. Other beneficial features include utilizing motor operation sensing to dispense a desired sheet length, automatic/assisted loading into the dispensing mechanism, automatic switching between dispensing of product rolls, and always dispensing from the smaller product roll first. Many other features/structures of example product dispensers are also described herein.
US09999324B2
A liquid-dispensing pad has a perforated generally elastic film forming a front wall, a liquid-impervious plastic rear wall, a weld peripherally securing the front wall to the rear wall, and a liquid-retaining core between the front and rear walls. The perforated film is a coextruded film having an elastic inner layer turned toward the core and an inelastic outer cover layer turned away from the core. This cover layer forms an outer face of the liquid-dispensing pad and is composed of polyolefin. A thickness of the cover layer is less than 15 μm, and a thickness ratio of the elastic inner layer to the inelastic outer cover layer is at least 10:1.
US09999323B2
An authentication reader and a dispenser comprising the authentication reader for authenticating a product having a taggant ink disposed on the product's surface.
US09999314B1
A cold brew coffee apparatus has a first container, a second container, a centerpiece connector, and a filter. Preferably the filter is positionable within the first container such that it divides the filter interior volume from the remainder of the first container interior volume. Preferably, cold brew infusion occurs when water in the first container interior volume passes through the water-permeable barrier and soaks coffee grounds within the filter interior volume to form a soluble coffee extract. An alternative cold brew coffee apparatus includes only a single brew chamber and a filter.
US09999313B2
An architectural covering is presented having a rotatable drive element having a guide structure and a plurality of idler attachment elements and a drive element positioned over the rotatable drive element. The rotatable drive element is connected to a wall, ceiling or other structure by brackets. In one arrangement a drive shaft having at least one bearing is then attached to the brackets such that the rotatable drive elements rotate upon the bearings. This arrangement provides an efficient, simple and convenient manner of attaching a rotatable drive element to brackets for mounting.
US09999306B1
A convertible stand for concealing an inflatable mattress that converts into a headboard when the inflatable mattress is inflated. The convertible stand has a compartment. A pliable material is connected to the inflatable mattress. A portion of the pliable material extends beyond an end of the inflatable mattress and is connected to an inner wall surface of the compartment. A barrier is connected to the convertible stand. When the barrier is oriented in an upper position the compartment is open and the inflatable mattress can be inflated. When the barrier is oriented in a lower position the compartment is closed and both the deflated inflatable mattress and pliable material are retained within the compartment of the convertible stand.
US09999301B2
A pallet racking system includes a plurality of pallet shelves connected to a plurality of columns and a plurality of suspension hanging systems coupled to the plurality of columns. Each suspension hanging system is coupled to and configured for supporting a storage unit therebelow. The suspension hanging systems are slidable relative to the plurality of pallet shelves such that the sliding movement of a suspension hanging system relative to an adjacent suspension hanging system defines an aisle space therebetween.
US09999298B1
A lap desk includes within its planar work surface a mouse pad and a slotted port for securing an electronic device such as a tablet, e-reader or cellular telephone in an upright and useable position. The mouse pad is substantially flush with the work surface and disposed in a right hand or left hand position for right- or left-handed users. The slotted port is inclined slightly so that the user can view and engage the device's screen while working with other objects on the lap desk. The slotted port may vary in width for electronic devices of various sizes; its depth and thickness accommodating most hand-held electronic devices without obscuring their screens. In one embodiment, the mouse pad and slotted port are molded into a module bearing a flange which can be inserted into a congruently sized aperture in any surface.
US09999297B1
A console is for an exercise apparatus. The console comprises a console body and a media shelf on the console body. The media shelf is manually pivotable with respect to the console body into and between a retracted position in which the media shelf is configured to support a first media article having a first thickness and an extended position in which the media shelf is configured to support a second media article having a respectively different, second thickness.
US09999296B1
A laptop PC stand is disclosed, comprising: a carrier unit, an extension unit and a rotation support unit; the carrier unit and the extension unit being arranged side by side to form a platform carrying a laptop PC, the carrier unit having a placement surface with a partial area concave and forming a housing space, and a first side and a second side; the extension unit being adjacent to the second side, being disposed with a plurality of tracks extending into the carrier unit, and disposed with at least a stop block, the stop block standing on the extension unit when flipped; the rotation support unit coupled to the first side, and after rotation, being located inside the housing space or standing on the first side; the rotation support unit having a first clamping element and a second clamping element, able to move towards the same or opposite direction.
US09999289B2
A backpack with improved shoulder straps includes a set of fold-over panels formed respectively on the shoulder straps, wherein each of the fold-over panels extends from an inner side of the shoulder strap on which it is formed, folds over the shoulder strap, and attaches to an outer side of the shoulder strap on which it is formed. The improved shoulder straps mitigate chafing around the neck of a user.
US09999267B2
Articles of apparel including an encapsulated insulation panel with a plurality of spaced apart insulation sections, methods of making the encapsulated insulation panels, and methods of making the articles of appeal are provided. Methods of making articles of apparel may include bonding an encapsulated insulation panel to a first fabric layer with an adhesive film. Methods of making articles of apparel may also include coupling the encapsulated insulation panel to a second fabric layer with an adhesive tape to form a multilayer fabric. The bonding and coupling of an encapsulated insulation panel to the fabric layers may be performed with using one or more presses.
US09999264B2
An adjustable suit is provided which includes an optional torso section having front and back portions and a torso circumference, a waist section having a front portion and a back portion and a waist section circumference, and a leg section including a pair of legs. Each of the legs has a leg opening therein, and each of the leg openings has a leg opening circumference. The suit includes at least one adjustable member which extends generally along at least one of the optional torso, waist, and leg sections. The at least one adjustable member is adapted to increase or decrease at least one of the optional torso, waist, and leg opening circumferences to reduce the time and effort needed to don and take off the suit. The adjustable features of the suit also permit the wearer to tighten one or more sections of the suit to accommodate the different physiques of wearers while providing a snug fit and support during athletic or work activities.
US09999261B2
A bra with a reversible effect of bringing the breasts closer together includes two cups linked together by a bridge portion and an adjustment device for adjusting the distance between the cups located at the bridge portion. The adjustment device includes a first fastening element and a second fastening element arranged on either side of the bridge portion and movable relative to each other between a coupled position in which the two cups are brought closer together and an uncoupled position in which the two cups are moved apart.
US09999252B2
The present invention discloses an atomization assembly and an electronic cigarette. An atomization assembly comprises a transparent atomization sleeve. One end of the atomization sleeve is connected to a connection column, and the other end of the atomization sleeve is detachably connected to an atomization core configured to atomize smoke tar. A vent-pipe with two ends being inserted into the connection column and the atomization core respectively is sheathed in the atomization sleeve, and a first oil storage container for storing the smoke tar is formed between the atomization sleeve and the vent-pipe. The following advantageous effects can be achieved: the user can disassemble the suction nozzle cover at regular time to clean the liquid smoke stored in the oil storage container; besides, it is convenient to change the atomization core, to view the residual smoke tar and to add the smoke tar.
US09999247B2
An aerosol generating device is provided, including a housing configured to receive an aerosol-forming substrate having an internal cavity; a heating element configured to be received within the internal cavity of the substrate, and a positioning mechanism coupled to the heating element and to the housing being configured to move the heating element between a plurality of heating positions within the cavity. There is also provided an aerosol generating device including a housing configured to receive an aerosol-forming substrate, a heating element configured to heat a portion of the substrate, and a positioning mechanism configured to move the heating element from a first position next to a first portion of the substrate, to a second position remote from the substrate, and then to a third position next to a second portion of the substrate.
US09999245B1
Present disclosure relates to electronic cigarettes having concealable mouthpiece and methods of using the same. In certain embodiments, the electronic cigarette includes: an E-liquid storage tank for storing E-liquid, a concealable mouthpiece assembly having a concealable mouthpiece to be concealed in a mouthpiece cover, a vaporizer assembly, and an E-liquid separation mechanism. The E-liquid storage tank is positioned on the E-liquid separation mechanism and the E-liquid separation base is rotatably positioned on a vaporizer base. The E-liquid separation mechanism has the E-liquid separation base and an E-liquid separation silicone gel ring to separate the E-liquid from the E-liquid storage tank from the vaporizer assembly. When a user rotates the E-liquid storage tank against the vaporizer base in a first direction, the concealable mouthpiece is raised upward for user to use. When user rotates E-liquid storage tank against vaporizer base in an opposite direction, concealable mouthpiece is concealed in mouthpiece cover.
US09999244B2
A Pre-Rolled Smoking Paper Stuffer has a chimney which includes a separator wall bin, converging guide, cradle, tip spacer, and base walls and an extractor base which includes an extractor block, alignment block, and tip pusher. A smoking paper can be inserted into the cradle. Smoking materials are placed into the bin and flow out of the bin and into the converging guide which funnels them into the smoking paper held within the cradle. Once filled, the chimney is pressed onto the base and the alignment block aligns the tip pusher with the smoking-end of the paper. As the chimney continues to be pushed down, the tip pusher displaces the filled smoking paper up and out of the top of the cradle. The stuffed paper can be grasped and lifted out of the stuffer. Multiple stuffers can be attached to one another via the use of various attachment means.
US09999236B2
A confectionery composition comprising an edible shell having a filling therein. The filling comprises a fat system and has a solid fat content (SFC) of 35 to 65% at 0° C. and 1 to 8% at 30° C. In particular embodiments the fat system is prepared from palm oil midfraction. The filling is soft at low temperature so that it is palatable. However, it does not melt at ambient temperatures and therefore does not require refrigeration/freezing for storage or transport.
US09999235B2
The invention relates to a ready-to-drink tea beverage comprising water, tea solids, protein and primary cell wall material. The primary cell wall material is derived from plant parenchymal tissue and has been treated to contain at least partially disentangled cellulose microfibrils. The invention further relates to a method for preparing said ready-to-drink tea beverage comprising the steps of •—mixing at least part of the water and primary cell wall material; and •—subjecting this mixture to mechanical energy and/or cavitation.
US09999232B1
A gambrel for hanging an animal to be butcher or skinned, the gambrel having an adjustable length suspension bar from which lines extend to be wrapped around the legs of the animal to be butchered or skinned. The adjustable length suspension bar consists of one elongated member inserted into another elongated member. Each elongated member has a slot through which each end of a gambrel suspension line is extended into and retained within each elongated member so that the geometry of the gambrel suspension line remains the same when length of the adjustable length suspension bar is changed to accommodate different sized animals.
US09999225B2
The present invention relates generally to compositions and methods of killing bacteria using a surface plasmon coupled to a photosensitizer. A nanostructure (10) may include a silver nanoparticle core (12), a mesoporous silica shell (14), and a photosensitizer (16). A method of killing bacteria may include contacting bacteria with a nanostructure (10) including a silver nanoparticle core (12), a mesoporous silica shell (14), and a photosensitizer (16) to form a blend and exposing the blend to light.
US09999222B2
The present invention relates to herbicidal combinations comprising at least one compound of formula (I) (component a) and at least one further compound selected from herbicidally active compounds (component b) and/or safeners (component c) wherein Ra, Rb, Rc, Rd are inter alia H, halogen, CN, NO2, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-haloalkyl, OH, C1-C6-alkoxy, C1-C6-alkylthio, etc.; R1 is inter alia H, OH, S(O)2NH2, CN, C1-C6-alkyl, etc.; R2 is inter alia H, halogen, CN, C1-C6-alkyl, C1-C6-haloalkyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C3-C6-alkynyl, etc.; R3 is inter alia H, halogen, CN, C1-C6-alkyl, etc; R4 is inter alia H, halogen, CN, C1-C6-alkyl, etc; or R3 and R4 together with the carbon atom to which they are attached form a moiety selected from the group consisting of carbonyl, C2-C6-alkenyl, C3-C6-cycloalkyl, C3-C6-cycloalkenyl and three- to six-membered heterocyclyl, and R5 is inter alia H, OH, S(O)2NH2, CN, C1-C6-alkyl, etc; including their agriculturally acceptable salts or N-oxides; and at least one further compound selected from herbicide compounds b) and safeners c) and mixtures thereof.
US09999214B2
A head harness for use by hunters who are already secured by a torso-type safety harness when sitting in a tree stand. The head harness comprises a headband or headband-incorporating cap worn by the hunter, a connector at the rear of the headband, and a receiver secured to the tree at a height corresponding to the hunter's head when sitting in the tree stand. The receiver and connector are configured to mate, with a connection that resists the nodding motion of the hunter's head if the hunter begins falling asleep, thereby helping to prevent falls from the tree stand that would be initiated in the direction of the nodding head.
US09999210B1
A device has a spool rotatable about an axis in a reel, and a braking structure that effects a braking force against rotation of the spool, the braking force being adjustable by changing a proximity of the braking structure relative to the spool. The device includes at least one tap in a fixed relationship with respect to the braking structure, and a brake dial accessible outside the reel and providing a threaded portion that accepts the at least one tap, the brake dial being rotatable to change the proximity of the braking structure relative to the spool by movement of the tap.
US09999204B2
The invention relates to a device for combating the varroa mite in a bee brood, comprising at least one middle wall that can be inserted in particular into a beehive and that is provided with brood cells for female bees, the device having an electrical heating device that has a resistance heating element embedded in the middle wall and a control device connected to the latter which is designed such that an automatically running heating process can be initiated with a temporally pre-determined heat-up phase that lasts until a temperature of 39° C. to 45° C., preferably 39° C. to 42° C., is reached at the bottom of the brood cells in the region of the resistance heating element and then with a subsequent phase of maintaining this temperature for a predetermined period of time.
US09999198B2
Animal bedding having one or more solvents and a lignocellulosic fiber, wherein the lignocellulosic fiber has been processed by ruminant digestion and anaerobic digestion. A method for preparing pelletized animal bedding is also disclosed including the steps of providing excrement from a cow which has undergone ruminant digestion, introducing the cow excrement into an anaerobic digester, modifying the cow excrement to a first wet product, drying the first wet product to generate a first dry product, and densifying the first dry product to, in turn, generate pelletized animal bedding.
US09999189B1
A soybean cultivar designated 54113122 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 54113122, to the plants of soybean cultivar 54113122, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 54113122, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 54113122. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 54113122. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 54113122, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 54113122 with another soybean cultivar.
US09999188B1
A soybean cultivar designated S160149 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar S160149, to the plants of soybean cultivar S160149, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar S160149, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar S160149. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S160149. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar S160149, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar S160149 with another soybean cultivar.
US09999187B2
Inbred corn line, designated WCC153, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of inbred corn line WCC153, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line WCC153, and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line WCC153 with itself or another corn line. The invention also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line WCC153 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The invention further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line WCC153.
US10004169B2
A bulk component supply device which is moved together with a mounting head which mounts electronic circuit components on a circuit substrate and of a component mounter device equipped with that bulk component supply device is disclosed. A bulk component driving device of the bulk component supply device is non-detachably provided on head main body of the mounting head, and a passage-equipped component case in which a component case and a component passage are fixed is detachably attached to head main body by a passage-equipped component case attachment device. When the holding by passage-equipped component case attachment device is in a released state, the passage-equipped component case can be removed while the bulk component driving device is held as in on head main body, and exchanged with a different passage-equipped component case. This exchange can be performed automatically by a passage-equipped component case exchange unit.
US10004167B2
A circuit shielding structure, relating to a technical field of electronics, includes a substrate, wherein: at least one radio frequency component circuit is fixed on the substrate; a wave-absorbing material layer is embedded in the substrate; a shielding wall made of wave-absorbing material is arranged on the substrate and around the radio frequency component circuit; a conductive material layer covers the shielding wall; a closed space is formed among the substrate in which the wave-absorbing material layer is embedded, the shielding wall and the conductive material layer, and the radio frequency component circuit is sealed in the closed space, so that omnidirectional shielding is achieved.
US10004160B1
An adaptive heat dissipation apparatus is provided, including two or more chamber walls forming a chamber volume having a first open side and a second open side, a heat source positioned at the first open side of the chamber volume, a heat conducting surface positioned at the second open side of the chamber volume, and a thermally-expansive material occupying a predetermined portion of the chamber volume. The thermally-expansive material expands to substantially fill the chamber volume at an ambient temperature above a predetermined temperature threshold and conducts heat from the heat source to the heat conducting surface. The thermally-expansive material contracts to leave an air gap when the ambient temperature is below the predetermined temperature threshold.
US10004157B2
A Mobile Soft Duct System includes a soft duct that can be extended and retracted along a track to deliver an air supply to various locations. A vent attached to a part of the soft duct system can include a flow control element that can be adjusted to direct air to a target location. Managing a soft duct system can include monitoring an environment to detect temperature hotspots and configuring the soft duct system, in response to detection of a hotspot at a particular location, to deliver air to the particular location to mitigate the hotspot. Configuring the soft duct system can include extending the soft duct along the track and adjusting a flow control element in a vent to direct air to the particular location. Soft duct system management can be implemented by one or more computer systems.
US10004155B1
A split door submersible housing for an electrical distribution system includes a cabinet body defining an interior region configured to accept a component of the electrical distribution system, and a first door and a second door positioned side by side to cover an open front portion of the cabinet body. The cabinet body includes at least one opening configured to accept an electrode sealed with and electrically isolated from the cabinet body and extending through the cabinet body to establish electrical connection between a corresponding terminal of the component and an electrical distribution network. A gasket system is provided, which comprises a first one piece continuous gasket configured to fit on the first door and a second one piece continuous gasket configured to fit on the second door. The gasket system seals the first door and the second door against each other and against a corresponding surface on the cabinet body, when the first and second doors are closed and locked, so that the housing is water tight.
US10004150B2
An electronic device system is provided that comprises: a vertically oriented set top box having an outer casing that includes a wall; and an electronic modular component connected to the wall. The wall comprises: at least one connector aperture; latch catch; and an electronic jack between the at least one connector aperture and the latch catch. The modular component comprises: at least one connector that engages the at least one connector aperture; a latch engages the latch catch to connect the electronic modular component to the wall of the electronic device; and an electronic connector that engages the electronic jack when the latch is engaged.
US10004143B2
A printed wiring board includes a first circuit substrate having a first surface and a second surface on the opposite side, and a second circuit substrate having a third surface and a fourth surface on the opposite side such that the first circuit substrate is laminated on the third surface and that the first surface and the third surface are opposing each other. The second circuit substrate has a mounting area on the third surface and includes pads positioned to mount an electronic component in the mounting area and a connection wire structure connected to the pads, and the first circuit substrate includes through-hole conductors extending from the first surface to the second surface and connected to the pads through the connection wire structure and has an opening portion formed through the first circuit substrate such that the opening portion is exposing the pads formed in the mounting area.
US10004140B2
A three-dimensional circuit substrate according to the present disclosure includes a base body and a wiring pattern formed on an outer surface of the base body. Also, the outer surface of the base body includes a mounting surface which faces the substrate when the three-dimensional circuit substrate is mounted onto the substrate, and an installation surface which is different from the mounting surface and is a surface where an electronic component is installable. Further, a recess is formed on a side where the mounting surface is provided in the base body.
US10004138B2
Disclosed are an optical member, a display device including the optical member and a method of fabricating the optical member. The display device includes a light source; a wavelength conversion member into which light generated from the light source is incident; and a display panel into which light is incident from the wavelength conversion member. The wavelength conversion member includes a receiving part having a pipe shape; a matrix in the receiving part; and a plurality of wavelength conversion particles disposed in the matrix to convert a wavelength of the light generated from the light source.
US10004135B2
A technique to guide a micro- or nano-scale particle uses the wavelengths of light beams to control the direction of motion of the particle. In this technique, an optical asymmetry is introduced into the particle to form a composite particle. The composite particle includes two faces that preferentially absorb light of different wavelengths, independent of the particle orientation. The difference in absorption spectra of the two faces creates a bidirectional and local thermal gradient that is externally switchable by changing the wavelength of the incident light beams. This thermal gradient induces a thermophoretic drift that moves the composite particle. A two-faced nanoparticle can be guided using the optically induced thermophoretic drift as the propulsion mechanism.
US10004128B2
In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for systems and methods that employ a control component and/or power source integrated in an LED based light source to control and/or power the LED light source wirelessly. In embodiments, the LED based light source may take the form of a standard light bulb that plugs into a standard lighting socket or fixture.
US10004126B2
In a lighting system that emits light of a color within a color specification, the color is controlled by adding light from a single color-correcting light emitting device (light-emitting device) to a primary light-emitting device. In an illustrative embodiment, a color-detecting module can sense the color of the combined light emitted from both the primary and the color-correcting light-emitting devices. The color-control system can generate an amplitude control signal based on a signal indicative of the color sensed by the color-detecting module. A color range of the combined light of the primary and the color-correcting light-emitting devices can intersect a domain of the predetermined color specification, as the generated amplitude control signal spans the domain. Using a single color-correcting light-emitting device to maintain a lighting system's emitted color within a predetermined color specification can advantageously reduce system complexity.
US10004124B1
Disclosed is a display device having a display panel including pixels, a pixel circuit of each of the pixels comprising a capacitor connected between a first and second node, a driving transistor connected to the second node, a third node, and a first supply voltage, a first transistor supplying the first supply voltage or a reference voltage to the first node, a second transistor supplying the reference voltage to the second node, a third transistor supplying a data voltage to the first node, a fourth transistor forming a current path between the second and third nodes, a fifth transistor supplying the reference voltage or a reset voltage to the fourth node, a sixth transistor supplying the reference voltage to the first node, a seventh transistor forming a current path between the third and fourth nodes, and a diode connected to the fourth node and a second supply voltage.
US10004123B1
An apparatus and a method monitor the status of a thermal protection device within a surge protection device (SPD). A monitoring circuit connected to a monitor output signal of the SPD is responsive to the presence of a time-varying voltage on the monitor output signal. The time-varying voltage is present during a selected half of each AC cycle when the thermal protection device is intact such that the SPD is no longer providing surge protection. The time-varying voltage is not present when the thermal protection device is no longer intact. When the time-varying voltage is not present for a selected duration, the monitoring circuit illuminates a light-emitting diode (LED) to indicate that the thermal protection device has failed.
US10004118B1
In an embodiment, an LED control circuit may include a first circuit configured to form a reference signal having a waveform of a rectified ac signal. The LED control circuit may also include a first regulator circuit configured to regulate a first LED current from a first LED during a first portion of the reference signal to have a waveshape that follow the reference signal waveform but not receive the first current during a second portion of the reference signal. The LED control circuit may also include a second regulator circuit configured to regulate a second current from the first LED and from a second LED during the second portion of the reference signal to have a waveshape that follows the reference signal waveform.
US10004116B2
A lighting device includes a power converter and a controller. The power converter includes a transformer having primary, secondary and tertiary windings, and a switching device electrically connected in series with the primary winding. The controller is configured to measure a signal simulating a primary current flowing through the primary winding based on a voltage occurring across the tertiary winding and detect timing for turning the switching device off based on the signal simulating the primary current.
US10004115B2
An electronic oven with a set of variable reflectance elements for controlling a distribution of heat in the electronic oven and associated methods are disclosed herein. The electronic oven includes a chamber, an energy source coupled to an injection port in the chamber, and a set of variable reflectance elements located in the chamber. In some of the disclosed approaches the variable reflectance elements are nonradiative. A control system of the electronic oven can be configured to alter the states of the variable reflectance elements to thereby alter and control the distribution of energy within the chamber.
US10004109B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for recovering data units in a wireless communication system. The method of recovering data units in a wireless LAN comprises the steps of: determining a channel state of at least one secondary channel band for a predetermined time after an STA has failed to transmit a first PPDU; and transmitting, at the STA, a second PPDU through a recovery channel band determined on the basis of the channel state, wherein the first PPDU is data transmitted through a primary channel and at least one secondary channel, and the recovery channel band may include, from among the primary channel band and at least one secondary channel, a secondary channel that is in an idle state.
US10004105B2
Provided is a network self-healing method in which, when a link between a parent device and a child device breaks down in a wireless communication network of a cluster-tree structure in which a main communication device (referred to an access point (AP)) manages network operation, routers that are devices capable of having their child devices, and end devices that are devices incapable of having their child devices are associated with each other in a parent-child device relationship, the link is restored. When a router becomes an orphan device, the router makes network re-association in a cluster unit while maintaining synchronized operation with its child devices, and thus time, energy and signaling burden for network self-healing is largely reduced.
US10004103B2
A communication system is disclosed comprising an X2 gateway, a number of base stations, and a mobile device. The base stations are able to establish X2 connections directly with each other or via the X2 gateway. Various procedures are disclosed to determine how X2 connections should be established based on compatibility of the respective base stations with the X2 gateway.
