US10059439B2
According to one embodiment, a pilot assistance system includes a trim assembly and a trim assembly control system. The trim assembly is operable to communicate with a pilot control device and operable to apply a force against the pilot control device in resistance of a command received from a pilot via the pilot control device. The trim assembly control system is in communication with the trim assembly, configured to identify a first pilot control device position relative to a reference pilot control device position, and configured to instruct the trim assembly to apply a cueing force against the pilot control device if the pilot control device is positioned proximate to the first pilot control device position.
US10059437B2
The Multi-Rotor Safety Shield (MRSS) provides a complete and substantial encasement system which can be secured about a Drone, protecting a multitude of aircraft components from contact with any outside disturbance and which can protect the sensitive components from dust, water, wind, rain, snow, fingers, toes, appendages of any kind, and atmospheric changes as example, from disabling the Drone and can protect people, places or things from high velocity spinning exposed rotor/propellers. The MRSS provides rigid non-permeable platform for attaching or incorporating additional safety devices as found in the Drone industry (or other industries) resulting in a safety device that completely prevents the loss a Drone due to the catastrophic failure of any Drone system or combination of systems which would typically result in rapid decent, and/or uncontrolled flight. The MRSS makes Drones safe near humans and safe to use around public gatherings, stadium events, accident scenes, disaster search and rescue and disaster relief, and indoors for the security and communications markets among others expanding the availability of Drones to further assist humanity.
US10059430B2
Aircraft and air scoop systems are provided. An aircraft includes an interior compartment, an outer skin, an air scoop, it movable element, and a passive pneumatic actuator. The interior compartment encloses a substantially constant interior air mass at a cabin pressure during flight and the outer skin at least partially defines a ventilated cavity. The air scoop is disposed on the outer skin and communicates air between the ventilated cavity and an external environment in which the aircraft is located. The movable element is movable between an open position and a closed position over the air scoop to define an air flow area through the air scoop. The passive pneumatic actuator is operatively coupled with the movable element and moves the movable element towards the closed position in response to an increasing altitude of the aircraft based on a differential pressure between the interior air mass and the external environment.
US10059419B2
An apparatus for electrically connecting a polyphase vessel distribution system of a vessel to a polyphase land supply system having a supply system connection disposed on land to be connected to a vessel system connection of the vessel distribution system at least in sections by at least one cable connection, enables a fast and secure connection of the land supply system to the vessel distribution system. During normal operation, vessel movements can be reliably compensated by at least one articulated arm used as a support for one or more cable connections. The articulated arm has arm segments interconnected by at least one articulated connection. A joint drive is associated with each articulated connection for mutually pivoting the arm segments interconnected by the articulated connection, which is associated with the joint drive.
US10059416B2
An engine for an outboard motor is provided with an engine body, an intake system configured to supply combustion air to the engine body, an exhaust passage formed by connecting the engine body and middle and lower units thereunder, a catalyst provided in the exhaust passage, and an air pump configured to supply secondary air to an upstream side of the catalyst. The intake system is arranged in a side portion of one side of the left or right side of the engine body, and the exhaust passage and the air pump are arranged in a side portion of the other side of the left or right side of the engine body.
US10059406B1
A valve for use with a vessel drain tube includes a body extending along a longitudinal axis. The body has an outer surface and an inner surface defining a bore extending longitudinally from a first end to a second end. The valve includes an external seal on the outer surface of the body for sealing with the drain tube, at least one internal seal on the inner surface extending into the bore, a retaining member extending at least partially into the bore and being spaced from the internal seal, and a sealing member displaceable between the internal seal and the retaining member. The sealing member is configured to seal with the internal seal in a valve closed, first configuration and to not seal with the internal seal in a valve open, second configuration.
US10059397B2
A two-wheel, self-balancing vehicle comprises a first wheel and a second wheel, spaced apart and substantially parallel to one another; a foot placement section connecting the first wheel and the second wheel; a set of position sensors in the foot placement section, the set of position sensors configured to generate inclination angle signals and velocity signals of the two-wheel, self-balancing vehicle; a first gravity sensor and a second gravity sensor in the foot placement section, the first gravity sensor and the second gravity sensor configured to generate weight signals and gravity angle signals. In addition, the two-wheel, self-balancing vehicle comprises a control logic configured to output control signals that control the movement of the two-wheel, self-balancing vehicle in response to the inclination angle signals, the velocity signals, the weight signals, and the gravity angle signals.
US10059394B2
An all-terrain vehicle (ATV) trailer is provided. The ATV trailer includes an ATV mount operable to secure to a rear end of an ATV/UTV. The ATV trailer further includes a trailer frame having a platform. The trailer frame is pivotally secured to the ATV mount. At least one wheel is secured to a bottom surface of the trailer frame. A locking mechanism is operable to lock the trailer frame in a retracted position and a deployed position. The retracted position includes the trailer frame substantially vertical and pivoted towards the ATV and the deployed position includes the trailer frame substantially horizontal and pivoted away from the ATV.
US10059389B2
A track system for steerable vehicles having at least one axle. The track system is capable of adjusting to changes in terrain by pivoting in clockwise and counterclockwise directions relative to an axle assembly as the vehicle moves across the ground. The pivotal movement of the track system relative to the axle assembly is restricted by a limiter attached to an inboard member of the track system frame. Pivotal movement is limited by the axle assembly housing engaging the limiter when the track system pivots in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction to a maximum point along a pivot arc.
US10059360B2
A ski-attachable upright conveyance can have a swept-back handle, an upright frame, strengthening members, ski clamp attachments, a braking system, and a plurality of standing plates. The ski clamp attachments allow simple attachment to a variety of skis (skates, wheels, etc.) to form the base of the conveyance so that it can slide across snow, ice, etc. The standing plates provide a non-slip surface upon which a user places his/her feet, allowing the person to stand upright while operating the conveyance. A braking system can allow a user to safely control their speed, stop, etc. The upright frame sweeps upwards before joining the swept-back handle. The frame locks the ski clamp attachments together and provides rigidity. Additional rigidity and support can be added via strengthening support members. A user can vary the pressure and forces exerted on the swept-back handle to assist in steering.
US10059346B2
A vehicle system includes a processor and a memory accessible to the processor and storing instructions executable by the processor. The instructions include detecting a handoff request indicating a transition of a host vehicle from an autonomous mode of operation to a non-autonomous mode of operation and assessing driver competency. The handoff request is approved if the driver competency exceeds a predetermined threshold. Likewise, the handoff request is denied if the driver competency fails to exceed the predetermined threshold.
US10059344B2
A tire load calculation section of a controller calculates tire load factors of the respective wheels. A target tire load-factor calculation section calculates a tire load factor average value (ηave) obtained by averaging the tire load factors (ηi) of the respective wheels as a target tire load factor. A target tire vertical-load calculation section calculates target tire vertical loads (Fzrefi) for the respective wheels so that the tire load factors of the respective wheels become equal to the tire load factor average value. A vertical-load control section and a suspension control section control thrusts of electromagnetic dampers for the respective wheels so as to achieve the target tire vertical loads.
US10059343B2
Apparatus for determining the ground speed of a vehicle, comprising a plurality of sensing systems each of which is configured to provide a respective data source indicative of the ground speed of the vehicle; a controller configured to receive each of the data sources from the plurality of sensing systems; wherein the controller is configured to arbitrate between the received plurality of data sources from the plurality of sensing systems, determine a ground speed parameter from one of the data sources, and output the ground speed parameter for use within the vehicle. The invention also resides in a method for determining the ground speed of a vehicle and a computer program product that embodies said method.
US10059342B2
Methods and systems for a complete vehicle ecosystem are provided. Specifically, systems that when taken alone, or together, provide an individual or group of individuals with an intuitive and comfortable vehicular environment. The present disclosure includes a system to create, modify, and maintain profiles associated with users. The user profiles are generated based on selectively collecting data associated with the users. Although each user profile may include settings, preferences, habits, and content associated with an individual user and/or vehicle, some user profiles may represent multiple users. These user profiles can change a configuration of a vehicle to match settings for a user, such as a driver and/or passenger. The configurations may also include the recognition of a unique set of gestures for a user. Further, the user profiles can be transferred from vehicle-to-vehicle and/or user-to-user.
US10059325B2
Methods and systems are provided for synergizing the benefits of engine water injection in a hybrid vehicle system. During engine operation, in response to a change in driver demand, the controller may opt to switch between water injection states while using stored power assist. The selection may be based on the combination of water injection and stored power offset that provides the highest engine efficiency.
US10059322B2
Spring failure detection systems include an air brake cylinder having a spring axially extending therein, a sensor coupled to the air brake cylinder and configured to sense forces applied to the air brake cylinder, an indicator coupled to the sensor and configured to indicate failure of the spring based on the forces sensed by the sensor, and a controller in communication with the sensor and configured to control the indicator. Methods for detecting failure of a spring are also disclosed.
US10059321B2
A diagnostic method may determine the leak-tightness of at least one seal and/or one valve function in a braking system with at least two brake circuits, following completion of a braking action. The diagnostic method may be carried out at a pressure still present after the braking action in one or both braking circuits and/or in hydraulic line or a working chamber of a piston-cylinder system or at a lower pressure, or it may be carried out at a pressure of at most 30 bar.
US10059320B2
An automatic retainer valve includes a body defining a piston passageway and at least one piston positioned within the piston passageway, a brake pipe and reference volume in fluid communication with a first end of the valve, a brake cylinder in fluid communication with a second end of the valve, and an exhaust port defined in the body and positioned between the first and second ends of the valve. Pressurized fluid may be vented from the brake cylinder via the exhaust port upon a brake cylinder pressure exceeding a reference volume pressure. The brake cylinder pressure may push the at least one piston towards the first end of the valve until the brake cylinder pressure equalizes with the reference volume pressure.
US10059317B2
A pressure control valve arrangement for controlling fluid pressure in a brake system of a vehicle includes two diaphragm valves and two electromagnetic control valves, activatable by an electronic control device, for the pilot control of the diaphragm valves. The two electromagnetic control valves have a double magnet with two magnet coils and magnet armatures and are actuatable by current being applied to the magnet coils. The housing has at least one pressure medium connection, connected to a service brake valve, for acting with pressure upon and/or relieving the pressure of the pressure control valve arrangement and at least one connection for connecting to a brake cylinder. A plane of symmetry of the mid-axes of the magnet coils of the double magnet is arranged in parallel and offset by the amount of an eccentricity, with respect to a mid-axis of the pressure medium connection.
US10059314B2
A bail compensating joint may include a threaded push rod, a ratchet in threaded connection with the push rod for rotational motion thereon, and a helical joint including a first bearing and a second bearing mounted on the ratchet for facilitating rotation of the ratchet. The second bearing is supported by an annular composite race member formed by a metal annular inner race member joined with a resiliently deformable annular outer member. In another embodiment of the bail compensating joint, a pair of spherical joints is disposed on opposite sides of the ratchet, the spherical joints supporting the respective first and second bearings.
US10059310B2
A streamlined flat windscreen wiper for a vehicle is disclosed. The flat wiper includes a longitudinal wiper blade, at least one longitudinal stiffening member, a longitudinal member for retaining the wiper blade and the stiffening member, a longitudinal streamlined portion having two terminal caps and a central mounting extending between the terminal caps and being connected thereto. The mounting includes means for fixing to the stiffening member or to the member for retaining the stiffening member, and each cap comprising means for guiding in translation terminal parts of the member.
US10059308B2
The invention relates to an accessory for wiper of motor vehicle comprising at least one heating channel (16; 16a, 16b) for receiving a heating element of the wiper, characterized in that said accessory (6; 10; 26) is made of a first part (17; 27) movable with respect to a second part (18; 28) in order to open said at least one heating channel (16; 16a, 16b) longitudinally.This invention also relates to a wiper of motor vehicle comprising such accessory.
US10059306B2
A defroster and a vehicle are provided. The defroster includes: a housing defining an air outlet; a heating device disposed in the housing; an air blower defining a blowing outlet and disposed in the housing; and an air duct defining a duct inlet and a duct outlet, the air duct being disposed between the blowing outlet and the heating device so that air blown out from the blower outlet enters the air duct via the duct inlet and goes out of the air duct via the duct outlet, then passes through the heating device to exchange heat with the heating device, and is discharged out of the housing via the air outlet, wherein an area of the duct inlet is different from that of the duct outlet.
US10059301B2
A vehicle occupant protection device (10) for helping to protect an occupant of a seat of a vehicle includes an inertia member (66) that engages an element (54). The inertia member (66) is movable relative to the element (54) from an unactuated position to an actuated position in response to at least one sensed vehicle condition for activating the occupant protection device (10). A vertical axis (83) extends through the center of mass of the inertia member (66) when the inertia member (66) is in the unactuated position. At least one of the element (54) and the inertia member (66) has at least one planar surface (80) that extends at an angle relative to the vertical axis (54). The inertia member (66) and element (54) are movable relative to one another along the at least one planar surface (80) to place the inertia member (66) in the actuated position to activate the occupant protection device.
US10059299B2
An airbag device capable of preventing an occupant from contacting a center console and restraining rotation of the occupant head. The airbag includes a first airbag deployed in front of an occupant of a seat to restrain the occupant from moving forward, and a second airbag coupled to a side of the first airbag on a center side of a vehicle interior to restrain the occupant from moving laterally during deployment. The second airbag has a front end portion that reaches a center console during deployment, and a rear end portion positioned further behind a rear end of the first airbag and extending to a center of the head of the occupant during deployment while the occupant is in contact with the first airbag.
US10059298B2
The invention relates to a head airbag system for a vehicle, with a gas bag (10) unfoldable from a stowed position to a restraining position, said gas bag having two facing end sections (12, 14) connected to each other by means of a connecting element (16) fastened to said end sections, wherein the end sections (12, 14) are arranged opposite each other with respect to a main deployment direction (Z) of the gas bag (10); the connecting element (16) is formed and fastened to the end sections (12, 14) in such a way that in an unfolded restraining position of the gas bag (10) the distance between the end sections (12, 14) with respect to the vertical direction (Z) of the unfolded gas bag (10) is less than the length of a gas bag section running between the end sections. The invention further relates to a vehicle with a head airbag system.
US10059281B2
A handle device includes: a housing, a handle unit including a base portion and a handle portion. The base portion includes a first track and is pivotably connected to the housing. The handle portion includes a slider movable along the first track and a retractable first locking unit connected to a first side portion of the housing. The first locking unit is positioned at least partially within the first track in a locking position and positioned outside of the first track in an unlocking position.
US10059279B2
A support is provided for attachment to an internal rear-view mirror made from plastic material or lightweight metal for a portable device having a telephone or GPS display screen or for generally electronic, electrical or other devices. The support includes a hooking member shaped to engage with another part of the rear-view mirror, the upper edge thereof, via two hooks, located to either side of a ball pin attaching the rear-view mirror to the windscreen. The hooking member is formed in part from a plurality of links articulated by hinges, in the manner of a metal watch strap. The hooking member is started by a hook-shaped link that secures to the upper edge of the rear-view mirror, followed by a series of links, varying in number, so as to match and constrain the shape of the rear-view mirror, and is finished by two leg feet that form a slide.
US10059276B2
A bike carrier mounted on a drawbar for a trailer hitch receiver via a pivot mechanism that allows the carrier to pivot between an operational horizontal position and a compact vertical position. A slidable trigger bar extends from the pivot mechanism to the back of the carrier. Pulling the trigger bar from the back of the carrier releases the pivot mechanism, providing a convenient operating position. One or more add-on bike carrying tray assemblies may be attached to a first bike carrying tray assembly on the drawbar to hold multiple bikes. Each add-on tray assembly may have a respective slidable trigger bar that latches onto the trigger bar of the previous tray assembly. A pull on the trigger bar of the last add-on assembly releases the pivot mechanism. This operates the pivot mechanism from the back of the carrier.
US10059274B2
A vehicle article carrier system is disclosed for use on an outer body roof surface of a vehicle to removably support articles above the outer body roof surface. The system makes use of a cross bar assembly having a central tubular portion and telescopically coupled outer cross bar portions. A locking lever may be used to lock at least one of the outer cross bar portions to prevent telescopic movement. A pair of end supports is used to latch to door jam areas of the vehicle. The end supports each have a construction such that both can be configured in a generally planar configuration to enable easy stowage of the cross bar assemblies, and each pivoted into an angled configuration which places the tubular cross bar portion above the vehicle outer body surface when the cross bar assembly is secured to the door jam areas.
US10059269B2
A cargo area for a vehicle includes a load floor, a package tray, and a pair of cargo area side walls each comprising a package tray translating element including a vehicle-forward facing guide surface for translating the package tray between at least one deployed position at a spaced distance above the load floor and a stowed position on the load floor. Vehicle-forward upper and lower indents are disposed at spaced intervals along the vehicle-forward facing guide surface. A cooperating package tray retaining element includes vehicle-rearward upper and lower indents disposed on the cargo area side walls. A vehicle-forward edge of the package tray includes a follower element adapted for translating the package tray between the at least one deployed position and the stowed position. A vehicle-rearward edge of the package tray includes a retractable retaining element adapted to releasably and selectively engage the vehicle-rearward upper and lower indents.
US10059267B2
Rearview mirror angle setting systems, methods, and programs display, on a display, a peripheral image of a vehicle that includes a visible region that is visually recognizable in a rearview mirror at a variable angle. The systems, methods, and programs display a reference point in the peripheral image, and move a position of the reference point in the peripheral image in accordance with a moving operation by a user. The systems, methods, and programs set the angle of the rearview mirror such that the position of the reference point, which has been moved, is visually recognizable in the rearview mirror.
US10059266B2
An adjustment unit for a rear view device for a vehicle includes a pivot and a carrier. The carrier is tiltably mounted to the pivot. The adjustment unit includes at least one first bending actuator, which has its largest dimension in a first direction and which is bendably adjustable in an angular or crosswise direction relative to the first direction. The first bending actuator has a first end fixed to a first fastening means and a second end fixed to the carrier. At least one second bending actuator has its largest dimension in a second direction oriented angularly or crosswise relative to the first direction and is bendable angular or crosswise relative thereto. The second bending actuator has a first end fixed to the first fastening means or a further fastening means and a second end fixed to the carrier. The adjustment unit is characterized in that the first direction of the first bending actuator and/or the second direction of the second bending actuator run through the center of the pivot.
US10059262B2
A storage device for a vehicle which has a plurality of compartments for storing objects is provided. The device comprises a receptacle space with a removal opening, at least one storage unit which is accommodated inside the receptacle space and has at least one compartment, an adjustment device by means of which the at least one storage unit can be adjusted within the receptacle space, with the result that whether a specific compartment of the storage device is accessible to a user via the removal opening depends on the position of the storage unit, an electronic memory, an image-capturing device by means of which at least one image of contents of one of the compartments can be produced and stored in the memory and a control unit by means of which an image produced by the image-capturing device and stored in the memory can be displayed on a display device.
US10059258B2
An illuminated plate for motor vehicles includes: a base sheet; an electroluminescent sheet; a background sheet which is transparent, translucent, or reflective, and which has a cutout section constituted by openings shaped in characters for display; character inserts which are transparent or translucent and shaped in the characters, which character inserts are infixed in the corresponding openings of the characters in the cutout section; and a clear cover sheet.
US10059257B2
A system for identifying a location of an external vehicle feature on approach by a user of the vehicle is disclosed, comprising (1) a vehicle including a steering system, a drive system, a brake system, a processor, and memory; (2) a control module coupled to the processor and configured to receive a wireless communication from a mobile device indicative of a user's proximity to the vehicle; and (3) a brake module coupled to the control module and configured to illuminate a lighting device on receipt of the wireless communication to identify a location of the vehicle feature.
US10059256B1
One or more systems and techniques for illumination of a vehicle grille assembly are provided herein. The vehicle grille assembly may include a backlight panel, a vehicle grille structure, an emblem controller, and a peripheral controller. The backlight panel includes a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The vehicle grille structure includes a first opening associated with an emblem and a plurality of second openings arranged circumferentially about the first opening. The emblem controller controls illumination of emblem LEDs to illuminate in an order tracing an outline associated with the emblem. The peripheral controller controls illumination of peripheral LEDs arranged circumferentially about the emblem LEDs to illuminate outwardly in a lateral direction from the center portion.
US10059253B1
An ATV or UV without a body control module includes a daytime running light control module. Daytime running lights are turned on when the engine speed, as indicated by the ECU microprocessor, is equal to or greater than a threshold and when each of the standard and bright headlights and right and left turn indicator lights are off. Otherwise the daytime running lights are turned off. If desired, the microcontroller performing the daytime running light control method may be the same microcontroller which controls the starter motor relay.
US10059245B2
An assembly for a fracking sand trailer wherein a door can be positioned to allow a measured flow of sand to exit the assembly. The assembly can be attached to a hopper of a trailer and can stand the weight of heavy loads associated with sand. A trailer with the assembly is also described and utilizes specific construction techniques to lighten the weight of the trailer.
US10059236B2
A recliner attachment bracket includes a closed-section structural material having a recliner attachment portion. The recliner attachment portion is configured such that surfaces of two plate materials are joined to each other by pressing a central part of the closed-section structural material while hollow closed-section structures are left on both sides of the closed-section structural material. A lower end of the recliner attachment portion is constituted by only one of the plate materials.
US10059227B2
An adjustment system for a vehicle seat with two rail pairs aligned in longitudinal vehicle direction, which are connected with each other via a carrier element oriented in transverse vehicle direction, which carries an electromotive driving device which via drive shafts is connected with a longitudinal adjustment device of the rail pairs. For use with different track gages of the rail pairs, the carrier element is formed as multipart element with at least two carrier element parts shiftable against each other in transverse vehicle direction.
US10059219B2
An exemplary electric vehicle includes a data storage module to hold a range of past energy consumption rates for an electric vehicle, and a controller to calculate a predicted energy consumption for the electric vehicle based on variations in the past energy consumption rates across the range. An exemplary vehicle assembly includes a data storage module to hold a range of past energy consumption rates for an electric vehicle, and a controller configured to calculate a predicted energy consumption for the electric vehicle based on variations in the range. An operation of the electric vehicle is configured to alter in response to the predicted energy consumption.
US10059217B2
A system for controlling a battery to extend a driving mileage is provided. The system supplies a high voltage required to drive a motor by connecting a plurality of batteries in series by turning off a battery switching unit during engaged of an accelerator and balances voltage between the plurality of batteries. A voltage deviation is managed by connecting the plurality of batteries in parallel by turning on the battery switching unit when the accelerator is disengaged. The system includes a plurality of battery modules and a battery switching unit configured to connect the plurality of battery modules in parallel when an accelerator is disengaged and connect the plurality of battery modules in series when the accelerator is engaged. A motor driving unit is configured to receive an output by the battery switching unit when the accelerator is engaged.
US10059199B2
A rear-wheel drive apparatus of an eco-friendly vehicle is capable of improving the longitudinal driving force and handling performance of a vehicle by independently driving both rear wheels of the vehicle using a plurality of drive motors.
US10059194B2
A fluid storage apparatus includes a guiding mechanism that linearly guides a flexible container in accordance with expansion and contraction of the flexible container. The guiding mechanism includes a guiding column that is disposed adjacent to the flexible container and that extends linearly and a slider that has a guiding hole, in which the guiding column is inserted, and that is formed on an upper edge portion of the flexible container.
US10059193B2
A grille for a vehicle is disclosed. The grille is configured to be arranged in front of at least one heat exchanger of the vehicle and includes a plurality of grille bars arranged at a distance from one other. A respective portion of each of the plurality of grille bars is airfoil-shaped.
US10059190B2
A power transmission system of a hybrid electric vehicle uses an engine and a motor/generator as power sources, and includes: a torque converter including a planetary gear set having first, second, and third rotating elements, the first rotating element being selectively connected to a transmission housing, the second rotating element being connected to an engine output shaft of the engine, and the third rotating element being connected to a motor output shaft of the motor/generator; an input device including a first input shaft selectively connected to the motor output shaft through one clutch and a second input shaft that is disposed on a same shaft line as the first input shaft to be selectively connected to the motor output shaft through another clutch; and a shift output device shifting and outputting rotation power of the input device.
US10059188B2
A hybrid vehicle includes an engine compartment, and a drivetrain which includes a hybrid drive having a combustion engine and an electric motor arranged in side-by-side and axis-parallel relation in the engine compartment, when installed. A differential gear includes a gear shaft in driving connection with an motor shaft of the combustion engine, and a front-axle differential includes a differential pinion shaft. The electric motor is integrated in the drivetrain by drivingly connecting the electric motor via the differential pinion shaft, or by drivingly connecting the electric motor via a flywheel/clutch assembly.
US10059184B2
A drive system, in particular for a self-propelled construction machine, in particular a soil compactor, comprising an internal combustion engine comprising a drive unit, at least one hydraulic circuit with a hydraulic pump that can be driven by the drive unit, as well as a hydraulic-drive support unit with a hydraulic pump/motor assembly and at least one pressure fluid reservoir, wherein the hydraulic pump/motor assembly is or can be drivingly coupled with the drive unit or/and at least one hydraulic circuit, wherein the hydraulic pump/motor assembly can be operated in a charging operating mode by the drive unit or/and at least one hydraulic circuit as a pump to charge at least one pressure fluid reservoir and be operated in an drive support operating mode as a motor to provide a drive support torque for the hydraulic pump of at least one hydraulic circuit, characterized in that the hydraulic pump/motor assembly can be operated in a recirculation operating mode as a motor to start the drive unit.
US10059181B2
A high-tech pickup truck bed cover is disclosed. The cover provides a protective covering for a pickup truck's cargo bed and preferably includes safety lighting and a backup camera.
US10059179B1
A vehicle includes a movable panel that is movable between a closed position and an open position, a first track, a second track, and an arm that is connected to the movable panel, the first track, and the second track. A lateral spacing between the first track and the second track varies along the first track and the second track in a front-to-rear direction. The arm pivots with respect to the first track and the second track in correspondence with the lateral spacing between the first track and the second track during movement of the arm along the first track and the second track.
US10059176B2
The present disclosure provides a trim panel assembly of a vehicle. The trim panel assembly includes a first member having a first surface and a second surface, and including a first assembling area, a first groove positioned on the first surface along a peripheral of the first assembling area, and a plurality of first through-holes positioned in the first groove and spaced apart from each other; and a second member including a first main body corresponding to the first assembling area, and a plurality of leg portions extending from the first main body. The plurality of the first leg portions correspond to the plurality of the first through-holes, respectively, and the plurality of the first leg portions pass through corresponding a plurality of the first through-holes, extend onto and connect to the second surface of the first member.
US10059174B1
An apparatus for adjusting a windshield of a motor vehicle. For example, one embodiment of the apparatus comprises: a position adjustment plate coupled to or formed in a frame, the position adjustment plate having a plurality of holes; an adjustment knob rotatably coupled to the frame and having a pin to engage with the holes on the position adjustment plate; and an adjustment rod fixedly coupled to the adjustment knob and further coupled to one or more linkages, at least one of the one or more linkages coupled to the windshield of the motor vehicle, wherein the rotational motion of the adjustment knob rotates the adjustment rod to translate a force through the one or more linkages to cause the windshield to be moved in a substantially forward or backward direction relative to a driver.
US10059172B2
A hybrid vehicle, an air conditioning system and a method for controlling the air conditioning system are provided. The air conditioning system includes: an electric compressor; a mechanical compressor, connected with the electric compressor in parallel; a power battery, connected with the electric compressor and configured to supply power to the electric compressor; an engine, connected with the mechanical compressor and configured to supply a power source to the mechanical compressor; an engine controller, connected with the engine and configured to start the engine when the mechanical compressor is to be started; a battery manager, connected with the power battery and configured to detect a state of charge of the power battery; and a controller, connected with the engine controller and the battery manager and configured to start the electric compressor and the mechanical compressor at different time according to the state of charge of the power battery.
US10059171B2
A blower assembly for a vehicle air conditioning unit includes a first air flow duct having a first blower and a second air flow duct having a second blower. A fresh-air inlet opening is arranged in the first air flow duct and a recirculated-air inlet opening is arranged in the second air flow duct. A distribution chamber is downstream of the first and second air flow ducts and an air cooling unit and a bypass duct bypassing the air cooling unit are downstream of the distribution chamber. A bypass flap is in the distribution chamber for directing at least a part of the air flow in the first air flow duct to the air cooling unit and/or to the bypass duct with substantially all of the air flow in the first air flow duct directed into the bypass duct in one position of the bypass flap.
US10059170B2
An air conditioning device for vehicle includes a first water-refrigerant heat exchanger, a second water-refrigerant heat exchanger, a first bypass passage, and a second bypass passage. The first bypass passage branches at a point of a coolant passage from a cooling portion of a heating component in the vehicle to the second water-refrigerant heat exchanger, and the first bypass passage is capable of being communicated with the coolant passage at an upstream side of the first water-refrigerant heat exchanger. The second bypass passage bran at a point of the coolant passage from a heater core to the first water-refrigerant heat exchanger, and the second bypass passage is capable of being communicated with the coolant passage at a downstream side of the first water-refrigerant heat exchanger. A part of the first bypass passage which includes a downstream end and a part of the second bypass passage which includes an upstream end are shared.
US10059165B2
A battery pack is provided including: a plurality of battery cells arranged in multiple battery cell rows; one or more heat exchange spaces; and a device for providing heat exchange to the battery pack. Further, the device includes a heat conduction medium passage arranged in the heat exchange spaces, such that the heat conduction medium passage surrounds multiple battery cells each battery cell row. The heat conduction medium passage is provided with at least a first group of channels and a second group of channels, which are in contact with the surface of each battery cell, and a heat conduction medium is provided in the first group of channels and the second of channels. The heat conduction medium flows in the first group of channels in a direction opposite from the flow of the heat conduction medium in the second group of channels.
US10059153B2
The pneumatic tire described herein is provided with, in a tread surface, at least two circumferential grooves continuously extending in a tread circumferential direction, and a resonator disposed in a land part defined between two circumferential grooves having different sectional areas of the at least two circumferential grooves, the resonator having an air chamber opened to a land part surface in a position separated away from the circumferential groove, one or more narrowed necks communicating the air chamber with one of the two circumferential grooves, and one or more narrowed necks communicating the air chamber with the other circumferential groove, wherein a sectional area S1 of the narrowed neck of the resonator, opened to a circumferential groove with a relatively large sectional area is smaller than a sectional area S2 of the narrowed neck of the resonator, opened to a circumferential groove with a relatively small sectional area.
US10059146B2
A wheel with high strength flexible spokes of the present invention, including a rim and hub, and spokes between the rim and hub made of fibrous material that causes the spokes to be both lighter in weight and stronger than comparable steel spokes. The spokes are also flexible and resilient such that they can bend while retaining their integrity and strength. The wheel includes a nipple within the rim that receives the high strength spoke and allows for flexibility in adapting the spoke to wheels having differing shapes and sizes.
US10059138B2
Provided is a flexo printing plate which makes it possible to perform printing in which the discontinuity of density is not visually recognized by inhibiting the enlargement of halftone dots in the boundary between an image area having a low halftone dot rate and a non-image area. The flexo printing plate has a constitution in which the image area has a highlight halftone dot area having a halftone dot rate higher than 0% and equal to or lower than 10%, and within the highlight halftone dot area, among small dots constituting the highlight halftone dot area, at least one of the small dots adjacent to the non-image area that continues 10 mm or further from the edge of the highlight halftone dot area in a direction orthogonal to the edge has a distal end diameter smaller than the average of distal end diameters of the small dots in the highlight halftone dot area.