US10004099B2
A method of extended DRX paging includes a base station that transmits extended DRX configuration information and a User Equipment (UE) receives the extended DRX configuration from the base station. The UE determines a first number of frames that are included in a hyper-frame based at least in part on the extended DRX configuration information and selects a hyper-frame number. The hyper-frame number is based at least in part on the extended DRX configuration information. The UE maintains a hyper-frame count and the hyper-frame count is incremented after each hyper-frame. The UE then goes into sleep mode and the UE determines a wake up time before a standard DRX cycle that occurs during the selected hyper-frame. The UE may also determine a first wake up time and a second wake up time based on the selected hyper-frame number and synchronization error between a first cell and a second cell.
US10004097B1
In embodiments, a device may include a persistent storage medium, a wireless transceiver to send and receive data, and a control module coupled with the persistent storage medium and the wireless transceiver. In embodiments, the control module may establish a network connection, via the wireless transceiver, with an end device node in response to an association request received from the end node. The control module may then store an identifier associated with the end device node in the persistent storage medium to enable the network connection to be reestablished with the end device node in the event that the network connection with the end device node is lost. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10004095B2
Various exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and an apparatus for communicating by using multiple frequency bands of an electronic device in a wireless communication system. The electronic device comprises: a first wireless communication circuit configured to perform wireless communication with at least one external electronic device by using a first frequency band; a second wireless communication circuit configured to perform wireless communication with the at least one external electronic device by using a second frequency band; and a processor functionally connected with the first wireless communication circuit and the second wireless communication circuit. The processor is configured to establish a wireless connection with the at least one external electronic device based on the first frequency band by using the first wireless communication circuit; determine whether it is possible to establish a wireless connection with the at least one external electronic device based on the second frequency band by using the second wireless communication circuit, during establishment of the wireless connection with the at least one electronic device based on the first frequency band; when it is not possible to establish a wireless connection with the at least one external electronic device based on the second frequency band according to the determining, perform data communication with the at least one external electronic device based on the first frequency band; and when it is possible to establish a wireless connection with the at least one external electronic device based on the second frequency band, perform data communication with the at least one external electronic device based on the second frequency band.
US10004089B2
A base station infers a random access failure rate depending on a random access collision of terminals performing random access and controls a random access opportunity of a terminal that fails the random access by using the random access failure rate of each terminal. Also, information for the controlled random access opportunity is transmitted to the terminal that fails the random access.
US10004087B2
An apparatus may communicate with at least two networks. The apparatus may be configured to opportunistically decode a channel from a first network and a channel from a second network in order to receive data from both networks. The apparatus may determine whether first data carried on a paging channel (PCH) is decodable from a subset of slots that carry the PCH. The subset of slots may be included in a set of slots that carry the PCH. When the PCH collides with a physical multicast channel (PMCH), the apparatus may decode second data carried on the PMCH instead of the first data when the first data is determined to be decodable from the subset of slots that carry the PCH, and decode the first data instead of the second data when the first data is not determined to be decodable from the subset of slots that carry the PCH.
US10004081B2
Embodiments described herein provide a method for resource unit signaling with reduced data bits in a wireless local area network. At a wireless transceiver, a data frame may be obtained for transmission. The data frame includes a first preamble portion and a second preamble portion compliant with a wireless local area network communication protocol. When an available resource unit for transmitting the data frame is less than an allowed bandwidth, the first preamble portion and the second preamble portion may be configured with resource unit signaling bits. When the available resource unit is greater than or equal to the allowed bandwidth, the resource unit may be virtually divided into a plurality of channels. At least one of the first preamble portion and the second preamble portion may be configured with a first number of bits representing a number of users spatially multiplexed on a channel from the plurality of channels.
US10004074B2
Transmission coordination within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications
Transmission coordination within multiple user, multiple access, and/or MIMO wireless communications. Within wireless communication systems, there can be various wireless communication devices therein that are not all compliant with a common capability set, communication protocol, communication standard, recommended practice, etc. For example, some communication systems may have some wireless communication devices characterized as ‘legacy’ wireless communication devices, and other wireless communication devices therein may be newer and compliant with newer capability sets, communication protocols, communication standards, recommended practices, etc. In such instances, coordination of transmissions among the various wireless communication devices may be made, when performing simultaneous transmissions, by ensuring that transmissions of devices on different channels is made when aligned on a common boundary of an OFDM symbol. Alternatively, such simultaneous transmissions may be made when offset by some multiple of OFDM symbol duration. When performing non-simultaneous transmissions, transmissions may be made based on channel availability.
US10004069B2
There is provided a wireless terminal including: a frame allocating unit performing an allocation process on a frame to be transmitted to another wireless terminal; a first communication unit assigning a sequence number to the allocated frame and transmitting the frame to the another wireless terminal through a first channel or a first mode; a second communication unit assigning a sequence number to the allocated frame and transmitting the frame to the another wireless terminal through a second channel or a second mode, wherein the allocating unit allocates the frame to one of the first and second communication units; when changing the transmission source of the frame from the one to the other communication unit, a change notification frame including a transmission starting sequence number is transmitted to the another wireless terminal; and the frame allocating unit switches the allocation destination of the frame from the one to the other.
US10004060B2
In one embodiment, a method is performed by a base station in a wireless network. The method includes receiving from a user device a request to reconfigure already-active uplink semi-persistent scheduling (SPS). The already-active uplink SPS grants the user device a resource block allocation (RBA) and a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for periodic uplink transmissions. The already-active uplink SPS includes a time-interval parameter, the time-interval parameter specifying a time interval between the periodic uplink transmissions. The request includes information related to a proposed adjustment of the time-interval parameter. The method further includes reconfiguring the already-active uplink SPS. The reconfiguring includes modifying the time-interval parameter based, at least in part, on the information.
US10004038B2
The present invention provides a method of bypassing data and a mobile device to establish a shared data path via a shared memory of the mobile device between network modules. The network modules may exchange data packets via the shared memory, and a processing unit of the mobile device enters into a sleep mode when the network modules exchange the data packets via the shared memory SM. The power consumption of the mobile device is therefore reduced.
US10004024B2
A system includes a processor configured to wirelessly broadcast connection credentials including host identification, responsive to a group-creation instruction. The processor is also configured to receive a request from a joining vehicle to join a group. The processor is further configured to exchange available cellular connectivity options between a group-creating vehicle and the joining vehicle. Also, the processor is configured to establish a connection with the joining vehicle. The processor is additionally configured to select a connectivity option to provide cellular connectivity for the group and instruct a vehicle corresponding to the connectivity option to serve as a connectivity-host.
US10004017B2
A switching method and system between heterogeneous networks are provided. In the switching method: a terminal sends identity information and a network access identifier to a home subscriber server (HSS) through a mobile management entity; the HSS sends the network access identifier to an access gateway, receives a seed key, sends the seed key to the terminal, calculates and sends a local key and a local identifier to an authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) server; the terminal calculates a second handoff key and a second handoff identifier; and the AAA server sends a calculated first handoff key to an access point of the target network, for the access point and the terminal to execute a network switching operation. Communication traffic of a re-authentication process can be effectively decreased when a cellular network is switched to a WLAN, thereby decreasing time delay of re-authentication and increasing probability of success in switching.
US10004015B2
A target communications device receiving from a source communications device a notification that a user communications device is to be handed over from that source communications device, provides the source communications device with multiple component carrier information for use by the user communications device. The multiple component carrier information includes information indicating to the user communications device which of the multiple component carriers is to be used for initial access. The multiple component carrier information may be component carrier indexes. Communication devices may exchange component carrier indexes during a setup or updating procedure such as an X2 setup or updating procedure.
US10003988B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a related entity, and a method for determining air interface resources consumed by a service. The related entity includes: a receiver, configured to receive, from a control plane entity, air interface connection information of a UE, and receive, from a data plane entity, service information of the UE, where the air interface connection information includes time points at which the UE establishes and releases an air interface connection, the service information includes time points at which the UE starts and stops transmitting data of a service, and the service includes a to-be-detected service; and a processor, configured to determine a target air interface connection set according to the air interface connection information and the service information, and determine air interface resource consumption information of the to-be-detected service according to the target air interface connection set.
US10003977B2
Implementing a live wireless communication system configuration from a virtual wireless communication system design using an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) specific software system in a real wireless communication system is disclosed herein. In exemplary aspects disclosed herein, the OEM specific software system enables a designer to create, save, import, modify and/or preconfigure a virtual wireless communication system in a virtual wireless communication system configuration file(s) using OEM specific software tools resident in the real wireless communication system. The OEM specific software tools could include functionality such as the ability to incorporate and enforce OEM design constraints of the real wireless communication system. The configuration file(s) can then be subsequently implemented to modify and/or configure live equipment of a real wireless communication system.
US10003970B2
A method in a coordinator in a radio communication network. The method comprises obtaining a token identifying a radio device. The method also comprises obtaining information confirming that the radio device is authorized to connect to the coordinator. The method also comprises calculating a device filter comprising a plurality of tokens, wherein the plurality of tokens include the obtained token of the radio device and identifies a plurality of devices authorized to connect to the coordinator. The method also comprises sending a broadcast radio signal comprising the device filter. The method also comprises allowing the radio device to connect to the coordinator. The present disclosure also relates to a coordinator, as well as to a radio device and a method of a radio device.
US10003969B2
Systems, methods and computer program products are provided for obtaining mobile device data. A first request for mobile device data is received over a communications network. The first request includes a first identifier associated with a mobile device. A first mobile network operator (MNO) system corresponding to the mobile device is identified from a plurality of MNO systems using the first identifier. A second request is transmitted to the first MNO system. The second request includes the first identifier. A response is received from the first MNO system. The response includes the mobile device data. The mobile device data and the first identifier are transmitted to a server.
US10003958B2
The present disclosure provides for a method of pairing wireless devices as well as wireless devices employing the pairing methodology. The wireless devices each possess individual identifiers. The individual identifiers comprise a 64 bit number. Each device also possesses a number of selection indicator identifiers. The selection indicator identifier is a preferably a color comprising a 24 bit number. The individual identifier and selection indicator identifier are combined using a hash function to create a 32 bit hash group identification. A simultaneous holding of buttons on the wireless devices creates the pairing between the devices and stores the 32 bit hash group identification in the device's memory. When two unpaired devices sharing a group identification number are brought within a predetermined proximity to one another, the devices automatically pair.
US10003951B2
Embodiments of the system herein use a mobile device of a user to act as an onboard camera and capture video of the environment surrounding the user's vehicle and/or telematics data about the user's vehicle. The system can detect when a user has begun to operate the vehicle, for example based on mobile device power information and the proximity/connection of the mobile device to a device associated with the vehicle, and automatically begin onboard camera recording or prompt the user to begin onboard camera recording. The recorded videos and/or telematics data can be locally stored on the mobile device, or in some embodiments transferred to an outside server for storage.
US10003948B2
A system and method is provided for using information broadcast by devices and resources in the immediate vicinity of a mobile device, or by sensors located within the mobile device itself, to ascertain and make a determination of the immediate environment and state of the mobile device. This determination may be used to control and manage the actions that the device is asked to carry out by or on behalf of the user.
US10003931B2
Proposed is a method for retrieval of unrecalled AD which was missed by the viewer from fixing it in a specific APP by pushing an activation button on the mobile electronic device at the time of visual demonstration seen by the viewer. The method consists of the opening an owner's account on the Internet server linked with the APP; composing a listing of the sequential groups of the visual digital signals; activating the system within a certain time “t” after completion of a selected portion of the series of digital signals which includes the AD being sought, reproducing the listing of the sequential groups of visual digital signals on the mobile electronic communication device, selecting a group that corresponds to the unrecalled AD; and reproducing the selected group on the mobile electronic communication device for viewing the unrecalled AD.
US10003925B1
Systems, methods, and other embodiments are described. In one embodiment, a system is provided that includes a first processor configured to, in response to a first request for a location of a device, determine a first location of the device, and provide the first location as the location of the device. The system includes a second processor with position update logic configured to, in response to a second request for a location of the device, determine whether the device has moved from the first location. When the device has not moved from the first location the second processor is configured to provide the first location. When the device has moved from the first location, the second processor is configured to determine a second location of the device using less power than the first processor in determining the first location and provide the second location as the location of the device.
US10003924B2
A method for generating an entity-vector associated with a geographical location is disclosed. The entity-vector is generated based on data from sensors of user-wireless-devices and user profile associated with user-wireless-devices. The method comprises, for a given location: receiving from user-wireless-devices being temporally-associated with the location, first and second sensed parameters from first and second sensors, the sensed parameters having been captured during the user-wireless-device being temporally-associated with the location; for each user-wireless-devices, retrieving an associated user profile and analyzing sensed parameters and user profile to generate, respectively, a given-user first and second parameter vectors and a given-user profile vector; aggregating, each user-wireless devices' (i) given-user first parameter vector, (ii) given-user second parameter vector, and (iii) the given-user profile vector into a pool; applying at least two analysis models to the pool, each analysis model generating its respective pooled-data vector; based on pooled-data vectors, generating an entity-vector associated with the location.
US10003917B2
The present disclosure provides a terminal positioning method for a positioning server. The method includes: receiving image data transmitted by a target terminal, obtaining target feature information based on the image data, wherein the target feature information represents an environment feature of the target terminal, looking up a table of predetermined correspondences between pieces of feature information and pieces of location information, so as to determine target location information corresponding to the target feature information, and transmitting the target location information to the target terminal. According to the present disclosure for terminal positioning, more accurate target location information may be obtained to improve the positioning accuracy and reliability.
US10003916B2
A mobile application for most appropriate means of communications enables the user to locate a contact and determine the most appropriate way to reach the contact. The user may populate the user's contact list with information such as the names of contacts, their cellphone numbers, and their e-mail addresses. When preparing to communicate with someone on the contact list, the user causes a query to be sent to the contact's electronic device, which in turn sends a GPS query to acquire location information and sends it to the user. The user's application uses the location information to determine the nature of the contact's location and displays an icon corresponding to the type of location, such as a school, a library, a vehicle, or a restaurant. The user may select a communication method which is appropriate for the type of location or pursue some other course of action.
US10003914B2
A communication device may include an NFC interface, a processor, and a memory storing computer-readable instructions. The computer-readable instructions may be stored in a computer readable storage medium and instruct the communication device to store, in a case where a state of the communication device is a first state, first data in the NFC interface and to store, in a case where the state of the communication device is a second state, the second data in the NFC interface. The NFC interface may establish a first communication link between the communication device and a first external device and transmit the first data to the first external device via the first communication link. The NFC interface may establish a second communication link between the communication device and a second external device and transmit the second data to the second external device via the second communication link by using the NFC system.
US10003904B2
Disclosed is a binaural audio signal processing device. The binaural audio signal processing device includes a binaural renderer and an extra exciter. The binaural renderer receives an audio signal, and outputs a binaural-rendered audio signal by performing binaural rendering on the received audio signal. The extra exciter generates a stimulation to a body of a user, wherein the stimulation corresponds to the binaural-rendered audio signal.
US10003897B2
A hearing device interface for a wired connection between a hearing device and an external device is disclosed. In particular an interface for a hearing aid. The interface comprises a first group of electrically conducting contact pins extending parallel to each other and being configured to engage with a corresponding plug of the external device provided with plug slots, wherein the interface further comprises a second electrically conducting contact pin extending parallel to the first group of electrically conducting contact pins.
US10003891B2
An apparatus for a hearing device includes a first voltage regulator with an output terminal; a first voltage reference; a second voltage regulator with an output terminal; a switching element; and a decoupling element; wherein the switching element and the decoupling element are operatively between the first voltage reference and the first voltage regulator; wherein the output terminal of the first voltage regulator shares a same electrical node as the output terminal of the second voltage regulator; and wherein the first voltage regulator is configured to provide a first output voltage in response to applied battery power, the second voltage regulator is configured to provide a second output voltage if a certain condition is fulfilled, and the switching element is configured to disconnect the first voltage reference from the decoupling element if the condition is fulfilled.
US10003886B2
Methods and systems provide adaptive noise management in a space. The adaptive noise management comprises performing at least the steps of detecting when noise is present in the space, analyzing the detected noise, and taking one or more actions in response to the detected noise, based on the analysis of the detected noise. The one or more actions may comprise applying noise cancellation to mitigate, reduce, or eliminate effects of the detected noise, adjusting at one or more openings in the space, or a combination thereof.
US10003884B2
A microphone apparatus includes a microphone including first and second bi-directional microphone units having respective directional axes arranged on two straight lines passing through one point and radially extending with an interval of 120 degrees in a circumferential direction, and an omnidirectional microphone unit arranged in sound collection regions of the first and second bi-directional microphone units, and a signal synthesis unit that synthesizes at least one of respective non-inverted signals and inverted signals of the first and second bi-directional microphone units and an output signal of the omnidirectional microphone unit to generate a plurality of output signals having directional axes in mutually different directions.
US10003881B2
An earbud includes a housing having a touch sensitive region at an exterior surface of the housing. A capacitive sensor insert is disposed within the housing and has metallized circuitry formed on a first surface that is positioned adjacent an interior surface of the housing.
US10003878B2
An earphone includes an acoustic housing including an electroacoustic transducer and an opening, a wire connected to the electroacoustic transducer, a mounting part coupled to the acoustic housing through a cylindrical hinge and having a rotatable wire guide, and a bendable element connected to the mounting part near an axis of rotation of the wire guide. The wire is connected to the wire guide. The sound opening is opposite the axis of rotation. The bendable element and an outer portion of the wire guide in a first orientation are in the same plane as the axis of rotation and oriented in a generally opposite direction from the axis of rotation. The outer portion of the wire guide is oriented towards the sound opening. The outer portion of the wire guide and the bendable element are movable through at least 50 degrees from the first to a second orientation.
US10003877B2
Contact hearing devices for use with a wearable communication apparatus are disclosed to provide the user with an open ear canal to hear ambient sound and sound from an audio signal. The disclosed devices and systems have an advantage of providing sound to user from the audio signal, in many embodiments without creating sound that can be perceived by others. The contact hearing device can also be used to amplify ambient sound to provide a hearing assistance to users with diminished hearing. The wearable information apparatus can be configured to couple wirelessly to the contact transducer assembly, such that the wearable information apparatus can be removed while the contact transducer assembly remains placed on the user.
US10003875B2
A phantom power supply device supplies a power supply current to a condenser microphone from a positive terminal of the first DC power supply through a hot and cold supply resistors in the hot and the cold signal line, and includes a remote control switch. A negative terminal, being connected in series to a negative terminal of the first DC power supply in a voltage-adding manner, of the second DC power supply is connected to the switch, and an added voltage of the first and second DC supply is fed to the current drive element on the condenser microphone by an ON operation of the remote control switch. This configuration enables the LEDs connected in series mounted on the condenser microphone to be lit up with enough light emitting luminance even when a low voltage, such as 12 V, is selected as a phantom power supply voltage.
US10003873B2
A speaker and assemblies with a speaker. An assembly may include a speaker including a speaker housing, and speaker components supported in the speaker housing and operable to produce an audio output; a sensor operable to sense an orientation of the speaker housing; and control components operable to determine the orientation of the speaker housing, and control the speaker components based on the orientation of the speaker housing.
US10003869B2
A protective screen for a diaphragm of a loudspeaker comprises a first side and a second side. The screen comprises a perforated region and an imperforated region. The perforated region comprises a first perforation having a first size and a second perforation having a second size, each perforation passing through the first side and the second side of the screen, and each perforation allowing sound waves radiated from a first portion of the diaphragm to pass through the screen. The imperforated region suppresses sound waves radiated from a second portion of the diaphragm. The first perforation is more adjacent to the imperforated region than the second perforation, and wherein the second size of the second perforation is bigger than the first size of the first perforation.
US10003861B2
Novel tools and techniques are described for auto-summarizing video and/or audio content. In some embodiments, a summary server might retrieve one or more time codes from a time code database, and might analyze the one or more time codes to determine at least one selected time code among the one or more time codes that exceeds a predetermined number of selections. The one or more time codes might correspond to one or more triggers, which might include user-inputted triggers, triggers associated with actions by a live audience, or broadcaster/distributor/producer-provided triggers (i.e., cue tones). The summary server might determine one or more selected segments of video or audio content corresponding to the at least one selected time code, and might create one or more summary tracks, where each of the one or more summary tracks might comprise each of the one or more selected segments of the video or audio content.
US10003859B2
A distribution device includes a distribution unit that distributes a content including a control program to a user terminal. The control program causes the user terminal to execute an acquisition procedure for acquiring an area of the content, the area being displayed by a browser program, as a viewable area, a determination procedure for determining whether or not a display area where a video is displayed, the display area being included in the content, is located in the viewable area, and a playback procedure for starting playback of the video if the display area is located in the viewable area and the situation of the user terminal is a predetermined situation.
US10003852B2
Methods and apparatus for allowing parties, e.g., individuals, at different locations to participate in an on-demand content delivery session are described. Dynamically updateable playlists are used to control content delivery to the session participants in a synchronized manner. Content may be delivered to different session participants from different servers with a different playlist corresponding to each session participant being used to control content delivery to the session participant's host platform, e.g., set top box. Either party may update the playlist with, optionally, each of the content delivery servers being controlled by a different or local copy of the jointly updateable play list. Thus, an inviting party and one or more joining parties are able to participate together in an on-demand session. While the participants may be served by the same or different content delivery servers, the parties are able to share images, audio, and/or video in a synchronized manner.
US10003848B2
A system is provided in which an interactive television program guide application and non-program-guide applications are at least partially implemented on user television equipment. A program guide program application interface is provided that is used to maintain a consistent user interface between the program guide application and the non-program-guide applications. Non-program-guide applications may be launched by the program guide application. The user may select certain non-program-guide applications as favorites and may set parental controls for certain non-program-guide applications. The program guide application may run in the background while a non-program-guide application operates. The applications may be located at a remote location such as on a server at a cable system headend or on a server on the Internet. The program application interface may perform authentication and access rights determination functions. Reminders may be set for the content of non-program-guide applications.
US10003847B2
This document describes, among other things, systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for using information about how long various videos were presented at client devices to determine subsequent video recommendations and search results. In some implementations, a computing can include a modeling apparatus, a front-end server, a request manager, one or more video file storage devices, a video selector, or a combination of some or all of these. The video selector can select video content for a particular digitized video among a plurality of digitized videos to serve to a computing device responsive to a request. The selection can be based at least in part on how long the particular digitized video has been presented at client devices associated with users having characteristics that match one or more characteristics of the user that submitted the request for video content, as indicated by the modeling apparatus.
US10003844B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media can be operable to facilitate the retrieval of a social media tag associated with a content stream. A social media tag associated with a content stream received by a customer premise equipment (CPE) device may be detected and identified, and the social media tag may be presented to a user. The social media tag may be presented to a user along with the underlying multimedia content associated with the content stream, and/or may be delivered to a user device or account. A user interface including the identified social media tag may be presented to a user, and the user may be given the option to receive messages associated with the identified social media tag. Messages associated with the identified social media tag may be updated and presented to the user along with the underlying multimedia content.
US10003842B2
A computer implemented method enables presenting interesting and informative preview video of a video content item in a digital magazine. The method comprises steps of receiving a video content item from a content provider, e.g., a 2-minute video advertisement for a car from an advertiser, and analyzing the video content item. The video content item is segmented into multiple segments based on the analysis, e.g., scene changes detected with the video frames of the video content item. One or more segments are selected, e.g., based on their associated visual quality, and are combined to generate a preview video, e.g., a 10-second long video highlighting new features of the car. One or more transition segments can be added between segments to enhance user experience with the preview video. The preview video is provided to a client device for display and auto playback.
US10003838B2
A client-side component in a real-time bidding (RTB) system for video advertisements configures the client device to, in response to a request for a video advertisement sent by the client device to the real-time bidding system, receive a first set of information associated with the video advertisement, parse the received first set of information to obtain the video advertisement and associated pixel firing information, provide the video advertisement to a video player on the client device, and fire a first pixel upon occurrence of a first predefined event associated with the video advertisement.
US10003826B2
Disclosed is a method for reducing noise. The method comprises decoding a bitstream encoded with a first codec, acquiring Quantization Parameter (QP) values determined in a process of encoding the bitstream with the first codec, detecting a frame with noise by using the QP values and inputting the frame with noise to a predefined noise filter.
US10003824B2
Techniques and tools for reducing latency in video encoding and decoding by constraining latency due to reordering of video frames, and by indicating the constraint on frame reordering latency with one or more syntax elements that accompany encoded data for the video frames. For example, a real-time communication tool with a video encoder sets a syntax element that indicates a constraint on frame reordering latency, which is consistent with inter-frame dependencies between multiple frames of a video sequence, then outputs the syntax element. A corresponding real-time communication tool with a video decoder receives the syntax element that indicates the constraint on frame reordering latency, determines the constraint on frame reordering latency based on the syntax element, and uses the constraint on frame reordering latency to determine when a reconstructed frame is ready for output (in terms of output order).
US10003822B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product is disclosed for encoding a sequence of frames as one or more compressed bitstreams, the method includes a processor obtaining a sequence of frames in an order and performing a wavelet transform on each frame of the sequence of frames independently in the order. The processor constructs a significant points list and an insignificant sets list, creating one or more spatial trees comprised of branch nodes of the list of insignificant sets for each frame of the sequence of frames. The processor initializes the significant points list and the list of insignificant sets for each frame and identifies a most significant bit in each frame and for each frame, selects at least one coding unit and creates a progressive significance map for coding. The processor writes a global header and a local header for the compressed bitstreams for each coding unit.
US10003821B2
To suppress image degradation of a tile boundary while suppressing an increase of an amount of encoded data due to tile division. When performing a wavelet transform on a tile of interest, a wavelet transform unit performs a wavelet transform by referring to pixel data of the tile of interest and a neighboring tile that neighbors the tile of interest to obtain transformation coefficient data of a set resolution level. From transformation coefficient data obtained from the neighboring tile, the wavelet transform unit supplies a subsequent quantizing unit with transformation coefficient data of each resolution level that is closest to a boundary between the tile of interest and the neighboring tile, as well as all transformation coefficient data obtained from the tile of interest.
US10003816B2
An image coding method includes: writing, into a sequence parameter set, buffer description defining information for defining a plurality of buffer descriptions; selecting one of the buffer descriptions for each processing unit that is a picture or a slice, and writing buffer description selecting information for specifying the selected buffer description, into a first header of the processing unit which is included in the coded bitstream; and coding the processing unit using the selected buffer description, and the buffer description defining information includes long-term information for identifying, among a plurality of reference pictures indicated in the buffer descriptions, a reference picture to be assigned as a long-term reference picture.
US10003811B2
A graphics pipeline with components that process frames by portions (e.g., pixels or rows) or slices to reduce end-to-end latency. Components of a pipeline process portions of a same frame at the same time. For example, as graphics data for a frame is being generated and fills a framebuffer, once a certain portion of video data less than the whole frame (slice or sub-frame) becomes available, before the corresponding frame is finished filling the framebuffer, the next pipeline component after the framebuffer, for instance a video processor for color conversion or an encoder, begins to process the portion of the frame. While one portion of a frame is accumulating in the frame buffer, another portion of the same frame is being encoded by an encoder, and another portion of the frame might be being packaged by a multiplexer, and a network socket might start streaming the multiplexed portion.
US10003810B2
A method and apparatus for coding video data using Inter prediction mode or Merge mode in a video coding system are disclosed, where the video data is configured into a Base Layer (BL) and an Enhancement Layer (EL), and the EL has higher spatial resolution or better video quality than the BL. In one embodiment, at least one information piece of motion information associated with one or more BL blocks in the BL is identified. A motion vector prediction (MVP) candidate list or a Merge candidate list for the selected block in the EL is then determined, where said at least one information piece associated with said one or more BL blocks in the BL is included in the MVP candidate list or the Merge candidate list. The input data associated with the selected block is coded or decoded using the MVP candidate list or the Merge candidate list.
US10003809B2
The present invention generally relates to a method and device for tone-mapping an image. The method is characterized in that it comprises: obtaining (12) a residual image by dividing the image by a backlight image determined (11) from the image, and obtaining (13) a tone-mapped image by tone-mapping to the residual image.
US10003802B1
A method and apparatus for compressing a data stream comprising a plurality of pictures are described. A first quantization parameter (QP) from a plurality of QPs is determined, for a static region in a current picture. The plurality of QPs change in accordance with a multi-step change from a start QP to a target QP and each one of the plurality of QPs is to be applied to a respective one from successive static regions in successive pictures. In response to determining, based upon statistics on static region(s) in the current picture which are associated with the first QP, that the first QP is selected, compression of the static region is caused based upon the first QP, and in response to determining that the first QP is not selected, compression of the static region is caused based upon a second QP that is greater than the first QP.
US10003798B2
A method and apparatus for deblocking reconstructed video in a video coding system. The method receives reconstructed pixel data, wherein the reconstructed pixel data is configured into LCUs (largest coding units) and each LCU is divided into blocks. The method then identifies horizontal block edges of the blocks in the LCUs, applies first vertical filtering to the reconstructed pixel data corresponding to one or more first lines above a first horizontal block edge in the first edge group, and applies second vertical filtering to the reconstructed pixel data corresponding to one or more second lines above a second horizontal block edge in the second edge group, wherein a first number of said one or more first lines is smaller than a second number of said one or more second lines.
US10003793B2
In one embodiment, a method determines a pulse code modulation (PCM) flag that indicates whether a PCM mode can be used to encode or decode a portion of video. A single conditional statement is evaluated once to determine if the PCM flag indicates the PCM mode is enabled. Based on the evaluating of the single conditional statement, when the PCM flag indicates the PCM mode is enabled, the method encodes or decodes a first PCM parameter, a second PCM parameter, a third PCM parameter, a fourth PCM parameter, and a fifth PCM parameter. The first PCM parameter, the second PCM parameter, the third PCM parameter, the fourth PCM parameter, and the fifth PCM parameter are encoded or decoded consecutively without any bits or syntax between them in or from an encoded bitstream associated with the portion of video.
US10003789B2
Our inventive method enables stereoscopic 3D displays to be watched by 3D and 2D viewers simultaneously. Ghosted images observed on traditional 3D displays can be eliminated for viewers without stereoscopic glasses while 3D perception is preserved for viewers with glasses. A preferred method for displaying an image on a 3D+2D television comprises displaying a composite image (“L+wN”), comprising a left (“L”) image and a weighted image (“wN”), for a first period of time; and displaying a right (“R”) image for a second period of time. The display of “wN” partially cancels out the perception of “R” to mitigate ghosting for viewers not wearing 3D eyeglasses. In the illustrative embodiment, “wN” is a weighted negative version of “R”.
US10003779B2
A multi-area white-balance control device includes a device that divides an inputted image into a plurality of areas, a device that estimates a white-balance correction gain for each of the divided areas, a device that determines whether the estimated white-balance correction gain of the area is peculiar or not, based on comparison with estimated white-balance correction gains of adjacent areas of the area and a device that modifies an estimated white-balance correction gain of an area determined to be peculiar, based on estimated white-balance correction gains of adjacent areas; and realizes color reproduction without unnaturalness even if white-balance correction gain estimation is wrong in an individual area.
US10003766B2
A camera device with a dynamic touch screen shutter, and method therefor, are provided. The camera device comprises: a sensor for providing an electronic signal corresponding to an image; a touchscreen having a region for displaying the image and receiving touch input, the region having at least one subregion; and a processor enabled to: display the image in the region; execute a shutter command to store the image in a memory when the touch input is received in the region but not in the at least one subregion when the at least one subregion contains at least one of an icon and a graphical control, the graphical control for controlling the camera device; change displaying of at least one of the icon and the graphical control; and, in response, dynamically change a position of the at least one subregion within the region.
US10003765B2
A videoconferencing system includes at least one processor and at least one camera. The endpoint can capture one or more images with the camera. The system can locate a region of interest within an image, such as the area surrounding the face of a person participating in a videoconference. If the face area or other region of interest is too dark, the system can brighten the region to make it more visible. The system can determine whether the face is too dark by comparing the captured image to previously captured images, or comparing the luma values and other data making up the face to predetermined values, or both. The system can check the second image for over-brightening or saturation, and further adjust the image as needed. The brightening of the face area is done in such a way that the brightened region is unobtrusive to the viewer.
US10003761B2
Provided is an imaging device that performs multiple AD conversions including a first AD conversion and a second AD conversion for one pixel signal. A first memory has a bit width of N+1 bits (N is a natural number) and holds the least significant bit to the N+1th bit of a digital value obtained by the first AD conversion, and second memory has a bit width of M bits (M is a natural number) greater than N+1 bits and holds the least significant bit to the Mth bit of a digital value obtained by the second AD conversion.
US10003760B2
An image sensor comprising a plurality of imaging pixels and a plurality of focus detecting pixels in which opening positions of light receiving parts are shifted from those of the imaging pixels, wherein first focus detecting pixels in which the opening positions are shifted in a first direction are arranged in a first pixel pitch at positions corresponding to first color filters for the imaging pixels, and second focus detecting pixels in which openings are shifted in a second direction different from the first direction are arranged in a second pixel pitch at positions corresponding to second color filters for the imaging pixels different from the first color filters.
US10003753B2
An image capturing apparatus comprises a light emitting unit which provides, by light emission, a notification of an operation status of a self-timer when performing self-timer shooting; a mode setting unit which sets one of a plurality of operation modes; and a control unit which controls the light emitting unit to provide the notification of the operation status of the self-timer in self-timer shooting if the mode setting unit has set a first operation mode, and controls the light emitting unit not to provide the notification of the operation status of the self-timer in self timer shooting if the mode setting unit has set a second operation mode.
US10003752B2
An imaging system for imaging a sample in a medium carried in a container as an imaging object, in which the imaging system includes an imager which obtains an original image by imaging the imaging object; and a data processor which generates multi-gradation image data by performing a gradation correction on the original image, wherein the data processor associates a luminance value corresponding to a luminance of the medium in the original image with a maximum gradation value in the gradation correction.
US10003748B2
A method for processing high-frequency movements in an optronic system including an image sensor functioning with a first acquisition frequency, each image obtained by the image sensor representing a scene, the method includes a step of obtaining signal values representing a movement of the scene from a high-frequency movement sensor functioning with a second acquisition frequency higher than the first acquisition frequency, a step of determining values representing a movement of an image in the course of acquisition by the image sensor from values of the signals representing the movement of the scene, and a step of transmitting the values representing the movement of the image in the course of acquisition by the image sensor to a movement compensation device so that the movement compensation device can compensate for the movement of the image in the course of acquisition by the image sensor.
US10003739B2
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit and a transmission unit. The imaging unit is configured to capture two images that are different from each other by a predetermined amount of an optical distance (focus) between an objective lens and an imaging device having a first resolution. The transmission unit is configured to transmit the captured images.
US10003736B2
An image pickup device includes an optical system, an image pickup unit that captures a subject image through the optical system and generates a captured image, and a controller that calculates an evaluation value from a region corresponding to an AF frame in the captured image and drives the optical system according to the calculated evaluation value to perform an automatic focus operation. The controller includes a normal illumination mode set when brightness of the captured image is a predetermined value or more, and a first low-illumination mode and a second low-illumination mode set when the brightness of the captured image is less than the predetermined value. In the first low-illumination mode, a first automatic focus (AF) frame that is larger than an AF frame set in the normal illumination mode is set. In the second low-illumination mode, a second AF frame that is smaller than the first AF frame is set.
US10003733B2
A focus assist circuit for a viewfinder, including a video amplifier configured to amplify a video signal, a video gain controller configured to adjust gain of the video amplifier to provide peaking headroom, and a peaking processor configured to adjust the amplified video signal. The focus assist circuitry may facilitate focusing a camera lens by proving peaking headroom for a peaking signal that is combined with an amplified signal. The peaking headroom limits the gain applied to a video signal in order to reduce distortions in the peaks. A user interface may include input controls configured to limit the gain of the of a video amplifier.
US10003730B2
Methods and electronic devices for sharing a camera feature are described. In one aspect, the present disclosure describes a method. The method is performed by a first electronic device which has a camera. The method includes: establishing wireless communications between the first electronic device and a second electronic device using a short range communication module of the first electronic device; and entering a camera-feature-sharing mode in which a camera-related feature of the second electronic device is accessible to the first electronic device using the short range communication module and in which a camera-related feature of the first electronic device is accessible to the second electronic device using the short range communication module.
US10003727B1
A camera module includes a camera, a light emitting unit, a circuit board. The camera is mounted on the circuit board and having an optical axis. The light emitting unit is disposed on the circuit board which emits a light beam forming a batwing-shaped luminous intensity distribution. The batwing-shaped luminous intensity distribution has at least two peaks of maximum luminous intensity. The optical axis of the camera is arranged at a position between the at least two peaks of the batwing-shaped luminous intensity distribution. The camera module emits a uniform light for enhancing authenticity of the image and increasing the reliability of the recognition system.
US10003715B2
In an image pickup device internally including a memory unit and a computing processing unit, image signals of a moving image are resized and are generated from image signals of still images, and the image signals of the still images are stored in the memory unit, and, after the image signals of the moving image are all transferred externally from the image pickup device, the image signals of the still images are transferred.
US10003711B2
A light irradiation device includes a light source, a light guide member, and a holding member. The light guide member includes an incident surface, an exit surface, and a held surface. The incident surface has an elongated shape in a main scanning direction and faces a light emitting surface of the light source. The light guide member includes a securing structure in each of both end portions in the main scanning direction, which are out of a light guide area of the light guide member. The securing structure in one end portion is an engagement lug structure protruding to penetrate into a through-hole of the holding member, including a lug on a leading end, and engaging the holding member. The securing structure on another end portion is a fastening structure having a fastening hole penetrated with a fastening member and being secured to the holding member with the fastening member.
US10003710B2
An electronic device includes a setting unit configured to set setting information of an operation of the electronic device according to common setting information; a designation information acquisition unit configured to acquire designation information, which designates an acquisition origin of the common setting information, via a network; and a setting information acquisition unit configured to acquire the common setting information from the acquisition origin of the common setting information designated by the designation information acquired by the designation information acquisition unit.
US10003707B2
An image processing apparatus includes a display unit that displays a preview image of a document on a preview screen during login of a first user, a communication controller that receives a job from an external device, a determination unit that determines whether the job received from the external device is a specific type of job, and a display controller that controls display on the preview screen. When the specific type of job is received during display of the preview screen, the display controller assumes a predetermined degree or more of possibility that a second user different from the first user may approach the apparatus, and performs at least one of first display control where the preview image is automatically hidden on the preview screen and second display control where a non-display button for hiding the preview image according to a user operation is displayed on the preview screen.
US10003702B2
An image forming apparatus includes a controller. The controller includes a list display controller, a selection receiving section, a data request section, and an image formation controller. The list display controller acquires list data from a file server and causes display of the list data in the form of a list. The selection receiving section receives user selection of an article name from the list. The data request section requests image formation data corresponding to the article name that the user has selected from the file server. The image formation controller acquires image formation data and controls formation of an article image on a paper sheet based on the image formation data.
US10003701B2
A method for converting a facsimile includes receiving the facsimile via the public-switched telephone network, generating an enhanced portable document format (EPDF) file that includes information in addition to image information and communicating the EPDF file to an e-mail server. The EPDF file can then be communicated as an attachment to an e-mail message addressed to the intended recipient of the facsimile. A facsimile processing system includes a public-switched telephone network interface, a packet-switched network interface, a mail transfer protocol server, an input agent, a job processor and a translator. The input agent identifies and forwards the incoming facsimile to the job processor. The job processor determines when an EPDF file is desired and communicates appropriate instructions to the translator. The translator generates the EPDF file in response to the instructions and the image information from the facsimile. The translator integrates signatures and repositionable notes in outbound facsimiles.
US10003700B2
An image forming apparatus is communicable with a management apparatus and includes an abnormality detecting portion, a registered information obtaining portion, a registered-restoration processing portion, a specification receiving portion, a specified-restoration processing portion, and a registration requesting portion. The registered-restoration processing portion executes a registered restoration process in accordance with registered restoration procedure information obtained from the management apparatus. The specification receiving portion receives a specification input when the registered restoration procedure information was not obtained, or when an apparatus abnormality was not solved. The specified-restoration processing portion executes a specified restoration process in accordance with the specification input. The registration requesting portion requests the management apparatus to register information of the apparatus abnormality solved by the specified restoration process and of a specified restoration procedure.
US10003698B2
A method for financing a mobile device for an inmate involves receiving a plurality of mobile device rules comprising limitations on usage of the mobile device by the inmate within a controlled facility, receiving the mobile device, and installing, on the mobile device, a mobile application, wherein the mobile application conforms the mobile device to the plurality of mobile device rules. The method also involves receiving a payment for the mobile device, and executing, by the mobile device, the mobile application.
US10003697B2
Methods and devices provide access to a sponsored data service (SDS) via a mobile device. A method may include receiving information identifying attributes to ascertain whether a user qualifies to access sponsored data, where an attribute from the identified attributes may include a position of the mobile device or a time of access to the SDS. The method may include determining parameters associated with the attributes. The method may further include sending the parameters to a validation device, where the validation device determines, based on the parameters, whether the user qualifies to receive sponsored data. The method also includes receiving a network address from the validation device, in response to the validation device determining that the user qualifies to receive sponsored data, and accessing sponsored data from a device associated with the network address.
US10003691B1
Technologies are disclosed for providing an onboarding service within a service provider network for on-demand creation of a contact center. Information associated with an account of a user at the service provider network is utilized to begin creating the contact center. Based upon input from the user, a directory of authorized users and storage for the contact center are created using services available within the service provider network. Encryption keys are created for encrypting customer call recordings and customer phone numbers in the storage. An initial user for handling calls is specified and a call queue is created. A routing profile is created to route calls from the call queue to the initial user. Available phone numbers are provided to the user for the selection of a phone number for accessing the contact center. One this data has been specified, the contact center can be activated for use.
US10003689B2
Embodiments described herein provide approaches for communicating availability of a mobile device. Specifically, at least one approach includes: determining a current status of a mobile device operated by a receiving user, the current status including an operating state and an operating time zone; and providing the current status of the mobile device to a sender via the sender's mobile device by performing either of the following: annotating a contact list with visual data indicating the operating state and the operating time zone of the mobile device, and generating a graphic indicating the operating state and the operating time zone of the mobile device when the sender initiates communication with the mobile device. Based on the current status, a warning can be communicated to the sender indicating that is inadvisable to continue with the communication, as the receiving user is unlikely to be available and/or willing to respond.
US10003686B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for remotely controlling access to a mobile device. The present invention is configured to receive an indication that a transaction executed by a user is misappropriate, wherein the transaction is executed by the user using a mobile device; transmit control signals configured to cause the misappropriation application to begin running in the background of the mobile device; initiate, via the misappropriation application, one or more actions to be executed on the mobile device of the user based on at least receiving the indication that the transaction executed by the user is misappropriate; determine an alternative communication form associated with the user; transmit a notification to the user via the alternate communication form, when the notification further comprises an indication that one or more functionalities of the mobile device has been limited.
US10003683B2
The present invention provides a method (200) that allows users (211) of smart appliances to interact in a similar way with objects (202, 207) such as devices, smart appliances, Web services, software applications (THINGS/objects) and people (212) and also the communication of an object (202) with another object (207). The provided method comprises mapping the entire object (207) connected as a contact. These contacts (objects) will act as real instant messaging contacts, receive user commands and entries in a natural language fashion and provide response using the IM interface. Such objects (202, 207) must register as an instant messaging user on a common instant messaging server (210). Furthermore, an application wrapper (208) is also used to map an instant messaging contact and an object allowing an object not supporting this solution to be used by a device implementing the proposed method.
US10003680B2
There is provided a mobile terminal including a casing that includes an audio output unit that outputs audio, and a transmissive display unit provided rotatable about the casing. The transmissive display unit is disposable in a plane intersecting a principal face of the casing while the audio output unit is outputting audio.
US10003676B2
The invention describes a network lookup engine for generating parallel network lookup requests for input packets, where each packet header is parsed and represented by a programmable parser in a format, namely a token, which is understandable by the engine. Each token can require multiple lookups in parallel in order to speed up the packet processing time. The sizes of lookup keys varies depending on the content of the input token and the protocols programmed for the engine. The engine generates a super key per token, representing all parallel lookup keys wherein the content of each key can be extracted from the super key through an associated profile identification. The network lookup engine is protocol-independent which means the conditions and rules for generating super keys are full programmable so that the engine can be reprogrammed to perform a wide variety of network features and protocols in a software-defined networking (SDN) system.
US10003660B2
Presented herein are service-function chaining techniques that enable data plane signaling of a packet as a candidate for capture at various network nodes along a service function path of a service function chain. That is, a capture signal is embedded within the respective packet that carries a user traffic. The signaling occurs in-band, via the data plane, such that classification of the packet for capture beneficially occurs, at the ingress node of the network, once to which subsequent network nodes along a service function path are signaled to capture or further inspect the packet for capture. Service function chaining treats service functions as resources with associated attributes available for scheduled consumption to which selective traffic are steered according to a policy construct to the requisite network-service resources.
US10003659B2
The disclosure relates to leveraging peer-to-peer (P2P) discovery messages for application layer contextual communication. A P2P middleware layer of a user device receives a P2P discovery message, the P2P discovery message comprising metadata including an identifier of a first application and content to be rendered by the first application, determines whether or not there is an application installed on the user device that can render the content, and sends the content to be rendered by the first application to the installed application based on there being an application installed on the user device that can render the content.
US10003656B2
A system and method are provided for sharing data and/or objects between electronic devices via an IMS infrastructure. First and second applications of first and second electronic devices exchange a capability via the IMS infrastructure. The capability is defined by a developer of the first application. The capability is not defined in the UCE standard. The capability relates to a data structure describing a status of one of the applications. An IMS connection is established between the applications via the IMS infrastructure. Either data relating to a status of the first application stored in the data structure is sent to the second application via the IMS connection, or data relating to a status of the second application stored in the data structure is received at the first application via the IMS connection.
US10003652B2
In an embodiment, a subordinate mobile communication device (SMCD) receives a content access profile from a dispatcher. The content access profile includes (i) proxy server selection criteria to facilitate the SMCD to select between a plurality of proxy servers based on a current transport mechanism type (e.g., WiFi, 3G, Satellite, etc.), each of the plurality of proxy servers being configured by the dispatcher to provide different degrees of support for Internet-based services to the SMCD, and/or (ii) a set of Internet-based service access rules to facilitate the SMCD to independently determine whether to grant or deny access by the SMCD to Internet-based services based on the current transport mechanism type of a connection between the SMCD and an access network. The SMCD determines its current transport mechanism type and uses the content access profile to selectively engage with a given Internet-based service.
US10003650B2
A method for storing objects in an object storage system includes the steps of establishing a network connection with a client over an inter-network, receiving an upload request indicating an object to be uploaded by the client, selecting at least two storage nodes on which the object will be stored, receiving the object from the client via the network connection, and streaming the object to each of the selected storage nodes such that the object is stored on each of the selected storage nodes. The method can also include writing an object record associating the object and the selected storage nodes to a shard of an object database and generating a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID). The UUID indicates the shard and the object ID of the object record, such that the object record can be quickly retrieved. Object storage infrastructures are also disclosed.
US10003641B2
Methods implemented in a network device are disclosed for maintaining session integrity through load balancing. The method assigns a same virtual Internet protocol VIPA to the network device and a set of servers. The network device is assigned a set of next hop IP addresses, where each next hop IP address corresponds to a route to a server, and the VIPA of the network device is advertised to outside of the load balancing system. When a packet is a first packet from a source of a communication session and destined to the VIPA, the network device selects a next hop IP address to forward to a server according to its load balancing policy. The selection is saved so that subsequent packets of the same communication session from the same source will be forwarded to the same server.
US10003635B1
A system and method for tracking event occurrences among applications executing on a mobile device is provided. When an action is initiated, the first application generates a first notification indicator and records it with a notification server. When the action is performed by, for example, a second application, the second application generates a second notification indicator and registers it with the notification server. The notification server may then notify the first application or other entities of the occurrence of the action.
US10003631B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for an experience service. An experience service determines if a client device requesting a network page is to receive a modified user experience. Transformation code corresponding to the user experience is communicated to the client device. The client device executes the transformation code to modify a rendering of the requested network page.
US10003628B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to task object state management for workflow management systems and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for managing task object state utilizing a reliable messaging model. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for managing task object state utilizing a reliable messaging model is provided. The method includes transmitting according to a reliable messaging protocol a launch request for a task object in a workflow over a computer communications network to a remote server. The method also includes determining from the reliable messaging protocol whether or not the launch request has failed. Finally, the method includes responding to a determination that the launch request has failed, by transmitting a test request to the remote server using a protocol other than the reliable messaging protocol and setting a state of the task object as failed only if the remote server responds to the test request.
US10003627B2
Described herein are methods, systems and programs for managing the sharing of video, audio and data communications between users over the internet in the most efficient manner. The video, audio and data communications secured by means of advanced encryption standard (AES) like in the form of 128-bit or other encryption standard and efficiently communicated across a Web Real-Time Communication (WebRTC) protocol.
US10003625B2
A portable communication device comprises a user interface, one or more digital processors in electronic communication with the user interface, and at least one memory in electronic communication with the one or more digital processors, the one or more digital processors and the at least one memory collectively configured to implement simultaneous radio frequency voice communication between a user of the device and multiple other ones of the devices. The voice communication comprises: transmitting audio data corresponding to speech of the user to each of the other ones of the devices, receiving audio data from each of the other ones of the devices, and transmitting the received audio data to the user so as to direct to the user combined and simultaneous speech of users of each of the other ones of the devices.