US10059134B2
A printing apparatus includes a transport unit which includes a transport roller pair which transports a medium in a transport direction, a printing unit which prints onto the medium, a winding unit which winds the printed medium, and a tension application unit which applies a tension to the medium at a position between the transport roller pair and the winding unit. The tension application unit includes a pair of arms which are capable of rotating. A tension bar is supported on one end of the arms and comes into contact with the medium. The bar is rotated from an upper limit position to a lower limit position by transportation of the transport unit being performed two or more times.
US10059121B2
A pigment dispersion containing a metal pigment, wherein the metal pigment contains plate-like particles, and in the case where the longitudinal diameter on the planar surface of the plate-like particle is X, the lateral diameter is Y, and the thickness is Z, the 50% average particle diameter R50 of a corresponding circle determined from the surface area in the X-Y plane of the plate-like particle is between 0.5 and 3 μm, and the condition R50/Z>5 is satisfied.
US10059120B2
In S200 after the first halftone, a scanning path is determined. In S205, a printing region to undergo multipass printing is fragmented. In S210, a printing time gap between the first printing time and the second printing time is calculated in the printing position. In S215, the position of the scanning path is associated with information on a color conversion table corresponding to the time gap. In the subsequent second color conversion, the color conversion table for use in color conversion is switched to the color conversion table corresponding to the time gap by using information on the pre-specified position of the scanning path and information on the color conversion table.
US10059118B2
There is provided an ejecting unit for ejecting a first fluid from nozzles, including: a first connection port to flow the first fluid; a second connection port to flow a second fluid; a driving portion configured to eject the first fluid in a flow path which communicates with the first connection port and the nozzles, from the nozzles; a first chamber that communicates with the second connection port; and a second chamber that communicates with the second connection port.
US10059110B2
In an inkjet printing apparatus, in response to reception of a copy instruction, a controller causes the scanner to read an image formed on an original, generates image data representing the image on the original, and determines a standby period corresponding to an operation mode. In response to elapse of the standby period since the copy instruction was received, the controller separates a cap and an inkjet head. After the cap and the inkjet head separated each other, the controller causes the inkjet head to eject ink droplets based on the image data. The controller determines the standby period such that the separation of the cap and the inkjet head executed in parallel with reading of the image on the original finishes at the same time or earlier than generation of image data necessary to start to print the read image printing process in reading the image on the original.
US10059109B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a liquid ejecting head configured to eject liquid; a control unit that makes the liquid ejecting head execute a plurality of types of preliminary ejection, which are ejection of liquid onto a medium and ejection of liquid onto an area outside the medium; and a plurality of receiving portions configured to receive liquid ejected by preliminary ejection, wherein the control unit changes the receiving portion that receives liquid ejected by preliminary ejection depending on the types of preliminary ejection.
US10059106B2
Provided is a liquid ejecting head including: a first board on which a driving element for ejecting liquid is installed; a second board which is installed on the surface of the first board and covers the driving element; a wiring board that includes a first surface on which a wiring, where a driving signal is supplied to the driving element, is formed and a second surface that is at the opposite side to the first surface, and where the first surface of a first end section is joined to the surface of the first board; and a filling material which covers the wiring by being formed at least between the first surface and a wall surface of the second board, in which the height of the filling material with respect to the surface of the first board is high at the first surface side in comparison to the second surface side.
US10059100B2
A liquid droplet ejecting apparatus includes a liquid container including an upper opening for receiving liquid and a lower opening for supplying the liquid, the upper opening being larger than the lower opening, and a liquid ejection chip that is fixed to a lower surface of the liquid container, and includes a pressure chamber formed therein, a nozzle to eject liquid from the pressure chamber, and an actuator disposed adjacent to the nozzle. An opening of the pressure chamber is in fluid communication with the lower opening and is entirely included in an area of the lower opening.
US10059096B2
A control method of a liquid discharging apparatus includes: a discharge inspection step of inspecting discharge abnormality of a nozzle by a discharge inspection mechanism; a remaining oscillation inspection step of inspecting oscillation of the ink inside a pressure chamber by a oscillation inspection circuit when the discharge abnormality is detected; a first correction step of performing correction which corresponds to the attachment of the resin inside the pressure chamber with respect to the driving pulse when abnormality is detected in oscillation; a re-discharge inspection step of inspecting the discharge abnormality of the nozzle after the first correction step; and a second correction step of performing the correction which corresponds to the attachment of the resin inside the nozzle with respect to the driving pulse when the abnormality is not detected in the oscillation in the oscillation inspection step or when the discharge abnormality is detected in the re-discharge inspection step.
US10059087B2
A transfer film according to a first embodiment has a temporary support and a first transparent resin layer containing a metal oxidation inhibitor, in which the first transparent resin layer has a refractive index of 1.60 or higher. A transfer film according to a second embodiment has a temporary support and a first transparent resin layer, in which the first transparent resin layer contains a metal oxidation inhibitor and metal oxide particles.
US10059086B2
A laminated transfer medium that can be used to make a printed matter or the like which includes a fine relief structure with an improved or even high non-defective rate. The laminated transfer medium can form a transfer laminate which contains a fine relief structure section having a fine relief shape onto a transfer target by using a hot stamp, and characterized in that the laminated transfer medium includes a carrier base, a bonding layer formed on the carrier base, a fine relief structure section having a fine relief shape being disposed on the bonding layer, and an adhesive layer formed on the fine relief structure section, wherein the fine relief structure section is made up of separate discrete pieces positioned to be contained in area to be transferred by using the hot stamp.
US10059076B2
A method of fastening an edge structure to a construction element includes providing the construction element, being a planar structure with with two cover regions and a middle region between the cover regions; providing the edge structure being continuously extended, the edge structure having contact surfaces with a thermoplastic material shaped to lie against the cover regions in an outer surface of the construction element, and, opposite the contact surfaces, a coupling-in surface for coupling energy into the edge structure; coupling energy into the edge structure and pressing the contact surfaces against the cover regions until at least a portion of the thermoplastic material is liquefied and pressed into the cover regions; and repeating or continuing the steps of coupling and pressing until the edge structure is attached to the building element at a plurality of discrete locations or over an extended region along an edge of the construction element.
US10059075B2
A preform manufactured by an additive manufacturing process is provided. The preform may include an annular fibrous layer made from a polymeric material, such as PAN. The annular fibrous layer may comprise one or more of a non-uniform areal weight profile, non-uniform fiber volume profile, and a non-uniform fiber density profile. Such profiles may vary in either or both of the radial and axial directions, as well as in localized regions of the preform.
US10059072B2
A method for producing a decorated wall or floor panel, comprising placing a pourable granulate carrier material between two belt-like conveyors; molding the carrier material under the influence of temperature while forming a web-like carrier; compressing the carrier; treating the carrier under the influence of temperature and pressure by use of a dual-belt press; cooling the carrier; applying a decor simulating a decorative template onto at least a portion of the carrier; and applying a protective layer onto at least a portion of the decor. A wall or floor panel that is particularly stable, adaptable and high quality. An apparatus comprising elements for performing this method. A wall or floor panel comprising a plate-shaped carrier comprising a connecting element edge profile.
US10059064B2
An apparatus comprising a soft in plane rotor yoke comprising two longitudinal side portions connected together via two outboard portions, wherein the outboard portions comprise a plurality of first layers formed of a first composite fabric material having a plurality of first fibers oriented in a first direction, and a plurality of second layers formed of a second composite fabric material having a plurality of second fibers oriented in a second direction. Included is an apparatus comprising a soft in plane rotor comprising two longitudinal side portions connected together via two outboard portions, wherein the outboard portions comprise a plurality of first layers formed of a first composite fabric material, and a plurality of second layers formed of a second composite fabric material, wherein the soft in plane rotor yoke does not comprise any narrow steered slit tape or filament windings.
US10059053B2
A support material for use in an additive manufacturing system to print a support structure for a three-dimensional part. The support material includes a base resin that is substantially miscible with a part material used to print the three-dimensional part, and has a glass transition temperature within about 10° C. of a glass transition temperature of the part material. The support material also includes a dispersed resin that is substantially immiscible with the base resin, where the base resin and the dispersed resin are each thermally stable for use in the additive manufacturing system in coordination with the part material.
US10059049B2
A nozzle adjustment device for a three-dimensional forming equipment assembly includes a first guiding block, a second guiding block, and a moving block. The first guiding block has a first inclined surface and a first bottom surface which is parallel to a printing platform. The first inclined surface and the first bottom surface form an acute angle therebetween. The second guiding block has a second inclined surface. The moving block is located between the first guiding block and the second guiding block. The moving block has a third inclined surface, a fourth inclined surface, and a second bottom surface. The second bottom surface is parallel to the printing platform, and has a nozzle disposed thereon.
US10059045B2
The present invention provides an imprint apparatus that forms an imprint material supplied on a shot region of a substrate by using a mold, comprising a detection unit configured to detect each mark provided to the shot region and each mark provided to the mold, and a control unit configured to perform alignment between the mold and the substrate based on a detection result by the detection unit, wherein the control unit obtains a predicted value of a position of a mark provided to the shot region by using information about deformation of the shot region, determines, as an abnormal mark, a mark for which a difference between the detection result and the predicted value does not fall within an allowable range and performs the alignment without using the detection result for the abnormal mark.
US10059043B2
An apparatus and method for manufacturing masonry blocks using a face mix shuttle comprising an angled shovel for depositing a controllable amount of face mix onto a surface of a masonry block.
US10059037B2
A multi-layer sheet for forming an expanded foam container, the multi-layer sheet including a first layer of an expanded foam material including a first polyolefin-based material including at least one polypropylene-based polymer and a second layer of an unexpected material including a second polyolefin-based material including at least one polypropylene-based polymer that is co-extruded, extrusion coated, or laminated on a first side of the first layer.
US10059032B2
A reinforcing element and a method of forming the reinforcing element are generally described. The reinforcing element may be used in reinforcing a cementitious material and may comprise a settable material and a tension-resistant material that extends for a length of the element. To form the reinforcing element the settable material and tension-resistant material may be disposed together such that the settable and tension-resistant materials generally take the form of the reinforcing element. The settable material may then be cured.
US10059031B1
A pre-ceramic support structure for additive manufacturing, that upon thermal processing, is soluble in various solvents.
US10059029B2
A system for production of panels, particularly for the production of panels made of wood flakes comprising at least a support plane movable along a direction of forward movement, at least a first and a second forming machine arranged in succession to one another along the direction of forward movement above the support plane and each comprising at least a first set of distributor elements rotatable around respective axes, the distributor elements being able to select a flow of wooden material comprising short flakes and long flakes so as to allow the fall of the short flakes on the support plane and the dragging of the long flakes, where the first forming machine and the second forming machine comprise at least a second set of distributor elements operable independently of the relative first set and where the distributor elements of the first set are operable in rotation in both directions.
US10059012B2
The present invention relates to rounded blade scissors. The rounded blade scissors according to one embodiment of the present invention comprise: a first cutting portion including a first cutting blade bent in one direction to cut a target; a second cutting portion including a second cutting blade having a closed annular or polygonal shape to surround the surface of the first cutting portion; a first frame portion supporting the first cutting portion on one side of the first cutting portion; a second frame portion supporting the second cutting portion on one side of the second cutting portion; and a coupling portion that hingedly couples the first frame portion with the second frame portion so that the first cutting portion comes into contact with the second frame portion through rotation. Therefore, the cutting can be performed in a safe and effective manner. According to the present invention, the cutting target can be cut in an easy, convenient, and safe manner.
US10059007B1
Apparatuses including gripping mechanisms including extendable fingers and methods of manipulating items using the gripping mechanisms are described herein. An example apparatus may include a frame, a pair of carriages coupled to the frame and moveable by one or more drive units, a pair of fingers, and a set of linkages connecting the pair of fingers with the pair of carriages. The one or more drive units are operable to cause the fingers to move towards each other and to move away from each other.
US10058996B2
A method including, based at least partially upon a command transmission to at least one motor of a robot, estimating deflection for at least one member of the robot during movement of the robot; based at least partially upon the estimated deflection, determining calculated end effector coordinates for an end effector of the robot; and based at least partially upon the calculated end effector coordinates, adjusting movement of the robot for placing a substrate, located on the robot, at a desired location.
US10058988B1
The multi-tool includes a handle member that is further defined with a first distal end and a second distal end. Both the first distal end and the second distal end include a threaded cavity. The hammer is provided at the first distal end, whereas a pry bar attachment is able to screw onto the second distal end. The handle member includes a brush member and fixed scraper that afford different functions, and are located on opposing surfaces. The multi-tool hammer also includes an extension member and a large scraper attachment that may be used in lieu of or in conjunction with either the hammer or the pry bar attachment.
US10058983B2
A torque sensing device includes an idle wheel disposed between a force input shaft and a force output shaft, the idle wheel receives a tangential force from the force input shaft and the force output shaft to generate a counterforce as a loading, the center of the idle wheel is pivotally disposed on a positioning beam or a basis nearby, the positioning beam has a beam central line where a strain gauge installed. The positioning beam transforms the loading of the idle wheel along the beam central line to a normal force on the cross section of the positioning beam along the beam central line, the positioning beam generates a strain due to the normal force on the cross section of the positioning beam, the strain gauge detects the strain as the torsion sensing value of the output shaft on the region between the force input shaft and the force output shaft. A rotational driving tool is combined with the torque sensing device to improve the detecting precision of the torsion.
US10058978B2
A nozzle device produces a more convergent water jet to improve the quality of a cut surface. The nozzle device includes a liquid supply channel for supplying a liquid, an orifice for discharging the liquid supplied from the liquid supply channel to produce a water jet, a straightening unit arranged downstream of the water jet from the orifice and having a through-hole to surround the water jet, a first air supply channel for supplying a gas toward a location upstream of the water jet from the through-hole and toward the orifice, and a second air supply channel arranged downstream of the water jet from the first air supply channel for supplying the gas toward a location inside the through-hole or a location downstream of the water jet from the through-hole.
US10058972B2
A machine tool clamping device for clamping a laminar machining tool to a tool holder that is eccentrically movably mounted includes at least one clamping unit with at least one movably mounted clamping element. The machine tool clamping device also includes at least one slotted link movement unit configured to move the clamping element in at least one operating state so as to generate tensile stress in the laminar machining tool.
US10058970B2
Interrupted structured abrasive articles comprise an abrasive layer comprising shaped abrasive composites that extend outwardly from a first major surface of a backing to which they are secured. The abrasive layer defines at least one open region that is free of the shaped abrasive composites and may extend partially or completely through the backing. In some embodiments, each of the open regions comprises a circular area of at least 1.5 square centimeters, and when combined the open regions have total area that is at least 10 percent of the area of the first major surface of the backing. Interrupted abrasive articles are useful in single-sided polishing processes.
US10058965B2
A tool holder has a main body and a holding pin onto which a rotary tool having a corresponding holding bore can be placed. At least one channel for transporting coolant or lubricant, the channel leading to the outer circumference of the holding pin, is arranged in the tool holder. In order to enable cooling of the cutting edges of the rotary tool without great production complexity, at least one longitudinal groove for conducting the coolant or lubricant in a longitudinal direction of the holding pin is arranged on the outer circumference of the holding pin.
US10058962B2
A two-layer disk type tool magazine device matched with a numerical control machine tool, comprises a tool magazine base, a tool magazine support, tool sleeve chucks, a tool disk base, tool sleeves and a tool alignment instrument. The tool magazine base is connected to and installed on the machine tool. The tool magazine support is connected to one end of the tool magazine base. The tool disk base is connected to the support by means of a bolt. The tool alignment instrument is installed at the other end of the tool magazine base. The two tool sleeve chucks are installed on the tool disk base and partitioned by a tool disk partition sleeve. The two layers of tool sleeve chucks clamp a tool sleeve base and are fixed by means of bolts. A tool disk pressing ring presses against the tool sleeve chuck on the upper layer.
US10058956B2
A method for controlling a metalworking operation. The method includes measuring a force feedback from a wire being fed from a feeder, the wire contacting a workpiece, determining a change in the force of the force feedback, and adjusting either a heating of the wire or a feed rate of the wire based at least in part on the change in the force of the force feedback. Also disclosed are apparatus for effecting the foregoing.
US10058954B2
A controller and a laser processing device having the controller, capable of reducing time for switching feedback control to gap control, and capable of moving a processing nozzle relative to a workpiece so that an amount of change in acceleration when switching is minimized. The controller has: a deceleration start distance calculating part which calculates a deceleration start distance corresponding to a distance between the nozzle and the workpiece when deceleration of approach motion of the nozzle is started; a first velocity command generating part which generates a first velocity command value based on the deceleration start distance, a predetermined maximum approach velocity and deceleration rate; a second velocity command generating part which generates a second velocity command value based on a gap target value and a feedback value; and a velocity command switching part which selects one of the first and second velocity command values.
US10058947B2
In a method and device for performing welding, after the welding current reaches a first current value during a short circuit, the feeding of the welding wire is stopped, slowed down, or moved backward. As a result, the opening of a short circuit is urged to reduce the frequency at which welding is unnecessarily interrupted by an overcurrent protection function. This achieves high weld quality such as the absence of welding defects, and high production efficiency.
US10058941B2
The invention is a panel saw and a method for same, the panel saw has a railing set supporting a power cutting tool-carriage combination capable of moving along at least a portion of a length of the railing set; a framework that removably connects the railing set to a frame support that holds the railing set in a semi-upright canted operating position; the frame support has two backing panels each of which having movably attached support panel that allows the backing panel to obtain a semi-upright canted operating position, wherein the framework removably attaches each of the two backing panels to hold the two backing panels in a spaced apart, coplanar relationship to one another further creating a cutting space for the power cutting tool between the two backing panels.
US10058932B2
A milling tool for face milling a substantially flat workpiece surface includes at least one main cutting element rotatable in a rotation direction about a tool axis oriented at a right angle to the workpiece surface and movable transversely to the tool axis and along the workpiece surface. The main cutting element includes a face cutter having a radially outer cutting edge corner and adapted to remove material from the workpiece surface up to maximal a nominal size. At least one clearance groove cutting element is provided and leads the main cutting element in the rotation direction to produce in the workpiece surface a clearance groove, in which the radially outer cutting edge corner of the main cutting element is guided substantially without being subjected to cutting stress.
US10058927B2
A machine tool clamping device for releasably holding a tool holder having a tapered shank and a knob protruding from the tapered shank, the clamping device having: a spindle, rotatable about an axis, and having a tapered socket at a lower end thereof and an axial passage, the tapered socket being complementary in shape to the shank of a tool holder. Clamping members are pinned to the spindle and extend into the axial passage, the clamping members being pivotal between a clamped position in which the clamping members clamp the tool holder knob, and an unclamped position in which the clamping members release the tool holder knob. A drawbar is slidable within the spindle axial passage between the clamping members, the drawbar having a surface that acts to pivot the clamping members between the clamped and unclamped positions depending on the position of the drawbar within the axial passage. A spring is arranged between the drawbar and the spindle to bias the drawbar to the clamped position.
US10058917B2
Powder metallurgy technology is used to form metallic composites with a uniform distribution of nano-meter size particles within the metallic grains. The uniform distribution of the nano-meter particles is achieved by attaching the nano-meter particles to micron sized particles with surface properties capable of attracting the smaller particles, then blending the decorated particles with micron size metal powder. The blended powder is then powder metallurgy processed into billets that are metal-worked to complete the incorporation and uniform distribution of the nano-meter particles into the metallic composite.
US10058915B2
A casting die device and a casting method. The casting die device has a core pin for forming an inner hole in a casted article. The core pin is a hollow body, and a pressurizing pin is inserted into a hollow inner part of the core pin. Vibrations from a vibrator of a micro vibration machine are imparted to the pressurizing pin via a vibration transmission member. The vibrations further propagate to the core pin from the pressurizing pin, and then propagate to the area surrounding the core pin in a molten metal that has been poured into a cavity.
US10058914B2
A metal delivery nozzle for a twin roll caster adapted to extend along and above a pair of casting rolls has a main portion with one or two refractory pieces with outlets adapted to deliver molten metal to a casting pool supported by the casting rolls during casting; refractory delivery end portions separately supported adapted to move relative to the main portion at each end portion of the metal delivery nozzle, each refractory delivery end portion having a reservoir portion with passages there through adapted to deliver molten metal to the casting pool adjacent the side dams and the end portions of the casting rolls; and a mechanism connected to each refractory delivery end portion adapted to move said refractory delivery end portion relative to the main portion as casting proceeds to maintain desired distance between the refractory delivery end portions and the side dams.
US10058909B2
A wire netting, in particular a safety net, with a plurality of helices which are braided with each other, of which at least one helix is bent from at least one single wire, a wire bundle, a wire strand, a wire rope and/or another longitudinal element with at least one wire, in particular comprises a high-tensile steel, the at least one helix having at least one first leg, at least one second leg as well as at least one bending region connecting the first leg and the second leg to each other, wherein the longitudinal element is bent at least substantially torsion-free in itself along a contour of the first leg and/or of the second leg.
US10058905B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing profiled metal strips (1, 1′), in which a metal strip (1, 1′) with predefinable material thickness consisting, in particular, of stainless steel is wound up on a coil (4) and guided through a rolling stand (W1-W4) containing several rolls (2, 3, 2′, 3′), wherein at least the rolls (2, 3) that effectively interact with the metal strip (1, 1′) are provided with a predefinable topography (8, 9), by means of which profiles with profile depths >250 μm can be produced on both sides of the metal strip (1, 1′) depending on the geometry of the topography (8, 9) of the rolls (2, 3), and wherein the metal strip (1, 1′) is subsequent to its profiling wound up on a coil (5) and, if so required, subjected to a thermal post-treatment.
US10058889B2
A method of forming a biocompatible or biologically inert article for use in an application in which the article will make contact with at least one tissue, organ, or fluid within a human or animal body is provided. The method generally comprises providing an article having an external surface; selecting chemical precursors; using a means to direct one or more chemical precursors towards or to apply such chemical precursors to the external surface; activating the chemical precursors by exposing said precursors to atmospheric pressure plasma; and grafting and/or cross-linking the chemical precursors to form a solid coating adjacent to the external surface of the article.
US10058882B1
A high pressure water/foam nozzle assembly is disclosed which includes a barrel having a first end, a second end and a collar positioned about the first end. The assembly also includes first, second and third nozzles positioned in the barrel. Each of the nozzles can emit a different spray pattern. A selection mechanism is positioned adjacent to the second end of the barrel and is rotatable between three positions which align with the three nozzles. The assembly further includes a control mechanism secured to the second end of the selection mechanism which controls the flow of water and/or foam through one of the three nozzles. A handle and trigger are connected to the control mechanism. The trigger activates the flow of water and/or foam through one of the three nozzles. An infrared camera is removably secured to the control mechanism and is used to detect hot spots in a fire.
US10058856B2
A solid-supported palladium(II) complex which catalyzes the Mizoroki-Heck coupling reaction efficiently and a method of employing the solid-supported palladium(II) complex to synthesize cinnamic acid and derivatives thereof. The solid-supported palladium(II) complex is also stable and can be recycled without significantly losing catalytic activity.
US10058853B2
Disclosed is a catalyst composition and its use in a process for the conversion of a feedstock containing C8+ aromatic hydrocarbons to produce light aromatic products, comprising benzene, toluene and xylene. The catalyst composition comprises a mordenite zeolite synthesized from TEA or MTEA, optionally at least one first metal of Group 10 of the IUPAC Periodic Table, and optionally at least one second metal of Group 11 to 15 of the IUPAC Periodic Table, wherein said mordenite zeolite has a mesopore surface area of greater than 30 m2/g and said mordenite zeolite comprises agglomerates composed of primary crystallites, wherein said primary crystallites have an average primary crystal size as measured by TEM of less than 80 nm and an aspect ratio of less than 2.
US10058851B2
The present invention is concerned with the use of certain oxygen storage components. In particular, the use of special mixed oxides as oxygen storage components in exhaust catalysis is disclosed.
US10058839B2
The invention relates to methods of tagging analytes in a sample.
US10058837B2
Gas-filled microbubbles can be synthesized using a continuous flow chamber and a sonicator. The resulting microbubble solution can be size-sorted for a particular application, such as injection into a patient for gas delivery thereto. The microbubble solution may be concentrated to have greater than 50% volume gas while maintaining microbubble sizes below 10 μm. Control of the microbubble generation process can yield highly stable microbubbles. The microbubbles may retain over half of their original gas payload for over three weeks while exhibiting minimal change in microbubble size. The systems, methods, and devices described herein thus allow for continuous or batch-wise continuous production of gas-filled microbubbles that readily release their gas payload when introduced into an under-saturated or de-saturated solution.
US10058831B2
The invention relates to a mixing device for mixing a fluid in a container, in particular of a fluid system, comprising a fluid supply and at least one outlet arm with an outlet opening, the fluid supply being connected to the at least one outlet arm in a fluid-communicating fashion. According to the invention, the outlet opening, for an outlet of the fluid, is oriented towards an outlet direction in order to set the fluid in the container rotating at least in sections thereof.
US10058830B2
Station (10) for internally and externally storing, collecting and recirculating a fluid substance, said station (10) comprising a tank (11) and a recirculation circuit (14) of the fluid substance contained in said tank (10). The circuit (14) is provided with a first end associated with a lower supply opening (12) and a second end associated with an upper loading opening (13); the circuit (14) being provided with a pump (15) and a first valve (16) associable with an external tank (17) through a loading conduit (18), the valve (16) being configurable for selectively defining the conditions of recirculation of the fluid substance contained in said tank (11) from the lower opening (12) to the upper opening (13) isolating said external tank (17), and loading the fluid substance from said external tank (17) to said tank (11) isolating the lower supply opening (12) of said tank (11). The recirculation circuit (14) comprises a second valve (19) being configurable for selectively defining the conditions of advancement of the fluid substance coming from the first valve (16) along the recirculation circuit (14) towards the upper opening (13) and diverting the fluid substance coming from the first valve (16) of the recirculation circuit (14) towards the external tank (17) through a return duct (20).
US10058824B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing and delivering a gas mixture having a selected composition of a first gas and at least one second gas, comprising the following steps: (a) providing a main gas flow comprising the first gas in a main conduit, (b) separating the main gas flow into a first plurality of secondary gas flows, (c) guiding each secondary gas flow through a secondary conduit, (d) adding at least one second gas to at least one of the first plurality of secondary gas flows in the respective secondary conduit through a delivering conduit, said delivering conduit protruding into the secondary conduit, and (e) combining the first plurality of secondary gas flows to the gas mixture. With the technical teaching of the present invention a dynamic gas bottle filling is possible wherein the second gas components may have a concentration form some ppb to percent.
US10058819B2
A thermally integrated catalyst aftertreatment exhaust system includes a flow channel that directs diesel exhaust through a diesel oxidation catalyst unit that includes a diesel oxidation catalyst, by a doser that introduces DEF into the diesel exhaust, through a mixing chamber that includes a static metallic mixer coated with a DEF hydrolysis catalyst, and through an SCR unit that includes an SCR catalyst. The diesel oxidation catalyst converts a portion of diesel exhaust into water, carbon dioxide, or nitrogen dioxide. The DEF hydrolysis catalyst facilitates hydrolysis of the mixed DEF and diesel exhaust. The SCR catalyst facilitates reduction of NOx in the diesel exhaust. A first portion of the flow channel is in direct thermal contact with a second portion of the flow channel that houses the SCR unit such that heat from the diesel exhaust before the diesel exhaust reaches the doser is passed to the SCR unit.
US10058818B2
Present embodiments provide an energy-efficient separator having at least two chambers fluidically isolated by a gas permeable membrane for the removal of dissolved gases from a sample which, in some aspects, enables cost-effective monitoring of liquid samples to be performed remotely and automatically, and in other aspects is suited for various other applications where removal and/or regulation of gases in a sample are desirable.
US10058817B2
The present disclosure discloses a continuous operable gas purification device in an ion mobility spectrometer including a housing provided with a cylinder cavity; a dry gas supply unit; a rotating barrier arranged in a radial direction of the cylinder cavity to divide it into a baking cavity and a working cavity; and a rotating mechanism. The housing is provided with a dry gas inlet and a dry gas outlet, which are communicated with the baking cavity, and a sample gas inlet and a sample gas outlet, which are communicated with the working cavity. The dry gas supply unit is connected with the dry gas inlet for a dry gas supply to the dry gas inlet. The baking cavity is provided with a heating unit correspondingly. The rotating mechanism is provided at a central position of the cylinder cavity and connected with the rotating barrier for rotating it at intervals.
US10058811B2
A forcing and fixing structure for the filter cylinders of a filter cylinder dust collector includes a housing provided therein with a division plate. Plural twinned setting racks are disposed under the division plate, and plural twinned forcing rods are respectively set on the setting racks, and the forcing rods are respectively and vertically connected with a rotary handle. Further, plural assembling-and-disassembling plates are respectively mounted on each pair of the forcing rods for plurality filter cylinders to be fitted thereon. When the rotary handles are turned to actuate the forcing rods to rotate and drive the assembling-and-disassembling plate to move upward, the filter cylinders can be forced to tight fit with the division plate, thus facilitating assembly and disassembly of filter cylinders, attaining good airtight effect and elevating efficacy of air purification and quality of use of the filter cylinder type dust collector.
US10058798B2
An outlet well cover for use in an in-line grease interceptor is disclosed. The outlet well cover is fitted onto a hollow well extending upwardly from the bottom of the grease interceptor tank, and having an open top. The outlet well cover has at least one, and preferably two arms that extend outwards and define water passageways from the ends of the arms to the middle of the well. Water inflow openings at the ends of the arms allow clarified water to flow into the covered hollow well. The water inflow openings face generally downward to limit the amount of floating FOG material that can be drawn in through the openings. The well cover may also include a central bore adapted to receive a standard sized pipe. The pipe can be connected to an outlet from the tank.
US10058795B2
The invention relates to a process for purification of a stream containing a cyclic ester of an alpha-hydroxycarboxylic acid of formula (I), wherein each R independently represents hydrogen or an aliphatic hydrocarbon having 1 to 6 carbon atoms comprising the steps of: (a) separating the cyclic ester-containing stream into one or more cyclic ester-containing vapor fractions and one or more cyclic ester-containing liquid fractions; (b) condensing a cyclic ester-containing vaporized fraction as obtained in step (a) to obtain a cyclic ester-containing condensate; (c) subjecting at least part of the cyclic ester-containing condensate as obtained in step (b) to melt crystallization to obtain a purified cyclic ester-containing stream and a residue stream; and (d) recovering the purified cyclic ester-containing stream as obtained in step (c). The invention further relates to an apparatus suitable for carrying out the present process.
US10058794B2
A vessel header includes lateral flow tubes arranged in a parallel configuration. The lateral flow tubes enter the vessel header through alternating vessel header penetrations with a single vessel header penetration per lateral flow tube. Each lateral flow tube has a perforated section within the vessel header having a non-circular cross-section having the shape of a circular sector, an elliptical sector, or an irregular quadrilateral. A method includes passing a molten polymer through the lateral flow tubes of the vessel header. The molten polymer exits the lateral flow tubes as strands through perforations in the lateral flow tubes within the vessel header. The method includes obtaining devolatilized polymer.
US10058779B2
When a first swing input is determined to have been made in a first movement start-possible state, in which a first object is allowed to start moving, and when the first object is put into the first movement start-possible state within a predetermined time period after the first swing input is determined to have been made, the first object is started to move in a virtual space based on at least the first swing input; and when a second swing input is determined to have been made in a second movement start-possible state, in which a second object is allowed to start moving, and when the second object is put into the second movement start-possible state within a predetermined time period after the second swing input is determined to have been made, the second object is started to move based on at least the second swing input.
US10058771B2
A spinning top scoring system with easy operation, which is characterized by a toy spinning top, which includes a toy main body that is able to rotate in response to a signal emitted by a supporting signal transmitter. The system also includes an RFID chip, which is used for identifying identity information of the toy spinning top and for storing scoring data. Further included in the system is a cell phone with an NFC function, wherein the cell phone comprises a spinning top scoring software system, which is used for reading and displaying the identity information stored in the RFID chip, writing a new identity information into the RFID chip, as well as for reading and displaying the scoring data stored in the RFID chip and outputting or inputting the scoring data to the RFID chip.
US10058763B2
The present invention relates to a ski binding used in telemark skiing. An exemplary system maintains a toe of a ski boot in association with a ski while permitting a heel of the ski boot to elevate to a top surface of the ski. The binding system comprises several complex subsystems, such as a toe mating mechanism, a toe plate system, a base plate system, a heel fastening mechanism, a sliding plate system, and rail system.
US10058760B1
A golf training device and method of using the same for improving the aim and accuracy of a golfer's putting stroke may be provided. The golf training device may include a plurality of panels coupled together in an accordionlike manner to form a putting tunnel. Each panel may have a main body with visual indicium disposed on a front-facing surface thereof to indicate a line of putt. The golf training device may be extended along a proper trajectory of a golf ball for putting the golf ball toward an intended target. Orienting the golfer's putting stance so that the visual indicium of each panel appears to form a continuous straight line may ensure the golfer's eyes are directly over the intended line of the putt.
US10058756B1
A trainer assembly for teaching effective baseball and softball batting technique includes a sleeve having an interior bat chamber adapted to house a barrel of a baseball bat and having a single open end terminating in a guide, and a retractable arm affixed to a closed end of the sleeve that is length adjustable and rotatable within an attached elbow, allowing a range of angle adjustment for positioning the sleeve. The elbow is 360 degrees rotatably affixed to a support at one end and at an opposite end holds the retractable arm at a fixed 45 degree angle below a horizontal plane measured from a top of the elbow. The elbow's horizontal rotation can be optionally locked. In an improved embodiment, the support is height adjustable via telescoping shaft portions. A method for using the trainer assembly is included.
US10058755B2
A curling analysis method includes a step of providing a game information input interface for inputting game information in an order of progress of a curling game, a step of outputting analysis information according to the input game information based on stored accumulative curling game information, and a step of visually displaying the output analysis information. Accordingly, an interface that takes into account of convenience of a user is provided and an efficient curling analysis result is provided to assist in improvement of curling performance.
US10058715B2
The invention relates to a method for quality assurance of a radiation field (30) emitted by a radiation therapy apparatus (10), comprising the steps of: (i) providing an ionization chamber (40) detector as reference detector for measuring the dose of the radiation field (30) at the exit of the radiation head (20), said ionization chamber (40) having a size and being positioned for being traversed by said radiation beam (30), said ionization chamber (40) having an attenuation equivalent to less than 1 mm Al; (ii) providing one or more field detectors (50); moving the field detector (50) across the radiation field (30) and measuring simultaneously the dose from the field detector (50) and from the ionization chamber (40); (iii) computing the ratio of the dose from the field detector (50) to the dose of the ionization chamber (40). The invention also relates to a device for performing the method.
US10058713B2
A radiotherapy method, comprising positioning a predetermined amount of a radionuclide selected from the group consisting of Radium-223, Radium-224, Radon-219 and Radon-220, in proximity to and/or within a tumor of a subject, for a predetermined time period. The predetermined amount and the predetermined time period are selected sufficient for the radionuclide to administering a predetermined therapeutic dose of decay chain nuclei and alpha particles into the tumor.
US10058707B2
The present invention relates to an electronic system for a system for neural applications, comprising at least one first connector element and at least one second connector element, the first connector element being configured such that the electronic system is directly and/or indirectly connectable or connected to a controller which is at least configured to supply and/or provide and/or measure at least one voltage and/or at least one current and/or at least one voltage waveform and/or at least one current waveform especially via one or more stimulation outputs and/or recording inputs, the second connector element being configured such that the electronic system is directly and/or indirectly connectable or connected to a lead for neural stimulation and/or recording, wherein the electronic system comprises at least one leakage current detection means configured such that a leakage current, especially a leakage current within and/or around the system for neural applications is detectable.
US10058702B2
A magnetic alignment system that can form part of a cochlear implant system. The magnetic alignment system prevents substantial movement of a magnet of an implanted component during an MRI procedure or allows for easy removal of the magnet to facilitate the MRI procedure.
US10058701B2
A trans mucosal neuromuscular electrical stimulation device (1) including a mouthpiece (3, 103) and electrodes (32a, 33a, 132a, 133a) associated with the mouthpiece (3, 103). The device (1) and/or mouthpiece (3, 103) incorporates electrical circuitry operatively connecting the electrodes (32a, 33a, 132a, 133a) to a power source and is configured to provide, in use, electrical stimulation to one or more palate and/or tongue muscles via the electrodes (32a, 33a, 132a, 133a) through the oral mucosa. The treatment regime, including the location of stimulation and the parameters used, is designed to increase resting muscle tone and/or muscle tone during sleep.
US10058699B2
In one example, an implantable lead includes a substrate and an electrically conductive material disposed on the substrate to form a flexible circuit. The flexible circuit includes a proximal end adapted to electrically connect to an implantable processor, a distal portion adapted to stimulate a cochlear nerve, and a lead body extending from the proximal end to the distal portion, the lead body having a longitudinal axis and comprising a plurality of electrical traces adapted to carry electrical signals from the proximal end to the distal portion. A flag extension is formed in the substrate and extends laterally outward from the lead body longitudinal axis. A method for forming a cochlear lead with a flag extension is also provided.
US10058693B2
An interlock coupling adapter for delivering medical fluids to a patient, for example, with enteral feed set devices is provided herein. The interlock coupling adapter increases patient comfort and ensures a secure connection between a button/button base and a food source or medical fluid source. The interlock coupling adapter has an interlock inset within an opening of a button base. The interlock has a recess in which locking protrusions of an adapter may fit within. In this way, the adapter may freely rotate about the interlock. The adapter may be connected or disconnected by depressing flexible arms hinged to the adapter.
US10058688B2
Drug delivery devices, medicaments, and methods are provided for the intraperitoneal treatment of ovarian cancer. An implantable device for drug delivery includes an elongated, flexible device having a housing defining a reservoir that contains a drug in solid or semi-solid form, and configured to be wholly deployed within the peritoneal cavity of a patient and continuously release a therapeutically effective amount of the drug over a period of at least 24 hours. A medicament includes cisplatin for administration into the peritoneal cavity of a patient continuously over a treatment period of at least 24 hours. A method of drug delivery includes implanting within the peritoneal cavity of a patient an elongated, flexible device having a reservoir containing a drug, solubilizing the drug at least in part with peritoneal fluid, and releasing an effective amount of the solubilized drug from the reservoir continuously for a period of at least 24 hours.
US10058683B2
The invention relates to a catheter apparatus comprising: a catheter; a catheter hub having a distal section and a proximal section, wherein the distal section is joined to the catheter and the proximal section defines a chamber; a needle extending through the catheter hub and the catheter and defining an axial direction, wherein the needle has opposite proximal and distal ends, the distal end forming a needle tip; a needle hub attached to the proximal end of the needle; and a needle guard slidably arranged on the needle, wherein the needle guard is retained in the chamber of the catheter hub when the needle extends through the catheter hub and the catheter, and wherein the needle guard is removable from the catheter hub once the needle tip is received in the needle guard upon withdrawal of the needle from the catheter.
US10058672B2
A gas supply mask apparatus has low possibility that a gas rising in a mask main body will flow out from the upper end and the surrounding vicinity of the mask main body and give discomfort to the eyes of a mask wearer. In this gas supply mask apparatus, an angle formed between a direction in which a gas introduction opening faces and a virtual vertical plane facing right frontways falls within the range of 30° to 60° (preferably, the range of 35° to 55°, and more preferably, the range of 40° to 50°) when the mask main body is viewed right sideways.
US10058659B2
A drive mechanism for a drug delivery device having a rotationally fixed plunger rod driven by a lead screw. The lead screw engages a free lock which is coupled to a release knob. A dose setting dial cooperates with an inner cylinder using a clutch to establish the axial movement of the plunger rod during dose setting and dispensing.
US10058658B1
A sealing article for use with a fluid conveyance device comprises an elastomeric body including a first end defining a disk-shaped annular protrusion, and an annular recess formed in a sidewall thereof directly adjacent the first end of the body in an axial direction of the body. The recess is sized to receive at least a portion of the annular protrusion in response to the sealing article being inserted into an interior cavity of the fluid conveyance device. A barrier material is attached to or formed on a first end of the body and extends over the radial protrusion.
US10058652B2
An infusion pump device comprises a pumping means having a fluid inlet which is adapted to be connected to a vial for taking fluid out of the vial and a fluid outlet which is adapted to be connected to an infusion catheter, and a controlling means which is adapted to be connected to the vial and to control pressure inside the vial so as to avoid occurrence of underpressure at the fluid inlet.
US10058651B1
A Safety Huber needle assembly comprising a needle used to pierce the septum of an implanted venous port, a baseplate that rests against the insertion site and a pivotally displaceable housing that acts to remove the needle from the septum of the implanted port and to effectively enclose the needle to provide user safety when the housing is displaced to a needle securing state.
US10058645B2
Systems are provided for anticoagulating blood. Whole blood is drawn from a donor into a system at a draw flow rate. Anticoagulant from an anticoagulant source is pumped into the system at an anticoagulant flow rate to mix with the blood. The anticoagulated blood may be subsequently processed in any of a number of known ways, including separating it and removing at least a portion of one of the components of the blood. Thereafter, at least a portion of the remaining blood may be returned to the donor. The anticoagulant flow rate is independent of the draw flow rate and can be based on a number of factors, including the weight of the donor and the rate at which the donor can metabolize the anticoagulant.
US10058640B2
The disclosure provides drug delivery devices and methods of making and using the drug delivery devices. The devices include single and multi-layer polymer films made by a breath figure technique having therapeutic agents associated therewith. For example, the devices may be a dual layer polymer film wherein the first layer includes a therapeutic agent incorporated into it by spin coating the first agent with a polymer solution and the second agent is incorporated into the second layer by loading the agent into pores of the second layer after it is spin coated onto the first layer. In some cases one layer provides a burst release and the second layer provides a slow release drug delivery profile. The devices may take on the form of a surgical mesh with a slow release therapeutic drug.
US10058632B1
A placental construct is provided. The placental construct includes a therapeutically effective amount of human birth tissue material and a nanoparticle composition. Methods of treatment with the placental construct and a corresponding kit are also provided.
US10058631B2
Described are methods of performing a surgical tonsillectomy, medical devices for treating a void created by removing tonsil tissue from a patient, surgical kits, and use of an extracellular matrix material in the manufacture of a medicament for treating a surgical wound resulting from removal of tonsil tissue from a patient. Also described is a device for wound closure, and methods of making and using thereof.
US10058624B2
Disclosed herein are recombinant viral vectors comprising a liver specific promotor in operable combination with a heterologous nucleic acid sequence encoding a protein, such as a clotting factor. Methods of treating a subject with a clotting disorder, such as hemophilia A or hemophilia B, are also provided.
US10058619B2
Provided are conjugates between p97 (melanotransferrin) and polynucleotides such as small interfering RNA (siRNA) molecules, and related compositions and methods of use thereof, for instance, to facilitate delivery of polynucleotides such as siRNA molecules across the blood-brain barrier (BBB) and/or improve their tissue penetration in CNS and/or peripheral tissues, and thereby treat and/or diagnose various diseases, including those having a central nervous system (CNS) component.
US10058616B2
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising a combination of a lipid cake mixture comprising one or more phospholipids, with or without cholesterol, and a steroid solution comprising an ocular steroid, derivative thereof a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a prodrug thereof, wherein the total amount of the phospholipid in the said composition is about 0.1 umol to less than about 2.5 umol per 50 ul of pharmaceutical composition and the side effects of the ocular steroid are reduced. The pharmaceutical composition is preferably administered by ocular route to treat ophthalmic diseases.
US10058613B2
The invention provides antibody-drug conjugates comprising an antibody conjugated to a pyrrolobenzodiazepine drug moiety via a disulfide linker, pyrrolobenzodiazepine linker-drug intermediates, and methods of using the antibody-drug conjugates.
US10058611B2
The present invention relates to a use of alpha-(8-quinolinyloxy) mono-substituted phthalocyanine zinc for the treatment of psoriasis. The use is suitable for various type of psoriasis by utilizing photodynamic therapy. The photosensitizer is used to treat psoriasis by utilizing laser wave length of 670 nm, with high light sensitivity, fast photobleaching, short time needed in protection from light, and avoiding potential toxic and side-effect of photochemistry therapy by using ultraviolet irradiation. The preparation used in the use of α-(8-quinolinyloxy) mono-substituted phthalocyanine zinc for the treatment of psoriasis includes solution, cream, nanomicelle, microsphere etc, and mode of administration can be systemic or topical administration. The practicability of treating psoriasis by photodynamic therapy has been validated on cell and animal model. The use achieves perfect effect.
US10058610B2
The invention relates to humanized recombinant antibodies targeting the EGFR family receptors EGFR, HER2 and HER3, compositions comprising at least one humanized anti-EGFR antibody, at least one humanized anti-HER2 antibody and at least one humanized anti-HER3 antibody, and use of the antibody compositions for treatment of cancer. The invention also relates to the use of antibodies targeting multiple EGFR-family receptors to treat cancer (e.g., pancreatic cancer) and cancer that has acquired resistance to previous therapies.
US10058604B2
The present application relates to novel HIV-1 envelope glycoproteins which may be utilized as an HIV-1 vaccine immunogens, antigens for crystallization and for the identification of broad neutralizing antibodies. The present invention encompasses the preparation and purification of immunogenic compositions which are formulated into the vaccines of the present invention.
US10058595B2
Embodiments of the invention provide shaped masses comprising one or more drugs such as proteins or polypeptides and methods for forming such shaped masses. One embodiment provides a shaped mass comprising a drug such as a protein or polypeptide having a biological activity in the body of a mammal. The shaped mass is formed by compression of a precursor material comprising the drug wherein an amount of biologically active drug in the mass is a preserved above a minimum level. Drugs which may be incorporated into the shaped mass may include one or more glucose regulating proteins such as insulin, incretins; and immunoglobulins such as TNF-inhibiting antibodies or interleukin neutralizing antibodies. Embodiments of the shaped mass may be incorporated into a tissue penetrating member which is inserted into the intestinal wall allowing for the oral delivery of proteins and peptides which would otherwise be degraded in the intestinal tract.
US10058592B2
Long-acting agonistic analogs for CLR/RAMP receptors are provided that have an extended half-live in vivo.
US10058591B2
The present invention relates to a combination of a parvovirus and a cytokine, preferably IFNy, for use in treating pancreatic cancer, in particular a terminal stage of this disease.
US10058570B2
The present invention relates to the use of arsenic compounds such as sodium meta arsenite (NaAsO2), arsenic trioxide (As2O3), and arsenic hexoxide (As4O6) or combinations thereof, for the treatment of painful, hyperalgesic and/or inflammatory conditions. The present invention also relates to compositions containing the above arsenic compounds for use in the treatment of pain, inflammation and immunological and autoimmune diseases and disorders.
US10058569B2
The invention relates to stable oral pharmaceutical compositions comprising lanthanum carbonate compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable excipients. The compositions of the present invention are formulated without the use of flow aids or lubricants. The compositions of the present invention have physical properties & flowability indicators comparable to that of the powders containing flow aids or lubricants and these compositions can be filled in sachets without any difficulty.
US10058564B2
A method of treating acne in a human in need thereof comprising administering systemically to said human a tetracycline compound in an amount that is effective to treat acne but has substantially no antibiotic activity, without administering a bisphosphonate compound.
US10058563B2
This invention relates to a low cost rapid response diagnostic system to determine cortisol levels in patients selected as potential candidates for GCR (glucocorticoid receptor) antagonist therapy utilizing a GCR antagonist, such as ORG 34517. The rapid, sensitive, and inexpensive test can be used to determine patients who have non-normal cortisol production or disordered circadian rhythms as a method for selecting subjects for GCR antagonist therapy for whom it is likely to have beneficial and/or therapeutic effects, and can also be used to monitor changes in cortisol levels in response to treatment.
US10058554B2
An injectable depot formulation includes a biocompatible polymer, an organic solvent combined with the biocompatible polymer to form a viscous gel, and a small molecule drug incorporated in the viscous gel such that the formulation exhibits an in vivo release profile having Cmax to Cmin ratio less than 200 and lag time less than 0.2.
US10058544B2
The invention includes a granular composition comprising the active ingredient (S)—N-(3-(6-isopropoxypyridin-3-yl)-1H-indazol-5-yl)-1-(2-(4-(4-(1-methyl-1H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)phenyl)-3,6-dihydropyridin-1(2H)-yl)-2-oxoethyl)-3-(methylthio)pyrrolidine-3-carboxamide, wherein a total amount of active ingredient comprises by weight % about 60-90% (S)—N-(3-(6-isopro-poxypyridin-3-yl)-1H-indazol-5-yl)-1-(2-(4-(4-(1-methyl-1H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)phenyl)-3,6-di-hydropyridin-1(2H)-yl)-2-oxoethyl)-3-(methylthio)pyrrolidine-3-carboxamide Form 1 HCl, about 10-30% (S)—N-(3-(6-isopropoxypyridin-3-yl)-1H-indazol-5-yl)-1-(2-(4-(4-(1-methyl-1H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)phenyl)-3,6-dihydropyridin-1(2H)-yl)-2-oxoethyl)-3-(methylthio)pyrrolidine-3-carboxamide amorphous HCl, and about 0-5% (S)—N-(3-(6-isopropoxypyridin-3-yl)-1H-indazol-5-yl)-1-(2-(4-(4-(1-methyl-1H-1,2,4-triazol-3-yl)phenyl)-3,6-dihydropyridin-1(2H)-yl)-2-oxoethyl)-3-(methylthio)pyrrolidine-3-carboxamide amorphous free base.
US10058543B2
Methods and compositions are provided for the treatment of familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) and retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) through the administration of a therapeutically effective amount of a Sphingosine-1-phosphate receptor type 2 (S1PR2) inhibitor.
US10058534B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula I: in which n, m, X, Y1, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are defined in the Summary of the Invention; capable of being both potent antagonists and degraders of estrogen receptors. The invention further provides a process for the preparation of compounds of the invention, pharmaceutical preparations comprising such compounds and methods of using such compounds and compositions in the management of diseases or disorders associated with aberrant estrogen receptor activity.
US10058531B1
A dosage delivery film composition containing a botanical drug substance formable into a bioerodible dosage delivery film, the dosage delivery film composition including: (i) one or more of: a polymer, a plasticizer, a defoamer, or an antioxidant; (ii) a cannabinoid-cyclodextrin-terpene complex or a cannabinoid-terpene-surfactant micelle, and (iii) optionally, one or more of: a taste mask, a vasodilator, or a lipophilic vehicle to transport the botanical drug substance across the mucous membrane.
US10058530B2
The present invention relates to combination therapies for treating Alzheimer's disease or an amyloidosis-associated pathological condition comprising co-administering a therapeutically effective amount of a first compound, and a therapeutically effective amount of a second compound. In certain embodiments, the first compound or the second compound inhibits AB peptide polymerization; is an anti-inflammatory; improves cognitive function, mood, or social behavior; is associated with Tau or alpha-synuclein; or regulates amyloid peptide washout.
US10058527B2
The present invention relates to a composition containing a monoacetyldiglyceride compound as an active ingredient, for inhibiting blood cancer or metastasis, and a use thereof. The monoacetyldiglyceride compound according to the present invention has excellent effects of inhibiting the expression of IL-4 and inhibiting the activity of STAT-6, and thereby is capable of overcoming side effects of currently used blood cancer or metastasis inhibiting agents. Also, the monoacetyldiglyceride compound is a non-toxic compound having superior therapeutic effects and thus can be useful as a composition for preventing, treating, or improving blood cancer and metastasis.
US10058525B2
The present invention provides an application of chlorogenic acid in preparing medicines for treating lupus erythematosus. The chlorogenic acid can improve an immunity function. The present invention provides a preparation for treating lupus erythematosus, comprising chlorogenic acid and pharmaceutically acceptable auxiliary materials. The present invention further provides a combined medicine comprising chlorogenic acid and medicines for treating lupus erythematosus.
US10058520B2
The present invention relates to a method of treating, preventing, or delaying the onset of Alzheimer's disease and/or dementia in mammals. More particularly, the invention relates to method of administration of compositions containing defined chemical species useful for treating, preventing, or delaying the onset of Alzheimer's disease and/or dementia in mammals. In some embodiments, a composition used in connection with such methods comprises one or more of 1) thyroid hormone and 2) cyclo(His-Pro) and a zinc salt. Such compositions may also be used to treat metabolic syndrome and cerebrovascular diseases.
US10058514B2
The inventions provided herein relate to silk-based scaffolds and methods of producing the same, which can be used for a range of tissue engineering applications. The fabrication methods described herein provide a versatile platform to incorporate hollow conduits (e.g., for nutrient/oxygen delivery) through three-dimensional silk-based scaffolds that have tunable bulk properties (e.g., but not limited to, porosity, mechanical, degradation rate) and allow endothelialization and/or cell compartmentalization, for engineering a variety of complex tissue equivalents.
US10058511B2
Nanocrystals, compositions, and methods that aid particle transport in mucus are provided. In some embodiments, the compositions and methods involve making mucus-penetrating particles (MPP) without any polymeric carriers, or with minimal use of polymeric carriers. The compositions and methods may include, in some embodiments, modifying the surface coatings of particles formed of pharmaceutical agents that have a low water solubility. Such methods and compositions can be used to achieve efficient transport of particles of pharmaceutical agents though mucus barriers in the body for a wide spectrum of applications, including drug delivery, imaging, and diagnostic applications. In certain embodiments, a pharmaceutical composition including such particles is well-suited for administration routes involving the particles passing through a mucosal barrier.
US10058489B2
The present disclosure relates to zinc oxide particles having a mean particle size (volume) distribution of about 400 nm to about 650 nm, where the zinc oxide particles are formed by gas phase plasma deposition without milling and remain discrete particles after formation. The present disclosure further relates to the use of the zinc oxide particles in a dispersion. The present disclosure further relates to the use of the zinc oxide particles in a sunscreen composition. The present disclosure further relates to a method of formulating the sunscreen composition.
US10058488B2
A hand cleaning article is provided that includes a towel presenting two opposing surfaces. A hand cleaning composition is impregnated into the towel and includes a first non-ionic surfactant that is a C12-C15 alkyl ethoxylated alcohol having an average degree of ethoxylation of from 3 to 7. A solvent is present of a dibasic ester microemulsion, R1—C(O)N(CH3)2 where R1 is a C2-C20 alkane, C3-C20 alkene, C6-C20 diene, or R2—C(O)O—(CH2)n where a C1-C20 alkane, C3-C20 alkene, or C6-C20 diene, and n is an integer of between 1 and 10, or a combination of the dibasic ester microemulsion and R1—C(O)N(CH3). An organic co-solvent is provided of: a C4-C28 acid ester, C9-C16 hydrocarbons having a boiling in the range of 150° C. to 290° C., butyl 3-hydroxynutyrate, or a combination thereof. The majority of the composition is water.
US10058486B2
A two-stage teething mitten is provided that includes a fabric pocket defining an interior cavity adapted to enclose an infant hand. An opening is provided in the pocket to accommodate the insertion of an infant hand into the interior cavity. An elongate strap is positioned on the pocket adjacent the opening for detachably securing about the circumference of a wrist of the infant hand. A detachable teething member, which may take the form of a sleeve dimensioned to partially enclose the pocket, a teething ruff that may be attached to the elongate strap, or a second replacement fabric pocket, is provided.
US10058484B2
A measured fluid dispenser includes a moveable member coupled with a liquid containing bottle. The moveable member is preferably spherical defining an internal volume therein. The moveable member defines two openings wherein only one opening intersects the longitudinal axis at one time. This allows the internal volume of the moveable member to be filled with liquid from the bottle, then rotated, then the measured fluid or liquid is dispensed from the moveable member.
US10058476B2
A device comprising a casing; at least one vibratory source; at least one power source; at least one switch to actuate the vibratory source; electrical communication between the vibratory source, the power source, and the switch; and an optional thermal element for modulating the temperature of a contacted area of a surface. Also disclosed herein are methods for using the device.
US10058468B2
A siderail assembly for a bed, the bed having a patient support assembly, the siderail assembly comprising: a siderail disposed in a siderail plane; a mounting member for mounting to the patient support assembly; at least two parallel connecting arms, each connecting arm having a first end pivotably connected to the mounting member and a second end pivotably connected to the siderail, each connecting arm being adapted to pivot relative to the siderail about a first pivot axis and to pivot relative to the mounting member about a second pivot axis to allow the siderail to pivot along an arcuate path relative to the mounting member, the first and second pivot axes being parallel to each other and angled relative to the siderail plane to allow the siderail to move in a direction perpendicular to the siderail plane when pivoting.
US10058460B2
A disposable absorbent article comprising a first waist region, a second waist region, a crotch region disposed between the first waist region and second waist region; a first waist edge and a second waist edge; the disposable absorbent article comprising a first waistband near the first waist edge and a second waistband near the second waist edge, wherein the Front-to-Back Delta Chassis Contraction is greater than about 9.0%.
US10058458B2
It is aimed to provide a device for manufacturing an elastic laminate which device can stably position an elastic member with respect to both sheets. A drive mechanism includes a timing belt having a guide plate fixed thereto, a plurality of timing pulleys configured such that the timing belt is provided thereon along an annular path including a travel path, a motor configured to drive the timing pulleys to be successively rotated in forward and reverse directions to reciprocate the guide plate along the travel path, and a slider and a rail configured to permit a movement of the guide plate relative to both nip rolls along the travel path and regulate a movement of the guide plate relative to the both nip rolls in a direction orthogonal to the travel path.
US10058449B2
A medical system for endovascular temperature control of blood and for recanalization of a blood vessel, the medical system having a catheter, a radially compressible treatment device, in particular a recanalization device, which, in the compressed state, is arranged to be longitudinally movable in the catheter and, by being released from the catheter, is radially expandable for the recanalization of the blood vessel, and a temperature control element for controlling the temperature of blood, wherein the treatment device, in particular the recanalization device, can be positioned distally with respect to the temperature control element in such a way that, during use, blood which is temperature-controlled by the temperature control element flows to the recanalization site in the blood vessel.
US10058447B2
A condom that includes a lubrication packet affixed thereto, the lubrication packet occupying a space that coincides with a fluid receptacle. The packet is filled with lubricant and the integrity of the packet is breached prior to intercourse, releasing the lubricant inside the body lumen over a period of time. Once the packet is substantially depleted, a void created by the depleted packet can be used by the receptacle.
US10058442B2
The present disclosure relates to catheters for delivering medical devices to a human patient's vasculature. A catheter comprises a sock which covers the medical device at the end of the catheter, and an introducer sheath which is reduced in diameter. This reduced diameter introducer sheath minimizes the crossing of the catheter.
US10058434B2
The invention is directed to an interbody fusion device comprises a load bearing component and a retention component and further comprises two bone screws that pass through the retention device and into the vertebral bodies. When implanted, the construct is flush with the anterior face of the vertebras and provides support and temporary fixation for the ultimate fusion of the vertebral bodies.
US10058433B2
An expandable implant for inserting within a skeletal space is provided, and a method for using the implant to expand the skeletal space. The implant is preferably designed to be inserted into an intervertebral space to replace at least part of an intervertebral disc between adjacent vertebral bodies. The expandable implant contains at least one first expansion compartment and at least one second expansion compartments, which compartments can be inflatable balloons that are inflated by a catheter. Inflating the first expansion compartment expands the implant in a first direction and inflating the second expansion compartment expands the implant in a second direction.
US10058431B2
Disclosed is a medical device having a first implant portion having a proximal end, a second implant portion connected to the first implant portion, the second implant portion having a distal end, and a driver assembly removably connected to the distal end, the driver assembly comprising a drill connected to the distal end at a connection.
US10058429B2
A method and implant based on injection molding techniques. The method produces polymeric components suitable for implantation with a structure and mechanical properties close to those of natural bone tissue. In a variant, method for making an implant or component thereof includes forming a standard shape foamed blank, and over-molding a thin layer of non-foamed PEEK material onto the standard shaped foamed blank to obtain a final implant component geometry, whereby the blank is completely encapsulated by the over-molded layer.
US10058419B2
Oxidation resistant bioprosthetic tissues and oxidation resistant bioprosthetic heart valve leaflets are described. Also provided are methods for preparing the oxidation resistant bioprosthetic tissues and bioprosthetic heart valve leaflets, and methods for preventing oxidative degeneration in bioprosthetic tissues, including immobilizing covalently an effective amount of an antioxidant to the bioprosthetic tissue.
US10058408B2
A personal hygiene device has a resonant motor and a motor control unit for applying a periodic voltage signal with a driving frequency at the resonant motor for driving the resonant motor into an oscillating motion with an oscillating frequency equal to the driving frequency. The motor control unit comprises a synthesizer circuit for digitally synthesizing the periodic voltage signal from voltage pulses of variable length provided with a pulse frequency higher than the driving frequency such that at least two voltage pulses are applied at least in one of two half cycles of each period of the periodic voltage signal.
US10058404B2
A probe head for dental confocal imaging, comprises a light-guiding part for guiding a light beam towards a teeth portion, the light-guiding part having an entrance face through which the light beam enters the light-guiding part and an exit face through which the light beam exits the light-guiding part, wherein the light-guiding part is configured, in case of a linearly polarized light beam having two polarization components being perpendicular to each other, to change polarization of the linearly polarized light beam on its path through the light-guiding part in such a way that one of the two polarization components, compared to the other of the two polarization components, is retarded by an odd multiple of a quarter of a wavelength of the light beam along the path from the entrance face to the exit face.
US10058403B1
A rotating member of a dental clamping apparatus is movably connected to a body and disposed in a through hole. A hole diameter is located on an inner side of a clamping member and is corresponding to an elastic abutting slope. The clamping member is movably connected to the rotating member. A first blocking member disposed in a first blocking hole is engaged with an annular groove so as to rotate the rotating member relative to the body. A second blocking member disposed in a second blocking hole is engaged with an axial track so as to move the clamping member along an axial direction relative to the body. The rotating member is rotated relative to the body to axially move the clamping member. The elastic abutting slope is abutted against an annular slope so as to resiliently deform the clamping member to change the hole diameter.
US10058401B2
An orthodontic bracket for the re-positioning of a tooth, such that separate walls forming the archwire slot are designed to enable different extents of flexing and movement.
US10058399B2
Drills for dentistry, which, in a dental implant treatment, enables two or more holes to be bored at a predetermined angle and interval in a minute space in which a single tooth grows and enables treatment to be performed precisely and rapidly regardless of a skill level of a dentist, wherein an arrangement is provided where a first member provided with a drill body and a second member provided with a fixing needle intersect slid-ably at a predetermined angle, the drill body is installed in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the first member with its tip facing a direction in which the fixing needle is provided, the fixing needle is installed in a direction perpendicular to an axial direction of the second member with its tip facing a direction in which the drill body is provided, the drill body bores a first hole, bored obliquely with respect to a natural tooth growing direction, and a second hole facing the first hole mutually at a predetermined angle, and the second hole is bored by the drill body upon inserting the fixing needle in the first hole, fixing the second member to the jawbone, and sliding the first member with respect to the second member, fixed to the jawbone, as a reference.