US10003610B2
An incident response system and method for tracking data security incidents in enterprise networks is disclosed. An Incident Manager application (IM) stores incident objects and incident artifacts (IAs) created in response to the incidents, where the incident objects include the information for the incident and the IAs are associated with data resources (e.g. IP addresses and malware hashes) identified within the incident objects. In response to creation of the IAs, the IM issues queries against one or more external threat intelligence sources (TISs) to obtain information associated with the IAs and augments the IAs with the obtained information. In examples, the IM can identify known threats by comparing the contents of IAs against TIS(s) of known threats, and can identify potential trends by correlating the created incident objects and augmented IAs for an incident with incident objects and IAs stored for other incidents.
US10003597B2
In an environment such as a cloud computing environment where various guests can be provisioned on a host machine or other hardware device, it can be desirable to prevent those users from rebooting or otherwise restarting the machine or other resources using unauthorized information or images that can be obtained from across the network. A cloud manager can cause one or more network switches or other routing or communication processing components to deny communication access between user-accessible ports on a machine or device and the provisioning systems, or other specific network resources, such that the user cannot cause the host machine to pull information from those resources upon a restart or reboot of the machine. Further, various actions can be taken upon a reboot or attempted reboot, such as to isolate the host machine or even power off the specific machine.
US10003596B2
A device for removing security on content using biometric information includes a memory configured to store content on which security has been set based on first biometric information of a user; and a controller configured to obtain second biometric information of the user, which is of a different type than the first biometric information, and remove the security on the content based on the second biometric information, in response to a user input for executing the content.
US10003595B2
An authentication system for providing an authentication service for a user accessing the same through a communication network includes a seed server for managing a user seed value related to each user identification information, a one time password (OTP) generation device provided in a user's mobile terminal, the OTP generation device generating a user OTP by using at least one portion previously defined in an IP address dynamically assigned to the mobile terminal by a mobile communication operator and a user's user seed value, and an authentication server for, if a user authentication request is received, generating an OTP corresponding to the user OTP by using the at least one portion previously defined in the IP address dynamically assigned to the mobile terminal and the user seed value related to the user identification information, and comparing the user OTP with the corresponding OTP, thereby authenticating the user.
US10003594B1
Authentication mechanisms are disclosed. For example, an enterprise associated number or a social security number (SSN) can be provided to enter a first level. Then, any one of a ZIP code number, a device identifier, a date of birth, and a portion of the SSN can be provided to access applications in the first level. Lastly, a PIN can be provided to enter a second level of the enterprise. Additionally, these authentication mechanisms can be added and/or changed. In the former case, if a user used a SSN to enter the mentioned first level, then a date of birth can be used to update an authentication mechanism. Alternatively, if a user used an enterprise number to gain such access, then part of the SSN can be used for the update. If the user wants to change the authentication mechanism, the date of birth can be used for the update.
US10003591B2
A permissions management system is disclosed for enabling a user to securely authorize a third-party system to access user account data and initiate transactions related to a user account, without disclosing to the third-party system account credentials. The system enables the user to also securely de-authorize the third-party system. For example, records may be automatically generated that securely store account information, including one or more permissions related to the account and/or the third-party. A token associated with a record may be shared with the third-party system, but neither the record itself, nor the user account credentials, may be shared with the third-party. Accordingly, the third-party may request user account data and/or initiate transactions by providing the token, but does not itself know, e.g., the user account credentials. Further, the user may set various permissions related to the token, and may also revoke the token (e.g., de-authorize the third-party), thus providing increased security to the user's account.
US10003583B2
A method for supply of data, including generating a first digital certificate referred (empowerment certificate) signed with a first signing entity's electronic signature. The empowerment certificate includes attributes of the described entity, information identifying the first signing entity, indication of data relating to the described entity, indication of a source of the data, and identification of a relying entity to which the data can be supplied. The relying entity forwards the empowerment certificate to a source supplying the data indicated in the empowerment certificate. The data may be supplied to the relying entity by a second digital certificate (custom certificate), signed with a second signing entity's electronic signature. Custom certificates may appear in custom certificate revocation lists. A system and method for transfer of ownership of electronic property from a first entity to a second entity, and a method and system for electronic voting are also provided.
US10003578B2
Anonymity and confidentiality of information published from a microblogging platform, are preserved using randomly chosen relays (not related to the publisher account) in order to hide content in the cloud of published messages. The information can be relayed in clear text or in encrypted format. Additional linked relays may be used to overcome character number limitations imposed by the microblogging platform, with the longer full text of the original message reconstructed at the conclusion of the process. Depending upon the desired degree of confidentiality, complexity of the relay combination can be adjusted, and the path secretly shared among sender and authorized recipient. Only authorized recipient(s) can obtain (through another platform) the path combination to reach the message. A trusted third party stores the path relays and authorizations to access the path. The confidential information that is to be shared, may remain on the microblogging platform spread randomly over anonymous accounts.
US10003573B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to behavior-based filters for signaling system number 7 (“SS7”) networks. According to one embodiment disclosed herein, a behavior-based SS7 filter executed by a processor can receive SS7 traffic. The behavior-based SS7 filter can determine a behavioral characteristic from the SS7 traffic and can compare a behavior of the SS7 traffic, based upon the behavior characteristic, to a behavior profile. The behavior-based SS7 filter also can determine whether the behavior of the SS7 traffic fits within a tolerance threshold of the behavior profile. If the SS7 traffic fits within the tolerance threshold, the behavior-based SS7 filter can instruct a signal transfer point (“STP”) to which the SS7 traffic is directed to allow routing of the SS7 traffic. If, however, the SS7 traffic does not fit within the tolerance threshold, the behavior-based SS7 filter can instruct the STP to deny routing of the SS7 traffic.
US10003557B2
Preserving collaborative history includes detecting a trigger for a chat session between at least two participants using a processor and, responsive to the trigger, obtaining event data for an event occurring during the chat session and involving at least one of the participants. The event data is included within a transcript of the chat session. In other cases, event data is obtained from external systems that is correlated with the chat session and is included within the transcript.
US10003556B2
Preserving collaborative history includes detecting a trigger for a chat session between at least two participants using a processor and, responsive to the trigger, obtaining event data for an event occurring during the chat session and involving at least one of the participants. The event data is included within a transcript of the chat session. In other cases, event data is obtained from external systems that is correlated with the chat session and is included within the transcript.
US10003555B1
Power management of a routing table, which comprises a plurality of hash tables, is provided by supporting various power domain configurations. Each power domain configuration can be associated with a different number of power domains than other power domain configurations. Each power domain can add vertical capacity to the entire routing table by adding a fixed number of buckets to each of the hash tables. Efficient power management can be achieved by switching between a lower power domain configuration and a higher power domain configuration during runtime based on the dynamic load conditions.
US10003552B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch which comprises one or more ports adapted to receive packets. The switch is a member of a network of interconnected switches, and also comprises a path monitoring apparatus adapted to: in response to a control packet associated with a session within a predetermined time interval, set a receive indicator for the switch to an active state; and in response to absence of the control packet associated with the session within the predetermined time interval, set the receive indicator for the switch to an inactive state. The path monitoring apparatus is also adapted to set a path state associated with the session based on the receive indicators for the switch and other member switches. The switch also comprises a broadcast apparatus adapted to broadcast at least the receive indicator for the switch to the other member switches.
US10003542B2
A dual chipset architecture, a method of operating a scheduler for a dual chipset architecture, and a computer program product for operating a scheduler for a dual chipset architecture. In an embodiment, the dual chipset architecture comprises a high performance processor, a low performance processor, and a scheduler for the processors. The scheduler is provided for determining an expected data traffic flow to the chipset, and for selectively enabling the high and low performance processors, based on this expected data flow, ahead of this expected data flow reaching the chipset. In one embodiment, a specified data traffic indicator is associated with the expected data traffic flow, and the scheduler uses this specified data traffic indicator to determine the expected data traffic flow. In an embodiment, this specified data traffic indicator is a value for a defined window size for the expected data flow.
US10003541B2
Packet network node and method of operating packet network node. Conventional packet network nodes react to congestion in packet network by dropping packets in a manner which is perceived by users to be indiscriminate. In the described system, indiscriminate packet discards are prevented by causing packets to be discarded on lower priority flows and flow aggregates. Further action is taken to reduce the likelihood of packet discards through: (1) classification of flows that are not observable at the point in the network where flow-based packet discards are deployed, but are consuming bandwidth and signaling classification information to flow-based packet discard function or a flow-based monitoring function or network management function; (2) classification of flows making use of extended monitoring functions that are not co-located with a flow-based packet discard function, where extended monitoring functions may perform monitoring of a flow or a group of flows over a period of time.
US10003537B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to provide egress port overload protection for network packet forwarding systems. Input packets are received at one or more ingress ports and load balanced among a plurality of egress ports for the packet forwarding system. Load balanced packets associated with each egress port are then sampled to generate sampled load balanced packets that are output from the egress port. For certain embodiments, a sampling percentage is used for the packet sampling, and the sampling percentage for each egress port is set based upon a comparison of a current traffic rate for the egress port to a threshold rate for the egress port. The threshold rates for the egress ports are allowed to be configured through a user interface. Further, session and non-session traffic can be identified, and session aware load balancing and/or per-port packet sampling can be applied.
US10003527B1
A device is described for assisting network technicians and other users with network cabling. The device can be provided to a technician, where the technician plugs a loose cable end into the device, and if the other end of the cable is attached to a switch (e.g. Euclid switch), the device indicates to the technician via a display where on the network the cable should be plugged in (which port on which switch). When the device is connected to a switch via a cable, the switch can make available its information to the device. The device can also consult a data store to determine where the other end should be attached. The information that is used to determine where the cable should be attached can include the number of layers in the network; the number of switches in each layer; and the number of ports on the switches.
US10003525B2
Methods and apparatus to provide redundancy in a process control system are disclosed. An example method includes receiving, at a first network host, first integrity messages transmitted from a second network host over a first network. The method includes detecting a network failure over a first communication path between a first network interface of the first network host and a second network interface of the second network host via first network when a first network interface of the first network host fails to receive one of the first integrity messages expected from a first network interface of the second network host. The method includes automatically establishing a second communication path between the first network host and the second network host in response to the detected network failure.
US10003524B2
A routing loop determining method and a device. The method includes: acquiring, by a forwarding device in a layer 3 network, a first packet, where a time to live (TTL) value of the first packet is reduced to 0 by the forwarding device; acquiring, by the forwarding device, a second packet whose destination Internet Protocol IP address is the same as that of the first packet; recording, by the forwarding device, a feature of the second packet; forwarding, by the forwarding device, the second packet; and acquiring, by the forwarding device, a third packet according to the feature of the second packet, where a feature of the third packet is the same as that of the second packet, and determining that a routing loop exists. The present disclosure resolves a problem that a loop in a layer 3 network cannot be detected, and improves accuracy of sending a packet.
US10003507B2
One embodiment provides a system that facilitates an efficient transport protocol. During operation, the system receives a first interest which indicates a query for optimal transport parameters, wherein a name for an interest is a hierarchically structured variable length identifier that includes contiguous name components ordered from a most general level to a most specific level, wherein the query is based on a name prefix that includes one or more contiguous name components. The system computes the optimal parameters based on historical information associated with the name prefix. The system transmits a first response which includes the computed optimal parameters to a requesting entity, thereby facilitating a transport protocol which increases network efficiency.
US10003500B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for managing a server cluster are provided. An example method may include scheduling a first job on a first node, using a first resource manager, establishing a service for a second resource manager on a second node, wherein the service is allocated node resources of the second node, and attempting to schedule a second job on the first node, using the first resource manager. The method may include preempting the service on the second node, using the second resource manager, in response to the attempt to schedule the second job on the first node, and deallocating the node resources of the second node from the service. The method may include advertising, using a node manager of the first resource manager, available node resources of the second node, and scheduling the second job on the second node, using the first resource manager.
US10003499B2
A user-device configured server code trace request that specifies an element identifier of a specified user-device interface element served by a server and a server code tracing depth specified by a user of a user device is received at the server device from the user device served by the server device. Using the specified element identifier, a granular server code trace of server code scoped to the specified server code tracing depth and scoped to a portion of the server code utilized in association with the specified user-device interface element is configured. The configured granular server code trace of the server code scoped to the specified server code tracing depth and scoped to the portion of the server code utilized in association with the specified user-device interface element is performed.
US10003491B2
Disclosed is a transmission method compatible with higher order modulation and lower order modulation, and an apparatus. A base station stores a first higher order modulation mapping table supporting the higher order modulation and a first lower order modulation mapping table supporting the lower order modulation; the base station receives capability level information sent by user equipment; the base station determines, according to the capability level information sent by the user equipment, a first modulation mapping table used to communicate with the user equipment; the base station determines a modulation and coding scheme index according to the modulation mapping table, where the modulation and coding scheme index is used by the user equipment to determine a modulation and coding scheme; and the modulation and coding scheme index is sent to the user equipment.
US10003486B2
Apparatuses and methods for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) communication are discussed. An example Evolved NodeB (eNB) includes a memory, a processor, and a transmitter circuit. The processor evaluates an orthogonal multiple access (OMA) metric and a NOMA metric, generates a protocol instruction that indicates an OMA transmission or a NOMA transmission based on the metrics, and determines a first modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for a first UE and a second MCS for a second UE. The transmitter circuit receives the protocol instruction and transmits a first data signal and a first downlink control information (DCI) message associated with the first UE, and a second data signal and a second DCI message associated with the second UE. When the protocol instruction indicates NOMA transmission, the data signals are power multiplexed, the DCI messages indicate the data signals are transmitted via NOMA, and the first DCI message indicates the second MCS.
US10003481B2
A system and method for Feed Forward Equalizer (FFE)-Aided Clock Data Recovery (CDR) to calibrate phase offset and enhance gain in baud rate sampling phase detector is provided. In an embodiment, a clock data recovery (CDR) apparatus includes an incremental feed forward equalizer (INC-FFE) in a CDR path and a calibration component in an equalization path, the calibration component connected to the INC-FFE, the calibration component configured to adjust FFE coefficients for the INC-FFE according to a phase code (PC) index in a PC index table and one of a signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) and a bit error rate (BER) of a sampled signal, wherein the PC index table comprises adjustment values for the FFE coefficients, and wherein the PC index is linearly related to a sampling phase.
US10003479B2
A multi-phase partial response receiver supports various incoming data rates by sampling PrDFE output values at a selected one of at least two clock phases. The receiver includes a calibration circuit that performs a timing analysis of critical data paths in the circuit, and this analysis is then used to select the particular clock phase used to latch the output values. These techniques permit the multiplexer outputs from for each phase of the partial response receiver to directly drive selection of a multiplexer for the ensuing phase, i.e., by avoiding regions of instability or uncertainty in the respective multiplexer outputs.
US10003472B2
An information processing apparatus that communicates with a communication apparatus includes a connecting unit that connects to a first access point in the communication apparatus, a connection-information acquisition unit that acquires connection information for connecting to a second access point in the communication apparatus via the first access point, a storage unit that stores the acquired connection information in a memory, and a receiving unit that receives an instruction to transmit data. Upon receipt of an instruction to transmit data when the connecting unit is not connected to the second access point, the connecting unit connects to the second access point using the stored connection information stored in the storage unit, and when the connecting unit is connected to the second access point, the first access point is disabled.
US10003468B1
A method for communicating over a DC power line is disclosed. A digital stream from any source is applied to a transmitter comprising a DC power regulator, which may be a shunt regulator, and in some embodiments, may be an adjustable Zener diode. The digital stream is applied to a reference input of the regulator, which causes digital fluctuations of a power DC voltage applied to a DC power line upon which downstream receivers are operating. Any number of receivers may be connected to the DC power line, each of which including a microprocessor powered by the digitally fluctuating DC voltage. The receivers may operate on any number of applications. In another embodiment, bidirectional communications are enabled by adding a shunt voltage regulator to vary voltage on the power line for each receiver. Digital communication may operate at relative fast rates, and the transmitter and receiver are inexpensive.
US10003467B1
A computing device includes a processor and a persistent memory for storing information about a first public key associated with a first asymmetric key pair for authenticating the source of a digital certificate. The computing device also includes a second memory for storing one or more current certificate version indicators, each associated with a corresponding digital certificate, and the version indicator is used by the processor to determine the trust of the corresponding digital certificate.
US10003466B1
Data is split into a set of data packets and transmitted between a client computer system and a network service via a packet-switched network. The client computer system identifies a role, permission, group, or other credential that is associated with the data packets, and attaches a credential identifier such as a digital signature to the packets before they are transmitted over the network. A network service receives the data packets, and is configured to filter or route the data packets to a recipient using the attached credential identifier. The network service can adjust the filtering or routing process to occur within a data link, network, transport, or application layer. In some examples, the filtering or routing is provided from within a hypervisor.
US10003463B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor, an information handling resource communicatively coupled to the processor, and a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor and the information handling resource and configured to provide out-of-band management of the information handling system. The management controller may further configured to receive a message indicating that an existing private key associated with the information handling resource is compromised, the message including a replacement public key for replacing an existing public key associated with the information handling resource and associated with the existing private key and responsive to the message, cause the existing public key associated with the information handling resource to be replaced with the replacement public key.
US10003460B2
A secret quotient transfer device that can reduce the communication cost. On the assumption that u denotes a natural number and represents a boundary value, m denotes an integer that satisfies a relation m≤2u, i denotes an integer from 0 to m−1, a plain text a is an integer that is equal to or greater than 0 and smaller than an arbitrary modulo p, the integers a and 0 are congruent modulo 2u, and the plain text a is expressed as a sum of m sub-shares x0, . . . , xm-1, the secret quotient transfer device computes a quotient q of the division of a total sum aZ of the sub-shares by p according to q=Σ(i
US10003459B2
Security is simply and safely secured when communication is performed by an information processing device including: a communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with another terminal; an identification information acquisition unit configured to acquire first identification information that is acquired through the communication unit and encrypted for specifying the other terminal, and that is decrypted with a first decryption key managed in a network service; and a key acquisition unit configured to acquire a first encryption key associated with the first identification information in the network service when second identification information for specifying an own terminal is associated with the first identification information in the network service. The communication unit transmits information encrypted with the acquired first encryption key to the other terminal.
US10003451B2
An apparatus includes a first gain stage, a combiner and a second gain stage. The first gain stage may be configured to amplify a receive signal acquired from a circuit to generate an intermediate signal. The combiner may be configured to combine the intermediate signal with a cancellation signal to generate a combined signal. The cancellation signal is generally derived from a transmit signal a portion of which appears in the receive signal through the circuit. The second gain stage may be configured to amplify the combined signal to generate an output signal.
US10003441B2
A wireless communication device (alternatively, device, WDEV, etc.) includes a processing circuitry configured to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. In some examples, the device includes a communication interface and a processing circuitry, among other possible circuitries, components, elements, etc. to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. A WDEV selects a resource unit (RU) from an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) sub-carrier plan for use in supporting communications with another WDEV. The WDEV transmits a signal to the other WDEV that includes information that specifies the RU that is selected from the OFDMA sub-carrier plan and then supports communications with the other WDEV using the RU that is selected from the OFDMA sub-carrier plan. The OFDMA sub-carrier plan includes multiple OFDMA sub-carrier sub-plans of different sized RUs and null sub-carriers.
US10003437B2
A prioritization is determined amongst a group of receivers for receiving signals transmitted from the wireless transmitter, without use of accurate channel state information. A signal is transmitted to each receiver based on an order that is determined by the prioritization. The transmitted signal can be encoded so that the receiver is able to receive the signal regardless of a channel state as between that receiver and the wireless transmitter.
US10003436B2
A device for use in demodulating modulated signals by determining a value for a log likelihood ratio. The device has a storage device to store executable instructions and a processor to execute the instructions stored on the memory device. The processor is configured to, when executing the instructions: receive a modulated signal which is to be demodulated using a constellation diagram comprising a plurality of constellation points which are identified by binary reflected Gray-labelled codes; identify, for a bit of the Gray-labelled codes, a closest complementary constellation point to the signal when considering the signal as a point on a representation of one-dimension of the constellation diagram; identify a hard decision point, wherein the hard decision point is the closest constellation point to the signal when considering the signal as a point on a representation of one-dimension of a constellation diagram; and a complementary constellation point is a constellation point which has a different value for the bit compared to the hard decision point; and determine a value for a log likelihood ratio using the hard decision point and the closest complementary constellation point. Some devices identify a closest complementary constellation point to the signal, a second closest complementary constellation point to the signal, a hard decision point and an auxiliary hard decision point and determine a value for a log likelihood ratio using the hard decision point, an auxiliary hard decision point, the closest complementary constellation point and the second closest complementary constellation point.
US10003435B2
A system, method and device for error detection/estimation in OFDM communications systems is proposed. The disclosed mechanism allows an efficient error prediction in a received packet, without having to perform full FEC decoding of the packet that could impair the overall latency of the system due to the time spent in a complete FEC decoding of the packet. In order to do that, it generates a decision variable with the aim to check whether a received packet has errors or not, after performing only partial FEC decoding of the packet, without either resorting to the use of error-detection codes.
US10003434B2
Large source data packets having large packet sizes and small source data packets having small packet sizes that are smaller than the large packet sizes are received. The small source data packets and the large source data packets are sent to a receiving device without forward error correction (FEC). The small source data packets are aggregated into a container packet having a header configured to differentiate the container packet from the large source data packets and the small source data packets. The large source data packets and the container packet are encoded with forward error correction to produce FEC-encoded packets to enable forward error correction of the large source data packets and the container packet at the receiving device. The FEC-encoded packets are sent to the receiving device.
US10003431B2
Systems and methods are provided for automatically detecting passive components in communications systems using radio frequency identification (“RFID”) tags. A coupling circuit is provided in a system between a communications network and an RFID tag. The RFID tag is associated with a passive element of a distributed antenna system (“DAS”). The coupling circuit can allow an RFID signal received from an RFID transmitter over the communications network to be transported to the RFID tag. The coupling circuit can substantially prevent mobile communication signals on the communications network from being transported to the RFID tag.
US10003429B2
An optical transmission device includes: a wavelength allocation detector configured to detect wavelength allocation that indicates allocation of optical signals multiplexed in a WDM optical signal; a power adjusting unit configured to adjust powers of the optical signals multiplexed in the WDM optical signal; an optical amplifier configured to amplify the WDM optical signal output from the power adjusting unit; a power controller configured to generate a power control signal to control the power adjusting unit such that the WDM optical signal has a specified wavelength characteristic; and a correction value generator configured to generate a correction value to correct the power control signal based on the wavelength allocation. The power controller corrects the power control signal with the correction value. The power adjusting unit adjusts powers of the optical signals multiplexed in the WDM optical signal according to the corrected power control signal.
US10003426B2
Systems and methods for performing wavelength conflict detection are provided. These are to detect situations in optical networks where two instances of the same wavelength channel have been added. Wavelength conflict detection is performed for each of a plurality of possible wavelength channels that could be present in an optical signal, each wavelength channel that is present modulated by a pilot tone signal with a respective pilot tone frequency, the pilot tone signal carrying M-ary pilot tone data, M=2n, n≥1, with a respective one of M different sequences being used to represent each of M possible data values over a data value period. Conflict detection for each wavelength channel involves performing correlation peak detection using each of the M different sequences to determine correlation peaks for each of the M different sequences, and, based on the determined correlation peaks, determining whether multiple instances of the wavelength channel are present in the optical signal.
US10003423B2
An optical transmitter transmits an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing symbol in which only one-half of available subcarriers are modulated with data and the remaining subcarriers are suppressed by not modulating with data. The transmission is of duration equal to half the symbol period of the OFDM symbol, resulting in a half-cycle transmission. An optical receiver receives the half-cycle transmission OFDM symbol, regenerates the full time domain representation and recovers data modulated on the one-half of available subcarriers. The modulated subcarriers and the suppressed subcarriers alternate in the frequency domain.
US10003422B2
A method for processing an FM stereo signal. The FM stereo signal is digitized and divided into overlapping blocks, which are transformed into the frequency domain. Individual spectral lines of the difference signal are lowered if these have a higher magnitude than the respective spectral lines of the sum signal. The sum and difference signals are then transformed back.
US10003416B1
A method for measuring characteristics of a transmitter unit of a device under test is described. A signal generator is provided that comprises a baseband processing unit having at least a digital pre-distortion sub-unit. A device under test is provided that has a transmitter unit. A measuring unit is provided. Said signal generator and said device under test are connected with each other via an interface. At least one input signal is generated by using said signal generator, said input signal is forwarded to said device under test. An output signal of said device under test is measured by using said measuring unit. A first pre-distortion parameter for an increasing input amplitude is determined by using said digital pre-distortion sub-unit. A second pre-distortion parameter for a decreasing input amplitude is determined by using said digital pre-distortion sub-unit. Said first and second pre-distortion parameters are determined such that said output signal has a high fidelity. Further, a test system and a radio frequency device are described.