US10058392B2
A computer-assisted surgery system may have a robotic arm including a surgical tool and a processor communicatively connected to the robotic aim. The processor may be configured to receive, from a neural monitor, a signal indicative of a distance between the surgical tool and a portion of a patient's anatomy including nervous tissue. The processor may be further configured to generate a command for altering a degree to which the robotic aim resists movement based on the signal received from the neural monitor; and send the command to the robotic arm.
US10058389B2
A single use container (10, 40, 70) for holding a plurality of endoscope valves during a cleaning and disinfection procedure defines a plurality of chambers (34, 64, 84) which are isolated from each other and configured to receive a single valve such that a valve in one chamber cannot contact a valve in another chamber. A plurality of apertures (36, 58, 86) in each chamber allow fluid flow therethrough. A closure device (14, 44, 92) is operable to close each chamber (34, 64, 84). An attachment device (38, 68, 77) is configured for attaching the container (10, 40, 70) to an endoscope and to prevent detachment without breaking of the attachment device (38, 68, 77).
US10058385B2
Devices and methods for fluid enhanced ablation therapy using microwave antennas are described herein that provide improved heat transfer into a target volume of tissue and improved antenna cooling compared to prior art designs. In one embodiment, fluid can be introduced into a target volume of tissue along with the delivery of therapeutic energy from a microwave antenna positioned within the target volume of tissue. The fluid can become heated by cooling the microwave antenna and, if additional heating of the fluid is desired, a heating element disposed within the microwave antenna can supplementally heat the fluid prior to introduction into the target volume of tissue.
US10058384B2
A microwave antenna assembly is disclosed. The antenna assembly includes a feedline having an inner conductor, an outer conductor and an inner insulator disposed therebetween. A radiating portion is also included having an unbalanced dipole antenna including a proximal portion and a distal portion that are of different lengths. The proximal portion includes at least a portion of the inner conductor and the inner insulator and the distal portion includes a conductive member.
US10058365B2
Disclosed is a protector capable of stably joining between adjacent bones while providing a proper elasticity thereto. The protector includes an elastic member having a center part which is placed to cover a joint between adjacent bones, and a plurality of fixing members which are located at both end parts of the elastic member and are fixed to the bones.
US10058362B2
An orthopedic fixation assembly for connecting to a bone includes a fixation plate having a hole, an insert securable to the hole and a screw securable to the insert. The fixation plate includes a shoulder recessed from its upper surface and an aperture. The insert includes a base portion and a flange extending laterally from an upper end of the base portion. The insert defines an insert central axis extending in a direction generally perpendicular to the flange. The screw has a screw head and the base portion has an insert hole with machined internal threads for engaging the screw. The insert hole defines an insert hole central axis extending in a direction at an offset angle relative to the insert central axis. The aperture of the fixation plate is dimensioned to receive the base portion of the insert and the recessed shoulder is dimensioned to receive the flange.
US10058354B2
A two-piece closure for polyaxial bone screws includes an outer fastener and an inner set screw, the outer fastener having a drive system with pockets that cooperate with a pronged drive tool. The polyaxial screw includes a lower pressure insert engaged with the outer fastener, the insert in some embodiments being made from a cobalt chrome alloy.
US10058352B2
The methods and devices disclosed herein are effective in the promoting the reattachment of delaminated cartilage to bone. The methods (and related devices) are effective in the removal of the acellular layer of the delaminated cartilage or effective in the indentation of the acellular layer of the delaminated cartilage thereby exposing the underlying chondrocyte cells and thereby allowing the promotion of the reattachment of the delaminated cartilage.
US10058351B2
A personal care appliance includes a housing, a drive assembly provided in the housing, and a workpiece member. The drive assembly includes a stator and an armature adjacent the stator, wherein the stator, when energized, is structured to cause the armature to oscillate back and forth. The personal care appliance further includes a mounting assembly having a pivot arm having a shaft member and first and second mounting members. The workpiece member is coupled to the first end portion of the shaft member such that oscillation of the armature causes the workpiece member to oscillate relative to the housing.
US10058348B2
A method of gathering tissue of a heart valve leaflet 2 may include inserting an elongated catheter assembly 12 to a position adjacent the heart valve leaflet, the catheter assembly including a capture tool 22 and a tissue support member 30. The capture tool 22 and the tissue support member 30 may each be independently moveable between a retracted position and an extended position. Partially retracting the capture tool 22 with the tissue support member 30 in the extended position gathers tissue 15 of the heart valve leaflet 2 between the capture tool and the tissue support member. A clip 55 may then be applied from the catheter assembly 12 to the gathered tissue 15 to hold the tissue substantially in a gathered configuration.
US10058342B2
Delivery systems, and methods using the same, having an ultrasound viewing window for improved imaging and a needle for ablation treatment of target tissues. In an embodiment, the target tissue is a fibroid within a female's uterus. In an embodiment, the delivery system includes a rigid shaft having a proximal end, a distal end, and an axial passage extending through the rigid shaft. In an embodiment, the axial passage is configured for removably receiving the ultrasound imaging insert having an ultrasound array disposed a distal portion.
US10058341B2
An endoscopic treatment instrument includes a sheath; a basket section formed by elastic wires; a manipulation wire connected to the basket section; and a distal end cover attached to a distal end of the sheath. The distal end cover has: a first opening; a second opening; an inner peripheral surface disposed between the first and second opening; and a curved surface bent over the whole circumference in t circumference direction of the distal end cover. Each of the plurality of the elastic wires has: a proximal end portion, a distal end portion, and a maximum diameter section. A radius of curvature of the curved surface is smaller than a radius of curvature of each of the plurality of the elastic wires. A contact position of the elastic wires and the curved surface moves in accordance with a retraction of the elastic wires.
US10058338B2
Disclosed are methods for performing a surgical procedure at a surgical site utilizing a surgical robot. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US10058333B2
A surgical clamp assembly 100 for use in keyhole surgery is disclosed. The assembly includes: a surgical clamp 10 for forming a clamping loop around a bodily lumen 8. The clamp includes: a strap 20, the strap including an elongate grippable portion 23; and a head 30 including a gripper 40, the gripper having an open mouth, the open mouth shaped to allow lateral entry of the strap into the gripper so as to form the clamping loop. The assembly further includes: a deployment tube 60 for deploying the clamp through a keyhole; and a manipulator 70 for manipulating the clamp through the deployment tube. The elongate body is biased to move from a constrained generally straight condition within the deployment tube to an unrestrained curled condition within a patient. A surgical clamp assembly, that includes a surgical clamp is also disclosed.
US10058331B2
A lung volume reduction system is disclosed having an implantable device adapted to be delivered to a lung airway of a patient in a delivery configuration and to change to a deployed configuration to bend the lung airway. The invention also discloses a method of bending a lung airway of a patient by inserting a device into the airway in a delivery configuration and bending the device into a deployed configuration, thereby bending the airway.
US10058328B2
An anastomosis device for joining hollow lumens or viscera, suitable for deployment at the surface of two superposed adjacent lumens. The device has a main tubular body of longitudinal axis (L), having first and second open ends and opposite outside and inside faces. The main tubular body has at least three columns of loops and at least three rows of loops and sets of proximal and distal radial projections extending along at least a depth (E) at the peripheries of the first and second ends respectively. The distal and proximal sets are spaced apart by a minimum internal distance (D), and further include a set of intermediate radial projections extending along at most a depth (e) and arranged between the sets of proximal and distal radial projections. The depth (e) is less than (E), and the minimum internal distance (D) is determined so as to receive two superposed adjacent lumens.
US10058323B2
A method is provided for reducing tricuspid valve regurgitation of a patient. The method includes implanting a first tissue anchor at a first implantation site in cardiac tissue in the vicinity of the tricuspid valve of the patient, and implanting a second tissue anchor at a second implantation site in cardiac tissue of the patient opposite the first implantation site across the tricuspid valve. Using a spool that winds therewithin at least a portion of a longitudinal member that couples the first and the second tissue anchors together, tension is applied between the first and the second tissue anchors to alter the geometry of the tricuspid valve by rotating the spool.
US10058317B2
Described herein are suture anchors systems and methods for installing suture anchor systems in bone. Suture anchor systems described herein include a plurality of annular ribs formed around an elongated cylindrical body, a tip adapted for inserting into a bone, one or more longitudinal channels defined by one or more notches in at least one of the annular ribs, and a transverse bore adapted to receive at least one suture and in communication with the longitudinal channel(s). The suture anchor system is partially inserted into the bone, the sutures are adjusted, and insertion is completed, securing the suture anchor and the suture in the bone.
US10058306B2
Methods are disclosed for non-invasively obtaining fetal cells from a pregnant female. The methods include placing an absorbent medium in an interlabial or intravaginal space or adjacent to the perineum at the vaginal opening of the pregnant female, and collecting vaginal fluid comprising cells in the absorbent medium while the absorbent medium is interlabial or intravaginal space or adjacent to the perineum at the vaginal opening. The absorbent medium is removed and cells are isolated from the absorbent medium to obtain the fetal cells. The fetal cells can be, for example, somatic cells, embroyic stem cells, fetal stem cells or trophoblast cells.
US10058272B2
The sleep monitoring system uses a motion vector estimator to determine motion vectors as a function of location in camera images. A signal processing system with an input coupled to the motion vector estimator computes a measure of turning motion, by summing motion vectors from respective locations within an image. Pose changes are detected based on the measure of turning motion. The measure of turning motion may be computed from a sum of components of the motion vectors that are normal to the major axis of a body area in the image, which is determined based on image content changes in a set of images from the camera. To avoid false turning detection due to leg kicking or similar motion the detected turning motion may be reduced to zero if it is not detected in a sufficiently large part of the body area.
US10058269B2
A medical monitoring system for identifying an end-exhalation carbon dioxide value of enhanced clinical utility is described herein. The medical monitoring system can include a capnometer for generating an output corresponding to a time-series of exhaled carbon dioxide values from a patient during an exhalation and a processor programmed to analyze the exhalation. In some examples, the processor can also be programmed to identify a peak carbon dioxide value at an end of the exhalation, determine if the peak carbon dioxide value may have been higher if the exhalation had been prolonged, and provide an output responsive to said determination.
US10058267B2
A patient support structure for use in a magnetic resonance image (MRI) scanner includes a base and a first and a second arm pivotally connected to the base. The patient support structure supports an anatomical region being imaged and positions an antenna array around the anatomical region. Access to the patient is improved by: providing a flexible coil that wraps around the anatomical region being imaged, providing a support structure open to the anterior region of the anatomical region being imaged, and providing a support structure that may be opened and closed about the anatomical region being imaged.
US10058265B2
A muscle assessment protocol can include: attaching one or more surface electromyometry (sEMG) sensors to the skin of a subject to be operably coupled with one or more muscles; operably coupling the one or more sEMG sensors to a computing system; performing the predetermined muscle activity of a muscle assessment protocol that includes a controlled activity training protocol; monitoring/recording sEMG data of the one or more muscles during the predetermined muscle activity; and providing the sEMG data to the subject such that the subject can improve muscle performance for the predetermined muscle activity by using the sEMG data. The muscle activity includes static or dynamic muscle use. The predetermined muscle activity can be provided to the subject by the computing system. System means for performing the muscle assessment protocol is also disclosed.
US10058263B2
Technology for a neural interface is described. The neural interface can include an intracranial electrode grid operable to detect neural activity. The neural interface can include a subcutaneous microelectronic signal processing unit operable to process the neural activity in order to obtain digital neural activity information. The neural interface can include a cable connecting the intracranial electrode grid and the subcutaneous microelectronic signal processing unit. The neural interface can include a wired connector attached to the subcutaneous microelectronic signal processing unit that is operable to transmit the digital neural activity information from the subcutaneous microelectronic signal processing unit to an external signal processing device.
US10058259B1
The present invention relates to an electrode harness and more particularly to an electrode harness with various features, which enhance the use and performance of the electrode harness. The present invention further relates to a method of taking biopotential measurements. The electrode harness and methods of the present invention allow for use with most applications where biopotential measurements are taken. The electrode harness can be used in ECG (or EKG), EEG, EMG, and other such biopotential measurement applications. Because of the versatility of various embodiments of the present invention, preferably the electrode harness can be adjusted for different applications or for application to various sized and shaped subjects. The electrode harness is further preferably part of a system, which includes either wireless or tethered bridges between the electrode harness and a monitor, and preferably includes various forms of processors for analyzing the biopotential signal.
US10058258B2
A biomagnetism measuring device includes a magnetic sensor and a support unit. The magnetic sensor includes a tunnel magneto-resistive element including a fixed magnetic layer, a free magnetic layer and an insulating layer. The insulating layer is disposed between the fixed magnetic layer and the free magnetic layer, and has resistance being changed by a tunnel effect depending on an angle difference between a direction of magnetization of the fixed magnetic layer and a direction of magnetization of the free magnetic layer. The support unit supports the magnetic sensor in such a way that the tunnel magneto-resistive element faces a living body. The magnetic sensor outputs an output signal in accordance with a resistance value of the insulating layer, the resistance value being changed by magnetism emitted from the living body.
US10058257B2
An MRI apparatus includes an imaging data acquiring unit and a blood flow information generating unit. The imaging data acquiring unit acquires imaging data from an imaging region including myocardium, without using a contrast medium, by applying a spatial selective excitation pulse to a region including at least a part of an ascending aorta for distinguishably displaying inflowing blood flowing into the imaging region. The blood flow information generating unit generates blood flow image data based on the imaging data.
US10058254B2
Described herein are systems and methods for mounting optical sensors in a physiological monitoring device worn by a user to sense, measure, communicate, and/or display physiological information. The monitoring devices may be embodied as, for example, a fitness band, a bracelet, a watch, or some other wearable device such as an activity tracker, a health, wellness, or sleep monitor, or an athletic training device. The device may comprise one or more light sources and optical detectors. Optical lenses may be mounted in a face of the device for partially receiving or containing the light sources and optical detectors. The devices and methods described herein may optically isolate the light source(s) from the optical detector(s) to ensure the accurate and reliable detection and measurement of physiological information.
US10058248B2
A miniature, low-power, optical sensing device that operates in the harsh electromagnetic environment of a magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The device includes a means of transferring imaging data obtained with the optical sensor out of this harsh electromagnetic environment without requiring a galvanic connection. It is practical to power the device using a small battery that is compatible with the harsh environment. In other embodiments, the device is powered using ‘power over fiber’ or by taking power by ‘power harvesting’ directly from the harsh electromagnetic environment. One embodiment is to directly integrate the device into a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) head coil, using a wired connection to the head coil to provide electrical power. Here the wired connection does not penetrate the Faraday cage of the MRI system or cross into the bore of the MRI system from outside the bore.
US10058245B2
An optometric instrument includes an alignment device that includes light sources for sending out light beams through one or more light channels from the instrument onto the retina of an eye of a patient. The light channels are directed parallel with the visual axis of the eye at correct alignment, whereat the light beams are visible for the patient in an intended way. A method for aligning an optometric instrument includes sending out light beams from the light sources through one or more light channels onto the retina of the eye of a patient, and positioning the instrument to have the light channels parallel with the visual axis of the eye of the patient as a result of finding a position, wherein the light can be correctly viewed by the patient.
US10058241B2
Systems and methods for performing a visual field test of a patient are described. One example method for performing the visual field test of the patient using a visual field testing device having a refractive correction element, a patient support, and a motor operably attached to one of the refractive correction element or the patient support includes positioning the patient's head relative to the device using the patient support. An image showing the position of the eye relative to the refractive correction element is collected. The relative displacement of the eye with respect to the refractive correction element is determined based on the collected image. The motor is actuated in a manner to reduce the determined displacement. A series of test stimuli is displayed to the patient's eye and responses to the test stimuli are received from the patient. The responses are analyzed to make an assessment of the patient's visual field.
US10058233B2
An insertion apparatus includes an inserting section, a rotary cylinder, a motor, motor control section, a moving average calculating section, and a torque limit determining section. The inserting section is formed along a longitudinal axis. The rotary cylinder is provided to be rotatable around a longitudinal axis of the inserting section. The motor rotates the rotary cylinder. The motor control section supplies a motor current to drive the motor. The moving average calculating section calculates an average of the motor current within a predetermined period, after the motor starts up. The torque limit determining section determines whether torque of the motor is in a limit state by comparing a calculating result by the moving average calculating section with a predetermined torque limit set value, at timing except startup of the motor.
US10058228B2
A dishwasher with a tub at least partially defining a treating chamber, a liquid spraying system supplying a spray of liquid to the treating chamber, a liquid recirculation system defining a recirculation flow path, and a liquid filtering system having a rotating filter. A chopping system is included to macerate foreign objects within the recirculation flow path and includes a blade mounted to the rotating filter.
US10058222B1
A particle remover for selectively augmenting a receptacle is provided. The particle remover has a body which may be removably attachable to the receptacle. The body of the particle remover includes a number of particle removing apertures that are fluidly connected to a suction source. The particle removing apertures may be in fluid communication with one or more channels defined within the body. The suction source creates a negative pressure to suck particles from an exterior of the body through the particle removing apertures. The body of the particle remover is adjustable along one or more dimensions.
US10058220B2
An adjustable shower curtain liner that includes: (a) a plurality of horizontal rows of curtain hook loops; (b) a neutral color for attachment by snaps, buttonholes or Velcro® to a decorative outer panel that go partially to the base of the tub or all the way to the bathroom floor; and (c) a set of lower magnets for keeping the liner close to the tub interior—with one or more strips of perforations that can be easily removed when they become too moldy or unsightly.
US10058218B2
A disposable facial hair grooming sink liner and wipe for collecting shaved hairs over a sink when a person is shaving or cutting facial, head, or other bodily hair over the sink. The disposable facial hair grooming sink liner and wipe includes an absorbent biodegradable liner having a liquid composition saturating a body of the absorbent biodegradable liner. Also included is a liner package useful for retaining the absorbent biodegradable liner when in a folded-condition. The liner package may be ripped open by a user and the absorbent biodegradable liner may be unfolded and deployed about and around the sink and is useful for collecting shaved hairs for easy and environmentally friendly disposal.
US10058217B2
The present invention discloses a method for controlling a mixer, including sending a fan initiation control signal to the fan when obtaining a instruction for initiating the mix from the user, to allow the fan to operate at a pre-set fan rotation speed; sending a motor initiation control signal to the motor to allow the motor to operate at a pre-set motor rotation speed within a set mixing time period; wherein the instruction for initiating the mix includes the mixing time period; sending a motor stop control signal to the motor when the mixing time period is ended to stop the operation of the motor; and sending a fan stop control signal to the fan after a pre-set first delayed time period to stop the operation of the fan. Meanwhile the present invention also provides a controller for a mixer and a mixer.
US10058214B2
An automatic cooking medium level control system for a cooking apparatus, e.g., a fryer, may include a cooking vessel having a first temperature sensor at a first level of the cooking vessel and a second temperature sensor at a second level of the cooking vessel. A reservoir holding a cooking medium, such as cooking oil, may be in fluid communication with the cooking vessel. A controller may monitor temperature data from the first and second temperature sensors to determine whether the level of cooking oil in the cooking vessel has lowered. Upon determining that the cooking oil level has lowered, the controller may actuate a supply mechanism, such as a pump, which may be disposed on a fluid communication path between the reservoir and cooking vessel, which may enable the introduction of cooking medium from the reservoir to the to the cooking vessel.
US10058213B2
A cooking assembly comprises a container for receiving cooking fluid therein and comprising a vat and a reserve tank in fluid communication with the vat such that overflow of cooking fluid from the vat flows into the reserve tan. The vat provides for cooking food products therein. The reserve tank includes at least a two stage filter for filtering the cooking fluid overflow so as to return it back to the vat. A mobile basket provides for receiving food product and positioning it within the cooking vat and removing it therefrom when cooked. A three stage air filtering system is provided for suctioning air above the container during cooking and filtering it to provide clean air to the outside of the assembly. The assembly can be provided in a single enclosed unit with an in-feed for food products and an out-feed to discharge cooked food products therefrom.
US10058212B2
A cooking grill with apparatus by which food may be cooked using direct convective heat, indirect radiative heat, broiling (direct radiative heat), and smoking features as well as the method for transforming the grill to use any one of these cooking features, or combinations of these cooking pictures, at any given time is disclosed. The method of heating employed depends on the placement of one or more movable and removable heat plates of the present invention with respect to the grid or grids of the grill. The grill of the present invention provides versatility in introducing a grill with a plurality of cooking systems as well as grill cooking methods.
US10058197B2
A bag dispenser for use in a retail store is described. The bag dispenser holds and dispenses bags from a roll of plastic bags such as grocery bags, meat bags, or produce bags. The bag dispenser includes a bag holder rod that holds the roll of bags and allows the roll of bags to rotate on the bag holder rod in order to dispense bags. The bag dispenser also includes a bag separator that facilitates separation of a bag from the roll. The bag dispenser also includes a rod coupler that couples the bag dispenser to a rod, such as a rod of a shopping cart, a rod of a shopping cart basket or a rod of a pick-up basket, for example. The bag dispenser quickly and easily dispenses bags so that an employee of the retail store does not waste time and effort obtaining a bag.
US10058191B2
Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for an assembled furniture. The assembled furniture includes a cover having a plurality of inner compartments and a plurality of dividers. The assembled furniture also includes a plurality of cushions disposed within respective inner compartments of the cover, where the plurality of cushions are confined in the inner compartments by the plurality of dividers. The plurality of inner compartments may include a back inner compartment, a left arm inner compartment, a right arm inner compartment, and a bottom seat compartment. The left arm inner compartment may be adjacent to an end of the back inner compartment. The right arm inner compartment may be adjacent to an opposite end of the back inner compartment. The bottom seat compartment may be disposed below at least the back, left arm, and right arm inner compartments. The assembled furniture is easily compressible and highly transportable.
US10058187B2
A foldable step stool includes a step and a pair of legs. The legs are mounted on the step for movement between use and storage positions.
US10058174B1
A shelf structure may comprise four vertical posts, a plurality of spacers, a plurality of connecting tubes and at least two shelf boards. Each of the vertical posts has a plurality of peripheral grooves separated with the same interval and sequentially formed on a surface thereof, and each of spacers comprises two arc pieces which are configured to fit together to secure the spacer on the vertical post. When an additional shelf board is needed, a user can directly mount the spacers and connecting tubes respectively on the four vertical posts to enable the additional shelf board to be assembled between the vertical posts, thereby achieving the quick-assembly effect. Moreover, the connecting tube has two engaging slots which enables an additional shelf board to be directly assembled and extended from a side of the shelf when cooperating with additional vertical posts.
US10058170B2
Embedded furniture systems include a furniture assembly having a furniture stowage component and a furniture element extending from and moveably connected to the stowage component. The stowage component has a body with a furniture compartment recessed therein. The furniture element is selectively stowable in the compartment and deployable therefrom on a first side of the assembly. The assembly extends through an opening disposed in a wall component. The surface of the first side of the assembly is aligned with a first side of the wall and the covered portion of the body extends from an opposing second side of the wall. A concealing element is disposed about and substantially covers an exposed portion of the body on an opposing second side of the assembly. The concealing element includes a substantially hollow furniture component such that the covered portion of the body appears to be a piece of furniture.
US10058167B2
Disclosed is an oral care implement, comprising: a body comprising a handle and a head at an end of the handle, the head having at least one oral care element extending therefrom; a cap movable relative to the body; a cavity in one of the body and the cap, the one of the body and the cap defining an opening of the cavity; and an applicator connected between the body and the cap and holding an oral care agent; wherein the cap is movable relative to the body between a first position, at which the cap is at a first distance from the body, and a second position, at which the cap is at a second distance from the body, wherein the second distance is greater than the first distance; wherein the applicator is located in the cavity and the other of the body and the cap blocks the opening when the cap is at the first position relative to the body; and wherein the applicator is in fluid communication with an exterior of the oral care implement when the cap is at the second position relative to the body.
US10058166B1
A cleaning device comprises a base having a body and a handle attached to a top surface of the body. A plurality of bristles extends from a bottom surface of the body. The cleaning device further comprises a cover having a lower section defining a reservoir for containing a predefined volume of disinfectant and an upper section defining a space for enclosing the plurality of bristles of the body. The cover is adapted to selectively cover and uncover the plurality of bristles on the base.
US10058164B2
A backpack provided with a lower compartment holds a waist bag that may encircle the waist of a bearer. A hoisting system comprising a shoulder strap attached to the waist bag allows the bearer to elevate a receiver of the waist bag when the receiver is deployed to the front of the bearer.
US10058157B2
A customizable handbag. The customizable handbag includes an outer shell, wherein a portion of the outer shell is transparent. The customizable handbag also includes a liner. The liner is configured to fit within the outer shell and be at least partially seen through the transparent portion of outer shell.
US10058152B2
A protective case includes a housing, a base, and a connecting piece. A supporting groove is openly formed on one surface of the base for engaging a lateral edge of the housing. The connecting piece is soft and flexible. The connecting piece has two opposite end portions and a middle section disposed between the two end portions. The two end portions are connected to the housing and the base respectively, and the middle section is disposed in a removably detachable manner. Therefore, the supporting groove supports the housing to stand on the base, and the connecting piece can fix the housing to prevent toppling.
US10058147B2
An athletic shoe including a moveably attached cleat is intended to displace relative to the sole on the shoe in certain situations. This allows the cleat to more easily disengage the turf than a convention fixed cleat. The moveably attached cleat allows the shoe to disengage from the turf when the wearer is subjected to side impact forces, thus reducing the likelihood of traumatic knee injuries for the wearer. However, when the wearer is running forward, there is a reaction force on the cleat from the turf, acting in the forward direction which does not cause the cleat to displace to the retracted position and it can remain in the extended position.
US10058145B2
An article of footwear including a sole structure attached to an upper defining an internal void configured to receive a foot of a wearer is described. The sole structure includes a sole body portion having a central sensory node element located in an aperture in the sole body portion. The central sensory node element has a bottom surface configured to contact the ground and move vertically within the aperture. The movement of the central sensory node element pushes a top surface of the sensory node element attached to a portion of the upper against the foot of the wearer. The central sensory node element is arranged approximately centrally between lateral and medial sides and between the toe and heel ends of the sole structure. The central sensory node element acts as a home button to provide sensory feedback about movement and direction of forces to the foot of the wearer.
US10058140B2
A device for providing protection against minor head injury and for stabilizing a hat is provided. The device moves from a generally flat first orientation into a domed-shaped second orientation. In the second orientation, the device is placed under the underside of a hat and supports the hat in an upright position. The device may be placed under a hat for protection and/or to store the hat in an upright position for display and to reduce the sagging of the hat over time. Further, the device may be placed under a hat and the hat worn. The device has a plurality of radially extending arms extending from a center portion. The perimeter surface of the device may be partially inserted within a groove of the hat so as to allow the device to remain secured within the hat. The device is also suitable for providing some protection against head injury when the device is properly worn under a hat.
US10058139B2
A flip cap which has crown and bill portions, the bill having upper and lower members, at least one of the upper and lower members having a surface capable of displaying info nation secured thereto when the upper and lower members are spaced-apart.The lower and upper bill members are secured in a first position to each other by using a plurality of holes formed in the upper bill member and a plurality of aligned pin members formed in the lower bill member, a lower edge formed on the upper bill member enabling it to engage at least two of the pin members formed on the lower bill member when the lower and upper bill members are spaced-apart, thereby maintaining the lower and upper bill members in the spaced-apart position.
US10058137B2
Provided among other things is a glove formed by latex dipping having one or more textured finger tips wherein: the texture at the finger tips results from forming the glove on a former having the following properties: (micrometer) RaAv. roughnessabout 7-14 RsmMean width of roughnessabout 500-720 RpcPeak countabout 15-20 the glove being non-chlorinated, wherein the glove is a (i) single dip nitrile glove or (ii) a dipped glove with a textured layer formed of polymer latex, and comprising a multivalent metal ion salt of an organic acid with log P of about 4 to about 15.
US10058136B2
A pair of mittens is disclosed that is adapted to be worn by a child to protect at least the child's hands and wrists from adverse winter conditions. Each mitten of the pair includes a hand-receiving mitten portion for covering the child's hand, and an elastically extendable cuff fastened to an aft end of the mitten portion. The elastically extendable cuff has a circumferentially uninterrupted tubular body and an elastic band disposed at an aft end of the cuff. The elastic band circumscribes an opening at the aft end through which the child's hand is received. The elastically extendable cuff is at least longitudinally seamless such that the elastically extendable cuff is both longitudinally and circumferentially stretchable from an un-stretched configuration to a stretched configuration.
US10058132B2
A braette including compression pads having inner surfaces contoured to engage the outer surface of the breasts of a wearer which are interconnected by a force generating member to apply a force to the breasts of the wearer to push them toward each other and to thereby enhance the cleavage.
US10058131B2
A body worn hosiery/shaper uplifts the rear buttocks in an expandable thin material region, by virtue of respective left and right flank members, which cause the uplifting of the rear buttocks region. The flank members are supported from above by an annular upper waist knitted in welt, that extends circumferentially around the upper rib area. Upper thigh ring cuff portions also help with the uplifting of rear buttocks region from below while the high waisted control top control stomach and back side bulge. The body worn hosiery/shaper also optionally provides sheer leg portions that end just before the toes leaving the toe portion open. An extra wide open crotch double gusset is also provided allowing the user to utilize the restroom when nature calls.
US10058127B2
The invention is related to an electronic cigarette, the electronic cigarette comprises an electronic cigarette body; the electronic cigarette body is provided with a smoking end, a tar storage device, an atomization assembly and a battery rod assembly; the tar storage device is arranged on one end of the electronic cigarette body away from the smoking end; a connection mechanism is arranged at the location where the atomization assembly and the tar storage device are connected with each other. Since the tar storage device is arranged on the end far away from the smoking end, a user can be effectively prevented from inhaling the non-atomized tobacco liquid and being hurt by heat generated by the atomization assembly; and furthermore, the tar storage device and the atomization assembly are mutually fastened and connected by the connection mechanism, thus the electronic cigarette is convenient in disassembly and assembly.
US10058124B2
Vaporizer devices and apparatuses are provided. In some implementations, a vaporizer device comprises a cartridge and a device body. The cartridge comprises a cartridge body having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, a first pair of heater contacts comprising a first plate coupled to the first side and a second plate coupled to the second side, and a heater comprising a wick, a resistive heating element in contact with the wick, the first plate, and the second plate. The wick and resistive heating element are suspended between the first plate and the second plate. The device body comprises a cartridge receptacle for receiving the cartridge and a second pair of heater contacts positioned to couple with the first pair of heater contacts when the cartridge is inserted into the device body.
US10058122B2
An electronic cigarette with inlet air constructed and arranged to contact a delivery substance and minimize airflow over electronic components.
US10058112B2
A low-calorie sweetener composition, and method of manufacturing the same. The method includes providing a first sweetener having a mean particle size of between 100-350 μm in diameter and coating the first sweetener with a second sweetener. The first sweetener is sucrose. The second sweetener is an enzymatically modified steviol glycoside. The sweetener composition optimally includes at least 95% table sugar and at least 1% steviol glycoside. The steviol glycoside having been modified by action of at least one enzyme, the enzyme being a fungal exoenzyme selected from the group consisting of: laccase, manganese-dependent peroxidase (MnP), lignin peroxidase (LiP), versatile peroxidase (VP), monooxygenase, and combinations thereof.
US10058109B2
Caramel precursors and chocolate-containing caramel precursors which have a low viscosity and are easy to dispense, pump and meter, but which thicken up on boiling in such a way that resulting caramels or chocolate-containing caramels are of sufficiently high viscosity, and also a method for their manufacture.
US10058106B2
According to the present invention, a sterilant can be injected into a container without residual water on an object to be sterilized. The method includes decreasing a pressure in the container to a pressure higher than the triple point pressure at which water freezes. The method further includes comparing an actual time required for decreasing the pressure and a reference time, or comparing an actual rate of pressure increase and a reference rate to detect residual water on the object. If the residual water is detected, the pressure in the container is increased to the atmospheric pressure or the quasi-atmospheric pressure and the object is heated, and then the pressure is decreased to drain the residual water through the decompression boiling. The step of draining the residual water is repeatedly performed until no residual water is detected on the object and subsequently the sterilant is injected into the container.
US10058087B2
A method of improving wear tolerance of desirable plants and reducing weed pressure involves periodically applying mechanical abrasion to the desirable plants and the undesirable plants, wherein the level of mechanical abrasion is selected to be damaging to the undesirable plants and substantially within the wear tolerance of the desirable plants. The desirable plants may include turfgrasses and/or forage grasses. The mechanical abrasion may be applied by a rotating cylindrical brush with bristles engaging a base having a plurality of grooves. In one example, the period of applying mechanical abrasion is about once per week.
US10058083B2
One object is to provide an electric fishing reel wherein it is possible to prevent fingers of a user from contacting with an electric motor and improve heat releasing performance of the electric motor. In accordance with one aspect, an electric fishing reel of the present invention includes: a reel body; a spool provided on the reel body and configured to have a fishing line wound thereon; an electric motor provided in a front portion of the reel body and configured to rotationally drive the spool; and a cover member mounted on the reel body so as to surround the electric motor, wherein the cover member includes a front portion in front of the electric motor and a side portion on a side of the electric motor, and at least one of the front portion and the side portion of the cover member has an opening formed therein.
US10058078B2
A genetically modified livestock animal comprising a genomic modification to an eIF4G gene. Cells, genes, and proteins encompassing a protease-resistant eIF4G protein or gene.
US10058074B1
An apparatus for collecting and disposing pet waste comprises a sleeve having a body and a cover which collective define an uninterrupted cavity. The sleeve has an openable member, the body has an open terminal end, and the cover has an eyelet for dispensing bags. The apparatus has a receptacle removably secured within the cavity. The receptacle has a closed end on one side and a lid comprising a cap on the other. The cap has a snap projection and the lid has a snap groove to allow the cap to be snapped opened and closed. A length of the receptacle is greater than a length of the body such that when the receptacle is secured within the cavity, at least a part of the lid extends beyond the terminal end and the closed end is adjacent the openable member such that a waste bag roll can be placed thereon.
US10058073B1
An attachment tool for an animal tag is disclosed. The attachment tool includes a first tag interface that mates with a male portion of the animal tag, and a second tag interface that mates with a female portion of the animal tag. The first tag interface and the second tag interface dispose the male portion of the tag in an aligned and opposing relationship with the female portion of the tag while the male portion of the tag is mounted on the first tag interface and the female portion of the tag is mounted on the second tag interface. An arm extends adjacent the first tag interface to at least the second tag interface and the second tag interface is disposed on the arm. A guard extends outward proximate the first tag interface toward the second tag interface. A distal portion of the guard and an opposing structure of the arm proximate the second tag interface define a gap therebetween, the gap extending into a region between the first tag interface and the second tag interface. A drive moves the male portion of the animal tag disposed on the first tag interface towards the female portion of the tag disposed on the second tag interface to connect the male portion with the female portion.
US10058071B2
Suction teat arrangement for an automatic feeder for feeding livestock, in particular calves, with a suction teat holder, which has a suction teat receiver for receiving a suction teat, a fastening device for fastening the suction teat holder on a feed stand and a supply connection for connection with a supply line, a valve, with which a liquid supply from the supply line to the suction teat can be released and blocked, and a branch connection for connection with a branch line, characterized in that the valve and the branch connection are integrated into the suction teat holder.
US10058068B2
The present invention relates to a Lactuca sativa seed designated 41-149 RZ, which exhibits a combination of traits including resistance to downy mildew (Bremia lactucae) races Bl:1 to Bl:26, Bl:28, Bl:32, and Ca-I to Ca-VIII, resistance to corky root rot (Sphingomonas suberifaciens), and resistance to currant-lettuce aphid (Nasonovia ribisnigri) biotype Nr:0, as well as having a reduced wound-induced surface discoloration, leaves with a solid main vein and broad base leaves. The present invention also relates to a Lactuca sativa plant produced by growing the 41-149 RZ seed. The invention further relates to methods for producing the lettuce cultivar, represented by lettuce variety 41-149 RZ.
US10058063B1
A novel sorghum variety designated PH2012GW and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are provided. Methods for producing a plant comprise crossing sorghum variety PH2012GW with another plant. Sorghum seed, plants and plant parts produced by crossing sorghum variety PH2012GW with another plant are described. Methods for producing a plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PH2012GW include one or both of backcross conversion and transformation. Hybrid sorghum seed, plants or plant parts produced by crossing the sorghum variety PH2012GW or a locus conversion of PH2012GW with another sorghum variety are disclosed.
US10058056B1
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PVCM27 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PVCM27, cells from soybean variety 5PVCM27, plants of soybean 5PVCM27, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PVCM27. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PVCM27 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PVCM27, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PVCM27, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PVCM27. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PVCM27 are further provided.
US10058041B2
A plant cultivation apparatus according to the present technology includes a cultivation space where a cultivation environment is controllable, and a plurality of cultivation shelves disposed in the cultivation space. An air conditioner for supplying airflow to the cultivation shelves is provided in an upper region of the cultivation space. An induced draft fan for inducing the airflow supplied from the air conditioner to the cultivation shelves is provided at least at an end of the cultivation space. The induced draft fan is configured to induce the airflow supplied from the air conditioner to the cultivation shelves.
US10058037B2
A baler and method are described for forming and wrapping bales of crop material. A baler may include a baling chamber, a crop-moving device for compressing crop material into a bale within the baling chamber, a bale chute oriented outside the baling chamber, and a wrap frame supported by the bale chute. Once formed within the baling chamber, the bales may be ejected from the baling chamber to the bale chute. A sheet of wrap material may be wrapped about the wrap frame, such that a sleeve of wrap material is formed from the sheet. The bale may be moved through the wrap frame, such that the bale engages the sleeve to pull the sleeve from the wrap frame and the bale is wrapped by the sleeve.
US10058033B2
The present invention is a rake, comprising a tongue assembly and a wheel assembly operably coupled to the tongue assembly and being rotationally shiftable relative to the tongue assembly and the wheel assembly mounting a pair of rake assemblies. Each of the pair of rake assemblies is disposable in a generally horizontal disposition when the rake is in a transport disposition, the generally horizontal disposition being effected in part by the rotational shifting of the wheel assembly when transitioning between a working disposition and the transport disposition. The present invention is further a method of disposing the aforementioned rake in the transport disposition.
US10058032B2
A brake apparatus for a mowing machine that includes a brake gear operatively rotatable with a rotatable member and a lock assembly for meshing with the brake gear to restrict rotation of the brake gear. A guide rail assembly is fixable relative to a support for supporting the rotatable member for rotation. The guide rail assembly guides a lock assembly movable between an unlocked arrangement and a locked arrangement. An actuator plate and the guide rail assembly jointly engage the lock assembly to effect meshing and unmeshing of at least one engagement member of the lock assembly, such as a roller or a jaw member, with the brake gear. The actuator plate is selectively rotatable about an axis of rotation of the brake gear relative to the guide rail assembly, where rotation of the actuator plate effects movement of the lock assembly between the unlocked and locked arrangements.
US10058030B2
A light-weight portable hydraulic system for engagement with equipment requiring hydraulic fluid to operate. The system includes a reservoir; a pump and an oil filter engaged with each other. One or more handles are provided on the system so that the system may be carried by a single individual or may be lifted onto or off of a supporting unit upon which the system is mountable. A suitable supporting unit may be a zero-turn stand-on mower. An input shaft for the pump is operatively engaged with the engine of the mower and the pump is powered by that engine. The system is selectively connected to the equipment requiring hydraulic fluid for operation, such as a mower attachment, by way of hydraulic hoses that quick connect to ports on the pump. The system may be engaged with or disengaged from the mower in around thirty seconds and without tools.
US10058025B2
The present disclosure is directed to an in-line soluble media delivery system. In at least one embodiment, the system may comprise a housing including an inlet port and an outlet port. The inlet port may accept a liquid flow (e.g., water). A soluble media (e.g., fertilizer, herbicide, pesticide, etc.) in the delivery system may be exposed to the liquid flow, and may dissolve in the liquid over time. At least one filter may allow the liquid flow, now comprising at least some of the gradually dissolving media, to exit the system without allowing the bulk of the soluble media to exit. In at least one embodiment the system may comprise two filters with different porosity.
US10058021B2
An agricultural seeding machine includes a metering system and a damper arrangement. The metering system for the seeding machine includes selectively powered metering sections operable to individually allow or restrict seed dispensation. The damper arrangement is included so that pneumatic conveying of the particulate within the machine is consistently maintained when particulate flow is varied between the metering sections.
US10064309B2
A shelf thermostat device and a thermostat system. The shelf thermostat device includes a fixing bracket and a heat exchanger. An electronic device is detachably disposed at the fixing bracket. The heat exchanger is detachably disposed at the fixing bracket and layer arranged in a row with the electronic device. The heat exchanger has a heat exchanging core. The heat exchanging core has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, and a plurality of internal channels and a plurality of external channels. The internal channels and the external channels are disposed staggered and isolated with each other. An internal air flows between the internal channels and the electronic device. An external air flows to the second side of the heat exchanging core from the first side of the heat exchanging core through the external channels.
US10064299B2
An assembly bracket coupled to a component for locking and releasing the component with a latch of a component receiving module on a component board. The assembly bracket having a rotary hinge connected to a support bracket, a handle rotatable about the rotatory hinge between a retracted position and a deployed position, a linkage rotatably coupled to the handle, and a support lever coupled to the linkage and having an engagement member to engage the latch. When the handle is in the retracted position, the engagement member is engaged with the latch, thereby securing the component in the component receiving module. When the handle transitions from the retracted position to the deployed position, the support lever applies a force away from the component receiving module to thereby decouple the component from the component receiving module.
US10064297B2
An electronic control unit includes a substrate, a first cover, and a second cover. An electronic component is mounted on the substrate. The first cover is disposed to be opposed to one surface of the substrate and includes a first sidewall part extending in a direction perpendicular to the substrate, and claw part(s) projecting laterally from the first sidewall part. The second cover is disposed to be opposed to the other surface of the substrate and includes a second sidewall part, and groove part(s). The second sidewall part faces the first sidewall part. The groove part(s) is formed at the second sidewall part such that a shape of each of the groove part(s) when viewed from the direction perpendicular to the substrate is a recessed shape in conformity with a projecting shape of a corresponding claw part. Each groove part is fitted to a corresponding claw part.
US10064294B2
Provided is a display device which may include a display panel having a long side in a first direction, a short side in a second direction, and a thickness in a third direction, a back cabinet disposed in the rear of the display panel, and a case that covers an edge of a front surface of the display panel. The case may include a horizontal case that covers an edge of the front surface of the display panel on a long side of the display panel and a vertical case covering an edge of the front surface of the display panel on a short side of the display panel. The horizontal case and the vertical case may be coupled to each other in a region corresponding to a corner of the display panel, and the horizontal case and the vertical case may be formed of different materials.
US10064290B2
The invention relates to an external connector for the production of an electronic card comprising an insulating support that defines an outside face and an inside face opposite one another and a plurality of external metal contact pads. This external connector additionally comprises a plurality of metal projections located on the side of the inside face of the insulating support and respectively connected electrically to at least one subassembly of the plurality of external metal contact pads and/or to contact pads linked to an electronic unit, which is arranged on the inside face of the insulating support, wherein these metal projections are intended to be inserted into individual cavities of the body of the electronic card, and metal contact pads linked to an electronic unit inside the card body and/or an antenna incorporated in this card body are located at the base of these cavities. The invention also relates to a process for the production of an electronic card using the aforementioned external connector.
US10064289B2
The present disclosure related to a flexible electronic substrate assembly and a method and system of processing solder paste onto an electrical substrate. The assembly includes a flexible substrate having a solderable medium provided along the flexible substrate. A pattern of solder paste may be cured to a portion of the solderable medium. The solderable medium may be a generally continuous construction or a patterned construction relative to the flexible substrate. The substrate may be unwound from a roll of substrate material before solder paste is deposited thereon. The flexible electric substrate assembly may be formed though a roll to roll process. Infrared heat may be applied to the substrate with the solder paste deposit as the substrate is traveling along the process direction to reflow the solder paste as the substrate is traveling along the process direction at a high rate of speed.
US10064288B2
Methods of connecting wires (126) to feedthrough pins (104) and apparatus including wires connected to feedthrough pins.
US10064283B2
A method for forming a film on a conductive substrate, comprising immersing a substrate having a conductive portion in a solution comprising a metal ion ceramic precursor for the film and a peroxide; applying a voltage potential to the conductive portion with respect to a counter electrode in the solution, sufficient to protect the conductive portion from corrosion by the solution, and drive formation of a film on the substrate, controlling a pH of the solution while limiting a production of hydrogen by electrolysis of the solution proximate to the conductive portion; and maintaining the voltage potential for a sufficient duration to produce a film on the conductive portion. An electrode may be formed over the film to produce an electrical device. The film may be, for example, insulating, dielectric, resistive, semiconductive, magnetic, or ferromagnetic.
US10064276B2
A rigid-flex PCB includes an array of rigid PCB “islands” interconnected by a flexible PCB formed into flexible connectors. The conductive and insulating layers of the flexible PCB extend into the rigid PCBs, giving the electrical connections to the rigid PCBs added resistance to breakage as the rigid-flex PCB is repeatedly stressed by bending and twisting forces. In addition, the durability of the rigid-flex PCB is enhanced by making the power and signal lines driving the rigid PCBs redundant so that a breakage of a line will not necessarily affect the operation of the rigid PCB to which it is attached. The rigid-flex PCB is particularly applicable to light pads used in phototherapy, wherein LEDs mounted on the rigid-PCBs are powered and controlled through the redundant lines in the flexible PCB.
US10064267B2
A PCB underneath the display panel includes a plurality of insulation layers and one or more metal layers disposed between two adjacent insulation layers out of the plurality of insulation layers. A lower structure is disposed between the display panel and the PCB. At least a portion of a metal layer among the one or more metal layers that is most adjacent to the lower structure is exposed, and the lower structure is electrically connected to the exposed portion of the metal layer. Such exposed portion of the metal layer is electrically connected to the lower structure, so that the area where the PCB is referenced to the ground potential is increased. As a result, residual voltage, residual current in the PCB and noise caused by electromagnetic fields generated thereby can be reduced.
US10064265B2
A flexible printed circuit of low emissivity including first and second ends and a flexible central portion extending between the first and second ends and including electrically-conductive tracks, coated with a polymer material, to electrically connect the first and second ends. The flexible central portion is at least partly covered with a heat shield formed in a material having an emissivity smaller than those of the polymer material and of the electrically-conductive tracks.
US10064263B2
A compact cold plasma device for generating cold plasma having temperatures in the range 65 to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. The compact cold plasma device has a magnet-free configuration and an induction-grid-free configuration. An additional configuration uses an induction grid in place of the input electrode to generate the cold plasma. A high voltage power supply is provided that includes a controllable switch to release energy from a capacitor bank to a dual resonance RF transformer. A controller adjusts the energy input to the capacitor bank, as well as the trigger to the controllable switch.
US10064262B2
In order to increase the operable range of a DC plasma torch in an abatement apparatus, the apparatus comprises a power control configured for controlling the power of the plasma torch by selective control of the plasma source gas flow regulator.
US10064251B2
Systems and methods related to lighting fixtures for solid-state light sources are disclosed. In one embodiment, a lighting fixture includes a driver module and a communications module. The driver module is configured to execute driver program code, which causes the driver module to generate a drive output that drives one or more solid-state light sources. To provide updates, the communications module is configured to receive updated driver program code from a remote device and send the updated driver program code to the driver module. The driver module is configured to erase the driver program code and write the updated driver program code received from the communications module to memory. In this manner, updates can be provided to the lighting fixture without having to remove the lighting fixture from a support structure.
US10064246B2
An induction stove assembly that utilizes pads between the cook-top of the stove and cooking vessels placed on the stove for heating. The pads are easily removable and interchangeable with other similar pads. The pads help protect the cook-top from damage, make clean-up more efficient, and insulate the cook-top from excessive heating.
US10064245B2
A joining device for connecting a metal member and a resign member with a metal fastener including a penetrating tip comprises: a cylindrical nosepiece; a high frequency electromagnetic induction coil around the nosepiece; an electrode punch for pressing the fastener into the resign member; a electronic chopper for producing a high frequency current; a high frequency power supply for supplying an induction current to the induction coil; a welding power supply for supplying a welding current between the electrode punch and the metal member; a contact detector for sensing when the fastener tip touches the metal member; and a switching unit for automatically switching from the induction current to the welding current when the contact detector senses that the tip has contacted the metal member.
US10064244B2
Several embodiments include a cooking appliance/instrument (e.g., oven). The cooking appliance/instrument can include a cooking chamber, a support tray adapted to hold food in the cooking chamber; and a heating system comprised of at least a heating element. The heating system is adapted to emit waves according to a particular configuration such that the emitted waves is substantially transparent or substantially opaque to the support tray and thus enabling the cooking instrument to select what to heat.
US10064242B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein describe a centralized-processing cloud-based RAN (C-RAN or cloud-RAN) architecture that offers reduced front-haul data-rate requirements compared to common-public-radio-interface (CPRI) based C-RAN architectures. Base-band physical-layer processing can be divided between a BBU Pool and an enhanced RRH (eRRH). A frequency-domain compression approach that exploits LTE signal redundancy and user scheduling information can be used at the eRRH to significantly reduce front-haul data-rate requirements. Uniform scalar quantization and variable-rate Huffman coding in the frequency-domain can be applied in a compression approach based on the user scheduling information wherein a lossy compression is followed by a lossless compression.
US10064238B2
A power socket terminal network, comprising: at least one power socket stave terminal, having: at least one power socket coupled to a power line, for providing power to a device; a switch for turning said at least one power socket on and off; a wireless communication module, for providing wireless communications; and at least one power socket master terminal, having: at least one power socket coupled to a power line, for providing power to a device; a switch for turning said at least one power socket on and off; a power line communications module, for providing power line communications via said power line; and a wireless communications module, for providing wireless communications; wherein said at least one power socket slave terminal is arranged to communicate wirelessly, using said wireless communications module, with said at least one power socket master terminal.
US10064230B2
A device configured to communicate on a first and at least one second band, the first band being reserved for communication using a specific communication standard, the second band being accessible for communication using different communication standards. The device is configured to request communication resources in the second band from a second device using a first type of request to obtain access to the resources in competition with other requests of the first type issued from other devices; allocate the resources in the second band for communication upon receipt of a resource allocation confirmation from the second device; and communicate using at least a part of the allocated resources in the second band conformant to the specific communication standard applied for communication on the first band.
US10064227B2
A method and an apparatus for channel access in a wireless communication system related to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting a data rate higher than that of the 4G communication system such as long term evolution (LTE) are disclosed. The method includes receiving a feedback corresponding to data transmitted in a first subframe arriving after a first sensing period in an unlicensed band from at least one terminal, checking data reception state of the at least one terminal as one of acknowledgement (ACK), negative acknowledgement (NACK), and discontinuous transmission (DTX) based on the feedback, and determining a length of a second sensing period based on the data reception state of the at least one terminal.
US10064224B2
A method and system for establishing a Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) Direct (WFD) connection between Wi-Fi devices are provided. The method includes transmitting, by a source Wi-Fi device, a probe request frame indicating a first set of parameters through a pre-defined channel, wherein the first set of parameters comprises a persistence capability and persistence information; receiving a probe response frame indicating a second set of parameters from a destination Wi-Fi device, wherein the second set of parameters comprises discovery information associated with the destination Wi-Fi device; persistently storing the discovery information associated with the destination Wi-Fi device at the source Wi-Fi device; and establishing a WFD connection with the destination Wi-Fi device using the persistently stored discovery information.
US10064219B2
The present invention relates to an method and an apparatus for upward access, and the method for upward access according to one embodiment of the present invention can comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a synchronization QO channel, a broadcasting control channel and a secondary reference signal; selecting a transmission beam which transmits an upward access signal by using received results from at least one of the synchronization channel, the broadcasting control channel and the QO secondary reference signal; transmitting the upward access signal by using the selected transmission beam; and receiving, from the base station, an access response and initial set-up information of the control channel as a response for the upward access signal. According to the one embodiment of the present invention, the upward access steps can efficiently perform a beam selection.
US10064209B2
A communication device is described including a receiver, a determiner configured to determine, for a first data transmission via a first communication channel and a second data transmission via a second data communication channel, wherein the first data transmission and the second data transmission overlap in time, a first time period during which the receiver is to receive data transmitted in the first data transmission and a second time period during which the receiver is to receive data transmitted in the second data transmission based on information about the quality of data transmission via the first communication channel and based on information about the quality of data transmission via the second communication channel and a controller configured to control the receiver to receive data transmitted in the first data transmission during the first time period and to receive data transmitted in the second data transmission during the second time period.
US10064203B2
A first node in a wireless network retransmits a data signal. The node employs a precoder that generates transmit power values from a message to be transmitted and precodes the data signal with the transmit power values before the data signal is retransmitted. A second node receives the retransmitted signal. The second node uses a reference signal processor configured to determine the data signal and a decoder configured to remove the data signal from the received signal. The power values are estimated and processed to decode the information therefrom.
US10064201B2
A technology is disclosed for an evolved Node B (eNB). The eNB can determine a set of configuration indication fields numbered 1 to N, included in a downlink control information (DCI) format Y carried on the PDCCH, where N = ⌊ L format Y M ⌋ , Lformat Y is equal to a payload size of the DCI format Y, and M is a number of bits of each indication field. The eNB can map the DCI format Y onto the PDCCH. The eNB can encode for transmission from to the UE the PDCCH with a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by an enhanced interference mitigation and traffic adaptation (eIMTA) Radio-Network Temporary Identifier (RNTI) for the UE.
US10064196B2
A terminal device is configured to monitor a radio link on the basis of a specific threshold value defined as a level of a downlink radio link and the threshold value is defined by taking into account the number of repetitive transmissions and/or repetitive receptions.
US10064190B2
In a communication environment using a millimeter wave band, a method and apparatus that enable a base station to process data are provided. A protocol stack is generated based on a characteristic of traffic that is provided to a terminal, and the generated protocol stack is allocated to the terminal. Data to be provided to the terminal is processed according to the generated protocol stack, and data that is processed through a beam that is allocated based on a position vector of the terminal is transmitted.
US10064184B1
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for allowing a media device to select a preferred configuration and send instructions to a remote device to connect to the media device using the preferred configuration. For example, the media device may choose between a direct configuration (e.g., media device communicates with the remote device directly via a first wireless network associated with the media device) or an indirect configuration (e.g., media device communicates with the remote device via a second wireless network associated with an external access point). The media device may select the preferred configuration based on data rates and/or airtime values determined based on the first wireless network and the second wireless network.
US10064180B2
Methods, devices and systems for dynamic scheduling Wi-Fi and Bluetooth signals are disclosed. In some examples, a wireless device may receive a transmission request for transmitting a Wi-Fi signal from a Wi-Fi device or interface, receive a transmission request for transmitting a Bluetooth signal from a Bluetooth device or interface, determine a delta between a frequency of the Wi-Fi signal and a frequency of the Bluetooth signal, and deny transmission of the Wi-Fi signal or the Bluetooth signal based, at least in part, on the delta determination.
US10064179B2
Techniques for managing peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) for multi-carrier modulation in wireless communication systems. Different terminals in a multiple-access system may have different required transmit powers. The number of carriers to allocate to each terminal is made dependent on its required transmit power. Terminals with higher required transmit powers may be allocated fewer carriers (associated with smaller PAPR) to allow the power amplifier to operate at higher power levels. Terminals with lower required transmit powers may be allocated more carriers (associated with higher PAPR) since the power amplifier is operated at lower power levels. The specific carriers to assign to the terminals may also be determined by their transmit power levels to reduce out-of-band emissions. Terminals with higher required transmit powers may be assigned with carriers near the middle of the operating band, and terminals with lower required transmit powers may be assigned with carriers near the band edges.
US10064171B2
A user equipment includes a reception unit that receives first information indicating a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI), second information, plural pieces of third information, and fourth information. The second information indicates a subframe in which the user equipment monitors a physical downlink control channel with the RNTI. Each of the plural pieces of third information indicates an uplink-downlink configuration which is transmitted on the physical downlink control channel with the RNTI. The fourth information is used for determining an index of third information for a serving cell among the plural pieces of third information. In a case where the fourth information is configured for any of activated serving cells, the reception unit monitors the physical downlink control channel with the RNTI, in a common search space for a primary cell, in the subframe for monitoring the physical downlink control channel with the RNTI.
US10064164B2
In some embodiments, a user equipment (UE) and base station implement improved communication methods which enable a UE that is peak current limited to perform UL transmissions which are consistent with the UL timeline. Embodiments are also presented which enable a UE that is peak current limited to utilize a new form of distributed TTI (transmit time interval) bundling for improved uplink communication performance. In performing “distributed” TTI bundling, the UE may transmit a plurality of redundancy versions of first information to the base station, wherein the plurality of redundancy versions are transmitted in non-consecutive sub-frames with a periodicity of X ms. After the plurality of redundancy versions of first information are transmitted to the base station, the base station may provide a single acknowledge/negative acknowledge (ACK/NACK) to the UE. A method for dynamically generating and using a bundle size for TTI bundling is also disclosed.
US10064159B1
A wireless signal processing method includes determining, by an wireless communication device, whether a terminal device is in a stationary state or in a moving state according to a plurality of received signal strength indicators (RSSIs); when the terminal device is in the stationary state, determining, by the wireless communication device, whether the RSSIs are in a bimodal distribution; on the condition that the RSSIs are in the bimodal distribution, adjusting a plurality of antenna units in the wireless communication device to be on or off dynamically; and sending, by the wireless communication device, the RSSIs to a location engine to locate the terminal device.
US10064146B2
A system, method, and network node for synchronizing supplementary services settings between a database in a circuit-switched network and a database in a packet-switched network are disclosed. An exemplary communication system synchronization node is configured to receive a message containing a change to a supplementary service setting associated with a user equipment (UE) connected to a circuit-switched (CS) network or a packet-switched (PS) network, and communicate the change to the supplementary service setting to one or both of the HLR and the HSS, so that the supplementary service settings in both the HLR and the HSS are updated to reflect the change to the supplementary service setting.
US10064144B2
Combinations of correlation results are used to achieve detection of multiple coded signals at a receiver in a wireless communications system. The code applied to signals includes a lower rate code and a higher rate code. The lower rate code is a nested or tiered code such that it comprises at least two code sequences of the higher rate code. The received coded signal is correlated with the higher rate code using a single higher rate correlator to provide a higher rate code correlation result. The higher rate code correlation results are fed to two or more lower rate code correlators that combine multiple higher rate code-correlation results, each using a different lower rate code, to provide corresponding lower rate code correlation results. The presence of at least one coded signal or mutually exclusive coded signals can be determined from the lower rate code correlation results.
US10064143B2
A system and method for signal backup of active DAS master unit are disclosed. The system includes a state detection unit, a backup processing unit and at least two power distribution units, wherein a backup signal output port and a plurality of backup access ports with a number great than or equal to that of the power distribution units are arranged on the backup processing unit, and a backup signal input port and a plurality of radio frequency access ports with a number great than or equal to that of the power distribution units are arranged on the state detection unit; and each power distribution unit has an input port coupled to one of a plurality of signal sources, and two output ports in which one is coupled to one radio frequency access port and the other is coupled to one backup access port, and the backup signal output port is coupled to the backup signal input port. The backup processing unit is configured to control a signal from the signal source coupled to the radio frequency access port which is in an accessing-abnormal state to access the backup signal input port, when any one of the plurality of radio frequency access ports is in the accessing-abnormal state. It can reduce the hardware cost while guarantee the reliability to improve the cost performance of the backup system.
US10064141B2
Systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for providing optimal power/performance thermal mitigation in a portable computing device having a plurality of processing cores. An exemplary method comprises storing a power sweep table defining a power consumption value for each of a plurality of core frequency and core count combinations for an integrated circuit having a plurality of processing cores. A search table is generated by filtering the power sweep table based on one or more configuration parameters associated with the integrated circuit. A target power level is selected to sustain a thermal power envelope for the integrated circuit. The search table is traversed to find one of the plurality of core frequency and core count combinations having a corresponding power consumption value that matches the target power level.
US10064129B2
The present invention is to provide the mobile communication system which enables power consumption reduction for the mobile station with dual mode capability by unifying the location registration and paging processing for every mobile communication system. The mobile communication system is so arranged to perform location registration processing and paging processing for the mobile station by only one of radio communication systems. And the mobile station can access to any other radio communication systems.
US10064125B2
A device and method are provided for concurrently using a plurality of radio access technologies (RATs) to support a wireless-enabled communications session. A set of data is processed at a client node to identify a subset of priority data. The set of data and the subset of priority data are respectively provided to a first and second protocol stack, which correspond to a first and second RAT. The first and second protocol stacks are then used to control the transmission of a first and second set of transmitted data, which in turn respectively comprise the set of data and the subset of priority data. The first and second sets of transmitted data are received by an access node, which uses corresponding first and second protocol stacks to control their reception. The first and second sets of transmitted data are then processed to generate a set of received data.
US10064124B2
A method of a communication device configured for cellular communication and device-to-device, D2D, operation and operating in an out-of-coverage, OoC, state is disclosed. The method comprises determining whether a D2D operation is ongoing or imminent, performing cell search according to a first rate when no D2D operation is ongoing or imminent, and performing cell search according to a second rate when D2D operation is ongoing or imminent. A method is also disclosed where it is determined whether the communication device is in one of an OoC and IC state, and a cell search is adapted accordingly. A communication device and a network node, a method for a network node, and computer programs are also disclosed.
US10064122B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for selecting a public land mobile network PLMN, and an apparatus and a device for same. The method includes: during a process of selecting a network by a mobile terminal, if it is learned by means of determining that a registered public land mobile network RPLMN and a home public land mobile network HPLMN correspond to the mobile terminal are unavailable, acquiring a PLMN network in a PLMN list pre-stored in the mobile terminal, to perform a registration, wherein the PLMN list includes network information of one or more other PLMN networks that are selected and successfully registered.
US10064115B2
A method comprises, responsive to a first base station of a user equipment changing, causing measurement information of one or more cells of one or more second base stations made by said user equipment to be stored; and causing said stored measurement information to be provided to a third base station.
US10064109B2
A method and system for performing cell change by a wireless device are disclosed. According to one aspect, the cell change is from a first group of cells of a first radio access technology, RAT, to a second group of cells of a second RAT. Performance of a cell change includes receiving a cell change command. In response to the cell change command, the wireless device synchronizes to interoperate with a first cell of the second group of cells of the second RAT within a first specified period of time. The wireless device synchronizes to interoperate with at least one remaining cell of the second group of cells of the second RAT within a second specified period of time ending after an end of the first specified period of time.