US10003414B2
The method for calibrating the frequency synthesizer using two-point FSK modulation consists, in a first phase, in supplying an excitation signal generated by a calibration unit to a sigma-delta modulator by deactivating a digital-to-analog converter and transmitting the output signal from a loop filter of the synthesizer to the calibration unit, which digitally converts the incoming signal and offsets the phase shift between the excitation signal and the loop filter output signal in the calibration unit. In a second phase, the excitation signal is supplied to the sigma-delta modulator and to the activated digital-to-analog converter, and the digital-to-analog converter gain is calibrated by checking, in the calibration unit, the polarity of the loop filter output signal with respect to the excitation signal, and using a dichotomy algorithm.
US10003413B2
A method for assigning, in a database, a relationship between at least one logical channel and at least one antenna element feed that is coupleable to at least one antenna element of an antenna arrangement, is described. The method comprises either: applying a first signal to at least one first logical channel; and detecting whether there is a presence of a radio frequency signal converted from the first signal on at least one first antenna element feed; or applying a second signal to at least one first antenna element feed coupleable to at least one first antenna element of the antenna arrangement; and detecting whether there is a presence of a logical signal converted from the second signal on at least one first logical channel. The method further comprises assigning in the database in response thereto a relationship between the at least one first logical channel and the at least one first antenna element feed. This advantageously allows assigning of logical channels via a plurality of transceivers to a plurality of antenna elements. Furthermore, a logical channel to beamform coefficient assignment may be determined for the antenna array.
US10003407B2
An efficient coding and modulation system for transmission of digital data over plastic optical fibers with low latency. In particular, the digital signal is coded by means of a two-level coset coding. The first level applies to the digital data a binary shortened BCH coding and performs coset partitioning by means of constellation mapping and lattice transformations. The second level is uncoded but undergoes mapping and lattice transformation. After an addition of the two levels, a second-stage lattice transformation is performed so as to obtain a zero-mean constellation. The symbols output from such three-level coset coder are then further modulated.
US10003397B2
Embodiments include a dynamic wireless aerial mesh network having aerial nodes that provides real-time persistent wide area communications service to provide communications in response to an incident. Typically, the service area is a wide area that is physically inaccessible via ground transportation. In addition, embodiments include the formation of a decentralized mesh supernetwork comprising two or more dynamic wireless aerial mesh networks where each dynamic wireless aerial mesh network is owned by a different agency (e.g., a secure community). A member of a first dynamic wireless aerial mesh network may send a request to a member of a second dynamic wireless aerial mesh network for the first dynamic wireless aerial mesh network to join the second dynamic wireless aerial mesh network to form a mesh supernetwork, and receive an acceptance from the member of the second dynamic wireless aerial mesh network.
US10003391B2
The invention provides a communication system and components thereof for controlling coordinated transmissions using a plurality of carriers operated by a plurality of transmission points. A transmission point configures a number of signal quality and interference measurements for a mobile telephone communicating over the plurality of carriers, each measurement being associated with multiple carriers and multiple measurement configurations. The mobile telephone performs the configured measurements with respect to each of the multiple carriers and reports the results of the relevant measurements to the transmission point.
US10003390B2
Systems and methods of precoded faster than Nyquist (FTN) signalling are provided. In the transmitter, Tomlinson-Harashima Preceding (THP) is applied to produce precoded symbols. The THP is based on inter-symbol interference (ISI) due to using faster than Nyquist (FTN) signalling. An inverse modulo operation is not performed in the receiver. Instead, in the receiver, FTN processing is performed based on a matched filter output by determining log a-posteriori probability ratio LAPPR values computed for an nth bit bn of a kth received symbol and pre-computed a-priori probabilities of an extended constellation for a given pulse shape h(t) and FTN acceleration factor combination.
US10003389B2
A MIMO communication method for performing MIMO communication between a base station including a plurality of antennas, and a plurality of terminals accommodated in the base station. The method includes, in the base station, dividing the plurality of terminals into a first and a second group, and assigning orthogonal codes with each other to the respective groups, spreading transmission data to the plurality of terminals with the assigned codes, multiplying data obtained by the spreading by a predetermined pre-coding matrix, obtaining a channel matrix representing channels between the plurality of antennas and the plurality of terminals, multiplying data obtained by the multiplying by the pre-coding matrix by a complex conjugate matrix of the channel matrix, and transmitting data obtained by the multiplying by the complex conjugate matrix from the plurality of antennas.
US10003387B2
A communications terminal may include: a plurality of antennas; and a transmitter configured to transmit a signal on an antenna of the plurality of antennas, wherein the transmitter further may be configured to transmit a delayed signal on another antenna of the plurality of antennas, and wherein the delayed signal may be generated by delaying the signal by a time delay.
US10003374B1
A wireless radio frequency transceiver system for Internet of Things includes: a wireless radio frequency transmission module and a wireless radio frequency receiving module. The wireless radio frequency transmission module is used to shape signal waveform of digital signals from the Internet of Things to modulate the digital signals to form modulated output signals, and adopt a self-mixing technique to increase voltage/current amplitude of the modulated output signals and reduce phase noise. The wireless radio frequency transmission module is further used to adopt a current reuse technique to amplify the voltage/current amplitude of the modulated output signals, and transmit the amplified modulated output signals through a first antenna to a wireless channel. The wireless radio frequency receiving module is used to detect carrier input signals received from a second antenna to obtain baseband signals and demodulate the baseband signals to form differential signals. The wireless radio frequency receiving module is further used to amplify voltage/current amplitude of the demodulated differential signals several times in an open loop state to produce digital output signals, and transmit the digital output signals to a back-end signal processor.
US10003366B2
A low-power scouting receiver is presented that provides an ability perform low-power scouting functions at a relatively low power. The low-power scouting functions determine context information for the receiver and enable fine-tuning of other receiver operations based on the context information. The low-power scouting functions include receiver control and switching, jammer detection, self-interference detection, or other context-dependent radio parameters.
US10003356B2
An encoder for encoding data to generate corresponding encoded data including information indicative of a frequency, probability or range of one or more symbols to be represented in the encoded data. The encoder can include in the encoded data additional information indicative of whether information indicative of a frequency, probability or range for at least one symbol amongst the one or more symbols is in the encoded data. The encoder can include in the encoded data the additional information of whether information indicative of a frequency, probability or range for at least one symbol amongst the one or more symbols in the encoded data expressed as single availability bit information. The encoder can represent inclusion of information indicative of the frequency, probability or range information by use of a single availability bit value “7”, and non-inclusion of information indicative of the frequency, probability or range information by use of a single availability bit value “0”.
US10003352B2
The present invention provides a high-precision analog-to-digital converter, includes a redundant weight capacitor array, a comparator, a code reestablishment circuit, a weight storage circuit and a control logic circuit. The redundant weight capacitor array collects input voltages and generates output voltages in a sampling stage. The comparator compares the output voltages of the redundant weight capacitor array. The code reestablishment circuit calculates an output code of the successive approximation type analog-to-digital converter according to the comparator output result and a capacitor weight in the weight storage circuit. The weight storage circuit stores the capacitor weight. The control logic circuit controls the sampling and conversion stages of the redundant weight capacitor array. The present invention also provides a DNL-based performance improvement method adapted to the analog-to-digital converter.
US10003349B2
Methods and systems are provided for dynamic power switching in current-steering digital-to-analog converters (DACs). A DAC circuit may be configured to apply digital-to-analog conversions based on current steering, and to particularly incorporate use of dynamic power switching during conversions. The DAC circuit may comprise a main section, which may connect a main supply voltage to a main current source. The main section may comprise a positive-side branch and a negative-side branch, which may be configured to steer positive-side and negative-side currents, such as in a differential manner, to effectuate the conversions. The dynamic power switching may be applied, for example, via a secondary section connecting a main current source in the DAC circuit to a secondary supply voltage. The secondary supply voltage may be configured such that it may be less than the main supply voltage used in driving the current steering in the DAC circuit.
US10003340B2
A multi-format signal driver interface has first, second and third pairs of transistors arranged in a back-to-back relationship. First transistors and second transistors of the first and second pairs of transistors form respective first and second parallel arrangement. The first transistors of the third pair of transistors are in series with the first parallel arrangement, and the second transistors of the third pair of transistors are in series with the second parallel arrangement. The sizing of the second pair of transistors is greater than the first and third pairs of transistors. A pre-driver module configures the multi-format signal driver interface to output a selected signal format. A differential amplifier is selectively couple-able to said pre-driver module to provide a common mode voltage. In each format the interface employs a current loop in the output. The transistor pairs are one-to-one loaded in each mode.
US10003339B1
A GPIO interface circuit compatible with output of MIPI signals, comprises a first CMOS signal output module (10), an LVDS signal output module (30), a second CMOS signal output module (20). When an MIPI output enable input of the LVDS signal output module (30) is enabled and output enable inputs of the first and second CMOS signal output modules (10, 20) are both disabled, a first and second pull-down modules (40, 50) are in active state accordingly, and the LVDS signal output module (30) outputs a current signal to the first or second pull-down module (40, 50) to ensure voltage of the first or second signal output be a preset voltage, which can achieve MIPI HS Mode output.
US10003337B1
Circuits and methods are provided. The circuits and methods are for providing a supply voltage to a dynamic internal power supply node of a group of other circuits. A circuit includes a first transistor and a second transistor, of different channel types, coupled in parallel to a static power supply that supplies a constant power supply voltage. The circuit further includes a magnetic inductor having a first terminal connected to a common node between the first transistor and the second transistor and a second terminal connected to the dynamic internal power supply node, to supply the dynamic internal power supply node with a boosted voltage having a magnitude greater than a magnitude of the constant power supply voltage by resonating with at least one capacitance coupled to the dynamic internal power supply node.
US10003335B2
A data transmission device may include a calibration circuit and an output driver. The calibration circuit may generate a pull-up calibration voltage and a pull-down calibration voltage. The resistance value of the output driver may be changed based on the pull-up calibration voltage and the pull-down calibration voltage.
US10003334B2
The invention relates to a capacitive sensor system, in particular for detecting the approach of objects and in particular also for gesture recognition. The problem of the present invention is to provide a capacitively operating sensor system, which can be implemented with low component complexity and thus low costs and space requirements and is also characterized by low power consumption, so as to operate with batteries having a low charge capacity and/or a long operating time. Said problem is solved according to the invention by a circuit configuration for generating an output signal correlating with an approximation process based on changes in the dielectric properties of the surroundings of a sensor electrode, having a sensor electrode which is adjacent to an observation area in at least some sections, a microcontroller circuit (μC) for output of an alternating voltage, a voltage divider circuit for achieving an adjustment of the level of the alternating voltage output by the microcontroller (μC), and a field effect transistor (FET) in the function of an impedance converter, wherein the field effect transistor is incorporated into the circuit configuration in such a way that the voltage output by the voltage divider circuit is present at the gate input thereof and at the same time at the sensor electrode (ES).
US10003331B2
A semiconductor device according to one embodiment includes a first normally-off type transistor including a first source, a first drain, a first gate, and a first body diode, a second normally-off type transistor including a second source connected to the first source, a second drain, a second gate connected to the first gate, and a second body diode, a normally-on type transistor including a third source connected to the first drain, a third drain, and a third gate connected to the second drain, and a diode including an anode connected to the second drain and a cathode connected to the third drain.
US10003327B2
A field device includes a current output circuit, a sensor circuit, and a terminal portion. The current output circuit and the sensor circuit are connected a two-wire loop wiring via the terminal portion in a state that the current output circuit and the sensor circuit are connected in series with each other. A rectifying element is connected to only a sensor circuit side of the terminal portion.
US10003326B1
A pre-driver includes a first inverter, a second inverter, a third inverter, a first amplifier, a second amplifier, a third amplifier, a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a third capacitor. The first inverter has an input terminal coupled to an output node, and an output terminal coupled to a first node. The second inverter has an input terminal coupled to the first node, and an output terminal coupled to a second node. The third inverter has an input terminal coupled to the second node, and an output terminal coupled to the output node. The output node is further coupled through the first amplifier and the first capacitor to the first node. The first node is further coupled through the second amplifier and the second capacitor to the second node. The second node is further coupled through the third amplifier and the third capacitor to the output node.
US10003325B2
According to one general aspect, an apparatus may include a power header and a logic circuit. The power header may include a gate terminal, a first channel terminal, a second channel terminal, and a bulk terminal coupled with a first voltage power signal. The power header may be configured to perform one of dynamically coupling or decoupling a logic circuit with the first voltage power signal. The logic circuit may include a bulk terminal coupled with a second voltage power signal and a power terminal that is either dynamically coupled or decoupled, as determined by the power header, with the first voltage power signal. A power sequencing signal may be included in the apparatus and may be configured to control the power header such that, when active, the power header couples the logic circuit with the first voltage power signal after the second voltage power signal is high.
US10003324B2
Data samples are filtered by using a digital filter where the length of an impulse response of the digital filter is finite, an impulse response of the digital filter is symmetric and the operation of the digital filter is multi-rate. The method uses a polyphase decomposition to break down the input data stream into N parallel substreams and the multi-rate digital filter is separated by a polyphase decomposition into multiple lower-rate sub-filters where each of the sub-filters is separated into a set of simpler sub-sub-filters which operate upon the same set of input samples and which have impulse responses which are jointly centro-symmetric, a set of pre-filtering arithmetic structures, and a set of post-filtering arithmetic structures and performing each such pair of sub-sub-filtering operations using a single shared filter structure, a set of pre-filtering combining adders, and a set of post-filtering separating adders.
US10003309B2
A method and system for adaptive self-biasing of a power amplifier are disclosed. A current (Ids) at an output of the power amplifier is measured, the current being a sum of a quiescent current (Idq) and a current arising from an RF signal applied to an input of the power amplifier. An output signal power (Pout) of the power amplifier is measured. A target value of Ids corresponding to the measured value of Pout is either calculated or obtained from a look-up table. The measured current Ids is compared to the target value of Ids to determine an error value. An input biasing voltage (Vgs) of the power amplifier is adjusted based on the error value to achieve a measured value of Ids that is equal to the target value of Ids corresponding to the measured value of Pout.
US10003307B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a principal surface which has a first side in a first direction and a second side in a second direction. A plurality of transistor arrays is formed in a region adjacent to the first side of the semiconductor substrate. A plurality of bumps include first and second bumps which are longer in the first direction. The distance between the first side and the first bump is shorter than the distance between the first side and the second bump. The plurality of transistor arrays include a first and a second transistor arrays. The first transistor array has a plurality of first unit transistors arranged along the first direction such that the first unit transistors overlap the first bump. The second transistor array has a plurality of second unit transistors arranged along the first direction such that the second unit transistors overlap the second bump.
US10003306B1
Embodiments relate to a chopped amplifier system where a ripple reduction filter placed outside of a main signal path is disclosed. The chopped amplifier system includes a chopped amplifier having an input terminal and an output terminal, where the input terminal receives an input signal and the output terminal provides an output signal including a ripple that is based on an offset voltage of the chopped amplifier. The ripple reduction filter is placed in a feedback loop path that receives a portion of the chopped amplifier's output signal and provides a feedback signal to the chopped amplifier that reduces the ripple at the output of the chopped amplifier. The ripple reduction filter includes a digital controller and other circuits that can handle large disturbances such as large signal slew rate events and large common-mode steps without reducing the effectiveness of the ripple reduction filter in reducing the ripple.
US10003303B2
An amplifier may include control circuitry that may track a first input signal parameter and, in response, adjust a value of a second input parameter. Input parameter tracking and adjustment may facilitate control of output parameters for the amplifier. For example, an envelope-tracking amplifier may track input signal amplitude and adjust other input parameters in response. The adjustments may facilitate control of output parameters, such as gain or efficiency. The amplifier may further include calibration circuitry to determine adjustment responses to various tracked input parameters.
US10003302B2
Tunneling field effect transistors and fabrication methods thereof are provided, which include: an integrated circuit device which includes a circuit input configured to receive an input voltage and a circuit output configured to deliver an output current. The integrated circuit also includes a circuit element having at least one tunneling field effect transistor (TFET). The circuit element connects the circuit input to the circuit output and is characterized by a V-shaped current-voltage diagram. The V-shaped current-voltage diagram describes the relationship between the input voltage of the circuit input and the output current of the circuit output.
US10003292B2
A system and method for dynamically optimizing flux levels in electric motors based on estimated torque. Motor parameters and motor equations are used to estimate operating characteristics and to set current and voltage limits which define an optimal flux operating range for a given speed and torque of the motor. A slope of a linear flux gain is determined within the defined operating range at different speeds of the motor. The determined slopes for the different speeds are saved in a memory element. A control element determines and achieves an optimal flux level for the motor by accessing the table to identify a specific slope which corresponds to an actual speed of the motor, multiplying the slope by the estimated torque and adding an offset value to determine a phase current component value associated with the optimal flux level, and applying the determined phase current component value to the motor.
US10003291B2
A hybrid electrical machine containing surface mounted magnets which includes a magnetically permeable cylindrically shaped stator assembly having at least one stator winding formed about a plurality of stator teeth, a rotor assembly concentrically disposed within the stator assembly, including a magnetically permeable rotor backiron, a rotational drive mechanism coupled to the rotor backiron, and a plurality of protruding rotor poles, each including a magnetically permeable pole support assembly, a winding provided around the pole support assembly, and a radially magnetized permanent magnet assembly disposed about the pole support assembly.
US10003290B2
The present invention provides a method of remotely monitoring the power provision of a generator set at a location comprising determining an expected electrical energy usage at a first location, providing a generator set configured to provide electrical energy to power or devices at the location, the generator set arranged to provide an amount of electrical energy to meet the determined expected electrical energy usage, and the generator having a telemetry module to monitor and transmit electrical energy supply data to a second location, the telemetry module monitoring the supply data over a predetermined period and transmitting the supply data to the processor, analyzing the supply data to determine a power supply profile at the first location, and comparing the power supply profile with the expected power usage and/or the power supply specifications of the generator set.
US10003289B2
A method for controlling a motor is provided. The motor control method includes deriving a motor rotational speed estimate using a speed estimator model and deriving a motor hall sensor frequency estimate based on the derived rotational speed estimate. Additionally, a filter for noise detection is set based on the derived hall sensor frequency estimate and the derived rotational speed estimate. A motor hall sensor frequency derived from the hall sensor is then applied to a predetermined filter to detect a hall sensor noise frequency.
US10003283B2
The present invention provides a device and a method for changing the operating state of an electric machine to the free-wheeling mode, in which significant excessive increases in voltage can be avoided. In the freewheeling mode, the individual phase connections of an electric machine are disconnected electrically from one another in order to change the electric machine into a safe operating state. According to the invention, only some of the phase currents of the electric machine are evaluated. On the basis of the evaluated phase currents, suitable times for the disconnection of all the phase connections are determined, that is to say even for the phases in which no evaluation of the phase currents takes place.
US10003282B2
A method for making an actuator includes forming a substantially planar actuator device of an electrically conductive material, the device incorporating an outer frame, a fixed frame attached to the outer frame, a moveable frame disposed parallel to the fixed frame, a motion control flexure coupling the moveable frame to the outer frame for coplanar, rectilinear movement relative to the outer frame and the fixed frame, and an actuator incorporating a plurality of interdigitated teeth, a fixed portion of which is attached to the fixed frame and a moving portion of which is attached to the moveable frame, moving the moveable frame to a deployed position that is coplanar with, parallel to and spaced at a selected distance apart from the fixed frame and fixing the moveable frame at the deployed position for substantially rectilinear, perpendicular movement relative to the fixed frame.
US10003280B2
A semiconductor module, an upper and lower arm kit, and a three-level inverter can be provided at low cost and with broad current ratings and voltage ratings using existing packages, without developing new packages. A first semiconductor module on an upper arm side and a second semiconductor module on a lower arm side are made using an existing package, and the semiconductor modules and are used to configure an upper and lower arm kit. Further, the upper and lower arm kit is used to configure a three-level inverter. These devices can be formed using existing packages, and semiconductor modules, the upper and lower arm kit, and the three-level inverter can be therefore provided at low cost and with broad current ratings and voltage ratings.
US10003267B1
Isolated DC-DC converters and methods for operating the same are described herein. DC-DC converters include a driver that drives a primary winding of a transformer to transmit power to a secondary winding of the transformer across an isolation barrier. In some embodiments, a pair of symmetrical serial capacitors are provided between the driver and the primary winding of a resonant DC-DC converter with an on-chip transformer to slow down variations of a common mode voltage on the primary winding during operation. This in turn can suppress radiation emissions related to time variation rates of the common mode voltage and, and can also improve electromagnetic interference (EMI) performance of the DC-DC converter.
US10003266B2
A voltage regulator circuit comprises a plurality of voltage regulator phases, a first load output coupled to the plurality of voltage regulator phases for providing a first output voltage, a first coupling inductor having a first winding and a second winding, the first winding coupled in series between a first voltage regulator phase of the plurality of voltage regulator phases and the first load output, a second load output coupled to the second winding for providing a second output voltage, and a first switch coupled in series with the second winding. A method comprises detecting a startup event; determining an installed processor type; retrieving a configuration parameter value; providing a first output voltage at a first load output; providing, at a second load output coupled to the second winding, a second output voltage; and controlling a first duty cycle of a first switch coupled in series with the second winding.
US10003262B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a first voltage terminal, a second voltage terminal, an output terminal, a high-side MOSFET connected between the first voltage terminal and the output terminal, a low-side MOSFET connected between the output terminal and the second voltage terminal and having first and second gate electrodes, a drive circuit that complementally switches on and off the high-side MOSFET and low-side MOSFET, and a second gate electrode control circuit that generates a second gate control signal supplied to the second gate electrode of the low-side MOSFET. The second gate electrode control circuit has a voltage generating circuit that supplies a negative voltage negative in polarity relative to a voltage at the source of the low-side MOSFET, to the second gate electrode of the low-side MOSFET.
US10003260B2
Switching control devices and related operating methods are provided. An exemplary electronic device includes a semiconductor die, a driver arrangement on the semiconductor die to generate a switch control output signal based on an input switching command signal, and a timer arrangement on the semiconductor die and coupled to the driver arrangement to measure a time difference between a first change in the command signal and an exhibited response in the switch control signal, which can then be utilized to achieve a desired dead time.
US10003255B1
A method for correcting audible noise from a voltage regulator due to a change of a VID indicated by a series of VID commands. A VID difference between a current value and a target value of the VID is compared with a VID threshold when a VID command for changing the VID from the current value to the target value is received. The VID is held at the current value if the VID difference is larger than the VID threshold. And the VID command is executed if a holding duration for holding the VID at the current value expires and no new VID command for changing the VID is received before the expiration of the holding duration.
US10003251B2
A power converting method for high frequency inverter and low frequency inverter connecting in parallel, which is for converting a direct current power into an alternating current power, includes the following steps. A low frequency inverting module which electrically connected to the direct current power is provided. A high frequency inverting module which is electrically connected to the low frequency inverting module in parallel is provided. A high frequency switching duty ratio of the high frequency inverting module is adjusted to output a second current according to a first current produced by the low frequency inverting module. The second current is for compensating ripples of the first current.
US10003246B2
A linear-motor stator assembly comprising a stator and an integral line reactor in one housing. The reactor has inductor coils which are connected in series with the stator windings to compensate for unequal inductances in the stator phases and balance the polyphase currents into the stator.
US10003245B2
A linear vibrating motor is provided in the present disclosure. The linear vibrating motor includes a shell, a vibrating unit, a coil module and an elastic module. The shell provides a receiving cavity, the vibrating unit is received in the receiving cavity and includes a magnet module; the coil module surrounds the magnet module for driving the vibrating unit to vibrate; the elastic module includes a pair of elastic members for suspending the vibrating unit. Each of the elastic members comprises an elastic part for providing an elastic force to the vibrating unit in a vibrating direction thereof, and an elastic deforming capability of the elastic part in the vibration direction is greater than that in other directions.
US10003240B2
A method for generating electrical power, the method including: storing potential energy in an elastic element having one end attached to a shaft and another end attached to a structure upon rotation of the shaft relative to the structure in a first angular direction; and moving a retaining mechanism between an engaged position for retaining the shaft from rotating in a second angular direction opposite to the first angular direction and a power generating position permitting the shaft to rotate in the second angular direction; wherein when the retaining mechanism is moved to the power generating position, the stored potential energy in the elastic element is converted to kinetic energy to rotate the shaft which in turn rotates a generator operatively coupled to the shaft so as to produce electrical power.
US10003234B2
An electrical machine (12) comprising a fastening flange (10), wherein the fastening flange (10) has a rim (46), so that the fastening flange (10) is arranged on a housing part (14) of the electrical machine (12) in such a way that the fastening flange (10) surrounds the housing part (14) at least in sections in the circumferential direction (16) of the housing part (14) at least by way of the rim (46), wherein the fastening flange (10) has at least one radially directed raised portion (18) which is integrally formed from the fastening flange (10) and bears against the housing part (14), wherein at least one recess (47) is formed within the rim (46), wherein the recess (47) influences the rigidity of the fastening flange (10).
US10003232B2
In order to provide a rotary electric machine with a reduced size and improved weldability, the stator of a rotary electric machine has a segment coil formed by bending rectangular conductors, and a stator core having slots in which the segment coil is inserted. As for the weld parts formed at the tips of the lead parts of the segment coil which protrude from the end face of the stator core and are twisted together, at least one of the weld beads aligned in the radial direction of the stator is an oblong body that is long in the radial direction of the stator core, and the angle formed by the longitudinal direction of the oblong body and the axial direction of the stator core is less than 90 degrees in a core cross section that includes the central axis of the stator core.
US10003228B2
A rotor includes pole portions, a first permanent magnet, a second permanent magnet, and a third permanent magnet. Each pole portion includes a center, a back, and a front rotor core portion. A first slot is embedded in the center rotor core portion. A second slot is embedded in the back rotor core portion. A third slot is embedded in the front rotor core portion. The center rotor core portion is mounted axially between the front rotor core portion and the back rotor core portion. The permanent magnets are mounted, respectively, in the slots of each pole portion. A maximum length of the first permanent magnet is greater than twice a maximum length of the second permanent magnet. The maximum length of the second permanent magnet is equal to a maximum length of the third permanent magnet. The permanent magnets are aligned relative to a pole axis of each pole portion.
US10003213B2
A power adapter includes an adapter main body configured to acquire an alternating current from a power source and convert the alternating current into a direct current having a specified voltage; an output port configured to acquire the direct current from the adapter main body, and supply the direct current to an external device via the positive output port and the negative output port; a current divider arranged between the positive output port and the negative output port, and configured to split the direct current from the adapter main body upon receiving a control signal, so as to cause a value of an output voltage output through the positive output port and the negative output port to be less than or equal to a preset value; and a processor configured to transmit the control signal to the current divider.
US10003208B2
One example discloses, an apparatus for power management, having: a power input node configured to receive charge from a primary power source at a first power level; a power-converter, having an enabled state and a disabled state, and coupled to receive the charge from the power input node; an energy buffer, coupled to receive and store the charge from the power-converter, and configured to release the charge at a second power level; a power output node, coupled to receive the charge from the energy buffer, and configured to supply the charge at the second power level to a load; wherein the second power level is greater than the first power level; and wherein the power-converter switches between the enabled state and the disabled state based on whether the charge is supplied to the load.
US10003198B2
A method and device for monitoring and suppressing a resonance are provided, which are applied to a grid-connected generation system. A current sample voltage of a preset sample point of the grid-connected generation system is monitored in a real time manner; amplitudes of harmonics of the current sample voltage are acquired using a preset algorithm; it is verified whether a resonance occurs in the grid-connected generation system currently based on the acquired amplitudes of the harmonics; in a case that the resonance occurs in the grid-connected generation system, current corrections of parameters of inverters in the grid-connected generation system are acquired according to a preset rule and the parameters of the inverters are adjusted using the current corrections and a selected resonance suppressing algorithm.
US10003171B1
A sealable laser diode heat sink module for a laser diode includes an anode assembly and a cathode assembly having a cathode base and a cathode connector plate. The anode assembly includes an anode base configured to house the laser diode and the cathode base within a sealable cavity recessed into the anode base. The anode base has a cathode base opening configured to receive the cathode connector plate. An anode connector plate extends from the anode base. An anode current path passes through the laser diode and the anode connector plate via direct connections through the anode base. A cathode current path passes through the cathode connector plate passes via direct connections through the cathode base. The anode base is configured to dissipate heat from the laser diode.
US10003169B2
A laser module according to the present disclosure includes a laser diode, a first collimating lens, and a beam twister. The laser diode includes a plurality of emitters and emits laser light from each of the plurality of emitters through a light emission surface. The first collimating lens is provided at a first distance from the light emission surface of the laser diode and parallelizes a fast-axis-wise divergence of the laser light. The beam twister is provided at a second distance away from the first collimating lens and turns the laser light approximately 90 degrees. Each of the plurality of emitters has a width of 5 μm to 120 μm on the light emission surface. The plurality of emitters have a pitch of 295 μm to 305 μm on the light emission surface.
US10003154B2
A dust cap to be mounted to a receptacle of a bayonet locking connector when a plug is not connected to the receptacle includes a housing that has an insertion part, at a front end thereof, to be inserted into a shell of the receptacle, with rotation thereof being restricted, a lid part at a back end thereof, and a cantilever beam between the insertion part and the lid part, the cantilever beam extending in a direction intersecting with the insertion direction in which the insertion part is inserted; and a coupling that has a cylindrical inner circumferential surface, and a protrusion for bayonet locking on the inner circumferential surface at a front end of the coupling, the coupling being mounted so as to be capable of rotating around the housing, and a back end of the coupling being closed by the lid part.
US10003151B1
A conductor module includes a busbar, an accommodation case, and a fixing member. The accommodation case has two or more fixing holes that pass through a fixing body first surface and a fixing body second surface. The fixing member includes a main body and fixing legs. The fixing legs are associated with the respective fixing holes, and have a part of the busbar interposed therebetween. The fixing legs are capable of plastic deformation by external force, are inserted in the respective fixing holes from a side of the fixing body first surface to protrude from a side of the fixing body second surface, and, under a fixed condition in which the busbar is fixed to the accommodation case by the fixing member, have leading ends disposed on an outside in a radial direction with respect to the fixing holes as viewed in an axial direction of the fixing holes.
US10003149B2
A contactor device includes: a first body substrate; a second body substrate; a flexible membrane connected to the first body substrate and second body substrate, wherein the second substrate body is movable relative to the first substrate body by flexure of the flexible membrane; an electrical contact member carried by the second substrate body; a microfluidic-channeled substrate coupled to the first body substrate, the microfluidic-channeled substrate having a chamber and a microfluidic channel in fluid communication with the chamber; and a 3-dimensional flexible membrane enclosing the chamber, wherein the 3-dimensional flexible membrane flexes toward the second body substrate when a fluid pressure is applied to the chamber through the microfluidic channel whereby a force or a movement is transferred to the second body substrate by the 3-dimensional flexible membrane.
US10003133B2
The present invention discloses a system for full-duplex data transmission using polarization multiplexing comprises a central station having a first means for processing downlink signals and a second means for processing uplink signals, and a remote antenna unit connected to the central station via a transmission medium, having a third means for processing downlink signals and a fourth means for processing uplink signals, characterised in that the remote antenna unit is configured to receive downlink signals from the central station, and then to split a portion of the downlink signals to be used as uplink data transmission simultaneously with transmission of the downlink.
US10003131B2
A method includes determining a configuration of an antenna. The method also includes selecting a first light source of a plurality of light sources based on the configuration. The method further includes activating the first light source and transmitting an optical signal to a first active filter node of a plurality of active filter nodes of the antenna. In response to receiving the optical signal, the first active filter node deactivates a corresponding radiating element of a plurality of radiating elements.
US10003124B2
A data communications apparatus including a case having a base and a lid connectable to the base, the lid movable with respect to the base between an open position and a closed position. The case has an inner surface. A power supply is secured inside the case. A router device is secured inside the case, the router device selectively receiving power from the power supply. A plurality of mounting brackets can be adhered to the inner surface of the case. An antenna array is in electrical communication with the router device, the antenna array including at least two cellular antennas and at least two wireless networking antennas, each antenna of the antenna array secured inside the case to a corresponding mounting bracket.
US10003123B2
A full-duplex antenna includes a receive antenna, which is an omnidirectional antenna. A first transmit antenna is disposed on one side of the receive antenna and is a directional antenna. A reverse direction of a main lobe of a radiation pattern of the first transmit antenna points to the receive antenna. A second transmit antenna is disposed on the other side of the receive antenna. A distance between the second transmit antenna and the receive antenna is equal to a distance between the first transmit antenna and the receive antenna. The second transmit antenna is a directional antenna, and a reverse direction of a main lobe of a radiation pattern of the second transmit antenna points to the receive antenna.
US10003120B2
A thin, flexible antenna module is provided for use in a smartphone. When the antenna module is assembled in the smartphone, the antenna module provides an MST antenna and an NFC antenna. For this, the antenna module includes a flexible PCB containing two coil antennas and further includes a magnetic sheet engaged with flexible PCB. The flexible PCB and the magnetic sheet are attached to each other to form a single body.
US10003118B2
A spatium amplifier includes a plurality of amplifiers connected between a pair of spatial couplers, each having a core member and a shell member forming an antenna. The core member includes a cylindrical core portion and a plurality of tapering core fins extending radially outwardly from the cylindrical core portion. The shell member includes a cylindrical shell portion and a plurality of tapering shell fins extending radially inwardly from the cylindrical shell portion to form a plurality of fin pairs. Each fin pair forms a tapering channel having a first channel height at a first end of the antenna and a second channel height larger than the first channel height at a second end of the antenna. Each of the plurality of amplifiers is electromagnetically coupled to a respective fin pair at the first end of each of the antennas.
US10003116B1
An electronic apparatus having a coplanar waveguide transmission line configured to reduce impedance discontinuity in the coplanar waveguide transmission line is introduced. The electronic apparatus includes a coplanar waveguide transmission line including a substrate, at least one signal line and a plurality of reference planes, and the electronic apparatus includes at least one passive component. Each of the reference planes is coupled to a DC voltage. The at least one passive component is electrically connected between the reference planes and acts as a short circuit at relatively high frequencies.
US10003115B2
A terminator has an upper dielectric layer provided on an upper broad wall of a post-wall waveguide, and a microstrip line (MSL) provided on the upper dielectric layer. A blind via has one end thereof connected with one end of the MSL and is inserted inside the post-wall waveguide. A chip resistor has one end thereof connected with the other end of the MSL and has the other end thereof connected with the upper broad wall.
US10003110B2
Described herein is a mixing entropy battery including a cationic electrode for sodium ion exchange and an anionic electrode for chloride ion exchange, where the cationic electrode includes at least one Prussian Blue material, and where the mixing entropy battery is configured to convert salinity gradient into electricity.
US10003105B2
A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells, a busbar holder on the battery cells, the busbar holder having a plurality of busbars coupling neighboring battery cells of the plurality of battery cells to each other, and a circuit board on the busbar holder and defining a plurality of fastening openings along its perimeter. The circuit board is coupled to the busbar holder with a plurality of fastening members coupled to first fastening openings defined on the busbar holder. The circuit board has a component for controlling and monitoring recharging and discharging of the battery cells coupled to the circuit board.
US10003100B2
A lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode including a positive electrode active material capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions, a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material capable of intercalating and deintercalating lithium ions, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution, wherein the positive electrode active material includes an active material capable of intercalating or deintercalating lithium ions at a potential of 4.5 V or more, and the nonaqueous electrolytic solution includes a particular fluorine-containing ether compound.
US10003097B2
A redox flow battery system including a reactive cell with an anode chamber separated from a cathode chamber separated by an ion-permeable membrane is provided. A catholyte reservoir is connected to the cathode chamber by a catholyte fluid circulation circuit. An anolyte reservoir is connected to the anolyte chamber by an anolyte fluid circulation circuit. Nitrogen sparging of reactive oxygen from the catholyte fluid in the catholyte reservoir prevents the formation of a finely divided solid precipitate in the catholyte fluid. Nitrogen may be provided from an external source of nitrogen. Nitrogen may also be provided by the in situ generation of nitrogen from air.
US10003094B2
A fuel cell system includes a first temperature sensor to detect a valve temperature of a sealing valve. A second temperature sensor is provided in a refrigerant circulation circuit to detect a fuel cell temperature of a fuel cell through a refrigerant. The circuitry is configured to calculate a sealing valve estimated temperature by subtracting a correction value from the fuel cell temperature detected by the second temperature sensor after the fuel cell stops generating electric power and after the sealing valve is closed. The circuitry is configured to determine whether at least one of the valve temperature and the sealing valve estimated temperature is lower than a predicted freezing temperature. The circuitry is configured to open the sealing valve when it is determined that the at least one of the valve temperature and the sealing valve estimated temperature is lower than the predicted freezing temperature.
US10003076B2
A binder for an electrode of a lithium secondary battery contains a water dispersion of a polyurethane. The polyurethane has been formed of (A) a polyisocyanate, (B) a compound having two or more active hydrogen groups, (C) a compound having one or more active hydrogen groups and a hydrophilic group, and (D) a chain extending agent. The (B) compound having two or more active hydrogen groups contains an olefinic polyol and/or a carbonate diol having a carbon number between carbonate bond chains of less than 6. The binder has high adhesiveness to a collector, does not cause release in press molding, has high flexibility, and is excellent in bindability and resistance to an electrolytic solution.
US10003073B2
According to one embodiment, an electrode is provided. The electrode includes an electrode mixture layer and a current collector. The electrode mixture layer contains active material particles. The electrode mixture layer includes a first surface being in contact with the current collector and a second surface separated from the first surface by a thickness of the electrode mixture layer. The electrode mixture layer includes a first portion having the first surface and a second portion having the second surface. In the first portion, a first oxide layer is formed on the active material particle. In the second portion, a second oxide layer is formed on the active material particles. The thickness of the first oxide layer is more than the thickness of the second oxide layer.
US10003069B2
A lead-acid battery includes a negative electrode material containing graphite and barium sulfate. A ratio S/W of an average plate interval S between a negative electrode plate and a positive electrode plate, to a mass W of the negative electrode material per one negative electrode plate is 0.01 mm/g or more.
US10003060B1
Methods, stacks and electrochemical cells are provided, in which the cell separator is surface-treated prior to attachment to the electrode(s) to form binding sites on the cell separator and enhance binding thereof to the electrode(s), e.g., electrostatically. The cell separator(s) may be attached to the electrode(s) by cold press lamination, wherein the created binding sites are configured to stabilize the cold press lamination electrostatically—forming flexible and durable electrode stacks. Electrode slurry may be deposited on a sacrificial film and then attached to current collector films, avoiding unwanted interactions between materials and in particular solvents involved in the respective slurries. Dried electrode slurry layers may be pressed or calendared against each other to yield thinner, smother and more controllably porous electrodes, as well as higher throughput. The produced stacks may be used in electrochemical cells and in any other type of energy storage device.
US10003059B2
A separator made of ion conductive ink is produced by additive manufacturing. A micro-battery is produced with the separator made of ion conductive ink located between the battery's anode and cathode. The separator functions to keep the anode and cathode apart and to facilitate the transport of ions to produce an operative micro-battery.
US10003056B2
Acid-resistant and biosoluble glass compositions and products made therefrom. The glass compositions exhibit acid resistance, durability in white water as may be used in a wet laid fabrication process, and good biosolubility. In another aspect, a glass fiber mat is made from such a glass composition, and may be used in the manufacture of lead-acid batteries, for example as a pasting material or battery separator.
US10003051B2
A system for the storage of electric energy for a vehicle with electric propulsion, which presents a longitudinal direction, which is parallel to the direction of the rectilinear motion, and a transverse direction, which is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction; the storage system is provided with a pack of chemical batteries, which are connected to each other in series and in parallel and comprise respective electrochemical cells; each chemical battery has a cylindrical shape having a central symmetry axis; and a support matrix made of plastic material is provided, inside which the chemical batteries are embedded so that the chemical batteries are completely covered by the support matrix itself.
US10003046B2
A bottom chassis of a display module is provided. The bottom chassis includes a bead part formed by depressing some portions of the bottom chassis toward a rear side, and a reinforcing panel attached to a front surface of the bottom chassis and spaced apart from the bead part.
US10003040B2
An organic light emitting element, includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other; an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; and an electron injection layer between the second electrode and the emission layer, the electron injection layer including an oxide having a relative dielectric constant of 10 or more and a metal having a work function of 4.0 eV or less.
US10003039B2
A light emitting device and method of fabricating the same using a wafer level package process are disclosed. The light emitting device has improved heat dissipation to prevent damage by heat, thereby achieving improvement in reliability and luminous efficacy. In addition, the light emitting device has a small difference in coefficients of thermal expansion and thus can reduce stress applied to a light emitting structure to prevent damage to the light emitting structure, thereby achieving improvement in reliability and luminous efficacy.
US10003037B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of electronic devices, such as organic electronics, wherein said device comprises a substrate and a multitude of layers, wherein at least one of said layers is a buffer layer, wherein said buffer layer comprises metal oxide nanoparticles comprising physisorbed metal salts as described in the specification. The disclosure further provides for intermediate goods and materials suitable for manufacturing such electronic devices, to specific manufacturing methods and to specific uses.
US10003034B2
A compound having the structure of formula I: is described. In formula I, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, and A8 can be carbon or nitrogen; at least one of A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, and A8 being nitrogen; X is a neutral donor; is a monoanionic bidentate ligand; n is an integer from 1 to 3; ring B is bonded to ring A through a C—C bond; and ring A is bonded to the iridium through a Ir—C bond. In addition, R1, R2, R3, R4, and R6 are independently selected from hydrogen, deuterium, halide, alkyl, cycloalkyl, heteroalkyl, arylalkyl, alkoxy, aryloxy, amino, silyl, alkenyl, cycloalkenyl, heteroalkenyl, alkynyl, aryl, heteroaryl, acyl, carbonyl, carboxylic acids, ester, nitrite, isonitrile, sulfanyl, sulfinyl, sulfonyl, phosphino, and combinations thereof. Also described are formulations and devices, such as an OLEDs, that include the compound of formula I.
US10003033B2
Compounds having the formula M(LA)x(LB)y(LC)z, devices containing the same, and formulations containing the same are described. The compounds include: where M is a metal having an atomic number greater than 40; x is 1, or 2; y is 1, or 2; and z is 0, 1, or 2; where x+y+z is the oxidation state of the metal M, where X1, X2, X3, and X4 are C or N; where at least one of R1, R2, R3, and R4 has at least two C atoms; where RB represents di, tri, or tetra-substitution, and where two adjacent RB form a six-member carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring E fused to ring B; where, when ring E is heterocyclic, the only heteroatom is nitrogen; where ring E can be further substituted; and where (a) at least one of X1, X2, X3, and X4 is N, (b) ring E is heterocylic, or (c) both.
US10003032B2
An organic electroluminescent material is shown in formula (1), Wherein R9 or/and R13 is/are benzimidazole derivative(s), benzimidazole derivative is shown in formula (3) Wherein the rest of functional groups are independently selected from one of hydrogen atom, fluorine atom, cyano group, alkyl group, cycloalkyl group, alkoxy group, thioalkyl group, silyl group and alkenyl group.
US10003031B2
Provided herein are a compound capable of improving light emitting efficiency, stability, and lifespan of the element, an organic element using the same, and an electric device for the same.
US10003030B2
The present specification provides a hetero-cyclic compound and an organic light emitting device including the hetero-cyclic compound.
US10003014B2
A method of forming a memory device that in one embodiment may include forming a magnetic tunnel junction on a first electrode using an electrically conductive mask and subtractive etch method. Following formation of the magnetic tunnel junction, at least one dielectric layer is deposited to encapsulate the magnetic tunnel junction. Ion beam etching/Ion beam milling may then remove the portion of the at least one dielectric layer that is present on the electrically conductive mask, wherein a remaining portion of the at least one dielectric layer is present over the first electrode. A second electrode may then be formed in contact with the electrically conductive mask.
US10003006B2
A piezoelectric actuator that includes (a) a piezoelectric body made of piezoelectric ceramic, the piezoelectric body having two principal surfaces facing each other and having four side surfaces, (b) external electrodes on the principal surfaces, (c) recessed portions in the four side surfaces, and (d) a coating layer made of resin and provided on the four side surfaces. The coating layer covers the recessed portions in the four side surfaces.
US10002996B2
A light emitting device includes a light emitting element, a mounting surface, a first terminal, a second terminal, and a light reflecting member. The light emitting element includes a light emission surface to emit a light. The light emission surface of the light emitting element is inclined with respect to the mounting surface. The first terminal and the second terminal are electrically connected to the light emitting element. Each of the first terminal and the second terminal has a substantially spherical shape. The light reflecting member is to hold the light emitting element, the first terminal, and the second terminal. The light emission surface of the light emitting element is exposed from the light reflecting member. A portion of the first terminal and a portion of the second terminal are exposed from the light reflecting member so that each of the portion and the portion has a substantially circular shape.
US10002993B2
A light emitting device includes at least one semiconductor light emitting element, and a wavelength conversion layer which is formed on a surface of the semiconductor light emitting element and which includes a resin layer containing a wavelength conversion member for converting a wavelength of light emitted from the semiconductor light emitting element. The wavelength conversion layer covers an upper surface or the upper surface and a side surface of the semiconductor light emitting element. A content of an inorganic material including the wavelength conversion member, or a content of an inorganic material including the wavelength conversion member and an inorganic filler, in the resin layer is 30% by mass or more and 99% by mass or less.
US10002988B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a semiconductor structure having a light-emitting region. A surface of the semiconductor structure has flattened peaks.
US10002984B2
Disclosed is a solar cell panel including a plurality of solar cells each including a semiconductor substrate and an electrode formed on the semiconductor substrate, and a wire for interconnecting the solar cells. The electrode includes a bus-bar line having a pad portion for attachment of the wire. The wire includes a first wire portion connected to the pad portion, and a second wire portion located on a portion excluding the pad portion. The first wire portion has a thickness greater than a thickness of the second wire portion.
US10002981B2
Solar cell structures including multiple sub-cells that incorporate different materials that may have different lattice constants. In some embodiments, solar cell devices include several photovoltaic junctions.
US10002979B1
Disclosed are a semiconductor photodiode (PD) or phototransistor (PT) photo detector with a unipolarly doped edge region containing a portion of the photon absorption layer and occupying over 99% of the photo detector area as projected on a plane parallel to the semiconductor substrate. Embodiments also relate to methods of making the photo detector.
US10002968B2
A first transistor and a second transistor are stacked. The first transistor and the second transistor have a gate electrode in common. At least one of semiconductor films used in the first transistor and the second transistor is an oxide semiconductor film. With the use of the oxide semiconductor film as the semiconductor film in the transistor, high field-effect mobility and high-speed operation can be achieved. Since the first transistor and the second transistor are stacked and have the gate electrode in common, the area of a region where the transistors are disposed can be reduced.
US10002965B2
A method of forming semiconductor devices that includes forming an oxide that is doped with a punch through dopant on a surface of a first semiconductor material having a first lattice dimension, and diffusing punch through dopant from the oxide into the semiconductor material to provide a punch through stop region. The oxide may then be removed. A second semiconductor material may be formed having a second lattice dimension on the first semiconductor material having the first lattice dimension. A difference between the first lattice dimension and the second lattice dimension forms a strain in the second semiconductor material. A gate structure and source and drain regions are formed on the second semiconductor material.
US10002959B2
A semiconductor device includes a transistor in a semiconductor substrate having a first main surface. The transistor includes a source region, a source contact, the source contact including a first and second source contact portion, and a gate electrode in a gate trench in the first main surface adjacent to a body region. The body region and a drift zone are disposed along a first direction parallel to the first main surface between the source region and a drain region. The second source contact portion is disposed at a second main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The first source contact portion includes a source conductive material in direct contact with the source region, the first source contact portion further including a portion of the semiconductor substrate between the source conductive material and the second source contact portion. The semiconductor device further includes a temperature sensor in the semiconductor substrate.
US10002958B2
Systems and method are provided for depositing metal on GaN transistors after gate formation using a metal nitride Schottky gate. Embodiments of the present disclosure use a “diamond last” process using thermally stable metal nitride gate electrodes to enable thicker heat spreading films and facilitate process integration. In an embodiment, the “diamond last” process with high thermal conductivity diamond is enabled by the integration of thermally stable metal-nitride gate electrodes.
US10002947B2
In a method for forming a device, a (110) silicon substrate is etched to form first trenches in the (110) silicon substrate, wherein remaining portions of the (110) silicon substrate between the first trenches form silicon strips. The sidewalls of the silicon strips have (111) surface orientations. The first trenches are filled with a dielectric material to from Shallow Trench Isolation (STI) regions. The silicon strips are removed to form second trenches between the STI regions. An epitaxy is performed to grow semiconductor strips in the second trenches. Top portions of the STI regions are recessed, and the top portions of the semiconductor strips between removed top portions of the STI regions form semiconductor fins.
US10002943B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including first to third fins aligned in a first direction, a first trench arranged between the first fin and the second fin, and a second trench arranged between the second fin and the third fin. The semiconductor device further includes a first field insulating film arranged in the first trench, a second field insulating film formed in the second trench, a first dummy gate arranged on the first field insulating film and a second dummy gate at least partly arranged on the second field insulating film. A lower surface of the second field insulating film is arranged to be lower than a lower surface of the first field insulating film.