US10064108B2
In a handover procedure between cells under different radio base stations (eNB), “RRC diversity” is implemented while considering conditions in a PDCP layer and an RLC layer. A handover method of the invention includes the steps of: causing a radio base station (eNB #1) to transmit to a radio base station (eNB #10), information necessary for generating PDCP-PDU and RLC-PDU; causing the radio base station (eNB #10) to transmit to the radio base station (eNB), “HO ack” including “HO command”; and causing each of the radio base station (eNB #1) and the radio base station (eNB #10) to generate the RLC-PDU including the PDCP-PDU containing the “HO command” based on the information and to transmit the RLC-PDU to a mobile station (UE).
US10064095B2
In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided apparatus, systems and methods for implementing and using optimized control systems for aggregation of multiple broadband connections over radio interfaces. For example, such a system may include: a processor and a memory to perform instructions embodied by the system; a plurality of wireless transceivers; a traffic coordinator to interface to two or more wireless communications nodes together, through the system, in which each of the wireless communications nodes have access to a wide Area Network (WAN) backhaul connection independent of the system; a first wireless communications interface to a first wireless communication node established via a first of the plurality of wireless transceivers, the first wireless communications node having access to a first WAN backhaul connection; a second wireless communications interface to a second wireless communications node established via a second of the plurality of wireless transceivers, the second wireless communications node having access to a second WAN backhaul connection distinct from the first WAN backhaul connection; and a control module to receive information on traffic flows through the system and a radio environment within which the system operates, in which the control module to: issue commands to control the formation and continuation of connections of the first and second wireless communications interfaces to WAN connections and WAN backhaul connections, and to further provide scheduling and routing instructions for the WAN connections and WAN backhaul connections. Other related embodiments are disclosed.
US10064089B2
The present invention pertains to improved communication quality of service in communication networks. A customer may pay different fees for different tiers of service relating to voice quality and bandwidth access. Higher service tiers may guarantee that a specific vocoder or bit rate is used; or guarantee that communication is supported by parameters such as maximum allowed dropped calls rate, jitter and latency. Availability may be guaranteed per the contract between subscribers and service providers. Different tiers may be associated with customers' records for billing purposes. High end devices may be afforded higher voice quality by comparing a given device to a look up table indicating what service level is associated therewith. A calling device or a receiving device may ask the other device to change the vocoder or bit rate to ensure a higher quality call. The user may also change the quality level before or during a call.
US10064087B2
One disclosure of the present specification provides an interference cancellation reception method. The interference cancellation reception method can comprise the steps of: cancelling an interference caused by a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) from a neighboring cell which is mixed within a signal received from a serving cell; blind-detecting a parameter related to a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) so as to discover whether the signal from the neighboring cell mixed within the received signal is a data channel modulated on the basis of the DMRS; cancelling an interference between the detected DMRS signal and a DMRS signal of the serving cell when the DMRS is detected on the basis of the DMRS-related parameter; blind-detecting a modulation order for the data channel from the neighboring cell; and receiving only the signal from the serving cell through the interference cancellation by the data channel from the neighboring cell on the basis of the modulation order.
US10064086B2
Network node and UE, and methods therein for signaling system information, SI, to UEs. The method in the network node comprises transmitting SI to one or more UEs, where the SI comprises multiple alternative sets, where each set assigns different values to one or multiple radio system parameters. The method further comprises determining which set, out of the multiple alternative sets, that should currently be applied for a UE, and transmitting an SI selection signal to the UE, the SI selection signal indicating the determined set, thus enabling the UE to apply currently appropriate radio system parameters also in unfavorable radio conditions. The UE may be an MTC device (Machine Type Communication).
US10064083B2
Universal communication system for measurement apparatuses, method of communication relating thereto
A universal communication system for measurement apparatuses is provided, including: a remote server having: a data storage location, a remote platform of the lightweight client type configured so as to interact with at least part of a plurality of measurement instruments; at least one gateway disposed between the remote server and the plurality of measurement instruments, the at least one gateway including: first bidirectional connector with the plurality of measurement instruments; second bidirectional connector with the remote server; and a processing unit configured to communicate with the measurement instruments according to a plurality of communication protocols, the processing unit being devised so as to store and execute at least one software application.
US10064079B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations for handling signal quality measurements by a wireless device in a wireless network environment, particularly in a coordinated transmission environment. An apparatus may include computer-readable media having instructions and one or more processors coupled with the media and configured to execute the instructions to generate a power parameter corresponding to a power adjustment associated with a reference signal, provide the reference signal generated based in part on the generated power parameter to a wireless device, and provide the power parameter to transmission points operating in the coordinated transmission environment. Each of the transmission points may be configured to communicate the power parameter to the wireless device, and the wireless device may be configured to determine, based at least in part on the power parameter, a power characteristics associated with a channel in which the reference signal is provided.
US10064078B2
A wireless communications method, user equipment, and a network node are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by user equipment, a message sent by a first network node, where the message includes measurement instruction information and connection indication information; measuring, by the user equipment in the RRC-IDLE mode, the neighboring cells according to the measurement instruction information, and obtaining measurement results; and selecting, by the user equipment, at least one to-be-connected cell from the neighboring cells according to the connection indication information and the measurement results, and keeping camping on the cell of the first network node when the user equipment is in the RRC-IDLE mode. Embodiments of the present invention can advance a time at which a new cell is found.
US10064072B2
Among other things, a communication system comprising remote units and a controller is described. The remote units exchange radio frequency (RF) signals with mobile devices. At least some of the RF signals comprise information destined for, or originating from, a mobile device. The controller comprises one or more modems and is connected to an external network. At least one of the modems is a baseband modem and is configured to pass first data corresponding to the information. The controller is separated from the remote units by an intermediate network over which second data corresponding to the information is carried in frames between the controller and the remote units. The second data comprises baseband data and at least some of the baseband data is compressed in a frequency domain. The remote units and the controller are configured to compress the baseband data for transmission over the intermediate network.
US10064070B2
A communications system includes radio frequency equipment configured to generate RF beams from a high altitude communications platform providing communications coverage over a coverage area, a beamformer configured to apply beam weights to the RF beams to divide the coverage area into service areas arranged in a frequency reuse ground pattern, and a processor configured to adjust the beam weights to compensate for beam displacements resulting from motion of the high altitude communications platform along a flight path, and interchange the RF beams to maintain the frequency reuse ground pattern throughout the flight path.
US10064060B2
Fingerprint actuation is described for unlocking a mobile device and activating customized mobile device functions by using a fingerprint authentication technique. The mobile device uses a fingerprint sensor to authenticate a user for allowing secure access to certain mobile device functions or contents, and provides a utility in addition to unlocking the mobile device. This allows the user to control access to one or more mobile device functions concurrently with invoking fingerprint authentication in order to unlock the mobile device when the user presses a finger to the fingerprint sensor. The mobile device may be unlocked using a designated finger that activates a panic mode of operation, wherein personal data stored on the mobile device is not accessible or viewable to the user. In other implementations, the user may register particular fingerprints to be associated with different modes of operation and activate the different modes based on the particular fingerprints.
US10064059B1
An internet of things (IoT) device is disclosed. The IoT device comprising: one or more processors; a machine-readable medium comprising instructions stored therein, which, when executed by the one or more processors cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising: hopping, between one or more wireless network protocol frequency bands and one or more wireless network protocol broadcast channels, wherein the wireless network protocol broadcast channels utilizes one or more of a multicast broadcasting method, a unicast broadcasting method, and a broadcast broadcasting method; receiving, in response to the hopping, wireless network protocol packets from the one or more wireless network protocol frequency bands on the one or more wireless network protocol broadcast channels; detecting a wireless network protocol broadcast packet of interest from the wireless network protocol broadcast packets; extracting wireless network access credentials from the wireless network protocol broadcast packet of interest; and sending a request to access, to a local wireless access network utilizing the extracted wireless network access credentials.
US10064058B2
An embodiment includes receiving at a network node associated with a mobile core network an authorization request from a network device, wherein the authorization request is received via an untrusted network; subsequent to the receiving, performing at the network node authorization of the network device; subsequent to the receiving, determining a preferred network access node for the network device, wherein the determining comprises accessing a node selection information repository containing static and dynamic information related to network access nodes and network access node groupings and wherein the static and dynamic information comprises at least one of resource usage, location, availability of mobility anchors, proximity of mobility anchors, handover opportunities, resiliency class, and time of day; and providing to the network device an initial authorization response comprising a response to the received authorization request, wherein the initial authorization response identifies the determined preferred network access node.
US10064055B2
Secure architectures and methods for improving the security of mobile devices are disclosed. Also disclosed are apparatuses and methods to detect and mitigate fraud in device-assisted services implementations.
US10064045B2
A method for managing subscriptions on a security element for a mobile end device comprises the following steps: for each subscription of a plurality of subscriptions a quality of service is determined. On the basis of the qualities of service determined for the individual subscriptions a subscription is selected. The selected subscription is subsequently employed for a data communication of the end device with a corresponding communication partner. The method is wherein the managing of the subscriptions is controlled at least partly by an external subscription management device which is distinct from the security element and the end device.
US10064036B2
Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for establishing communication between a plurality of devices. A first advertising packet comprising an identifier of the first electronic device is broadcast to at least one other device in a first radio communication mode. At least one responding advertising packet request is received from the at least one other device. A communication link in a second radio communication mode is established with a device from which a responding advertising packet was received.
US10064031B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed for migrating between terminals. An apparatus that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a network proxy having a controller that manages a communications interface in a communication system. The controller can be programmed to receive a request to migrate a first terminal to a third terminal while active communications are taking place on a first voice channel connecting the first terminal to a second terminal, establish a second voice channel with the third terminal, connect the first and second voice channels, and terminate without action of an end user of the first terminal a connection between the first terminal and the first voice channel. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10064029B1
Methods are disclosed for connecting devices over peer-to-peer connections. An example method includes: sending first wireless network information and first peer-to-peer information from a first device to a second device; comparing the first wireless network information and a second wireless network information; sending a second peer-to-peer information from the second device to the first device, if the first and second wireless network information match; and attempting a peer-to-peer connection between the first device and the second device based on the first and second peer-to-peer information.
US10064026B2
A unified message delivery between multiple devices is disclosed. Sending messages through a local communications link, such as but not limited to at least one of a Bluetooth connection and a peer-to-peer WiFi connection, can lead to faster transmission times and reduced server load. When the local communications link is unavailable or not suitable, the messages can be sent through a network and a push server. In some examples, messages can be sent through both the local communications link and through the network and the push server. Duplicates of a received message can be avoided by utilizing indicators. In some examples, one or more devices can include queue(s) to ensure ordered delivery of a plurality of messages when a local communications link and network connection become unavailable.
US10064018B1
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for initiating actions based on mobile device location of a user. The method includes one or more processors determining that a user is within a defined proximity to a zone within a venue, based on monitoring a computing device of the user moving through the venue. The method further includes one or more processors identifying an action associated with the zone, where the action includes performing a function of the computing device of the user. The method further includes one or more processors initiating the identified action associated with the zone on the computing device of the user.
US10064015B2
A method for identifying a subset (41) out of a set (40) of mobile computing devices (10) at a venue (30) comprises broadcasting a trigger signal to the set of mobile computing devices at the venue, receiving the trigger signal by the mobile computing devices in the set, and rendering visual content on the displays of the mobile computing devices in the set after reception of the trigger signal. Subsequently those mobile computing devices that are not part of the subset are caused to stop rendering the visual content, while those mobile computing devices that are part of the subset continue to render the visual content. Finally only those mobile computing devices that belong to the subset remain rendering the visual content.
US10064012B1
An ultra-wideband (UWB) tracking device, system, and method are provided. The system can include a plurality of anchor transmitters, at least one location device, and a processing system. The anchor transmitters can be arranged in predetermined positions, include a unique identifier, and each transmit an ultra-wide band (UWB) signal including the unique identifier. The location device can receive the UWB signals, and transmit the unique identifiers. The processing system can include a digital map that stores the unique identifiers and the predetermined positions. The processing system can receive the unique identifiers from the location device, and identify a position of the location device based on a comparison of the unique identifiers received and the stored unique identifiers on the digital map.
US10064006B2
Systems, methods, and software technology for providing access control with respect to messaging bots is disclosed herein. In an implementation, an access control service associates various messaging bots with various geographic areas. The system monitors a location of messaging clients with respect to the geographic areas and, in response to when at least one of the messaging clients has entered one of the geographic areas, grants an associated messaging bot with initial access to the messaging client to converse with an end user. Subsequent access is granted based on a level of engagement reached with respect to the messaging conversation.
US10064003B2
A mobile device can monitor a current location using a multi-tier approach. A baseband subsystem can monitor a coarse location of the mobile device using various course location parameters, such as a mobile country code (MCC), a location area code (LAC), or a cell identifier (cell ID), as the mobile device moves closer to the geographic region. Upon determining that the mobile device is in a cell that intersects the geographic region, the baseband subsystem can transfer the monitoring to the application subsystem. The task can be performed when the application subsystem determines that the mobile device is currently located in the geographic region. A beacon network can provide more accurate estimates of mobile device location and advertise location based services available to the mobile device.
US10064000B2
A method, apparatus and storage medium for acquiring terminal information are provided. The method includes: detecting a state of a first terminal; and communicating with a server via a virtual identity module to enable the server to acquire information from the first terminal in response to the detected state indicating that the first terminal is lost.
US10063994B2
Disclosed herein is a mobile phone with the Near Field Communication (NFC) technology and method of operating the mobile phone. The mobile phone includes a display; a baseband chip; a near field communication (NFC) module comprising an RF antenna, an NFC tag circuit and an NFC main chip; and the RF antenna configured to receive incoming RF signals in 13.56 MHz.
US10063991B2
A mobile communication device (100) sends a request (402) to a bootstrap server (310). The request (402) indicates selection information for selecting bootstrap data at the bootstrap server (310). The bootstrap server (310) selects the bootstrap data and sends the selected bootstrap data (404) to the mobile communication device (100). The mobile communication device (100) receives the selected bootstrap data (404) and, depending on the received bootstrap data (404), configures settings for management of the mobile communication device by a device management server (210).
US10063981B2
A bone conduction hearing aid system includes a hearing aid housing with a hearing aid vibrator. A skin interface has an interface connector offset on an outer interface surface and detachably connected to a housing connector. A skin adhesive connects to the skin of a patient user to transmit the sound vibrations through the skin to underlying skull bone for transmission by bone conduction to a hearing organ of the user. When the skin adhesive is pressed against the skin of the user, the skin is initially engaged during an initial engagement period with an initial adhesive force that promotes removal and relocation of the skin interface, and the skin is fully engaged after the initial engagement period with a full adhesive force greater than the initial adhesive force that promotes a fixed secure connection that resists removal of the skin interface.
US10063978B2
A MEMS microphone includes a base structure and a piezoelectric resonator body having a first end and a second end. The first end is fixedly supported by the base structure and the second end is free such that the piezoelectric resonator is cantilevered from the base structure. The MEMS microphone further includes a first electrode operably connected to the piezoelectric resonator body and a second electrode operably connected to the piezoelectric resonator body. A controller includes at least one circuit operably connected to the first and second electrodes and configured to drive the piezoelectric resonator body at a shear resonance frequency of the piezoelectric resonator body and to detect a difference in the shear resonance frequency from a baseline resonance frequency resulting from a sound pressure.
US10063975B2
A mobile terminal including a first body; a first audio output unit provided in the first body and configured to output sound; an audio conversion unit provided in the first body and configured to convert a sound source signal into an audio signal; a second body detachably coupled to the first body; and a second audio output unit provided in the second body and configured to output sound, wherein the audio conversion unit converts the sound source signal into a default audio signal and transmits the converted signal to the first audio output unit, in a state where the second body is detached from the first body, and the audio conversion unit converts the sound source signal into a first audio signal and transmits the converted first audio signal to the first audio output unit, when the second body is coupled to the first body.
US10063967B2
A sound collecting device includes a sound source position input interface that receives input of sound source position information indicating a sound source position, an audio interface that receives input of sound signals collected by two or more sound collecting units placed at predetermined positions in advance, a recording medium in which sound collecting unit placement information indicating placement information of the sound collecting units is stored, and a controller that selects one of the sound signals output from the sound collecting units, based on the sound source position information and the sound collecting unit placement information.
US10063966B2
A speech-processing apparatus includes: a representative transfer function estimation unit that uses a sound signal which is collected by using a microphone array of which the arrangement is unknown, which has a plurality of channels, and of which the number of sound sources is unknown and that estimates a transfer function with respect to a sound source.
US10063964B2
An electronic device may include wireless circuitry that is configured to transmit wireless signals during operation. A maximum transmit power level may be established that serves as a cap on how much power is transmitted from the electronic device. Adjustments may be made to the maximum transmit power level in real time based on sensor signals and other information on the operating state of the electronic device. The sensor signals may include motion signals from an accelerometer. The sensor signals may also include ultrasonic sound detected by a microphone. Device orientation data may be used by the device to select whether to measure the ultrasonic sound using a front facing or rear facing microphone. Maximum transmit power level may also be adjusted based on whether or not sound is playing through an ear speaker in the device.
US10063951B2
Certain embodiments may take the form of an electronic device having a main housing encapsulating operative circuitry for the device. The electronic device includes an attachment member moveably coupled to the metal housing. The attachment member has an acoustical device located therein that is communicatively coupled to the operative circuitry in the main housing. The attachment member includes a recessed portion for positioning the acoustical device within the attachment member.
US10063946B2
A transponder includes a multiplexing section, optical transmitters, optical receivers, an extracting section, and a warning monitor section, wherein the extracting section includes a first signal extracting unit for extracting reception data, a second signal extracting unit for extracting reception data, and a reception signal switching section. When carrier signals are in a link-establishable state, the reception signal switching section supplies reception electric signals generated by the optical receivers to the first signal extracting unit and outputs the reception data. When a carrier signal is in a non-link-establishable state, the reception signal switching section supplies a reception electric signal generated by an optical receiver using a carrier signal in the link-establishable state to the second signal extracting unit and outputs the reception data extracted by the second signal extracting unit.
US10063944B2
A remote node includes a first node input, a second node input, and an optical switch. The optical switch includes a first switch input optically coupled to the first node input, a second switch input optically coupled to the second node input, a first switch output switchably coupled to the first switch input or the second switch input, and a second switch output switchably coupled to the first switch input or the second switch input. The remote node includes a photodiode optically coupled to the second switch output, and a capacitor electrically coupled to the photodiode and the optical switch. When the first switch input is switchably coupled to the first switch output, the second switch input is switchably coupled to the second switch output. Light received by the second switch input passes out the second switch output to the photodiode. The photodiode charges the capacitor to a threshold charge.
US10063941B2
A method for writing images into a memory is provided. The method includes steps of: establishing a first configuration table for configuring the memory into a plurality of first buffers according to a first resolution of a first image; establishing a second configuration table for configuring the memory into a plurality of second buffers according to a second resolution of a second image, wherein the second resolution is different from the first resolution; and determining a position to which the second image is to be written into the memory according to the first configuration table and the second configuration table.
US10063940B1
A computer system comprising one or more processors and computer-readable media operatively connected thereto, having stored thereon instructions for carrying out the steps of: maintaining one or more databases comprising first electronic data comprising digitally created reference compact electronic representations for each of a plurality of reference electronic works and second electronic data associated with the reference electronic works and related to action information corresponding thereto; obtaining a first digitally created compact electronic representation comprising one or more extracted feature vectors of a first electronic work; identifying a matching reference electronic work by comparing the first digitally created compact electronic representation of the first electronic work with the first electronic data using a sub-linear search of the first electronic data; determining the action information corresponding to the matching reference electronic work based on the second electronic data; and associating the determined action information with the first electronic work.
US10063937B2
One variation of a method for serving a video advertisement to a computing device includes: segmenting a digital video into a first video segment and a second video segment; at a visual element loaded into a document, loading the first video segment; in response to a scroll event that shifts the visual element into view within a window rendered on a display of the computing device, playing back the first video segment within the visual element; during playback of the first video segment, loading the second video segment from a remote server; in response to completion of playback of the first video segment, playing back the second video segment within the visual element; and calculating a level of user engagement a total duration of the digital video played back in the visual element.
US10063921B2
Power aware adaptation for a power aware video streaming system may be based on the complexity information conveyed in different ways. A complexity level of a data stream, such as a video data stream, may be selected as a function of a remaining battery-power of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) and on a state set of a plurality of state sets that may be stored and/or managed by the WTRU. These state sets may correspond to, for example, different content sources and/or different complexity estimation algorithms and may be used to select the complexity level of the data stream. The data stream may then be received at the selected complexity level. The complexity level and/or a bitrate of the data stream may be adapted to accommodate, for example, the remaining battery power and/or other circumstances. The adaptation may be customized according to the objectives of use cases.
US10063918B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems to help disambiguate channel identification in a scenario where fingerprint data of media content matches multiple reference fingerprints corresponding respectively with multiple different channels. Upon detecting such a multi-match, a server or other entity will perform disambiguation based on a determination that a segment of the fingerprint data matches a reference fingerprint corresponding with just a single channel, such as a reference fingerprint representing commercial or news programming content specific to just the single channel. The server or other entity will thereby determine the channel on which the media content being rendered by the media presentation device is arriving, so as to facilitate taking channel-specific action.
US10063917B2
A method is disclosed for identifying the media content. The method includes receiving fingerprint media content from a content provider to obtain a first set of fingerprints, the first set of fingerprints including a first subset of fingerprints in a first fingerprint layout and a second subset of fingerprints in a second fingerprint layout. The method can include receiving a second set of fingerprints for media content displayed on the electronic device, the second set of fingerprints comprising a third subset of fingerprints in the first fingerprint layout and a fourth subset of fingerprints in the second fingerprint layout. The method can include matching a first fingerprint in the first subset of fingerprints to a second fingerprint in the third subset of fingerprints or a third fingerprint in the second subset of fingerprints to a fourth fingerprint in the fourth subset of fingerprints in order to identify the media content.
US10063915B2
A system and method for remotely transcoding content includes a cloud location storing content corresponding to content titles, generating a playlist corresponding to content titles subscribed to by a user of a user device stored therein, and communicating the playlist to the user device. A user device is in communication with the cloud location through a network. The user device generates a selection signal for selecting a first content title from the playlist to form a selection. The user device negotiates optimal settings by intercommunicating between the user device and the cloud location in response to forming the selection. The user device communicates the selection to the cloud location. The cloud location has a transcoder device transcoding content corresponding to the selection to form transcoded content in response to the optimal settings. The cloud location communicates the transcoded content to the user device.
US10063914B2
An information device includes a communication component and a controller. The communication component communicates with an external device. The controller downloads video data from the external device through the communication component, executes a post-download processing for playing the video data after completing download of the video data, and executes an application for playing the video data. The controller sends a download request for the video data to the external device based on a processing time for the post-download processing.
US10063894B2
Systems for electronic media distribution includes a differential versioning server configured to receive a first media file including a first set of data with a first set of attributes and a second media file including a second set of data with a second set of attributes, generate a first differential data file as a function of differences between the first media file and the second media file, and generate a first differential metadata file including an encoding data set configured to enable a media decoder to regenerate the second media file by applying the first differential data file to the first media file. Systems for electronic media distribution may also include a receiver communicatively coupled to a differential versioning decoder configured to receive the first media file and the first differential data file and generate the second media file by applying the first differential data file to the first media file.
US10063890B2
The present invention is a variable length coding method for coding coefficients in each block which are obtained by performing frequency transformation on picture data of a moving picture per block having a predetermined size, and comprises: a coefficient scanning step of scanning the coefficients in the block in a predetermined order; and a coding step of coding the coefficients scanned in the coefficient scanning step into variable length codes in a predetermined order by switching a plurality of tables to be used for coding. Here, a direction of switching between the tables may be one-directional. Also, the coding may be non-arithmetic coding.
US10063888B1
An encoding target region in an image can be partitioned into a plurality of prediction regions. Based on prediction information of a neighboring region neighboring a target region, the number of previously-encoded prediction regions in the target region, and previously-encoded prediction information of the target region, a candidate for motion information to be used in generation of a predicted signal of the target prediction region as a next prediction region is selected from previously-encoded motion information of regions neighboring the target prediction region. According to the number of candidates for motion information selected, merging block information to indicate generation of the predicted signal of the target prediction region using the selected candidate for motion information and motion information detected by prediction information estimation means, or either one of the merging block information or the motion information is encoded.
US10063883B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods and apparatuses for coding and decoding a depth map, where the coding method includes: acquiring an intra-frame prediction mode of a current image block of the depth map; determining whether the intra-frame prediction mode belongs to a preset intra-frame prediction mode set; if yes, using a preset intra-frame prediction method to perform coding processing on the current image block, so as to acquire a residual of the current image block. The preset intra-frame prediction method includes a first intra-frame prediction method; and a difference operation is performed between an average pixel value of the current image block and an average pixel value of prediction data of the current image block to obtain the residual of the current image block.
US10063876B2
A method and apparatus derive a motion vector predictor (MVP) for a current block in an Inter, Merge, or Skip mode. Embodiments according to the present invention determine redundant MVP candidates according to a non-MV-value based criterion. The redundant MVP candidates are then removed from the MVP candidate set. In other embodiments according to the present invention, motion IDs are assigned to MVP candidates to follow the trail of motion vectors associated with the MVP candidate. An MVP candidate having a same motion ID as a previous MVP is redundant and can be removed from the MVP candidate set. In yet another embodiment, redundant MVP candidates correspond to one or more of the MVP candidates that cause the second 2N×N or N×2N PU to be merged into a 2N×2N PU are removed from the MVP candidate set.
US10063872B2
A distributed video encoding system splits an input video into video segments. The video segments are encoded using multiple video encoding nodes. Prior to the process of splitting the sequence into video segments, the video is analyzed to generate a dependency map. Intelligent segmentation is performed using the dependency map so that each video segment includes all the video frames from which other video frames within that segment have been encoded in the input video. For example, picture headers are inspected to determine the temporal distance of the farthest past and future reference frames used for encoding frames of a video.
US10063866B2
Systems, methods and computer readable mediums are presented for encoding a stream of input video frames, in which the input video frames are down sampled and the down sampled frames are encoded in a first encoding pass to generate a set of first pass coded frames forming a single first pass I frame and a plurality of first pass P frames formed into first pass sub-groups of pictures (SUB-GOPs). First pass encoding statistics are generated for individual first pass SUB-GOPs, and the statistics are used to encode the input video frames in a second encoding pass to generate a set of second pass coded frames.
US10063861B2
Techniques and systems are provided for performing predictive random access using a background picture. For example, a method of decoding video data includes obtaining an encoded video bitstream comprising a plurality of pictures. The plurality of pictures include a plurality of predictive random access pictures. A predictive random access picture is at least partially encoded using inter-prediction based on at least one background picture. The method further includes determining, for a time instance of the video bitstream, a predictive random access picture of the plurality of predictive random access pictures with a time stamp closest in time to the time instance. The method further includes determining a background picture associated with the predictive random access picture, and decoding at least a portion of the predictive random access picture using inter-prediction based on the background picture.
US10063857B2
The quantization parameters (QP) for Chroma are extended up to and more preferably to the same range as Luma QP (e.g., 0 to 51). Previous, values of Chroma QP only extended up to 39. Techniques are provided for determining extended Chroma QP values (e.g., for Cr and Cb) based on the Luma QP and picture level chroma offsets. In one preferred embodiment, slice level offsets are added making the method particularly well-suited for slice level parallel processing. The extension of Chroma QP enhances functionality, flexibility and friendliness of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard for various applications.
US10063856B2
The quantization parameters (QP) for Chroma are extended up to and more preferably to the same range as Luma QP (e.g., 0 to 51). Previous, values of Chroma QP only extended up to 39. Techniques are provided for determining extended Chroma QP values (e.g., for Cr and Cb) based on the Luma QP and picture level chroma offsets. In one preferred embodiment, slice level offsets are added making the method particularly well-suited for slice level parallel processing. The extension of Chroma QP enhances functionality, flexibility and friendliness of the High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) standard for various applications.
US10063854B2
Provided is a method that de-multiplexes a bit stream to extract intra prediction mode information and residual signals, restores an intra prediction mode of a current prediction unit using the intra prediction information and intra prediction modes of prediction units adjacent to the current prediction unit, generates reference pixels using one or more available reference pixel if there exist unavailable reference pixels of the prediction unit, adaptively filters the reference pixels based on the restored intra prediction mode, generates a prediction block using the restored intra prediction mode and the reference pixels, decodes the residual signal to generating a residual block, and generates a reconstructed block using the prediction block and the residual block. Accordingly, additional bits resulted from increase of a number of intra prediction mode are effectively reduced. Also, an image compression ratio can be improved by generating a prediction block similar to an original block.
US10063848B2
The perception of a displayed image is altered for viewers moving relative to the position of the display system screen, thereby imparting a sense of three-dimensional immersion in the scene being displayed. A display generator generates a scene having foreground and background elements, and a display screen displaying the scene. A sensor detects the position of a viewer relative to the display screen, and a processor is operative to shift the relative position of the foreground and background elements in the displayed scene as a function of viewer position, such that the viewer's perspective of the scene changes as the viewer moves relative to the display screen. The foreground and background elements may be presented in the form of multiple superimposed graphics planes, and/or a camera may be used to record the scene through panning at sequential angles. The system may be used to implement virtual windows, virtual mirrors and other effects without requiring viewers or users to modify behavior or wear glasses, beacons, etc.
US10063840B2
A system, article, and method of sub-pixel accuracy 3D measurement using multiple images.
US10063833B2
A method of controlling a stereo convergence and an image processor using the method are provided. The method includes: detecting objects from a stereo image; grouping the detected objects into at least one or more objects according to setup specification information; and moving at least one of left and right eye images of a stereo image of the grouping or a setup area including the grouping in a horizontal or vertical direction or in the horizontal and vertical directions.
US10063831B2
A method for stereo image rectification includes receiving a plurality of images and determining a matrix for performing rectification on the plurality of images based on a first cost function and a second cost function. The first cost function may be associated with a distance of a corresponding pair of points from among the plurality of images. The second cost function may be associated with distortion in a converted image.
US10063824B2
An image processing system performs intensity mapping in a manner that avoids color shifts and conserves processing resources while adapting image data for a target display device. The image processing system may convert input image data to a target color space in which brightness components are orthogonal to other color components. When intensity mapping is performed on image data, the intensity mapping operations do not induce the color shifts that were created in these other proposals. Resource conservation may be achieved by altering operation of perceptual quantization processes as used in other intensity mapping systems. Where prior proposals performed perceptual quantization on all color components of the image data being processed, the disclosed embodiments perform perceptual quantization on only a brightness color component of image data. Thus, these embodiments avoid resource expenditures that otherwise would be spent on perceptual quantization of two other color components.
US10063823B2
There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, and a recording medium that make it possible to set a dynamic range of an image to be reproduced. A BD-J execution unit sets a dynamic range of a screen to be reproduced. A video decoder generates a main video to be reproduced in the dynamic range set by the BD-J execution unit. The present disclosure can be applied, for example, to a reproducing device or the like that reproduces an optical disk that records an AV stream of a main video in a standard dynamic range (SDR) and an AV stream of a main video in a high dynamic range (HDR).