US10002940B2
A method of forming a gate structure for a semiconductor device that includes forming first spacers on the sidewalls of replacement gate structures that are present on a fin structure, wherein an upper surface of the first spacers is offset from an upper surface of the replacement gate structure, and forming at least second spacers on the first spacers and the exposed surfaces of the replacement gate structure. The method may further include substituting the replacement gate structure with a functional gate structure having a first width portion in a first space between adjacent first spacers, and a second width portion having a second width in a second space between adjacent second spacers, wherein the second width is greater than the first width.
US10002937B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same include forming a work function stack over semiconductor fins in a first region and a second region, the work function stack having a bottom layer, a middle layer, and a top layer. The work function stack is etched to remove the top layer and to decrease a thickness of the middle layer in the second region, leaving a portion of the middle layer and the bottom layer intact. A gate is formed over the semiconductor fins in the first and second regions.
US10002933B1
A semiconductor device structure and method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate stack structure formed over a substrate, and the gate stack structure includes a bottom portion and a top portion. The bottom portion includes a gate electrode layer formed over a substrate. The top portion includes a protection layer formed over the gate electrode layer, a stop layer formed over the protection layer, and the stop layer is surrounded by the protection layer. A cap layer is formed over the stop layer, and the cap layer is surrounded by the stop layer.
US10002930B2
Disclosed is a method. The method includes forming a metal layer on a first surface of a semiconductor body; irradiating the metal layer with particles to move metal atoms from the metal layer into the semiconductor body and form a metal atom containing region in the semiconductor body; and annealing the semiconductor body. The annealing includes heating at least the metal atom containing region to a temperature of less than 500° C.
US10002926B2
A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a fin structure of, from bottom to top, a semiconductor punch through stop (PTS) doping fin portion, a dielectric material fin portion, and a topmost semiconductor fin portion that is present on a wider semiconductor fin base. A functional gate structure straddles the semiconductor fin structure. Portions of the wider semiconductor fin base that are not located directly beneath the fin structure of the present application and that are not covered by the functional gate structure can be used as an area for epitaxial growth of source/drain structures. The wide semiconductor fin base improves source/drain epitaxy for better dopant incorporation and strain enhancement.
US10002920B1
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to super-junction (SJ) power devices and, more specifically, to edge termination techniques for SJ power devices. A semiconductor super-junction (SJ) device includes one or more epitaxial (epi) layers having a termination region disposed adjacent to an active region. The termination region includes a plurality of vertical pillars of a first and a second conductivity-type, wherein, moving outward from the active region, a respective width of each successive vertical pillar is the same or smaller. The termination region also includes a plurality of compensated regions having a low doping concentration disposed directly between a first side of each vertical pillar of the first conductivity-type and a first side of each vertical pillar of the second conductivity-type, wherein, moving outward from the active region, a respective width of each successive compensated region is the same or greater.
US10002915B2
The invention provides a micro LED display panel, by disposing a plurality of active areas (2) on the substrate (1) arranged in an array, and a plurality of micro LEDs (3) uniformly arranged in each active area (2), to achieve high-resolution of micro LED display panel, and by controlling the number of micro LEDs in each active area to effectively control the production cost, while eliminating the screen door effect, to enhance market competitiveness of micro LED display panel.
US10002907B2
A semiconductor device including a transistor on a main surface side of a semiconductor substrate; and a resistance change element on a back-surface side of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the transistor includes a low-resistance section in the semiconductor substrate, the low-resistance section extending to the back surface of the semiconductor substrate, an insulating film is provided in contact with a back surface of the low-resistance section, the insulating film has an opening facing the low-resistance section, and the resistance change element is connected to the low-resistance section through the opening.
US10002905B2
Data storage devices are provided. A data storage device includes a dielectric layer on a substrate. The data storage device includes a plurality of data storage structures on the dielectric layer. The data storage device includes a conductive material on the dielectric layer. Moreover, the data storage device includes an insulation layer on the conductive material.
US10002892B2
The present invention relates to a solid-state imaging device. In a pixel array section in the solid-state imaging device, a vertical signal line is provided right under power supply wiring apart from a floating diffusion region in order to reduce load capacitance of the vertical signal line. Furthermore, the power supply wiring is wired to make a cover rate of each vertical signal line with respect to the power supply wiring nearly uniform. As a result, it is possible to suppress variation of load capacitance of the vertical signal line for each pixel. It becomes possible to suppress deviation in a black level, variation of charge transfer, and variation of settling. It becomes possible to obtain an image with higher quality.
US10002891B2
Exemplary semiconductor devices include eight transistors and two capacitors interconnected in specific configurations. A display device may include a driver circuit having such a semiconductor device. An electronic device may also include such a semiconductor device and an input unit, LED lamp or speaker.
US10002888B2
An object is to improve the drive capability of a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor and a second transistor. A first terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to a first wiring. A second terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to a second wiring. A gate of the second transistor is electrically connected to a third wiring. A first terminal of the second transistor is electrically connected to the third wiring. A second terminal of the second transistor is electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor. A channel region is formed using an oxide semiconductor layer in each of the first transistor and the second transistor. The off-state current of each of the first transistor and the second transistor per channel width of 1 μm is 1 aA or less.
US10002885B2
A substrate in which an insulating layer, a semiconductor layer and an insulating film are stacked on a semiconductor substrate and an element isolation region is embedded in a trench is prepared. After the insulating film in a bulk region is removed by dry etching and the semiconductor layer in the bulk region is removed by dry etching, the insulating layer in the bulk region is thinned by dry etching. A first semiconductor region is formed in the semiconductor substrate in a SOI region by ion implantation, and a second semiconductor region is formed in the semiconductor substrate in the bulk region by ion implantation. Then, the insulating film in the SOI region and the insulating layer in the bulk region are removed by wet etching. Thereafter, a first transistor is formed on the semiconductor layer in the SOI region and a second transistor is formed on the semiconductor substrate in the bulk region.
US10002871B2
An electrical device that includes at least one n-type field effect transistor including a channel region in a type III-V semiconductor device, and at least one p-type field effect transistor including a channel region in a germanium containing semiconductor material. Each of the n-type and p-type semiconductor devices may include gate structures composed of material layers including work function adjusting materials selections, such as metal and doped dielectric layers. The field effect transistors may be composed of fin type field effect transistors. The field effect transistors may be formed using gate first processing or gate last processing.
US10002870B2
Disclosed examples include semiconductor devices and fabrication methods to fabricate semiconductor wafers and integrated circuits, including forming a first epitaxial semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type on a first side of a semiconductor substrate of the first conductivity type, forming a nitride or oxide protection layer on a top side of the first epitaxial semiconductor layer, forming a second epitaxial semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type on the second side of the semiconductor substrate, and removing the protection layer from the first epitaxial semiconductor layer. The wafer can be used to fabricate an integrated circuit by forming a plurality of transistors at least partially on the first epitaxial semiconductor layer.
US10002857B2
A package on package (PoP) device includes a first package, a thermal interface material, and a second package coupled to the first package. The first package includes a first integrated device and a first encapsulation layer that at least partially encapsulates the first integrated device, where the first encapsulation layer includes a first cavity located laterally with respect to the first integrated device. The thermal interface material (TIM) is coupled to the first integrated device such that the thermal interface material (TIM) is formed between the first integrated device and the second package. The thermal interface material (TIM) is formed in the first cavity of the first encapsulation layer.
US10002855B2
An LED module includes a substrate having a high thermal conductivity and at least one LED die mounted on the substrate. A wavelength conversion material, such as phosphor or quantum dots in a binder, has a very low thermal conductivity and is formed to have a relatively high volume and low concentration over the LED die so that the phosphor or quantum dots conduct little heat from the LED die. A transparent top plate, having a high thermal conductivity, is positioned over the wavelength conversion material, and a hermetic seal is formed between the top plate and the substrate surrounding the wavelength conversion material. The LED die is located in a cavity in either the substrate or the top plate. In this way, the temperature of the wavelength conversion material is kept well below the temperature of the LED die. The sealing is done in a wafer level process.
US10002844B1
A bonded structure can include a first element having a first conductive interface feature and a second element having a second conductive interface feature. An integrated device can be coupled to or formed with the first element or the second element. The first conductive interface feature can be directly bonded to the second conductive interface feature to define an interface structure. The interface structure can be disposed about the integrated device in an at least partially annular profile to connect the first and second elements.
US10002835B2
A semiconductor device and a stacked pillar used to interconnect a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die are provided. The semiconductor device has a substrate, a splice interposer, a first semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die and first to fourth plurality of pillars. The first to fourth plurality of pillars and the splice interposer form interconnection and wiring between the first semiconductor die, the second semiconductor die and the substrate. The stacked pillar has a first conductor layer formed on a surface of the first semiconductor die, a first solder layer formed on the first conductor layer, a second conductor layer formed on the first solder layer, and a second solder layer formed on the second conductor layer. The second solder layer is heat-reflowable to attach the stacked pillar to a surface of the second semiconductor.
US10002830B2
One or more embodiments are related to a semiconductor device, comprising: a metallization layer comprising a plurality of portions, each of the portions having a different thickness. The metallization layer may be a final metal layer.
US10002829B2
A semiconductor device is provided which comprises a semiconductive substrate and an interconnect on the substrate. The interconnect comprises a dielectric in an upper most level of the interconnect and a plurality of conductive pads where each of the plurality of conductive pads is at least partially exposed from the dielectric. The interconnect further includes a current sensor electrically coupled with at least one of the plurality of conductive pads.
US10002818B2
Provided are integrated electronic components which include a waveguide microstructure formed by a sequential build process and an electronic device, and methods of forming such integrated electronic components. The microstructures have particular applicability to devices for transmitting electromagnetic energy and other electronic signals.
US10002812B2
A power semiconductor module having a pressure application body, a circuit carrier, which is embodied with a first conductor track, a power semiconductor element arranged thereon and an internal connecting device, and also having a housing which is embodied with a guide device arranged therein, with a connecting element. The connecting element is embodied as a bolt with first and second end sections and an intermediate section therebetween, wherein the first end section rests on the circuit carrier and is electrically conductively connected thereto; the second end section projects out of the housing through a cutout; and wherein the connecting element is arranged in the assigned guide device. The pressure application body has a first rigid partial body and a second elastic partial body, wherein the second partial body protrudes out of the first partial body in the direction of the housing.
US10002804B2
Described is a method for determining an endpoint of an etch process using optical emission spectroscopy (OES) data as an input. Optical emission spectroscopy (OES) data are acquired by a spectrometer attached to a plasma etch processing tool. The acquired time-evolving spectral data are first filtered and demeaned, and thereafter transformed into transformed spectral data, or trends, using multivariate analysis such as principal components analysis, in which previously calculated principal component weights are used to accomplish the transform. A functional form incorporating multiple trends may be used to more precisely determine the endpoint of an etch process. A method for calculating principal component weights prior to actual etching, based on OES data collected from previous etch processing, is disclosed, which method facilitates rapid calculation of trends and functional forms involving multiple trends, for efficient and accurate in-line determination of etch process endpoint.
US10002798B2
A method of making a semiconductor device includes forming a first silicon germanium layer on a substrate, the first silicon germanium layer forming a portion of a first transistor; forming a second silicon germanium layer on the substrate adjacent to the first silicon germanium layer, the second silicon germanium layer forming a portion of a second transistor and having a germanium content that is different than the first silicon germanium layer and a thickness that is substantially the same; growing by an epitaxial process a compressively strained silicon germanium layer on the first silicon germanium layer, and a tensile strained silicon germanium layer on the second silicon germanium layer; patterning a first fin in the compressively strained silicon germanium layer and the first silicon germanium layer; and patterning a second fin in the tensile strained silicon germanium layer and the second silicon germanium layer.
US10002792B2
A method for filling gaps between structures includes forming a plurality of high aspect ratio structures adjacent to one another with gaps, forming a first dielectric layer on tops of the structures and conformally depositing a spacer dielectric layer over the structures. The spacer dielectric layer is removed from horizontal surfaces and a protection layer is conformally deposited over the structures. The gaps are filled with a flowable dielectric, which is recessed to a height along sidewalls of the structures by a selective etch process such that the protection layer protects the spacer dielectric layer on sidewalls of the structures. The first dielectric layer and the spacer dielectric layer are exposed above the height using a higher etch resistance than the protection layer to maintain dimensions of the spacer layer dielectric through the etching processes. The gaps are filled by a high density plasma fill.
US10002790B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a material layer over a semiconductor substrate and forming a hard mask layer over the material layer. The hard mask layer contains metal. The method also includes forming an opening in the hard mask layer using a plasma etching process, and a gas mixture used in the plasma etching process includes a nitrogen-containing gas, a halogen-containing gas, and a carbon-containing gas. The method further includes etching the material layer through the opening in the hard mask layer to form a feature opening in the material layer.
US10002789B2
A method for formation of multi-level contact structures with reduced contact resistance is provided. The contact resistance of the multi-level contact structures can be reduced by selectively removing portions of a contact liner layer that are formed along sidewalls and bottom portions of contact openings located in each contact level from the bottom portions of the contact openings.
US10002783B2
A method for manufacturing a memory device may include the following steps: preparing a first semiconductor, a second semiconductor, a first conductor, and a second conductor, wherein the second semiconductor is spaced from the first semiconductor, wherein the first conductor directly contacts the first semiconductor, and wherein the second conductor is spaced from the first conducive member and directly contacts the second semiconductor; preparing a dielectric material member, which is positioned between the first semiconductor and the second semiconductor and directly contacts each of the first semiconductor, the second semiconductor, the first conductor, and the second conductor; performing ion implantation on the dielectric material member to form an implanted member and a dielectric member; and removing the implanted member.
US10002781B2
A substrate transport apparatus auto-teach system for auto-teaching a substrate station location, the system including a frame, a substrate transport connected to the frame, the substrate transport having an end effector configured to support a substrate, and a controller configured to move the substrate transport so that the substrate transport biases the substrate supported on the end effector against a substrate station feature causing a change in eccentricity between the substrate and the end effector, determine the change in eccentricity, and determine the substrate station location based on at least the change in eccentricity between the substrate and the end effector.
US10002774B1
A method of fabricating an integrated circuit (IC) includes forming a metal interconnect stack on substrate that includes a plurality of product die each having a plurality of transistors connected together to implement a circuit function. The forming the metal interconnect stack includes depositing a metal interconnect layer comprising aluminum on a barrier layer at a first temperature. After depositing the metal interconnect layer, the metal interconnect stack is annealed in a non-oxidizing ambient at a maximum annealing temperature that is
US10002771B1
A polymer layer on a substrate may be treated with ozone gas or with deionized water and ozone gas to increase a removal rate of the polymer layer in a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process. The ozone gas may be diffused directly into the polymer layer or through a thin layer of deionized water on the surface of the polymer layer and into the polymer layer. The deionized water may also be heated during the process to further enhance the diffusion of the ozone gas into the polymer layer.
US10002762B2
Multi-angled deposition and masking techniques are provided to enable custom trimming and selective removal of spacers that are used for patterning features at sub-lithographic dimensions. For example, a method includes forming a sacrificial mandrel on a substrate, and forming first and second spacers on opposing sidewalls of the sacrificial mandrel. The first and second spacers are formed with an initial thickness TS. A first angle deposition process is performed to deposit a material (e.g., insulating material or metallic material) at a first deposition angle A1 to form a first trim mask layer on an upper portion of the first spacer and the sacrificial mandrel while preventing the material from being deposited on the second spacer. A spacer etch process is performed to trim the first spacer to a first thickness T1, which is less than TS, using the first trim mask layer as an etch mask.
US10002759B2
The present disclosure generally relate to methods of processing a substrate in an epitaxy chamber. The method includes applying a passivating agent containing antimony to portions of a silicon substrate exposed through trenches formed in a dielectric layer on the silicon substrate, while applying the passivating agent containing antimony, exposing the silicon substrate to a group IV-containing precursor to form an epitaxial layer having a V-shaped structure having an exposed (111) plane at a bottom of the trenches, and forming a semiconductor layer on the epitaxial layer.
US10002753B2
A chamfering apparatus including chamfering part for removing notch, cleaning part for cleaning and drying wafer, and chamfered-shape measuring part for measuring chamfered shape, each of chamfering and cleaning part, and chamfered-shape measuring part including rotatable stage for holding wafer and control unit for controlling rotational positions of rotatable stage and wafer, rotatable stage having reference position serving as reference of rotational positions at beginning of rotation, wherein wafer is held wherein rotational position of wafer at beginning of rotation relative to reference position is at same rotational position on all rotatable stages, and control unit to control rotational position of wafer to be at predetermined position at beginning and end of rotation. As a result, the chamfering apparatus and method for manufacturing notchless wafer allowing appropriate feedback control even in notchless wafer, suppress variation in chamfered shape dimension, and achieve desired cross-sectional shape precision of wafer chamfered portion.
US10002750B2
Ion filter for FAIMS fabricated using the LIGA technique. The ion filter is manufactured using a metal layer to form the ion channels and an insulating support layer to hold the structure rigidly together after separation of the metal layer into two electrodes.
US10002741B2
An electron microscope includes a stage, a charged particle beam generator, a plurality of elemental spectrum detectors and a reader. The stage is configured for carrying a sample. The charged particle beam generator is configured for generating a charged particle beam to bombard the sample. The elemental spectrum detectors is configured for detecting X ray emitted from the sample being bombarded by the charged particle beam and outputting a plurality of corresponding spectrum detecting signals. The reader is configured for calibrating a plurality of counting signals generated by the spectrum detecting signals and summing the calibrated counting signals to obtain an elemental spectrum of the sample. The collection time of elemental spectrum of the above-mentioned electron microscope can be shortened. A reader and an acquiring elemental spectrum method applied to the above-mentioned electron microscope are also disclosed.
US10002735B2
A circuit breaker is referenced that has an indicator lamp that identifies a fault condition after power is interrupted to the circuit breaker. This solution uses light emitting diodes (LEDs) to indicate the trip condition. This solution does not require the power to be enabled to the load side of the circuit breaker in order to power the LEDs to display a trip condition. An overload may be detected when the fault current generates sufficient heat in a strip composed of a resistive element or bimetal to cause the bimetal to deflect and/or bend. The mechanical deflection triggers a trip assembly that includes a spring trip level to force a moveable contact attached to a moveable conductive blade away from a stationary contact, thereby breaking the circuit.
US10002728B2
A light-emitting keyboard is provided, including a keyboard module and a light-emitting module. The keyboard module has a light-penetrable portion and a keyboard base, and the light-penetrable portion is arranged on the keyboard base. The light-emitting module is attached to the keyboard base and includes a substrate, a boost circuit and a plasma tube, the boost circuit is disposed on the substrate, the plasma tube has a light-emitting main body and two electrodes, the light-emitting main body at least partly corresponds to the light-penetrable portion, and the two electrodes are connected to the light-emitting main body and respectively electrically connected to the two power output portions.
US10002727B2
An illuminated metal keycap having a legend diffuser material that may diffuse light through a legend opened in a background layer. The background layer may be opaque and the legend may be transparent. The metal keycap is adhered to a scissor mechanism positioned above electrical switch circuitry. Included within, below, or adjacent to the scissor mechanism may be one or more light sources positioned to emit light through the metal keycap, around the perimeter of the metal keycap, and/or through the background layer.
US10002723B2
A switch for controlling an electrical appliance has a switch housing, an actuation element, a display, and a microprocessor disposed in the switch housing. The actuation element can activate an identifier through the display, which identifier is determined by the microprocessor. Selection of an appropriate system state and an associated maximum value is effected by again actuating the actuation element, specifically while the corresponding identifier associated with this system state is active or displayed. Reaching or exceeding the maximum value is indicated by a signal that is produced by the microprocessor. The microprocessor can optionally be activated once again for a reset mode and/or for a change mode.
US10002715B2
An energy storage capacitor having a composite electrode structure includes: a case; a rolled body arranged inside the case; and an electrolyte stored inside the case. The rolled body includes: a first anode foil having a first anode lead plate connected at one side of one surface, a first cathode foil arranged to face the other surface of the first cathode foil with the one surface of the first anode foil and a first cathode lead plate connected at the other side, a second cathode foil arranged to face the other surface of the second cathode foil with one surface of the first cathode foil and having a second cathode lead plate connected at one side of one surface, a second anode foil arranged to face the one surface of the second cathode foil and a second anode lead plate connected at the other side.
US10002711B2
The present disclosure generally relates to capacitors having a multilayer dielectric material between two electrodes. The multilayer dielectric material can have a small thickness with little to no breakdown strength reduction. By utilizing a multilayer dielectric structure in a capacitor, not only can the breakdown strength remain at an acceptable level, but the collective thickness of the capacitor may be reduced to accommodate the higher density pixels for display devices or any device that utilizes a capacitor.
US10002708B2
A coil unit includes a non-magnetic conductive plate which is disposed in an arrangement direction of first and second coils have reverse winding direction to each other, and a magnetic body. The magnetic body includes a first portion which is positioned in an outer side than an outline of one side of the conductive plate in the arrangement direction of the first and second coils, and a second portion which is positioned in an outer side than an outline of the other side of the conductive plate in the arrangement direction of the first and second coils. When viewing from the arrangement direction of the first and second coils, the first and second portions are positioned on a side of the conductive plate where is opposite to a side which faces the first and second coils.
US10002704B2
A coil module is provided which has been reduced in size and thickness by incorporating a material and a structure resistant to magnetic saturation. The coil module includes a magnetic shielding layer containing a magnetic material, and a spiral coil. The magnetic shielding layer has a plurality of magnetic resin layers containing magnetic particles, and at least a portion of the spiral coil is buried in a portion of the magnetic resin layers. This allows a reduction in size and thickness while achieving a heat dissipation effect by the magnetic resin layers. In addition, since magnetic resin layers resistant to magnetic saturation are provided, the coil inductance changes only slightly even in an environment where a strong magnetic field is applied, and thus stable communication can be provided.
US10002687B2
A transparent conductive film 1 includes a transparent substrate 2; a first optical adjustment layer 4 disposed on one side in the thickness direction of the transparent substrate 2 and made of a resin layer; an inorganic substance layer 5 disposed on one side in the thickness direction of the first optical adjustment layer 4 so as to make contact with the first optical adjustment layer 4; and a transparent conductive layer 6 disposed on one side in the thickness direction of the inorganic substance layer 5. The inorganic substance layer 5 has a thickness of 10 nm or less, and the surface of the one side in the thickness direction of the transparent conductive layer 6 has a surface roughness of 1.40 nm or less.
US10002685B2
This invention addresses the problem of providing a charge-transporting thin film with small variations in properties due to disturbance and small variations in resistance over time during application of current. The invention further provides a charge-transporting thin film with a secondary effect of small variations over time and stable luminescent properties. The charge-transporting thin film of the present invention contains one or more types of functional organic compounds having chiral elements, and is characterized in that the total of the number of chiral elements per molecule in each type of the functional organic compounds summed over all types of the functional organic compounds is four or more.
US10002684B2
A copper alloy according to the present invention is a copper alloy rolled to be plate-shaped. The copper alloy contains 8.5 to 9.5 mass % of Ni, 5.5 to 6.5 mass % of Sn with a remainder being Cu and unavoidable impurities. An average diameter of crystal grains in a cross section perpendicular to a rolling direction is less than 6 μm. A ratio x/y of an average length x of the crystal grains in a plate width direction to an average length y in a plate thickness direction satisfies 1≤x/y≤2.5. An X-ray diffracted intensity ratio in a plate surface parallel to the rolling direction of the copper alloy includes, when an X-ray diffracted intensity of a (220) plane is standardized as 1, an intensity ratio of a (200) plane being 0.30 or less, an intensity ratio of a (111) plane being 0.45 or less, and an intensity ratio of a (311) plane being 0.60 or less. The intensity ratio of the (111) plane is greater than the intensity ratio of the (200) plane and smaller than the intensity ratio of the (311) plane.
US10002678B2
Disclosed is a clinical diagnostic analyzer employing a redundant error detection capability to further examine the internal message traffic for possible errors or questionable results by comparing the actual parameters against a fingerprint generated for each assay using an assay database and a configuration file. This testing does not rely on inputs from the software module being tested, and hence is an independent test. Further, a testing mechanism is provided to test the Redundant Error Detection (“RED”) capability itself.