US10063822B2
Digitally acquiring digital media content using a computer model simulation of a real venue in which the digital content is to be shown. Frontally projecting content from a virtual center of the simulated venue, the real venue having a frontal screen and two side screens. Digitally capturing the frontally projected digital media content from a view that a real frontal projector and two real side projectors would have in real life in order to “bake in” a warped transformation of the frontally projected digital media content. Projecting the warped, transformed frontally projected content through a frontal digital projector and two side digital projectors in the real venue, thus completing an illusion of a “cinematic window” of the digital media content in the real venue. Controlling the digital projectors using a digital server to feed the three digitally captured, warped media streams synchronously to the front, left and right digital projectors.
US10063819B2
A projection optical system (10) projects from a first image plane (5) on a reducing side to a second image plane (6) on an enlargement side. The projection optical system (10) includes a first optical system (11) that includes a plurality of lenses and forms a first intermediate image (51) formed inside the first optical system (11) by light incident from the reducing side into a second intermediate image (52) on the enlargement side of the first optical system (11); a second optical system (12) that includes a first reflective surface (M1) with positive refractive power which is positioned further to the enlargement side than the second intermediate image (52); and a glass block (30) that is disposed between the first optical system (11) and the first reflective surface (M1), the glass block (30) passing light rays from the first optical system (11) to the second intermediate image (52).
US10063818B1
Example embodiments may relate to methods and systems for providing a higher-resolution segment within a larger lower-resolution projection onto a projection surface. For example, the system may receive pose data corresponding to a viewing location relative to the projection surface. The system may then determine, based on the pose data, a target portion of an image frame of image data. As a result, the system may cause a first projector to project at least the target portion onto the projection surface and cause a second projector to project at least a remaining portion of the image frame of the image data onto the projection surface. The projections of the target portion and the remaining portion may collectively provide a complete projection of the image data on the projection surface and a projection-surface resolution of the target portion may be higher than a projection-surface resolution of the remaining portion.
US10063813B2
A communication system 100 includes a content management system 221 determining broadband content availability, and a transport processing system 250 dividing the broadband content availability into broadband content availability packets. The transport processing system 250 communicates the broadband availability packets to a user device through a satellite 106 or 108.
US10063803B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and storage medium for playing video. The method comprises: providing a video playing interface; determining a first display area and a second display area in the video playing interface; generating a surface around the first display area or around the second display area; acquiring a video file, additional media information related to the video file, and a surface component related to a relationship chain; playing the video file in the first display area, displaying the additional media information related to the video file in the second display area, and displaying the surface component in the surface.
US10063800B2
Disclosed is an image sensor using a nanowire, including a substrate, a photodetector for sensing incident light to produce photocurrent, the magnitude of which varies depending on the intensity of incident light, a signal processing module for outputting photodetection current including information about the presence or absence of incident light and the intensity of incident light based on the presence or absence of photocurrent and the magnitude thereof, and an electrode configured to electrically connect the photodetector and the signal processing module to each other and formed on the photodetector and the signal processing module, wherein the photodetector and the signal processing module are formed on the substrate, and the photodetector is formed of at least one silicon nanowire.
US10063799B2
An active pixel sensor (APS) that includes circuitry to eliminate artifacts in digital images. The APS includes a comparator for comparing a signal level from a pixel to an adjusted saturation voltage to determine if the pixel is saturated. If the pixel is saturated, the signal output from the pixel is replaced with an analog voltage having a maximum value corresponding to a brightest pixel in the image.
US10063798B2
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging element, a readout unit, and a signal processing unit. The imaging element includes pixels that have photoelectric conversion units for one micro lens. The readout unit performs a first readout operation on pixels included in a first region of the imaging element to read signals according to accumulated electric charges, and performs a second readout operation on pixels included in a second region different from the first region to read signals according to accumulated electric charges. The signal processing unit makes a correction for reducing noise levels to the signals readout by the readout unit. The signal processing unit makes the correction to the signals acquired from the first region such that differences between noise levels included in the signals read by the first readout operation and the second readout operation become smaller after the correction by the signal processing unit.
US10063795B2
An image capturing apparatus includes a photometric sensor having a plurality of pixels having a sensitivity to an infrared light range and a visible light range, an acquisition unit that divides the photometric sensor into a plurality of pixel groups and acquires image information of the infrared light range and image information of the visible light range in each of the plurality of pixel groups, a subtraction unit that generates a visible light component obtained by subtracting an infrared light component that is based on the image information of the infrared light range from the image information of each of the plurality of pixel groups, and a processing unit that performs at least one of light source determination processing, specific color detection processing, and exposure amount determination processing, using the visible light component generated by the subtraction unit.
US10063789B2
Provided is an image acquisition device, comprising a camera shooting module, wherein the camera shooting module comprises at least two cameras; a control module for controlling the at least two cameras of the camera shooting module to shoot the same scenario; and a processing module for processing images shot by the camera shooting module for the same scenario, so as to obtain images with enhanced brightness. Also correspondingly provided are an image acquisition method and a terminal. The present invention can realize the acquisition of clear images with relatively high brightness in a dark light environment.
US10063780B2
An electronic imaging system for capturing and displaying the images in real time is disclosed, which includes a controller, a display device and a left to right mirror module. The controller has a camera lens and a transmission unit. The camera lens can capture the image signals. The transmission unit transmits the captured image signals. The display device has a receiving unit and a display unit. The receiving unit receives the image signal from the transmission unit of the controller, and the display unit displays the images received in real time. The left to right mirror module is used to mirror the image signal, which is then displayed on the display device.
US10063774B2
An image processing apparatus detecting a plurality of joint positions between a plurality of input images includes a target image generation unit configured to generate a plurality of target images to be searched in a second input image among the input images from a first input image among the input images; a characteristic amount calculation unit configured to calculate a characteristic amount for each of the target images generated by the target image generation unit; and a joint position determination unit configured to determine the joint position for a target image of interest among the target images having the characteristic amounts calculated by the characteristic amount calculation unit depending on the characteristic amount.
US10063768B2
Imaging device capable of combining a plurality of image data, and control method for imaging device
An imaging device comprises an image data acquisition circuit that determines a plurality of focus positions by repeatedly shifting focus position by a given amount, forms subject images at respective focus positions, and acquires, from the subject images that have been formed, a plurality of image data of a first resolution, or a plurality of image data of a second resolution that is different to the first resolution, and an image combination circuit that generates first image data by combining the plurality of image data of the first resolution, or generates second image data by combining the plurality of image data of the second resolution.
US10063761B2
A system and method is disclosed for enabling user friendly interaction with a camera system. Specifically, the inventive system and method has several aspects to improve the interaction with a camera system, including voice recognition, gaze tracking, touch sensitive inputs and others. The voice recognition unit is operable for, among other things, receiving multiple different voice commands, recognizing the vocal commands, associating the different voice commands to one camera command and controlling at least some aspect of the digital camera operation in response to these voice commands. The gaze tracking unit is operable for, among other things, determining the location on the viewfinder image that the user is gazing upon. One aspect of the touch sensitive inputs provides that the touch sensitive pad is mouse-like and is operable for, among other things, receiving user touch inputs to control at least some aspect of the camera operation. Another aspect of the disclosed invention provides for gesture recognition to be used to interface with and control the camera system.
US10063748B2
An apparatus includes at least one processor configured to function as a dividing unit configured to divide at least part of an image, which is obtained by reading an original using a scanning device, into a plurality of processing blocks, a determination unit configured to determine an attribute value that specifies a processing content of one or more pixels in each processing block, of the plurality of processing blocks, divided by the dividing unit, in accordance with a coordinate in the original to which each processing block, of the plurality of processing blocks, corresponds, and an image processing unit configured to execute an image process to correct an input pixel value of a pixel in image data that represents the image and to output the corrected pixel value of the pixel, based on the attribute value determined by the determination unit.
US10063739B2
A printing apparatus comprises: a printing section that prints out print data onto a medium; an imaging section that captures an image of a print result on the medium; and an error notification section that performs error notification in a case of occurrence of an error during the printing of the print data. The error notification section judges whether to issue an error notice or not. In a case of an affirmative judgment to issue the error notice, the error notification section acquires a print image showing the print result by using the imaging section and transmits the acquired print image together with the error notice.
US10063735B2
An image file management method is applied to an image storage device. A plurality of image files is stored in the image storage device. The image file management method includes setting a first score of each image file according to a file size of each image file, setting a second score of each image file according to a storage time of each image file, and performing selective deletion of each image file according to the first score and the second score of each image file.
US10063733B2
An alignment sheet for alignment of an image forming position of a sheet includes a first side and a second side. The first side has a reference image which is formed in a periphery of the first side and which is used for measuring a position of an image on the first side. The second side has a background image with a predetermined area which is formed at a location where the background image does not overlap the reference image. The reference image and the background image are read at the same time by an image reading section while an area with the reference image is folded such that the background image appears as a background.
US10063731B2
An input control script embedded in a web page is received by a client terminal that accesses, using a web browser, a web application server on which a web application operates, and that controls an input device. The input control script comprises an acquisition request transmission unit that sends an acquisition request to the input device when a specific operation is performed on the web page from the web application server; an acquisition unit that acquires input information from the input device as a response to the acquisition request; and a drawing process unit that draws the input information acquired by the acquisition unit in a specific drawing area.
US10063712B2
Systems and computing devices may be configured to intelligently and dynamically allocate quotas for the access and use of a telecommunications network by consumers that use a shared balance account. The dynamic allocation of quotas may include computing a total reclaimable quota size value in response to determining that quota may not be allocated to a first consumer from the shared account balance without exceeding a balance threshold, reclaiming all or portions of currently active allocated quotas from a other consumers that use the shared balance account in response to determining that the total reclaimable quota size value is greater than or equal to the minimum quota allocation size, updating the shared account balance to include the reclaimed portions, and allocating quota to the first consumer from the updated shared balance account.
US10063706B2
In general, embodiments of the present invention relate to conference management. Specifically, sequentially scheduled conferences (e.g., conference calls) are determined for a conference participant. The connection details (e.g., call-in details) for the second of the two conferences are retrieved. If the conference is not over when the second conference is scheduled to begin, a connection is initiated with the second conference using the connection details while maintaining a connection to the first conference.
US10063705B2
Systems and methods of routing calls may include receiving a plurality of calls, and for each of the plurality of calls, determining a threshold time that may be a maximum service time for the call, estimating an expected service time for the call, comparing the threshold time with the expected service time for the call, and assigning the call into one of a plurality of queues based upon the comparing. The method of routing may further include prioritizing the plurality of queues based upon the expected service time for each call in each of the plurality of queues, directing each call in a first queue of the plurality of queues to a first group of agents, and providing a callback prompt to each call in a second queue of the plurality of queues, wherein a priority of the first queue is higher than a priority of the second queue.
US10063704B2
A system and method for providing call-back options is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a call in a call routing system, providing at least one call-back option for a caller to receive a call-back, re-allocating resources in the call routing system based at least in part on the at least one call-back: option, and calling the caller based on the at least one call-back option. The caller may specify a specific time, a relative time, or a time range when a call-back is preferred. The caller may also specify one or more telephone numbers in combination with the time preferences. The call-back may be initiated by a voice response unit (VRU) and additional call-back options may be presented to the customer who responds to the call-back.
US10063698B2
Systems and methods for inbound calls to controlled-environment facility resident media and/or communications devices may receive, via the device, data associated with the resident operating the device. Authentication of the resident operating the device may be verified as associated with an address identifier of the device and it may be confirmed that an inbound calling non-resident is associated with the address identifier. A notification of the inbound call may then be sent to the device, and the same or other data associated with the resident operating the device may be received, via the device. Authentication of the resident operating the device as a resident as associated with an address identifier may be re-verified using the same or other data and the call connected as a result of the verification, confirmation and/or re-verification.
US10063675B2
A device may activate a layer 3 interface of the device based on activation of a first layer 2 interface associated with the layer 3 interface. The device may detect activation of a second layer 2 interface, associated with the layer 3 interface, after activating the layer 3 interface. The device may activate a filter to prevent transfer of network traffic via the second layer 2 interface based on detecting activation of the second layer 2 interface. The device may perform duplicate address detection, in association with the second layer 2 interface, for a layer 3 network address assigned to the device. The device may determine whether the layer 3 network address is a duplicate network address based on performing the duplicate address detection. The device may selectively maintain or deactivate the filter based on determining whether the layer 3 network address is a duplicate network address.
US10063664B2
A network system is provided with at least one terminal device, a control device that controls a machine, and a server device that receives data including at least one of image data and audio data from at least one of the control device and the terminal device that are connected via a network, and distributes the received data to a different device from the device that transmitted the data. The control device is provided with a controller that executes a control operation, and a communication unit that transmits data indicating an operational state of the machine that is controlled to the server device. The terminal device includes a display unit that displays the operational state of the machine controlled by the control device together with a state of another terminal device connected to the server device.
US10063663B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided to allow multiple server resources to share a single connection to a client device. The single connection may be maintained between a notification queue on the server side and the client device. Multiple server resources share the notification queue. When a resource changes or a service wants to communicate information to a client, corresponding messages are sent to the notification queue over a connection within the data center. Once in the notification queue, the updates are communicated to the client device.
US10063658B1
Systems and processes of a dedicated network platform for data producing devices that emulates distinct data and control channels via bifurcation of single channel environments are disclosed as well as a process for making a firmware update on a remote data producing device. For example, in a single channel environment, the system provides a control sub-channel for transmission of the control information. Control instructions may be transmitted via the control sub-channel. A data sub-channel may be provided for transmission of data (e.g., logged data). The data may be transmitted via the data sub-channel. As for the update process, a firmware update for an application may be received over a network by a remote device, the firmware stored to a data store and the remote device rebooted to update the firmware.
US10063656B2
A server that incorporates the subject disclosure may perform, for example, operations including monitoring current transport characteristics of an internet protocol network communicatively coupled to the server and to a mobile device. Data packets are transported to the device according to a dynamic adaptive streaming over hypertext transfer protocol. A future transport characteristic of the network is predicted according to the trajectory of the device. A request is received from the device for transmission of a data packet, and a time for fulfilling the request is scheduled according to the current and predicted transport characteristics. The operations further comprise selecting a transmission rate for transmission of the data packet to the mobile device responsive to detecting the time for fulfilling the request. The device performs buffering of the data packet for a future presentation of the media content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10063655B2
An information processing method, a trusted server, and a cloud server. The method includes acquiring user data of a user terminal, extracting summary information of the user data, where the summary information includes privacy information and non-privacy information of a user, generating a unique identifier (UID) for the privacy information, and transmitting the non-privacy information and the UID to a cloud server, so that the cloud server saves a correspondence between the non-privacy information and the UID.
US10063653B2
A content delivery network (CDN) is enhanced to enable mobile network operators (MNOs) to provide their mobile device users with a content prediction and pre-fetching service. Preferably, the CDN enables the service by providing infrastructure support comprising a client application, and a distributed predictive pre-fetching function. The client application executes in the user's mobile device and enables the device user to subscribe to content (e.g., video) from different websites, and to input viewing preferences for such content (e.g.: “Sports: MLB: Boston Red Sox”). This user subscription and preference information is sent to the predictive pre-fetching support function that is preferably implemented within or across CDN server clusters. A preferred implementation uses a centralized back-end infrastructure, together with front-end servers positioned in association with the edge server regions located nearby the mobile core network. The predictive pre-fetch service operates on the user's behalf in accordance with the user preference information.
US10063652B2
Described herein are systems, devices, and methods for content delivery on the Internet. In certain non-limiting embodiments, a caching model is provided that can support caching for indefinite time periods, potentially with infinite or relatively long time-to-live values, yet provide prompt updates when the underlying origin content changes. In one approach, an origin server can annotate its responses to content requests with tokens, e.g., placing them in an appended HTTP header or otherwise. The tokens can drive the process of caching, and can be used as handles for later invalidating the responses within caching proxy servers delivering the content. Tokens may be used to represent a variety of kinds of dependencies expressed in the response, including without limitation data, data ranges, or logic that was a basis for the construction of the response.
US10063649B2
A proxy service receives first data from a source component. The first data is encoded in accordance with a first encoding technique. It is determined whether the first data is valid. In response to a determination that the first data is valid, the proxy service generates second data based, at least in part, on the first data and sends the second data to the target component. The second data is encoded in accordance with a second encoding technique.
US10063639B1
A sticker attachable to an item of goods, including a processor, a storage communicatively coupled with the processor, storing a unique address for the sticker, storing operation code for the processor, and storing a plurality of data messages, wherein data messages include an address of a source sticker, an address of a destination computer and data relating to current properties of the source sticker, a wireless communicator for wirelessly transmitting and receiving data messages, and a power source supplying power to the processor, the storage and the wireless communicator, wherein the operation code includes instructions causing the processor to transmit data messages stored in the storage via the wireless communicator to currently nearby stickers that are within range of the wireless communicator, to receive data messages from the nearby stickers, and to store the received data messages in the storage.
US10063632B1
Low-latency high-throughput scalable data caching is disclosed. For example, a data source is connected over a network to a load balancer server with data cache. A load balancer service and a data cache service execute on processors on the first load balancer server to receive, by the load balancer service, a request from a client device over the network. The load balancer service requests a data entry associated with the request from the first data cache service. The data cache service retrieves the first data entry from the first data cache, which stores a first plurality of data entries that is a subset of a second plurality of data entries stored in the data source. The load balancer service modifies the request with the data entry. The load balancer service sends a modified request to a plurality of receivers.
US10063628B2
A device for providing multimedia data in a motor vehicle. At least one vehicle-internal hardware component serves to provide a first runtime environment for supporting at least one computer program application on the vehicle-internal hardware component. An interface serves for communication with at least one vehicle-external hardware component, which provides a second runtime environment for supporting the computer program application on the vehicle-external hardware component. Furthermore, either the vehicle-internal hardware component or the vehicle-external hardware component is selectable for executing the computer program application.
US10063625B2
A system and method is used to provision an app to a smart device for use in connection with an appliance. A presence of the appliance on a wireless network which includes the smart device is detected and data received from the appliance is used to initiate a retrieval of the app. When the retrieved app is installed on the smart device the app is usable with the smart device to provide at least an interface between the smart device and the appliance. In some circumstance, installation of the app on the smart device may also include causing the app to be synchronized with a corresponding app that was prior installed on another smart device capable of communicating with the appliance.
US10063615B2
A web server and a shared caching server are described for serving dynamic content to users of at least two different types, where the different types of users receive different versions of the dynamic content. A version of the dynamic content includes a validation header, such as an ETag, that stores information indicative of the currency of the dynamic content and information indicative of a user type for which the version of the dynamic content is intended. In response to a user request for the dynamic content, the shared caching server sends a validation request to the web server with the validation header information. The web server determines, based on the user type of the requestor and/or on the currency of the cached dynamic content whether to instruct the shared caching server to send the cached content or to send updated content for serving to the user.
US10063610B1
An apparatus and method for dynamically providing web-based multimedia to a mobile phone are described. According to one embodiment, an RSS feed is received that references multimedia files meeting one or more criteria. A playlist is generated dynamically from the multimedia files. The playlist is a single virtual multimedia file. An updated RSS feed is received that references one or more additional multimedia files meeting the one or more criteria. A second playlist is generated dynamically from the multimedia files and the one or more additional multimedia files.
US10063606B2
A network node, and a method for operating a network node, such as a base station, may transmit multiple video streaming sessions from servers to clients in terminal nodes and can estimate client-side video buffer occupancy levels associated with the streaming sessions. To estimate a client-side video buffer occupancy level, the network node analyzes packets communicated with the terminal nodes to identify application layer messages and extract transaction information, determine payload types associated with objects conveyed in the packets identified with application layer messages, and associate the objects conveyed in the packets identified with application layer messages with one of the streaming sessions. The network node may use the estimated video buffer occupancy levels to determine scheduler parameters for use in scheduling packets for transmission to the terminal nodes. Packet scheduling may also be based on quality of experience considerations associated with streaming session clients in the terminal nodes.
US10063605B2
Systems and methods provide media content events to media devices. An exemplary system receives a request for a media content event from a first media device; communicates the media content event to an edge server that is communicatively coupled to the first media device based on an identifier of the requesting media device; identifies a second media device based on preferred media content event characteristics associated with the second media device, wherein at least one media content event characteristic of the requested media content event corresponds to at least one of the preferred media content event characteristics of the second media device, and wherein the second media device is able to communicatively couple to the edge server; and in response to identifying the second media device, communicates an identifier of the second media device to the edge server, wherein the requested media content event is communicated to the second media device.
US10063602B2
Techniques, devices, systems and methods to facilitate the ability of a user to simultaneously and substantially in real time transmit content to others, like a radio, whether a person adjacent them or a world away, and access the streaming content of others in real time. Through the synchronization of delivered content, two or more users can have a shared experience.
US10063600B1
Disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for distributed control of media-playback components of a webcast. In an example, a webcast presenter's device can include a webcast compositing engine for creating a webcast from a variety of data sources, a media-playback engine for playing media content items, and a message processing engine for processing messages sent from audience members to the presenter. The message processing engine can obtain the messages and parse the messages for tokens indicative of a requested media content item. The message processing engine, having identified the requested media content item, can then cause the media-playback engine to play the requested content or add it to a queue.
US10063590B1
Observable characteristics of an encrypted data transmission can be analyzed and used to make inferences about the content of the data transmission. This information leakage is reduced by obscuring the observable characteristics of the data transmission. An obscuring engine is installed into the networking stack of a computer system that performs data transmission operations. The obscuring engine performs a variety of obscuring operations to obscure characteristics of the data transmission. The obscuring operations can include altering the size, packet ordering, packet partitioning, packet timing, and structure of the data transmission.
US10063586B2
A method, computer program and a server node (100) in a communications network (50) for reduction of undesired energy consumption of the server node (100), the method comprising: receiving a request message from a client (120), the request message containing message fields comprising at least a message ID field and an integrity indication field containing a first integrity indication, determining a relation key by performing a calculation by usage of a master key commonly known by the server node (100) and an authorization engine (110) and at least data comprised in the message ID field, calculating a second integrity indication based on a subset of the message fields by usage of the relation key, wherein the subset excludes at least one message field that is predictable by a trusted client (120), verifying the subset of the message fields by comparing the first and second integrity indications, and determining the message to be authorized when the comparison indicates equality, and wherein when the message is not authorized, suppressing reception of the message.
US10063574B2
A method, apparatus, and medium are provided for tracing the origin of network transmissions. Connection records are maintained at computer system for storing source and destination addresses. The connection records also maintain a statistical distribution of data corresponding to the data payload being transmitted. The statistical distribution can be compared to that of the connection records in order to identify the sender. The location of the sender can subsequently be determined from the source address stored in the connection record. The process can be repeated multiple times until the location of the original sender has been traced.
US10063571B2
There is provided a method for detecting a malicious attempt to access a service providing server using credentials of a client terminal in a network, the method performed by a malicious event detection server analyzing packets transmitted over the network, comprising: analyzing at least one login-credential associated with an attempt to obtain authentication to access the service providing server to determine whether the login-credential matches an invalid login-credential included in a set of honeytoken-credentials, wherein the set of honeytoken-credentials is stored on a local memory of the client terminal, wherein the set of honeytoken-credentials includes the invalid login-credential and a valid login-credential, wherein the invalid login-credential is invalid for authentication of the client terminal to access the service providing server and the valid login-credential is valid for authentication of the client terminal to access the service providing server; and identifying a malicious event when the login-credential matches the invalid login-credential.
US10063568B1
A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for generating a cyber behavior profile, comprising: monitoring user interactions between a user and an information handling system; converting the user interactions and the information about the user into electronic information representing the user interactions; generating a unique cyber behavior profile based upon the electronic information representing the user interactions and the information about the user; and, storing information relating to the unique cyber behavior profile in a behavior blockchain.
US10063563B2
A method indicates a trustworthiness of data processed in accordance with a processing rule. A first trust weight is assigned to a data item to be processed to provide a weighted data item, the first trust weight representing a level of trust in the data item. A trust value is selected from a set of data trust values, the selected trust value being representative of a determined level of trust in the data item. The selected trust value is defined as the first trust weight which is associated with the data item. The first trust weight is assigned to a processing rule to provide a weighted processing rule, the first trust weight representing a level of trust in the processing rule. The weighted data item is processed in accordance with the weighted processing rule to generate a data output and an indication of a trust level for the data output.
US10063561B1
Provided is authentication and authorization without the use of supplicants. Authentication and authorization includes generating a profile for a device based on at least one characteristic observed during a successful attempt by the device to access an 802.1X network infrastructure. Expected characteristics for a next attempt to access the infrastructure by the device are determined. A characteristic of the next access attempt is matched to the expected characteristic and access to the network is selectively controlled as a result of the matching. This is achieved without a supplicant being installed on the device.
US10063560B2
A user may be authenticated to access an account, computing device, or other resource using gaze tracking. A gaze-based password may be established by prompting a user to identify multiple gaze targets within a scene. The gaze-based password may be used to authenticate the user to access the resource. In some examples, when the user attempts to access the resource, the scene may be presented on a display. In some examples, the scene may be a real-world scene including the user's real-world surroundings, or a mixed reality scene. The user's gaze may be tracked while the user is viewing the scene to generate login gaze tracking data. The login gaze tracking data may be compared to the gaze-based password and, if the login gaze tracking data satisfies the gaze-based password, the user may be authenticated to access the resource.
US10063557B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a program for recovering access to an account. The program receives an access recovery parameter (ARP) after providing a first credential to log into an account and providing a notification of a second credential necessary for accessing another resource. The program then receives a request to modify the first credential and receives the second credential. Next, after authenticating the second credential, the program uses the ARP to modify the first credential without providing the first credential.
US10063553B2
A programmable display for connection to a control device includes: a user management unit configured to identify a user accessing the programmable display; a generation unit configured to generate an interface screen containing information from the control device in accordance with privileges assigned the user identified by the user management unit; a display unit configured to output the interface screen; a connection management unit configured to, in response to a request for access from a user on an external device, establish a connection with the external device on the basis of identification of the user by the user management unit, and to send the interface screen to an external device with which a connection is established; and the user management unit prohibits simultaneous access to the programmable display by a plurality of users each having different privileges assigned.
US10063551B2
The present disclosure is directed to an advanced gateway device (“gateway”) for enabling communications between devices operating on or in communication with a communications network. The gateway includes a universal integrated circuit card (“UICC”), a router for interfacing with a number of devices, a network interface for communicating with the communications network, and one or more applications for managing associated devices and communications between the devices and the communications network. The gateway is registered with the communications network by transmitting information generated by the UICC to the communications network. Devices communicating with the gateway can access services provided by components of the communications network, and remote devices can access the devices communicating with the gateway based upon a trust relationship established between the gateway and the communications network.
US10063550B2
A method for processing presence information is disclosed. Presence information includes different values of a presence element, classes corresponding to the values and presentity information. Authentication configuration information of a presentity is obtained according to the presentity information. A right rule is obtained by resolving the authentication configuration information. The right rule includes a correlation configured by the presentity between a watcher identity and a class of a group that the watcher identity pertains to. A value of the presence element is sent to a corresponding watcher according to a correlation between the class corresponding to the value in the presence information and the class derived from the right rule obtained from the authentication configuration information.
US10063544B2
A system and method can support consistent handling of internal ID space for different partitions in an InfiniBand (IB) network. A plurality of partitions can be provided for a subnet with a plurality of hosts, wherein each partition of the subnet includes one or more hosts and each host can be associated with one or more physical HCA instances. Each partition in the subnet can be associated with a separate internal ID space, and a single physical HCA instance is prevented from being shared by different tenants that use a same internal ID value in different partitions.
US10063542B1
A computer-implemented method is described for authenticating an identity of a user requesting execution of a computerized transaction via a first client computing device. The first device and a second client computing device in proximity each execute applications for communicating with a server. The first and second devices contemporaneously capture voice sequences including at least one audible sound vocalized by the user, and a timestamp indicating when the sound is captured. The identity of the user is validated based upon a determination that the user vocalized the pass phrase, and a difference between the first timestamp and the second timestamp is below a predetermined threshold. The first device executes a computerized transaction with the server computing device upon receiving validation of the identity of the user.
US10063541B2
Provided are a user authentication method and an electronic device performing the method. The method is performed under the control of a processor and includes inputting a user authentication request for identifying a user, generating random number data that corresponds to knowledge-based authentication information in the user authentication request, generating an authentication code by combining biometrics-based authentication information in the user authentication request and the random number data, and processing the user authentication request based on the authentication code.
US10063535B2
Methods and systems are provided for authenticating a user using data related to the historical interactions of the user with computer based applications.
US10063534B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for processing security sensor data that enhances the ability of a user to quickly and efficiently review portions of the sensor data streams.
US10063529B2
This document generally describes systems, methods, devices, and other techniques for using distributed ledgers, such as a blockchain database, to facilitate secure distribution and use of 3D model files to 3D printers over a computing network. A 3D printer controller may access an electronic ledger that identifies a plurality of 3D model files that have been made available for distribution. A particular 3D model file and a secret key may be obtained by the printer, where the 3D model file is encrypted based on the secret key. The secret key can be decrypted using a private key associated with the computing device that corresponds to the public key. After decrypting the secret key, the particular 3D model file can be decrypted using the secret key, and after decrypting the particular 3D model file, the particular 3D model file can be executed on the printer to print a physical 3D object.
US10063527B2
Techniques for handshake-free encrypted communication are described. An apparatus may comprise a key component, a message component, and a network component. The key component may be operative to retrieve a first symmetric encryption key from a key store and to store a second symmetric encryption key in the key store. The message component may be operative to construct a message comprising a data section, the data section encrypted using the first symmetric encryption key. The network component may be operative to transmit the message to a device and to receive a response to the message, the response comprising the second symmetric encryption key. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10063514B2
A method includes receiving an enumeration message via a host interface of a device that is operatively coupled to a host device and to one or more other devices. The method includes identifying the enumeration message as a command originated by the host device or as a response message from one of the other devices. In response to identifying the enumeration message as a command, an enumeration response message is sent to the host device. The enumeration response message indicates a distinctive device identifier value. The method also includes, in response to identifying the enumeration message as a response message from one of the other devices, reading from the response message an identifier value used by such other device and at least temporarily storing this identifier value at the device to enable the device to select the distinctive device identifier value.
US10063513B2
A social networking system generates stories based on actions of users in the system and provides a newsfeed to users that contain stories that related to one or more of their friends in the system. Although the story ranking algorithm includes a time decay to penalize older stories, stories may actually become stale at different rates. To measure the staleness of a story, the system computes a ratio of a current engagement rate for the story to an average engagement rate for the story. Based on this ratio, the system may filter out stale stories, includes the ratio as a feature in the scoring model, and/or adjust the decay rate.
US10063510B2
Techniques to share and remix media through a messaging system are described. Some embodiments are particularly directed to techniques to promote the sharing and remixing of media by promoting third-party sources of media content. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise a media management component operative to receive a media element in a messaging application, the media element associated with a media application; and a messaging component operative to generate a message package, the message package comprising the media element, the message package comprising an attribution record for the media element, the attribution record comprising an inter-application link for the media element with the media application and transmit the message package to a messaging server. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10063506B2
A device may be configured to receive a message from a user device; and determine whether the message includes a parameter. When the message does not include the loop indicator parameter, the device may add the loop indicator parameter to the message to generate a first modified message, and output the first modified message toward an intended recipient of the message. When the message includes the loop indicator parameter, the device may determine whether a value of the loop indicator parameter exceeds a threshold value. When the value of the loop indicator parameter does not exceed the threshold value, the device may discard the message. When the value of the loop indicator parameter exceeds the threshold value, the device may modify the value of the loop indicator parameter value to generate a second modified message, and output the second modified message toward the intended recipient of the message.
US10063504B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for selectively archiving electronic messages may include (1) monitoring, at a messaging account of a user, interactions between the user and messages received at the messaging account, (2) identifying message characteristics that are indicative of unimportant messages to the user by (A) identifying, based on the interactions between the user and the received messages, received messages that are unimportant to the user and (B) identifying characteristics of the unimportant received messages, (3) receiving an incoming message at the messaging account, (4) determining, based on a comparison between at least one characteristic of the incoming message and the message characteristics that are indicative of unimportant messages, that the incoming message is unimportant to the user, and (5) archiving the incoming message based on the determination that the incoming message is unimportant to the user. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10063497B2
Replies to electronic messages are prepared, customized, and personalized reflecting a relationship a recipient might have with a sender. Each received message is categorized by medium, meta-data, content, and relationship. A message queue is transformed from FIFO order to groups ordered by similar urgency, complexity, or both. A compositor operates on messages which contain requests for action, requests for information, or imperative directives. A sender's relationship with the message recipient influences both the priority and the voice of a proffered reply as well as the medium of transmission. Prefatory and operative components of the received message are transformed into selectable reply message components. Sentiment analysis of received requests and proposed replies ensures role-appropriate professional quality and respectfulness. The apparatus offers choices of appropriate tone and style to recipient for salutations, body, and closing. As respondent composes a reply, the apparatus presents previously stored or transmitted content for reuse.
US10063492B2
In one embodiment, in response to data to be transmitted to or from an electronic device, the electronic device determines whether the electronic device currently has a first network connection with a sufficiently high bandwidth. If the electronic device currently does not have a first network connection with a sufficiently high bandwidth, then the electronic device estimates a future time when the electronic device is likely to have a second network connection with a sufficiently high bandwidth, and schedules transmission of the data at the future time.
US10063488B2
A network device that performs information centric networking (ICN) in an ICN network receives an Interest from a consumer as the Interest traverses an Interest path to a data responder. The Interest requests data by name and indicates an accumulated Interest queuing delay experienced by the Interest on the Interest path. The network device enqueues the Interest to an Interest queue and dequeues the Interest from the Interest queue, and determines a local Interest queuing delay between the enqueing and dequeuing. The network device increases the indicated accumulated Interest queuing delay by the local Interest queueing delay, and forwards the Interest along the Interest path. The network device receives a Data packet satisfying the Interest as the Data packet traverses the Interest path in reverse. The network device increases an accumulated Data queueing delay indicated in the Data packet, and then forwards the Data packet to the consumer.
US10063483B2
A method for enhanced load balancing in a mobile communication network includes indicating, by a home subscriber server, allocation type information and allocation mode information to a mobility management entity. A user equipment is connected or requests to be connected to the mobile communication network using an access point name identifier and a packet data network. The mobility management entity and the home subscriber server are involved in providing communication services of the mobile communication network to the user equipment and/or connecting the user equipment to the mobile communication network. A packet data network gateway is to be selected for providing the communications services of the mobile communication network.
US10063471B2
Method for MAC addressing in a device operating in OSI layers 2 and 3, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a connection request (400) from a first 2MAC client (102) wherein the request comprises: the client's (102) first MAC address gMAC (406) being globally unique, the client's (102) second MAC address uMAC (407) being unique within a local 2MAC clients (102, 105) group; and a target's IP address and port (408); establishing (401) a connection between the server (108) and the first 2MAC client (102). Additionally, there is presented a method for MAC addressing in a device operating in OSI layer 2 or OSI layers 2 and 3, the method comprising: constructing (253) a packet from a first 2MAC client (102) targeted at another 2MAC client (105) wherein the packet comprises: the client's (102) first MAC address gMAC (406) being globally unique and the client's (102) second MAC address uMAC (407) being unique within a local 2MAC clients (102, 105) group.
US10063461B2
A system and method for regional routing of internet protocol based real-time communication that includes registering a set of client application endpoint routes, comprising registering at least a first client gateway route of a first endpoint in a first region; receiving a communication invitation of the first endpoint; processing a set of communication instructions associated with the communication invitation and identifying a set of communication resources and at least a second endpoint; querying the client application endpoint routes and identifying a client gateway route of the second endpoint; and dynamically directing signaling path and media path of the communication according to the regional availability of the communication resources, the client gateway route of the first endpoint, and client gateway instance route of the second endpoint.
US10063449B2
A method is implemented by a network device to establish a one-way active measurement protocol (OWAMP) test session that supports use of a Network Time Protocol (NTP) timestamp format and a Precision Time Protocol Version 2 (PTPv2) timestamp format. The network device acts as a control-client that communicates with a server to establish an OWAMP test session between a sender and a receiver. The method includes receiving a server greeting message from the server indicating timestamp formats that the receiver can interpret, checking whether the receiver supports the multiple timestamp format extensions to OWAMP, configuring the sender to set timestamps in a format that the sender can set and the receiver can interpret if the receiver supports multiple timestamp format extensions to OWAMP, sending an extended set-up-response message to the server indicating a timestamp format that the sender can set and the receiver can interpret, and receiving a server-start message from the server.
US10063436B2
A receiver is configured to be coupled to a television and data service provider headend via a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC) network. The receiver comprises front-end circuitry operable to receive a signal that carries a plurality of television and/or data channels, and digitize the received signal to generate a digitized signal. The receiver comprises channelizer circuitry operable to select a first portion of the digitized signal, and select a second portion of the digitized signal. The receiver comprises processing circuitry operable to process the selected second portion of the digitized signal to recover information carried in the plurality of channels. The receiver comprises monitoring circuitry operable to analyze the selected first portion of the digitized signal to measure a characteristic of the received signal; and control the transmission of network management messages back to the headend based on the measured characteristic of the received signal.
US10063434B1
Embodiments are directed to monitoring network traffic in a network. A network monitoring engine may be employed to monitor the network to provide metric profiles based on a plurality of characteristics associated with one or more network flows. The network monitoring engine may provide profile objects based on the metric profiles. The network monitoring engine may provide the profile objects to a classifier engine. The classifier engine provide trained activity models selected from a plurality of trained activity models that may be based on a ranked ordering of characteristics of the trained activity models and the profile objects. The classifier engine may provide classification results for the profile objects based on the trained activity models. And, the network monitoring engine may execute policies based on the classification results associated with the profile objects.
US10063429B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods to integrate and manage a computer network operations (CNO) infrastructure. A framework may include CNO applications that are used to find a target computer system, breach the target, extract data therefrom and analyze the data. A CNO organization in a secure network can use the framework to maintain, manage and monitor CNO applications in an unsecured network without compromising security from counter-attacks. The framework remains engaged with targeted computer systems during routine maintenance, management and monitoring processes to mitigate loss of mission opportunities. The framework utilizes virtual instances to provision CNO capabilities for missions operations that couple the secure and unsecured networks in an asynchronous manner while allowing bidirectional communications between the framework and computers on their respective network. Consequently, the framework secures a CNO infrastructure while mitigating loss mission opportunities and vulnerabilities from adversaries.
US10063424B2
A communications processing method includes: receiving, by a service node, service data sent by an upstream service node; establishing at least one egress branch according to the service data and a process variable that is of the service node and corresponds to the service data, where the process variable is used to indicate an attribute of a downstream service node; outputting, by the service node, the at least one egress branch to a display page; and determining, by the service node, the egress branch according to the received trigger instruction, and outputting the service data by using the egress branch. Efficiency of an online process adjustment of service processing can be improved, thereby improving flexibility of the entire service processing.
US10063420B2
A control apparatus comprises: a network management unit that holds topology information and flow information; a network division unit that divides a plurality of switches into a core switch(es) and edge switches; a core network management unit that holds topology information about a core network including the core switch(es); an edge network management unit that holds topology information about an edge network including the edge switches; a core control logic that generates flow information based on the topology information about the core network and stores the flow information in the core network management unit; and an edge control logic that generates flow information based on the topology information about the edge network and stores the flow information in the edge network management unit. When the flow information about the core network or the edge network is generated, the flow information held in the network management unit is updated.
US10063408B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for enabling a first user to set up an alert that will notify the first user when the first user has caught up to a second user's progress in consuming media. These systems and methods are used to ensure that the first user is informed, while they are consuming media, that they have caught up to the progress of a second user. By providing an alert while the first user is viewing media, the first user does not have to remember the progress of the second user while viewing the media, alleviating the first user from worrying they will pass the progress made by the second user without realizing they have done so.
US10063401B2
A method for transmitting signal based on a filter bank multi-carrier (FBMC) modulation, a method for receiving signal based on the FBMC modulation, and a corresponding transmitting device and receiving device are disclosed. The method includes preprocessing determined symbols in a data block, modulating the preprocessed data block with the FBMC modulation, truncating the modulated data block to remove a part or all of tailing data therefrom, and transmitting the truncated modulated data block, from which the part or all of tailing data has been removed, and the determined symbols are affected by the truncating of the modulated data block. The data block includes at least one symbol. The method relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE).
US10063395B2
A method for estimating a channel status by a base station in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises the steps of: obtaining an uplink channel matrix by using a sounding reference signal (SRS) received from a terminal; transmitting a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) through at least some antenna devices in a two-dimensional antenna array of the base station; receiving a channel quality indicator (CQI) calculated on the basis of the CSI-RS transmission; and obtaining, through a predetermined correction factor obtained on the basis of the CQI and the uplink channel matrix, a downlink channel matrix for the entire two-dimensional antenna array comprising the remaining antenna devices through which the CSI-RS is not transmitted.
US10063390B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to an apparatus and method for detecting Ethernet frames. In some embodiments, an Ethernet detecting circuit included in the apparatus for detecting Ethernet frames includes a received byte counter configured to calculate a byte count value of received data, a mask and pattern storage unit configured to calculate mask data and comparison data comprising a pattern of a frame, based on the calculated byte count value, a comparator configured to determine whether the received data corresponds to target data to be detected, based on the calculated mask data and comparison data, and a detection signal generator configured to output a detection signal corresponding to a result of the determination.
US10063385B2
Disclosed are a method and device for processing the interruption of a group communication service, which are used for adjusting a continuity parameter of a group communication service after the interruption of the group communication service occurs, so as to ensure the continuity of a subsequent group communication service. The method for processing the interruption of a group communication service provided in the embodiments of the present application comprises: receiving, by a network side, recording information about the continuity of a group communication service which is reported by at least one user equipment (UE), wherein the recording information about the continuity of the group communication service comprises recording information about the continuity of the group communication service during the interruption of the group communication service in the case where the UE is switched between a unicast transmission manner and a multicast transmission manner or the UE is switched between cells; and according to the recording information about the continuity of the group communication service which is reported by at least one UE, judging, by the network side, whether a continuity parameter of the group communication service is adjusted.
US10063383B1
The disclosed apparatus may include a set of communication ports that facilitate communication with a network device via a set of communication links that collectively operate as a LAG bundle. The disclosed apparatus may also include a link-management unit communicatively coupled to the set of communication ports that facilitate communication with the network device. The link-management unit may detect an amount of communication activity on one or more active communication links included in the set of communication links that are collectively operating as the LAG bundle. The link-management unit may then determine that the amount of communication activity detected on the active communication links has reached a certain threshold. In response to this determination, the link-management unit may modify the active communication links included in the set of communication links to account for the amount of communication activity. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10063382B1
A request is received from a requestor for security credentials. An initial credential authority is selected based upon a first predetermined criteria. When the initial credentials authority is not available, a back-up credentials authority is chosen based upon a second predetermined criteria. The security credentials are obtained from the back-up certificate authority. The security credentials are transmitted to the requestor.
US10063377B2
A system may be configured to allow for network-based authentication of a user device, which may reduce or eliminate the need for a user to provide credentials. The authentication may be performed when the user device attempts to access content provided by a third party content provider. The network-based authentication may be performed by, or in conjunction with, a device that (a) is associated with the same telecommunications network as the user device, and (b) can authenticate the identity of the user device.
US10063373B2
Threat detection instrumentation is simplified by providing and updating labels for computing objects in a context-sensitive manner. This may include simple labeling schemes to distinguish between objects, e.g., trusted/untrusted processes or corporate/private data. This may also include more granular labeling schemes such as a three-tiered scheme that identifies a category (e.g., financial, e-mail, game), static threat detection attributes (e.g., signatures, hashes, API calls), and explicit identification (e.g., what a file or process calls itself). By tracking such data for various computing objects and correlating these labels to malware occurrences, rules can be written for distribution to endpoints to facilitate threat detection based on, e.g., interactions of labeled objects, changes to object labels, and so forth. In this manner, threat detection based on complex interactions of computing objects can be characterized in a platform independent manner and pre-processed on endpoints without requiring significant communications overhead with a remote threat management facility.
US10063360B2
A method is provided for generating Acknowledgement/Negative Acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation. The UE receives, from a base station (BS), a plurality of codewords through a plurality of downlink carriers. Each of the plurality of downlink carriers support one or more codewords according to a transmission mode. The transmission mode is independently configured per each of the plurality of downlink carriers. The UE determines a total number of ACK/NACK bits, and generates a sequence of the ACK/NACK bits according to the total number of the ACK/NACK bits. The UE determines the total number of ACK/NACK bits based on a total number of the plurality of downlink carriers and a type of each transmission mode independently configured per each of the plurality of downlink carriers.
US10063357B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for transmitting a reference signal in a multiple antenna-supporting wireless communication system and, more specifically, to a method for a serving cell to support reference signal transmission of a neighbor cell in a multiple antenna-supporting wireless communication system, the method comprising: transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration to a terminal; transmitting, to the neighbor cell, the SRS configuration and a terminal-related position information; and receiving, from the neighbor cell, an SRS-based first channel quality value which is estimated according to the SRS configuration, wherein the first channel quality value is estimated by applying a receiving vector according to the terminal-related position information.
US10063356B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for performing fractional subframe transmission. The method may comprise: in response to detecting that a channel becomes available, determining a target position from at least one potential position predefined in a subframe; and performing the fractional subframe transmission from the target position.
US10063354B2
A method for modulating data for transmission within a communication system. The method includes establishing a time-frequency shifting matrix of dimension N×N, wherein N is greater than one. The method further includes combining the time-frequency shifting matrix with a data frame to provide an intermediate data frame. A transformed data matrix is provided by permuting elements of the intermediate data frame. A modulated signal is generated in accordance with elements of the transformed data matrix.
US10063352B2
Systems and methods relating to the use of an unlicensed Component Carrier (CC) for Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) and/or Channel State Information (CSI) feedback for a downlink CC or a downlink CC group are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a wireless device in a cellular communications network comprises selecting, from a plurality of uplink CCs configured for the wireless device for HARQ and/or CSI feedback of a downlink CC or a downlink CC group, an uplink CC for HARQ and/or CSI feedback of the downlink CC or the downlink CC group based on channel availability. The method further comprises transmitting HARQ and/or CSI feedback of the downlink CC or the downlink CC group over the uplink CC selected from the plurality of uplink CCs configured for the wireless device.
US10063343B2
Apparatus and methods for transmit power control in wireless communication systems are provided. In one aspect, a wireless communication system includes a transmit chain that generates a transmit signal based on a data signal having a time-varying signal envelope, a power amplifier that amplifies the transmit signal, and a transmit chain controller that generates a first power control signal and a second power control signal that control an adjustable power level of the transmit chain. The transmit chain controller includes an error extractor that generates an error signal based on comparing an output signal power of the power amplifier to the time-varying signal envelope. The transmit chain controller further includes a control signal generator that generates the first power control signal and an adjustment signal based on estimating the error signal, and that generates the second power control signal based on the error signal and the adjustment signal.
US10063341B1
Methods and apparatus for transmitting Ethernet data along an Ethernet link with a BASE-T transceiver are disclosed. One exemplary BASE-T Ethernet transceiver includes an Ethernet data framing module having an input interface to receive Ethernet block data bits at a first data rate. Logic associates the Ethernet block data bits with an auxiliary bit and a number of zero bits. An error encoder is coupled to the logic to encode all of the data bits, auxiliary bit and zero bits into an error encoded transport frame having plural error check bits. A symbol mapper receives the error encoded transport frame and transforms the error encoded transport frame into multiple symbols. A transmitter coupled to the symbol mapper transmits the multiple symbols over an Ethernet link at one of a selection of symbol rates. The data rate of data transmitted over the Ethernet link is based on the number of zero bits.
US10063339B2
Information about usage bandwidths of the ONUs and information about cover areas of the RRHs are acquired. A maximum cover area of each RRH is set. The remaining RRH included in the currently-set cover areas within the maximum cover area of each RRH is identified. The plurality of ONUs, a total usage bandwidth of which is smaller than or equal to an amount of traffic accommodatable by a single ONU, are identified as a sleep candidate ONU group. The ONU and the RRH to be switched to the sleep state are selected. If the maximum cover area of the RRH connected to one of the ONUs included in the sleep candidate ONU group includes a current cover area of the RRH connected to the remaining ONU, the remaining ONU and the RRH connected to them are selected as the ONU and the RRH to be switched to the sleep state.
US10063338B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to an optical add/drop multiplexer, such that the optical add/drop multiplexer can ensure proper processing of light in two directions. The optical add/drop multiplexer can complete an extraction of a signal in one direction using one microring resonant cavity and two optical circulators, and if a wavelength of a signal in the other direction is the same as a resonant wavelength of the microring resonant cavity, the signal may reenter an optical network after passing through two microring resonant cavities and one optical circulator, and is not affected. Therefore, proper processing of optical signals in the two directions is ensured, and the optical signals in the two directions do not interfere with each other.
US10063329B2
A measuring device comprises a transmission unit and a communication unit. The transmission unit is adapted to transmit a measuring signal, being an analog high frequency broadcast signal to at least one device under test. The communication unit is adapted directly receive at least one measuring result from the at least one device under test.
US10063328B1
A small consumer drone is used to measure RF signals, such as within the vicinity of a cell tower. The drone's frame is fitted with an antenna support device which can be in the form of two intersecting arches of dielectric material. An antenna of selected specification is secured to the antenna support. In this way, the antenna support not only provides a secure mounting for the antenna, but also provides protection from objects above the drone.
US10063325B2
An example embodiment provides a transceiver for communication includes a timing determiner that detects a fall from high level to low level of a bus signal generated by pulse width modulation of a clock signal and input from a communication bus; a transmission data signal delay adjuster that determines a second timing having a predetermined time difference from a first timing, the bus signal rising from the low level to the high level at the first timing; an encoder that extends a low level of the bus signal by changing a data signal to be output to the communication bus from high level to low level; and a timing adjustment circuit that changes the data signal to the low level at the second timing.
US10063324B2
Suppression of serving cell transmissions directed to second-served UEs may improve channel estimation of a serving cell or a neighbor cell. This may include using scheduling information for second-served UEs to suppress serving cell signals intended for second-served UEs having overlapping MIMO transmissions. Alternatively, this scheduling information may aid in suppressing a serving cell signal for a second-served UE to improve channel estimation of a neighbor cell. Various embodiments described herein, include implementations and techniques to aid channel estimation, and signal scheduling information to a first-served UE to aid in suppression of serving cell signals for second-served UEs.
US10063317B2
A method and system for selective and per-node XPM compensation may separate wavelengths into short traveling wavelengths (STW) and long traveling wavelengths (LTW) based on transmission distance over their respective optical paths. XPM compensation at ROADM nodes may be selectively performed for the LTW, while the STW may be passed through without XPM compensation, among other functionality at the ROADM nodes.
US10063314B2
An optical time domain reflectometer and a method for detecting an optical fiber are disclosed. In an embodiment the optical time domain reflectometer includes: a service signal generator, a signal coupler connected to the service signal generator, an electro-optical modulator connected to the signal coupler, a transmitter connected to the electro-optical modulator, a photoelectric detector connected to the transmitter, and an analog to digital converter connected to the photoelectric detector. The optical time domain reflectometer further includes: a digital signal processor, connected to the service signal generator, the signal coupler, and the analog to digital converter, and configured to generate compensation data and a PN code sequence, receive a sampled signal sent by the analog to digital converter, and calculate a first optical fiber function.
US10063313B1
Systems and methods describe synchronizing optical protection switching with an Optical Protection Switch (OPS) including a splitter on a transmit side to both a first fiber path and a second fiber path and a receive switch and monitoring port on a receive side with the receive switch set to only one of the first fiber path and the second fiber path. A method includes, responsive to detection of a fault on the first fiber path, generating a link Forward Defect Indication (FDI) and transmitting the link FDI over a messaging channel downstream; and utilizing the link FDI to generate an Optical Protection Switch Indicator (OPSI) status used by the OPS to cause a switch of the receive switch to the second fiber path.
US10063309B2
Method and system for addressing line of sight (LOS) blockage in satellite communication networks are provided herein. The method may include the following stages: obtaining forecast input parameters; forecasting at least one future LOS blockage in two or more communication links established between at least one communication satellite and at least one platform-mounted communication system having at least one antenna, based on the forecast input parameters; and addressing the future LOS blockage by applying at least one of: rerouting the communication links between the at least one platform-mounted communication system and at least one of the communication satellite; changing a power level of at least one of the communication links; changing at least one of: spreading, modulation and coding of at least one of the communication links; changing mobility parameters of the platform-mounted communication system.
US10063306B2
Systems and methods for a communication system including a set of transmitters, wherein operations of the set of transmitters are synchronized with an accuracy bound by a synchronization error. A controller communicatively connected to each transmitter in the set of transmitters, wherein the controller is configured to: determine a tap delay for a communication channel between a receiver and each transmitter in the set of transmitters to produce a set of tap delays. Determine a minimal length of a cyclic prefix as a function of a sum of the synchronization error and a maximal tap delay in the set of tap delays. Finally, controls at least some transmitters in the set of transmitters to transmit a message to the receiver using a cyclic delay diversity (CDD) with the cyclic prefix having at least the minimal length.
US10063305B2
Illustrative communications link performance analyzer methods and modules that accommodate FEC. In at least some embodiments, a method for characterizing communications link performance includes: (A) transmitting a predetermined bit stream across a physical communications link to produce a receive signal; (B) deriving a received bit stream from the receive signal with a receiver, the receiver including an embedded debug module having: (1) a bit counter dividing the received bit stream into symbols and frames; (2) an error counter determining a symbol error count for each frame; and (3) an aggregator obtaining at least one performance-related statistic from the symbol error counts; (C) generating a performance measure based on the at least one performance-related statistic; and (D) displaying a visual representation of the performance measure.
US10063302B2
The AP can generate a distinctive 8 bit value, and fill the 8 most significant bits (MSBs) of the a 16 bit AID field to form a EDMG BSS AID. Beamforming can include a station performing a sector level sweep (SLS) process including transmitting, in sequence, a plurality of short sector sweep (SSW) frames to the other station using corresponding ones of the antenna sectors, and receiving, in sequence, a plurality of the short SSW frames from the other station, the short SSW frames having an addressing field format specifying a receiver address association ID (RA AID) and a transmitter address association ID (TA AID). The distinctive 8 bit value can be used as the AP AID.
US10063300B2
A system includes an eNB which is operable to communicate with one or UEs and a set of multiple transmit antennas associated with the eNB. The antennas are partitioned into multiple antenna subsets. In a first form of the method, one of the antennas is designated as a reference antenna and the reference antenna forms part of each antenna subset. In a second form of the method, one of the subsets is designated as a reference subset. The UE(s) are operable to compute multiple PMIs for the respective multiple subsets and to report the multiple PMIs to the eNB for the eNB to use in precoding. The first form involves computing a PMI for a given antenna subset independently of the PMIs of any of the other antenna subsets. The second form involves computing a PMI for a given subset based on or using the PMI for the reference subset.
US10063298B2
The present invention provides for an improved application of signal strength weightings in a SDMA sectorized cellular network. The improved signal strength weightings application is conducted through the improved selection of weightings from a new codebook subset or by the selection of weightings from a larger codebook subset. In a further embodiment, an antenna beam index or bit map can be used to select the best beam(s) in a SDMA sectorized cellular network. In another embodiment, a field or factor in an uplink or downlink transmission packet can designate which directional transmission beam is best suited for the transmission or when the directional transmission beam should be activated.
US10063288B2
Provided are a communication device and a signal detection method capable of improving the detection accuracy for transmission signals transmitted from one or two or more transmission devices. The communication device includes a phased-array antenna, in which a plurality of antenna elements are arranged on a plane, for receiving a signal transmitted from one or two or more transmission devices; a signal converter that includes a plurality of beamformers, each of which synthesizes a received signal received at each antenna element, for each sub-array formed by grouping the plurality of antenna elements, and converts the signal synthesized for each sub-array into a baseband signal; and a signal processor for detecting a transmission signal transmitted from each of the one or two or more transmission devices, based on a baseband signal for each sub-array, which is received from each of the plurality of beamformers, for each resource block.
US10063280B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a system for receiving telemetry information from an apparatus that induces electromagnetic waves on a wire surface of a wire of a power grid for delivery of communication signals to a recipient communication device coupled to the power grid, and detecting a condition from the telemetry information that is adverse to a delivery of the communication signals to the recipient communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10063272B1
A portable device attachment includes an attachment pad, a strap, a stopping boss, and a strap guide. The strap is disposed on a side of the attachment pad, which is opposite to the attachment surface, to extend vertically and an upper end of the strap is fixed to an upper side of the attachment pad. The strap guide includes a pocket member fixed to the side of the attachment pad, a guide hole formed in the pocket member to guide upward and downward movement of the stopping boss, a lower stopping hole formed at a lower end of the guide hole to stop the stopping boss while the strap is unfolded, and an upper stopping hole formed at an upper end of the guide hole to strop the stopping boss while a central portion of the strap is bent after the lower side of the strap is pushed upwards.
US10063264B2
A communication system comprises a signal generator, polarizer, signal combiner, transmitter, positioning device, and controller. The signal generator converts first and second received data streams into respective first and second orthogonal linearly polarized signals. The polarizer is at a first rotation angle and converts first and second orthogonal linearly polarized signals into, respectively, a first right-hand-circularly polarized (RHCP) signal and first left-hand circularly polarized (LHCP) signal, which are combined in signal combiner into a signal sent by transmitter to a receiver. The positioning device adjusts the first rotation angle to substantially increase isolation between third and fourth orthogonal linearly polarized signals at the receiver. The controller performs the real-time analysis of transmission loss and directs the positioning device to adjust the first rotation angle.
US10063255B2
In some examples, a device includes an integrated circuit comprising a computational unit configured to process at least two input bit streams that each include a sequential set of data bits or two or more sets of data bits in parallel that is deterministically encoded to represent numerical values based on a probability that any data bit in the bit stream is high. In some examples, the computational unit includes a convolver configured to generate pair-wise bit combinations of the data bits of the input bit streams. In some examples, e computational unit further includes a stochastic computational unit configured to perform a computational operation on the pair-wise bit combinations and produce an output bit stream having a set of data bits indicating a result of the computational operation based on a probability that any data bit in the set of data bits of the output bit stream is high.
US10063254B1
A delta sigma modulator having: an integrator that receives an input signal; a comparator that outputs a digital pulse when an output of the integrator goes beyond a threshold; a 1 bit DAC that outputs a predetermined analog signal in response to the digital pulse; and a subtractor that subtracts the analog signal from the input signal; wherein the 1-bit DAC comprises: an output MOS transistor having its gate and drain connected by default to a predetermined control voltage and to a current sink; wherein in response to the digital pulse a control circuit controllably brings the MOS transistor to a non-conductive state where any drop in voltage of its source causes the MOS transistor to conduct and, after connecting the drain of the MOS transistor away from the current sink and to an output node, pulls down the source until a predetermined charge is sent to the output node.
US10063250B1
A method of processing an input voltage. The method includes, during a sampling phase, using a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) capacitor to sample a reference voltage. The method includes, during a charge redistribution phase, using an input voltage to charge the DAC capacitor.
US10063241B2
Embodiments are described that compensate for a difference in a characteristic (e.g., of performance or operation) of a semiconductor device that is a function of the location of a die in a device. In one embodiment, a clock circuit may generate a clock signal having a timing that varies with the location of a die so that signals are coupled from the die to a substrate at the same time despite differences in the signal propagation time between the substrate and the various die. In other embodiments, for example, differences in the termination impedance or driver drive-strength resulting from differences in the location of a die in a stack may be compensated for. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
US10063240B2
Apparatuses for performing combination logic operations with an combination logic circuit are disclosed. According to one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a first-in-first-out stage comprising an combination logic circuit, a input ring counter circuit coupled to the first-in-first-out stage and configured to selectively provide a push signal to the first-in-first-out stage, and a output ring counter circuit coupled to the first-in-first-out stage and configured to selectively provide a pop signal to the first-in-first-out stage, wherein the first-in-first-out stage is configured to perform calculations on input data with the combination logic circuit to generate output data responsive to receiving the push signal and to provide the output data based on the calculations responsive to receiving the pop signal.
US10063231B2
Presented are systems and methods that allow hardware designers to protect valuable IP and information in the hardware domain in order to increase overall system security. In various embodiments of the invention this is accomplished by configuring logic gates of existing logic circuitry based on a key input. In certain embodiments, a logic function provides results that are dependent not only on input values but also on an encrypted logic key that determines connections for a given logic building block, such that the functionality of the logic function cannot be determined by reverse engineering. In some embodiments, the logic key is created by decrypting a piece of data using a secret or private key. Advantages of automatic encryption include that existing circuitry need not be re-implemented or re-built, and that the systems and methods presented are backward compatible with standard manufacturing tools.
US10063229B2
Provided is a coordinate input device, including: an operation plate that is cantilevered and flexibly supported; a touch sensor that is attached to a rear surface of the operation plate; and a circuit board that is disposed to provide a predetermined gap between the circuit board and the touch sensor and includes a push-in input switch.
US10063224B2
An output of a gate driver that drives a main switch is connected to the gate of the main switch, and a low-voltage side power supply terminal of the gate driver is connected to a source of the main switch via a current limiting resistor. Moreover, a suppression capacitor for suppressing rapid changes in current, having a prescribed capacitance, is connected between the drain of the main switch of a main circuit and the low-voltage side power supply terminal of the gate driver. This makes it possible to suppress the rapid change in current that occurs when the main switch switches OFF as well as to prevent extremely large currents from occurring in a low-voltage side power supply line of the driver circuit.
US10063212B2
A high-frequency module includes a propagation path that has a simple structure and improves filter characteristics by causing an inductor and a matching network to electromagnetic field couple with each other such that attenuation characteristics outside of a frequency band of a transmission signal are improved without increasing the size of the high-frequency module. In addition, unintended electromagnetic field coupling between a first filter and the inductor is significantly reduced or prevented by a shield electrode. Therefore, unintended propagation of a high-frequency signal is significantly reduced or prevented. Therefore, the attenuation characteristics outside of the frequency band of transmission signal input to the transmission terminal are improved more effectively.
US10063206B2
Systems, devices, and methods for determining and establishing frequency-dependent gain compensation in wide bandwidth communication systems are disclosed. Variable frequency-dependent gain compensation circuits, or variable equalizers, have settings that configure them to establish discrete frequency-dependent gain compensation. The frequency-dependent gain compensation can include various types and levels of gain slope and/or ripple. The settings of the variable equalizers can be set by control signals established a control circuit in response to signals from an external computer. The variable equalizers are coupled to other circuits or devices and the frequency-dependent gain of the combined circuit are measured. The settings of the variable equalizer are then changed to establish an optimal frequency-dependent gain profile or frequency-dependent gain that is closest to a predetermined frequency-dependent target gain profile. The settings can then be saved in a memory or register.