US10002675B2
The present application discloses a method of driving a gate driving circuit in an operation cycle divided into a first sub-cycle and a second sub-cycle, including providing a gate driving circuit having a first plurality of shift register units with a second plurality of shift register units, the first plurality of shift register units being configured so that each odd/even numbered shift register unit includes a first bias-control terminal to receive a first/second bias signal CLK1/CLK2, a second bias-control terminal to receive a second/first bias signal CLK2/CLK1, and a first control level terminal provided with a first control voltage VC1, the second plurality of shift register units being configured so that each odd/even numbered shift register unit includes a third bias-control terminal to receive a third/fourth bias signal CLK3/CLK4, a fourth bias-control terminal to receive a fourth/third bias signal CLK4/CLK3, and a second control level terminal provided with a second control voltage VC2; configuring the first bias signal CLK1 and the second bias signal CLK2 as first pair of clock signals at respective turn-on level and turn-off level with inverted phase in the first sub-cycle; setting the first control voltage VC1 to a turn-off level so that the first plurality of shift register units is controlled along with the first pair of clock signals to respectively output corresponding gate driving output signals in an output phase within the first sub-cycle; setting both the third bias signal CLK3 and the fourth bias signal CLK4 to a turn-off level and the second control voltage VC2 to turn-on level during the first sub-cycle; configuring the third bias signal CLK3 and the fourth bias signal CLK4 as second pair of clock signals at respective turn-on level and turn-off level with inverted phase in the second sub-cycle; setting the second control voltage VC2 to a turn-off level so that the second plurality of shift register units are controlled along with the second pair of clock signals to respectively output corresponding gate driving output signals in an output phase within the second sub-cycle; and setting the first bias signal CLK1 and the second bias signal CLK2 to a turn-off level and the second control voltage VC1 to a turn-on level during the second sub-cycle.
US10002663B2
A nonvolatile memory apparatus may include a memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells coupled between a plurality of word lines and a plurality of bit lines. The nonvolatile memory apparatus may include and a resistance compensation circuit configured to generate a compensation resistance value according to a position of a memory cell to be accessed.
US10002660B2
A gain cell includes a write bit line input, a read bit line output, a write trigger input and a read trigger input. The write element writes a data level from the write bit line input to the gain cell when triggered by the write trigger input. The retention element buffers between an internal buffer node and an internal storage node during data retention. The retention element also connects or disconnects the buffer node to a first constant voltage according to the data level being retained in the gain cell. The read element decouples the storage node from the read bit line output during data read. The read element also connects and disconnects the read bit line output to a second constant voltage according to the data level being read from the gain cell.
US10002650B1
A signal quality detection circuit has a sampling circuit and a comparing circuit. The sampling circuit samples an input signal associated with a target device according to a plurality of nominal sampling points, and generates a plurality of sampled bits corresponding to the nominal sampling points, respectively. The nominal sampling points are set by different combinations of sampling time and sampling reference voltage, and the number of the nominal sampling points is larger than four. The comparing circuit generates a signal quality detection result by performing comparison according to the sampled bits.
US10002646B2
Embodiments relate generally to semiconductors and memory technology, and more particularly, to systems, integrated circuits, and methods to implement a memory architecture that includes local bit lines for accessing subsets of memory elements, such as memory elements based on third dimensional memory technology. In at least some embodiments, an integrated circuit includes a cross-point memory array formed above a logic layer. The cross-point memory array includes X-lines and Y-lines, of which at least one Y-line includes groups of Y-line portions. Each of the Y-line portions can be arranged in parallel with other Y-line portions within a group of the Y-line portions. Also included are memory elements disposed between a subset of the X-lines and the group of the Y-line portions. In some embodiments, a decoder is configured to select a Y-line portion from the group of Y-line portions to access a subset of the memory elements.
US10002645B2
Hard disk drives of the invention are wrapped in laminate for enhanced sealing of the hard disk drive. Laminate-wrapped hard disk drives of the invention comprise: an enclosed hard disk drive housing comprising a base and a cover enclosed around internal components for facilitating reading and recording of data at a desired location on at least one disk contained within the housing; and a laminate wrapped around the enclosed housing in an at least partially overlapping manner to form the laminate-wrapped hard disk drive and prevent undesired migration therethrough such that a sealed environment exists within the laminate-wrapped hard disk drive, wherein the laminate comprises a barrier layer and an adhesive layer for adherence of the laminate to the enclosed housing.
US10002639B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for sanitizing audio recordings. One of the methods includes identifying confidential information in a transcription of an audio file. The method includes altering at least a portion of the audio file to remove the identified confidential information.
US10002637B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording and reproducing device which has a magnetic recording medium, a magnetic head, and a recording current output unit. Magnetic data is recorded on the magnetic recording medium. The magnetic head records the magnetic data on the magnetic recording medium. The recording current output unit supplies a recording current to the magnetic head so as to magnetize the magnetic head. A waveform of the recording current has a first slope for a first period to record data of first information continuously and a second slope for a following second period to switch the data to data of second information and to record the data of the second information. The first slope and the second slope are different from each other.
US10002629B2
Various embodiments concern a suspension assembly of a disk drive. The suspension assembly includes a load beam comprising a major planar area formed from a substrate. The load beam further comprises a window in the substrate, a dimple formed from the substrate, and a flange. The flange is a region of the major planar area that extends partially around the dimple but does not extend along an edge of the dimple. The edge of the dimple is adjacent to the window. The dimple is in contact with the flexure. A HAMR block or other element can extend through the window. The lack of a full flange can minimize the necessary clearance between the dimple and the HAMR block or other element and thereby allow the window to be enlarged to accommodate the HAMR block or other element.
US10002628B2
Various embodiments concern a gimbaled flexure having a dual stage actuation structure. The flexure comprises a gimbal on which a motor is mounted. The motor comprises a first terminal, one or more layers of piezoelectric material, and a metal stiffener disposed directly on the first terminal. The stiffener comprises a layer of metal defining a majority of a top side of the motor. The first terminal can be gold sputtered on the piezoelectric material while the stiffener can be nickel plated on the gold. The stiffener can cause the motor, and the flexure on which it is mounted, to curl upon electrical activation of the motor.
US10002619B2
A Unified Speech and Audio Codec (USAC) that may process a window sequence based on mode switching is provided. The USAC may perform encoding or decoding by overlapping between frames based on a folding point when mode switching occurs. The USAC may process different window sequences for each situation to perform encoding or decoding, and thereby may improve a coding efficiency.
US10002617B2
Methods and arrangements in a codec for supporting bandwidth extension, BWE, of a harmonic audio signal. The method in the decoder part of the codec comprises receiving a plurality of gain values associated with a frequency band b and a number of adjacent frequency bands of band b. The method further comprises determining whether a reconstructed corresponding frequency band b′ comprises a spectral peak. When the band b′ comprises a spectral peak, a gain value associated with the band b′ is set to a first value based on the received plurality of gain values; and otherwise the gain value is set to a second value based on the received plurality of gain values. The suggested technology enables bringing gain values into agreement with peak positions in a bandwidth extended frequency region.
US10002610B2
A presentation supporting device extracts a first word from a character string included in each region divided from a page of a document file, and calculates a score, for each region in a page currently-displayed, based on the first word and a second word acquired as a result of a sound recognition, and calculates, when the highest score of scores is equal to or higher than a first threshold, a distance between a first region in which the highlight display is currently executed and a second region in which the highest score is equal to or higher than the first threshold, and executes a highlight display in the second region when a frequency corresponding to the distance between the first region and the second region is equal to or higher than a second threshold, and executes a highlight display in the first region, when the second threshold is not reached.
US10002593B2
A guitar capo applicable to different kinds of guitars, having upper shell silica gel fixed onto an upper shell; lower shell silica gel fixed onto a lower shell; a groove provided at a center position of each of the upper shell silica gel and the lower shell silica gel; a raised platform positioned at a periphery of each groove; a connecting end of the upper shell sleeving a connecting end of the lower shell; the connecting ends of the upper shell and the lower shell connected and fixed via the double rivet; a spring mounted on the double rivet; an end of an arm of the lower shell connecting to the upper shell being connected with the screw. The upper shell silica gel is applicable to an acoustic guitar. The lower shell silica gel is applicable to a classical guitar.
US10002586B1
Display data used in display frame generation are compressed for efficient storage in a local memory within a graphics processing unit. The compression technique used is difference encoding and before performing difference encoding, display data in RGB format are converted into YCbCr format. Since the component values of adjacent pixels in YCbCr format typically vary less than the component values of the same adjacent pixels in RGB format, converting the display data to YCbCr format before performing difference encoding improves the compression efficiency.
US10002584B2
An information processing apparatus uses a display device to provide display information. The information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to store information relating to a position of an output device that outputs information relating to the output device, and information relating to the display device corresponding to the position of the output device; receive information of a transmission source and the information of the output device acquired by the transmission source, from the transmission source capable of communicating with the information processing apparatus; identify a position of the transmission source, based on the received information; and control the display device corresponding to the position of the transmission source to display the display information, according to the information of the transmission source.
US10002575B2
The disclosure is directed toward driving methods and a driving circuit which are particularly suitable for bi-stable displays. In certain embodiments, methods provide the fastest and most pleasing appearance to the desired image while maintaining the optimal image quality over the life expectancy of an electrophoretic display device.
US10002569B2
Discussed is an organic light emitting display device capable of sensing and compensating characteristics of light emitting elements thereof. The organic light emitting display device according to an embodiment includes a light emitting display panel including a plurality of pixels, each pixel having a light emitting element and a pixel driving circuit to drive the light emitting element; and a panel driving unit for supplying compensated data voltages to the plurality of pixels, respectively, sensing at least one characteristic of a driving point of the light emitting element in each of the pixels and a threshold voltage of the light emitting element during at least one of light emission and non-emission periods of the light emitting element, and generating compensated data for the light emitting element, using the sensed characteristic.
US10002559B2
An image display device includes a display unit that includes a plurality of display lines, an image data input unit that receives image data including data for each display line, and an image data transmission switching circuit that transmits the image data to the display unit.
US10002554B2
A display device includes a display panel, a power supply unit, a first current measuring unit, and an overcurrent preventing switch. The power supply unit provides a power supply voltage to the display panel. The first current measuring unit is connected to a first path for providing the power supply voltage from the power supply unit to the display panel and measures a first current flowing through the first path. The overcurrent preventing switch is connected in parallel with the first current measuring unit and selectively forms a detour path for the first path according to an amount of the first current such that at least a portion of the first current flows through the detour path.
US10002552B1
A light panel display apparatus includes an upright panel assembly with a translucent primary panel having a substantially smooth primacy panel first face and a primary panel second face with a series of light distributing grooves; a translucent diffusing panel, having substantially smooth diffusing panel inward face and substantially smooth a diffusing panel outward face, the diffusing panel being positioned substantially parallel and adjacent to with the primary panel second face; a translucent first image sheet having a first image and positioned substantially parallel and adjacent to the primary panel first face and a translucent second image sheet having a second image and being substantially parallel and adjacent to the diffusing panel outward face; and a base assembly comprising a generally horizontally extending base member with a panel assembly receiving slot into which the panel assembly is removably fitted so that the panel assembly is retained in, a lighting circuit including a light source positioned and oriented to radiate light into an edge of the panel assembly of sufficient intensity to illuminate the panel assembly, and an electric power source.
US10002548B2
An artifact is provided that includes a substrate imprinted with personalized information including time-sensitive elements. At least a portion of the personalized information is configured to self-destruct over a time period that is commensurate with the time-sensitive elements. The artifact also includes a material operable for affixing the substrate to a subject with which the personalized information is associated.
US10002545B2
A system and method for controlling gaming technology, musical instruments and environmental settings via detection of neuromuscular activity are disclosed herein. The disclosed system generally comprises a sensor grid coupled to a user; a base station configured to receive neuromuscular activity inputs from one or more sensors in said sensor grid, determine whether said neuromuscular activity inputs received from said one or more sensors is within a calibrated boundary value for an activity associated with each of said one or more sensors, and instruct a physical device or software to perform said activity when said neuromuscular activity input received from said one or more sensors is within said calibrated boundary value for the activity associated with each of said one or more sensors; and at least one said physical device or said software being configured to receive instructions from said base station. The disclosed system allows a user to perform an activity that the user might otherwise be unable to perform.
US10002544B2
A training program is configured to systematically drive neurological changes to treat depression, mood and anxiety disorders. The training program includes an inference renormalization game that presents three subsets of stimuli and prompts a game participant to selectively respond or withhold responding to one or two of the stimulus subsets.
US10002542B1
A method of playing a musical keyboard comprises four main steps. The first step involves providing a guide comprising multiple columns aligned with keys on the musical keyboard. The columns are further divided into rows defining multiple blocks containing color codes and numbers. The numbers are arranged in arithmetic progression in each color code extending across a single row. The second step involves playing a first key on the musical keyboard based on a selected color code represented in each predetermined row. The third step involves playing the subsequent keys on the musical keyboard as per the arithmetic progression of numbers in the subsequent rows. The fourth step involves shifting to a subsequent row of the sheet, to start playing a selected key and the subsequent keys on the musical keyboard based on the next color code and corresponding numbers represented in the subsequent rows.
US10002535B1
A vehicle location system includes a vehicle-based communication unit having a processor. The processor is configured to analyze request signals from a portable communication device. A first audible output device is configured to generate a first audible sound. A second audible output device is configured to generate a second audible sound. The sound generated by the second audible output device is a greater sound pressure than the first audible output device. The processor selectively enables one of the first audible output device and second audible output device based on the processor comparing a proximity characteristic of the request signals to a predetermined threshold.
US10002531B2
An approach is provided for predicting driving behavior. A prediction platform determines driving characteristic information for one or more vehicles in association with a segment of a travel path navigated by each of the one or more vehicles. The prediction platform also processes driving characteristic information to determine one or more response types, one or more behavior types, or a combination thereof associated with the segment of the travel path and associates the one or more response types, the one or more behavior types, or a combination thereof with mapping information for specifying the segment of the travel path, a behavior connection link-chain, or a combination thereof.
US10002530B1
Technologies are described to provide control of traffic signals based at least in part on multiple Q-learning categories. In some examples, a method may include clustering historical traffic data into multiple traffic pattern clusters, and generating multiple Q-learning categories, where each Q-learning category corresponds to a traffic pattern cluster of the multiple traffic pattern clusters. The method may also include determining a first Q-learning category of the multiple Q-learning categories to use in controlling traffic signals at an intersection based at least in part on a first traffic data of the intersection, where the first Q-learning category corresponds to a first traffic pattern cluster, and the first traffic data corresponds to the first traffic pattern cluster. The method may additionally include generating a first control action for the traffic signals at the intersection based at least in part on the first Q-learning category.
US10002512B2
A system and method of loss prevention using a pair of ID tags is disclosed. The user or owner of the protected object can dynamically create a security perimeter by using key ID tag and object ID tag pair. An object ID tag is either embedded in or attached to a protected object. A key ID tag, which is in a handheld device, has protection to prevent unauthorized scan. The object ID tag information can only be obtained from key ID tag using preprogrammed algorithm. The area security system will be armed after reading and validating a key ID tag scanned by the user. If anyone takes protected object with object ID tag out of the area without proper key ID tag authentication, alarm will be triggered.
US10002509B2
A notification appliance is disclosed. The notification appliance may be a strobe notification appliance, such as an LED strobe notification appliance. The notification appliance may be wall-mounted or ceiling-mounted. Further, the notification appliance may include an optic that is configured to shape the light output from the notification appliance. For example, in a wall-mount, the optic may be mounted off-axis of a plane defined by a back plate of the notification appliance. Further, the notification appliance may be composed of a back plate, a driver board, and a front housing, with the front housing being attached to one or both of the back plate and the driver board. Moreover, the notification appliance may be used with an adapter bracket, which may be used to connect the notification appliance with one or more types of junction boxes.
US10002497B2
Disclosed is a machine for redeeming an entitlement that includes an interface for receiving user data including payment vehicle data. In an embodiment, a payment vehicle reader reads payment vehicle data from a payment vehicle, and an input device receives an input of at least one additional identifier. The machine also includes a communication module in communication with a processor. The processor receives account data associated with the user, wherein the account data includes one or more entitlements representing an award. The interface is configured to receive a selection of at least one entitlement, and the machine also includes a cash dispensing device for dispensing cash when a selected entitlement is an amount of cash.
US10002493B2
A method for facilitating asynchronous group play of an online casino game is provided. A group session is initiated over the Internet, including a plurality of players. A group objective defines a requirement of two or more of the plurality of players achieving winning outcomes that result from initiation of player decisions occurring in relative proximity to each other. For each player, outcomes of player decisions occurring during a period of gameplay are stored to a current session database defined in a storage device, wherein the periods of gameplay of at least two of the plurality of players are asynchronous. The current session database is analyzed to identify outcomes of two or more of the plurality of players occurring within a predefined number of player decisions of each other. The identified outcomes are combined and compared against the group objective.
US10002492B2
Secondary gaming functionality is provided for a casino gaming machine by a secondary controller of the casino gaming machine. The secondary gaming functionality may function to provide a multi-game experience at the gaming machine or remotely at another gaming machine or other device, e.g., a smart phone, tablet, personal computer, and the like. The multi-game experience may comprise one or more additional instances of a wager-based video game provided by the primary gaming functionality of the gaming machine. The secondary gaming functionality of the gaming machine may cause the one or more additional instances of the wager-based video game to be presented at another device either directly or indirectly via a server, such as a social media server or a server-based gaming system's server. The secondary gaming functionality may provide betting scenarios other, additional than those provided by the primary gaming functionality, which betting scenarios may permit the player to wager on a wager-based video game provided by the primary gaming functionality.
US10002488B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to a gaming device including a memory, a processor, a display, a plurality of display areas located on the display, and a call tower including a first plate, a second plate, a third plate, and a call tower display screen, and a processor which initiates a base game via the plurality of display areas located on the display.
US10002482B2
A coin-roll ejecting device (1) includes a storing unit (10) that stores therein a plurality of rolls of coins and having an ejecting mechanism (19) for ejecting the stored rolls of coins one by one; an ejected coin-roll detecting unit (84) that detects a roll of coins ejected from the storing unit (10) by the ejecting mechanism (19); and a controlling unit (70) that determines whether a roll of coins is present in the storing unit (10) based on a detection result of the roll of coins obtained by the ejected coin-roll detecting unit (84).
US10002480B2
Apparatus and methods for controlling physical access to a location include an entry system including at least one barrier at the physical location, with the barrier configured to selectively permit access into and/or from and/or within the physical location upon proper credentials and/or authorization. A cellular device is connected to or integrated with the entry system and is configured to transmit and receive voice and/or data information to the entry system that includes the credentials and/or authorization. The cellular device can be a retrofit to prior art/installed systems, can be external to an otherwise operational system, and/or can be integrated natively into the entry system. Methods and apparatus are disclosed to determine the power status and network link state of the cellular device and/or to establish communication through/to same, as well as for the cellular device to be connected to and control a plurality of entry systems and/or barriers. A plurality of entry systems and/or barriers can be controlled by one or more cellular devices, and the usage (and associated billing charges from cellular service providers) on any/all of those cellular devices monitored and selected to optimize (reduce) the expense of any data or other charges imposed by a cellular carrier associated with the cellular device. Optimization can include allocation to the aforementioned voice and/or data cellular plans related to specific of the plurality of entry systems and/or barriers.
US10002476B1
This disclosure is related to the Smart Barrier System used in vehicle entrance and exit systems that works together with high definition license plate and face recognition systems and web portals through the monitoring sensor positioned on the Barrier, objects, on posts facing the garage entrance, garage door and vehicle access ways and positioned on walls around the vehicle access ways.
US10002474B1
Techniques are described for controlling access based on pattern repetition. A rhythmic pattern may be communicated to a portable computing device of an individual, and played on the device using haptic and/or audio output. In response to the played pattern, the individual may attempt to repeat the pattern by tapping on a touchpad or other haptic input on a computing device. The entered pattern may be compared to the original pattern and, if the patterns correspond, the individual may be provided with requested access to a secure area and/or secure data. In some implementations, the pattern repetition technique may be employed to unlock a secure device based on a rhythmic pattern received at a different device such as an epidermal patch or other wearable computer.
US10002469B2
Provided herein are inclinometer methods and systems for generating an in-vehicle inclination angle (θr). An inclinometer method can include measuring an acceleration ({dot over (ν)}) of a vehicle or a vehicle member, measuring a pitch angular velocity (q) of a computer, measuring a longitudinal accelerometer signal (ax,S) of the computer, generating an in-vehicle pitch angle (θ) of the vehicle or the vehicle member, calibrating an inclinometer-vehicle relative misalignment pitch offset angle (θp) of the vehicle or the vehicle member comprising a stationary-mode or a dynamic-mode, and generating an in-vehicle inclination angle (θr) of the vehicle or the vehicle member.
US10002461B2
Techniques are disclosed for solving geometry processing tasks on a subdivision surface of an input geometry using a subdivision exterior calculus (SEC) framework. A control polygonal mesh is received for generating a subdivision surface model. The polygonal mesh is associated with subdivision levels. To generate the subdivision surface model, one or more subdivision matrices of the polygonal mesh is determined at each subdivision level. One or more SEC matrices is computed from the subdivision matrices. The differential equation required by the geometry processing application is then solved numerically on the input control mesh using the SEC matrices.
US10002460B2
A system and method of estimating the body shape of an individual from input data such as images or range maps. The body may appear in one or more poses captured at different times and a consistent body shape is computed for all poses. The body may appear in minimal tight-fitting clothing or in normal clothing wherein the described method produces an estimate of the body shape under the clothing. Clothed or bare regions of the body are detected via image classification and the fitting method is adapted to treat each region differently. Body shapes are represented parametrically and are matched to other bodies based on shape similarity and other features. Standard measurements are extracted using parametric or non-parametric functions of body shape. The system components support many applications in body scanning, advertising, social networking, collaborative filtering and Internet clothing shopping.
US10002456B2
Aspects described herein may provide improved water surface approximation by correcting a polygonal mesh (such as a projected grid mesh) at pixel and/or sub-pixel levels through application of a novel ray-casting method based on a modified version of Newton's method for finding roots. The ray-casting method may refine an initial condition determined based on the polygonal mesh and may iteratively develop a more accurate approximation of the water surface as described further herein. This improved approximation method may be suitable for both low-end and high-end GPUs. Due to lower computational complexity, the method may be utilized by low-end GPUs to improve quality while maintaining performance. The method may also be further enhanced with more advanced features such as low-cost multisampling anti-aliasing on higher-end GPUs to provide superior visualization of water surfaces and take full advantage of the additional processing power of such systems.
US10002453B2
A graphic display on a computer system with a floor layout having a canvas layer and an overlay layer. The canvas layer has tile graphics laid out in a grid, the tile graphics representing portions of the floor. The overlay layer has overlay containers corresponding to the tile graphics, the overlay layer having overlay zones and overlay graphics. Overlay functions associated with overlay zones in an overlay container manipulate the tile graphic associated with the overlay container. The overlay graphics of each overlay container are transparent until a hover event occurs over the associated overlay container. A tile pallet illustrates the tile graphics in the canvas layer of the floor layout. A tool layout display includes indicia associated with various functions that can manipulate the tile graphics in the flooring layout. A perspective flooring layout is displayed in a transparent window of an environmental mask with a perspective room design.
US10002445B2
A system and method are provided for medical imaging that includes acquiring, during a common imaging acquisition process, rotational, x-ray volume image data and x-ray tomosynthesis image data from a subject. The method includes reconstructing a time-resolved three-dimensional (3D) image volume from the rotational, x-ray volume image data and producing a four-dimensional (4D) image series of the subject with resolved overlapping features by selectively combining the time-resolved 3D image volume and the x-ray tomosynthesis imaging data.
US10002434B2
One example provides a system. The system receives an infrared image and processes the infrared image to detect lines in the infrared image. The system receives a color image corresponding to the infrared image and processes the color image to detect lines in the color image. The detected lines in the infrared image and the detected lines in the color image are combined. A document region is detected from the combined detected lines.
US10002427B2
According to a first aspect, the invention relates to a method to support clinical decision by characterizing images acquired in sequence through a video medical device. The method comprises defining at least one image quantitative criterion, storing sequential images in a buffer, for each image (10) in the buffer, automatically determining, using a first algorithm, at least one output based on said image quantitative criterion and attaching said output to a timeline (11).
US10002425B2
The method of segmenting single neuron images with high-dynamic-range thresholds of the present invention includes (a) preparing a biological tissue sample containing neurons and performing imaging to this sample to obtain a three-dimensional raw neuroimage; (b) deleting voxels in the three-dimensional raw neuroimage with signal intensities below a first signal intensity threshold to obtain a first thresholded image; (c) tracing the first thresholded image to obtain a first traced image; (d) calculating a structural importance score of every voxel in the first traced image to obtain a first structural importance score of every voxel; (e) gradually increasing the signal intensity threshold and repeating (b), (c) and (d) n−1 times; (f) summing up all the n structural importance scores of every voxel; (g) deleting voxels with summed structural importance score smaller than a pre-determined value from the raw image to obtain the segmented single neuron.
US10002423B2
A medical image processing apparatus acquires a plurality of medical images obtained by imaging an identical region of an object under different radiographing conditions, acquires a correlation between a signal value and a radiographing condition at a pixel at a same position in the plurality of medical images, acquires a virtual radiographing condition that is different from the radiographing conditions of the plurality of medical images, generates an image for a diagnosis by acquiring a signal value of each pixel based on the correlation and the virtual radiographing condition, and acquires a window width value and a window level value for displaying one medical image of an identical cross section of the object.
